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There is a lot of custom here, and it\u2019s been a bit of a disappointment how many of these little special moments in the Catholic calendar didn\u2019t make there way to the New World.\u00a0 That probably comes with our Protestant heritage.\u00a0 I don\u2019t look for the emerging secular dominion to look back lovingly toward reinstating any of these customs.\u00a0 Still, it\u2019s nice to know.\u00a0 It\u2019s nice to think of a time when the Catholic calendar was a daily event, and many special times came by for the average peasant to celebrate. <\/p>\n

We \u2013 stupidly \u2013 think of the pre-moder peasant as some slave to labor and boredom and endless work and toil.\u00a0 Us.\u00a0 People who work now for less than anyone in recent memory whose main triumph is the ability to purchase a Smart Phone that\u2019s now 1\/2 mm. smaller than the last one.\u00a0 Oh, we have our vacation time, where we bring our phones, pads, and laptops and work most of it for fear of losing out to the one willing to labor day and night without ceasing.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

But there was a time when the average peasant worked, toiled, and then celebrated.\u00a0 And the Catholic calendar seemed to give no end to the days and seasons they had to celebrate.\u00a0 One Medieval scholar I remember reading quipped that it was hard to imagine that they got any work done, when the number of days set aside to celebrate and feast and frolic, both by liturgy and by custom, are tallied.\u00a0\u00a0 Thank goodness we aren\u2019t dumb like those people!<\/p>\n

Anyway, it was a special day.\u00a0 It still is by way of Veterans Day.\u00a0 But it can also be special for other reasons.\u00a0 Click here<\/a>,* here<\/a>,** and here<\/a> just for a little background.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

*I know it\u2019s Wikipedia.\u00a0 Typically I never reference that out of pride.\u00a0 But since it\u2019s more or less for fun and frivolity, I figured what the heck.<\/p>\n

**Fisheaters is a website\u00a0I found on my way into the Catholic Church.\u00a0 I appreciated it because it set out many \u2018what in the world is that all about\u2019 details regarding the Catholic Church.\u00a0 It is from a pre-Vatican II outlook, however, and can have some pretty strong ideas about the non-Catholic world around us.\u00a0 Just saying.\u00a0 Still worth a look.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"