Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

 Last week, there was an annual calendrical coincidence which I have never commented upon before because the matters concerned are very sens...

 Firstly: in the Church of England, Charles the Martyr: from 1662 onwards, the Prayer Book retained a service describing him as "Blesse...

This is a post from 2014. Apart from its obvious topicality, I thought readers today might enjoy the thread. BTW: how does one celebrate Ble...

 Dom Gueranger indicates that, on January 28, we should observe "The Blessed Charlemagne Emperor" Charlemagne was canonised by Pop...

  " ... Christ Jesus, who , though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himsel...

There is a thematic grouping of associated words and ideas which we certainly do not find in every psalm, but which is noticeable in quite a...

It would gratify me much if most readers do not need to be given the following preliminary information! The Jewish God has a name, and alway...

I have a little Prayer Card ... how these things do accumulate with the passing decades ... encouraging devotion to S Joseph. It indicates 2...

 In my trusty 1874 breviary, I read the following in the Officia Propria Sanctorum Angliae for January 23: In Festo Desponsationis B. M. V.:...

Did Mr Cheesemeadow, the great Victorian architect, ever stray from Barsetshire into the Diocese of Oxford?  Mgr R A Knox would know ... but...

Sunt lacrimae rerum ... and especially when one enters a church in which there are manifest signs of the elimination, at the Reformation, o...

Embarrassing, this. We do not relish hornets or their nests. But I think there is a lost bit of Tradition here which deserves at least menti...