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Tag Archives: Anthony Esolen
“All these teachings, then, are bound up in one body.” Check out this article by Anthony Esolen
There is a very good piece at The Catholic Thing by Anthony Esolen. Here is how it starts. This is my geopolitical fiction,” Jesus did not say, when He broke the bread at the Last Supper. “The group, though it … Read More
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The Coming Storm, The Drill, The future and our choices
Tagged Anthony Esolen
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“And I shall go in unto the altar of God.” A note from Anthony Esolen
The Catholic Thing is a daily stop for me. They usually post two items a day, both of quality and brevity. Today they have something by Anthony Esolen, worth reading no matter where he is found on the interwebs. His … Read More
The Beauty of Tradition
I warmly recommend that you savor a smartly written piece by Anthony Esolen at Crisis. It is a devastating critique of modernity’s moral vagueness. Some tastes… […] The vagueness is like a noxious spreading mist. When you don’t have a … Read More
“They must make the noise they can, because if they cease for a moment, we hear the calls of sanity and sweetness again…”.
A while back I wrote a review of Anthony Esolen’s fine book Nostalgia. HERE In it, I wrote: How often is the charge of “nostalgia” flung as a cliché into the teeth of those who desire, with their legitimate aspirations, the … Read More
Posted in Linking Back, Our Catholic Identity, Pò sì jiù, The future and our choices
Tagged Anthony Esolen, We Are Our Rites
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BOOK ALERT: Anthony Esolen – No Apologies: Why Civilization Depends on the Strength of Men
I am ready to read anything by Anthony Esolen, a writer who is both lyrical and whose head is firmly screwed on in the right direction. For those of you who are Dante virgins or noobs, his e translation of the … Read More
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, REVIEWS, The Drill
Tagged Anthony Esolen, masculinity
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ASK FATHER: Should displaced Catholics attend the Novus Ordo? Wherein Fr. Z rants.
I begin with his peroration… Perhaps the bishops are not thinking about the liturgy at all, but about the people – whose devotion they envy, and whose moral conservatism they detest. Is that it? Are they more to be punished … Read More
Super new book from Anthony Esolen: An Annotated Reading of the Prologue of John
When Anthony Esolen and Angelico Press team up… well… it just doesn’t get any better than that. I was really excited at the notification that Anthony Esolen (whose translation of the Divine Comedy is terrific) had written an in depth … Read More
Tinkering with hymns = avoidable disaster
My old pastor used to lament both the deeply awful translations of Scripture used at Mass and changes to standard, traditional hymns. As Christmas rolled around each year he would line both up and say, “Imagine singing, ‘Away In A … Read More
Posted in Liturgy Science Theatre 3000
Tagged Anthony Esolen, hymns, Lex Orandi Lex Credendi, tinkeritis
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Worthy reading. More Pachamama and more from Archbp. Viganò.
At the Pontifical Mass at the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception last week (HERE with VIDEO), you could tell that quite a few of the congregants were unfamiliar with the Traditional Mass by the fact that they sang the Pater … Read More
Posted in Hard-Identity Catholicism, Modern Martyrs, The Drill
Tagged Anthony Esolen, Fr. David Nix, Fulton J. Sheen, George Weigel
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“Sometimes you can benefit the Church just by ceasing to do something stupid.”
Eloquent Anthony Esolen uses the sharpie of his brain to underscore with slashing priority a point that would solve a lot of problems. HERE The issue he addresses is the appalling English translation used at Mass in the Novus Ordo. … Read More
