Category: Advent Liturgy

During the Middle Ages, the Mass of the Missus Est — the first words of the Gospel of the Annunciation — on the Ember Wednesday...

Gaudete Sunday The Four Introits of Advent We began Advent on the crest of a surging wave, an immense welling up of hope that lifted...

Saint Nicholas Between East and West The Church in East and West commemorates Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker on December 6th. The very first journey of...

Restore the Ember Days For the second time this week, we celebrated a special pre-dawn Advent Mass in candlelight. Having anticipated Matins last evening, we...

For my friend, Monsignor A.B.C. Sometime in the early 1970s the Benedictine nuns of the Abbey Pax Cordis Iesu at Ryde, in the Isle of...