To start the post off, before any main content that is. i just wanted to shout out the horror of having to type "christian christmas backgrounds' or "Christian Christmas Carols' to find accurate information on the web. Christmas is just a holiday season to people who do not know Christ.

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A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you! cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge's nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the intimation he had of his approach.

"Bah!" said Scrooge, "humbug"As the pages turn in this delightful story written by Charles Dickens there is the written sound of a Christmas Carol:

"God, bless you. merry gentlemen! May nothing you dismay!"***"Silent Night'', "Oh Come All Ye Faithful", "Joy to the World', "Away in the Manger', and other beautiful carols are the Christmas songs we know. Although a carol was a special form of song, today the name it is used for most Christmas songs. The word ' carol came from the Ancient Greek word 'chorus', meaning 'to dance', or a similar word meaning 'to accompany the dance on the pipes and flutes'.

The Christmas carol (also called a 'noel' in French and 'villancicos' in Spanish) is a song or hymn whose lyrics are on the Christian theme and are traditionally sung during the Christmas season. The tradition of Christmas carols stems far back as far as the thirteenth century; they are based on medieval chord patterns, which give them their uniquely characteristic musical tone. .

The earliest carols celebrated any happy event or season, and not all were of a religious nature. The dance was dropped after a time. The carols told a story and sung by minstrels or by wandering musicians; they sang their verses and stanzas and their audiences joined in on the burden (the burden was like a refrain). It was only at a later period that carols became closely tied to religion and sung in churches written to tell the Biblical story and to be specifically associated with Christmas.

Most churches have special services at which carols are sung, generally combined with readings from scripture about the birth of Christ. Tradition has it that Christmas carols were introduced into church services by St Francis of Assisi in the 12th century. In the 19th centuries and onwards the popularity of Christmas carols grew in religious observances in the United States spreading their good faith.