The Butterfly goes Free
Before the onset of this bout of acedia, I’d had an idyllic week at Brantwood on the shores of Coniston Water, in a ‘self-arranged’ writers’ retreat. Highly recommended, that: find…
The Shredded Butterfly
Apologies for long absence. Each time someone new has registered an interest in this site, I’ve felt guilty, believing that the Ancestral Voices had fallen silent, perhaps forever. But now at last…
How to buy a car with the help of pea soup
It was time, our mechanic said, to think about buying a new car, new at least to us. We hate choices and have put it off for three months, but…
O Virgo Virginum
In the Medieval English church, they added an eighth antiphon, addressed to the Virgin, and included it by moving all the antiphons forward a day to begin on 16th December.…
O Emmanuel
O Emmanuel, Rex et legifer noster, exspectatio Gentium, et Salvator earum: veni ad salvandum nos, Domine, Deus noster. O Emmanuel, our king and our lawgiver, the hope of the nations…