Tuesday, April 21, 2020

The Recipe for Medieval Blue Ink

Atlas Obscura: The Mystery of a Medieval Blue Ink Has Been Solved by Isaac Schultz
Turns out it was hiding in plain sight by the side of a Portuguese road.

The Centrality of the Resurrection

The Hymns of Easter (in the Roman Rite)



NLM

Thomistic Institute: Dr Andrew Willard Jones, "Before Church and State"

Integralism


Monday, April 20, 2020

English Translation of the Vermeule Interview in Le Grand Continent

MOJ: Common-Good Constitutionalism Interview (English Translation)

This is what happens when Catholic intellectuals don't critically examine their own starting premises. They need to be called out on it, even if it doesn't lead to their opening their minds, because the rhetoric isn't for their benefit but for the benefit of the uneducated who know they are not educated.

"The Angel Cried"

Praying in the Name of the Lord

All in Christ

Persona (Non)Grata? Orthodox Readings of Augustine Revisited, Fr. Robert Dodaro, OSA



Paul Airiau , "Louis Bouyer, du centre à la marge?"

A chapter from Liturgie et société, edited by Bruno Dumons, Vincent Petit, Christian Sorrel

El abrazo. La presentazione del libro di Mikel Azurmendi - Comunione e Liberazione

ХРИСТОС ВОСКРЕС / Christus resurrexit / Χριστός Ανέστη

A Retractable Icon Screen



OAJ

Sunday, April 19, 2020

Acoustical Considerations...



OAJ

"Weep Not for Me, O Mother"

An Interview with Adrian Vermeule

Le Grand Continent: Adrian Vermeule : « L’échelle géographique d’un programme de bien commun devra être celle de l’État administratif » (via MOJ)

Unfortunately it is available only for subscribers.

It is clear from the title though that he is a proponent of a centralized national government and a statist.

Jesse Billett: An Anglican Liturgist Reflects on Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Reunion





His presentation reminded me of the sad events of Church history. In the past some Latin polemicists have faulted the heresy, or laxity, or even their rebelliousness with respect to Rome of Eastern Christians for their being conquered by Muslims. What if the chastisement was not for these reasons but for failures in charity, first in the relations between the Byzantine Christians and the non-Chalcedonian Christians (or Orthodox)? And later, there were failures in charity by those ruling the Eastern Roman, or "Byzantine," Empire and possibly even those holding authority in the Byzantine churches...

What is Christianity?

An Icon of the Divine Mercy

Silverstream Priory has it on this page -- I don't think is an icon belonging to the community as the photo has been used elsewhere.