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Monday, January 6, 2020

Birth of Jane Dormer, Future Duchess of Feria

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Jane Dormer, the future Duchess of Feria, was born on Sunday, January 6, 1538. Her early biographer, Henry Clifford , noted the significan...
Saturday, January 4, 2020

2019: The Year of Reading Newman

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I just can't let my reading year in review go without commenting on how much I read in and about St. John Henry Newman last year. W...
Friday, January 3, 2020

The Temple and the Christmas Story

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I am rather at a disadvantage in reading this book because it comes at the end of Margaret Barker's exploration of her Temple Theology...
Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Best Books of 2019: Six through Ten

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Continuing my list from yesterday: My ways of determining which books made this list were: 1) How much I enjoyed reading the book; 2) How mu...
Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Farewell to 2019; Hail 2020!

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John Mason Neale included this translation of the medieval hymn (Anonymous; Germany; 12th century),  In hoc anni circulo  in his 1853  ...

Best Books of 2019: One through Five

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My ways of determining which books made this list were: 1) How much I enjoyed reading the book; 2) How much I learned from reading the boo...
Monday, December 30, 2019

Books, Books, Books: Part Three

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One person gave me these three books! It's extraordinary to say that I have never read Night by Elie Wiesel, which is now assigned in hi...

50/50 Chance for the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris

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After the death of my husband on January 16, 2019, the saddest thing that happened this year was the fire at Notre Dame de Paris on April...
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Sunday, December 29, 2019

2020: 850th Anniversary of St. Thomas a Becket's Martyrdom

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Since this is Sunday, the solemnities of the Christmas Octave (Feast of the Holy Family in the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite; Sunday du...
Saturday, December 28, 2019

Books, Books, Books: Part Two

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This next set of books offers some humbling challenges, starting with learning how to be more humble from St. Benedict of Nursia, via a Be...