tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89403640934508375492024-03-18T20:38:41.886+00:00Fr Hunwicke's Mutual EnrichmentFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger4396125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-74622329800146909242024-03-18T10:25:00.003+00:002024-03-18T10:25:00.124+00:00Visiting women in their housesIn the Iliad, the epic account of the Wrath of Achilles during the Trojan War, there is a thought-provoking vignette juxtaposing Hector and Andromache, and Paris and Helen. The latter pair are corrupt adulterers whose passion has precipitated the War. We must remember that, in Classical Literature, sexual passion is regarded as a wound or madness which leads to disaster; the Romantic superstitionFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-65152414105042817482024-03-17T10:58:00.198+00:002024-03-17T10:58:00.133+00:00Imbolc; S Patrik; and S Bridgit (2) But ... one moment ... did I inform you that all the old chapels in Killarney Cathedral had been obliterated? That's not quite right: the Kenmare chapel still survives. And in it is anothe brass which the erudite and affable Fr Bertram, indefatigable antiquarian, might have wished to record. It shows a gentleman in the robes and wearing the coronet of an earl.When the military Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-5238547544162604252024-03-16T10:35:00.004+00:002024-03-16T10:35:00.130+00:00Saint Patrick and ... um ... Imbolc ... (1) Dunno ... does the Sacred Congregation of whatever still allow the Irish to celebrate S Patrick in preference to a Sunday in Lent/Passiontide?Might you wish to put up a prayer to S Patrick in the most wonderful church ever built in his honour ... Pugin's masterpiece, the Catholic Cathedral at Killarney? That is a laudable desire, but ... well ... permit me to go off on a momentary Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-62714509321571521832024-03-15T10:02:00.004+00:002024-03-15T10:02:00.128+00:00Loss and Gain"Soon he came in sight of a tall wooden Cross, which in better days, had been a religious emblem, but had served in latter times to mark the boundary between two contiguous parishes. The moon was behind him, and the sacred symbol rose awfully in the pale sky, overhanging a pool, which was still venerated in the neighbourhood for it its reported miraculous virtue. Charles, to his surprise, saw Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-75681626216317923512024-03-14T10:15:00.001+00:002024-03-14T10:15:00.131+00:00Farewell to Lady Raglan (3) It is hardly surprising that Lady Raglan has been deemed the Inventrix of the Green Man, since she herself wrote that, as she looked at the carving in Llangwm church in Monmouthshire, the suggestion was made to her that the Green Man was intended to symbolise the spirit of inspriration. "But it seemed to me certain that it was a man and not a spirit, and moreover that it was a 'Green Man' .Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-32871034601536599002024-03-13T10:48:00.003+00:002024-03-13T10:48:00.267+00:00The Green Man (2) Julia Hamilton-Udny, daughter of Robert 11th Lord Belhaven, married Fitzroy Richard Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan. He was an atheist and a humanist and an anthropologist; he was a member of the All-Party Humanist Group at Westminster, and a prominent member of the British Humanist Association.It is commonly said that Lady Raglan invented the term 'Green Man' and the mythology surrounding this Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-66551112030271721662024-03-12T10:33:00.003+00:002024-03-12T10:33:00.147+00:00Th Green Man (1)In church buildings all over the Three Kingdoms, one can find carvings, in stone or wood, of the Green Man. He is a grotesque figure, usually showing just a rather unhappy (or hostile) head and face, with foliage emerging from its orifices. This is a relic of the pre-Christian fertility cults which, after a long battle with the increasingly dominant and intolerant Christian Religion, finallyFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-39375069767433921302024-03-11T10:29:00.000+00:002024-03-11T10:29:00.138+00:00QUATENUS I have noticed a grammatical construction which I can thus describe: you have an ut-clause; and dependant upon that clause you have another subordinate clause which might reasonably begin with another ut. In these circumstances, the second potential ut may be replaced by quatenus.Here is a liturgical example: "Deprecantes, ut beatus confessor Birinus ... nobis obtineat, quatenus ipsius Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-21688366726443618322024-03-10T10:15:00.000+00:002024-03-10T10:15:18.152+00:00Mothering mothering mothering mothering ... but never a word about ... Endless, endless stuff on the wireless this morning about Mothering Sunday or "Mothers' Day". But I didn't hear a word about the biblical basis of today's observance.Every three years, during what the Informed so wisely call YEAR C, Novus Ordo worshippers are graciously allowed to hear selected, safe extracts from S Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. But, poor vulnerable poppets, they are Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-62010277977243780572024-03-09T10:05:00.005+00:002024-03-09T10:05:00.142+00:00Now what about this ... ... the early records of the See of Exeter tell us that the episcopium was moved from the villula of Crediton to the civitas of Exeter because the former had so very often (saepius) been devastated (devastari ... notice the intensitive de-) by the Infestation of Pirates.I wonder what pirates meant in the middle of the eleventh century. Did it refer to the raiders from the North;Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-35022507876075955062024-03-08T10:29:00.000+00:002024-03-08T10:29:00.134+00:00Don't skip the opening pages I learned quite a time ago the importance of looking through the stuff at the beginning of liturgical books.I was fortunate enough to have come into possession of the (the Henry Bradshaw edition of) the Ordinale Exoniense, all four volumes by Bishop John Grandisson ('grauns'n'); gracious me, what a workoholic micromanager the dear old fellow was. By chance, my eye fell upon mid-August. Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-87602688657946149892024-03-07T10:37:00.002+00:002024-03-07T10:37:00.129+00:00Homosexualism A little while ago, the Book Review section of The Times carried a review of a new book on homosexuality. The Reviewer was Diarmaid MacCulloch.I don't know much about this "AI" business, but it seems to me that a Machine properly programmed would give you, if you typed in 'MacCulloch', exactly what this review says. All our dear old friends, now elderly chestnuts, are here ... "testy Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-90064542261976560562024-03-06T10:28:00.000+00:002024-03-06T10:28:00.126+00:00St. Saviour's College Dr Newman informs us that Mr Charles Reding was destined to learn Anglicanism at Oxford; and so "to that celebrated seat of learning he was in due time transferred, being entered at St. Saviour's College."Recently I spotted, in something I was (er) reading, that "St. Saviour seems to have been the medieval form of Christ Church, and though there are medieval precedents for Christ Church andFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-17800249044382765472024-03-05T10:47:00.004+00:002024-03-05T10:47:00.128+00:00Wandregesilius ..."Wandregesilius was Abbot of Fontenelle, near Rouen, and how he came to be commemorated at Bixley [in Norfolk] is something of a puzzle."Well, I thought that was quite funny. Sorry if you didn't. More below.Skip the next paragraph if you know all this about Church Dedications (Medieval; England) already.The ruptures of the 'reformation' period meant that, very often, accurate information about Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-65145789271521473832024-03-04T10:19:00.002+00:002024-03-04T10:19:00.134+00:00My final few thoughts on FIDELIA SUPPLICIAAs I understand it, the heart of the new Bergoglian dogmas concerning blessings is something like this: A Blessing is a pure act of divine benevolence and does not imply that the Almighty, or the person receiving the Blessing, sees it as a formal legitimation of the status, actions, or entire mode of life of the one blessed.So let us consider X, who is planning a genocidal expedition to Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-65976779219411584842024-03-03T10:29:00.000+00:002024-03-03T10:29:00.137+00:00MEA MAXIMA CULPAIn an idle moment, I thought I would just check.Let me explain. When the CDF authorised those 'new' Prefaces three or four years ago, I decided to give the Preface for Martyrs a bit of a whirl, it being of respectable, ancient, origin ('Leonine Sacramentary' alias Verona Sacramentary, circa 600). So I typed it neatly out and gummed it in. There ought to be a special prayer for performing Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-71367794364457888922024-03-02T10:06:00.174+00:002024-03-02T10:06:00.129+00:00When is a Bishop not a Bishop? When is a Double of the First Class (with First Vespers and Octave) not even any sort of Feast Day? Looking at a 'new' Calendar is a bit like looking over a 'wreckovated' church. So, I warn you that, today, don't try to find S Chad on modern English Catholic Calendars. He has been amalgamated with his brother S Cedd and, combined, they occupy 26 October. The reason for this is the Conciliar superstition that no Saint ... well, perhaps just the weightiest Saints of all ... should be Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-45182256785338929982024-03-01T10:04:00.117+00:002024-03-01T10:04:00.132+00:00Two points about Fiducia Supplicans (1) TRUTH This document begins with what a loyal Catholic might call a suggestio falsi, but a non-Catholic would identify as a couple of lies.This Pontiff writes that the Lord "is a blessing for all humanity, a blessing that has saved us all, and he is the Eternal Word with whom the Father blessed us while we were still sinners (Romans 5: 8)". The word 'blessing' and its cognates,Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-9584950730441776932024-02-29T10:33:00.000+00:002024-02-29T10:33:00.130+00:00Deus misereatur again Dr R F Littledale, the continuator of John Mason Neale's four-volume commentary on the (Coverdale) psalter, had a bit of a temptation to want to educate the (Anglican) clergy. So, in this psalm, he likes the idea that in verse 6 (where the correct and LXX/Vulgate reading is The earth hath brought forth her fruit), earth refers to our most blessed Lady; and he quotes (Octoechus) anerotos Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-30323982970015049452024-02-28T10:59:00.000+00:002024-02-28T10:59:00.124+00:00Prayer Book Piety (1) " ... going to church was a pleasure to her. She liked to hear the Lessons and the Collects, coming round year after year, and marking the seasons. The historical books and prophets in summer; then the 'stir-up' collect just before Advent; the beautiful collects in Advent itself, with the Lessons from Isaiah reaching on through the Epiphany; they were quite music to her ear. Then the PsalmsFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15461389375474735772024-02-27T10:33:00.000+00:002024-02-27T10:33:00.135+00:00Fr Adrian Fortescue again " ... even in religious matters the Pope is bound, very considerably, by the Divine constitution of the Church. There are any number of things that the Pope cannot do in religion. He cannot modify, nor touch in any way, one single point of the revelation Christ gave to the Church; his business is only to guard this against attack and false interpretation. We believe that God will so guide Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-65303868425583080612024-02-26T10:10:00.043+00:002024-02-26T10:10:00.250+00:00Thou shalt not pray for the pope ... nor for the Bishops ... Is today, February 26, the Feast of an Apostle? No; S Matthias was on the 24th. BUT this is a leap year ... so the Apostle should be observed on the correct number of days before the Kalends of February. BUT more: that would get him onto a Sunday in Lent, which would be very wicked indeed. So he gets transferred onto Monday the 26th of February.I love these Feasts of the Apostles. But, on Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-85995377239705971002024-02-25T10:46:00.089+00:002024-02-25T10:46:00.249+00:00Fiducia Supplicans I think a change has been made in the way documents of the Dicastery for the Doctine of the Faith are presented. And not a change for the better.In the old days, these documents concluded with a statement that the Roman Pontiff had agreed the document, and ordered it to be be published. But, in the case of Fiducia Supplicans, this is replaced by the words Responsum ad 'dubium'de Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-64198700727471699572024-02-24T10:32:00.049+00:002024-02-24T10:32:00.136+00:00The Fifteenth Mystery of the Holy RosaryNo ... this is not yet another article advising folk to say the Rosary differently. It is not even a commendation of Different Mysteries which I will urge people to adopt ... since the Rosary, as the Lay Person's Psalter, should have 150 Aves ... no more; no less ...to represent the 150 psalms of the psalter. (So I was a little disquieted when S John Paul II added some more.)No; I wish simply to Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-9879503603250937432024-02-23T10:25:00.000+00:002024-02-23T10:25:00.380+00:00Today, I filch ... ... some very important information from Michael Hodges's magnificent recently published The Golden Legend. It relates to the Norfolk Saint Walstane, born of local royal stock. He died in 1016, and was buried at Bawburgh. Miracles led to him becoming a ...Saint 'by acclamation',John Bale, an unfriendly 'reformer', wrote: " ... both Men and Beastes which had lost their Privy Parts had Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.com4