Devotion for Saturday/Sunday: Singing with the Kings

Devotion for Saturday/Sunday: Singing with the Kings

Sunday is the Feast of the Epiphany. The word basically means a sudden realization of the entire meaning of something quite amazing. The kings followed the star, and came to the site of Christ the King, whom they recognized as greater than any being that had ever lived. “In his meditations on the story of the visit of the Magi, Archbishop Fulton Sheen indicated that the three kings, having traversed a great distance, having withstood opposition from King Herod, having found the baby, having opened their treasures for him, and finally, ‘having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed for their country by another way’ (Mt 2:12). Of course they did, Sheen concluded, ‘for no one comes to Christ and goes back the same way he came!’ (For us) the liturgy is the privileged communion with the Lord; it is the source and summit of the Christian life. And therefore those who participate in it never leave unchanged; they never go back the same way they came." (Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of Faith by Robert Barron, 2011, Word on Fire Ministries)

Let us sing with the Kings!

We Three Kings

By Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Jr.

We three kings of Orient are
Bearing gifts we traverse afar
Field and fountain, moor and mountain
Following yonder star

O Star of wonder, star of night
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to thy Perfect Light

Born a King on Bethlehem's plain
Gold I bring to crown Him again
King forever, ceasing never
Over us all to reign

Frankincense to offer have I
Incense owns a Deity nigh
Prayer and praising, all men raising
Worship Him, God most high

Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume
Breathes of life of gathering gloom
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying
Sealed in the stone-cold tomb

Glorious now behold Him arise
King and God and Sacrifice
Alleluia, Alleluia
Earth to heav'n replies

O Star of wonder, star of night
Star with royal beauty bright
Westward leading, still proceeding
Guide us to thy Perfect Light