Ecclesiastical bibs and bobs

• Chant for Ascension. As well as the polyphony linked above. Viri Galilæli, quid admiramini aspicientes in cælum? Hic Jesus, qui assumptus est a vobis in cælum, sic veniet, quemadmodum vidistis eum euntem in cælum. Alleluja.
• Get rid of the mikes and sing like the legitimate liturgical movement wanted 50 years ago! Mr/Ms Caruso as described by Thomas Day is not traditional nor high-church.
• Russian Orthodox theologian on Vatican II. Not the best but it has its points. At their best the Orthodox respect Rome’s one-true-church claim mirroring theirs. Are relations with something relativistic (which Rome in itself isn’t — here Fr Maxim misunderstands what it really teaches) possible or even desirable? And Rome has always recognised Eastern orders. My comment. (The American Missal is what the RC Anglican Use should be.)
• Ireland: if it’s true, God have mercy. ‘Disgusting’ says Damian Thompson. ‘I’m glad that it’s a scandal’ says the Archbishop of Westminster.
• Perfect possession. Very scary, kids. From Joshua.
• Martin Thornton (a favourite of Derek): the Benedictine connexion to the best of Anglicanism. Mass and office, or why across the Catholic/Protestant divide we often can still understand each other, which once gave some of us hope for corporate reunion with the Catholic Church. Don’t miss the Eastern church fathers and much of the best of Anglican theology from Joe Rawls.
• Derek on the purpose and effects of liturgical worship.
• Fr Longenecker, a former C of E vicar himself, makes fun of Anglicanism. After all, we mustn’t be unkind to another chap just because he has a few problems in the trouser department. Rightly understood that’s a strength of English and Anglican culture and an authentically Catholic position, avoiding self-righteousness. What the not-famous Bishop Robinson, himself English, named for me ‘tolerant conservatism’. But when you leave Catholicism and its infallible church, and thus can change and make up essential teachings as you go along, you end up with the mistakes of the famous Bishop Robinson that Father is taking the mickey out of.
• My last word on WO? The opposite of a rant or a ramble.