This is the second year we’ve done this poll. And frankly, I found this year’s results a bit surprising — but also very gratifying.
For one thing, my personal favorite carol — “O Come All Ye Faithful” — took the crown this year! I love this carol because of its beautiful message urging us to come before our newborn Lord and adore him — and also because, from a lyrical and musical standpoint, it just really lends itself to being belted out on Christmas morning at Mass.
Last year, “O Come All Ye Faithful” didn’t even place in the poll, a fact that I bemoaned at the time. Again, I strongly associate both “O Come All Ye Faithful” and “Hark the Herald Angels Sing,” which placed second, with Christmas Mass during the day.
The two carols that took home third and fourth place are both mainstays of Christmas Midnight Masses, in no small part because both of them have “night” in their name — “Silent Night” and “O Holy Night.” Those two carols took home the gold and silver medals last year, respectively.
Speaking of “Silent Night,” our Rome correspondent Courtney Grogan Mares got to hear this classic carol sung in all its glory at the Vatican a couple of years ago. The video she took is really worth resharing:
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