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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Respice Turrem Davidicam!

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I'm busy following Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman's devotions on Our Lady during the month of May. Today's is Mary as the Tu...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

Falling in Denial

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The New Scientist has a very interesting article about the nature of denial as opposed to skepticism. Of course this article is aimed at ex...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Simply Complex

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According to St Thomas Aquinas (Book I, Question 3 Article 7), St Augustine is correct when he says in De Trinitate "God is truly and ...
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Saturday, April 17, 2010

Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning

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I suspect that many Christians are looking at the current events in the world and thinking that perhaps (just perhaps) the Mayans are right ...
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Friday, April 16, 2010

Mean, Mode and Median

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I loathed Statistics at school. It put me in mind of the tedious double Geography lessons that I would always try to skive out of with a jud...
Sunday, April 04, 2010

The Feast of the Resurrection

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Thomas autem unus ex duodecim qui dicitur Didymus non erat cum eis quando venit Iesus dixerunt . ergo ei alii discipuli vidimu...
Saturday, April 03, 2010

The Seven Last Words: Into Thy Hands

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Pater, in manus tuas commendo spiritum meum Πάτερ, εἰς χεῖράς σου παρατίθεμαι τὸ πνεῦμά μου Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit S...
Friday, April 02, 2010

The Seven Last Words: It is finished

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Consummatum est Τετέλεσται It is finished St John xix.30 Tetelestai ! Surely the most glorious word in the Greek language. Here it is pract...
Thursday, April 01, 2010

The Seven Last Words: I Thirst

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Sitio Διψῶ I thirst St John xix.28 How can God be weak? The great paradox of the Incarnation is revealed at the Crucifixion. A human body c...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The Seven Last Words: My God, My God

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Heli Heli lema sabacthani hoc est Deus meus Deus meus ut quid dereliquisti me Ηλι ηλι λεμα σαβαχθανι; τοῦτ' ἔστιν, Θεέ μου θε...
Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Seven Last Words: Behold Thy Son

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Mulier ecce filius tuus, ecce mater tua Γύναι, ἴδε ὁ υἱός σου, Ἴδε ἡ μήτηρ σου Woman, behold thy son! Behold thy mother! St John xix.26-27 E...
Monday, March 29, 2010

The Seven Last Words: With me in Paradise

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Amen dico tibi hodie mecum eris in Paradiso Ἀμήν σοι λέγω, σήμερον μετ' ἐμοῦ ἔσῃ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt th...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

The Seven Last Words: Father forgive them

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Pater, dimitte illis , quia nesciunt , quid faciunt Πάτερ, ἄφες αὐτοῖς, οὐ γὰρ οἴδασιν τί ποιοῦσιν Father, forgive them; for they know not...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Rocks and hard places.

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I have to admit that crunch time is coming and I will have to weigh up my options shortly as my Parish enters an interregnum, not that I am ...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Elmore: two passings

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I've been rather saddened to hear two sad things, not that either was particularly unexpected. The first is that Br Hugh Kelly, the glor...
Saturday, March 06, 2010

The Narrow Gate and Hyperbolic Geometry

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Playfair's axiom: Given a line l and a point P not on that line, there is a unique line that passes through P that does not meet l. Th...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

Oremus

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Homily preached at Eltham College on 1st and 2nd March 2010 based on St Luke xi.1-11. Let us pray. [PAUSE for shuffling] Interesting! Why di...
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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Friends of the Ordinariate

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This site has been launched as a base for Anglicans in the U.K. to connect with each other with regard to the Apostolic Constitution, regar...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

"Both and" and "either or"

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Last night, I sat listening to Monteverdi's Vespers of Our Lady written in 1610. It's a piece of music that I've grown up with ...
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Sunday, February 07, 2010

The Passing of the Innocent.

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When a light goes out, we find ourselves in a new unspeakable darkness, haunted by the confusing after-images of the light that once shone a...
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