tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4680215428133584876..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Two DimboesFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-44448708933383956302020-04-19T13:11:23.769+01:002020-04-19T13:11:23.769+01:00A celebrated French journalist, Robert Serrou, who...A celebrated French journalist, Robert Serrou, who was a devout Catholic was infuriated to read the following in one of his articles regarding the death of the Cure of Ars. Instead of printing 'epuise par les jeunes (with a circumflex) et par les veilles, il a rendu l'ame' (he died exhausted by fasting and all-night vigils) his newspaper had printed 'epuise par les jeunes (Pelerinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242844701379703515noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-81193019453441909782020-04-19T12:11:45.490+01:002020-04-19T12:11:45.490+01:00Another version of the Gell-Mann effect from a fri...Another version of the Gell-Mann effect from a friend who was a civil servant: if the 0.01 per cent of public affairs of which I have direct personal knowledge is so hopelessly misreported in the media, what does that say about the other 99.99 per cent?PMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06144651697262763099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-48696700013200026262020-04-18T17:43:18.729+01:002020-04-18T17:43:18.729+01:00The Yeats poem was so much anthologised that the a...The Yeats poem was so much anthologised that the author got fed up with it. It is an early work and most of his best work was much later.Stephen Barberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10035020087162868502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-733977400215527582020-04-17T22:37:56.684+01:002020-04-17T22:37:56.684+01:00If you think that calling Holy Saturday "East...If you think that calling Holy Saturday "Easter Saturday" is bad … our local GP practice sent out a text last week advising that, due to Coronavirus, the practice would be open on "Easter Friday". Further investigation, of course, established that this actually meant the Friday before. Have things really got so bad that the term "Good Friday" is unknown to many Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16010105719301587195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-82627536815002608552020-04-17T21:43:48.273+01:002020-04-17T21:43:48.273+01:00I recall visiting this NG exhibition and being rep...I recall visiting this NG exhibition and being repeatedly surprised by the depth of ignorance in the description cards and the commentary sheets accompanying the exhibit. Despite the excellence of the exhibit items and their display, the descriptions became so annoying that I had to stop reading them to finish. At my age I thought I had become inured to the ignorance of modern art historians Stan Methenyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05988769485920452276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-56188151799441083612020-04-17T20:51:43.477+01:002020-04-17T20:51:43.477+01:00Its the same kind of thing when you go to a funera...Its the same kind of thing when you go to a funeral, and the priest extolls the religious virtue of the deceased, and recalls important parts of the deceased person's life, and goes on to illustrate the modern ritual of baptism, or the current form of the mass. Yet the deceased is over 70 years old. Sometimes, I really want to interrupt and ask if it is really likely that he stood at the armyartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00621738173563972139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-16086122364719390572020-04-17T20:31:31.541+01:002020-04-17T20:31:31.541+01:00I suspect that the ignorance achieved by both indi...I suspect that the ignorance achieved by both individuals here has been achieved with great effort. Patriciushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08906131174326742939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-21522076542699521342020-04-17T20:19:01.880+01:002020-04-17T20:19:01.880+01:00I doubt that I would ever have read about the '...I doubt that I would ever have read about the 'Gell-Mann effect' were it not for Michael Crichton: <i>requiescat in pace.</i><br /><br />I know a Soledad, and am afraid I never made the connection between the name and the cult of Our Lady. <br /><br />I wondered how the feast ("in Spanish-speaking countries") made it's way to December 18 but the Spanish language Wikipedia Marc in Eugenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04331547981498637474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-4712102397904820742020-04-17T19:33:12.742+01:002020-04-17T19:33:12.742+01:00Dear Father, Press illiteracy extends into the rel...Dear Father, Press illiteracy extends into the religious newspapers too, with vexing but amusing effect at times. I remember once reading an obituary in the Anglican 'Church Times'. The composer had evidently phoned the text in to the paper, and must have been answered by a little sixteen year old girl who knew nothing of the church. The composer had dictated, 'Fortified with Rites ofScribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04264379572686048595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-35545938731901877572020-04-17T19:21:34.911+01:002020-04-17T19:21:34.911+01:00
When the beeb want an economist to comment they f...<br />When the beeb want an economist to comment they frequently, from all the myriad around, choose a convicted criminal who just happens to be part of their set. And on the Sunday prog Catholics are only ever represented by liberal, even dissenting, tabletistasvetusta ecclesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09454059029260192711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-72803767129832750122020-04-17T18:49:04.929+01:002020-04-17T18:49:04.929+01:00Dear Mr Hibbins, by their fruits...Dear Mr Hibbins, by their fruits...Josephus Muris Saliensishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10888638147153175697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-16712849237930408652020-04-17T17:03:00.156+01:002020-04-17T17:03:00.156+01:00It is good for GOR to have reminded us of Our Lord...It is good for GOR to have reminded us of Our Lord's words, "Receive and eat." To think that English people were so dim as to speak of "taking communion" long before the 16th-Century "Reformation."William Tighehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09043433059401608468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-40243531850832408562020-04-17T16:55:50.190+01:002020-04-17T16:55:50.190+01:00GOR: There's an even greater howler -- to &quo...GOR: There's an even greater howler -- to "take Mass", meaning to receive Communion. I've even come across its use by a clergyman (Anglican).Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06908070025869221948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-38282557073595590852020-04-17T16:37:24.376+01:002020-04-17T16:37:24.376+01:00Yes, the materials accompanying religious art disp...Yes, the materials accompanying religious art displays in museums are always painfully bad. I recall an exhibit at the Met in New York some years back that included an array of old ciboria. They were labeled "cup with lid."Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01905201479928703850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-66728217308375580522020-04-17T16:17:48.389+01:002020-04-17T16:17:48.389+01:00For those who might also be puzzled by the referen...For those who might also be puzzled by the references to Innisfree, after digging through references to Korean cosmetics I finally realized it references a poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by W.B. Yeats concerning an island off the coast of Ireland where he spent his summers. Unfortunately the English teacher who taught poetry in our high school was more of a fan of Walt Whitman :( so John Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17352405449391514146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-22447756340774385002020-04-17T14:33:13.372+01:002020-04-17T14:33:13.372+01:00Dear Father, I don't think it's fair to la...Dear Father, I don't think it's fair to label Martha Kearney as a dimbo. She read Greats at St Anne's and would have been taught by the magnificent Margaret Hubbard.Neil Hibbinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12302371995448069132noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-61634861459972820752020-04-17T13:13:28.633+01:002020-04-17T13:13:28.633+01:00Yes Father, the illiteracy of the ‘literate’ chatt...Yes Father, the illiteracy of the ‘literate’ chattering classes is always annoying, if not comical on occasion. I find ‘going to church’ as grating as ‘taking communion’.<br /><br />We may visit a church but we ‘go to Mass’. And we <b>receive’</b> Holy Communion – not ‘take it’ like we ‘take’ cream or sugar in our tea.<br /><br />Oh well. “I will arise and go now - and go to Innisfree.” <br />GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-80932398742188243592020-04-17T11:50:36.061+01:002020-04-17T11:50:36.061+01:00It seems to me that "official" journalis...It seems to me that "official" journalism is mostly obsolete in the age of teh internet. <br /><br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br />“Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07358666316547259383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-57544922436484115722020-04-17T11:48:45.296+01:002020-04-17T11:48:45.296+01:00I went to the El Greco exhibition in 2004 at the N...I went to the El Greco exhibition in 2004 at the National Gallery; the chance to see nearly all the great works - The Resurrection; St Martin sharing his cloak; Toledo; The Cleansing of the Temple; El Espolio…. one cannot easily forget the expression of the Roman soldier in El Espolio. As I walked round, an elderly man just in front was saying to his wife ‘He was a limited artist’ (!) No one has Simon Cottonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00067246172213711263noreply@blogger.com