Category: Feasts and Vigils

23 January: The Espousals of the Blessed Virgin Mary

23 January 2025

The Winter Constellation The Church (who was both born and, largely, came of age north of the Equator) is not insensitive to the darkness and...

Mother Mectilde and the Ave Maria

7 October 2024

Our Lady of Victory Leading up to October 7, 1571, Pope St Pius V, as GK Chesterton was to put it, “cast his arms abroad...

The Vigil of the Nativity of Mary

7 September 2024

A Collect for the Vigil of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary ANT. Crastina die in ascensu diluculi egredietur stella ex Jacob divini luminis...

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