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.


Saturday 27 May 2023

An introduction to St Philip Neri


Following on from my post yesterday about the celebration of St Philip’s feast day I see that the New Liturgical Movement marked the day by reproducing a 2016 article from the magazine The Latin Mass by Michael P. Foley which is a good introduction for those who do not know it well to the life and ministry of St Philip. The article can be read at St. Philip Neri: A Patron Saint of Traditionalism


May St Philip pray for the Oratories, for all Oratorians and for all those formed in the Oratorian tradition. 


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