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Sanctoral Chaos and the Bollandists

Richard Mammana -
I decided to walk my talk this Christmastide by making it to one church service on each of the happy Twelve Days: mostly the...
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Mindfulness As Heartfulness in Alcuin of York’s Love of Reading

Phil Harrold -
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...
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I Want to Be One Too: On All Saints’ Day

Jean McCurdy Meade -
By Jean McCurdy Meade  For all the Saints who from their labors rest. (Hymnal 287) I sing a song of the saints of God (Hymnal 293) O...
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The Hidden Life of St. Charles of Jesus

Mac Stewart -
By Mac Stewart At the end of his October 2020 Encyclical on “Fraternity and Social Friendship,” Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis referred to a figure (besides...
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Gildas the Wise and the Consequences of Bodily Life

Calvin Lane -
By Calvin Lane Although he’s not on the Book of Common Prayer’s calendar, the enigmatic early medieval saint Gildas the Wise (Gildas Sapiens) has often...
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St. John the Evangelist

John Bauerschmidt -
By John Bauerschmidt I fell into the orbit of St. John the Evangelist quite early, without being aware of it. We share a name, after all;...
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Be Emptied That You Might Be Full: On the Feast of Stephen

Steve Rice -
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....
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Throwback Thursday — “The Lord and Me”: Ninian and Martin of Tours

William Noble -
His strong hands gripped the dark wood railing of the boat as the gentle afternoon wind filled the heavy canvas sail above his head....
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The Beheading of John the Baptist and the (Post-)Traumatic Church

Elizabeth Anderson -
By Elizabeth Anderson The new trial use commemorations approved by the Episcopal Church’s 2018 General Convention include several feasts that are both ancient and widespread,...
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No thought for the morrow: St. Benedict Joseph Labre

Caleb Congrove -
Very few of us would be moved to emulate St. Benedict Joseph Labre's life. Even his biographer found it too extreme to propose for imitation.

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