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THE SPIRITUAL MEANING OF THE MAGI'S GIFTS

“Opening their treasures, they offered Him gifts: gold, frankincense, and myrrh” (Matthew 2: 11).

One king holds in his hands, the divine frankincense
One king holds in his hands, the holy myrrh
One king holds in his hands, the purest gold
But the King of kings holds in His hands, the whole world.

Ever since the birth of Christ, and perhaps before the Savior’s birth, gold was considered precious and as something greatly to be prized.

St. Matthew (2:11) tells us of the wise men who offered the Savior gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh. “Entering into the house, they found the Child with Mary, His Mother, and falling down they adored Him. Opening their treasures, they offered Him gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh.”

In a spiritual sense gold means heavenly wisdom. Wisdom resides in the intellect and its counterpart or spouse in the will is charity. The wise men were called wise because they followed the star, found the Savior, gave Him their gold (in place of hoarding it), for they recognized Jesus as the Giver of all good gifts and realized that whatever good things they had were from God. To recognize that important fact and to appreciate it is the highest wisdom and more precious to us than gold and silver.

The Magi also brought frankincense to the Crib of Bethlehem and offered it to the world’s Redeemer. Frankincense is a fragrant inflammable resin, burnt as incense, producing a sweet smelling odor. In the spiritual order it signifies a devout prayer. Hence King David, the royal Psalmist says, “O Lord, hear my voice, and let my prayer be directed as incense in Thy sight” (Psalm 140:2). To have our prayers thus directed to God, they must be fervent and inflamed with the fire of charity.

Myrrh is the aromatic gummy resin of Balsamodendron Myrrh that grows in Arabia and Abyssinia and is of an agreeable or spicy nature. By myrrh, in the spiritual sense, is understood the mortification of the flesh (so much needed in this age of luxury, ease and up-to-date comfort). Wherefore, we read in Canticles 5:5, “I arose up to open to My Beloved. My hands dropped with myrrh and my fingers were full of the choicest myrrh.”

In these words the Church mystically describes Christ to those who know Him not, that is, to infidels; in order to convert them to the true faith.

For by the visible things (of God) namely, gold, frankincense and myrrh when considered in a spiritual manner, we rise to a knowledge of the invisible things of God; and only then do we realize how much we need heavenly wisdom, devout prayer and mortification of the flesh. These three are the spiritual gold of the human soul. (The Humanity of Christ).