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Book of Hours of Catherine of Cleves, c. 1440

‘Pray Without Ceasing’

From ancient times the Church has had the custom of celebrating each day the liturgy of the hours. In this way the Church fulfills the Lord’s precept to pray without ceasing, at once offering its praise to God the Father and interceding for the salvation of the world. —Office of the Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship

I, Fanny McElroy

When I, Fanny McElroy, first discovered The Brother Cadfael Mysteries, by Ellis Peters, I ripped through them like a scairt rabbit about to be et by a hawk, as Sister Alma Rose says her Daddy Pete says, or maybe it’s “a hawk after a scairt rabbit.” Anyway, I read them fast. And then there weren’t any more, because Ellis Peters died, so for the longest time I put off reading the final book, the twentieth, because I didn’t want to say goodbye to Brother Cadfael, a Welsh Benedictine monk living at Shrewsbury Abbey during the 12th century, but I found other books to read because I had become fascinated by all things medieval and all things Roman Catholic.

Compline — Coronation of the Virgin

I loved Brother Cadfael’s irreverent way of being genuinely and truly religious, his painstaking cultivation of herbs for healing, his humor and his kindness. And the way he told the time not by the clock but by the Canonical Hours for Prayer — Matins, Lauds, Vespers, Compline, and so forth. Sister Alma Rose has specific times for prayer during the day, and if I am at her house when one of those times comes, we go into her chapel and pray together, and sometimes we pray out loud, sometimes we don’t, and she reads a psalm and we sing a hymn — harmonizing rather nicely, if I do say so — but the thing is, she always seems to know what she’s doing, I mean there aren’t any awkward “what should we do now?” moments. And now I know why.

The Liturgy of the Hours

Book of Hours, Paris, c. 1410

One lazy summer afternoon I was sitting on the steps of Sister Alma Rose’s great green wraparound porch half-listening to Sister Alma Rose talking with Father Dooley and his sister Bernadette, who lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and who is a willowy, fair-haired, freckled young woman who has, as she says, “quite enough money,” and her occupation is Doer of Good Deeds, and she would have become a nun, she told us, but she wanted to get married and have children, which she hasn’t, yet, but she’s only something like twenty-two, so she spends her time visiting the sick and does what she calls “healing prayer work,” and sometimes she takes in the homeless, temporarily, like mothers with children running from an abusive man, that sort of thing, not scary people or drug addicts.

Versicle: Poem on a Stick?

So I’m sitting there, drowsy with the sun and the hum of a summer afternoon, and I perk up when I hear Bernadette say “Compline,” so I get up from the step and go over to the green wicker table and sit in the one vacant green wicker chair and listen to Bernadette talking about the Liturgy of the Hours, which is also called the Divine Office, I have no idea why, but Catholics have funny names for everything, like antiphon and breviary and versicle, which is not “a poem on a stick,” as I suggested, and everyone laughed, which was very gratifying because when one thinks that one is being very clever, it’s good to know that others think so too.

The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreaux

I think that everyone was surprised by my fascination with such a dry subject as the Divine Office, which I had thought was something from long ago… well, which it is, but it is still practiced, or “celebrated,” as Father Dooley says, and he as a priest is obligated to “celebrate” the Liturgy of the Hours, but it is a joy to him, he says, and Bernadette also “celebrates” the Liturgy of the Hours, and Sister Alma Rose says that her daily prayer times are “based on” the Liturgy of the Hours. “Fanny McElroy,” she says, “y’all have been celebrating it with me for years,” and then she laughs and pours me a glass of Mr. Truman LaFollette’s incomparable lemonade.

Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1410

Sister Alma Rose is not Catholic (she has referred to herself as “a Christian Jewish Buddhist,” probably offending adherents of all three religions, but she doesn’t mind — like J. Krishnamurti, she doesn’t mind much of anything, she says, and she is certainly the most serene person I have ever known, though in a crisis she becomes very exercised and shouts prayers to Heaven).

I am not a Catholic either, but there are many things I like about Catholicism, and here is one of them: For two thousand years or so, in spite of corruption and scandal and competition from other religions, and popes who had mistresses and children, and bishops who plotted royal assassinations, and so forth, the Catholic Church has inspired, comforted, counseled, educated, and healed. Irish monks preserved the knowledge from Roman and Greek antiquity by copying a huge lot of documents by hand (read How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, by Thomas Cahill).

Sister Alma Rose has told me about the vile perverted priests who prey on young boys, but I don’t think that those sick men’s transgressions erase all the good that the church has done. And I love the idea of Confession, and the Rosary, and having one’s own personal saint, and Mary the Mother of Jesus, with her woman’s wisdom and her tender heart, and, of course, the Liturgy of the Hours. And, basically, that Catholic worship has gone on uninterrupted for hundreds and hundreds of years.

Some facts about the Liturgy of the Hours

So I ask a thousand questions, and here is some of what I find out about the Divine Office:

It sprang from Jewish prayer practices (“Seven times a day I praise you,” it says in the Psalms)

It began rather simply, with reading or chanting psalms; reading from the Old Testament, the  Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, and epistles; and canticles, which are basically hymns from the Bible but not usually from the psalms.

By the end of the fifth century, the Canonical Hours were — and this is a lot of praying and involves getting up in the middle of the night —

• Matins (during the night), sometimes referred to as Vigils or Nocturns, or in monastic usage the Night Office; it is now called the Office of Readings
• Lauds or Dawn Prayer (at Dawn)
• Prime or Early Morning Prayer (First Hour = 6 a.m.)
• Terce (rhymes with “purse”) or Mid-Morning Prayer (Third Hour = 9 a.m.)
• Sext (rhymes with “next”) or Midday Prayer (Sixth Hour = 12 noon)
• None (rhymes with “John”?) or Mid-Afternoon Prayer (Ninth Hour = 3 p.m.)
• Vespers or Evening Prayer (“at the lighting of the lamps”)
• Compline (KOM-plin) or Night Prayer (before retiring)

Wow! Don’t you love it that the time for Vespers is “at the lighting of the lamps”?

The complete Liturgy of the Hours is contained in the Roman Breviary. Most of the pictures on this page are from personal breviaries made for wealthy people in the Middle Ages.

Très Riches Heures calendar page

All hours begin with Ps. 69-70 v.2, “God come to my assistance, Lord make haste to help me,” and then the doxology:  ”Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Amen.”

The Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer may consist of

• opening versicle (a short verse said or sung by a priest or minister in public worship and followed by a response from the congregation) or (for morning prayer) the invitatory (Psalm 94)
• a hymn, composed by the Church
• two psalms, or parts of psalms with a scriptural canticle. At Morning Prayer, this consists of a psalm of praise, a canticle from the Old Testament, followed by another psalm. At Evening Prayer this consists of two psalms, or one psalm divided into two parts, and a scriptural canticle taken from the New Testament.
• a short passage from scripture
• a responsory (chant or anthem recited after a reading in a church service) typically a verse of scripture, but sometimes liturgical poetry
• a canticle taken from the Gospel of Luke: the Canticle of Zechariah (Benedictus [Blessed be]) for morning prayer, and the Canticle of Mary (Magnificat: The “Song of Mary” from the Gospel of Luke, Magnificat anima mea Dominum = My soul doth magnify the Lord) for evening prayer
  

  Zechariah, Russian Orthodox icon

Nativity from an Antiphon

It looks complicated, doesn’t it? But I have to tell you, it is refreshing and renewing to drop everything at 3 p.m. or whatever because that is the time you have set aside for prayer. And if you’re not Catholic, you can develop your own structure for prayer and praise, as Sister Alma Rose has done, she created a sort of hybrid of the Divine Office, and Father Dooley says that’s fine with him, he encourages everyone to pray in the way that suits them best, as long as there’s no mutilation of poultry and stuff like that.

Well, you can buy the complete Liturgy of the Hours in four volumes for more money than I have in my piggy bank, which last time I counted was $97.13, I am saving for a school trip to walk the Appalachian Trail, but there are less expensive books, such as those that have only the Morning Prayer and the Evening Prayer.

There is much, much more to be told about the subject, but Bernadette had to leave to go back to Grand Rapids and her Good Works, which she does out of love and not to earn points toward Heaven or anything like that. So I will just tell you that I, Fanny, “celebrate” the Hours four times a day using the website DivineOffice.org, which has an audio version with beautiful music, and there are other websites with text versions. Sometimes I pray with Mama, and sometimes with Sister Alma Rose, and sometimes it’s just I, Fanny.

Even if you are not a Christian, you might enjoy this prayer discipline, which is principally made up of psalms anyway, though the references to Jesus Christ Our Savior might make you cringe, I don’t know. What I do know is that I need and enjoy discipline and structure in my prayer life, and for me, Fanny McElroy, the Divine Office is the beginning of that discipline and structure.

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Spiked have a good review on this everlasting debate on Heidegger & Nazism that’s resurfacing:

To worry that philosophical works, and works as prolix as Heidegger’s, works that demand efforts of interpretation, might accidentally turn readers into Nazis is as patronising and absurd as the early-1990s concern that kids, listening to Judas Priest records, were being turned into the children of Beelzebub.

… [R]eaders are not empty receptacles into which ideas, good, bad and ugly, are just pumped. People interpret, engage, and – yes – think about what they are reading.

More importantly:

His thought resonates not because he was a Nazi, but because his criticism of modernity echoes many of today’s anti-modern trends.

Quite right, I think. I tend to disagree with so much of what Spiked churns out – their stubborn and perverse contrariness on almost every subject – but this was interesting and well-articulated. While surely it’s obvious that H’s philosophy isn’t purely separate from his politics, but the very basis of it, and from which it derives (Faye’s book seems to say it’s the other way around) – his philosophy is not a Nazi-philosophy, and his writings are hardly fascist, hate-speech babblings. And that H could inspire other philosophers of a more than liberal, leftwing bent should go to show that politics and this sort of philosophy are hardly interdependent, or at least ever inseparably so.

Heidegger prompts discomfort precisely because he was a Nazi propagating a non-Nazi philosophy … His is a philosophical vision that sits too comfortably with many mainstream attitudes, whether it’s an environmentalist assault upon human hubris or a snobbish disdain for consumerism.

…

Heidegger’s Nazism is the least troubling part of his cultural legacy. Rather it’s his profound, philosophical anti-humanism that needs, not burning, but a vigorous, unceasing challenging.

… an interesting take. Given my mere term’s worth of undergrad Heidegger however, I’ll stick to reserving judgement on this. Worth reading in full.

Thanks to God for my Redeemer,
Thanks for all Thou dost provide!
Thanks for times now but a memory,
Thanks for Jesus by my side!
Thanks for pleasant, balmy springtime,
Thanks for dark and stormy fall!
Thanks for tears by now forgotten,
Thanks for peace within my soul!

Thanks for prayers that Thou hast answered,
Thanks for what Thou dost deny!
Thanks for storms that I have weathered,
Thanks for all Thou dost supply!
Thanks for pain, and thanks for pleasure,
Thanks for comfort in despair!
Thanks for grace that none can measure,
Thanks for love beyond compare!

Thanks for roses by the wayside,
Thanks for thorns their stems contain!
Thanks for home and thanks for fireside,
Thanks for hope, that sweet refrain!
Thanks for joy and thanks for sorrow,
Thanks for heav’nly peace with Thee!
Thanks for hope in the tomorrow,
Thanks through all eternity!

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That’s how strong the demand for gold is.

Since Herzog & de Meuron designed not only the allianz arena but also the bird’s nest, one of the most beautiful stadiums in the world, large events seek for their own way to express ideas and statements through architecture. next year the soccer worldcup takes place in south africa and it’s just time to take a look at the emerging architecture. the soccer city stadium in Johannesburg is a simple but quite fitting design for an african stadium. designed by the american specialists for public spaces populous together with Boogertman + Partners the stadium shell remind us of an african pot.

The calabash, or African pot, was selected as being the most recognizable object to represent what would automatically be associated with the African continent and not any other.
The calabash, or ‘melting pot of African cultures’, sits on a raised podium, on top of which is located a ‘pit of fire’. Thus the pot sits in a depression, which is the ‘pit of fire’, as if it were being naturally fired.   < soccer city web page >

The Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth shell be announced due to it’s beautiful imagination where as the Moses Mabhida Stadium is spectacular for it’s construction of the roof. The so called skywalk, or simply large bow that holds the huge span of the roof shell also be used as observation deck  connected with a cable car.

Fifa Worldcup 2010

No, really, he did…

Before I go much further, I have to tell you that this is a misnomer. This doesn’t have much resemblance to a snake and it’s not really even a cake. It’s called Snake Cake because I learned it from my friend Steve, who claims to have invented the recipe (!), and he just loves snakes!

You need the following ingredients:

• 1 packet Ginger Nuts (easy to find if you live in the UK, but probably not so easy anywhere else)
• Whipping cream
• Medium Sherry
• Kitchen foil

Start by whipping the cream until it is thick. Pour some sherry into a small shallow bowl and then dunk the ginger nuts in the sherry one at a time. They should be submerged, but only long enough for them to be completely covered otherwise they will get soggy. Place the first dunked biscuit on a sheet of kitchen foil and then a generous teaspoon sized dollop of whipped cream on the biscuit. Take the next dunked biscuit and put it on top of the cream, just pressing hard enough to start squeezing the cream out from the sides. Another dollop of cream on top of that biscuit, followed by another biscuit, then cream, then biscuit. I think you’ll see a pattern emerging here… At some point it will make sense to lay the stack on its side in the middle of the kitchen foil and continue adding biscuits until they’re all used up. If there is some cream left, spread it around the outside of the biscuits, and then wrap it all up in the foil. Put this whole bundle in the fridge to cool for a couple of hours or even overnight. When you do get to open it and slice it, the biscuits will have gone soft and the flavours will have mixed to make a yummy dessert.

You can do this with all kinds of combinations of biscuits and alcohol, but you’ll probably have to make a different one with orange juice for the kids.

Kemarin kita dengar di berita TV bahwa Presiden menginstruksuikan kepada Kepala Kepolisian dan Jaksa Agung agar membenahi instansi di lingkungan masing-masin.

Kita tidak paham betul tentang masalah kenegaraan ini; akan tetapi kalau diingat-ingat, di kampung kita tidak pernah mendengar bahwa seorang Penghulu atau Datuak diminta atau disuruh membersihkan aparat atau institusi di lingkungannya — aparat seperti Manti, Dubalang, Imam Katik dan Cadiak Pandai tentunya– yang ada hanyalah, bahkan, Penghulu itu yang harus dibersihkan, dengan istilah, baabu bajantiak, kuma basasasah. Dan yang disasah itu adalah penghulu itu sendiri saja, tidak ada membawa aparatnya. Kalau pangulu sudah di-sasaha, maka instutusi nya, yaitu sukunya, sudah bersih dan sudah dapat dibawa sahilie-samudiak di nagari.

Kalau di pemerintahan, tampaknya hanya oknum aparat yang bersalah, pimpinanannya selalu bersih dan berkewajiban memelihara atau memperbaiki institusuinya jika terkena pencemaran atau gugatan.

It’s always such a challenge to decide where to go for lunch, so I started a Google Map for making a note of restaurants that I have been to in Frankfurt that I would be happy to go back to.

It’s called “Places to eat in Frankfurt” and you can get to it at http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104731991815357294810.0004517ed2a213fcc1c1d&z=13

I’d love it you wanted to add some restaurants to the list, so drop me a line with your Google ID and I’ll add you to the list of collaborators. You can find out how to email me in the “About” page.

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Today, they’ve fallen so much they want to do a dirty deal with News Corp. in a desperate attempt to pump up their search engine numbers.

Was going to ride my motorcycle to work this morning. Took some patience and liberal application of the throttle to get her started, which is typical when she has been sitting for more than a couple of weeks. Got my gear on, dug up my tire gauge, and of course…

The front tire was completely flat.

Not too surprised at that — on my road trip, every morning when I checked the tire I would find a drop of the tire goo coming out of the hole. Oh well. New tire has been ordered. If I’m really lucky maybe it will get here on Wednesday…