BY ROGER WATSON As penitents receive the ashes from a Catholic priest today on Ash Wednesday, the priest says, ‘Remember, man, you are dust and to dust you will return.’ These days, at least for children and the faint-hearted, the priest may use alternative forms, attenuated so as not to remind people of their ultimate fate. I have no idea what those forms are, but … Continue reading Remember, Man, You Are Dust
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, Happy Easter to You and Your nearest and dearest. Easter is the greatest of all Christian feasts, and the happy season of Eastertide lasts 50 days from Easter Day until the Feast of Pentecost. St Gregory of Nazianzus said that Easter was ‘like the sun among the stars’ of the other festivals. It is the heart of the sacred … Continue reading Happy Easter 2021
VICAR Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, Happy Easter to You and Your nearest and dearest. Easter is the greatest of all Christian feasts, and the happy season of Eastertide lasts 50 days from Easter Day until the Feast of Pentecost. St Gregory of Nazianzus said that Easter was ‘like the sun among the stars’ of the other festivals. It is the heart of the sacred … Continue reading Happy Easter
VICAR Happy Easter, Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine. Today is a day to celebrate. I wish You well. I hope You get a chance to enjoy the day with your family and friends. Enjoy! A Prayer for Easter Sunday Lord God, You loved this world so much, That you gave your one and only Son, That we might be called your children too. … Continue reading Happy Easter
