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Showing posts with label nativitytide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nativitytide. Show all posts
Monday, January 1, 2024

Happy New year...and welcome to the most liturgically wreckovated time of the year!

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Adoration of the Magi - Roman catacombs c3rd Source: Giovanni Dall'Orto, Wiki commons For most of the year, I don't have major probl...
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Saturday, December 31, 2016

Seventh day of the Octave; St Sylvester, Pope, memorial

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Today is the seventh day of the Octave of the Nativity (and of course New Year's Eve, a good time to reflect on the past year and pl...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

December 28: The Holy Innocents; Octave of the Nativity

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The Biblical account of the reasons for this ancient feast of the first martyrs for Christ is St. Matthew 2:16-18: "Herod perceiv...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016

December 27: St John the Evangelist; Octave of the Nativity

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Pope Benedict XVI has given a series of General Audiences on St John: John, Son of Zebedee; John the Theologian; John, the See...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

The Office in Christmastide and the Sundays after the Epiphany

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The season of Christmas (or Nativitytide) has two parts: the 'twelve days of Christmas', from Christmas Eve (I Vespers of Christma...
Thursday, January 5, 2012

Feast of Epiphany (January 6)

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Vicente Gil, 1498-1519 January 6 is, in some countries, as well as in the Extraordinary Form, the feast of the Epiphany.  Christmastid...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Feast of Mary, Mother of God? (aka New Year, aka Circumcision of Christ aka Octave Day of Christmas)

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This Sunday's feast is curious in that it has undergone a number of name changes in recent years - yet retained its key text, viz  St ...
Friday, December 30, 2011

Sixth Day in the Octave of the Nativity (December 30)

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Thursday, December 29, 2011

Fifth Day in the Octave of the Nativity (Dec 29)/St Thomas of Canterbury

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Bernadino Luini c1525-30  In the Extraordinary Form calendar today, and in many places, today is the feast of St Thomas of Canterbury, ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Holy Innocents (December 28)

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 Giotto, c1304  The Biblical account of the reasons for this ancient feast of the first martyrs for Christ is St. Matthew 2:16-18: ...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

St John the Evangelist (December 27)

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c1125 Pope Benedict XVI has given a series of General Audiences on St John.  Here is the first of the series: "Let us dedicate o...
Saturday, December 24, 2011

Happy Christmas!

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May all readers of this blog enjoy a happy and holy Christmastide....
Friday, December 23, 2011

Vigil of the Nativity (Dec 24)

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Enrolment for tax, mosaic Istanbul
Saturday, January 15, 2011

January 15: The Office of Our Lady on Saturday after Christmas

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Though Christmastide is now technically over, as Dom Gueranger points out in his Liturgical Year, the older tradition is that the season con...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

January 13: Commemoration of the Baptism of Our Lord

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The Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord marks the last day of the extended Christmas season, and symbolically marks the end of the hidden year...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Jan 9: Holy Family or Sunday after Epiphany?

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This Sunday presents something of a liturgical oddity in the Benedictine calendar, in that the Sunday ends up being much less elaborate li...

January 7: Yes, it is still Christmastide (and Epiphanytide)...

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Visiting the supermarket today I found that Hot Cross buns have appeared already!  Yet in fact, we are still in the last part of the Christ...
Friday, December 31, 2010

January 1: Octave Day of Christmas

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Andrea Mantegna, 1461 Today is the Octave Day of Christmas (aka New Year), and one of those feasts that have gone through a few incarnat...

December 31: Seventh day in the Octave of the Nativity; St Sylvester, Pope, memorial

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van den Bossche, 1470-1500

December 31: Seventh Day in the Octave of the Nativity

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