FAIRFIELD—“O Jesus Christ, we sign Thy birth around the Christmas tree, And mark Thy Life once lived on earth, Thy Cross and victory,” is the first verse of this new Christmas hymn by Catholic author and song writer Anna Bendiksen of Fairfield.
“It is designed especially to be sung in the home in the presence of a Christmas tree,” she says. “I love composing for the Catholic home. I believe that we are in the early stages of an American Catholic Renaissance. Families can get ready by making music together.”
Anna earned degrees from Bryn Mawr College (A.B. in Russian summa cum laude), where she served as director of the Bryn Mawr-Haverford Russian Choir, and Yale University (M.A., M. Phil. in Slavic Languages and Literatures). She is also trained in teaching English to speakers of other languages (certificate from Teachers College, Columbia University). A convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism, she is a Fairfield resident along with her husband and son, and member of the Parish of St. Catherine of Siena in Trumbull.
For more information about Anna Bendiksen’s Christmas composition, visit: www.annabendiksen.com.
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