Twelve Days of Silent Nights: The story behind the most popular Christmas carol, the birth of Christ, and what it means for our lives
By Peter Celano
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Includes more than a dozen reproductions of classic period woodcut and engraved illustrations.
Contents include:
• Christmas Eve, 1818, north of Salzburg
• "Silent Night" and the Nativity
• Our silent nights, from Christmas Day to January 5
Peter Celano
Peter Celano is a writer and editor at Paraclete Press who is also the recent author of the popular book, My Year with the Saints for Kids.
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Twelve Days of Silent Nights - Peter Celano
From the author of A Daily Catholic Moment and My Year with the Saints for Kids comes a book about the most popular Christmas song in the world, the Nativity of Jesus Christ, and how to carry the beauty and wonder of the Bethlehem stable into our lives as a new year begins. Celano reflects on Silent Night, Holy Night
—how it came to be, its continued importance, and its message of contemplation, hope, and love. The year 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the first major performances of the carol.
2019 First Printing
Twelve Days of Silent Nights: The Story Behind the Most Popular Christmas Carol, and How to Apply Its Timeless Wisdom to Our Lives
Copyright © 2019 Paraclete Press, Inc.
All quotations from Holy Scripture are taken from New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
In chapter 3, two short quotations from Max Lucado, Because of Bethlehem: Love Is Born, Hope Is Here (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2016), are from pages 4, 5.
Also in chapter 3, the short quotation from Thomas Merton, Bread in the Wilderness
(New York: New Directions, 1997), is from page 107.
ISBN 978-1-64060-337-0
The Paraclete Press name and logo (dove on cross) are trademarks of Paraclete Press, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Celano, Peter, author.
Title: Twelve days of silent nights : the story behind the most popular Christmas carol, the birth of Christ, and what it means for our lives / Peter Celano.
Description: Brewster, Massachusetts : Paraclete Press, 2019.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019011812 | ISBN 9781640603370 (hard cover, self cover)
Subjects: LCSH: Gruber, Franz Xaver, 1787-1863. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht.
| Mohr, Joseph, 1792-1848. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht. | Christmas.
Classification: LCC ML410.G94 C45 2019 | DDC 782.28/1723--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019011812
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