What is the meaning of #Christmas?

🎁 Presents? Shopping? Good food and time off work?

Perhaps. But more...

❄️ frost and pale, clear skies
🕯️ school events, concerts with choir, carol singers
✨ dark evenings, fairy-lit trees
👪 a whole country setting aside normal life to make something sacred
⛪ the welcome at any church for #MidnightMass

It is charity, kindness, community, giving, wonder... the rebirth of the light. And #CarolsFromKings on #ChristmasEve 👇☺️

#MerryChristmas everyone! 🎄💖✨🙏

#CarolsFromKings is such a distillation of all the bizarre contradictions of the establishment faith, sublime music at the triple point of the sacred, the pagan and the profane, steeped in the misogynistic imagery of King James' Bible, which it apes and mocks with its own arch campness. And behind it it there's this whole slightly troubling, and sometimes dark process of training the boy choristers with the ephemeral voices of angels...

Watching #CarolsFromKings and wondering if one of the readers was actually wearing #stays?

We have #CarolsfromKings on the telly. Very pretty 🎄

Shhhhhh ... #CarolsFromKings

What is the meaning of #Christmas?

🎁 Presents? Shopping? Good food and time off work?

Perhaps. But more...

❄️ frost and pale, clear skies
🕯️ school events, concerts with choir, carol singers
✨ dark evenings, fairy-lit trees
👪 a whole country setting aside normal life to make something sacred
⛪ the welcome at any church for #MidnightMass

It is charity, kindness, community, giving, wonder... the rebirth of the light. And #CarolsFromKings on #ChristmasEve 👇☺️

#MerryChristmas everyone! 🎄💖✨🙏

What is the meaning of #Christmas?

🎁 Presents? Shopping? Good food and time off work?

Perhaps. But more...

❄️ frost and pale, clear skies
🕯️ school services, concerts with choir, carol singers
✨ dark evenings, fairy-lit trees
👪 a whole country setting aside normal life to make something sacred
⛪ the welcome at any church for #MidnightMass

It is charity, kindness, community, giving, wonder... the rebirth of the light. And #CarolsFromKings on #ChristmasEve 👇☺️

#MerryChristmas everyone! 🎄💖✨🙏

What is the meaning of #Christmas?

🎁 Shopping? Presents? Good food and time off work?

Perhaps. But more...

❄️ frost and pale, clear skies
🕯️ school services, concerts with choir, carol singers
✨ early evenings, fairy-lit trees
👪 a whole country setting aside normal life to make something sacred
⛪ the welcome at any church for #MidnightMass

It is charity, kindness, community, giving, wonder... the rebirth of the light. And "#CarolsFromKings" on #ChristmasEve 👇☺️

#MerryChristmas everyone! 🎄💖✨🙏

What is the meaning of #Christmas?

🎁 Shopping? Presents? Good food and time off work?

Perhaps. But more...

❄️ frost, snow and pale, clear skies
🕯️ school services, choir concerts, carol singers
✨ early evenings, fairy-lit trees
👪 a whole country setting aside normal life to make something sacred
⛪ the welcome at any church for #MidnightMass

It is charity, kindness, community, giving, wonder... the rebirth of the light. And "#CarolsFromKings" on #ChristmasEve 👇☺️

#MerryChristmas everyone! 🎄💖✨🙏