Groundhog’s Day and the Presentation of our Lord
It’s interesting to have a birthday on a holiday, like Halloween or St. Patrick’s Day. (Maybe not so much Christmas, since that holiday is so big that birthdays get forgotten.) It’s even more interesting to have a birthday that falls on two holidays. That’s me. My...
Christmas Eve and Theophany
If your parish is on the Old Calendar, today is Christmas Eve. If your parish is on the New Calendar, today is Theophany. If you’re in a bicalendar parish, today is at once Christmas Eve and Theophany, a day of fasting and a day of feasting, the final day of...
Pecan puffs
The first year I lived in the Pacific Northwest, something very strange happened. My pecan puffs, one of my best and most reliable holiday cookie recipes, flopped. It was an easy recipe. Just four ingredients. The results were always lighter-than air puffs of...
Joseph Was an Old Man
The Orthodox Church commemorates St. Joseph, the Betrothed of Mary and the Foster-Father of God, on the Sunday after the Nativity. According to Orthodox tradition, Mary’s parents were aged when she was born, and she was raised by the temple priests in Jerusalem....BOOKS BY CHARLOTTE RIGGLE
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