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Saints Ita and Maurus
Saint Ita was an early Irish nun, Íte ingen Chinn Fhalad in Gaelic (+ ca. 480 - 577). Descended from royalty (the King of Fara was an ancestor), she was baptized not long after...
Reviews
Listening in the Silence – A Meditative and Musical Offering
Today's reading from Samuel, telling the origin story of our biblical hero, ends with the words of the prophet, 'speak, Lord, for thy servant is listening'. Samuel's name in Hebrew, given to him by...
Nota in Brevis
Excess Deaths Across the Globe
Excess deaths continue across the world and the media and the medical establishment are mute - or is that muzzled? We were previously told that 'one death was too many' - now there's, what,...
Nota in Brevis
Pope Saint Hyginus
Pope Hyginus, whose feast is today, January 11th, reigned from 138 to his death in 142 - the ninth to hold the papal throne. Like most of the early Pontiffs, we know little about...
Nota in Brevis
Jackson and Zero Debt
On this day in 1835, President Andrew Jackson proudly announced that, with his austere economic policies, the debt of the United States had been reduced - for the first and last time in history...
Nota in Brevis
Excess Deaths Continue to Climb…and Climb
What, pray tell, is going on? And why is no one reporting on it? The young and middle-aged are dying at increasing rates - excess deaths up to 30% - and the media, the...
Reviews
Keeping the Christmas Caroling: In Dulce Iubilo, the Wexford, and A Rose in Winter.
With the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God today - or, in the usus antiquior, the Circumcision of Our Lord - the Octave of Christmas comes to a close, but the twelve days of...
Editor's Corner
Mother of God, New Year’s Eve, the Te Deum and Auld Lang Syne
A very blessed Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God - of which more, anon - as well as New Year's Eve, the latter much more celebrated in our culture than the former, even if,...
