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
(or Nowell in Anglican usage). It is more important than ever to rely upon the traditional message of the Christian Church. The anti-religion/anti-Christian secularists have won if we forget the doctrines and the history the Church Universal has received and handed down since the time of the Apostles. In this Christmas season remembrance of Compassion is important since persecution of Christians around the world is rising, with more evidence of it coming in almost daily.
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The video series celebrates one key word or phrase on each of the days from Christmas Day to Epiphany Eve (Jan. 5). On the Fifth Day, Dec. 29, the key word will be Obedience.
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.
Here’s an encore performance of Lessons & Carols for Christmas Eve with Christian art through the ages blended with Scripture readings and music in the Anglican Christmas tradition. The program has a bonus reading with voice responses from the AIC’s Antiphons for Christmas Eve which I used at my former parish.
Join us for today’s Great “O” Antiphons observation for December 23rd, when the key words are O Rex Gentium, or King of Nations. This presentation was adapted, with illustrations and music, from the original 12th C. office.
For December 22nd the key words are O Orien (Dayspring) in the 12th C. devotions known as the Great “O” Antiphons. The hymn for today is Wake, Awake, the Night is Dying (Anglican translation is Awake, the Night is Flying), sung by Mr. Jared Haselbarth. You can access all his beautiful Christian music at 
The Great “O” Antiphon for December 21st is O Clavis David (Key of David). This evocation from our joint Hebrew-Christian past is part of the 12th C. celebration of the last 7 days of Advent, The hymn for the occasion is Come, Thou Long-expected Jesus, sung by soloist Jared Haselbarth. The hymn was composed by Charles Wesley and is sung to the German-inspired tune, Stuttgart. You can access much of Mr. Haselbarth’s Christian music at 
The key phrase for Dec. 20th in the 12th C. observation, The Great “O” Antiphons, is O Radix Jesse, or Key of Jesse. It’s such a shame that the modern Church rarely uses these great teaching assets, but you can still enjoy and, hopefully, learn from them here.
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