French children wear sweaters and berets. German children wear short pants, bright suspenders, and colorful hats with long feathers.
English carolers wear mufflers, mittens, and high top hats.
Mary, Joseph, and the shepherds, wear traditional costuming, with long robes, sashes, turbans, and beards. Candlelighters wear white capes with large bows, and light candles from a lighted one which they hold. All exit to the side of the platform, return from this place for the closing circle, and then orderly exit at front after benediction. Every word in this great text is significant, but of special significance is the word world . For God so loved the world.