In the AIC Seasonal Video presentation, The Twelve Days of Christmas, the episode for the Tenth Day of Christmas – Jan. 3rd – the key word is COMMANDMENTS. The musical theme is a horn arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen.
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Tomorrow, Jan. 4th, the Eleventh Day of Christmas, the key words are Glorifying God with examples from Anglican worship using the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.
May the Lord bless you and keep you in all that you do in His Name. Amen!
Here we are just after the start of a New Year A.D. 2018, when the secular world is ready to turn to commerce and politics, but it’s still one of the Twelve Days of Christmas. For Jan 2nd, the Ninth Day of Christmas, the key word is ANGELS. The opening music for today’s video is — surprise, surprise! — Angels We Have Heard on High, with kudos to Edward Shippen Barnes for his pre-WWII arrangement of an old English Carol. The episode is filled with examples of Angels in Scripture and tradition.
The New Year begins with the Eighth Day of Christmas, when the key word is CHURCH. The musical theme is What Child Is This?, originally published by William Chatteron Dix in 1865 A.D. and set to the English folk tune Greensleeves.
On this the Seventh Day of Christmas, Dec. 31st, the theological key word is FAMILY. The theme music for today is Away in a Manger, attributed to James Murray (1887 A.D.). In this video, I demonstrate the meaning of the word based on Scripture from both the Old and New Testament and illustrated with paintings, icons, mosaics, photographs and stained glass windows from the 6th through the 20th Century.
For this the Sixth Day of Christmas, Dec. 30th, the key theological word is JOY. Not surprisingly, the opening music is Joy to the World, first published by the prolific hymn-writer Isaac Watts in 1719 A.D. as a song about the Second Coming, in this case played on modern electronic instruments. Joy to the World is Hymn No. 38 in the St. Chrysostom Hymnal, arranged to the tradition tune, Antioch, from a hymnal published in 1926 A.D.
For this the Fifth Day of Christmas, Dec. 29th, the key word is OBEDIENCE. The musical introduction is Cecil Francis Alexander’s carol for children, Once in Royal David’s City, written in 1848 A.D. For this video the tune is Unser Herrscher. Obedience means following the will of God, as both the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph did in the Nativity accounts in the Gospels.
On this the 4th Day of Christmas, Dec. 28th, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the key word is Compassion. The musical theme is a keyboard arrangement of
For the Third Day of Christmas, Dec. 27th, the Feast of St. John the Evangelist, the key word is PEACE. The opening musical theme is a French horn solo inspired by Silent Night (Joseph Mohr).
On the Second Day of Christmas, December 26th, the Feast of St. Stephen, Protomartyr, the key word is FORGIVENESS. In the AIC Seasonal Video series, The Twelve Days of Christmas, the theme music for the day is an adaptation of It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Edward Hamilton Sears, 1846 A.D.).
Merry Christmas to all the followers of the Anglican Internet Church around the world. May the gracious Lord God bless you today and all the days to come.
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