25 December – The Nativity of Our Lord

Annus Dierum Sanctorum
Ecce rex tuus venit.
BEHOLD THY KING will come
Zacharias 9.9
Hodie scietis, quia veniet Dominus.
Today you shall know that the Lord will come.
> Exodus 16.6

Luke 2.1-14

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.

Heortology: A History Of The Christian Festivals From Their Origin To The Present Day by Heinrich Kellner (Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1908).

“Flower of Babies Was Their King” in A Wreath of Feasts.

La vie des saints

Medieval Sources

The Golden Legend (and illustrations)

Sermons

Gregory the Great’s Eighth Gospel Homily

Homily by Aelfric

Homilies Of Feasts And Sundays By Catholic Church Fathers by D. G. Hubert (Washbourne, 1901).

Sermons for the Sundays and Some Festivals of the Year by Thomas White.

Explanation of the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays, holydays and festivals throughout the ecclesiastical year, to which are added the lives of many saints by Leonard Goffiné (Pustet, 1880).

Goffine’s Devout Instructions on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holydays (Benziger, 1896).

The Catholic Pulpit: Containing a Sermon for Every Sunday and Holiday in the Year and for Good Friday (Murphy, 1851).

Readings for the Sundays and Holy Days of the Church’s Year (Bosworth, 1881).

Analysis of the Gospels of the Sundays of the Year by Angelo Cagnolo (Benziger, 1892).

Sermons from the Latins by James J. Baxter (Benziger, 1902).

Short Discourses for all the Sundays in the Year According to the Mind & Method of the Catechism of the Council of Trent by John McQuirk (St. Paul’s Library, 1908).

The lives of saints, with other feasts of the year, according to the Roman calendar by Peter Ribadeneira.

Tradition in Action

“The Night of Little Things” and several more poems by Hugh Francis Blunt.

Meditations for Every Day

The Way of Salvation: Meditations for Every Day of the Year by Saint Alphonsus Liguori.

Meditations for Every Day in the Year by Roger Baxter (Benziger, 1823, reprinted in 1884).

Meditations for All the Days of the Year by M. Hamon (Benziger, 1894).

Meditations on the Life, the Teaching and the Passion of Jesus Christ for Every Day of the Ecclesiastical Year by Augustine Maria Ilg (Benziger, 1901).

Meditations for the Use of the Secular Clergy by Pierre Chaignon (Benziger, 1907).

Daily Meditations on the Mysteries of Our Holy Faith and on the Lives of Our Lord Jesus Christ and of the Saints by Alonso De Andrade.

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

BeWeB

Portail Biblissima

POP : la plateforme ouverte du patrimoine

Warburg Institute Iconographic Database

Music

Medieval Music Database

Cantus: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant

Marc-Antoine Charpentier, In nativitatem Domini canticum, H.314 & In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum, H.414 (1684) & In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum, H.421

Customs

Feast Day Cookbook