Archives for January 2022

Announcement of Easter and the Moveable Feasts 2022

Saturday 8 January 2022

The announcement of the year’s liturgical calendar, following an ancient tradition, is made after the Gospel reading in the Mass of the Epiphany.

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Blessing of the House at Epiphany

Saturday 8 January 2022

It’s customary to bless the house each year at Epiphany, with chalk and water which has been blessed for the purpose. You may have been able to obtain some; it’s generally distributed after Mass at Epiphany, and many churches make it freely available during the days afterward. Even if you’re isolating and can’t get it […]

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Sons in the new creation

Thursday 6 January 2022

The very Word through whom all things have their being becomes flesh. The Creator enters into the very thing he brings into being, to enable creation to reach its final destiny — to be his sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace which he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

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