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“Given that Rorate Coeli and Shea are mad at Fr. Z, I think it proves Fr. Z knows what he is doing and he is right.”
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"A cross between Kung Fu Panda and Wolverine."
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Fr. Z is officially a hybrid of Gandalf and Obi-Wan XD
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Rev. John Zuhlsdorf, a scrappy blogger popular with the Catholic right.
- America Magazine
RC integralist who prays like an evangelical fundamentalist.
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[T]he even more mainline Catholic Fr. Z. blog.
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Deus Ex Machina
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"Fr. Z's is one of the more cheerful blogs out there and he is careful about keeping the crazies out of his commboxes"
- Paul in comment at
1 Peter 5
"I am a Roman Catholic, in no small part, because of your blog.
I am a TLM-going Catholic, in no small part, because of your blog.
And I am in a state of grace today, in no small part, because of your blog."
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"Thank you for the delightful and edifying omnibus that is your blog."-
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I remember that Fr. Z when some had the spittle flecked nutty in the combox and they were summarily deleted, lol…
Thanks for reposting and rethanks for the lovely recitation. I am going to grab my trusty Norton anthology so that I might follow along. I originally read this with a fantastic professor at my college who was in his youth a Shakespearean actor. In class he would frequently recite for us, from memory, in such a manner as to make me weep and not only a couple occasions. I took as many classes as I possibly could from that one.
….. but we pretty much ignored or deleted them.
I wonder what sort of deletion …….. Father Z as hit man?
Having a cold snap for a few days in the UK here, and as I went out to let out my ducks and feed them, the lines of Rossetti were running through my head…”water like a stone”, as I tried to smash the ice on their duckpond. Ducks are ridiculously cheerful in weather that leaves the rest of us climbing over our grandmothers to get back into the warm.
Hope your ear and general health are better, Father.
My goodness, Father.
Is it this day again already?
“We are still within the Christmas cycle until Candlemas.” Yes!!
You have such a lovely voice, Father.
Honestly, there were several words I need to look up in the dictionary.
Thanks for the re-podcast of this wonderful poem – you have an excellent reading voice, with just the right amount of emphasis without intruding on the text too much!
(and three cheers for the mention of Trollope, one of my favorite writers)
A couple of sidelights that might be of interest —
Rudyard Kipling wrote an *amazing* short story about “The Eve of St. Agnes” – drawing on Keats, pharmacy, and amateur radio. Even if you don’t like Kipling it’s a great read: Wireless (his comments on “unclean as we count uncleanliness” are very astute).
“In the bleak midwinter” by Christina Rosetti (a far better poet than her brother was a painter) was also set by “Peter Warlock” (Philip Heseltine – who had silly Wiccan pretensions but still composed a lovely setting).