Today being a red-letter feast day, that of the Annunciation, I pop by to check up on y’all before resuming my Lenten silence. And, as I’m here, let me remind you that, although we are to pray daily for our various heads of government, that does not mean we pray that their policies, aims, ambitions,Continue reading “Magnificat”
Category Archives: Feasts of the Church
The heresy of entryism
Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered : let them also that hate him flee before him. —Ps. lxviii, Exsurgat Deus. Today is the Feast of S Hilary of Poitiers, Bishop & Confessor. A patron saint of lawyers, writers, and controversialists, Hilary stands for—and ought to be emulated in standing for—the principles thatContinue reading “The heresy of entryism”
For S Luke’s Day
This the Feast of Luke: Evangelist, artist, and physician. The world is clearly ill and in want of care and healing. We are all unwell and stumbling on a precipice, we are all cast down; we are all in need of good news, of medicine, and of the news and the hope of our cure.Continue reading “For S Luke’s Day”
The means of Grace and the hope of Glory: praying the Daily Offices
Today is the Sunday after Christmas Day. It is also, this year, New Year’s Eve, in the civil calendar; which means it is the Eve, the Vigil, of the Feast of the Circumcision. From that, it should be obvious that this is a post of limited interest—as regards, at least, its likely audience, if any.Continue reading “The means of Grace and the hope of Glory: praying the Daily Offices”
For all the saints, who from their labours rest
Today is the Eve of All Hallows’ Day, Hallowe’en, the first day of the three days of Allhallowtide, the Fast before tomorrow’s Feast which begins with the Vigil this night, with the First Evensong of All Saints’ Day, Hallowmas. Allhallowtide shall then conclude, as ever it does in the eternal cycle of the Church Year,Continue reading “For all the saints, who from their labours rest”
Markham Shaw Pyle, author & historian 