Advent Reading - January 5

And when they were come into the house,
they saw the young Child with Mary His mother,
and fell down, and worshiped him:
and when they had opened their treasures,
they presented unto him gifts:
gold, and frankincense and myrrh.
And being warned of God in a dream
that they should not return to Herod,
they departed into their own country another way.
(Matthew 2:11-12)

AC 113

Here also “gold” means good;
“frankincense and myrrh” things that are grateful
because from love and faith . . ..