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.


Wednesday, 18 February 2026

The evolution of Ash Wednesday


The New Liturgical Movement has an excellent article today about the evolution and development of the historic liturgy of Ash Wednesday from the time of St Gregory the Great. It also has a useful note about the development of processions on certain other feast days, although Ash Wednesday lost this particular element in the later medieval period.

The article can be accessed at Liturgical Notes on Ash Wednesday


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