The New Beginning

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

I missed this when it was published in August - New Liturgical Movement: Carillon Blessing at Holy Transfiguration Skete BY Jennifer Donnelson. I can understand why some might think that the adoption of the Rule of St. Benedict is a Latinization, since it developed under the Roman rite, but could it not be adopted for use with the Byzantine rite, as an sort of spiritual heir to the Rule of St. Basil?

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

50th Anniversary of St. Ann Choir

California Catholic Daily: St. Ann Choir of Palo Alto celebrates 50th Anniversary
Gregorian chant and polyphony since 1963

October 6...

Monday, September 09, 2013

Two from Nomocracy in Politics

Clyde Wilson, Derailment of Civil War History
Peter Haworth, West Coast Straussians, Harry Jaffa, Bad Originalism, and Teleocratic Fantasies: Part 1

New Liturgical Movement: From Romania: Ceremony in Honor of the Blessed Vladmir Ghika, Priest and Martyr

Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom at the 2013 Napa Institute Conference

Thanks to EWTN.

Celebrants: Rt. Rev. Mitered Protopresbyter Andriy Chirovsky, Fr. David Anderson, Fr. Ted Wroblicky, and Fr. James Bankston, along with Deacon Alex Wroblicky and Deacon Sabatino Carnazzo.

Related:
Fabric of faith: Many wear their religion – literally – on their sleeves

Sunday, September 08, 2013

One of my professors once speculated that there wasn't a temptation in Byzantine Christianity to pentecostalism or some other form of 'enthusiasm' because of the richness of its liturgy, along with due attention to role of the Holy Spirit in our lives.

OCN: Recovering the True Spirit
Journeys to Orthodoxy, we meet Barnabas Powell, whose remarkable spiritual journey to Orthodoxy included many years in Pentecostalism as a pastor and ministry leader. After finding the Orthodox Faith, Barnabas served for several years as the Media Director of the Orthodox Christian Network. He's now a priest of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese. (mp3)

Saturday, September 07, 2013

Long day (and night) ahead...

Friday, September 06, 2013

ClubOrlov: Wealth is not Property

ClubOrlov: Wealth is not Property: Svetlana Jovanović [ Guest post by Ellen, a long-time reader of this blog that I've only just heard from recently. She makes ...

I Bet Tickets Will Be Sold Out Quickly

My wish was granted, but I didn't think it would be this soon! In Octber at the Freight and Salvage: Dr. Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys

Some comments by Dr. Fleming on the state of our scholarship and our age:

There are parallels with the collapse that took place between 450 and 600 AD and between 1000 and 700 BC, but they were the results of violent invasion, not cultural suicide. It is not only the low state of our literary culture, but our eagerness to destroy and enslave not other peoples but ourselves. The active program of self-imposed cultural genocide in which we have been engaged since WW I has no parallel. The simplest explanation was put forward by my old friend John Gray, a non-Christian, that a healthy culture can be either pre-Christian or Christian, but post-Christianity adheres to the Christian dream but attempts to buyild the Kingdom of God here on earth and without God or the Incarnation. What Prof. Gray would not acknowledge is that we do have a god, but he is an inferior being we used to recognize as our enemy. Sorry to sound so apocalyptic, but if this argument is basically correct, then we have as much to learn from Pre-Christian cultures as we do from Christendom itself. If we cannot have the Church, then at least we might side with the Greeks and Romans--though that is the last thing we shall be permitted to do. Naturally, it is theoretically up to each of us not to side with our enemy--or rather our Enemy--but it requires a radical break with certain fundamental assumptions that go back to the Renaissance.

On the low level of politics, Dante has more to teach us--both his prose writings and his poetry--than the tradition of Montaigne, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and the classical liberals.