Epiphany Proclamation 2018

Veronica Brandt · December 23, 2017 ·

HRISTMAS MEANS many things to many people. Some are preparing roast turkey, duck or goose (or all three!) Some are practising Christmas Carols. Some are sending dozens of Christmas Cards to friends and relatives.

As Christmas approaches I am typing up the Epiphany Proclamation.

It doesn’t take long once I get around to it. Often there are little quirks owing to developments in the software over the intervening months. It can be frustrating, but overall it gives that warm glow of a job well done. Or is that just the weather here?

I HEREBY ANNOUNCE the release of the Proclamation of Moveable Feasts for 2018.

* * Proclamation of Movable Feasts

Merry Christmas!

About Veronica Brandt

Veronica Brandt holds a Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering. As editor, she has produced fine publications (as well as valuable reprints) dealing with Gregorian chant, hymnody, Latin, and other subjects. These publications are distinguished on account of their tastefulness. She lives in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia, with her husband Peter and six children.

Anger at mistakes

I have a bad habit of getting frustrated when choir members take a long time to learn a particular interval or entrance. But this can be “cured.” It was cured a few weeks ago, when I made a mistake. I was supposed to go down a minor third, but instead I went down a perfect fifth. It reminded me that errors do happen—and we must be patient with our singers!

—Jeff Ostrowski

“The old man carried the Child, but the Child led the old man.”

The Antiphon for First Vespers of the Feast of the Purification (February 2nd) is beautiful: “The old man carried the Child, but it was the Child who was guiding the old man. The Virgin bore the Child, and after child-bearing was virgin still: whom she bore, him she adored.” —Senex púerum portábat, puer autem senem regébat: quem Virgo péperit, et post partum Virgo permánsit: ipsum quem génuit, adorávit.

—Jeff Ostrowski

A quote from Fr. Valentine Young

I had one brother who was out of the church for quite a few years. When my mother was asked, “Did she worry about him?” I remember her answer: “I don’t worry about him; I just pray for him.” She left that in God’s hands. My mother did not live to see her son return to the Church; but he did, and I was able to celebrate his funeral Mass.

—Jeff Ostrowski