O Holy Night Informative Speech

O Holy Night What would Christmas be like without our favorite Christmas Carols? As we kick off this holiday season we, the worship exposed team, wanted to dive a little further into these heartfelt and memory filled Christmas songs that have showered through our homes, churches and communities for decades. As I gathered details for this series, I battled with what Christmas Carol to write about. Between Hark the Herald, Silent Night and Joy to the Lord, it was a tough call, but ultimately I decided to write about one of my favorites carols growing up and singing, O Holy Night.
We may all have at one point sang this classic Carol and some of us might have even memorized the lyrics, but have you truly dissected the song, it's history and how it is more of a worship song than anything else?
Believe it or not, this well-known Christmas Carol, O Holy Night, did not start out as song. ... In 1847 it started with a French poem written by Placide Cappeau, a wine merchant, mayor of the town, and an occasional poet, who had been asked by a parish priest to write a poem for Christmas mass. Using the gospel of Luke as his guide, Cappeau imagined witnessing the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. Thoughts of being present on the blessed night inspired him. Later on Cappeau decided that his writing was just not a poem, but could be put into a song. So he turned to one of his friends Adalph Adams for help and Adams was able to compose the poem into music that decades later we are still singing. (Important Fact: On December 24, 1906, Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian inventor, broadcast the first AM radio program, which included him playing “O Holy Night” on the violin and singing the final verse. The Carol therefore was one of the first pieces of music to be broadcast on