Calendars of My Life

by John Wilson

On New Year’s Day of 2023, I tried to remember my first memories of the holiday. Continue Reading »

13 Jan 2023

The Importance of Holy Days of Obligation

by Eric Banecker

Therefore, let me offer a modest proposal: Let’s celebrate all the obligatory holy days of the universal church on the day the Church intends them to be celebrated. Continue Reading »

6 Jan 2023

Calendar as Catechism

by Shalom Carmy

The Jewish calendar is the Jewish catechism: So said the -nineteenth-century German champion of Jewish Orthodoxy, Samson R. Hirsch, and with good reason. Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, Passover: Despite differences in theology and observance, most Jews, even those who are not well-versed in the entire . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2022

Advent Arrow

by Hans Boersma

Scripture demands an Advent posture. The most important things are not the ones we see. Continue Reading »

13 Dec 2018

Owning Our Baptism

by George Weigel

The transfer of the celebration of the Epiphany to a Sunday from January 6 (the solemnity’s traditional date), and the elimination of Sundays-after-Epiphany in favor of the ill-named Sundays of “Ordinary Time,” has made a hash of the Christmas liturgical season, as I suggested in “Evangelical Catholicism.” Still, the liturgical calendar of Blessed Paul VI does us a service by highlighting the formerly insignificant Feast of the Baptism of the Lord as the terminus of the Christmas season. Continue Reading »

14 Jan 2015

Mission Time

by George Weigel

The Office of Readings for the solemnity of the Ascension offers a lovely excerpt from one of St. Augustine’s sermons “de Ascensione Domini,” in which the learned Bishop of Hippo takes as his text Colossians 3:1-2: “If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is seated, at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” Continue Reading »

25 Jun 2014