1 January is the feast day in the church of the Circumcision & Naming of Jesus. Scripture for the day: Numbers 6.22-27; Psalm 8; Galatians 4.4-7; Luke 2.15-21 On the eighth day of Christmas, apart from maids a-milking, we turn our attention to Jesus’ life as part of an observant, Jewish family, and the ritual applied […]