Heaven: The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Trinity
Thomas Ken’s complete poem for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Trinity, on the hope of Heaven, the resurrection, and the joy of God Triune.
Daily Archives: November 14, 2026
St. Edmund, King and Martyr (November 20)
St. Edmund the Martyr. November 20. (Born A.D. 840; martyred A.D. 870. Calendars: Sarum, Scotch, Hereford. Sarum Ep. and Gosp.: Eccles. xxxi. 8–11; St. Luke xiv. 26–33.) Four English martyrs are in our Calendar, from four successive centuries, who fell on English ground, besides the great missionary bishop who died by the hands of the…
St. Hugh of Lincoln, Bishop and Confessor (November 17)
St. Hugh Of Lincoln.1 November 17. (Born A.D. 1140; died A.D. 1200. Sarum Ep. and Gosp.: Eccles. xl. 1–5; St. Mark xiii. 33–37.) We come out again into daylight and fresh air in a wide and solid world. St. Hugh was of an old Burgundian house, the lords of Avalon, near Grenoble. ‘Early,’ says his…
St. Machutus, Bishop and Confessor (November 15)
St. Machutus (St. Malo, St. Mawes) Of Brittany. November 15. (Calendars: Sarum, York, Hereford, Aberdeen. Died A.D. 564. Sarum Ep. and Gosp.: Ecclus. xliv. 17, 20–32, xlv. 6, 7, 15, 16; St. Luke xix. 12–28.) St. Machutus has an especial interest for us, because he is the only saint retained in our Calendar of that…