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European travel brings vividly before the mind how cities have risen and fallen, and risen and fallen; and the same of empires and kingdoms and nations. And the billions and billions who lived their common everyday life in these nations and kingdoms and empires and cities – where are they?

A Week of Adam & Eve There is a whole week dedicated to Adam and Eve in the classical Roman liturgy, and it started yesterday, on Septuagesima Sunday. This theme isn’t very well known at all, probably because it only appears in the traditional Divine…

The Forgotten Liturgical Season of Septuagesima The liturgical season of Septuagesima was unfortunately suppressed in 1970, but  it is still observed in some places and has some wonderful folklore associated with it. Also called Pre-Lent, it began on Septuagesima Sunday, the third Sunday before Ash…

In the year of our Lord 1654, a young Erie girl named Gandeaktena was captured in war and taken to live among the Oneida Iroquois. Married to a Christian Huron, the two then escaped the immorality of the Oneida village to the colony of New…

Our next volume in our Hallowtide series is now available! With All Saints Prayers and Devotions you can continue your home devotions past Halloween and all through the entire octave of Hallowtide to November 8th. Click on the image to see more and enjoy this…

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Exactly three hundred and forty-eight years ago at the town of La Prairie, Quebec, a woman died in the odor of sanctity. Her name was Catherine Gandeaktena. Born into the Erie tribe, she was captured in war by the Oneida around 1654 and adopted into…

Join Hoquessing.com tomorrow as we kick off 3 weeks of celebrating the African Church. For 8 days throughout the octave of St. Augustine of Hippo from August 28th to September 4th, we’re giving away a Saints Augustine and Monica Book of Prayers free with every…

This fall Ancilla Press will be offering our first ever yearly calendar….and the only one in existence that combines the traditional, pre-1955 liturgical calendar with the later feasts and modern American saints.