Daily Archives: December 31, 2016

Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God, Year A – Sunday, January 1st, 2017  [The readings for this Solemnity are: Numbers 6:22-27; Galatians 4:4-7; and Luke 2:16-21.] The Jewish New Year The Jewish Feast of Rosh Hashanah, meaning literally the “beginning of … Continue reading →

From Father Hunwicke’s blog: Henry Chadwick, the towering Anglican intellectual of the second half of the twentieth century, believed that Blessed John Henry Newman was the most superb writer of Satire and of Irony in the English language. Too true! … Continue reading →