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When I was 7, my grandmother gave me boxed sets of LPs of plays of Shakespeare read by some of the world’s greatest classical actors of the time. I played those things until they were smooth. At first I didn’t understand well what was going on by I was mesmerized by the language. After a while, I got it. This opened up for me all manner of language pathways and imagery. Now I read this, from Epoch. This is very cool. More HERE
Meanwhile, a story about how the Vatican is “on the verge of bankruptcy” and is struggling to pay employee pensions. HERE I’m reminded of Margaret Thatcher’s wisdom about Socialism and money. Perhaps were a little more sanity to come out of Rome, people would give again. Just an idea.
A story about the ecclesiastical tailor shop in Rome, Gammarelli, which will prepare gear for some of the new Cardinals named in the upcoming consistory. HERE
At Stream a piece by William Kilpatrick about the open letter Bp. Strickland sent to the US Bishop when they were meeting in Baltimore. Strickland accused the bishops of silence the face of heresy. The results from the bishops: crickets. Is this “The Spartacus Strategy”? HERE
In chessy news… HERE
Black to move and mate in 4.
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Black to move and mate in 4.
[NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.]
As I make this, I am watching the end of the Ding v. Gukesh Game 8. The tension is killing me. It isn’t over (in the video).
The video on Gammarelli reminds me how beautiful, majestic, and sublime the Holy Roman Catholic Church really is.
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I pray that the new Cardinals will be just as willing to shed their scarlet blood for their beautiful and majestic Lord. What an honour to be elevated to such a sacred College; what a graced honour to walk in those martyrial shoes! A grace and honour bestowed upon men ‘on whom angels desire to look’ – 1 Peter 1:12.
Qf1+, Kh2
Qg1+. Kh3
Qh1+, Kg4
Qxg2#
I am, perhaps, treading dangerously close to pride here, but I was quite happy to find that I knew EXACTLY where that picture was taken. It was the titular church of my patron saint, which seems a strange place to put a Jesuit.
Yes, it was the Title of St. Robert Bellarmine. However, as you know, there are two kinds of Jesuits and St. Robert was one of them.
It was also the Title of St. Charles Borromeo!
1. Qf1+ Kh2
2. Qg1+ Kh3
3. Qh1+ Kg4
4. Qxg2#
We started our kids in Latin in the first grade for similar reasons to Fitzgerald’s reasons for starting kids in Shakespeare.
I know too little about the various troupes of boy actors in 16th-17th-c. England – but think most corresponded to choir boys – whose voices were still high, so probably many starting at seven years old – and the Wikipedia “Boy player” article says they were “educated in the trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric), and sometimes fluent in Latin”- citing Harold Newcomb Hillebrand’s The Child Actors: A Chapter in Elizabethan Stage History (1926), and see there is a scan of the 1964 reissue of it among ‘Texts to Borrow’ in the Internet Archive.
I’ve been struck by how easily children seem to memorize the Latin of the Ordinary of the Mass including Credos in the various versions, aided by the music.
I wonder how early children started acting Latin plays, in days gone by?