Have yourself a merry little Christmas!

Christmas recital at Holy Rosary church. 

Holy Rosary church is a lovely, old Catholic church in Bangkok near Chinatown and on the river.  It was built some 200 years ago as the church for the then Portugese community in the then Siam.  The Portugese were some of the Europeans living here in the kingdom's history for the sake of trade, diplomacy and business. 

I was at Holy Rosary Monday evening for a Christmas recital by the Bangkok Voices.  It was an uplifting experience, listening to the Christmas songs while looking around at the inside of the church with its many statues and symbols and wonderful sky or heavenly like ceiling.   

It was a good way to enter into Christmas week.  Their last song was particularly moving.  It was "The Prayer".  Celine Dion does a version as does Andrea Bocelli, or they sing it together.  I heard the words and felt they had a real message and here it is: 
"Let this be our prayer.  When shadows fill our day, lead us to a place, guide us with your grace. give us faith so that we'll be safe. 
..............
It's the faith you light in us.  I feel it will save us."

Merry Christmas!!!