tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post1516747433394783854..comments2024-03-28T14:19:53.973+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Bulbous-eyedFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-85959367623472417952023-02-20T08:43:35.555+00:002023-02-20T08:43:35.555+00:00That's 8 lines of tune for 6 lines of words pe...That's 8 lines of tune for 6 lines of words per verse.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15967143115506520306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-12958096808842134202023-02-20T08:28:48.798+00:002023-02-20T08:28:48.798+00:00Wouldn't Beethoven's Hymn To Joy be a suit...Wouldn't Beethoven's Hymn To Joy be a suitable tune?Richard Chonakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02327763839418228519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-48286830595881086862023-02-06T13:59:06.189+00:002023-02-06T13:59:06.189+00:00Certainly Lewis' opening line suggests "L...Certainly Lewis' opening line suggests "Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us". But there may also be an allusion to the 15th-century hymn, "Ierusalem luminosa", translated by JM Neale as "Light's abode, celestial Salem". Both EH and A&M have excerpted six stanzas from that much longer hymn for All Saints Day. <br /><br />Like Lewis' Sacred Lyric, the frjustinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10109539584303934489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-91061259012658414902023-02-06T11:39:40.830+00:002023-02-06T11:39:40.830+00:00Yes, Mannheim 'Altered from Chorale by F. Flit...Yes, Mannheim 'Altered from Chorale by F. Flitz (1804-76)', 426 in the good old EH wherein there is no trace of Drake's Broughton which appears to have been written by Elgar and which surely has a different metre.Expeditushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13425085467560855359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-34694524948066969262023-02-06T10:12:02.036+00:002023-02-06T10:12:02.036+00:00Such a great sadness, a loss to the world, that C ...Such a great sadness, a loss to the world, that C S Lewis obstinately stuck to Anglicanism to the end. There can be little doubt that a cause for canonisation would be proposed had he converted. Such richness - a man whose writings are sought out daily by ordinary men and women for their accessible theology. And occasional humour, another mark of sanctity.Josephus Muris Saliensishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888638147153175697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-38573270812944680222023-02-06T09:28:24.983+00:002023-02-06T09:28:24.983+00:00Many thanks to Father and the above contributors f...Many thanks to Father and the above contributors for enormously brightening my Monday morning. Could this be a practical example of evolutionary improvement?Bill Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06490443795561210965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-61823013414986816452023-02-06T06:27:22.323+00:002023-02-06T06:27:22.323+00:00Sung to Mannheim, surely? The first line and the i...Sung to Mannheim, surely? The first line and the internal rhyme in the fifth of each stanza point to "Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us" as the model.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15967143115506520306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-21632919551279389202023-02-06T05:49:13.758+00:002023-02-06T05:49:13.758+00:00'Ask not if it’s god or devil,
Brethren, lest ...<br /><br />'Ask not if it’s god or devil,<br />Brethren, lest your words imply<br />Static norms of good and evil<br />(As in Plato) throned on high;<br />Such scholastic, inelastic,<br />Abstract yardsticks we deny.'<br /><br />Lewis anticipated present-day synodality-speak perfectly. <br />PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-49366031436609359082023-02-05T22:48:03.183+00:002023-02-05T22:48:03.183+00:00Bulbous-eyed or square of stern, in my poor Latin ... Bulbous-eyed or square of stern, in my poor Latin -<br /><br />"to whatever variation ..." [mutatio]<br /><br />oculis proptosibus<br /><br />an clunibus tetragonis<br /><br />[parce nobis Domine!]wonastowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11180184746864757704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-86943246240227790562023-02-05T21:44:24.694+00:002023-02-05T21:44:24.694+00:00Tune Mannheim, surely?
PatriciusTune Mannheim, surely?<br /><br />PatriciusAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17326301902206007593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-12687884120391487302023-02-05T20:59:04.428+00:002023-02-05T20:59:04.428+00:00Because of its lively upward movement, it may also...Because of its lively upward movement, it may also be sung to REGENT SQUARE.frjustinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10109539584303934489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-91623790115284979702023-02-05T18:54:18.985+00:002023-02-05T18:54:18.985+00:00"Lead us, Evolution, lead us
Up the future’s ..."Lead us, Evolution, lead us<br />Up the future’s endless stair;<br />Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.<br />For stagnation is despair:<br />Groping, guessing, yet progressing,<br />Lead us nobody knows where.<br /> <br />Wrong or justice, joy or sorrow,<br />In the present what are they<br />while there’s always jam-tomorrow,<br />While we tread the onward way?<br />Never knowing where Willahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17374272000644968446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-9742533452315489152023-02-05T18:49:44.308+00:002023-02-05T18:49:44.308+00:00Lead us, Evolution, lead us
Up the future’s endles...Lead us, Evolution, lead us<br />Up the future’s endless stair;<br />Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.<br />For stagnation is despair:<br />Groping, guessing, yet progressing,<br />Lead us nobody knows where.<br /> <br />Wrong or justice, joy or sorrow,<br />In the present what are they<br />while there’s always jam-tomorrow,<br />While we tread the onward way?<br />Never knowing where we’re Josephus Muris Saliensishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888638147153175697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-88243234732721622712023-02-05T15:41:00.859+00:002023-02-05T15:41:00.859+00:00Evolutionary Hymn
Lead us, Evolution, lead us
Up t...<br />Evolutionary Hymn<br />Lead us, Evolution, lead us<br />Up the future’s endless stair;<br />Chop us, change us, prod us, weed us.<br />For stagnation is despair:<br />Groping, guessing, yet progressing,<br />Lead us nobody knows where.<br /> <br />Wrong or justice, joy or sorrow,<br />In the present what are they<br />while there’s always jam-tomorrow,<br />While we tread the onward way?<brSue Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05976537787708670241noreply@blogger.com