Grantian Florilegium

Often called Childermas or Kindermord, the Sunday between Christmas and Epiphany traditionally solemnizes the slaughter...

Rorate coeli desuper!   Hevins, distil your balmy schouris! For now is risen the bricht day-ster,   Fro the rose Mary, f...

Joy to the World , the Lord is come! Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And Heaven and nature sing, And Heave...

O Lord, You are our Savior and Redeemer, our Hope, and the Captain of our Salvation. You are called Wonderful Counselor, M...

Rarely in one carol does an author encompass the entirety of the Redemption story from creation, the prophets, the nativity...

Unto us is born a Son, King of choirs supernal: See on earth His life begun, Of lords the Lord eternal, Of lords th...

A beautiful and wealthy Sicilian who was martyred during the persecutions of Diocletian, Lucia of Syracuse (c. 304) was...

The fourth century pastor who inspired the tradition of Santa Claus, may not have lived at the North Pole or traveled b...

The holiday season—what we generically just call Christmastime—is actually a long sequence of festal revelries and litu...