Monthly Archives: March 2013

Resurrexi

Resurrexi, et adhuc tecum sum, alleluia : posuisti super me manum tuam, alleluia : mirabilis facta est scientia tua, alleluia, alleluia. * * * Happy Easter, everyone!

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Evangelical Catholicism Revisited

A few days ago, I had my rant (Evangelical Catholicism and New Evangelism) about the kind of Christian evangelism that resembles modern business and marketing methods. Everywhere we turn, we find advertising (Wikipedia article that equates advertising as a kind of … Continue reading

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Sepulto Domino

The Easter Sepulcre * * * Estimatus sum  cum descendentibus in lacum. Factus sum sicut homo sine adjutorio, inter mortuos liber. ℣. Posuerunt me in lacu inferiori, in tenebrosis et in umbra mortis. ℟. Factus sum sicut homo sine adjutorio, … Continue reading

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Maundy Thursday Mass

Secular life is often parsimonious with the liturgy during the week. Here in France, school holidays no longer correspond with Easter but fixed dates in the spring time according to the region. Necessity brought me to celebrate the Maundy Thursday … Continue reading

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Evangelical Catholicism and New Evangelism

I’m someone who likes to use words well, and being a translator, I have developed a sense for using language accurately and rationally. Words sometimes conventionally have emotional meanings that can seriously mislead – but are a part of our … Continue reading

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Sarum Triduum

I publish this old posting I put on The Anglo-Catholic three years ago, just in case anyone is doing Sarum this year and needs information. * * * Here are some of Fr. Sean Finnegan’s posts from his blog, Valle … Continue reading

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Bishop Shane Janzen

HT to Fr Smuts. I hereby convey my congratulations to the new Bishop for Canada and my prayers. * * * The Anglican Catholic Chronicle – ACCC Newsletter (April 2013) The Anglican Catholic Chronicle newsletter of the Anglican Catholic Church of … Continue reading

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Judas

I have rarely seen religious sculpture that expresses very much, but this one in amazing. With a HT to Rorate Caeli, I reproduce Antonio Castillo Lastrucci’s El beso de Judas. The expressions are amazing. The face of Judas is bestial … Continue reading

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The Easter Sepulcre

The Easter Sepulcre Ceremony This valuable page needs to be seen. The Easter Sepulcre in the Sarum Use and other medieval rites is not the same thing as the Altar of Repose in the Roman rite. It is unclear in … Continue reading

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Washing of the Altar on Maundy Thursday

In the Use of Sarum, after the stripping of the altar on Maundy Thursday, we wash the altars with wine and water. There is an old article on this subject by Shawn Tribe in The New Liturgical Movement, which I reproduce … Continue reading

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