A Year In Review This time of year it is customary for writers to reflect, to the best of their lights, upon the significance of the year which is about to close. This year saw the beginning of this blog,…
Years ago just before Christmas, I heard a beloved Seminary Professor make a provocative and powerful statement. He said, “The Christmas Octave is when the Church decides to pour blood into our egg nog.” That image has stuck in my…
Christmas, even in the neo-pagan anti-culture of the Western World, like a gargantuan, forgotten cenotaph covered in overgrowth, remains the premier annual feast to most post-Christians, for whom the ancient liturgical year has become a distant memory. It is intrinsically…