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Fig Monday

It’s Fig Monday today which recalls Jesus pointing out the fig tree on the Bethany-Jeruslem road. Yesterday Jesus famously rode into Jerusalem. In the evening he returned. Today he comes back to the city past threw fig tree again and overturns the tables of the moneychangers at The Temple. The commute with his disciples will […]

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THE ANNUNCIATION: NINE MONTHS TO CHRISTMAS

Monday 25 March is The Annunciation when we think of Mary learning that she was pregnant with the Christ Child. This is why we shall celebrate the birth on 25 December. There are Annunciation celebrations today in Nazareth’s basilica, Loreto and Walsingham as well as other churches. Today in Lent there is spark of colour […]

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St Joseph’s Day: another Lent break

Today Tuesday 19 March is St Joseph’s Day. If you live in Italy you will find St Joseph buns, called seppole, on sale. They look like the Shrove Tuesday semlor buns enjoyed in Sweden although this time the cream is ricotta. Joseph has two feast days. Today as spouse of Mary mother of Jesus and […]

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Is it St Patrick’s Day?

Is it St Patrick’s Day on Sunday 17 March? He does not appear in the calendar this year because 17 March is the Second Sunday of Lent. But this is not as difficult as the rare year when 17 March falls in Holy Week. It can be St Patrick’s Day on Sunday where the local […]

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Ash Wednesday: NEW START

‘The Christians go mad but thanks to ashes that the Church puts on their heads they come to their senses and are cured of their madness,’ commented the Turkish ambassador to Rome in the 1690s. Carnival ended last night and today, Ash Wednesday, we can receive ashes in church at the start of the Forty […]

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Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2019

“Ecumenism is not something optional,” said Pope Francis this week. Today Friday 18 January, the first day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Westminster Cathedral choir is singing vespers at St Paul’s Cathedral. On the following Tuesday 22 January St Paul’s choir will be at Westminster Cathedral to sing evensong. Both services begin […]

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THREE KINGS ARRIVING THIS WEEKEND WITH CAKE

Three Kings biscuits by www.biscuiteers.com  This Saturday night 5 January the figures of the Three Kings will be seen arriving in towns and villages all over Spain. The street processions are big family occasions. Another feature of today is enjoying cutting the Twelfth Night cake. In Spain it is a cake ring called Rosca de […]

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O SapientIa: setTing out

Today is a turning point in Advent as we look towards Christ’s first coming. By tradition it is said that today Mary and Joseph are setting out on their 90 mile journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem by foot and donkey. This is about the same distance as the Pilgrims’ Way from Southwark Cathedral to Canterbury […]

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St Lucy’s Day

“Buns are expressive of religious devotion quite as much as anything else,”  says Melanie McDonagh writing about St Lucy’s Day in The Tablet. Today is St Lucy’s Day, an Advent stepping stone, and in Sweden most people will be enjoying a least one saffron bread roll called a Lussikatter. Parents of young children will have […]

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Immaculate Conception

In Paris lights in a window on 8 December often indicated that the occupant was from Lyon. This evening’s mega La Fête des Lumières  light show in Lyon has grown out of the local tradition of placing candles in windows on the Immaculate Conception. The Immaculate Conception doctrine was first developed in Anglo-Saxon England and celebrated […]

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