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Christmas in Lent, by Michael Pakaluk – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Christmas in Lent, by Michael Pakaluk

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The Calling of St. Matthew by Caravaggio, c. 1600 [Contarelli Chapel, Church of San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome]

By Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic Thing, March 13, 2025

Michael Pakaluk, an Aristotle scholar and Ordinarius of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, is a professor in the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America. He lives in Hyattsville, MD with his wife Catherine, also a professor at the Busch School, and their eight children.  …

The earliest day that Ash Wednesday can fall is February 4th.  The Christmas season most liberally construed lasts until Candlemas, the Feast of the Presentation, on February 2nd.  Therefore, it would be possible for the Christmas season to go directly into Lent with just one day in between, Mardi Gras.  This is not common. The last time it happened was 1818, and the next will be 2285. In any case, we see that it is possible for Christmas and Lent to be conjoined but impossible for them to overlap.

This fact is important, I think, and I believe it is by design. Because the arrangement gives due place to the two great mysteries of our faith, while keeping them distinct: the mystery of the Incarnation and the mystery of the Passion – that of the birth of the Lord, with all its consequences, and that of his death, which is our redemption. ….

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