Ponderable Quote from “A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grail” by Charles A. Coulombe

Obviously, whether we are ruled by noble heroes or worthless villains is not something most of us have any control over. But there is one element of life in Camelot—and, indeed, all the courts, high or low, which ever existed in Christendom—that we can take away and make our own. Life therein was governed by the liturgical year. Christmas was the day Arthur first drew the sword from the stone; as we know from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the feast was well kept at his court:

This king lay at Camelot nigh on Christmas
with many lovely lords, of leaders the best,
reckoning of the Round Table all the rich brethren,
with right ripe revel and reckless mirth.
There tourneyed tykes by times full many,
jousted full jollily these gentle knights,
then carried to court, their carols to make.
For there the feast was alike full fifteen days.

* Reprinted from A Catholic Quest for the Holy Grail by Charles A. Coulombe, TAN Books, 2017, p. 163