Thursday, 29 June 2023

St Peter and St Paul

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Today is the Feast of St Peter and St Paul. SS Peter and Paul, with SS John the Evangelist and Zeno. The left panel of the polyptych of San ...
Wednesday, 28 June 2023

The Church and Rite of Lyon

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Today is the feast of St Ireneus, one of the most influential of the early Fathers of the Church, and now declared a Doctor of the Church, a...

Our Lady of Perpetual Succour

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Yesterday was the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour. This very well known icon appears to have been created in Crete in the thirteenth ...
Tuesday, 27 June 2023

Prayers of a fretful and ailing monarch

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The Mail Online  reports on an academic study of two copies of Psalms and Prayers, compiled by Queen Catherine Parr and which are believed t...
Monday, 26 June 2023

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

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When I was at junior school I remember being introduced to Robert Browning’s poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin  and that we also had books from...
Saturday, 24 June 2023

Restoring the interior of Notre Dame

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One piece of good news in recent days has been the announcement by the church authorities in Paris that they are abandoning the highly contr...

The Nativity of St John the Baptist

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Today is the feast of the Natvity of St John the Baptist. The New Liturgical Movement  has reproduced an informed and informative article by...
Friday, 23 June 2023

Reconstructing the face of a seventh century woman

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The continuing work of interpreting a seventh century burial discovered at Trumpington near Cambridge in 2012 has been in the news in recent...