Acta Diurna
On the village bus to H this morning, it came to me that Blogger might be able to provide an all-purpose repository for journal notes: and Acta diurna. This, not to replace my handwritten journals, but to serve as a very accessible noticeboard, especially with my Galaxy Note telephone.
Monday August 20 2012
Today the Liturgy celebrates the great Cistercian Abbot Doctor: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux. At the six-thirty Mass from the Vatican, the chants were rendered with great and prayerful beauty. The Liturgy reflection was ..lætificantes corda, et dulciora super mel et flavum (Grd Trp Off p309) ..they gladden the heart..sweeter than honey, sweeter than honeycomb. (after LH IV:676 ICEL). The Patrimony of Culture in Europe, understood with that depth often underlined by HH Pope Benedict XVI, and by Blessed John Paul II, and the aspiration of The New Evangelisation, and not unconnected with the Synod papers being taken by HH Pope Benedict XVI in person to Lebanon next month, has an embryonic stamp of the doctor mellifluus (Ad Magnificat, ant LH IV:1151). Today's Vespers began with the lovely hymn Luminis fons, lux et origo lucis. (LH IV:964). Earlier, the Antiphon of The Benedictus expressed ..fidei et doctrinæ lumine radiavit .. (LH IV:1151) ..illumines with the light of true faith and doctrine.. (LH IV:1335 ICEL).
Often, at my visit to Mum's resting place in the churchyard of Saint Mary the Virgin, (strictly, Our Lady of the Assumption, Twelfth Century testified in Sussex Archives by a farmer's tithe of Bread for Mass), I reflect on the intellectual patrimony of Europe, and on the Hibernian religious scholars who used the Padstow, Cammel, Fowey corridor, en route to Canterbury and thence, the crossing to the Continent, onward to Rome and the prominent Mediæval Centres of Learning, to make their contribution. So my collection of stones from Lantic Bay, Coombe Hawne, and Par Sands where I indulged boyish frolicking in the Atlantic waters.
Yesterday Saint John Eudes wrote in a treatise Glorificate et portate Deum in corpore vestro..(LH IV:1146)..Glorify and bear God in your body..(after LH IV:1331 ICEL).
In H today I received a tutorial from a graduate of Epsom who completed a thesis on The Smock, another consultant in the fabric shop pointed me to Oxfam where some weeks ago she had donated a rare text: Smocks and Smocking Marshal,B Alphabooks Sherbourne Dorset 1980, a member of the Oxfam staff was an accomplished smock maker, went straight to the book, handing it to me with valuable advice, and all for a penny short of five pounds! Before this week is out, I have the fabric and thread to make my first smock in time for The Great Dorset Steam Fair.
March 28 2014
I had not realised this post was still in draft. I tailored the Sussex Smock, but did not go to the fair.
March 28 2014
I had not realised this post was still in draft. I tailored the Sussex Smock, but did not go to the fair.
