Wednesday, 6 January 2010

The Cities Hostile And The Towns Unfriendly And The Villages Dirty

Unable to attend the Extraordinary Form today, I will miss the Epiphany for only the second time in my life, and the first was this time last year, even though I did not become a Catholic until two thirds of the way through my BA.

There are, however, those in England who will still be keeping it on the same day as the Pope. In the Church of England. Quite a senior member of which once asked me in all seriousness whether or not we were still keeping Christmas Day on 25th December rather than moving it to the nearest Sunday.

We had rather hoped for a reversal when Archbishop Nichols was installed on the real Ascension Day. So, where is it? Meanwhile, liberals like ecumenism. Let them do the ecumenical thing by doing the Ultramontane thing, restoring the Epiphany and Ascension Day, and with them Corpus Christi, to their proper days, as kept both by our separated brethren and by our Holy Father.
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10 comments:

  1. Sui Juris6 January 2010 at 13:41

    Joy of the day to you, then. In my (Church of England) church we are keeping it today, notwithstanding the cold coming we may have of it.

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  2. Anonymous6 January 2010 at 20:38

    The Holy Father might very well celebrate Epiphany and Corpus Christi on their 'actual' days, but his Diocese (Rome) transfers them to the Sunday.

    Do you REALLY want to copy a situation where the shepherd lives according to a different calendar from his flock?!

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  3. David Lindsay6 January 2010 at 20:55

    The Italian Bishops' Conference needs to be brought into line, just as ours does.

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  4. Anonymous6 January 2010 at 23:35

    Ah, so now you really ARE 'more roman than the pope'!!!

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  5. David Lindsay7 January 2010 at 00:15

    I am exactly as Roman as the Pope.

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  6. Anonymous7 January 2010 at 10:11

    Then how about this: leave it to HIM to decide whether the Italian Bishops' Conference needs to be brought into line!

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  7. David Lindsay7 January 2010 at 15:55

    Don't worry, I do...

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  8. Anonymous8 January 2010 at 20:46

    Good, well be a good obedient little Catholic and keep your opinions (about how the Pope should run the Church) to yourself.

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  9. David Lindsay8 January 2010 at 20:48

    That's not how it works. You don't know what you are talking about.

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  10. Anonymous8 January 2010 at 20:59

    Is that last comment from a BBC type smarting - and by hell, they are - over Jonathan Ross? Or is it from an Oliver Kamm fan smarting - and by hell, they are - at the exposure of him as a complete fraud? They are the only two categories of people quite that hostile to Catholicism while quite so ignorant of it and of everything else.

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