This week we celebrate Our Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Conception and the feast of St Lucy, virgin and martyr.
Lucy, from the Latin word lux, “light”, is one of our beautiful saints who captured the imagination of countless of our forebears. I might remind you of her naming in the short mnemonic phrase about the penitential Ember Days observed in each of the four earthly seasons: “Lenty, Penty, Crucy, Lucy.” Advent’s Embers come after St Lucy’s Day. Let us do penance during this joyfully penitential season.
