Sunday, November 04, 2012

The latest MAGNIFICAT

...by which I mean the excellent monthly prayer-manual that arrives by post and is a joy to use and handle - has a feature in it by Father James Tolhurst. Fr Jim is a family friend - he married Jamie and me at St Elphege's, Wallington, back in 1980. He is the author of a number of books, and something of an authority on Bl John Henry Newman...

Magnificat is a must-read: it always carries a particularly beautiful work of art which is discussed and explored by a good art historian - the Nov. writer is Elizabeth Lev. It has Morning and Evening Prayer for each day, information about the feast-days of the various saints as they come up (with lots of interesting snippets about obscure saints from long ago, or local saints in particular corners of Britain or the world), the Mass texts for each day, and some good features, meditations, and extra prayers...

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