Why is "We Three Kings" a Christmas hymn, and not a Lenten one?
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Just noticed this during Mass today (Feast of the Epiphany). After the gospel is read, the proclamation of dates for the movable feasts can be read
So, We Three Kings, although often thought of as a Christmas hymn is really the only popular English Epiphany hymn that I know of. And that event may have taken place 2 years after Jesus' birth for all we know. Anyway, it's a pretty good bridge for the end of the Christmas season to the beginning of Lent.
Oh, and nobody but Lew Wallace is still thinking about the three kings when Lent comes around.
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