March 25, nine months before Christmas, we celebrate the Annunciation, when, according to the Gospel, the Virgin Mary conceived the Son of God according to the flesh (Luke 1, 26-38). Often, this amazing event…
Ash Wednesday shocks some people. It shocks them, first, that we put ashes on our foreheads, for doesn’t the scripture teach, the very Gospel we read today, that when we fast, we should ‘be…
Last Sunday, we entered into the season of Septuagesima. The rubrics for this pre-Lenten period allow flowers on the altar – or not. As a compromise, someone suggested we use dead flowers. And what…