Ok, I am finally getting around to post I started over a month ago, for the Nativity of John the Baptist. As I have noted before, this has become one of my favorite feast days. To emphasize how important it was in ages past, I will start with this quote from, you guess it, Dom [...]
Tempus Fugit! It is once again Ascensiontide (a word that made more sense when there was an octave for this great feast) and Pentecost is drawing near. Dom Gueranager notes that in the middle ages there was a solemn procession before Mass to commemorate the procession of Our Lord and his disciples from the cenacle [...]
Happy Mothering Sunday to all you moms out there! Enjoy the real Mother’s Day.
And Rejoice for we are more than halfway through Lent. Last Thursday was actually the halfway point, and for that reason is (was) sometimes called Mid-Lent Thursday. Dom Gueranger notes that the Greeks observe Mid-Lent on Wednesday and for them it is [...]
Back in 07 I started a series of posts on Advent based on the Advent volume of The Liturgical Year. I don’t remember what happened to that but there is another passage I want to highlight, also from the chapter on Practice During Advent. (You can click the Advent category to see all my past [...]
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