Points from the Press and news continued.
THAT SPEECH BY THE BEARDED WONDER IN ROME. If you have not yet heard of it or read Fr Ray Blakes article in his blog, then do so. He gives a link if you want whole boring thing.
Damian Thompson also comments on the speech. After reading what he said I wonder how on earth is he going to talk to the Holy Father today ! He defended everything dear to the Prots in particular the advantages of women priests and Bishops. Sadly Damian Thompson or one of the commenters report that Cardinal Kasper was there nodding in approbation at times !
Tomorrow I will give an account of the meeting based on my secret bugging device which readers will know I have installed in the meeting room for dignitaries. ie the meeting with the Pope.
PASTOR IUVENTUS (who is not so young now !) has an interesting a rticle in the Herald about the number of Baptisms and Marriages in his Parish (near me) regarding the degree of practice shown by the parents who present their children for baptism...and the subsequent practice of those parents. Taken over a number of years the Mass attendance would be expected to rise in his case by about 40% In fact the growth is about 10%. This is rather worse than the estimate I gave of disappearance between Baptism and schooliing which itself was only10% . As to marriages he indicates that all of his 7 marriage couples under instruction are being married abroad. Again if one considers this, even allowing for moving and deaths, this is a very small number of Catholic marriages and anyway statistics also show that over two thirds of marriages are in fact mixed faith marriages with a greater risk of later lapsing. A depressing picture.
MORE ON THE ANGLICAN REUNION PROBLEMS. As already indicated Abp Nichols has indicated that all receptions into the Church will have to be done on an individual basis and not as a group. This is absolutely right as it is necessary to ascertain if a person converting is only doing so because everyone else is in his group, and to find out if they really understand the nature of Papal Infallibility and powers, and fully accept all our doctrines and beliefs. However as another writer points out, the RCIA course is not the answer because this assumes that the prospective convert knows virtually nothing about the Catholic Church and I gather many prospective converts have been put off by this approach.
PILL LETTERS There is a dreadful letter from a Fr Edward Butler of Co Donegal who speaks of a deeply buried Catholic tradition of Holy Disobedience which he would like to see revived in the case of the pronouoncement of the Holy Father on the Anglican business. He claims that the pronouncement drives a coach and horses through the very notion of collegiality and may indeed have delivered a coup de grace. He would use the words of old Bishop in the Middle ages who objected to delivering to Rome, certain benefices and incomes from parishes he controlled.
He likes the words of the reply. Therefore Holy Father, reverently faithfully, and respectfully, loyally and obediently, I WILL NOT OBEY YOU. That is of course the exact opposite of the adjectives used !!!!
The complete reverse and equally wrong comes from a letter of a William Charlton of Hexham who writes There is no difference of religious belief between Catholics and Anglo Catholics, both understand the Nicene Creed in the same way and accept the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The only substantial obsaacle is Papal Primacy; apart from that the division is a matter of tribal loyalty like support for Oxford or Cambridge universities. Sorry Mr Charlton how do you know that ? When my parents converted from High Anglicanism they had to talke with the priest receiving them over a period of some months before reception to make sure they fully understood what the Church stood for.
More tomorrow.
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Friday, 20 November 2009
First look at the Catholic Press and Catholic bloggers.
First looks at Press. I looked over what the chief Catholic bloggers had been saying of late (as I had no chance of doing so whilst away). They cover most of the points I found in the Press. Fr Blake (St.Mary Mags) just beat me to it with the note about the equality bill for instance. This week once again with the main press the emphasis is still on the Anglican reunion business.
The PILL carries a good article by Abp Nichols on his first 6 months in office with particular attention to the Anglicans. He relates that both he and the bearded wonder were given two weeks notice. In another article ~Abp Kasper in Rome says that he too was given two weeks notice and dismisses reports that he was side stepped in the decision . It was not directly his department
BISHOP WALSH OF KILLALOE (Ireland) is widely reported in the Press and blogs for his remarks, notably that he would like to see a Pope one day introducing married priests and even women priests, that we should be more understanding about the problems faced by Catholics in 2nd marriages after a divorce...regarding Holy ~Communion reception. etc etc. Almost the same agenda as "Catholics for a Changing Church". Well one change I could recommend to his Grace is either change his views or leave pastoral care of a diocese. We read too in the PILL that the diocese of Dublin is drastically short of priests, and finds it difficult to put even one priest in each parish where many used to serve each parish.
BISHOP CONRY of Arundel has written a pastoral letter in which he points out that after one of his diocese had written to Rome over a remark he had made about confessions, that he was requested to make his position quite clear.. he had not been suggesting an alternative to the need for confession. This refers to the earlier remarks that those who found confession difficult might like to go along to a priest and talk aout the one thing that was the biggest obstacle to their relationship with God, that they might talk about how the spark might have gone out of their relationship and what was making them tired. Personally I cannot really see what was wrong with the original remark by itself and it was quite courageous of Him to correct any wrong impression. However later on I would disagee with what he says about single issues. "Do not get fixated over them". "Someone said a persons atitutude to Humanae Vitae was a litmus test of being a Catholic". The Bishop replies that though such matters are important issues they will never get anywhere near expressing the faith in its entirety and we can ask if some of these questions are actually fundamental to faith at all. But that surely gives the impression that it might be something that could in reality be discarded altogether. (ie Birth control other than by natural means) ?
There is plenty more to tell you, but it will have to wait.I had to visit the Dentist with my toothache and he took X ray and told me as I thought I had an abcess on a tooth beginning to rot. So in addition to the painkillers I now have to take an antibiotic and as I dont take Penicillin based antibiotics (because they dont work on me) I am on Metronidazole which is highly effective but has a few vile side effects. The tooth will later be subjected to root canal treatment after which I can sail happily down the canal ! More tomorrow God willing.
The PILL carries a good article by Abp Nichols on his first 6 months in office with particular attention to the Anglicans. He relates that both he and the bearded wonder were given two weeks notice. In another article ~Abp Kasper in Rome says that he too was given two weeks notice and dismisses reports that he was side stepped in the decision . It was not directly his department
BISHOP WALSH OF KILLALOE (Ireland) is widely reported in the Press and blogs for his remarks, notably that he would like to see a Pope one day introducing married priests and even women priests, that we should be more understanding about the problems faced by Catholics in 2nd marriages after a divorce...regarding Holy ~Communion reception. etc etc. Almost the same agenda as "Catholics for a Changing Church". Well one change I could recommend to his Grace is either change his views or leave pastoral care of a diocese. We read too in the PILL that the diocese of Dublin is drastically short of priests, and finds it difficult to put even one priest in each parish where many used to serve each parish.
BISHOP CONRY of Arundel has written a pastoral letter in which he points out that after one of his diocese had written to Rome over a remark he had made about confessions, that he was requested to make his position quite clear.. he had not been suggesting an alternative to the need for confession. This refers to the earlier remarks that those who found confession difficult might like to go along to a priest and talk aout the one thing that was the biggest obstacle to their relationship with God, that they might talk about how the spark might have gone out of their relationship and what was making them tired. Personally I cannot really see what was wrong with the original remark by itself and it was quite courageous of Him to correct any wrong impression. However later on I would disagee with what he says about single issues. "Do not get fixated over them". "Someone said a persons atitutude to Humanae Vitae was a litmus test of being a Catholic". The Bishop replies that though such matters are important issues they will never get anywhere near expressing the faith in its entirety and we can ask if some of these questions are actually fundamental to faith at all. But that surely gives the impression that it might be something that could in reality be discarded altogether. (ie Birth control other than by natural means) ?
There is plenty more to tell you, but it will have to wait.I had to visit the Dentist with my toothache and he took X ray and told me as I thought I had an abcess on a tooth beginning to rot. So in addition to the painkillers I now have to take an antibiotic and as I dont take Penicillin based antibiotics (because they dont work on me) I am on Metronidazole which is highly effective but has a few vile side effects. The tooth will later be subjected to root canal treatment after which I can sail happily down the canal ! More tomorrow God willing.
Various items
Toothache. Yes indeed, Mildew has it badly and had to return home to see Dentist this afternoon. I think it is an abcess. I take a lot of painkillers at the moment. If I am well enough however I will put on something about this weeks press later today or certainly tomorrow.
That quiz. Beaten you all ! Toby is the famous jug of course. Most got Winchester as the Cathedral town and a quick reference to the Concise Oxford or other good dictionary would have told you that the term also applies to a) an ~American gun, b)certain computer software.
c)a container of alcoholic drinks in many sizes. As to the personalities. Bellarmine was the Cardinal and at the end of Queen Elizabeths reign there was a popular craze to create a kind of bottle with the image of Bellarmine's head put into the nect of the bottle. This meaning does not seem to be in the Concise Oxford and I only knew about it because they dug one up a few years ago in excavations at Bermondsey Abbey in London, and such finds were then given to the Museum of London. The last point beat you and yet it is the easiest, as even old Mildew that Jeroboam was a measure of drink (whiskey normally). I dont know why he was chosen though !
Equality Bill. I have not had the chance to get at the Catholic Press but the ordinary press certainly carried the story of Harriet Hormone (Harmon's) attempt to get a bill through parliament which many Catholics feel will threaten Christian celebrations. Already in Oxford the official celebrations are of the Winter festival of Light which goes right back to pagan times, and we feel that there may be a ban on things like Christmas Carols, Father Christmas, Christmas plays etc....why ? because such items will disturb those of minority faiths. There has even been talk of official celebrations for the bigger feasts of other faiths, like the Chinese new year, the Hindu feast of De Wally Wally (or something like that), then is Ed (?Eid) who is he ? and why not everyone keep Ramadan ? That might not be a bad idea for obese persons because you can only eat during hours of darkness so they would not have much time for nosh. Then there is that Jewish feast of Tents. An orthodox Jew will still try and keep this literally by living in a tent for a month. Perhaps we can all leave the cities and put up tented towns in the countryside, using the reduction of people to give say London a good clean up ? As for Miss Hormone, I suggest she keeps all those feasts except for DeWallyWally.She can take a dip in the Thames in the middle of winter ! (instead of the Ganges). I think I posted something earlier this year on the Chinese year of the Cow (or some such animal ?) If she kept this she might be called a silly Moo.! (I mean no offense to the Chinese , only to Christians who think they should keep everything except the Christian festivals.
McCullough on the Eastern Orthodox Churches last night was better than I expected. I would have liked more on what keeps the two sides apart (not simply the Filioque clause..but Papal Supremacy, divorce, child baptism etc). The material on Icon art was most interesting. He might have pointed out that as Christians we too use icons today. I love them. He showed how the faith survived in spite of much persecution down the ages, and of course the dreadful horror of the sack of #Constantinople by the 4th Crusaders. This still leaves a bitter taste in the mouth for the orthodox of course.
That quiz. Beaten you all ! Toby is the famous jug of course. Most got Winchester as the Cathedral town and a quick reference to the Concise Oxford or other good dictionary would have told you that the term also applies to a) an ~American gun, b)certain computer software.
c)a container of alcoholic drinks in many sizes. As to the personalities. Bellarmine was the Cardinal and at the end of Queen Elizabeths reign there was a popular craze to create a kind of bottle with the image of Bellarmine's head put into the nect of the bottle. This meaning does not seem to be in the Concise Oxford and I only knew about it because they dug one up a few years ago in excavations at Bermondsey Abbey in London, and such finds were then given to the Museum of London. The last point beat you and yet it is the easiest, as even old Mildew that Jeroboam was a measure of drink (whiskey normally). I dont know why he was chosen though !
Equality Bill. I have not had the chance to get at the Catholic Press but the ordinary press certainly carried the story of Harriet Hormone (Harmon's) attempt to get a bill through parliament which many Catholics feel will threaten Christian celebrations. Already in Oxford the official celebrations are of the Winter festival of Light which goes right back to pagan times, and we feel that there may be a ban on things like Christmas Carols, Father Christmas, Christmas plays etc....why ? because such items will disturb those of minority faiths. There has even been talk of official celebrations for the bigger feasts of other faiths, like the Chinese new year, the Hindu feast of De Wally Wally (or something like that), then is Ed (?Eid) who is he ? and why not everyone keep Ramadan ? That might not be a bad idea for obese persons because you can only eat during hours of darkness so they would not have much time for nosh. Then there is that Jewish feast of Tents. An orthodox Jew will still try and keep this literally by living in a tent for a month. Perhaps we can all leave the cities and put up tented towns in the countryside, using the reduction of people to give say London a good clean up ? As for Miss Hormone, I suggest she keeps all those feasts except for DeWallyWally.She can take a dip in the Thames in the middle of winter ! (instead of the Ganges). I think I posted something earlier this year on the Chinese year of the Cow (or some such animal ?) If she kept this she might be called a silly Moo.! (I mean no offense to the Chinese , only to Christians who think they should keep everything except the Christian festivals.
McCullough on the Eastern Orthodox Churches last night was better than I expected. I would have liked more on what keeps the two sides apart (not simply the Filioque clause..but Papal Supremacy, divorce, child baptism etc). The material on Icon art was most interesting. He might have pointed out that as Christians we too use icons today. I love them. He showed how the faith survived in spite of much persecution down the ages, and of course the dreadful horror of the sack of #Constantinople by the 4th Crusaders. This still leaves a bitter taste in the mouth for the orthodox of course.
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
400th Anniv. of the Authorised Bible
400th Anniv of AV. This post is dependant again on Chistopher Howse in a recent Torygraph article.
The anniversary takes place in 2011 and the celebrations will be st arted off at Hampton Court where the translation was commissioned. The year will close on Nov 16th with a service at Westminster Abbey. Some High Anglicans still use the original AV whilst most would probably use the Revised Standard Version (which we can use in the Catholic revision of RSV) The King James Bible as the Americans call it is at the same time the most famous book in the world and the least read. It was actually completed in a room in the Abbey itself. A new venture has been launched entitled "The You Tube Bible" where separate chapters read by different people are being co ordinated. You can sample what is done already at 2011trust.org At the same time people can register for particular events for that year. On the title page of the original is a cartouche depicting a pelican feeding her young. (I pointed out a while ago that this is a symbol of the Blessed Eucharist...viz St.Thomas Aquinas "O pie pelicani" The pelican feeds its young in the picture with blood from its breast. It is worth noting that the collaborators who produced the AV used several translations and several Latin versions in the preparation, and that one of texts they consulted was the Douai-Rheims Bible. One of the original writers of AV was George Abbot who became Archbisop of Canterbury later on and in 1621 went hunting and accidentally wounded a gamekeeper with an arrow and the poor man died later. At the time his functions as Bishop were suspended and he was called a man of blood. However James 1st settled matters which had reached crisis point by a dispensation and the Bishop ever after on the day of the accident, as a penance abstained from the meat pies he liked to eat ! He founded Abbots Hospital almshouses in Guildford which still stand and its residents will be celebrating the events of 2011.
The anniversary takes place in 2011 and the celebrations will be st arted off at Hampton Court where the translation was commissioned. The year will close on Nov 16th with a service at Westminster Abbey. Some High Anglicans still use the original AV whilst most would probably use the Revised Standard Version (which we can use in the Catholic revision of RSV) The King James Bible as the Americans call it is at the same time the most famous book in the world and the least read. It was actually completed in a room in the Abbey itself. A new venture has been launched entitled "The You Tube Bible" where separate chapters read by different people are being co ordinated. You can sample what is done already at 2011trust.org At the same time people can register for particular events for that year. On the title page of the original is a cartouche depicting a pelican feeding her young. (I pointed out a while ago that this is a symbol of the Blessed Eucharist...viz St.Thomas Aquinas "O pie pelicani" The pelican feeds its young in the picture with blood from its breast. It is worth noting that the collaborators who produced the AV used several translations and several Latin versions in the preparation, and that one of texts they consulted was the Douai-Rheims Bible. One of the original writers of AV was George Abbot who became Archbisop of Canterbury later on and in 1621 went hunting and accidentally wounded a gamekeeper with an arrow and the poor man died later. At the time his functions as Bishop were suspended and he was called a man of blood. However James 1st settled matters which had reached crisis point by a dispensation and the Bishop ever after on the day of the accident, as a penance abstained from the meat pies he liked to eat ! He founded Abbots Hospital almshouses in Guildford which still stand and its residents will be celebrating the events of 2011.
Monday, 16 November 2009
Mildew Muses
Mildew Muses This is the first of the supplementary posts pre pared before going away and scheduled for publication on Monday 14th November. This one deals with Gladstone and the High Anglicans etc. and has some resonance in view of he happenings of today.
These thoughts come from Christopher Howse in a recent Saturday column in the Torygraph.
By the time Gladstone was 76 he was being elected PM for the 3rd time. He went to Osborne House in the Isle of Wight to kiss hands with old Queen Vic. She thought him mad. By that time he had collected 20,000 books which were in store at his home at Hawarden known as St.Deiniols. When he died he left 30,000 books which now form his library and are open to the public as a reference library . St Deiniols is of course also a residential centre. Many of his books are religious. We know that when at St.Deiniols he was at his desk by 7.30am and went to Matins at the local church. He worked and read from 10 to 2.00 . In the afternoons later on in retirement he spent most of the time arranging his massive library even leaving his puddings to get on with his work. He felt sympathy for Lord Acton (a Catholic noted for "All power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely") and when the noble Lord fell into financial difficulties he arranged for Andrew Carnegie to buy his library of 60,000 books whilst still allowing Acton to use them during his life. After his death they went to Cambridge University. Although Gladstone is sometimes described as a High Church apologist , in 1878 he made a strong attack on the Tractarian movement in a speech at Keble College. During his speech he made a very strong attack on Newman (they never got on well). He described Newman as "greater than Keble or Pusey (leaders of the movement) " but this was in a negative sense since he destroyed the Oxford movement by converting to ~Rome and destablised Anglicanism "throwing the noblest intellects of the University as wrecks upon every shore" A visitor to St Deiniols described the libary as with "no sign of narrowness but with books from Fetishism and Animism up to Judaism". Howse tells us that today they are set to separate out the books on Islam to create a separate reading room. "No other Prime minister has left such a legacy". Well he did live a long time and was an avid reader !!
These thoughts come from Christopher Howse in a recent Saturday column in the Torygraph.
By the time Gladstone was 76 he was being elected PM for the 3rd time. He went to Osborne House in the Isle of Wight to kiss hands with old Queen Vic. She thought him mad. By that time he had collected 20,000 books which were in store at his home at Hawarden known as St.Deiniols. When he died he left 30,000 books which now form his library and are open to the public as a reference library . St Deiniols is of course also a residential centre. Many of his books are religious. We know that when at St.Deiniols he was at his desk by 7.30am and went to Matins at the local church. He worked and read from 10 to 2.00 . In the afternoons later on in retirement he spent most of the time arranging his massive library even leaving his puddings to get on with his work. He felt sympathy for Lord Acton (a Catholic noted for "All power corrupts but absolute power corrupts absolutely") and when the noble Lord fell into financial difficulties he arranged for Andrew Carnegie to buy his library of 60,000 books whilst still allowing Acton to use them during his life. After his death they went to Cambridge University. Although Gladstone is sometimes described as a High Church apologist , in 1878 he made a strong attack on the Tractarian movement in a speech at Keble College. During his speech he made a very strong attack on Newman (they never got on well). He described Newman as "greater than Keble or Pusey (leaders of the movement) " but this was in a negative sense since he destroyed the Oxford movement by converting to ~Rome and destablised Anglicanism "throwing the noblest intellects of the University as wrecks upon every shore" A visitor to St Deiniols described the libary as with "no sign of narrowness but with books from Fetishism and Animism up to Judaism". Howse tells us that today they are set to separate out the books on Islam to create a separate reading room. "No other Prime minister has left such a legacy". Well he did live a long time and was an avid reader !!
Sunday, 15 November 2009
Bells and a new Quiz
Bells a discontinued line ? There are or were two large bell foundries in GB, The Whitechapel Foundry in London and Taylors of Loughborough. (Remember the novel the 7 Taylors?) Now it seems Taylors are in administration with a large debt though they may be saved at the last minute. They were founded as far back as the 14th century and produced in 1862 the largest bell in the country, Great Paul of St.Pauls Cathedral, weighing in at 16and a half tons. It sounds daily at lpm. The inscription on it reads (English version, original in Latain) Woe unto me if I preach not the Gospel Whitechapel was founded in 1570. The earlist bells still ringing in England are St James, Lisset in Yorkshire Wolds dating from 1254 and possibly a little earlier St Botolph's Hardham in Sussex. It is a difficult task in creating bells and a craft handed on from generation to generation to be able to tune them perfectly. The techniques are almost unchanged since the beginning. David Cole of Taylors has been working on tuning for 36 years and can tune a bell to l00th of a semi tone. The problem is that Taylors are in administration since the Elf and Safty mob insisted on replacing the foundry roof recently, and they have run out of cash. (note. they may have been saved but I have not been able to check this). Poetry and bells go together. ~Gerald Manley Hopkins writes
Each hung bells Bow/swing finds tongue to fling out broad thy name. ie They are created things which proclaim God's glory.
We could think too of Grey's elegy in a Coutry Churchyard.
The bell that tolls the knell of parting day.
Or perhaps look at John Betjamin who wrote an autobiographical poem Summoned by Bells
This quotation however is from On hearing the Full Peal of Ten Bells from Christ ~Church, Swindon.
Your peal of ten ring over then this town
Ring on my men, nor ever ring them down
Hear how the pealing through the louvres rolls
now birth and death reminding bells ring clear
Loud: under planes and ever changing gear.
and again in Wantage Bells
Now with the bells through the apple bloom Sunday-ly Sounding
And the prayers of the nuns in their chapel gloom, us all surrounding
Where the brook flows
Brick walls of rose
send on the motionless meadows the bell notes resonding.
Somewhat less marvellous, here is my ode to the passing the bell industry. I estimate that if Taylors go down, Whitechapel itself may also fail in this recession and then what ?
They are part and parcel of our lives, our culture , our being.
Taylors of Loughborough in administration !
What a disaster for the nation !
No more will its bells be heard to sound
Quelling the noise of the traffic around.
So no more can our great bells ring
through season all from summer to spring
soon our countries bells will cease
while doth traffic round increase
That marvellous sound of the Carillon
No longer now can carry on.
From the collected poems of Mildew, Vol l no 2.
Having read this rubbish, now you can turn your attention to this weeks quiz
How might Toby go to Central Southern English Cathedral accompanied by a sinful Israelite King (c 700BC) and a 16th/17th century italian cardinal (who was involved with Galileo), all this to refresh himself ? And why might the visit help his computing skills, yet at the same time might involve his being shot at ?
Now you might easily find the names but you will almost certainly not know about the Italian Cardinal but a call to the museum of London might help you if you can work out the connection of the other items. I have personally seen the Italian Cardinal in the results of a dig at the ruins of Bermondsey Abbey in London, now in store I think at this museum. Londiniensis might particularly find the answer helpful.
Next posts Monday Wednesday both pre prepared then hopefully something late on Friday.
Each hung bells Bow/swing finds tongue to fling out broad thy name. ie They are created things which proclaim God's glory.
We could think too of Grey's elegy in a Coutry Churchyard.
The bell that tolls the knell of parting day.
Or perhaps look at John Betjamin who wrote an autobiographical poem Summoned by Bells
This quotation however is from On hearing the Full Peal of Ten Bells from Christ ~Church, Swindon.
Your peal of ten ring over then this town
Ring on my men, nor ever ring them down
Hear how the pealing through the louvres rolls
now birth and death reminding bells ring clear
Loud: under planes and ever changing gear.
and again in Wantage Bells
Now with the bells through the apple bloom Sunday-ly Sounding
And the prayers of the nuns in their chapel gloom, us all surrounding
Where the brook flows
Brick walls of rose
send on the motionless meadows the bell notes resonding.
Somewhat less marvellous, here is my ode to the passing the bell industry. I estimate that if Taylors go down, Whitechapel itself may also fail in this recession and then what ?
They are part and parcel of our lives, our culture , our being.
Taylors of Loughborough in administration !
What a disaster for the nation !
No more will its bells be heard to sound
Quelling the noise of the traffic around.
So no more can our great bells ring
through season all from summer to spring
soon our countries bells will cease
while doth traffic round increase
That marvellous sound of the Carillon
No longer now can carry on.
From the collected poems of Mildew, Vol l no 2.
Having read this rubbish, now you can turn your attention to this weeks quiz
How might Toby go to Central Southern English Cathedral accompanied by a sinful Israelite King (c 700BC) and a 16th/17th century italian cardinal (who was involved with Galileo), all this to refresh himself ? And why might the visit help his computing skills, yet at the same time might involve his being shot at ?
Now you might easily find the names but you will almost certainly not know about the Italian Cardinal but a call to the museum of London might help you if you can work out the connection of the other items. I have personally seen the Italian Cardinal in the results of a dig at the ruins of Bermondsey Abbey in London, now in store I think at this museum. Londiniensis might particularly find the answer helpful.
Next posts Monday Wednesday both pre prepared then hopefully something late on Friday.
Friday, 13 November 2009
Not too well
NOT TOO WELL I am not feeling well and may not go to Kent today or theAdvent event tomorrow. I have pre pared 3 posts one each for Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday. I have replied to a comment of Pelerin on last nights broadcast of MC. Pray for me.
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