Blogged by James Preece on 20th February 2013
The phrase "tabula delenda est" employs a gerundative and I haven't studied gerundatives yet so I don't know about gerundatives but I do know about Carthage because the picture of Carthage in the history book I had as a kid was really cool and I remember it well.
Anyways, I've been asked to support a facebook group/event/campaign thingy in opposition to The Tablet and I am very happy to do so. Check it out...
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I am a Catholic Dad living in Kingston Upon Hull in Yorkshire.
I like fun stuff like juggling, drawing, unicycling, toy trains, building blocks and video games. I like interesting stuff like history, theology, science and computers.
I find that all of these things have something to do with God.
I should not have used the word teach. I stand corrected. Stonewall are an organisation which exists to promote a cause...
I too doubt if Stonewall would ever see the need to invite a Catholic speaker to address them, but only because there...
Good for you James. A few years back I started learning Irish and found my first attempt at reading a book in the...
Stonewall do promote a cause, the cause of gay equality. Good luck to them. Stonewall are interested in promoting gay...
I suppose that indeed constitutes a cause, but is not the cause that seems to get some Catholics so upset. Promoting...
O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon England thy "Dowry" and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in thee.
By thee it was that Jesus our Saviour and our hope was given unto the world; and He has given thee to us that we might hope still more.
Plead for us thy children, whom thou didst receive and accept at the foot of the cross.
O sorrowful Mother! intercede for our separated brethren, that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the supreme Shepherd, the Vicar of thy Son.
Pray for us all, dear Mother, that by faith fruitful in good works we may all deserve to see and praise God, together with thee, in our heavenly home.
Amen.
O God, our heavenly Father, protect and bless us. Deepen and strengthen our love for each other day by day.
Grant that by thy mercy, neither of us may ever say one unkind word to the other. Forgive and correct our faults, and make us constantly to forgive one another should one of us unconsciously hurt the other.
Make us and keep us sound and well in body, alert in mind, tender in heart, and devout in spirit. O Lord, grant us each to rise to the other's best. Then, we pray thee, add to our common life such virtues as only thou canst give.
And so, O Father, consecrate our life and love completely to thy worship, and to the service of all about us, especially those whom thou hast appointed us to serve, that we may always stand before thee in happiness and peace; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Reader Comments
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Mark Dobson said...
How can you possibly already be on the second Google search results page for "gerundative"? That's mental.
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James said...
Because the actual gramatical term 'gerundive' and I got it muddled.
So I'm on page two of the idiots.. In my defence, I haven't studied them yet :)
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Mark Dobson said...
Wasn't going to say...
Any way you cut it, page two of 1160 "idiot" hits within an hour in't bad.
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Ben Trovato said...
The best introduction to gerunds and gerundives is the picture in Molesworth of them being led into captivity by Kennedy.
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Chrysostom said...
The board of THE TABLET includes: "Edward Stourton, Lord Chris Patten, Baroness Shirley Williams and Baroness Helena Kennedy. I should not want the Tablet banned, but surely genuine Catholics would not want to look at this awful magazine, and priests and bishops would not sell it at the back of any decent Catholic church. CAFOD is always a big advertiser in The Tablet, of course. There's a letter in this week's CATHOLIC TIMES asking CAFOD to speak out against abortion - some hope! It does not even speak out about COMPULSORY abortion in China - no women's right to choose there. Nor does The Tablet, of course.
Our Lady Help of Christians - pray for us.
St Athanasius - pray for us
All Ye English Martyrs - pray for us.
St. Charles Lwanga and Companion Martyrs of Uganda who were martyred because they resisted the advances of an evil homosexual paedophile – pray for us.
The Forty Martyrs of Sebaste ( frozen to death) - pray for us.
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Patricius said...
Are any of those actually practising Catholics? I had the impression, for instance, that Stourton hated the Church and the Pope.
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Ora Pro Nobis said...
Just out of interest I notice that Clifford Longley decided to defend the Tablet on the Protect the Pope site (re: the new youth facebook/Tablet page).
http://protectthepope.com/?p=6788
As you will see, he got more than he bargained on.
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Catherine said...
“… in that time of immense confusion the divine dogma of our Lord's divinity was proclaimed, enforced, maintained, and (humanly speaking) preserved, far more by the "Ecclesia docta" than by the "Ecclesia docens;" that the body of the episcopate was unfaithful to its commission, while the body of the laity was faithful to its baptism; that at one time the Pope, at other times the patriarchal, metropolitan, and other great sees, at other times general councils, said what they should not have said, or did what obscured and compromised revealed truth; while, on the other hand, it was the Christian people who, under Providence, were the ecclesiastical strength of Athanasius, Hilary, Eusebius of Vercellae, and other great solitary confessors, who would have failed without them.”
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“On the one hand, then, I say, that there was a temporary suspense of the functions of the "Ecclesia docens." The body of Bishops failed in their confession of the faith. They spoke variously, one against another; there was nothing, after Nicaea, of firm, unvarying, consistent testimony, for nearly sixty years. There were untrustworthy Councils, unfaithful Bishops; there was weakness, fear of consequences, misguidance, delusion, hallucination, endless, hopeless, extending itself into nearly every corner of the Catholic Church. The comparatively few who remained faithful were discredited and driven into exile; the rest were either deceivers or were deceived.
- Bl John Henry Newman, On Consulting the Faithful on Matters of Doctrine
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Fintan said...
I think you will find all of the named Trustees of the Tablet are practising Catholics. I certainly know that three of them are.
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Mark Dobson said...
I was a bit surprised by the claim that Edward Stourton hated the Church, so I went to wikipedia, which told me he was a Catholic. I then read an interview with him in the Telegraph where he said that he stopped going to mass after his remarriage excluded him from receiving.
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Mark Dobson said...
For the record,this one:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3617800/Technically-I-suppose-Im-a-sinner.html
And I suppose a lot may have changed in 10 years, but I never get the impression that he hates the Church when I listen to the Sunday programme podcast. He sounds like, well, a journalist!
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New Friend said...
Mark
I read the linked article. I have always liked his style and found his story interesting. It caused me to reflect on something and I just wondered if in your opinion, this extract is a correct summary:-
"As a remarried divorcé, technically you are outside the Church. As a divorcé, you are fine. More than that, I could go to Communion if I could agree to live with Fiona 'as brother and sister', as they put it, for the rest of our lives. That's what the rules are. It's not that the Church has excommunicated you exactly, but that you have excommunicated yourself. You have put yourself outside. Yes, it is a big loss."
If so, do you not think there are parallels to be drawn between society expecting those they employ to follow the rules and, should they not, them excluding themselves? Or do you think the Church can make rules, but society cannot?
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Robert said...
What a ghastly editorial board!
If any of these marxists are in any sort of standing with the Church it only goes to show what a truly dreadful state our Church is in.
The only thing these people believe in is the Revolution.
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