Archive for January, 2008

The Cost of Love

Monday, January 28th, 2008

The Cost of Love
Each year in the days after Christmas many stores sell off their Christmas cards at reduced prices. Those with an eye to a bargain will again have been quick to snap up the cards and store them away for Christmas 2008! The card shops, however, are more concerned with clearing their shelves [...]

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Pancakes

Friday, January 25th, 2008

On Shrove Tuesday, February 5th this year, we shall observe that most enjoyable practice of eating pancakes, a tradition from the days of using up all the rich food in the house before the start of the Fast of Lent next day when such luxuries were forbidden.
This 40 days fast was a period of penance [...]

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Epiphany

Monday, January 14th, 2008

The word Epiphany comes from the Greek word meaning Manifestation, or Showing and in the traditional Calendar of the Christian Church it is the name given to the festival celebrating God’s revealing of Jesus as His Son. In the early Church it was a major feast on a par with Easter and Pentecost but nowadays [...]

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