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This is a fun little quiz for middle school aged kids.  Answers are at the bottom in very tiny print!  Don't peek until you think you've guessed most of them! Obfuscated Christmas Carols Quiz Can You Name These Religious Christmas Carols? Approach Everyone Who Is Steadfast Ecstasy Toward The Orb Hush, The Foretelling Spirits Harmonize Hey, Minuscule Urban Area Southwest Of Jerusalem Quiescent Nocturnal Period The Autocratic Troika Originating Near the Accent of Apollo The Primary Carol During the Time Ovine Caretakers Supervised Their Charges Past Twilight Celestial Messengers From Splendid Empires The Tatterdemalion Ebony Atmosphere What Offspring Abides Thus? Removed in a Bovine Feeding Trough Seraphim We Aurally Detect in the Stratosphere The Slight Percussionist Lad The Event Occurred At One Minute After 11:59 PM—Visibility Unlimited Are You Experiencing Parallel Auditory Input? ANSWERS TO OBFUSCATED CHRISTMAS CAROLS QUIZ 1. O Come All Ye Faithful 2. Joy To The World 3. Ha...

"Christmas Once is Christmas Still" by Phillips Brooks The silent skies are full of speech, For who hath ears to hear; The winds are whispering each to each, The moon is calling to the beach, And stars their sacred mission teach Of Faith, and Love, and Fear. But once the sky its silence broke, And song o'erflowed the earth, The midnight air with glory shook, And angels mortal language spoke, When God our human nature took In Christ the Saviour's birth. And Christmas once is Christmas still; The gates through which He came, And forests wild and murmuring rill, And fruitful field and breezy hill, And all that else the wide world fill Are vocal with His name. Shall we not listen while they sing This latest Christmas morn, And music hear in everything, And faithful lives in tribute bring To the great song which greets the King Who comes when Christ is born. ~~Phillips Brooks~~ (He is better known for his carol, "O Little Town of Bethelehem." I have assigned this...