This Month in History

This feast, on 15 August, marks the taking up into heaven (assumption) of Mary, the mother of Jesus. This event is not recorded in the Bible and is not marked…

This falls in late May or June on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. It celebrates the Eucharist or Communion – the ceremony of remembrance initiated by Jesus. In this festival…

This falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent in March or April. Initially a day to celebrate the motherly nature of the Church, it is now an occasion to thank…

Celebrated on or around 2 February. It marks the time when Jesus was taken to the Jewish temple in Jerusalem as an infant to be formally inducted into the Jewish…

This falls seven weeks after Easter Sunday and can be seen as the birth of the Christian church. It marks the day Jesus’ closest followers had a supernatural experience of…