Happy New Year!

The Sixth Day of Christmas

Steeleye Span sings a magnificent arrangement of The Boar's Head Carol

The Fifth Day of Christmas

"The Sans Day Carol" by the Choir of Gonzaga College.

Holy Innocents, Martyrs

Coventry Carol - Westminster Cathedral Choir



The "Coventry Carol" is a Christmas carol dating from the 16th Century. The carol was performed in Coventry as part of a mystery play called The Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors. The play depicts the Christmas story from chapter two in the Gospel of Matthew. The carol refers to the Massacre of the Innocents, in which Herod orders all male infants under the age of two in Bethlehem to be killed. The lyrics of this haunting carol represent a mother's lament for her doomed child. It is the only carol that has survived from this play.

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The Third Day of Christmas

The Choir of King's College sings the Sussex Carol

St. Stephen's Day

For the Feast of Stephen, "Good King Wenceslas" as performed by The Irish Rovers.

Christmas Day!

As suggested by today's morning prayer from Common Prayer, here's the African American Spiritual, "Go Tell It On The Mountain," performed by the Samoan Gospel Heralds.