tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91523975060555346802024-03-12T21:07:31.052-07:00Null EpistolaryApparently, letters to various people, but no-one in particular, from no-one in particular; and the occasional batty interjection.Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.comBlogger376125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-71399908459756052332021-08-15T13:41:00.002-07:002021-08-15T13:41:22.662-07:00I am annoyed.Someone is lying to the Holy Father; and the Holy Father, seemingly, believes the lie. SO very frustrating!Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-66316427586061276112021-07-29T16:41:00.003-07:002021-07-29T16:41:46.555-07:00Petre, Doce Nos!Confirma fratrum! Oves pasce! Gentes Evangeliza! Secundum voluntas Ecclesiae, id est: voluntas Dei, doce nos!!Aperi nobis Concilia! Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-85270059807474281532018-07-14T16:37:00.001-07:002018-07-14T16:37:45.687-07:00it might have been that I forgot to say it to people, for a while... say it to those who know you, when you can!$$\begin{array}{rl}
\mathrm{XLI} & \mbox{Foreign adventures}\\
\mathrm{XLII} & \mbox{Safe returnings}\\
\mathrm{XLIII} & \mbox{Surprises}\\
\mathrm{XLIV} & \mbox{Reunions anticipated}\\
\mathrm{XLV} & \mbox{Room left for Providence}
\end{array}
$$Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-18655581953040299152018-04-05T12:57:00.000-07:002018-04-05T12:57:43.205-07:00"Thou Shalt Break Them...""... dash them in pieces, like a potter's vessel"
I was having a conversation a couple days ago, starting with the Road to Emmaus, and particularly On The Lord's Disappearing. You see, that was the Gospel Reading that day (Roman Extraordinary Calendar)
and someone else had recently primed me, putting forth words of Doubt re. the Lord's rising. Others, one Peterson in particular, have pointedBelfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-85128237934377686162018-03-28T17:16:00.001-07:002018-03-28T17:16:42.801-07:00How beautiful the feet...If you have watched Chariots of Fire ("bring me my bow of burning gold...") you ought to remember that scene in which Eric Liddel is knocked over the picket of a Quarter-mile race, gets up, and then overtakes the whole field from twenty yards behind the last.
It's a fantastic victory. If you've any heart at all you are holding your breath with all the onlookers, watching this glorious Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-74802574164205368912018-03-14T14:48:00.000-07:002018-03-14T14:48:56.804-07:00Redemption... "How... how does it work?""I know not, my liege"
But let us not too much quote Monty Python. It is a silly bunch.
Last note tried to sketch something of what "heritable guilt" looks like and in what ways it is a reasonable idea, and furthermore how its operation is visible to anyone who has spent sufficient time with children (and some of us (like me) will remember it of ourselves in our own childhood, and later).
We Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-16524898658080595982018-03-13T13:42:00.000-07:002018-03-13T13:42:55.500-07:00InvitationDear Anonymous Paul Tillotson
Yes, take up blogging, tell us your stories!
(write to qnoodles at gmail, and I will tell you who I am, too)
You mention the names of one or two Church Dogmas (Orginal Sin and Inherited Guilt), one Theory of Maybe How the Passion Effects Salvation ("Transference", mentioning also Substitution), and one ... thing... "retributive justice"... and report that whateverBelfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-77884966076736202542018-02-20T19:17:00.001-08:002018-02-20T19:17:32.642-08:00i've had this note sitting around for a while. a-propos of genuinely nothingI have this memory of seeing animated cartoons, in my mis-spent childhood (recalled now in my mis-spent current age), in which a particular sort of Bully is depicted as a Bull; and because cartoons for children typically gloss over more naturalistic details, we know this is a Bull rather than a Cow because of his broad shoulders and the large ring in his nose.
That ring. I'm sure you know the Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-43842112873399664952018-02-14T07:15:00.000-08:002018-02-14T07:15:53.889-08:00Sing Black, Live RedToday this year collide Ash Wednesday and the Feast of Valentine, Priest and Martyr.
It would not seem unreasonable to lament that the romantic colour of the date, in modern secular sentiment, obscures the ... er... solemnity... I suppose... of martyrdom; but, you know, I'm not so sure, should we be so hasty? The secular emblem of the day is the Heart, construed as the seat of love — and every Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-83906220543219149302018-01-31T09:35:00.000-08:002018-01-31T09:35:25.591-08:00consummatum erit?_______, Mathematician, lay man baptized and confirmed in the Diocese of _______;¹
In friendly and supportive response to Dr. Peters,
write:
I am not a lawyer of any sort; but I can read books and apply argument.
On sacramentality; The strangeness of the very simple composition of valid marriage of Christians into a Sacrament has nothing peculiar to marriage in it. The necessary condition for Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-34381171032921845922018-01-29T07:00:00.001-08:002018-01-29T07:00:11.934-08:00ill-constituted ponderingsI read somewhere recently1 (smarter suppliants of the Spiders maybe will be able to find it quickly?) a historian contending that the Mediaeval and similar documents (primarily Magna Carta) such as we would now call constitutions were attempts to codify what "everyone" "here" was already doing; that "Bad" King John had been checked by his barons and given this constitution because he had tried toBelfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-64080709011703649592018-01-04T03:15:00.000-08:002018-01-04T03:15:18.871-08:00False Friendsin this instance, potential Anglo-Polish bemusements.
In Polish, sok is for drinking, skarpety for wearing, and a dywan for walking on; while in English, if you tried to drink your socks or wear a carpet or stand or walk on a divan, ... people would look at you funny.Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-81619164808067996352017-12-04T21:57:00.000-08:002017-12-04T21:57:37.020-08:00"... I do not think it means... what you think it means... "What a lot of noise about that word...
As it happens, I hold a Degree, the sort colloquially known as "Master of Science". The principal degree requirement for a Master of Science is demonstrated mastery. Of Something. If you like, I wrote a Masterpiece of a Thesis... I'm not particularly proud of it as a Piece of Writing, but I can still tell you what's going on in every part of it, and it Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-81992190836018495182017-10-30T09:01:00.000-07:002017-10-30T09:01:37.017-07:00Musings wandering about his headThe musings are related, though broad-ranging... the Bat wishes to be clear up-front that, so far as he knows, everything non-obvious that follows in this note should be thought Speculation or a place to begin thinking, and he well may indeed go off his rails at some point; and if anyone knows so, would they kindly explain such to him... nonetheless it seems:
Why God is "Father"
Paul writes ".../dev/nullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06125822577473369784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-71562635744657712852017-10-29T15:18:00.001-07:002017-10-31T07:43:19.416-07:00[indeed] temporary embarassing noteHURRAH! all sorted, now. Proceed as if we were normal.
The Bat of the Belfry has lost the password to his Other Email Address. You know, the address that I don't mention here.
In the highly-unlikely event that one of you kind souls has JUST written me and is wondering why I don't write back, that is probably the reason. There is a plan to get things fixed tomorrow.
Many thanks for your /dev/nullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06125822577473369784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-42578660608209128422017-09-23T21:01:00.001-07:002017-09-23T21:01:59.855-07:00Not for excessive iteration, but...... the Canonist has some worth-while things to say about the (canonical, theological... ) uses of the word "Received".
If I may, I think St. John the Evangelist also has a useful word or two, in the "Last" Gospel.
In propria venit, et sui eum not receperunt ... To His own He came, and His own received Him not.
(I think that's enough, don't you?)Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-59179036165155525652017-09-09T11:27:00.000-07:002017-09-09T11:27:47.192-07:00Far be it from me...There is, in certain circles you may have intersected, a trope of asserting something along the lines of
that “active” there is supposed to reflect Sacrosanctum Concilium’s word “actuosa”, which is better rendered as the deeper “actual”.You may have read these words somewhere else recently, perhaps set in Red? ... Anyways. There is a small problem, however, if you own/have borrowed/stolen/know Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-10838950775134404692017-09-04T12:19:00.001-07:002017-09-04T12:19:16.229-07:00scattered thoughts on how the best words go very wrong cut off from traditionPeace is a good thing, obviously; and the best peace to have is that of Heaven; to attain it is a struggle, a constant battle, a striving against devils, against powers and principalities; and the only sure way to attain it is to surrender to the Divine Will...
Any good Catholic can agree with all of that, but will insist that it is badly incomplete.
Our Peace hath a name: it is Jesus Christ.
Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-91933101945549807482017-09-01T22:30:00.001-07:002017-09-01T22:30:27.273-07:00Form and formationA little while ago, in studying for us the "εφφαθα" Miracle, Father cited St. Thomas' proposition that even those of us disabled of some sense, of sight or hearing or reason... still possess an inclination towards those senses, being part of Human Nature; and this was Father's lead-in to another particular inclination integral to Human Nature against which, that very day, there were in our City aBelfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-33935122468215425612017-08-31T11:33:00.001-07:002017-08-31T11:33:52.030-07:00Meanderings...I've found over my few years that I've known quite a few people whose first language was something Slavic. However, I've never learned much of any particular slavic language, and it's starting to feel a bit embarassing. There's "Lord have mercy", "Господы помелуй", and maybe I could count camels (верблюды!) in the desert (пуштыне), up to about five (what fun, O Swann!). Oh, and I once was Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-54762645167589636202017-08-23T00:01:00.000-07:002017-08-23T00:01:05.302-07:00... another one of these? how the world wags..."for, but a year ago, he was 34, and in another year hence (God willing...)"
a mixture of gravity and waggery, shall we say.
I hope you all are well!
en l'union des prières
PS. I'm actually away from the Internet... Did the Sun wink at you? Did it come back again after?Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-29782245767174202262017-08-18T21:12:00.000-07:002017-08-18T21:12:18.521-07:00Cantemus Domino gloriose enim magnificatus estDear readerfolk, gentles all,
Sometimes a word pops out at you; this evening, rehearsing the Communio for Sunday, that word was "redundabunt".
Here is the verse in full:
Honora Domino de tua substantia et de primitiis frugum tuarum
ut impleantur horea tua saturitate, et vino torcularia redundabunt.
Honour the Lord with thy substance, and with thy firstfruits,
that filled may your barns be to Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-12738612338703894212017-08-14T22:17:00.002-07:002017-08-14T22:17:24.177-07:00Just for fun(it's very good to have fun, now and then)
You see, I'd been a bit concerned that the previous version seemed to be set under King Edward's Crown or something similar... which had been, ... I don't know... a bit of a pastiche? (I don't think I've ever really used that word before!) Anyways,it seems to me that if there's any crown the sentiment should be set under, it's the crown of King Eärnur.Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-28980026464938935672017-08-09T20:43:00.000-07:002017-09-17T04:13:47.891-07:00More About Parsingparsing Scripture, that is...
I was reading, somewhere, I can't remember precisely, but recently, how Matthew's Gospel includes an extra clause in Our Lord's exegesis on the 7th Commandment,
and if a man put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and marry another, he commits adultery...... the writer I have forgotten was defending the Catholic Tradition against insinuations that the Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9152397506055534680.post-1870713823818742982017-07-16T23:09:00.001-07:002017-07-16T23:09:55.285-07:00Come and talk recent literary/film history with me!I specifically have one or two questions that Someone Else might be better-equipped to answer:
The Hitchcock film Lifeboat... it has issues, of course, but... well, in a rather peculiar circumstance, it includes a Villain, which villain is
according to the Logic of the Film's Setting
according to opinion spoken by other characters, and
(most importantly) according to his own actions
a Nazi. Belfry Bathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00514867101036143597noreply@blogger.com0