It’s Christmas Eve and the last Sunday of Advent – and so, here we come a-wassailing! We celebrate the birth of Christ tomorrow, and ...

Good news travels like wildfire – and for “Sussex Carol”, it seems carols travel just as fast! Luke Wadding, an Irish Franciscan friar and ...

Like many of the Carols of Comfort & Joy we’ve explored this Advent, “Go Tell it on the Mountain” is a Christmas AND an ...

Have you heard this one before? It’s not like “Jolly Old St. Nicholas” or “Jingle Bells”, with lyrics that are quick to pick up. ...

Today’s Carol of Comfort & Joy is often called “Luther’s cradle hymn” after appearing in a Lutheran children’s hymnal in 1885. While not actually ...

As you’re traveling to see friends and family for Christmas, remember that Our Blessed Mother did the same thing leading up to Christmas. I ...

Did you know that “O Christmas Tree” was originally written in praise of an everyday evergreen? That’s right! The song’s original name was “O ...

Have you ever visited a new place and been so enamored by it, you write a song about it? That’s just what happened to ...

As you’re winding up for Christmas, it might be a surprise to remember that the night of Christ’s birth was awfully quiet. Aside from ...

In the same poll in which experts ranked “In the Bleak Midwinter” as the best Christmas carol, do you know what the second one ...

What would YOU do with 264 gifts?   That’s the plight of the narrator in today’s Carol of Comfort & Joy, “The Twelve Days of ...

Today, our Carol of Comfort & Joy is the most published hymn in North America: “Joy to the World!”   English minister and logician Isaac ...

In a poll of 51 choral experts and directors in the world, today’s Carol of Comfort & Joy, “In the Bleak Midwinter” was voted ...

Are you traveling to see family or friends for Christmas? How about traveling to a soup kitchen or a shelter to give back this ...

Did you know? Most Christmas carols, as you might have noticed, start out as poems and later are adapted to music. That makes Episcopal ...

“O Holy Night” is one of the Christmas carols that you may only know by tune and not by lyric. It was penned in ...

Did you like learning a little Latin yesterday? Here comes some more with today’s Carol of Comfort and Joy. “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”, ...

Today’s Carol of Comfort & Joy has at least five different lyricists who’ve been given credit: John IV, King of Portugal, two composers, a ...

“Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, lean your ear this way…” Boy, I bet we all wished as kids that Saint Nicholas would just tell us ...

Today’s Carol of Comfort & Joy is one whose tune you might know from the end of “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” As the kids ...