Some people find their interior life transformed faster than the lifecycle of the sugar snap pea, over the course of a 9-day novena or 3-day retreat. Others after trudging through lent after lent before catching a glimpse of the joyous fruits God has in store
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.
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
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
Since this weekend marks the feast day of St. Isidore of Seville (April 4th) according to both the old and new liturgical calendars of the Catholic Church, I thought it appropriate to publish some ramblings on how I came to find Isidore as a deserving focus for my foreseeable academic career. In my thesis proposal… Continue reading Isidore: a panegyric of sorts
Musings of a medievalist mama 