tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post8639528558440637253..comments2024-03-29T01:24:45.251+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: HOMER'S ILIAD BOOK 6 AND S AMBROSE: Episode 2Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-21760898678085591842022-12-18T00:37:37.336+00:002022-12-18T00:37:37.336+00:00Wonastow:
If you think that there was ever anythi...Wonastow:<br /><br />If you think that there was ever anything comic about the Woman at the Well, then I doubt your sanity.<br /><br />Your earlier suggestion that some non-believer should do a new translation of the New Testament already had me scratching my head.armyartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00621738173563972139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-25034277232553067212022-12-17T13:57:40.877+00:002022-12-17T13:57:40.877+00:00Grant, You need not wonder, as still in Coptic chu...Grant, You need not wonder, as still in Coptic churches women sit to the left (facing the altar) and men to the right. My former parish, St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church still held this iconographically as the icons of all the female saints were to the left. I had a student ask about this, and then she confessed that when in Egypt, at a Coptic parish, all the women sat on the left, the men onCyrilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10591428929267873727noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-48685742560581905412022-12-17T09:04:52.441+00:002022-12-17T09:04:52.441+00:00Of course, the R in WEIRD stands for Rich. Apologi...Of course, the R in WEIRD stands for Rich. Apologies for the omission.David J Critchleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04132772923931692971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-2998857162479780472022-12-16T19:49:07.412+00:002022-12-16T19:49:07.412+00:00armyarty - yes, John's comtemporary audience.
...armyarty - yes, John's comtemporary audience.<br /> <br />Why should the Word of God be received only in lugubrious silence? God gave us human emotions, and joy and laughter are among them. In His actions and teachings Jesus would have spoken in the idiom of His day. John's written Gospel must have been preceded by decades of oral delivery. How better to preach the message than withwonastowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11180184746864757704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-49537177581556258182022-12-16T16:36:48.985+00:002022-12-16T16:36:48.985+00:00Indeed, Father. Even psychologists have recently r...Indeed, Father. Even psychologists have recently realised that their studies have so far almost entirely concerned themselves with a group of humans who are WEIRD, western, educated, industrialised, and democratic, totally atypical of the human race. And, one might add, for the most part totally ignorant of how atypical they are. All the more reason for them to read Homer at school.David J Critchleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04132772923931692971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-48206635991022703352022-12-16T12:45:35.475+00:002022-12-16T12:45:35.475+00:00"A similar custom survived into mid-twentieth..."A similar custom survived into mid-twentieth century Ireland."<br /><br />In fact even to the mid-60s in some rural parishes. I was reminded of this when staying with friends in rural Limerick, being advised before Sunday Mass as to which side I should position myself.GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-68125379821005410172022-12-16T10:13:55.942+00:002022-12-16T10:13:55.942+00:00In Jakarta the front section of the expresses buse...In Jakarta the front section of the expresses buses is reserved for women.<br /><br />I walk past a moque and I see the men standing at the front, or kneeling on the carpet (no chairs here of course.) The women stand behind them, envelopped in shapeless garments that reveal only the face and hands. Then I go to our SSPX TLM, where men and women sit together on chairs, and the women wear clothes Grant Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381331872077276383noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-48030368937966346902022-12-16T05:15:44.743+00:002022-12-16T05:15:44.743+00:00Sorry, Wonastow, I cannot agree with you. John'...Sorry, Wonastow, I cannot agree with you. John's account WAS contemporary to the event, and there is nothing funny about it. It actually is, in a way "Jewish storytelling," but it is also of divine inspiration.<br /><br />Besides, Jews are not Greeks, and modern Jews bear no resemblance to the folks in the Bible.<br /><br />You have simply reduced a tremendously important and movingarmyartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00621738173563972139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-87638659109677001132022-12-15T18:02:56.440+00:002022-12-15T18:02:56.440+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.wonastowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11180184746864757704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-33366780946684701012022-12-15T15:02:57.492+00:002022-12-15T15:02:57.492+00:00"There are particular times when no man would..."There are particular times when no man would dream of going near the village fountain because that is when the women go there to collect water ... and to do womanbusiness with each other ... "<br /><br />Robert Alter points out in his excellent translation of the Old Testament (would that he do likewise with the New), the village well was also a trysting place and as such a trope (cf.wonastowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11180184746864757704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-29470476059358065252022-12-15T14:04:09.579+00:002022-12-15T14:04:09.579+00:00In Catholic Lithuania, until very recently ( about...In Catholic Lithuania, until very recently ( about ten, fifteen years ago), men and women sat/stood/knelt on the opposite of rhe church. In the 1990's i brought an italian priest friend to the Egzekvijos (exequies) to be chanted for the deceased of the local parish church of Griskabudis, Lithuania; he entered first to get a good place, but was quickly astonished when someone came to him and Albertushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18236817196746609901noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-7260357176350201282022-12-15T11:59:30.638+00:002022-12-15T11:59:30.638+00:00"Today the frontier of civil rights law is in..."Today the frontier of civil rights law is in forcing institutions to treat biological men as women if they identify as trans. It would be better if the momentum were in the other direction, not in forcing all-female spaces to admit biological men but in defending the right of single-sex institutions to exist at all. The relatively narrow range of spaces targeted by trans activists—bathroomsGrant Milburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11381331872077276383noreply@blogger.com