Category Archives: Dinner

Easter 2024 Resurrexit!

Posted on April 1, 2024 by marklangley

Lionandox has been relatively dead for about seven months now. What with work and family! What with life and its accompanying travails and disillusionments! What with all the vain worry about the world, the government, the economy, war, and death! … Continue reading →

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Christus Natus Est! Christmas Feasting 2023

Posted on December 27, 2022 by marklangley

After a beautiful (but strenuous) Midnight Mass complete with a sung “Proclamation Nativitatis,” and, of course, all the “propers”, with appropriate motets (Quem Pastores, Psallite Unigenite, Verbum Caro Factum Est , etc. etc.) the handy and easily sung Missa Brevis … Continue reading →

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As Long as Catholics Continue Feasting, Christendom Still Exists!

Posted on December 27, 2019 by marklangley

What is a perennial truth if nothing other than a truth which springs up every year? We who are strangers and sojourners in the city of man, we who aspire towards citizenship in the city of God, we know that … Continue reading →

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Easter 2019! Boeuf en Croute Alleluia!

Posted on April 22, 2019 by marklangley

Easter came a little later this year, but as a good friend likes to remind me, God is seldom early but He is never late! I am not sure how true this is, but it does seem to describe pretty well … Continue reading →

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Trim the Hearth and Set the Table 2018

Posted on December 26, 2018 by marklangley

As we have mentioned before, one of the great joys of Christmas springs from the fact that while it is renewed every year, it nonetheless is renewed precisely because it encapsulates and brings forth the things from of old. It … Continue reading →

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Ever Ancient Ever New: Feasting at Easter!

Posted on April 2, 2018 by marklangley

Happy Easter! Now some of you might be thinking, “hmmm….this photo looks suspiciously familiar.” Or “Haven’t I seen this before?” Well, my response is “yes and no!” Although these photos are all brand new, they are, nonetheless, the same in … Continue reading →

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Christmas 2017: Feast Edition!

Posted on December 27, 2017 by marklangley

Although Christmas day itself has passed, nonetheless the Church insists that we keep up the celebration! As obedient sons and daughters, ours is the task to celebrate the feast as heartily as possible for as long as we can – … Continue reading →

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In Hac Die Laetissima! Christmas Dinner 2016

Posted on December 26, 2016 by marklangley

Ah, Christmas Dinner…which I now post only at the request of two dear friends and former students of mine. They suggested that it also might be a way to cheer up the atmosphere of Lionandox.com since the last pre-election post … Continue reading →

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Resurrexit! 2016

Posted on March 29, 2016 by marklangley

Happy Easter 2016!  

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Easter and Beef Wellington.

Posted on April 6, 2015 by marklangley

Easter is a red meat celebration. And what food could be more indicative of Christ’s Resurrection from the dark tomb than Beef Wellington – in which a delicious thick succulent tenderloin is hidden inside a beautiful puff pastry phyllo dough … Continue reading →

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