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 25 May 2023

The Mass of Ages


Gregory DiPippo has a good article on the New Liturgical Movement which discusses fallacies about the history of the Traditional Latin Mass that are repeatedly publicised by not a few contemporary commentators, including those often seen as conservative such as George Weigel. 

I think the article is worth sharing both as a means of informing my readership and also as a way of equipping them to rebut such arguments when they encounter them.



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