Saturday, December 28, 2013

Childermas

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Until the last preconciliar reforms, Mass of the Holy Innocents – Childermas – was said (except if it fell on a Sunday, or was kept as a...
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Friday, December 27, 2013

Sequence for the Feast of St John Evangelist

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A blessed feast to all priests – for this day, being dedicate to St John Evangelist, adopted son of Mary the Virgin, and of all the Apostle...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

The Gap

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The Protomartyr in his own person and passion illustrates the gap between proclamation of the saving kerygma and the response of faith in i...
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas

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"You have begun your Christmas in the best way possible," said Fr Allan at the end of the Vigil Mass, "by welcoming Christ i...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013

O Sapientia

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My favourite Baroque composer, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, set all the O Antiphons to music – beautiful texts containing "the very marro...

Vampiric Christians?

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I am most amused to note that recent visits to this humble blog have been increased by references from a site to me hitherto unknown, yclep...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

Ave, Cruor Christi

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Would it be in bad taste to pray, Ave, cruor Christi  – in parallel to Ave, caro Christi ? Rather than Corpus  (Body), Caro (Flesh) is ...
Friday, December 6, 2013

Same Collect, Different Collect

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Having read the Collect of Advent Sunday quite a number of times in the Breviary this week, I was intrigued to hear it read in English at m...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Sixth Anniversary

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I began this blog six years ago, on the commemoration of St Sabbas; I then entrusted whatever good may come of this to his intercession, w...
Sunday, December 1, 2013

First Day of Summer, First Day of the New Year of Grace

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A glorious first day of summer in Hobart: after our sung Latin Mass at St Canice for the first Sunday of Advent, we gathered outside for lu...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

A New Dogma with The Times Every Morning

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William Ward – he of The Ideal of a Christian Church , a youthful work that so enraged Oxford as to have him stripped of his degrees; he wh...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Compline and Benediction

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Evening devotions and Benediction for the second day in a row – it reminds me of Hobart, or happy days in Melbourne; I could get used to th...