On the 10th day of Christmas...

We Three Kings

...we are the only people with Christmas decorations still out. Seriously. I am ready for a tidy, organized, spic and span house like the rest of you, but I am in this for the long haul. We are so going to celebrate all of Christmastide, up to and including Twelfth Night. Twelfth Night is the eve of the Feast of Epiphany, which is the next season in the church calendar. You will learn all about it soon enough. But for now, we are still on the tenth day of Christmas and, according to church tradition, the magi are still on their trek from the Orient to Bethlehem to see the Christ child. Sing along with me?

We Three Kings
(my favorite version: is the Barenaked Ladies mashup with God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman featuring Sarah McLachlan) 


We three kings of Orient are 
Bearing gifts we traverse afar. 
Field and fountain, moor and mountain, 
Following yonder star. 


O star of wonder, star of night, 
Star with royal beauty bright, 
Westward leading, still proceeding, 
Guide us to thy perfect Light. 


Born a king on Bethlehem's plain, 
Gold I bring to crown Him again, 
King forever, ceasing never 
Over us all to reign.


O star of wonder, star of night, 
Star with royal beauty bright, 
Westward leading, still proceeding, 
Guide us to thy perfect Light. 


Frankincense to offer have I. 
Incense owns a Deity nigh. 
Prayer and praising all men raising, 
Worship Him, God on high.

O star of wonder, star of night, 
Star with royal beauty bright, 
Westward leading, still proceeding, 
Guide us to thy perfect Light. 

Myrrh is mine: it's bitter perfume 
Breaths a life of gathering gloom. 
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding dying, 
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb.

O star of wonder, star of night, 
Star with royal beauty bright, 
Westward leading, still proceeding, 
Guide us to thy perfect Light. 


Glorious now behold Him arise, 
King and God and Sacrifice. 
Alleluia, alleluia! 
Sounds through the earth and skies.

O star of wonder, star of night, 
Star with royal beauty bright, 
Westward leading, still proceeding, 
Guide us to thy perfect Light