Thursday, January 1, 2009

Jan. 1- Feast of the Curcumcision and the Holy Name of Jesus

Adoration of the Holy Name of Jesus, Greco





And when the time of his circumcision was come, namely, the eighth day, on which the law commanded the child to be circumcised, they circumcised him in a cave.
And the old Hebrew woman took the foreskin (others say she took the navel-string), and preserved it in an alabaster-box of old oil of spikenard.
And she had a son who was a druggist, to whom she said, "Take heed thou sell not this alabaster box of spikenard-ointment, although thou shouldst be offered three hundred pence for it." Now this is that alabaster-box which Mary the sinner procured, and poured forth the ointment out of it upon the head and feet of our Lord Jesus Christ, and wiped it off with the hairs of her head.
- From the Arabian Infancy Gospel

Rings of Saturn- Fiber Art by Elizabeth Harris

Rings of Saturn (What do they have to do with this Feast Day? hint: Leo Allatius)




2 comments:

John the organist said...

I give up!

Padre Rob+ said...

Leo Allatius (17th cent.)taught that the rings of Saturn were formed by the ascended foreskin when Jesus ascended to heaven.