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The Story Behind the Carol Bible Verse:

Philippians 2:1-8

This carol’s composer is unknown. The carol is
known as a Catalonian carol that originated in the
northern part of Spain around 1820. The text of this
If then there is any encouragement in
carol, “El noi de la Mare- What Shall I Give to the
Christ, any consolation from love, any
Son of the Mother”, has several versions. A version
sharing in the Spirit, any compassion and
of text that became popular in the United States
sympathy, make my joy complete: be of the
tells the story of the life of Jesus - asking not only
same mind, having the same love, being in
what we shall give to the baby, but telling of his
full accord and of one mind. Do nothing
whole life and then pointing back to the manger.
from selfish ambition or conceit, but in
Christmas joy is to celebrate God’s greatest gift of
humility regard others as better than
love - salvation was born.What shall we do to
yourselves. Let each of you look not to your
respond to such an amazing sacrificial gift?
own interests, but to the interests of others.
Let the same mind be in you that was in
Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the
form of God, did not regard equality with
God as something to be exploited, but
emptied himself, taking the form of a slave
being born in human likeness. And being
found in human form, he humbled himself
and became obedient to the point of death
even death on a cross.

Catalonian Carol, arr. Howard Helvey
Performed by Xander Niebuhr, viola; Will Niebuhr, cello;
Brian Niebuhr, piano