Some Piping for the Tail End of the Weekend
Fred Morrison on uillean pipes and a few friends play some reels to get you ready for the week.
The Inn at the End of the World
"[A] man . . .the other day pointed out that I was never bored. I hadn’t thought of that before, but it’s true: I’m never bored. I’m appalled, horrified, angered, but never bored. The world appears to me so infinite in its variety that many lifetimes could not exhaust its interest. So long as you can still be surprised, you have something to be thankful for." -Theodore Dalrymple
Sunday, October 21, 2012
September 24
FEAST OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM
Patroness of the Ordinariate of the
Chair of St Peter
Oremus pro beatissimo Papa nostro Francisco
Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eumet beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum eius.
Deus omnium fidelium pastor et rector, famulum tuum Franciscum, quem pastorem Ecclesiæ tuæ præesse voluisti, propitius respice: da ei, quæsumus, verbo et exemplo, quibus præest proficere; ut ad vitam, una cum grege sibi credito, perveniat sempiternam. Per Dominum. Amen.
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St Thomas Becket, Archbishop & Martyr
Ant. This Saint hath striven for the law of God even unto death, and hath not feared for the swords of the ungodly; for he hath been founded upon a firm Rock.
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The men of the East may spell the stars,
And times and triumphs mark,
But the men signed of the cross of Christ
Go gaily in the dark.
The men of the East may search the scrolls,
For sure fates and fame,
But the men that drink the blood of God
Go singing to their shame.
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But you and all the kind of Christ
Are ignorant and brave,
And you shall have wars you hardly win
And souls you hardly save.
I tell you naught for your comfort
Yea, naught for your desire,
Save that the sky grows darker yet
And the sea rises higher.
Night shall be thrice night over you,
And heaven an iron cope.
Do you have joy without a cause,
Yea, faith without a hope?
from The Ballad of the White Horse
-G. K. Chesterton
The Anglican Ordinariates in the Catholic Church
The shield shown above is that of the Anglican Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter for the United States.
The Anglican Ordinariate in the Catholic Church is a reality not only in the United Kingdom, but now in the United States also. For several years this space on the left-hand column of The Inn has been dedicated to the Anglican Use parishes and supporting websites. These parishes and societies were in union with Rome and were under the jurisdiction of their local Roman Rite bishops. But now, as of this writing (1 January 2012) the Holy Father has provided that Catholic parishes and communities in the Anglican tradition will have their own Ordinary and their own diocesan-like structure to gather round. At the moment it is thought that the American Ordinariate may also have care of some Canadian Catholic groups of the Anglican tradition. There is also an Anglican Ordinariate in England and Scotland and one or more are planned for Australia, New Zealand and perhaps elsewhere. The following are a selection of links to further explore the Catholic Anglican patrimony.
Anglicanorum Cœtibus the papal document establishing the Anglican Ordinariates (in English)
Complementary Norms - more details from the Vatican on the new Anglican Ordinariates
The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter (for the U.S.)
Decree of Erection of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St Peter
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham (for the U.K.)
The Ordinariate in Scotland
The Anglo-Catholic
Anglican Use News
Peregrinations - a Canadian view of the North American Ordinariate
The Ordinariate Portal -- one-stop site for news of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
The Portal Magazine
The Anglican Use Society
The Daily Office of the Catholic Church according to the Anglican Use
The Anglican Use Pastoral Provision
All Saints Sisters of the Poor
Atonement Online
The Tunbridge Wells Ordinariate Blog
Marylebone Ordinariate Group
Fr Hunwicke's Liturgical Notes
Anglican Patrimony
Bl John Henry Newman Catholic Church, A Roman Catholic (Anglican Use) Community in Orange County, California
The Anglican Use Congregation of St. Athanasius
Our Lady of the Atonement Catholic Church (Anglican Use)
Salvete atque Valete
Our Lady of Walsingham Catholic Church (Anglican Use)
St. Mary the Virgin Catholic Church (Anglican Use)
A DVD of Holy Mass according to the Anglican Use and the Book of Divine Worship. Beautifully celebrated at Our Lady of the Atonement in Texas.
Book of Divine Worship -- the full text of the Mass and Daily Office of the Anglican Use downloadable in pdf format -- the bound volume is out of print and awaiting revision.
The Collect for the Anglican Use
O Holy Ghost the Lord, Who on Pentecost gavest the Church the gift of tongues that Christ might be known, loved, and served by peoples of divers nations and customs: watch over the Anglican heritage within Thy Church, we pray Thee, that, led by Thy guidance and strengthened by Thy grace, that Use may find such favour in Thy sight that its people may increase both in holiness and number, and so show forth Thy glory; Who livest and reignest with the Father and the Son, one God world without end. Amen.
CARMEL
Fountain of Elias
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity
Carmel of the Immaculate Heart -- a new order of hermit monks in the ancient Carmelite tradition.
The Rule of St Albert & The Constitutions of the Carmelite Secular Order
The Infant Jesus of Prague
Holy Mother Teresa of Jesus
St John of the Cross
St Therese of the Child Jesus [of Lisieux]
Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity
St. Teresa-Margaret (Redi) of the Sacred Heart
St. Teresia-Benedicta a Cruce
St Peter Thomas
Carmel of Jesus, Mary, & Joseph
Carmelite Corner
The Carmelite Order - History
The Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne
The Byzantine Catholic Carmelite Monastery of St Elias
The Discalced Carmelite Province of St Joseph (Western U.S.A.)
A Gallimaufrey of Weblogs. . .
. . .which I find enjoyable. It would be very rash of you to infer that I agree with everything in each of them. Even rasher to assume that they all agree with me.
Ad Altare Dei
(The) American Conservative Blog
Andrew Cusack
Anglican Use News
Apologia
Atonement On Line
Auntie Joanna Writes
(The) Brussels Journal
Cælum et Terra primum
Cælum et Terra secundum
Catholic Church Conservation
Chesterton & Friends
(A)Conservative Blog for Peace
Crazy Stable
Curt Jester
(The) Daily Eudemon
Deborah Gyapong
De Fide Catholica
Dhimmi Watch
Dignare Me Laudare Te, Virgo Sacrata
Distributist Review, The
Dyspeptic Mutterings
Eunomia
For Keats' Sake
Fountain of Elias
Hallowed Ground
(The) Hermeneutic of Continuity
In Haught Pursuit
Irenikon the Skete
Irish Elk [arichive only these days; vide "The Jury Box" infra for further adventures]
Jeff Culbreath
Jerry Pournelle
Jihad Watch
(The) Jury Box
L.A. Catholic
Laudem Gloriæ
(The) Lion and The Cardinal
Man With Black Hat
McCain's Corner
Medieval Church Art
[The] New Liturgical Movement
Oblique House
Once I Was a Clever Boy
Orwell's Picnic
Oxford Events (Weblog of the LMS Chairman)
Peggy Noonan's Blog
Peregrinus Hibernensis
(The) Piping Times editor's blog
[The] Pittsford Perennialist
Psallite Sapienter
Random Jottings of a Book and Opera Lover
Recta Ratio
Roman Catholic Blog
Rorate Cæli
Sacred Miscellany
Steve Skojec
Stony Creek Digest
Tea at Trianon
Thine Own Service
[The] Thousandth Time
Touchstone Magazine - Mere Comments
Traditional Vocations Blog
Transalpine Redemptorists
Valle Adurni
Video meliora, proboque; deteriora sequor
View from England
Vultus Christi
(The) Western Confucian
What Does The Prayer Really Say?
What's Wrong With the World?"
Whispers in the Loggia
St. Blog's Parish Webring
LITURGICAL REGENERATION
One might infer from this selection of links that I believe "Liturgical Regeneration" is going to come principally, if not exclusively, from a restoration of the traditional Roman Rite. Such an inference would be largely correct. However, see also the Anglican Ordinariate links above.
The Traditional Roman Rite
Sancta Missa A Tutorial on the Latin Mass According to the 1962 Missale Romanum
"Altar Cards" - just what it says: they supply easy-to-read and beautiful to look at altar cards for the Traditional Roman Rite Mass.
International Federation Una Voce
Una Voce - U.S.A.
Una Voce of Orange County
Una Voce of Los Angeles
The Latin Mass Society of England & Wales
Oxford Events - Weblog of the LMS Chairman
The Latin Mass Society of Ireland
Una Voce Scotland
Una Voce delle Venezia -- Masses and spiritual activity in the north east of Italy
Traditional Vocations Blog
Carmelite Monks (in case you missed the link in the 'Carmelite' section)
Institut du Bon Pasteur
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
The Institute of Christ the King
The Institute of St. Philip Neri
Benedictines of the Immaculate
Monastery of Our Lady of the Annunciation ["Clear Creek"]
Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem
Coalition in Support of Ecclesia Dei
The Canons Regular of the Mother of God
Transapline Redemptorists
Fraternity of St Vincent Ferrer (a community of men upholding the Dominican tradition)
Fraternity of St Vincent Ferrer (a second website)
Totius Archivii Liturgici
An exempla gratiæ for Bishop Brown. (Or is it a stimulus carnis?)
Gregorian Chant Network - a "biritual" site, if you will, but much good stuff on Gregorian Chant
Gregorian Chant - every imaginable chant resource is linked here
Reform of the Reform I don't hold much hope for this movement; the internal contradictions seem insurmountable. I wish them well and no one will be happier than I if they succeed; but no one will be more surprised either.
Give them a look anyway; they have many interesting things to say.
Adoremus Society
Latin Liturgy Association
Association for Latin Liturgy [UK]
A Necessary Movement in any Rite
SMMMHDH: Beatus qui tenebit et allidet "citharas" tuas ad petram
The Holy City of Byzantium
Well, no, not every entry here is “Byzantine”. But it is all “Eastern” and I rather like Yeat’s poem, so herewith:
Introduction to the Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church -- a very useful summary
Irenikon the Skete
Syrian Catholics in America
Holy Resurrection Monastery, one of the few Eastern Catholic monasteries in the U.S.
St Benedict and Byzantium in one monastery
St Basil the Great Byzantine Catholic Church – a beautiful little parish in Los Gatos, CA
The Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Van Nuys
The Byzantine Catholic Church in America – an unofficial website with much information about the Pittsburgh Metropolia
Annuciation Byantine Catholic Parish in Anaheim, CA
The Melkite Church in America
Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of St Nicholas in Chicago
Nativity of the Bl Virgin Mary Ukrainian Catholic Church in Los Angeles
Byzantine Catholic Daily Prayer and Lectionary – a rich source of prayer taken from the Byzantine liturgy
A very belated thanks to Dave Brown for that last link; a gateway to a vast amount of information and inspiration
THE GREAT HIGHLAND BAGPIPE
A few good links, should you share an interest - not to say an obsession - with the pipes.
A Patron Saint for Pipers?
The Western U.S. Pipe Band Association
Alliance of North American Pipe Band Associations
The Irish Pipe Band Association
Bob Dunsire's Directory (This is the motherlode; all you'll ever need to know about piping is linked here. ADDENDUM: Well, it was anyway. After Bob's death the site stopped being maintained. Many of the links are dead. Still some very useful stuff, though.)
The Piobaireachd Society
St Patrick's Pipe Band - An Irish pipe band affiliated with the traditional parish of St Stephen in Sacramento; the FSSP and bagpipes - who could ask for more?
The Misty Isle Pipe Band Redivivus?? Well, no. Jen has even taken down the old website I used to link here. This is what our old band used to sound like just before disbandment.
St.Laurence O'Toole Pipe Band (Republic of Ireland's top band; no one else is even close.)
Pipeline (BBC piping programme, broadcast weekly for 70 some years.)
Comunn na Piobaireachd - piping from New Zealand
The Thousandth Time - a fellow piper from California, a fiddler, entomologist and, not co-incidentally, traditional Catholic. (Yes, all the same person.}
Piping in the Irish Defence Forces -- the official website
The Two-droned Irish Warpipe -- Dave Gallagher's excellent tribute to the now seldom-seen Irish warpipe
The Irish Air Corps Pipe Band
CAULD WIND PIPES
The Lowland and Border Pipers' Society -- fostering the bellows-blown pipes of northern England and lowland Scotland
The Piper's Gathering -- annual gathering of players of alternative pipes: English, Irish, Breton, you-name-it
Smallpiper -- Vicki Swan explains the bellows-blown smallpipes. Loads of good tunes.
The Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum -- just what it says. And not only cauld wind pipes, but plenty of others, too
The Morpeth Chantry Bagpipe Museum: Pictures of the border pipes in the collection
The Morpeth Gathering -- a celebration of Northumbrian and border traditions. Lots of Northumbrian small pipes and half-longs
The Northumbrian Pipers Society
The Bagpipe Society -- encouraging all sorts of bagpipe, including the English bagpipe revival
The Uilleann Obsession -- the website for the Southern California Uilleann Piper's Club
Cumann na bPíobairí Corcaigh -- The Cork Piper's Club
Cumann na bPíobairí Uilleann, Áth Cliath -- The Uilleann Piper's Club of Dublin
THE SOCIAL ORDER
Erik Ritter von Kuehnelt- Leddihn
The E.F. Schumacher Society
Walmart Watch
Chronicles
The St Gabriel Possenti Society
Lifesite
Gettin' the Right Eats
Niman Ranch
St Antoninus Institute
The Monarchist League
The Jacobite Heritage
Irish Royalty
Pobal na hEireann
Chritian Solidarity
Conservative Central (An Australian View)
American Life League
RADIO
Inspired by shortwave, but this is, after all, the internet. . . .
Radio Jay Allen
Radio Telefís Éireann: RTÉ 1
------Raidió na Gaeltachta
Voice of Russia
BBC World Service
BBC Radio Scotland
Radio Taiwan International [Republic of China]
Radio Vaticana
Radio Tilling - an occasional podcast for those in need of a chota peg of Miss Mapp, Miss Lucas, Major Benjy, the Padre and the creme of Tilling society
Glenn Hauser's World of Radio
Universal Radio - very helpful supplier of all sorts of receivers
Grove - another good vendor; very knowledgeable about their products
The Passport - was an essential vade mecum for SW listening, now, alas, defunct. But the website is still there with a few updates.
On Acquiring a SW Radio
THE NEWS STAND
The Inner City Press
The Brandsma Review
Oriens
The Strand Magazine
Daily Telegraph (London)
The New Oxford Review
The Jihad Watch
Chronicles Magazine
Latin Mass Magazine
California Catholic Daily -- successor to the redoubtable Los Angeles Catholic Mission
Touchstone
Taki's Top Drawer
The Remnant - the principal organ of Catholic traditionalism in America; not for the faint of heart. (If the articles are too much, note the links to current news from various sources in the right-hand column. Much like "Seattle Catholic" used to do.)
The Irish Times (very liberal and they charge, but the source for Irish news)
The Irish Independent (very marginally less liberal, they don't charge, and now Kevin Myers also!)
The Sunday Business Post -- business news, to be sure, but much more, too
Long Beach Press Telegram (the only print source for news about Long Beach or Lakewood in existence)
The Los Angeles Times (the Los Angeles newspaper monopoly)
The American Conservative
The Wanderer - reporting what the modernists don't want reported for 150 years, more or less
THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
The American Chesterton Society
The American Belloc Society
Belloc: Readings
Chesterton & Friends
Into the Wardrobe: A C.S. Lewis Website
John Henry Cardinal Newman
Plum
Maurice Baring
More Maurice Baring
The Ronald A. Knox Society
Another site for Msgr Ronald A. Knox
Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.
Vincent McNabb, O.P.
ECCLESIASTICAL MISCELLANEA
Corpus Thomisticum -- all of Aquinas in one handy website
Holy Resurrection Monastery (Byzantine Catholic monks in Wisconsin)
Thesaurus Precum Latinarum (an on-line Latin prayer book; a rich plum pudding of hidden delights)
St Peter Chanel Catholic Church (probably the best parish in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles)
The Oblates of the Virgin Mary (the outstanding congregation that staffs St Peter Chanel)
The Wikipedia site for the Handmaid of God, Zita of Bourbon-Parma
A fervent essay on the Blessed Emperor Karl by Catholic journalist and writer Gary Potter.
EWTN (pictures, sound files, and an enormous library)
Biblia Vulgata
Douay-Rheims-Challoner Bible
Authorized Bible, a.k.a. The King James Version
Bl Titus Brandsma, O.Carm. -- priest, theologian, journalist, mystic, educator, & martyr
Accipe Potestatem (The major web resource for the study of Anglican Orders)
Choral Evensong
St Michael's Abbey -- Praemonstratensian Canons of Orange, Calif.
HIBERNIA
Fr William Doyle, S.J., chaplain to the 16th Irish Brigade
Failte Isteách
Pobal na hEireann (promoting the Irish language, the traditional Roman Rite, and restoration of the High Kingship of Ireland. More lost causes here than you can shake a stick at. I love every one of them.)
Canon Sheehan
Canon Sheehan II
Patrick Pearse
The Wild Geese
Ireland's History in Maps
Irish Culture & Customs
Architecture Ireland (pictures of almost any famous Irish building)
The Irish Peerage
The Irish Chiefs
A Page of Irish Links
Tha Boord o Ulster-Scotch: Leid & Fowkgates
Ireland in WWII
Léigh, Scríobh, agus Labhair Gaelige
Na Píobairí Uilleann
Irish Books (in America)
Irish Import Shop (the best source for Irish food, music, & much else in Southern California)
Ulster Heritage Magazine
Ulster Heritage: All Things Ulster
The Two-droned Irish War Pipe
The Irish War Pipe - not nearly as useful a site as the one above, but has some good links on its "History" page
Irish Militaria
SCOTTISH COUNTRY DANCE
What is Scottish Country Dancing, Anyway?
The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, a.k.a., RSCDS
RSCDS - Orange County, Calif. Branch
RSCDS - Los Angeles, Calif. Branch
RSCDS - San Gabriel Valley, Calif. Branch
RSCDS - San Diego, Calif. Branch
Scottish Country Dancing in and around Los Angeles
Eighty by Thirty-two - a blog-type resource for sharing Scottish country dances
RSCDS - Edinburgh [Scotland] Branch
"TAC" - The Teacher's Association of Canada
James Scott Skinner
Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary
The Intercity Scot -- the fons et origo of North American Scottish dance information
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-Mail: High praise, recipes, & sources for good reeds may be addressed to:
thesixbells AT verizon DOT net
(after, of course, you close up the spaces, change the "AT" to an "@" and the "DOT" to a "."
Spambots delendi sunt.) (If this looks new to you, you are quite right; the old Tavernkeeper address is no more.)
An address for complaints may possibly be added at some point. In the fullness of time. Le cunamh Dé. Deo volente.
Should you, in fact, decide to drop me a note, it is entirely possible that I may decide to publish it unless you tell me not to. And even if you tell me not to, things do get in something of a muddle here; in a fit of absentmindedness, I might publish it anyway. So discretion is always advisable.
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About Me
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- Name:John
- Location:Archdiocese of Hollywood, In Partibus Infidelium, United States
Catholic of Scottish & Irish descent. Former paper boy, dishwasher, mail boy, file clerk, procedures analyst, and corporate attorney. Current piper, secular Carmelite, Scottish country dancer, scribbler and appallingly bad gardener.
And about that URL. . . .
"What's it supposed to mean?" I hear you ask.
Scroll to the very bottom of this page and all will be revealed.
"Two of the pubs near Oxford which C.S. Lewis frequented were The Trout and The Six Bells.
Some of Lewis's American readers had written him to inquire about his views on drinking
alcoholic beverages. His response to them was in no uncertain terms: 'I have always
in my books been concerned simply to put forward mere Christianity, and am no
guide on these (most regrettable) interdenominational questions. I do however
most strongly object to the tyrannic and unscriptural insolence of anything that calls
itself a Church and makes teetotalism a condition of membership. Apart from the more
serious objection (that Our Lord Himself turned water into wine and made wine the medium
of the only rite He imposed on all His followers), it is so provincial (what I believe
you people call small town). Don't they realize that Christianity arose in the
Mediterranean world where, then as now, wine was as much a part of the normal diet as bread?"
C. S. Lewis: Images of His World by Douglas Gilbert & Clyde S. Kilby
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