Tuesday, 13 January 2015

St Hilary and St Martin

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Today is the feast of St Hilary of Poitiers, the fourth century Gaulish champion of orthodoxy in respect of the Divinity of Christ. He...

Marcel Proust on Cathedrals and Liturgy

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With France and, in particular, attitudes to religion in that country being in so much the news, Rorate Caeli has what might be describe...
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Monday, 12 January 2015

The Rite of Baptism

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Following on from yesterday's Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord I am reproducing the text of a post on the Medieval religion discusion ...
Sunday, 11 January 2015

Another El Greco of the Baptism of Christ

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Whilst revising my previous post I found a picture of another painting of the Baptism of Christ by El Greco, and thought I would share tha...

The Baptism of the Lord

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 The Baptism of Christ El Greco, 1608-14 Hospital of San Juan Bautista de Afuera, Toldedo The painting was completed after the...
Saturday, 10 January 2015

Archbishop Laud

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370 years ago, on January 10th 1645, Archbishop William Laud of Canterbury was beheaded on Tower Hill by the Parliamentarian regime. ...
Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Epiphany publication of the calendar

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The New Liturgical Movement has an interesting pair of linked posts about the venerable tradition of formally publishing after the Gospel...

The Epiphany of Our Lord

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Today is the Epiphany of Our Lord according to the traditional use of the Church. As I have posted on this day in recent years I, and...
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