Friday, November 13, 2009
St. Benedict Press RSV-CE
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Redirected blame in Obamacare
"everyone should be required to buy health insurance because otherwise the uninsured who need emergency care will be forcing others to pay for them."
That is not correct. It is the government that forces everyone to pay for the uninsured. The government is the only one making anyone do anything here. And pretty soon we'll all be paying for just about EVERYONE anyway. So where is their point on this one?
Wednesday, November 04, 2009
A look inside the Liturgia Horarum
Monday, November 02, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
They're here!
A couple first impressions...
It is in much better condition than I expected it to be. It is a hardcover but not like a standard hardcover book...feels more like the recent printings from Baronius Press. Its a leather cover on top of a semi-flexible board. I believe these are the ones advertised on paxbooks.com for almost $200.
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If I saw this book in a store for $200 I would be in stitches. There are some things too ridiculous not to laugh. I mean, its not a terrible book at all. In fact it is rather nice. But it is not $200. Maybe they could get away with $40.
My other first impression is that this was printed as an template, rather than a beautiful liturgical book. (like old Breviaries) The insides are identical to the English Liturgy of the Hours in just about every way. But I'll show that in a later post.
I paid $35 for the volume pictured. I am very pleased.
Is this the same Rome Reports?
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Durham
I recently learned, St. Bede the Venerable is also buried there. Though at the time I didn't even know anything about him. Or Cuthbert for that matter.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Coming soon in the mail.
discount. It was a deal I had to take.
...So I bought 2 volumes of the (Latin) Liturgia Horarum. Hardcover (?), leatherbound.
Each new leather edition volume costs $185, the Vinyl is $85. A four volume set in leather will run you $740 plus shipping. Absurd. I paid about $65 for both volumes (combined).
Anglicans Comin' Home and their Booke
All this talk today about the Traditional Anglicans has been making me curious about the one thing that, if anything, identifies them as particularly Anglican. That would be the Book of Common Prayer. It appears that with every Anglo-Catholic group that comes home, and even the Western Rite Orthodox for that matter, Common Prayer is always adapted rather than replaced.
I have very little experience with it, only having perused the 1979 Book of Common Prayer at Borders several times. That as a while ago but I remember that it at least looked Catholic at a glance, which is probably why it adapts so easily. There are also several online editions I have looked at over the years. Whereas I can swim in almost any Catholic Breviary now, I must admit the Book of Common Prayer is very alien to me.
There are several nice editions out there. Oxford even has a version combo’d with the King James or NRSV Bibles. But the only approved Catholic edition is the Book of Divine Worship which is currently out of print. I read an essay in Chesterton’s Well and the Shallows that one of the reasons he would convert to Catholicism (if he already hadn’t) was the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.
Our martyrs during the protestant revolt loathed Common Prayer. Some might have even taken serious offense at its adaptation for Catholic use. But Tyburn Tree has long since been put out of commission.
So do any readers have thoughts on Common Prayer? Experience with it?







