The "Huron Carol" (or "'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime") is a Christmas hymn, written in 1643 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Christian missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada. Brébeuf wrote the lyrics in the native language of the Huron/Wendat people; the song's original Huron title is "Jesous Ahatonhia" ("Jesus, he is born"). The song's melody is a traditional French folk song, "Une Jeune Pucelle" ("A Young Maid"). The English lyrics were written in 1926 by Jesse Edgar Middleton.

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Elizabeth Marrie rsm, a member of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of Newfoundland, has been an educator and a member of vocation, formation and leadership teams. Her current ministry is at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital in individual counselling in an interdisciplinary outpatient setting and in chaplaincy.  Her ministry is guided by the mystery of the Incarnation, bowing “before the Divine born in the stable of every heart and in the stable of the whole universe” (Pat Bergen, csj).

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