Wednesday 1st Week of Advent

 Feast of St. Nicholas

Jolly old St. Nicholas, lean your ear this way,

Don’t you tell a single soul what I’m going to say;

Christmas Eve is coming soon, now you dear old man,

Whisper what you’ll bring to me; 

Tell me if you can. 

This is probably all most people know of St. Nicholas. 

But what most don’t know is that he lived in Turkey;

And died in the middle of the 4th century. 

He became a bishop and was known to have given away most of his money to the poor. 

Maybe this Christmas Eve,

We can whisper in his ear

And see what gifts he might bring to us. 

Gifts that neither rust nor age can decay.