Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord

Okay, we celebrated this feast on Sunday, January 11. It is more or less assigned to January 13, but celebrated on the Sunday following the feast of the Epiphany, which is January 6 but moved to the first Sunday in January. Also oddly, the Feast of the Epiphany is considered to be a celebration of [...]

On the twelfth day of Christmas…

The Three Kings Tell Herod of Christ's Birth. Etching. 1549. Augustin Hirschvogel. National Gallery of Art. Public domain. I made Split Pea Soup to celebrate. I used the bone from our Christmas ham, a 16 oz bag of split peas, carefully rinsed, and bought several months ago because around here you can't buy split peas [...]