This week leading up to Ascension Day is Rogationtide, a season of processions to ask for blessings on the land and the fruits of the earth. It was once a popular summer festival, a time to reflect on humanity's deep connection to the natural world. aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2013/05/lfric-…

Out of "Hesperus is Phosphorus" Joseph Bottum gives us a clear draught of memento mori in time for all our graduations

RIP Françoise Hardy Que reste t-il de nos amours ? youtu.be/Upr3hnEfXh8?si… via YouTube

I don't understand why so many native speakers, who probably don't even speak any other language, got this so wrong. This is incredible.

Michael Root, "Will the Stars Sing on the Last Day?" contemplates a version of panpsychism compatible with traditional Christian eschatology. Philip Goff onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Just been alerted to this: Letter to the Editor in tomorrow's The Times and The Sunday Times - an update to the famous 1971 letter, signed by various artists and writers (inc, most famously, Agatha Christie) in support of the Latin Mass

Why Are There So Few Conservative Professors? chronicle.com/article/why-ar…

Brilliant, humane critique of the Transhumanist project by philosopher and bioethicist Susan Levin -- in a profound conversation with Kant, Nussbaum, and others (open access!) link.springer.com/article/10.100…

This tiny boxwood peapod (10cm) was carved in 1500 AD, by a North German artist. It opens to reveal little peas, and then those peas open to reveal ten little carved scenes from Genesis. Now housed at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin. #drthehistories

Listening to Edith Sitwell reading Still Falls the Rain poetryarchive.org/poem/still-fal…

'Uton awurpan þeostra weorc, and beon ymbscrydde mid leohtes wæpnum.' (Let us cast away the works of darkness, and be clothed with the weapons of light.) An Anglo-Saxon sermon for the First Sunday of Advent: aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/2014/11/eos-ti…

Incomparable -- to watch in entirety! ktotv.com/video/00446193… Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris

Did you catch the Reopening Concert of Notre-Dame? 😊 If not, don’t worry, you can still watch it on STAGE+. Follow the link in bio and let me know your favourite moment 🎶

The octave of the reopening of Notre Dame de Paris concludes with joy on Gaudete Sunday -- wonderful homily on joy by the Rector Olivier Ribadeau Dumas ktotv.com/video/00445565…

In case you missed the astonishing octave of ceremonies for the reopening of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, here's a two-minute glimpse: fr.aleteia.org/2024/12/14/vid…

David Motola beautifully plays Brahms' Lullaby for his baby, filling the moment with love and warmth. Best dad award truly goes to you! 🎶💖

George Mackay Brown, The Harrowing of Hell He went down the first step. His lantern shone like the morning star. Down and round he went Clothed in his five wounds. Solomon whose coat was like daffodils Came out of the shadows. He kissed Wisdom there, on the second step. /1

Fr. Robert Mehlhart, OP, President of the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, has begun offering singing lessons on social media, saying the initiative stems from a desire to help people join in song with Pope Leo XIV. loom.ly/jqnD0UA

Let's Sing with the Pope - 2 - Pater Noster youtu.be/7nNbnUHWgk4?si… via YouTube

Such fun! -- Sing the Regina Coeli with our new Pope and a *very* encouraging teacher