“Ineffable” sighting… in the wild!

Posted on 12 September 2009 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

From a reader:

Father Z,

I am about to become a candidate to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church and have enjoyed reading your blog for a while now. I thought you might be glad to know that reading your blog helped me to complete a "quote-a-crostic" puzzle this morning! I’m sure you can make a comment about the expectations the editors of "Games" magazine have about their reader’s vocabulary level as opposed to some US bishops.

See the attached photo for the evidence.

Thanks for helping me learn about church history and tradition – not to mention intra-church politics,

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5 Comments

  1. Rachel says:
    12 September 2009 at 10:48 PM

    I like it!

    I knew the word from a hymn:

    Crown Him the Lord of years
    The potentate of Time
    Creator of the rolling spheres
    Ineffably sublime!

    Amen.

  2. wmeyer says:
    13 September 2009 at 12:22 PM

    I also found it yesterday in a Robert B. Parker novel. If it’s ok for detective novels, surely we can survive it in the Mass?

  3. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf says:
    13 September 2009 at 1:11 PM

    wmeyer: And you didn’t fall down and twitch in confusion?

  4. wmeyer says:
    13 September 2009 at 4:45 PM

    Not even, Father, not even.

    ;)

  5. wmeyer says:
    13 September 2009 at 4:51 PM

    …of course, neither did I cavil at its use, despite the example of some of our bishops, priests, and laity.

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