Friday, January 3, 2020

On this day, we celebrate the feast of St. Genevieve of Paris, and we remember J.R.R. Tolkien, born on this day in 1892. The reading is "Nöel" by Tolkien.

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Sunday, January 24, 2021

The year was 1076. Emperor Henry IV convened a synod at Worms to deal with the power-hungry pope. The reading is from John Newton, his poem, "A Thought on the Seas-Shore."

Saturday, January 23, 2021

The year was 1549. We remember Transylvanian Lutheran Johannes Honterus. The last word for today comes from a Hungarian poet, János Pilinsky, “On the Third Day.”