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Do you believe that the first carols were not really Christian carols?
In the first place, Winter Solstice or the shortest day of the year was the original occasion being celebrated around the time we consider as Christmas holidays now. But that changed when Christianity arrived.
With the campaign for Christianity, the pagan carols sung during the Winter Solstice were replaced with Latin Christian songs. However, the songs weren’t appreciated by layman and the tradition almost died there until the onset of nativity plays by St. Francis of Assisi. The players in the presentation sung the story. Though there were Latin chorus or probably some parts on some of the songs in the presentation, the language used was that that is understood by the many.
These early carols however may have themes about Mary and Jesus but it was said that most of them were untrue. They were mostly sung for entertainment’s sake and not seen as something religious. Carols were then spread by word of mouth but in 1647, the Puritans who were in power in England that time ordered the celebration of Christmas and the singing of Christmas songs to be stopped. It is through those who continued singing at the back of the authorities that earlier Christmas carols are known now. Two gentlemen collected the old songs that were not forgotten in England by the time singing carols were allowed again.
Let us now go fast forward to the not so distant past, when public singing of carols was not yet in style. “Waits” or the official carol singers in the streets used to be the only one allowed to sing Christmas songs and take money from the public. Back then, it is illegal to ask for money if you do not have a local leader with you. They were called “Waits” because they could only perform during Christmas Eve (the time Christmas is waited or watched) which was symbolically the time the shepherds were watching their sheep before the angles appeared.
At present, it is legal to form a choir and sing in the street (with permit of course depending on your area’s rules). Door-to-door style of caroling can also be done if preferred and there is also what is called Carols by Candlelight, where the cathedral is only lighted with candles.
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