The Twelve Days of Christmas
This year has gone by so fast! Christmas is just around the corner! Someone from church shared this with my family and I thought it was pretty interesting. They found it on the internet. Here's the meaning behind the song of the Twelve Days of Christmas: The twelve days of Christmas are the 12 days between Christmas Day, Dec. 25th, the birth of Jesus, and the Epiphany, Jan. 6th, which is the day Christians celebrate the arrival of Magi (Wise Men) and the revelation of Christ as the Light of the world. The Christmas song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," may sound silly and contrived to many of us, but it actually had its origins in religious symbolism- and with a serious purpose. It dates from a time of religious persecution. The song was written as a kind of secret catechism that could sing in public without fear of interest- a learning memory aid to Christians, in fact. The song can be taken at 2 levels of interpretation- the surface meaning, or the hi