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, 26 December 2024

Celebrating St Stephen in the Ambrosian Rite


The New Liturgical Movement website marks St Stephen’s Day with an interesting article about the Gospel reading for the Mass for today in the Ambrosian Rite as used in Milan. It demonstrates very well the antiquity of the traditional lectionaries.  

It also includes a video from a parish under his patronage in Ticino, near Milan, of the opening of the Mass there on St Stephen’s Day in 2018 with the lighting of the faro. A splendid ceremony, very laudable, but not one to do without ecclesiastical approbation, or indeed, a fire extinguisher to hand ….

The article can be seen at The Ambrosian Gospel of St Stephen


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