There is a medieval mystery play on the subject of the martyr Saint Valentine in French, which I studies when reading modern languages at a university not to be mentioned in Oxford. It depicts the martyr being tortured and put to death by the ancient Romans for refusing to worship something called Mahmoud.
Needless to say, the only name medieval Europeans could think of attaching to pagan deities was Mohammed. It's not great drama, but couldn't be performed today for fear of causing outrage among the swarthy, bearded and excitable community.
Nice, Father; now sit back and watch that site meter go through the roof … Other potential labels can doubtless be found through the good offices of Dr Roget.
was for nearly three decades at Lancing College; where he taught Latin and Greek language and literature, was Head of Theology, and Assistant Chaplain. He has served three curacies, been a Parish Priest, and Senior Research Fellow at Pusey House in Oxford. Now incardinated into the Personal Ordinariate of our Lady of Walsingham, he has his base within the Oxford Ordinariate Group. This blog now replaces the Blog Father Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes. Its main purpose is to explore, ad mentem Summi Pontificis, the possibilitiesfor mutual enrichment between three forms of the Roman Rite: the Extraordinary Form, the Ordinary Form, and the Anglican Use. I have been told that my previous blog was disliked because of some the comments on the 'thread'. I take the point. In this blog, all comments will be moderated, and anything which is even implicitly critical of the English Hierarchy or of any member of it, will not be published.
The purpose of this ORDO is to serve the needs of both Anglicans and Roman Catholics. For the former it provides for the recitation of Morning and Evening Prayer and the celebration of Holy Communion in accordance with modern forms authorised or encouraged in the Provinces of Canterbury and York. These forms are selected, arranged, and interpreted in the the spirit of what has become generally customary in Western Christendom since the Second Vatican Council; but notes draw attention to Orthodox insights. It also provides a full Calendar according to the modern Roman Rite, together with explanatory and catechetical notes. Anglicans who prefer forms of Liturgy based on the Book of Common Prayer will find a lectionary designed for use with the BCP.
The original once graced the high altar of the church of Sancta Maria in Ara Coeli on the Capitoline Hill. A fine copy is at the centre of the great baroque reredos at S Thomas the Martyr, Oxford.
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There is a medieval mystery play on the subject of the martyr Saint Valentine in French, which I studies when reading modern languages at a university not to be mentioned in Oxford. It depicts the martyr being tortured and put to death by the ancient Romans for refusing to worship something called Mahmoud.
Needless to say, the only name medieval Europeans could think of attaching to pagan deities was Mohammed. It's not great drama, but couldn't be performed today for fear of causing outrage among the swarthy, bearded and excitable community.
Nice, Father; now sit back and watch that site meter go through the roof …
Other potential labels can doubtless be found through the good offices of Dr Roget.
What has become of the Beatles' "birds"?
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