The Old Hispanic prayers during the sign of peace on Palm Sunday and Holy Thursday illuminate even further the really momentous thing that was happening during these liturgies.
Category: academia
Candlemas (or lack thereof) and Marian feasts in Visigothic Spain
I woke up this morning, poured through my coffee, signed and dated some paperwork and thought–wow, it's Candlemas already! Cue some sorrow over the Christmas season being officially "over" (we still have lights running up our bannister), terror at the fast-approaching season of Septuagesima and consequently Lent, and a kick in the pants to buy… Continue reading Candlemas (or lack thereof) and Marian feasts in Visigothic Spain
Paraliturgy and the “Liturgical Living” trend
If you're a Catholic female on social media, it's pretty impossible to escape the term "liturgical living". Popular among homeschooling moms, moms of young children, and moms generally trying to reconnect their family rhythm with their Faith, the term generally refers to an incorporation of the liturgical year (Saints' feasts, Holy Days, penitential seasons, etc.)… Continue reading Paraliturgy and the “Liturgical Living” trend
Frumenty for the Soul: why I’m digging into my medieval English surroundings
During the past few weeks, I've made a few posts over at instagram about some of my favorite Medieval English Catholic devotions, traditions, and legends. Ironically I have been in the U.S. with family for most of the advent/Christmas season and hence while researching these reflections, but I almost felt more motivated because I missed… Continue reading Frumenty for the Soul: why I’m digging into my medieval English surroundings
Isidore of Seville and Holy Saturday
Last semester, I wrote a paper on Holy Week in the Old Hispanic (Mozarabic) Liturgy that in part contrasted Isidore of Seville's treatment of Holy Saturday in De Ecclesiasticis Officiis with later liturgical commentary (e.g. Rabanus Maurus). Now that the day in question is upon us, I went back to my research and reflected on… Continue reading Isidore of Seville and Holy Saturday
The Curbside Pickup Saga: a dramatization
Someday when I am old and grey and have pursued my second career (do I even have a first career yet?) as the next Andrew Lloyd Webber, I will write a comedic musical number about my experience at library curbside pickup today. Mind you, I am eternally grateful for how smoothly University of Toronto has… Continue reading The Curbside Pickup Saga: a dramatization
Joys of Zoom University
Since I wouldn't want to give the impression that the only happy part of my remote learning experience is in the comic relief of bad situations, I determined to reflect a little bit on the good things that have been happening to me this fall. But before I get to the ~uplifting content~ part of… Continue reading Joys of Zoom University
The vicissitudes of Zoom University
I am now no longer a working professional but a full-time student (+part-time Latin tutor), so with the advent of actually having [lots of] homework, I naturally turn to the heretofore much neglected Florentissima to not only procrastinate, but to cope with 'Zoom University,' the new 2020 norm of higher education. Following unsuccessful attempts to… Continue reading The vicissitudes of Zoom University
Why Florentissima?
In my undergraduate honors thesis for the Stanford classics department, I explored the concepts of Gens Florentissima and Gens Fortissima in Isidore of Seville's Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum, a delightful little Latin work about the Visigothic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and the nation's triumphant (for Isidore) conversion from Arianism to Catholicism.… Continue reading Why Florentissima?
Musings of a medievalist mama 