A Detour to the Mount As I’d made little progress in my translation of last week’s Gospel text and wasn’t finding I had much to say about it, I’ve decided to skip both it and this coming Sunday’s text, in favor of the Gospel for Ash Wednesday (in hopes of getting this post, which I suspect will be a two-parter, finished before that day). The inaugural Lenten Gospel passage comes from Matthew 6, which is the middle chapter of the... Read more

Okay, This Time Shrovetide Really Has Started First, a little light housekeeping. In my last post, I at first said, incorrectly, that the ninth was Septuagesima Sunday. That day is actually the sixteenth. In the Ordinariates, it is the beginning of the pre-Lenten season of Shrovetide.1 Most of the ritual changes associated with Lent begin in Shrovetide: The color of the vestments and hangings changes to purple; the Gloria is again omitted from the Mass, as in Advent; and (unlike... Read more

The Fifth Sunday after Epiphany (Or, This Year, the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time) First page of Matthew from the Lindisfarne Gospels (ca. 715), probably created by St. Eadfrith, Bishop of Lindisfarne. I gotta say, it feels good to be getting back to my main translation business here. It so happens I’m doing so right before the beginning of Shrovetide—see my just-ended series on liturgical time for details about that—and our Gospel text is perfect for the occasion. What’s more,... Read more

Series Table of Contents: Introduction (what sacred/liturgical time is and why we have it) The Canonical Hours (the Catholic “clock”) The Former Holy Week (pagan antecedents of the week) The Seventh Day (the Judaic week and the Sabbath) The Revelation of the Octave (the Catholic week) To Everything There Is a Season (Easter computus; fourfold interpretation of Scripture) The Waxing of the Sun (the literal/meteorological year; the yearly allegory of the life of Christ) The Waning of the Sun (the... Read more

Series Table of Contents: Introduction (what sacred/liturgical time is and why we have it) The Canonical Hours (the Catholic “clock”) The Former Holy Week (pagan antecedents of the week) The Seventh Day (the Judaic week and the Sabbath) The Revelation of the Octave (the Catholic week) To Everything There Is a Season (Easter computus; fourfold interpretation of Scripture) The Waxing of the Sun (the literal/meteorological year; the yearly allegory of the life of Christ) ⇒ The Waning of the Sun... Read more

Series Table of Contents: Introduction (what sacred/liturgical time is and why we have it) The Canonical Hours (the Catholic “clock”) The Former Holy Week (pagan antecedents of the week) The Seventh Day (the Judaic week and the Sabbath) The Revelation of the Octave (the Catholic week) To Everything There Is a Season (Easter computus; fourfold interpretation of Scripture) ⇒ The Waxing of the Sun (the literal/meteorological year; the yearly allegory of the life of Christ) The Waning of the Sun... Read more

Series Table of Contents: Introduction (what sacred/liturgical time is and why we have it) The Canonical Hours (the Catholic “clock”) The Former Holy Week (pagan antecedents of the week) The Seventh Day (the Judaic week and the Sabbath) The Revelation of the Octave (the Catholic week) ⇒ To Everything There Is a Season (Easter computus; fourfold interpretation of Scripture) The Waxing of the Sun (the literal/meteorological year; the yearly allegory of the life of Christ) The Waning of the Sun... Read more

Series Table of Contents: Introduction (what sacred/liturgical time is and why we have it) The Canonical Hours (the Catholic “clock”) The Former Holy Week (pagan antecedents of the week) The Seventh Day (the Judaic week and the Sabbath) ⇒ The Revelation of the Octave (the Catholic week) To Everything There Is a Season (Easter computus; fourfold interpretation of Scripture) The Waxing of the Sun (the literal/meteorological year; the yearly allegory of the life of Christ) The Waning of the Sun... Read more

Series Table of Contents: Introduction (what sacred/liturgical time is and why we have it) The Canonical Hours (the Catholic “clock”) The Former Holy Week (pagan antecedents of the week) ⇒ The Seventh Day (the Judaic week and the Sabbath) The Revelation of the Octave (the Catholic week) To Everything There Is a Season (Easter computus; fourfold interpretation of Scripture) The Waxing of the Sun (the literal/meteorological year; the yearly allegory of the life of Christ) The Waning of the Sun... Read more

Series Table of Contents: Introduction (what sacred/liturgical time is and why we have it) The Canonical Hours (the Catholic “clock”) ⇒ The Former Holy Week (pagan antecedents of the week) The Seventh Day (the Judaic week and the Sabbath) The Revelation of the Octave (the Catholic week) To Everything There Is a Season (Easter computus; fourfold interpretation of Scripture) The Waxing of the Sun (the literal/meteorological year; the yearly allegory of the life of Christ) The Waning of the Sun... Read more