ex cathedra: Intra octavam

Monday, March 21, 2011

Intra octavam

Catholic liturgy has a way of extending the celebration of an important feast day by giving it an octave, a whole week in which is is remembered, finishing on the eighth day. There used to be a lot of them, but both Pius XII and especially Paul VI cut them back so that now only Christmas and Easter have them.

Since I am unencumbered here at Ex Cathedra by papal formalities, I included this very nice dinner of corned beef, cabbage, carrots and potatoes yesterday as falling with The Octave of the Feast of Saint Patrick.

If you have a taste for it, corned beef (like its Rumanian/Yiddish cousin pastrami) can be addictive. Hard not to eat the whole thing before you even get it to the plate!

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