Renae was stricken with an illness early Christmas Day and is only now beginning to feel better. Once she recovers more, we will be meeting to organize our notes and brainstorm for the fourth and last volume of Through Roses and Thorns. Your kind prayers for her full and speedy recovery, D.V., would be most […]
New Year’s Dawn “Vive le Roi!” I. O joy! O joy! The air is filled With light and sweetest song! And angel shapes With breath of grapes Into the chamber throng. Upon a throne they bear An infant small and fair. Stir up the fire,—the tapers trim; Sing Faith and Hope, and Love, a hymn Unto
Gone! A Carol for New Year’s Eve. I. Toll, bells, within your airy heights; wail, winds, o’er moor and mere, On this, the saddest of all nights, the last night of the year; The last, long night when lamps are lit, like tapers ’round a bier, When quiet folk at still hearths sit, and God
“We apply the name of Christmas to the forty days, which begin with the Nativity of our Lord, December 25th, and end with the Purification of the Blessed Virgin, February 2nd. It is a period, which forms a distinct portion of the Liturgical Year, as distinct by its own special spirit, from every other, as
