Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.
Review article
My friend and fellow External Brother of the Oxford Oratory David Forster has posted on his blog Liturgia Latina a review of "In the Name of the Father: Homilies for Sundays and Feast days in the Extraordinary Form Calendar," edited by Julien Chilcott-Monk. Canterbury Press Norwich. £19.99 list price. It has a forword by the Archbishop of Westminster and a preface by Msgr. Antony Conlan, and is published in aid of the Oxford Oratory "Renewal and Reaffirmation" Appeal. You can read David's positive and perceptive review here.
Somehow that link has become mangled and doesn't work. Try this one: http://liturgialatina.blogspot.com/2010/10/book-review-in-name-of-father.html
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