tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post1338095327706626108..comments2024-03-27T21:30:35.824+00:00Comments on UK Commentators: Uncertainty or good manners ?Labanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12031578024191117985noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-89641804809908112392009-01-29T20:36:00.000+00:002009-01-29T20:36:00.000+00:00I assumed it meant she had a sense of humour, and ...I assumed it meant she had a sense of humour, and also a polite understanding that not everyone in the church to say goodbye to a loved one shared a faith. It is terribly British, don't you think?<BR/><BR/>Of course, she isn't a fire breathing Irish catholic, like yourself. The CoE claims no authority over the congregation and offers only guidance to the laeity, not leadership by a man that claims to be God's personal envoy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-3678586935340136802009-01-27T15:53:00.000+00:002009-01-27T15:53:00.000+00:00The old Catholic funeral ritual made the possibili...The old Catholic funeral ritual made the possibility - not to mention the likelihood - of final loss fairly strongly.<BR/>It's a great shame that liberals like Faure and Durufle tamely left a lot of the original text out of their musical settings: their texts of the Dies Irae are sadly gelded, so unless people are willing to look up a really good translation such as might be found in a pre-Vatican II missal, or to get a score of the Verdi Requiem and learn a little Latin - this bit is really fairly simple fairly simple - they won't begin to understand what poor John might have to confront. What does he now think of those slogans that the Dawkinsites have put on the buses, I wonder?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-14087241169558752152009-01-27T14:40:00.000+00:002009-01-27T14:40:00.000+00:00I liked the bit about someone reading "So we'll go...I liked the bit about someone reading "So we'll go no more a-roving" at Mortimer's funeral. The late Sir John did a fair amount of that, as I understand: so much so that he apparently didn't always know how many children he actually had.<BR/>Still, it's quite possible that with the state the poor old C-of-E is in now that the late "atheist for Christ" could really have been one of its staunchest pillars.<BR/>I'm sure the unfortunate Dives was also a champagne socialist. <BR/>Sir John MUST have read the famous and unforgettable sermon on Hell in Joyce's "Portait of the Artist...", but maybe he didn't quite get the point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-54426005022827906572009-01-27T13:14:00.000+00:002009-01-27T13:14:00.000+00:00Tolkien - I'm inclined to agree. I'm sure most de...Tolkien - I'm inclined to agree. I'm sure most devout Christians are too aware of their own shortcomings to think that they could get over the hurdle Christ set on their own merits - but we all hope for ourselves and can only hope for others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5187043.post-41613024295768274912009-01-27T09:57:00.000+00:002009-01-27T09:57:00.000+00:00Ah yes, Matthew Henry. I haven't read my copy for ...Ah yes, Matthew Henry. I haven't read my copy for a while - I rather like William O'Neill's commentary myself. I suggested to Norm that the vicar's uncertainty related to whether the surprise for Rumpole was wonderful, not the surprise itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com