Monday, 10 February 2014

The withering of Anglo-Catholicism

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A friend told me the other day of a conversation with a leading member of the congregation of an Anglo-Catholic parish that currently is l...
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Thursday, 6 February 2014

Accession Day

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Today is the 62nd anniversary of the accession to the throne of Her Majesty the Queen in 1952. It is an opportunity once again to give than...
Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Persian Prince at the Oxford Union

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I became interested in Iran - and the Iranian monarchy - in the early 1960s when one of my cousins met and married an Iranian studying in...

St Agatha

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Today is the feast of St Agatha, Virgin and Martyr. Her main centre of devotion is Catania in Sicily, where the Festival of Saint Agatha is...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Gilbertine Priories

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Today is the feast of St Gilbert of Sempringham about whom I have posted before in St Gilbert of Sempringham and in St Gilbert of Sempring...
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Byzantine era church excavated in Israel

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Last week the Medieval Religion discussion group had a post from Genevra Kornbluth about the discovery in the Lachish distr...
Monday, 3 February 2014

Celebrating Candlemas

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With Candlemas falling at the weekend I, and indeed all the faithful,  had more opportunity than usual to join in celebrations of this lov...
Sunday, 2 February 2014

Candlemas Day

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Today is Candlemas, the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. An illu...
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