[Magdalen] The Big 80.

[Joseph Cirou]

David,

Happy birthday! You share the day on the church calendar with St. Frances Xavier Cabrini on the RC Calendar who died 100 years ago this year and was canonized in 1947 starting a trend of more canonizations within the the 50 year hiatus after death  that used to apply. On the Byzantine calendar it is the feast of St. John Chrysostom. Our parish had a festive 60th anniversary yesterday.

I don't know if there is a third saint particular to the Episcopal or Lutheran calendars.

Christmas or St. Martin's Lent or the Fast of St. Philip begins in a couple of days.
Advent is 6 weeks long in the Ambrosian Rite but, like the Roman Rite, not particularly penitential but I am not aware of the Ambrosian rules for Advent except the time frame.

With the Melkites there is a penitential aspect that becomes more pronounced around the last few weeks--after the Entrance of the Theotokos, Thanksgiving, St. Andrew, Conception of Mary, and OUr Lady of Guadalupe ( no major feasts between then and Christmas--St. Herman is Christmas Eve but many of his devotees are old Calendar where Christmas Eve is January 6)

Any case have a day, a year, and a decade or two free of sorrow and grief and filled with peace and joy!

Joe Cirou --Mnohaja Lita Ad Multos Annos Polychronia!







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>From: cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Sent: Nov 12, 2017 2:44 PM
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>Cc: cantor03 at aol.com
>Subject: [Magdalen] The Big 80.
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>The family assumed I'd arrive on my Aunt Lulu's birthday, the 12th.  
>But I was already stubborn and waited a day longer.
> 
>And here it is (tomorrow) 80 years later, TBTG.
> 
>There's probably a lot owed to decades of aspirin and statins daily, too.  
> 
>I'm into uncharted waters for Strang/Northam males.
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> 
> 
>David S.