tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33686324390146420632024-02-07T03:43:34.340+00:00CSSMLCrux Sacra sit mihi luxStephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.comBlogger78125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-18808439831326478822007-05-25T20:15:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:54.783+00:00The RosaryHaving spent a good chunk of today - with assistance - unloading & then reloading all the stuff on my computer - I had to re-install Windows - I'm rather more aware than usual of what I've got on it. One little programme I keep on my desktop is called Virtual Rosary. If you don't know it, it's worth having a look at. Clicking a mouse instead of clicking a rosary bead takes a bit of getting Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-58967514619195596452007-05-15T20:51:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:55.089+00:00Ascension DayI've just discovered that the Church of Rome on both sides of the Atlantic is celebrating Ascension Day next Sunday (the Seventh Sunday of Easter) and not on Thursday. I'm grateful to Fr Longenecker for having a well justified rant. I had realised both Rome and Canterbury had Sundayfied some other feast days but not Ascension Day for goodness sake. I'm somewhat relieved to see that in this Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-21313610818164164452007-05-15T10:45:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:55.316+00:00The beginning of disestablishment?Christopher Morgan who writes for The Times and the Church of England Newspaper has this on his website Religious Intelligence. Who knows, we might actually come to love Presbyterian Gordy? Disestablishment has always seemed rather a distant proposition. Might this 'home rule' proposal be the start of such a process? Good news for anyone who, like me, tends to wonder whether in the long run - Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-38766496998905678012007-05-14T22:53:00.000+00:002007-05-14T22:55:50.825+00:00Tridentine MassFor 'the latest' see Ruth Gledhill in The Times. It seems the delay in issuing the motu proprio has been caused by the Germans not the French.Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-79303787915095458642007-05-09T20:15:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:55.505+00:00Requiem aeternamToday to Hampshire to assist at the requiem mass of a long-standing member of the 'congregation' of the Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady and St John at Alton.Anglican Benedictine communities are not supposed to have 'congregations'. 'They should be worshiping in their parish churches' as a newly-appointed bishop said to the Abbot before he discovered he had as much hope of stopping people coming to Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-26059821285693025242007-05-06T21:04:00.000+00:002007-05-06T21:06:59.682+00:00M*** P******Dare I say it? The fifth of May has come . . . and gone . . .Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-76968761063286519452007-05-06T20:35:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:55.897+00:00St John before the Latin GateThis morning I took myself to St John’s College, Cambridge for a Solemn Eucharist for the Feast of St John before the Latin Gate. The what, I can hear you ask. There’s certainly no mention of such a feast in my 1962 missal but it’s there in the 1928 BCP and also in my copy of The Anglican Breviary which is based on the 1911 reform of the Latin Secular Breviary.For those who need a memory Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-4282349054252980702007-05-04T10:51:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:56.853+00:00Two much-loved cats in need of a new home At the end of June I will be moving from Ely and for reasons I needn't go into here the two much-loved and hopelessly indulged creatures pictured here cannot come with me. Parting from them will be among the more difficult things I have had to do in my life but it will be made marginally less difficult if I can find a good home for them (together) in which they will be pampered in the style to Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-18298341150618571752007-05-02T18:58:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:57.105+00:00Motu proprio (yet again)If and when the Pope's motu proprio on the 'old' mass ever sees the light of day, someone ought to put together a collection of at least some of the pieces that have appeared on the blogosphere on the subject over the past couple of months. Such a collection might well include this one from Fr Anthony Chadwick at In medio stat virtus. The original German can be found in Creative Minority Report .Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-63267239863940790362007-04-28T16:40:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:57.346+00:00Motu proprio (again)Latin Mass may offend Jews is the headline of the latest version (in today's [London] Daily Telegraph) of what is surely the reddest of red herrings in the present long-running motu proprio saga. And I'm afraid many so-called 'traditionalist' Roman Catholics are to blame. Why? By referring, as they frequently do, to the pre-Vatican II eucharistic rite in the Catholic West as if it were a Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-34666120480937857822007-04-26T12:12:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:57.737+00:00Child abuseI suggest we need to think rather carefully about some of the issues raised by the case of the latest choirmaster to be found guilty of abusing choirboys. Much of what I have read and heard on this subject so far today betrays an above average level of muddled thinking.We can all, I hope, agree that the abuse of children is wrong. It would also seem that procedures now in place to safeguard Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-60420605320322679132007-04-19T14:52:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:57.982+00:00A tale of four cities and two walking sticksLate last year I was planning to walk the last 100 kilometres or so of the pilgrim way to Santiago de Compostela with a group of friends. Sadly, other commitments got in the way so in the end I didn’t go. However in the meantime I had been shopping - for a pair of walking boots and a walking stick that would comply with the new restrictions on airline luggage. Clearly it was no longer possible toStephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-51679068318735302172007-04-19T09:31:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:58.269+00:00St AlphegeBorn about 953, St Alphege was successively a monk of Deerhurst in Gloucestershire, a hermit in Somerset, Abbot of Bath and, in 984, bishop of Winchester in succession to St. Ethelwold. He was used as an emissary to placate the Danish invaders who came to London and Wessex in 994, converted their leader to Christianity, and persuaded them to withdraw. In 1005 he became Archbishop of Canterbury. Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-3094860350929927722007-04-17T10:38:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:58.459+00:00I prayed A good short piece from Ruth Gledhill of The (London) Times about the shootings at Virginia Tech may be read here.Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-23124339289747114802007-04-16T21:06:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:58.621+00:00Anonymous commentsEarlier today I sanctioned the publication of an anonymous comment on the piece I wrote on 12 April (concisely) entitled Et unam sanctam Catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam. While I'm loath to play censor, I do think if people have something to say they should come out into the open and say it and not hide behind a cloak of anonymity. So, reluctantly, I shall not in future publish comments by Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-12370496207076763302007-04-16T20:27:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:10:58.901+00:00Ad multos annos16 April 2007: Pope Benedict at 80 Ad multos annos, Father JoeIf there's anyone out there who is not aware of the fact, today also marks the latest 'deadline' for the publication of the promised papal motu proprio in terms of which priests will enjoy greater freedom to celebrate the 'Tridentine' mass. Needless to say the day passed without publication. Those wanting a chuckle on the subject willStephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-20520831018224697852007-04-14T18:47:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:11:00.483+00:00St Etheldreda Cell of the Society of Our Lady of WalsinghamFr Keith Straughan celebrates Mass for members of the St Etheldreda Cell of the Society of Our Lady of Walsingham in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral. Afterwards Fr Keith blessed a newly-planted tree outside the Cathedral Centre. The tree has been donated donated by the CellStephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-73689453055163363552007-04-12T23:25:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:11:00.606+00:00Et unam sanctam catholicam et apostolicam EcclesiamThe current trials and tribulations within the Anglican Communion have understandably attracted a good deal of interest in and comment from the Catholic blogosphere and from those Anglicans on its fringes seen by the Romans as ripe conversion fruit. There's been a good deal of discussion on the Roman claims that it and it alone is 'the one holy catholic and apostolic Church' and I attempted to Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-55078084672198662672007-04-03T14:32:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:11:00.795+00:00Holy WeekIt's interesting to see how many bloggers have shut or are shutting down for Holy Week or at least for the Easter Triduum. There is considerable good sense in doing so and I am going to follow suit before leaving tomorrow morning for my spiritual home at Alton Abbey.Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-43582645581111229862007-03-30T20:09:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:11:01.204+00:00Sobrino: two Catholic perspectivesThe frequently maligned (London) Times religion correspondent Ruth Gledhill is to be thanked for juxtaposing two opposing perspectives on a current Catholic cause célèbre. Jesuit liberation theologian Fr Jon Sobrino has recently been criticised (but not barred from teaching) by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith less for his liberation theology than for his Christology. He Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-76111569845098515512007-03-28T12:57:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:11:01.494+00:00Little Sisters of JesusOne of the little beacons of hope I encountered on my recent visit to Jerusalem was at the Sixth Station of the Cross on the Via Dolorosa. At the Sixth Station we are asked to meditate on one of the non-biblically endorsed incidents on Our Lord's journey to Golgotha: when a woman called Veronica wiped the blood and dirt from Jesus' face with her veil only to find that an image of his face Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-35316143999276184352007-03-28T11:44:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:11:01.673+00:00Roman claimsIn a post entitled Newman Hits the Bulls Eye, Fr Dwight Longenecker quotes from and then expounds on John Henry Newman's Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine which deals with, among other things, the unity of form versus unity of doctrine dichotomy so relevant to the current goings on in the Anglican Communion. (What follows is a digest of that post and resulting comments.)Fr Dwight Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-22949636226961132332007-03-26T10:45:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:11:01.871+00:00Lady DayAngelus Domini nunciavit Mariae.Et concepit de Spiritu Sancto. Sculpture in the grounds of The Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth.Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-75326005324580380662007-03-25T09:49:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:11:02.394+00:00If you can't laugh . . . From The (London) Times Saturday 24 March 2007Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3368632439014642063.post-23087653869188760772007-03-21T00:35:00.000+00:002008-12-10T13:11:02.708+00:00St Benedict Icon of St Benedict with Our Lady and St John written by Dom Anselm Shobrook OSB which hangs in the Abbey Church of the Benedictine Community of Our Lady and St John at Alton, Hampshire, (England).Stephen Wiknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06735175874152541268noreply@blogger.com0