Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace. (G.K. Chesterton)
Month: January 2025
Three Reasons Why Celebrating the Circumcision of Jesus is a Great Way to Start the Year
(Mikyele Schramm has a few thoughts on the feast of the Circumcision of Christ, commemorated on the octave of Christmas, the first day of the calendar year. This feast was replaced in the revisions of 1969 with the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, which itself used to fall on October 11th. But it’s still[…]
The Cappadocians and the Last Days
Today’s fourth-century saints, Saints Basil of Caesarea (+379) and Gregory of Nazianzen (+389), comprise, together with Basil’s brother Gregory of Nyssa (+395), the trio known as the Cappadocian Fathers, from the region now in modern Turkey whence they hailed. Gregory’s sister Macrina had turned the family estate into a monastery, and they dedicated their lives[…]
On Sunday 29 December 2024, the liturgical feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, the Archdiocese of Malta started the Jubilee of Hope. The grand celebration was done at Mdina Cathedral in a pontifical mass at 6.00 pm. In a packed cathedral, the Archbishop of Malta, Mgr Charles J. Scicluna, started his[…]