Climate catastrophe, COVID-19, and intensifying nationalisms have made us more aware of our vulnerabilities than ever before. Knowledge about edible weeds is timely for our current moment. Being able to get stuff for FREE is bad for capitalism. We are rarely informed about this because the one thing that all weeds have in common is that they are FREE. Many are medicinal, attract pollinators, and replenish depleted soil. Many are edible, nutritious, and delicious. This project aims to upend the bad reputation of weeds. Whether at a golf course, commercial farm, or spaces claimed by ‘nations,’ weeds are plants labeled as interlopers, ones we are taught to disdain…. Instead, ‘weeds’ is a concept that is driven by political ideologies about belonging. So much so that they often take over the growth of what some call ‘superior vegetation’ – meaning those you buy at garden stores and supermarkets, or those deemed to rightly ‘belong’. In spite of hostilities and herbicides, they grow wild and strong. To whom is honor and glory for ever and ever.Weeds are found everywhere – your aunt’s backyard, by the sidewalk, parking lots, or climbing up a telephone pole. On the third day of December, the First Sunday of the Advent of our Lord Jesus Christ, On the eleventh day of June, the feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. On the twenty-eighth day of May, the feast of Pentecost. On the twenty-first day of May will be the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. [In those places where the Ascension is transferred to the Seventh Sunday of Easter: On the eighteenth day of May will be the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ. [In those places where the Ascension is observed on Thursday: The Paschal feast of our Lord Jesus Christ. On the ninth day of April you will celebrate with joy Easter Day, On the twenty-second day of February will fall Ash Wednesday,Īnd the beginning of the fast of the most sacred Lenten season. We announce to you also the joy of his Resurrection, That, as we have rejoiced at the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ, Know, dear brethren (brothers and sisters), (The musical notation is found in Appendix I of the Roman Missal, Third Edition.) Announcement of Easter and the Moveable Feasts On the Epiphany of the Lord, after the singing of the Gospel, a Deacon or cantor, in keeping with an ancient practice of Holy Church, announces from the ambo the moveable feasts of the current year according to the following text. The form to be used for announcing each dates is: the date of month, e.g., "the seventh day of April." Those dates are found in the table which is included with the introductory documents of the Roman Missal. It is a reminder of the centrality of the resurrection of the Lord in the liturgical year and the importance of the great mysteries of faith which are celebrated each year.Įach year the proper dates for Ash Wednesday, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, and the First Sunday of Advent must be inserted into the text. The number of Sundays that follow Epiphany, the date of Ash Wednesday, and the number of Sundays that follow Pentecost are all computed in relation to Easter.Īlthough calendars now give the date of Easter and the other feasts in the liturgical year for many years in advance, the Epiphany proclamation still has value. It was necessary to make known the date of Easter in advance, since many celebrations of the liturgical year depend on its date. The proclamation of the date of Easter and the other moveable feasts on Epiphany dates from a time when calendars were not readily available.
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