E.J. Hutchinson

The Gifts of the Magi

Epiphany was one week ago today. At that time, we looked at Sedulius's treatment of the gifts of the Magi in his Paschale carmen. Niels Hemmingsen, too, provides a spiritual reading of the gifts in the sermon for Epiphany in his Postils, but it is different from the...

The Name of Jesus

Happy New Year! January 1 was the Feast of the Circumcision and Name of Jesus. The appointed Gospel reading for the day is a single verse, Luke 2:21: "And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called Jesus, which was so...

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