Fr Benedict Andersen

I’m quite impressed with the 2019 BCP. The contemporary Coverdale Psalter alone makes it.

You never know when you may come across an angel in disguise.

BL Yates Thompson 26; Bede, Prose Life of Cuthbert; 12th century; England, N. (Durham); f.17v

Beatiful LI(BER) at the beginning of Matthew's Gospel

Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, B II 11; Gospel Book; 9th century; Tours, Marmoutier Abbey (?); f.27
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Hi there, I’m flattered but I doubt I have much to offer, and I’d want to do so with the blessing of my bishop.

Very pleased to have received today this new icon of my patron saint by Aidan Hart.

'St Knud's Church by the River in Odense. Autumn' by Dankvart Dreyer, c.1842. 🇩🇰

Byzantine liturgy is not "Eastern," it is (if anything) Central or Central-Western. It is also, above all, every bit as universal and universally applicable, relatable and lovable as the Roman rite.

"Patristic theology was practical, aiming at a Church that was poor and for the poor, recalling that the Gospel is proclaimed correctly only when it impels us to touch the flesh of the least among us, and warning that doctrinal rigor without mercy is empty talk."

(Pope Leo XIV)

Probably my favourite long late antiquity piece of art. The so-called "palimpsest" fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome shows consecutive layers of paintings from the sixth century (Mary as empress of heaven) all the way to the seventh and early eight century. The level of detail is just amazing.

A too online man came to Jesus and asked, “What must I do to receive eternal life?”
Jesus told him to keep the
commandments, to which the man replied that he had. Jesus then told him to delete his accounts and stop trolling. When the young man heard this, he went away sad, because he was based.

Humility is too exalted a goal, but perhaps you could aim for the halfway house of gratitude. — Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh

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This letter from Abbot John Chapman OSB (+1933) remains one of the very best pieces of practical spiritual advice I’ve come across.

Erick Ybarra (@ErickYbarra3) Wesley Chambers (RC), co-founder of 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑎𝑚 (Substack), does everyone a favor here. What I could only do in 10 hours on the subject of the 4th-century schism of Antioch (aka the "Meletian" schis...

Hard to believe these self-taught pop apologetics grifters are still pumping out this bottom-of-the-barrel crap, as though the best scholars and hierarchs of all apostolic churches haven't already long agreed that any "ecumenism of return" is dead & gone and people's consciences should be left alone

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Memory eternal to Georgette, who fled her homeland of Palestine as a toddler in 1948.

“It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.” — J.H. Newman, Sermon 4, “The Usurpations of Reason”

painting of Saint John Chrysostom calling out the un-Christian behavior of the Byzantine Empress from the pulpit in front of her

"If you do not see Christ in the face of the beggar outside the church doors, you will look for him in vain in the chalice."

(St. John Chrysostom)

A dachshund with shaded goggles receiving a laser treatment

Our dog is doing physical therapy, and the photos they’re sending us make him look like a Far Side character.

Latin Belongs in the Liturgy COMMENTARY: Liturgical revival, as with any kind of revival, comes from recovering what has been forgotten.

Broke (Esolen): Trads are like the Lost Cause (complimentary)

Woke (me): Trads are like the Lost Cause (derogatory)

Two 17th century visual reworkings of St. Colmcille or Columba of Iona whose feast it is #otd on 9 June, d. 597. Both turn him into a #Benedictine. (JMcC/BM)

Whatever Happened to the Holy Ghost? In a frenzy to make themselves feel relevant, 60’s churchmen did violence to Church language, and with it our understanding. It may be time to revisit the prudence of them having “given up the Ghost.”

I guess when your whole business is called "Crisis" you gotta manufacture crises to keep the grift going

You'd think, though, that all the Latin Trads would champ at the bits to use a Latinate translation, rather than one that has (horribile dictu) Anglican cooties from the Coverdale and King James

The twin phenomena of the recently-concluded Francis pontificate and the still-ongoing Trump presidency have had an interesting effect on some of these actors like Barron. They're apocalyptic—in the literal sense of "unveiling." The thin veneers of faux-respectability and triangulation have come off

Fewer and fewer people buy the carefully curated "aw shucks, friends" persona. +RB is a Trumpist-JDist surrogate of the cloth, and so is much of American Catholicism's Thiel-funded media ecology.

And to think that he wants to institutionalize his poison into "a new order of priests..." God help us

Enthusiasm for the liturgy in Latin is too often inversely proportional to the actual amount of Latin language known or studied.

Dedicating the text to Christ

Einsiedeln Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 17(405); The Four Gospels with commentaries by Jerome; 10th century (before 950); St. Gall; p.23
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Popes should be elected via X polls set up by Elon Musk, probably 😬

Completely how this works 👌

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