Saturday, 4 February 2023
Septuagesima
Margery Kempe
More on British and Irish Folk Customs
Friday, 3 February 2023
Vikings and their animals
Designing a new shrine for St Eanswythe
The Thornborough Henges
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Candlemas - customs and candles
Candlemas
Which shot across the sky,
Away they pass at Candlemas,
They sparkle and they die.
Although it be divine;
Like funeral lights for Christmas gone
Old Simeon’s tapers shine.
We wait in twilight grey,
Till the high candle sheds a beam
On Holy Saturday.
Of solemn fast and prayer;
While song is hush’d, and lights grow dim
In the sin-laden air.
Is driven home, we hide
In our own hearts, and count the wounds
Of passion and of pride.
And Alleluias o’er,
Mary is music in our need,
And Jesus light in store.
Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Monks and Vikings
More about the Harpole Cross
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Early sixteenth century pendant with Court connections
Another significant Anglo Saxon find from Harpole
Monday, 30 January 2023
A fourteenth century almanac decoded
Sunday, 29 January 2023
Lost Victorian architectural heritage
‘Outlander’ outrage
Saturday, 28 January 2023
King Henry III and the Chertsey - Westminster tiles
Friday, 27 January 2023
The Liturgical debate warms up again
Thursday, 26 January 2023
Hadrian’s Wall - a 1900th anniversary summary
Wednesday, 25 January 2023
Colour and classical statuary
Stylite once in residence
The development and richness of the Arthurian legend
Sunday, 22 January 2023
More decapitated Romans
The discovery of Coleshill Manor
Saturday, 21 January 2023
Martyred Monarchs: King Louis XVI and King Charles I
To be said every day between the 21st and 30th of January
In honour of the glorious memory of
LOUIS XVI of France and CHARLES I of England And for the good estate and virtue of all Christian Princes
Ant. IN the sight of the unwise he seemed to die and his departure was taken for misery; but he is in peace.
Let us pray
BLESSED Lord, in whose sight the death of thy saints is precious; We magnifie thy name for that abundant grace bestowed upon our late Martyred Soveraigns; by which they were enabled so chearfully to follow the steps of their blessed Master and Saviour, in a constant meek suffering of all barbarous indignities, and at last resisting unto bloud; and even then, according to the same pattern, praying for their murderers. Let their memory, O Lord, be ever blessed among us, that we may follow the example of their patience, and charity. And grant, that our Lands may be freed from the vengeance of their bloud, and thy mercy glorified in the forgiveness of our sins: and all
for Jesus Christ his sake. Amen.
