Category Archives: Religion and related subjects

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Twelfth Day of Christmas

Posted on 05/01/2012 by

The Vigil of Epiphany………….. Well we’ve made it safely to the end of the Christmas season….today is traditionally the day you exchanged gifts or presents…like the kings who brought their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh…. Today is the day … Continue reading →

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Eleventh Day of Christmas

Posted on 04/01/2012 by

The Wednesday of Christmas…. Feast of St Elizabeth Anne Seaton ( first saint of the USA canonised in 1975) It seems most appropriate that on the day we learn of the result of the Iowa caucuses we should also celebrate … Continue reading →

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Tenth Day of Christmas

Posted on 03/01/2012 by

The Tuesday of Christmas…. This day has leaping lords but no Saints….so I thought we might all consider those ill made resolutions that come in with the New Year and barely last out the first week of January…. After Epiphany … Continue reading →

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Ninth Day of Christmas

Posted on 02/01/2012 by

Feast of St Basil Great and St Gregory of Nazianzen St Basil was highly thought of both in his time and later by John Henry Cardinal Newman amongst others….he was ranked with Athansius as a theologian and his panegyric his … Continue reading →

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Eighth Day of Christmas

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Solemnity of Mary the mother of God and in the old calendar The Circumcision of Our Lord Circumcision takes place on the eighth day after birth…I believe from memory as instructed both to Abraham in Genesis and to Moses in … Continue reading →

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Seventh Day of Christmas……

Posted on 31/12/2011 by

Saturday within the Octave of Christmas… Feast of St Sylvester St Sylvester isn’t much celebrated here in England but he was a Pope…indeed the Pope who convened the First Council of Nicea….from which the great (Nicene) Creed takes it name. … Continue reading →

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Sixth Day of Christmas

Posted on 30/12/2011 by

The Feast of the Holy Family This feast is usually kept on the Sunday within the octave of Christmas…but as this year that Sunday will fall on the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God it is instead kept today. … Continue reading →

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Fifth Day of Christmas

Posted on 29/12/2011 by

Feast of St Thomas of Canterbury… Thomas a Becket was one of the great figures of Medieval history… partly because his story is compelling in itself and partly because his story illustrates the wider struggle between the secular and ecclesiastical … Continue reading →

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The Fourth Day of Christmas……

Posted on 28/12/2011 by

The Feat of Holy Innocents….. It’s superficially strange that in the midst of these happiest celebrations of the birth of Redemption we should also commemorate a shocking act of violence. The slaughter at Bethlehem mars the simple beauty of a … Continue reading →

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The Third Day of Christmas…..

Posted on 27/12/2011 by

The Feast of St John… Apostle & Evangelist ( ‘the beloved’) In the Golden Legend Isidore observes of St John, that he: changed branches from the forests trees into gold and the pebbles of the beach into precious stones St … Continue reading →

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