Christmas

Santas Little Helper likes to wander around sniffing out the best presents for Christmas. He also likes to play fetch. So if you've heard about a great present, but don't know how to find it on the internet, just tell Santas Little Helper to go and get it!

There’s a British Winter Olympics Reindeer and he wants to wish you happy Christmas. Just click here. The British Winter Olympics Team are heading to Vancouver in 2010 to compete in the Winter Olympics. Go Team GB!
The Vancouver Olympic Winter Games will take place from 12 to 28 February 2010.
The Games will be staged across [...]

“It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Weston, Massachusetts. It first appeared on December 29, 1849 in the Christian Register in Boston.
Sears is said to have written these words at the request of his friend, W. P. Lunt, a minister [...]

Words: Traditional; appeared in Christmas Carols, An­cient and Mo­dern, by William Sandys (London: Richard Beckley, 1833). Music: Adapted by Ri­chard W. Ad­ams, 1999, from the mel­o­dy in Sandys’ Christmas Carols, An­cient and Mo­dern.

I Saw Three Ships Lyrics
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas day, on Christmas day;
I saw three ships come sailing in
On Christmas [...]

Phillip Brooks (1835-1893), an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, wrote “O Little Town of Bethlehem” after visiting Bethlehem in 1865. His organist, Lewis Redner, added the music.
Redner’s tune, simply titled “St. Louis”, is the tune used most often for this carol in the United States. Meanwhile, the English tune [...]

The Holly and the Ivy
The version we of the Holly and the Ivy that we are familiar with today was first published by Cecil Sharp. The Holly and the Ivy is thought to have Pagan origins and could therefore date back over 1000 years. Holly and ivy are some of the few decorative evergreens and [...]

The word wassail comes from the Anglo-Saxon toast “be thou hale” – which translates as: “to your health.” In feudal times, peasants would go “a-wassailing” (also known as caroling) door to door in hopes of scoring snacks such as figgy pudding and alcoholic drinks such as mulled wine and wassail.
What commonly passes for wassail today [...]

Words: English Traditional, 17th century. Music: Traditional English Wassail Song, 17th century

Here We Come A-Wassailing Lyrics
Here we come a-wassailing
Among the leaves so green;
Here we come a-wand’ring
So fair to be seen.
Love and joy come to you,
And to you your wassail too;
And God bless you and send you
a Happy New Year
And God send you a Happy New [...]

“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” is a translation of a Catholic Latin text “Veni, veni, Emmanuel”. It was translated by John Mason Neale in the mid-19th century.
It is a metrical version of a collation of various Advent Antiphons (the acrostic O Antiphons). Antiphons are the responses which the congregation sings in Church. Acrostic means that [...]

The “Feast of Stephen” referred to in this song is celebrated on Boxing Day – 26th December – which is why it is celebrated as a carol. The legend of “Good King Wenceslas” is based on life of the historical Saint Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia (907-935), known in the Czech language as Svatý Václav.
The [...]

Mary, Did You Know? is a Christmas song with lyrics written by Mark Lowry in 1984 and music written by Buddy Greene six years later. Santas Little Helper has heard this song performed by a women’s choir and thought it was very dramatic.
Mary, Did You Know? Lyrics

Mary, did you know
That your baby boy will one [...]