Christmas 2012

December 2012

October- the Month of the Rosary

Rosenkranzaltar by Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)

September: Month of Our Lady of the Seven Dolours

Devotion to the sorrows of the Virgin Mary dates from the twelfth century, when it made its appearance in monastic circles under the influence of St. Anselm and St. Bernard. The Cistercians and then the Servites undertook to propagate it.

August - the Month of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Pentecost 2012

Atlas Martyrs Commemoration 2012

Ascension Thursday

May 1st - St Joseph the Worker

In Brothers of Men, René Voillaume of the Little Brothers of Jesus speaks about ordinary work and holiness: “Now this holiness (of Jesus) became a reality in the most ordinary circumstances of life, those of word, of the family and the social life of a village, and this is an emphatic affirmation of the fact that the most obscure and humdrum human activities are entirely compatible with the perfection of the Son of God....this mystery involves the conviction that the evangelical holiness proper to a child of God is possible in the ordinary circumstances of someone who is poor and obliged to work for his living.”
St Joseph the Worker by Georges de la Tour (1593-1652)

Quasimodo Sunday

Easter Sunday

Good Friday

Maundy Thursday

Spy Wednesday

Palm Sunday

When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born.

With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings
The devil's walking parody
On all four-footed things.

The tattered outlaw of the earth.
Of ancient crooked will;
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb
I keep my secret still.

Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.


- G.K.Chesterton, 1894 - 1936

Passion Sunday

Feast of the Annunciation March 25th

Solemnity of St Joseph

4th Sunday of Lent

Lent 2012

Presentation in the Temple

Feast of the Cistercian Founders