December 2021
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To thee, O Christ, O Word of the Father, we offer up our lowly praises and unfeigned hearty thanks: Who for love of our fallen race didst most wonderfully and humbly choose to be made man, as never to be unmade more; and to take our nature as never more to lay it off; so…
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At this point in my life I find myself sometimes mentally compiling, not a desert island list of books and music, but a nursing home (or, preferably, assisted living) list: the books I would take with me if I had to go live in a very small place with one very small bookshelf. I've actually…
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(Does Ireland count as part of the British Isles? I wouldn't think they'd be very pleased about that.) I saw this on Facebook, then went looking for it on YouTube so that I could post it here. I was surprised to see that there are a number of videos of the same basic type. There's…
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour forth righteousness.. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, my salvation shall not tarry:I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions:fear not for I will save thee:for I am the Lord thy god, the holy one of Israel, thy Redeemer. Lazily searching for…
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His latest post at The Lamp's blog is a jewel: What is it about the wind? When I am watching some piece of ancient black-and-white archive film, imprisoned in the time when it was made, a gust of wind will lift a person’s hair or shake the trees in the background, and the whole thing…
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour forth righteousness. Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen;that ye may know me and believe me:I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no Saviour:and there is none that can deliver out of my…
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It’s been twenty years since the release of the first film in his adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. A youngster named Jack Butler, writing at National Review, gives what I think is a fairly good appraisal of the whole effort. I say that even though my own view is somewhat more negative than his. I…
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour forth righteousness. We have sinned, and are as an unclean thing,and we all do fade as a leaf:our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away;thou hast hid thy face from us:and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. Back in my Episcopalian days…
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If I didn't have, um, access to someone's Disney+ account, I wouldn't have paid much attention to this. Who needs another Beatles documentary? But I do have access, so I have watched part of it…and now I think, more or less, who needs another Beatles documentary? Or book, or re-master re-issue re-organization of their recordings,…
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Drop down, ye heavens, from above,and let the skies pour down righteousness. Be not wroth very sore, O Lord,neither remember iniquity for ever:thy holy city is a wilderness,Sion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation:our holy and our beautiful house,where our fathers praised thee. This is the first section (verse, stanza, whatever the right word is)…
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