Letters from Hoquessing

By Claudio R. Salvucci and the grace of a loving God

Thursday, October 26, 2017

Hallowtide: The Window to Heaven and Hell

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Halloween is an eminently Catholic holiday, but the average American would be forgiven for never realizing it. Perhaps even we in the Chu...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Overloading Advent

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Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful that Advent is even acknowledged at all in the commercial world. In the United States where we see...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Devotions for the Feast of St. Augustine

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Since we will be celebrating the Feast of St. Augustine in a few days on August 28th, I'll be featuring a few lesser-known devotions to ...
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Candace: A Christian Name from Nubia

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Nubia was an extremely old civilization, with close cultural ties to Egypt that go all the way back to the dawn of Egyptian history. It even...

The Kisses that Killed Prejudice

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On a cold January morning, in the year of Our Lord 1892, the Reverend Dr. Henry L. Phillips entered a Catholic Church and stayed to observe ...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

The North African Liturgical Calendar: a Church Reborn

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The African Church once boasted 400 bishops, but after the Islamic invasion it was slowly starved of support until its distinct traditions w...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

The Cross That Can't Be Lost

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Françoise Gonannhatenha was forced to mount the wooden scaffold upon which the Onondaga Iroquois tortured their enemies. But quite an un...
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Claudio Salvucci
Claudio is the founder of Hoquessing.com and Ancilla Press, publishing Thanksgiving Prayers and Devotions, and many other booklets for all the liturgical seasons from Advent to Post-Pentecost. He has written and edited numerous books, including most recently Catherine of the Erie, The Little Office of Baltimore, The Roman Rite in the Algonquian and Iroquoian Missions and The American Martyrology.
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