deflatermaus.bsky.social
PhD candidate & book historian studying text, memory, & heritage @Rutgers. š. Interests include Chinese history, East Asian languages, religious and theological book & print culture. Episcopal layman. Ritualist āin the modern sense of the word.ā
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Thank god we have AI working with the brightest minds of the right wing mediasphere
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Oohh, good to know.
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Brilliant, thanks so much!
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very nice! Thank you! I might not be able to get up to Belfast but will certainly try. I'll be down in Dublin and Galway for certain.
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Although he steadfastly defended the English church's position, he remained a Roman Catholic and, despite an excommunication, presented himself at the chapels in London to hear Mass every Sunday - always passed over at communion. This book has notes throughout, but sadly the bookplate is long gone.
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Le Courayer took aim at the major Catholic objections to English orders, especially the so-called "Nag's Head Fable" of the ordination of Archbishop Matthew Parker and accusations of defections of intent in the Ordinal.
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Le Courayer was invited to England by Bishop Atterbury, and became a minor celebrity. He remained in England for the rest of his life and wrote & translated several more books. The Dictionary of National Biography notes that his book was "badly translated" by Daniel Williams, an English priest.
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In college I worked in the same office as Thomasās son (now also sadly deceased) and he brought in snapshot of his dad with guys like Ho and Vo Nguyen Giap from the 40s - and the 90s, when his dad visited after the thaw!
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an 18th century Dominican has a low view of protestant orders you say? why, monsieur, tell me more
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Thais talk to each other about bowel movements with such ease and frequency that it is considered completely acceptable to beg off an event because you have diarrhea
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sparse dirts, an old fashioned term we used to have, we had this beautiful word, 'sparse dirts' and now it's gone. Everyone says rare earths. I'm using the word again. When you buy lanthanum, when you buy samarium, that's sparse dirts.
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"sparse dirt" not quite as poetic
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Whoa whoa easy there Prince Kropotkin
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seems like it worked for Coleridge though
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Canāt remember if youāve told me this before but does your mom also speak any dialects? I canāt find this exact phrase in Mandarin sources but it could be a dialect phrase because of the connection with the fire of Pentecost?
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I think Babel is a caution for human arrogance and self-regard - God humbles our own attempts to reach him through mundane means. Pentecost reminds us that all good things come from God, who wants us to be filled with His Spirit, not striving after vain things. Two sides of the same coin!
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the children yearn for the bogs
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honestly a bewildering series of images
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no elections till the fall, AFAIK - three months.
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I have not but will do so!
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Iām thinking of é»ä¹é
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Boy! Alluring Fox BOY! Pu Songling was pretty clear about that part!
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if your didactic paradigm is based on mastery of classical allusion and reference to exemplars, but maybe your memory ain't so great...
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If I were a priest my MO would be three services a day on a red letter day. Morning, noon, and evening. If no one showed for Eucharist, service becomes a vested Daily Office. The website would say āall feast days observed at X timesā or some such! Itās easy!
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He also says "It should be clear to all, then, that God cannot be honored worthily unless the mind and heart turn to Him in quest of the perfect life, and that the worship rendered to God by the Church in union with her divine Head is the most efficacious means of achieving sanctity." Hard to argue!
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more seriously, what liturgy is for is key. Personal fulfillment, vague social need - or, as Pius XII quotes Augustine, "that we may use these external signs to keep us alert, learn from them what distance we have come along the road, and by them be heartened to go on further with more eager step"
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maybe Pope Pius XII was onto something in Mediator Dei. Who can say??
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I've read some pretty far-out tracts from groups like the Alcuin Club about experimental liturgies and a lot of them deep down seemed more about the fear of worship ceasing to be relevant due to cultural change than anything to do with what worship is for in the first place.
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There is one of those in my hometown called āUN1ONā
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Oh, interesting - I thought a kind of signature flourish at first. But thereās already that slightly effaced one below Hanns Fischerās stamp!
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I thought perhaps an abbreviation of Latin for Livonia or Lithuania, given the surname?
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@svanimpe.bsky.social suggested āpraeceptorā but prepositus also fits!