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This year, after a solemn oath sealed with a toast last Christmas, I take over my mother-in-law, and the cannelloni of the great family table of St. Stephen I make them. Allende the vertigo that provokes such responsibility, that will fade a second after each diner has taken the first spoon to his mouth — such is the security that I have in myself and in my recipe—, I am calm. I left them ready, about to gratinate, the day before yesterday. Cont…
A Christmas Reflection: The Feast of St. Stephen ~ The Imaginative Conservative
26th December, St. Stephen Day 2 of the Octave of Christmas Christ the Lord is born today; today, the Saviour has appeared. Earth echoes songs of angel choirs, archangels’ joyful praise. Today on earth his friends exult. Glory to God in the highest, alleluia 12 Days of Christmas Carol: On the second day of Christmas, my True Love gave to me two Turtle Doves: The Old and New Testaments Poem: Denise Levertov – “On The Mystery of The Incarnation” I…
On the Feast of Stephen…not Boxing Day
As the mid-19th century hymn has it, Good King Wenceslaus first went out, on the feast of Stephen, when the snow lay ’round about, deep and crisp and even…a hymn, published in 1853, which has the English lyrics of Thomas Helmore set to the 13th century melody Tempus adest floridum, which had in turn later been published in a 1582 Finnish collection called Piae Cantiones (Pious Songs). All very Catholic and ecumenical, back when borrowing words a…
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