Category Archives: Apocrypha

Nativity of the BVM: Words from the “Apocrypha”

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Derek Olsen

The traditional Epistle for today for well over a thousand years was one of those cases when the Epistle is not an epistle. Instead, the first, non-Gospel, reading at mass was from the multi-named Ecclessiasticus, Wisdom of Jesus Ben Sirach, … Continue reading →

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