Archivist and lover of things past. Archiviste amoureux du monde perdu. Author of @SDS_Blog
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Friends, beauty is not simply, as the cliché has it, “in the eye of the beholder.”
To say, having heard the final movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, “Well, I just don’t like it,” would be altogether inappropriate. One’s subjectivity doesn’t judge the Ninth Symphony; it is judged by the Ninth Symphony. The same is true of the Sistine Chapel ceiling and Dante’s “Commedia.”
When we reduce beauty to mere taste, we render the very best things in life flat, mundane, harmless.
And that precludes the possibility of the soul really catching fire.
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'Now that the year grows wearisome with age
And days grow short and nights excessive long...'
Tonight's the eve of Martinmas, a festival to cheer the lengthening winter nights. John Clare's 'St Martin's Eve' describes a merry party, playing games and getting tipsy by the fire!
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The family is the place where faith, human virtues, a culture of work, respect for the elderly, the defense of life, and fidelity to one’s word are handed on. Do not give in to those who dismiss the Christian family as outdated. On the contrary, today more than ever, the family remains a pillar amid the many insecurities of our time. #ApostolicJourney #Argentina
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Tonight's the 88th anniversary of #Kristallnacht, when gangs attacked and destroyed synagogues, and wrecked the Jewish owned shops and businesses which they'd previously picketed and boycotted. Dozens were killed, and the descent towards the Holocaust continued. Lest we forget.
In November 1938, the Nazis embarked on a violent rampage against the Jews of Germany and Austria, desecrating synagogues, burning holy books, and ransacking Jewish institutions and businesses. Dozens of Jews were also brutally murdered during the November Pogrom (#Kristallnacht).
Each November, we remember this heinous attempt to destroy the body and soul of the Jewish people. This year, more than ever, join us in the Spread the Light initiative, launched by Yad Vashem and the Religious Kibbutz Movement.
Tonight, 9 November, leave the lights on overnight in synagogues, cultural establishments, places of gathering and study, and communal buildings, as a symbol of the enduring Jewish spirit and in memory of those whose lives were shattered.
Join us. Snap. Post. Tag
#SpreadtheLight
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Pope Leo XIV denounces abortion in Uruguay:
“The unborn already belong to the human family, and to the future of their people. Their absolute dependence on their mother does not diminish the dignity to which they are entitled, nor to the protection they deserve. Jesus Himself chose to assume this condition.
Welcoming a new life requires that fathers assume their responsibilities alongside mothers, that the family offers their support and that social conditions exist that allow both parents to raise and care for their children.
Protection of the unborn and the support of those who welcome them are inseparable. The family remains the primary setting in which each person is welcomed and learns to life with others.
St. John Paul II, who also had the joy to visit this land, expressed this in a phrase that retains all of its original force; “As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.””
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For Armistice Day here’s a very touching account by Lord (Tom) Denning about the death of his brother Jack on the Somme.
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Technology is perceived as inherently progressive because of its efficiency. Slowly, its role in society has shifted from being a tool to be controlled to something regarded as a moral good in itself. I explain this dynamic in the excerpt below.
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#FlashbackFriday Great Alex Coupar photograph of British #Railways Peppercorn A2 Trimbush heading a train to #Dundee with Broughty Ferry in the background #Archives #DundeeUniCulture
ALT Black and white photograph. A large tender steam locomotive is heading a rain of several coaches. On the left is a road with c 1960s cars. On the right is a body of water with a beach. A small hut is in the right in the foreground
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St John Henry Newman, on his thoughts as a child #AllSaintsDay
Isaac Watts (“father of English hymnody” & logician) on hidden saints (passage referred to by St Cardinal Newman) #AllSaintsDay
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Laura Jedeed (@LauraJedeed) just spent a full month living off the grid in rural Scotland, and this is what she discovered: slate.com/news-and-politics/…
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Bastei, Sächsische Schweiz heute in herrlichster Herbstfärbung und ein paar Nebelschwaden
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The practice of “loudcasting” is so objectionable because it irrupts through the boundary of our private space, imposing unchosen noise into the stream of thoughts that make for an individual life, while making private conversations more strained and difficult.
It effectively imposes a law of the jungle onto public spaces, contributing to a sort of high-tech state of nature where the loudest and most brazen dominate public places, imposing their passing whims on everyone else.
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