I had a most enjoyable lunch today with a friend from Oriel who was back in the city for the day. It was a great pleasure to meet up with him again after an interval as he has been working abroad.
He is dedicated reader of this blog, and assures me he has read it in Kashmir, Kashgar and Kazakstan. His only criticism was that it was not, in his words, "bitchy" enough. He thought I was not doing justice to my skills in that respect. He obviously knows me well. Well, I will see what I can do over coming posts to keep him happy.
There was fringe benefit to the lunch - there is a real plus to lunching a deux with a Muslim who orders a bottle of wine and then declines to drink from it...well, I did not want it to go to waste...
The Feast of All Saints 2024: The Angels
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From the Roman Breviary of 1529, the continuation of the sermon for the
feast of All Saints. It is God who placed the supernal kingdoms of the
Heavens for ...
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