Advent Songs and such

As children, our mother would gather us around the advent wreath during the 4 weeks before Christmas and we would sing these haunting Advent songs about the people crying out for the Messiah 4000 years before Christ was born.  The songs expressed a longing that I have not experienced in many other forms of music.  Maybe it's because we sang them in our mother tongue as children which added to the emotion of the song.  Here's a sample of one of the songs.

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/familie/weihnachtslieder/weihnachtslieder-4-tauet-himmel-den-gerechten-12683217.html

Here's an old photo of mom, dad and everyone with Tom and after is home singing in the old house on Summitview Rd.

Michael, Monika, Barbara were already out of the house at that time.  This was approx. 1960.