STILLE NACHT

This Christmas song reminds me of high mass at the St. Bernhardus Kirche, the cathedral at  Durlacher Tor in Karlsruhe, Germany, on December 24, 1962. Why I was there is the subject of an other post. Let me simply say that I have never seen so many candles on so many trees as there were around the altar of that church that night. My first Christmas away from home. And in a foreign country during one of the coldest winters in decades...  I heard this carol, this familiar carol...

May it warm you now as it warmed me then.