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.


Thursday, 10 March 2022

Ember Days


The Lenten Ember Days have arrived for those who follow the traditional Calendar whilst their absence from that of the Novus Ordo is the subject of a post on Rorate Caeli. This looks at how they appear to have disappeared through oversight rather than deliberate omission and can be read at Ember Days in the Post-Vatican II Liturgical Reforms: An Accidental Elimination? 

I have two posts, containing appropriate links, from last year on this theme at September Ember Days and at More on Ember Days


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