Rorate Caeli

Open thread: Book suggestions for Advent and Christmas

When he had finished reading the provisions of the law to the assembled people, Moses took blood, the blood of calves and goats, took water, and scarlet-dyed wool, and hyssop, sprinkled the book itself, and all the people ... . The tabernacle, too, and all the requisites of worship he sprinkled in the same way with blood; and the law enjoins that blood shall be used in almost every act of purification; unless blood is shed, there can be no remission of sins.

Hebrews, chapter ix (Knox Bible)

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As it is now well-known, Baronius Press recently published a new edition of one of the most beloved Catholic translations of Holy Writ, that made by Msgr. Ronald Knox based on the Clementine Vulgate in light of the Hebrew and Greek original texts and whose complete text was first published in the mid-20th century.

We are already in the second half of November, so well in the time to buy gifts for the upcoming season: for Christmas - or for Saint Nicholas (Dec. 6), or Epiphany (Jan. 6), traditional days for giving presents to family and friends (particularly children) in different Christian nations. Please, use this thread to present all your suggestions of good publications in the upcoming season