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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

January 19: SS Marius, Martha, Audifax and Abachum, Memorial

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Butler's Lives of the Saints gives this account of today's saints: "Maris, a nobleman of Persia, with his wife Martha, and tw...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

January 16: Pope St Marcellus I, Memorial

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Pope St Marcellus I was pope from May 308 to 309.   He seems to have been an active administrator, doing much to reorganize the Church afte...
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...
Friday, January 14, 2011

January 14: St Felix of Nola, Memorial

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According to the Wikipedia: "Felix was the elder son of Hermias, a Syrian soldier who had retired to Nola, Italy. After his father...
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...