Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment

 I have noticed a grammatical construction which I can thus describe: you have an ut -clause; and dependant upon that clause you have anoth...

So, at what point, would a medieval Englishman feel that his Easter was really starting?  The ceremonies of Holy Week have left his parish c...

... in the interest of good and harmonious 'community relations' ... ... how about the following:.  Moslems fast; in fact, their cus...

Well; youve guessed. My own personal, private Maria Consolata devotion this Easter Evening will be the section of the Exsultet about the Be...

 At Easter, on the morning of the First Day of the week, God said once again: "Let there be light". The night on the Mount of Oliv...

ICEL: ... accept this candle, a solemn offering, the work of bees and of your servants' hands, an evening sacrifice of praise, this gift...

piaculi ... pio cruore is nice little Latin pun which won't go into English (?). patres nostros filios Israel educens de aegypto. I am g...

"We do not presume to come to this thy table (o mercifull lord) trusting in our owne righteousnes, but in thy manifold and great mercie...

I sometimes think that this is a profoundly Un Catholic question to ask.  Of course, as concerns the Consecrated Eucharistic Elements, the p...

 I think that I ... and perhaps, you ... am so habituated by, and to, modern customs, that we might not always realise that Receiving the Mo...

  (In a few remarks during Holy Week, I draw on information in the Commentary on the 1955 Holy Week by Braga and Bugnini.) Incidentally, I r...

The admirable Fr Thurston, I have argued, may not have spotted all the exciting possibilities of the Palm Sunday Rites in the Missal of S Pi...