Action packed 1st article of the Papal year! 🥳

"As #Christianity adopted the #Julian and later #Gregorian #calendars, reformed by #PopeGregory XIII in 1582, #January1st became entrenched as the civil new year in #Christian lands.

This shift encouraged #antiSemitic sentiments, with the date often reserved for acts of violence against #Jewish communities.

Throughout #medieval #Europe, #NewYear's Day saw #synagogue burnings, the destruction of Jewish books, public tortures, and murders. These acts were not isolated; they formed part of broader campaigns where Christian #holidays, including #Christmas and #NewYears, triggered #pogroms in #EasternEurope. Jewish families would hide, avoiding #Torah study or loud gatherings to evade detection on these days.

One of the most infamous chapters unfolded under #Pope #GregoryXIII, whose decrees on January 1st targeted #Roman #Jews with ruthless precision. On January 1, 1577, #Gregory mandated that all #RomanJews..."

https://www.jfeed.com/history/new-year-jewish-persecution-history

#Thursday, 1 #January 2026

In the #Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day is the first day of the calendar year, 1 January
Most solar calendars,
#happynewyear #newyear2026 #welcome2026 #newyearcelebration #newbeginnings #January2026 #january2026 #bahdlex #Bahdlexblog #Bahdlexempire

Ted Tocks Covers - Year 8 - Day 84

One

On this day 25 years ago, Johnny Cash released his cover version of this provocative U2 song.

“Have you come here for forgiveness?
Have you come to raise the dead?
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head?”

#U2 #Bono #TheEdge #BrianEno #JohnnyCash #WarrenHaynes #JoeCocker #CowboyJunkies #MaryJBlige #Gregorian #CoreyHart #KimRichardson #JonathanRoy #BoyceAvenue #JennelGarcia

https://tedtockscovers.wordpress.com/2025/10/18/one-we-hurt-each-other-then-we-do-it-again-musicislife-tedtockscovers-u2/

Did you notice that the previous statement is typically #Eurocentric or #Western? Only according to the #Gregorian calendar are there two #Ramadans in a year. According to the #Islamic calendar, this is not the case.

https://mastodon.social/@librarianbe/115373708753402915

"The Best of #Gregorian #Chant"
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZeHAOiO5sk&list=OLAK5uy_kNYhsDw41Exkd2LGm4KGF5-DmU3-NxgyA

if interested...an APP
Neumz - Gregorian Chant in the palm of your hand https://neumz.com/ 7000 hours+

Each chant synchronised w square-note sc, accomp by notations of St Gall and Laon, Latin texts, & trans into the user’s language.

the first and only complete recording and the first complete digital resource... Psalter, Lectionary, Collectary, Antiphonary, Responsoriary, and Gradual are assembled into a 21stC “Liber Digitalis”...

You'd think we'd recall
That the ninth calendar month
Once was the seventh

#Haiku #OneHaikuADay #WritersCollective #writingcommunity #BackToHaiku #Seasons #Summer #Autumn #Harvest #Grapes #Wine #Vintage #September #Septem #Seventh #Calendar #RomanForum #Julian #Gregorian #Kalends #Vino #Sommelier #Rome #Caesar

September 7, 2025