These search terms are a useful indicator of what readers are interested in. From yesterday, six combinations of my surname and various permutations of “sun” and “orb” were obviously intended to find this blog by those who didn’t have the site address.

Some are keeping an eye open about what I say about the Union of Scranton in Europe: the union of scranton in france, jean bernard de cazenave which is the name of a priest here in France under Bishop Flemestad.

A couple are from people interested in sailing: mirror dinghy drawing, aigle glenan which shows confusion between the Dufour 34 on which I crewed last year at a regatta and the famous sailing school where I went on a course back in 2009, “on the weather beam” which would refer to someone’s recollection of a humorous posting I wrote about the cardinal buoy at Paluel nuclear power station.

I am known to be familiar with the subject of independent sacramental churches. Some look for Archbishop Jerome Lloyd of the Old Roman Catholic Church in Europe who has his own blog. Others look for Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục, an exiled Vietnamese RC prelate who consecrated a number of independent bishops, notably for the sedevacantists.

english movement towards full union with catholic church seems to fall into a class of its own, and has not been a particular concern for me.

Those interested in “tat” look for the warham surplice or the anglican surplice. They obviously recollect my posting on Anglican choir dress after a request from someone asking me to suggest that Anglican clergy should wear English choir dress rather than the Italian baroque style.

The obvious one is john hepworth.

There has been one search for each of the following:

• “the heart of the teaching on the liturgy in the conciliar constitution is also the heart of dom casel’s teaching”
• dogmatic traditionalism
• spiritual
• father scott hurd
• perfectly possessed
• does a priest say mass on vacation

I suggest reading Sacrosanctum Concilium, in which some lovely theology of the liturgy and the Sacramental Mystery is explained.

As for “dogmatic” traditionalism, the term seems emotionally loaded. Dogma simply means teaching and is roughly a synonym for doctrine. It does not mean bullying or dominating. The idea of a “non-dogmatic” church is an oxymoron, since all churches teach something, even if they don’t agree on what they teach or believe. I supposed I’m old-fashioned and pedantic about my use of words according to their meanings. My Thomist training tends to place reason over emotion!

I never discuss Fr Scott Hurd or the Ordinariates.

Enough seems to have been said about priests saying Mass on holiday or in any private circumstances – just as long as it is dignified. Last August, I took a table top and a trestle set at the right height, and was able to say Mass in our tent. This simple arrangement made an altar which would have been little different from the way Scout and Army chaplains set up for Mass in the field.

I wrote a posting some time ago welcoming readers’ suggestions for posts. That invitation is still open.