Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

The Sarum Missal, like our earlier Leofric Missal, labeled this day as In die Circumcisionis Domini , rather than calling it the actual Fea...

Well, I spent time today watching the goings-on in the House of Commons. Because we are a 'democracy', our current regime actually a...

Mike Sheil has triumphed gloriously!! See the thread. The inscription is a nice example of the collapse of Koine Greek in terms of spellings...

On Christmas Eve, the Beeb, with her reliable sense of what is singularly inappropriate, provided a programme before breakfast on "Assi...

After some of my recent philological excursions, learned readers pointed out to me that languages evolve and change. Indeed; I believe one o...

Is there still a present you need to send to a liturgically-minded friend or colleague? If so, I commend the book of this name (CSM), by R J...

Once upon a time, a thousand years ago in the great basilica of Blachernae in Constantinople, high up on the ceiling near the Altar, was an ...

"She wrapped Him in swaddling clothes" "I need not to tell you who this 'she' or who this 'Him'. The day ri...

I keep hearing such things as ... man datory pronounced man dat ory for midable pronounced for mid able. pas toral pronounced pas tor al.  a...

It seems to me that I am quite often expected to hold two contradictory views simultaneously. IN THE SECULAR WORLD A news bulletin not long ...

 ... I am now ... hereby ... closing down some trains of discussion on the threads.

Auctoritas, I believe, has more pull with a Traditional mind than mere Power. So I am going to ask: How can one apply the the principle of...