Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

Merry Christmas, almost.

The title of today's post is Holy Night Indeed.

Do you have any guesses about what may have been the first song broadcast from space?

The crew of Gemini 6 snut bells and the harmonica on board.

On December 16th, 1965, after reporting a strange object moving in the skies from north to south,

they played a few lines of jingle bells. You can click here and here the astronauts.

And does anyone know the story behind the 12 days of Christmas?

Though a host of modern internet sites and some magazine articles have tried to reduce the 12 days of Christmas to a little more than a silly Christmas Carol.

Most scholars of the Catholic Church deem it a very important surviving example of a time when that denomination used codes to disguise their teachings in order to avoid persecution.

Originally a poem written by Catholic clerics, this song was transformed into a carol

at a time when celebrating the 12 days of Christmas was one of the most important

holiday customs. The complete explanation of why each day's gift code was chosen to represent

the spiritual truth in pictures can be found through this link, but here is what each gift represented.

This is the what. You can go to the link and find out their explanation of why they chose it.

Some of them, very fascinating.

The partridge in a pear tree represents Jesus. Two turtle doves represent the Old and New

Testaments. Three French hens represent faith, hope, and love, and also the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The four calling birds are the four Gospels.

The five golden rings represent the first five books of the Old Testament,

known as the Torah or the Pentateuch. Each egg of the six geese allaying

is a day in creation when God hatched or formed the world. Hidden in the seven swans of swimming are the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit as the

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