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Guild of St Clare sponsorship awarded
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A Guild of St Clare Vestment Mending Day before the Coronavirus |
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The Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace |
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Communion on the tongue is an ancient practice
Liturgy should be beautiful
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Liturgy should not be beautiful.
At the Last Supper, Jesus washed stinky feet.
In the Garden, Jesus sweat blood.
At the cross, Jesus was violently murdered.
Upon rising, Jesus still had open wounds.
No, liturgy should not be beautiful. It should be ugly & scandalous.
LMS Online Conference on Saturday
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A real-world conference organised by the LMS in pre-covid days |
Online Latin Course in August and September
This year the Latin Mass Society's long-standing annual residential Latin Course has had to be cancelled due to the Coronavirus epidemic. We are delighted therefore to be able to announce a new initiative by an independent language teacher, Matthew Spencer, for the online teaching of Christian Latin over August and September.
Mr Spencer has previously been teaching ancient languages to university students preparing for further studies, and he would now like to apply his skills to teaching Latin. The course’s focus on the distinctive, later period of Latin of writers such as Augustine and Boethius will make this course of particular interest and usefulness to Catholics and all those interested in discovering the rich world of Christian Latin.
He plans to teach very small groups once or twice a week, some aimed at 'Beginners' and others at those with some previous experience of Latin.
Conservatism after Bostock
Pagans attack Statue of St Boniface in Devon
Archdiocese of Munich in bizarre stunt with monstrance
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This festival is about showing people on the spot that God is in the middle of us, in the middle of the world, at all times. The idea arose to photograph the monstrance, i.e. this vessel for showing the body of Christ, in different places of everyday life. The oral project received broad approval from the other sixty or so pastors.
Western Civilisation has got to go!
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J.K. Rowling faces down the mob
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