CNA Staff, Dec 24, 2023 / 08:00 am
The Diocese of Lansing in Michigan has released a Christmas video featuring the story of a beloved Christmas carol, a high school student choir, and the beauty of Eucharistic adoration.
Created and produced by Matt Riedl, multimedia journalist for the Diocese of Lansing, the video begins with Bishop Earl Boyea recounting the story behind the song “Silent Night.” A choir made up of high school students from the Catholic schools in the diocese begin to sing the carol, while the story of a young girl seeking Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is interwoven into the production.
In an interview with CNA, Riedl shared that he hoped to convey “truth, beauty, and goodness” in this year’s video.
“It’s often hard to encapsulate beauty in videos, but I think it’s very important because I think of those things, beauty and creativity is what speaks to the heart first,” he said. “I believe that you have to be captivated by something first before you can then really start to take in the truth that is contained in [the] video.”