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Today is Candlemas, festival of light, 'forðy on ðissum dæge wæs þæt soðe Leoht, Crist, geboren to þam temple' ('because on this day was the true Light, Christ, carried to
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This evening is Twelfth Night, the eve of the Epiphany, and the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas. It's long been a time for festivity, the key ingredients (according
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Today is Childermas Day, the feast of the Holy Innocents, on the fourth day of Christmas. It's an appropriate day for the Coventry Carol and other medieval lullaby-laments: https://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/12/lullay-little-child
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'Sing we Yule til Candlemas!': a medieval carol for the Twelve Days of Christmas - and beyond http://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.co.uk/2013/12/sing-we-yule-til-candlemas.html Carols, plays, and 12 days of feasting: if you're celebra
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The ancient O Antiphons of the last days of Advent are best known today in the form of the hymn 'O Come, O Come, Emmanuel'. But centuries earlier they also
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'Eala earendel, engla beorhtast, ofer middangeard monnum sended...''O Earendel, brightest of angels,sent to mankind over middle-earth...'The midwinter solstice, the Anglo-Saxon version of 'O Oriens', and the light of
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The last week of Advent is the season of the O Antiphons. Sung at Vespers, in the early dusk of a midwinter evening, they are ancient songs of longing and
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Today is the feast of St Mary Magdalene, once known as 'Maudlintide'. A tender medieval prayer to the saint of healing tears, emblem of bitter grief turned to heart-piercing joy:
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