As we rise this Christmas Morning in Australia, I am reminded how blessed I am for my beautiful family and my other family at GAW. Thank you for your continued love and your contributions to this board. May you be surrounded with Love from those you hold close, Peace, knowing that if we put our Faith in His hands, He will carry us even on the heaviest of days and His Truth that if we seek Him, we shall find it, even in the most unlikely of places and we will be set free knowing that Jesus is the Truth and the Way and He gives us a Life that is a Gift that we are reminded of on this Blessed Day. God Bless and have a Wonderful Christmas!
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I love listening to the Messiah. My mother used to take me to hear it live every year when I was a kid. I remember everyone standing up for the hallelujah chorus. Precious memories.
I’m trying to remember if it was The Messiah or another Masterpiece where the story goes that the King when it was first performed was so overcome with emotion stating that he felt he was actually in the presence of God and stood as the end was being played. It is now tradition that in those last bars, the audience rise to their feet in humble thanks. Very stirring.
Yes, that was the story I was told for why it is a tradition to stand during the Hallelujah chorus of Handel's Messiah.