Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment
22 June 2024
My good people
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Wise people who frequent the exquisite little Penlee Gallery in Penzance will be familiar with one of its prize exhibits: The rain it raine...
29 May 2024
OAKAPPLE DAY .
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Today is not only the glorious Solemnity of Corpus Christi; it is also the Anniversary of the Restoration of our late Sovereign Lord King Ch...
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21 May 2024
Piddle Time ... who was born on May 21 1688?
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May 21 is the anniversay of my Ordination to the Sacred Diaconate in 1967, in the Cathedral Church of Christ in Oxford. And the Birthday of ...
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9 May 2024
DISIMPROVING HYMNS
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The text of the hymns in the post-conciliar breviary is a great deal better than in the 1962 breviary; many texts have been restored to what...
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8 May 2024
Drinking the Evil Spirits away
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The 747 Anglo-Saxon Council of Cloveshoe attempted to purify the Rogations from Vanitatibus and maioribus epulis . But a reading of Duffy [...
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7 May 2024
Rogations; and the Last Gospel
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Readers may recall that, during the Rogation processions, 'stations' were made at crosses. My own suspicion is that the stone cross...
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6 May 2024
ROGATIONS
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The three Rogation Days are upon us! Instituted in Gaul around 475 'to repel calamities'; to ask that God will ... in the words of C...
5 May 2024
QUICUNQUE VULT, &C. ...
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The Ordinariate uses the 'Athanasian Creed' on Ascension Day ... on Trinity Sunday ... S John Baptist ... This wonderful, luminous o...
4 May 2024
CROWBAR RAID ON CORNISH CHURCH
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Such was the headline in a London newspaper in 1932 . The account continued: "The beautiful reredos at the back of the Altar, designed...
3 May 2024
Guary
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As medieval Cornish parishioners attended their local Pleyn a Gwary , they saw at one end of the circular site an elevated strucure called t...
2 May 2024
Was Gueranger a Great Liturgist?
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Of course he was. Surely, one of the signs of a truly great Liturgist is his ability to think up a truly profound reason for a liturgical ph...
1 May 2024
Mary's Month of May, and Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
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"The happy birds Te Deum sing,/ 'Tis Mary's month of May;/ Her smile turns winter into spring,/ And darkness into day;/ And the...
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