Friday, January 1, 2021 – Happy New (calendar) Year! Remember, we rang in the new liturgical year back at the start of Advent. Anyhoo, it is time to hang up your brand new, favorite Church calendar. It is also a Holy Day of Obligation. This is, of course, presuming that we still have such things Read More
Tag: Mary
Day 144 – Captain’s Log: Throwdowns of Each Holy Day of Obligation
Friday, August 7, 2020 – Blessed First Friday! Well, this brings us to the last of our Captain’s Logs (for now). I still need to do one for the monthly devotionals, but given that I currently only have three months (June – August) done, it doesn’t really make sense to do a whole captain’s log Read More
Day 122 – HDO Throwdown: Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God
Thursday, July 16, 2020 – Continuing with our Holy Day throwdowns, today we will be talking about January 1st: Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God. Brace yourself, today we are going to go down a sketchy road of history and add in some Greek. WHAT!? Before we get into it, just know the Read More
Day 120 – HDO Throwdown: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Tuesday, July 14, 2020 – For the next ten days we are going to cover each of the Holy Days of Obligation. Today’s Holy Day throwdown is: December 8th: Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary! Most people assume this day is about Christ’s conception. WRONG! It is about the Blessed Virgin Read More
