What's your favorite Christmas song and why?

Listening and singing your favorite Christmas song helps ushers in the season of celebration for many people. Some people love the traditional hymns. Other love the new pop renditions of timeless classics. Still others even turn to tunes about Santa and reindeers. Well, I would like to know what is your favorite Christmas song and why?

Since I ask you to share, I will volunteer to share first! Let's see if you can guess my favorite Christmas song as I describe the setting... "On a quiet holy night, shepherds stand guard watching and tending their flocks. Suddenly, angels appear speaking (and singing) about good news. The shepherds are afraid but the angels calm their fears speaking about the birth of a Savior - Jesus Christ."

If you haven't guessed already, I really enjoy listening to the beautiful chorus of "Angels We Have Heard on High". The angelic melody brings both wonder and peace with "Gloria, in excelsis Deo!" This song reminds me that God enters the lives of ordinary people like the shepherds and also to you and me. In the Christmas season, we can join along in singing with all of creation to give glory to God in the highest!

The origin of "Angels We Have Heard on High" is anonymous. It has always been printed with no known lyricist or composer. There is some historical studies that many years ago shepherds in the hills of southern France had a Christmas Eve custom of calling to one another, singing "Gloria in Excelsis Deo," each from his own hillside. The traditional tune that the shepherds used may have been from a late Medieval Latin chorale. It became the magnificent chorus of "Angels We Have Heard on High."

"Angels we have heard on high Sweetly singing o'er the plains, And the mountains in reply Echoing their joyous strains.

Gloria, in excelsis Deo! Gloria, in excelsis Deo!

Shepherds, why this jubilee? Why your joyous strains prolong? Say what may the tidings be Which inspire your heavenly song?

Come to Bethlehem and see Christ Whose birth the angels sing; Come, adore on bended knee, Christ the Lord, the newborn King.

See Him in a manger laid, Whom the choirs of angels praise; Mary, Joseph, lend your aid, While our hearts in love we raise."

Now it is your turn to share your favorite Christmas song and why!