Day 291 – Mary, Mother of God, and a New (Calendar) Year

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

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