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Showing posts with label The Faith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Faith. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Notre Dame; the good news

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First thought this morning, and spoken aloud, "Well... I guess we should find out what's left of Notre Dame." And the news w...
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Tuesday, April 09, 2019

Praying for rain: why pray for things?

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Out the workroom window. Pouring. And kept on all night. A good solid downpour, soaking deep into the soil. Just what we needed, and st...
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Sunday, October 21, 2018

Why is contemporary sacred art not very sacred? Ideal proportions and the perfections of heaven

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So, I guess it shouldn't be surprising that the icon painters use the standard "canon" of idealised portraiture. I learned t...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

A window through which the winds of heaven blow...

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A good article from our Ortho friends about why beauty in sacred art is an absolute requirement for the life of faith. "Despite p...
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Thursday, December 07, 2017

O Magnum Mysterium

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This was the first piece of sacred polyphony I ever sang in a choir. Doing this, you forget everything earthly. For just a moment, no wo...
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Sunday, December 03, 2017

Buona Domenica, Tutti!

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Did your Mass sound like this today? ~
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Saturday, October 07, 2017

Chant is good for you

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Monks of the Desert in New Mexico I had no idea they were using the Chant. And they seem pretty good at it. (Though I noticed at least on...
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Friday, September 15, 2017

Buon Venerdi, and here's to the pope...

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...whoever he may be. A fun Friday rhyme to go with an old fashioned English dish, Stargazy pie, from Cornwall. Yep, it's a pie wit...
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Sunday, June 04, 2017

Happy Holy Ghost Day!

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This is the Pentecost I'm going to learn the Veni Creator Spiritus. I'm gonna do it! Yes! (A friend, who is also a lousy C...
Friday, February 24, 2017

Warm welcome in chilly Cascia

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Overnight in Cascia in a freezing cold but otherwise perfectly adequate little pilgrim's hotel (Blankets... lots and lots of blankets......
Friday, October 02, 2015

Liveblogging the Apocalypse - coming out of retirement

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Introducing my little Evil Project for the duration of the Synod. Later today (I hope) The Remnant will be producing a longish arti...
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Thursday, October 01, 2015

A New Papacy for a New Church

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It's funny about the popular obsession with the red shoes, huh? Two years ago there was a kind of weird miniature frenzy over the fa...
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Monday, September 07, 2015

Lay eremitical life

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St. Ita, Hermitess of Killeedy This blog gave me a ferocious case of Carthusian-envy. And this one: Vida Eremitica Vida Eremitica. ...
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Friday, August 07, 2015

Nun campaign

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Dear Miss White, Thank you for posting the link to my begging page. I'm a regular reader of yours, and was just tickled to death to s...
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Sunday, August 02, 2015

Vocation shortage?

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One of the biggest problems in the Church right now is not lack of vocations, it's lack of support for them. And student loan debt is ne...
Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Live as though God is real

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Live as though you're really going to live forever. Live for eternity. Start now. ~
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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Tradition

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Procession through the town on the Festa di Sant Antonio Posted by Hilary White on Monday, 26 January 2015 What I like about Norcia is not ...
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Friday, July 24, 2015

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A long, long time ago, the first time I ever visited a cloistered monastery of nuns, the abbess who was leading our retreat told us to let o...
Saturday, June 13, 2015

Things to do in Rome

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...when it's too hot to be outside... Highlights of my little visit last weekend: Corpus Christi procession, or as the call it in Ital...
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