Joyeux Noel

Thinking about Advent -which is probably my most favourite time of year, I came across a blog

http://rethinkingyouth.blogspot.com/

He has some great Advent suggestions on his site - mostly aimed at youth but really for anyone. Here's a flavour;

This clip is from the award-winning French film "Joyeux Noel" which tells the true story of the remarkable (and unofficial) 1914 Christmas truce during WWI. In this scene, based on true accounts, German, Scottish, and French soldiers are all barricaded in their trenches on Christmas Eve. A German soldier begins to sing a Christmas carol and eventually the enemy soldiers of the other trenches join in. This eventually prompts them all to come up out of their hiding places, call a truce, and celebrate Christmas together. It's an excellent film, dramatizing both the darkness we acknowledge in Advent and the possibility of the light to come. Show this film to your youth, or just enjoy it yourself.

Here's the clip

Enjoy!