Steven's Stories

(a.k.a. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel ) Latin: Latin and English: Veni, veni, Emmanuel Captivum solve Israel, Qui gemit in exsilio, Privatus Dei Fili...

(a.k.a. Carol of the Drum ) Carol of the Drum by The Trapp Family Singers on Grooveshark Carol of the Drum , sung by the Trapp Family Singe...

One Foggy Christmas Eve by Steven Sauke, December 2022 (picture updated because the video I originally posted here is no longer on YouTube)...

Home for the Holidays is one of those songs that makes me happy, then leaves me wondering what planet the composer comes from. It was co...

"I Saw Three Ships" has always slightly baffled me. What does the Christmas story have to do with ships? Why three? What were the ...

Christmas 1818 was rapidly approaching, and St. Nicholas Church in the Austrian village of Oberndorf bei Salzburg was facing a serious probl...

"Happy Holiday" was written in 1942 by Irving Berlin for the movie Holiday Inn . The main premise of the movie involves an inn tha...

The song "Last Christmas" is one of my least favorite Christmas songs. It's truly a study in incorrigibility. The singer seems...

“Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one on earth like him; he is blameless and upright, a man who fears God and shuns evil.” - ...

I shared my memories of September 11, 2001 back in May, and now I thought I'd post this poem I wrote shortly after the horrible events ...