I say this with some piety: “Jews vs Rome” would make for an awesome RPG along the lines of Britannia, Pendragon or Paladin…. Anyway, looking forward to the book previewed here.

I'm about done with this platform. One or two more announcements (which I'm sure the algorithm will make sure that few see) and I'll be moving my social media presence exclusively to @RadiopaperHQ and that site which is a kind of stack: for ye philhellenes, the Hypothemata.

Beginning 13 years ago when I read The Beauty of the Infinite, my relation to the work of DBH has gone through seasons of delight and annoyance, but I have to say I’m looking forward to this book more than any other he’s published. The Light of Tabor

giving birth to her first child. Her baptism made a huge mess of water and delighted everyone. No idea why our pastor decided to be extravagant. This would not have worked at Easter vigil when about 20 people were baptized. He was perhaps inspired.

Recently a young woman was baptized at Sunday Mass. The priest, apparently rather spontaneously, decided to give her more than the usual dosage of water over the font—a real deluge. She had missed the baptism with the other converts at Easter Vigil because she was busy then /.

I don’t think I’d bother with coffee with any of them but I’d drink real ale with Thomas More and talk with him about law. With Augustine I’d talk music over wine. With Aquinas I’d walk. Really far. Which would of course make us thirsty….

And you get extra credit if you say his name correctly! Hint: in Welsh “ch” does not sound as it does in the English word “church.”.

Could not agree more. Read Machen!.

Major milestone today: the lady at the [eastern] European market, where I go to buy kashkeval and pickles as God intended them and some beer, spoke to me in Polish. She pretty quickly switched to English. Nevertheless, I choose to interpret this as a positive sign.

Wonderful series of books I’ve discovered at my parents’ home. How I wish I’d studied these when I was young. Real knowledge for the real world: why has it been so easy for so many of us to lose sight of it?

There are actually six words, or five with the elision, and they are: . Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch'entrate.

but nothing has so much made me appreciate my nation’s legal and social heritage from England as hearing the Declaration read in New England. History is long and harsh. May God bless and keep Britain and America both.

Today I heard the Declaration of Independence read aloud in its entirety at the Old North Bridge in Concord MA. It was a moving experience. America remains, though in a time of terrible confusion, the great experiment—thanks in large measure to the mother country. It’s funny /.

For 1000 years the university has been *the* cornerstone institution of western civilization. That epoch is rapidly drawing to a close.

Cable tv.

Also: played this for my sons and within a minute they were asking to listen to the Neverending Story soundtrack. I rest my case.

There’s some kind of nostalgia-that’s-actually-the-future here, right @kalezelden?.

You gotta be careful with this kind of thing though or you’ll start smoking again.

In a different spirit (or is it entirely?) from my previous post, you listen to this (and watch it) and think, I could just live this way forever. I get the trend—one of the only times in my life I’ve been able to say this.

It something to hear your language in its primordial form, and to hear familiar prayer in unfamiliar language. I’ve attended Mass in Irish, Latin, French, German, Spanish and Polish. All but the last I knew at least somewhat. Have you worshipped in a foreign or ancestral tongue?.