Adolph Adam was a German scholar. He died in 2005.[1] For many years he was professor of practical theology, liturgy, and homiletics at the University of Mainz.[2] I’ve had a copy of his book, The Liturgical Year: its history & its meaning after the reform of the liturgy[3] since it came out in 1981, while I was in seminary. This morning I got it out to remind myself about the tradition of remembering the Virgin Mary on Saturdays when there were no other celebrations. But first I looked up, may I say, a snarky, disrespectful reference about the color of vestments for these Saturday celebrations here at Saint Mary’s. It’s in Newbury Halsted Frost Read’s 1931 book, The Story of St. Mary’s. Frost became a member of the board of trustees in 1929. When he died in February 1950, he was secretary and treasurer of Saint Mary’s.
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