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Category Archives: Lighter fare
The Ascension and Feet
There are many images of the Lord’s Ascension to heaven. The one’s I like the most are the medieval depictions which show the Apostles and Mary looking up and all you see above are a pair of lordly Feet. UPDATE: … Read More
A new batch
I have ticked a few things off my To Do List for the day and can now settle down to read a bit. I need, inter alia, to make some more notes about Augustine’s commentary on 1 John, which we … Read More
Posted in Lighter fare, Preserved Killick, Puir Slow-Witted Gowk
Tagged mystic monk, Penjing, Preserved Killick, tea
7 Comments
7 Comments
WDTPRS is (mostly) a Kumbaya Free Zone
From the great Laudator: Perhaps the song Kumbaya is not really an African-American spiritual dating from the 1930s, but rather a vestige of an ancient Greek skolion, a drinking song. Could kumbaya be a corruption of the plural of Greek … Read More
Just say no to liturgical dance
With a tip of the biretta o{]:¬) to Patrick Madrid, I share this from Stephen Colbert, as an exemplification of just how ridiculous liturgical dance really is. Not “can be”… is. [wp_youtube]oASYa-Wkroc[/wp_youtube]
Posted in Lighter fare, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged liturgical dance, Stephen Colbert
47 Comments
47 Comments
Teas in the afternoon
It was a tea day, with an equivocation. First, I shifted a Fukien Tea I picked up for a song at, of all places Sam’s Club, into a bonsai tray sent by a reader here some time ago, chosen from … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged bonsai, Chinese elm, fukien tea tree, Japanese Maple, PENJING REPORT, Penzai, tea
11 Comments
11 Comments
Shakespeare: Catholic
When I was seven, I discovered Shakespeare. Ever since his works have never been far from my reach. In my seventh year I was given sets of LP records with some of the greatest actors in the world reading the … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool, Lighter fare, The Drill
Tagged Archbp. Rowan Williams, Clare Asquith, Joseph Pearce, Shakespeare, Simon Russell Beale
16 Comments
16 Comments
An ineffable anecdote
During the preparation of the new translation, some defenders of the old way of doing things, the so-called “dynamic equivalence” method of translation, carped about the new goal of greater accuracy would be tooo haard for people in the pews. … Read More
The lighter side of cruelty to animals.
We need something a little lighter right now. And since I am angry at a dog at the moment … more the dog’s owner… here. Try this. If you don’t laugh, you’re…. you’re… a Fishwrap subscriber. [wp_youtube]nGeKSiCQkPw[/wp_youtube] I’ll bet you … Read More
True ecumenical gesture: Catholics, Orthodox together give Pope new Papal Tiara – WDTPRS POLL
UPDATE 26 May 0305 GMT: From a reader: Seeing today’s post on the new tiara made me remember that there is a list in the papal Caeremoniale Romanum of the days, other than the Pope’s coronation, when the tiara is … Read More
Rapture Revision Release
Our California preacher has admitted that he screwed up his calculations. Imagine! Now that he has some more time on his hands, he has revised and extended. 21 October 2011.
