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Sanctoral Chaos and the Bollandists

I decided to walk my talk this Christmastide by making it to one church service on each of the happy Twelve Days: mostly the...

George Fox, Episcopal Saint

In a recent conversation, a Roman Catholic student of mine asked: “Do Episcopalians have saints?” Well, yes, we do. In the Apostles’ Creed, we proclaim...

Mindfulness As Heartfulness in Alcuin of York’s Love of Reading

Alcuin’s feast day is May 20 in the church calendar. There’s a lot of mindfulness out there these days. The term pops up in the...

He Leadeth Me: On Frances Joseph-Gaudet

By Neil Dhingra Frances Joseph-Gaudet’s 1913 memoir, He Leadeth Me, begins by telling the reader that the future missionary, prison reformer, school founder, and Episcopal...

Be Emptied That You Might Be Full: On the Feast of Stephen

By Steve Rice The Golden Legend, Jacobus de Voragine’s medieval commentary on the saints, says the Church has kept the feasts of St. Stephen, St....

The Moving Feasts of Christmas and Epiphany

By Matthew S. C. Olver The ways of numbering and counting and commemorating the days of the Christmas and Epiphany seasons are enough to leave...

For All the Saints

Their bodies were buried in peace, and their name lives to all generations. Peoples will declare their wisdom, and the congregation proclaims their praise....

Toward Convention III: celebrating the saints

In the 1990s, the liturgical calendar began to become a political football.

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