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The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger Meditations 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 byContinue reading “Second Tuesday in Advent”

The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger Meditations 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 byContinue reading “Second Monday in Advent”

Today’s Gospel reading, Matthew 11.2-10, is a rare subject in Medieval and Renaissance art, but a monastery church in the Swiss Alps, constructed and painted around the year 800, preserves an endearing depiction of Saint John the Baptist in a prison cell resembling a shower stall, as he sends his two disciples to Christ toContinue reading “Second Sunday in Advent”