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    07/10/2021 - 09:37

    Online stole making course from the Guild of St Clare, 30th October
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    An 'off line' Guild event

    The Guild has arranged a one-day stole making course with the Royal Society of Needlework, which will demonstrate the traditional technique used for the making of vestments. 

    The date is the 30th October 2021, and the course will run between 10am and 4pm. Thanks to our long-standing relationship with the RSN, we are able to offer this course at a reduced price which, excluding the materials, is £108. Online booking for this event is now open: click here to register.
    More information from the Guild.

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    03/10/2021 - 10:00

    Photos Masses in Oxford

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    We had two Sung Masses last week: for St Michael the Archangel, and a Requiem for someone who died during the Coronavirus epidemic. Both were accompanied with polyphony directed by Dominic Bevan.
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    With thanks to Fr John Saward, priest in charge, and the multitasking MC Richard Pickett.

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    01/10/2021 - 12:44

    New Guild of St Clare video: a large patch
    In this video the Guild of St Clare demonstrates how to make a large patch, demonstrated with a threadbare shoulder on a dalmatic.

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    28/09/2021 - 17:35

    Students protest about Christian conference
    My latest on LifeSiteNews.

    One of Oxford Univeristy’s constituent colleges, Worcester College, has apologized for allowing an Evangelical campaign group, Christian Concern, to book its facilities for a residential event during the summer break. 

    The fact that the event had taken place at all only became known to the college’s radicalized students when one of them found a flyer from the event lying around. Since the students were not in residence at the time, they missed the chance to be upset by hearing any of the talks or discussions, or traumatized by meeting any of the attendees. They had to make do with their distress at the fact that the college’s hallowed meeting rooms and corridors had felt the presence of a wider range of views than has become usual. 

    Read the whole thing there.

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    26/09/2021 - 10:00

    Server training and vestment mending at Spanish Place

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    Our activities at St James' Spanish Place were jolly affairs as usual on Saturday, and well attended. The Guild of St Clare vestment making and mending was in the basement, and the Society of St Tarcisius server training was in the church upstairs.

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    As well as lots of progress being made on various vestments belonging to the Latin Mass Society, we had several groups of server trainees going through Low Mass and a team looking at the rubrics of Missa Cantata. We were fortunate to have four excellent instructors (I don't count myself!).

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    Fr Andrew Southwell, a priest of Southwark Archdiocese familiar from the St Catherine's Trust Summer School who has been in Rome doing studies but is currently in London, was able to enroll five new members of the Society of St Tarcisius, including a Senior MC, who is our MC at the Monday evening Masses in Corpus Christi Maiden Lane.

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    We have another such event booked, on Saturday 20th November: what you need to know is here (for servers) and here (for the vestment mending).

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    24/09/2021 - 22:09

    Who’d like to talk about Socrates?

    Socratic Seminars: October 2021

    I am returning to these after a break over the Summer. I have been doing them since January 2021 and have an established pattern, alternating different dialogues to discuss in a series of four  seminars.

    The idea is that these are open to anyone over 16, regardless of prior knowledge, and take place on line, for a modest fee. The early dialogues are works of real philosophical value but presented in a way designed (I imagine) to engage people without prior training: they are the training. These seminars have been satisfying for me and have engaged the interest of a range of participants: at any rate they tend to come back for more.

    This round the following are on offer:

    For beginners:

    Series 2: Apology (on Socrates' mission), the Crito (on political obligation), Charmides (on temperance), and Hippias Minor (on voluntary wrongdoing). 

    Intermediate (for those who've done either or both of the introductory series of seminars 1 and 2):

    Series 4: Protagoras (virtue and its teachability) and Gorgias (oratory and justice), each divided into two parts.

    More advanced (for those who’ve done either or both of the intermediate series of seminars, 3 and 4):

    Series 6: Symposium (on eros) and Parmenides (on the Forms), each divided into two parts.

    I teach on Thursdays, we find a time convenient to each person in each seminar. Numbers between two plus plus me to five plus me.

    I hope to start on Thursday 7th October.

    Email me to register your interest. Joseph.shaw99 AT gmail.com

    More information can be found here.

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    24/09/2021 - 11:08

    A Sacristan's Reflections on the Walsingham Pilgrimage
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    Charles Bradshaw assists Fr Henry Whisenant with the Blessing of Pilgrims
    The New Liturgical Movement has published a lovely reflection on the LMS Pilgrimage to Walsingham by Charles Bradshaw, who was our Sacristan.
    We’re on the road again!” The past few years have seen a sharp increase in off-grid living, and with it a deep desire to give the modern world the heave ho. Off-grid traditional Catholicism is certainly what it feels like as you pack the car for the annual Walsingham Pilgrimage, not just with your backpack and tent but an entire sacristy, from vestments right down to grains of incense. Blessed with Solemn High Mass on each of its three days, the pilgrimage offers a chance to shed the cares of this world for a brief moment and connect with the essential: God; carefully lifting every second of the liturgy from suitcase to sanctuary.
    Read the whole

    thing there.

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    High Mass in the Chapel of St Margaret, Oxburgh

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    23/09/2021 - 15:13

    Rosary Crusade of Reparation, London, 9th October

    Please support this! Always a wonderful event.


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    The procession in 2013

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    22/09/2021 - 17:26

    Server training in London this Saturday: last call for bookings

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    This Saturday we are holding another Server Training day with the Society of St Tarcisius, in St James' Spanish Place, from 10:30am. We conclude at about 4pm. 

    Please book a place: this gives us an indication of number and of what people want to learn.
    No previous experience is necessary, and there is no fee.

    25th September: St James' Spanish Place, London 

    (booking page) (info about the venue)

    20th November: St James' Spanish Place, London 

    (booking page) (info about the venue)

    As usual, there will be a Guild of St Clare Vestment Mending Day running alongside these events: see here for more details.
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    21/09/2021 - 10:00

    Videos from the Guild of St Clare

    The Guild of St Clare is releasing a series of instructional videos about how to do simple repairs on vestments and a bit of domestic sewing--one episode to come will explain patching children's trousers.

    This is the introduction to the series.

    This one explains how to thread a needle, and how to stitch down loose braid. Yes, pretty well anyone can do a simple thing like this, and with a bit of patience and practice, and the right advice, can do it to a decent standard.

    A lot of vestments in parishes bear the marks of incompetent repairs: certainly the LMS vestment collection does, as is noted in the video. This is not necessarily the fault of the people who carried out the repairs, who were often pressed to do it by priests who did not know anyone else who could have a go. The problem is that while every parish contains a few people who can sew, the techniques and skills needed for vestments, while not necessarily more challenging, are different. If you want to do repairs properly, even quite skilled sewers can pick a tip or two from this series.
    A real eye-opener on the distinct nature of traditional vestment-making is the way stoles are made, a technique applicable to many other things. You can sign up to an online stole-making course here for 30th October (10am-4pm).
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