Roydosan

Everton FC, Roman Catholic

[Stephen Parker @StephenGParker]

After my post about the Chatsworth Parterre being revealed in the drought.. the magnificent Blenheim Palace has captured a glimpse into their previous formal parterre design.
The original parterre was created in 1705 by royal gardener Henry Wise..

[Roydosan @MeadowsLloyd]

@marklukec2to @mickyd54 @phillipsc It was asked if the Catholic Church was doing the same as the CofE. The idea anyone should pay reparations for what happened hundreds of years ago is ludicrous but that wasn’t the question.

[Roydosan @MeadowsLloyd]

@mickyd54 @phillipsc The Catholic Church in England & Wales had zero power (or money) between 1558 and 1850 and was persecuted up until 1829. Consequently it (thankfully) didn’t have any opportunity to be involved in the transatlantic slave trade.

[Catholic Answers @catholiccom]

This is the closest we'll get to "NEW SAINT AUGUSTINE JUST DROPPED":

In 2024, a Latin scholar and professor at the University of Wurzburg got a phone call asking him to look at a twelfth-century manuscript housed in a monastery in Poland. The manuscript contained six sermons by St. Augustine, one of the greatest Church Fathers.

The scholar, named Christian Tornau, found that four of the sermons were already known to scholars, but two of them were new. They were previously lost works of Augustine that nobody had read or recognized in centuries.

But now Tornau was faced with a new question: Were they real?

There was some reason to suspect them. The fact that the manuscript was from the twelfth century was unusual. Scholars would normally expect a work of this type to have been created in the eighth or ninth century.

But Tornau was able to determine that the manuscript might be a copy of one from an abbey in Saxony. An old catalogue from that monastery lists a work with the same headings as the recently discovered one, so we have a plausible chain for how the twelfth-century version was copied.

Tornau brought in other scholars to see what they thought, and in 2025, a summer school of over twenty Latin scholars was held in Vienna to consider the find.

Their conclusion was unanimous: The sermons are genuine. “The style, humor, and content also clearly indicate that the sermons in the manuscripts were actually written by Augustine,” Tornau said.

Now a critical edition of the sermons is being prepared, and it’s scheduled to be published by the end of 2026.

How significant is the discovery? It’s not as momentous as some others. For example, in 1990, thirty previously lost sermons and other writings of Augustine were found.

But this is the kicker: the two new sermons deal with one of the most mysterious passages in the Bible.

Which one? Read more here: https://t.co/YwWzti9ZVR

[Roydosan @MeadowsLloyd]

@haskell_jo59124 @RealAdVaticanum More likely he’s biding his time. It’s a common tradition for parish priests to wait a year before changing what their predecessor did. Could be the Pope is doing the same.

[Roydosan @MeadowsLloyd]

@uxixu @RealAdVaticanum Removing the right of bishops to approve/deny public celebrations of the old rite was an essential part of Summorum Pontificum.

[Roydosan @MeadowsLloyd]

@Ranfel5 @Montpop2000 @andyburnham So what? It’s garbage whoever negotiated it.

[Roydosan @MeadowsLloyd]

@CatholicSat My condolences. Prayers offered.

[Empire Aesthetics @Empireaesth]

HMS Victory on the Atlantic Chase (August 1805)

- Geoff Hunt

In 1805 the French fleet broke the British blockade at Toulon and headed across the Atlantic to the Caribbean. Nelson and his fleet gave chase and arrived in the Caribbean soon after the French.

The French (joined by Spanish allies) had started their return journey in order to link up with the French army preparing to invade England. On the way back they fought an indecisive action off Cape Finisterre against a British squadron, after which Villeneuve put into Spanish ports and eventually withdrew to Cádiz.

It was at Cádiz that Nelson caught up and blockaded the Combined Fleet, leading to the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October 1805. This was Britain’s greatest naval victory and helped establish British naval dominance for the next 100 years.

[𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐄 @ConsulofRome_]

A reconstruction of Hadrian’s villa at Tivoli

[Roydosan @MeadowsLloyd]

@holysmoke The last point would seem to be an overreach. When the SSPX bishops were previously excommunicated Rome said that attendance met the Sunday obligation (several times in fact - 1996, 1998, 2002).

[Roydosan @MeadowsLloyd]

@dieworkwear @mollyblackall @threadreaderapp unroll

[Decimus Claudius @decimusclaudius]

A fresco with warriors, a drinking party (symposion) and a procession on a Greek Macedonian tomb for a wealthy person that dates to the late 4th century BC in Agios Athanasios, which is near Thessaloniki, Greece.

#frescofriday

[Mark Lambert @sitsio]

This is one of the most remarkable surviving treasures of early English Christianity. A silver pectoral cross, discovered in the Galloway Hoard and buried around AD 900, was almost certainly worn by a senior churchman. Experts believe it was likely made in Northumbria, reflecting the extraordinary craftsmanship of the Anglo-Saxon Church. It still retains its original chain and is decorated with gold, niello and the symbols of the Four Evangelists. Today, it is preserved in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, where it continues to bear witness to the faith, artistry and Christian heritage of early England more than 1,100 years after it was buried.

[Diridol_ @Diridol__]

“La verdad no se determina mediante un voto de la mayoría”

-S.S. Benedicto XVI.

[Dan Jackson @northumbriana]

My own tribute in @unherd to the late, great Kevin Keegan https://t.co/MOmeG2eOF9

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

In The Brothers Karamazov, the elder Zosima makes one of the most remarkable statements in all of literature:

"Each of us is guilty before everyone, for everyone and everything, and I more than the others."

Our lives are woven together far more closely than we imagine. Every conversation, every act of kindness, every moment of patience shapes another person's life, who in turn shapes someone else's.

Dostoevsky understood that families, friendships, and entire societies are built this way. They grow through countless ordinary encounters that seem insignificant in the moment but continue echoing long after we've forgotten them.

That's why even the smallest act of love carries extraordinary weight. You may never know whose burden became lighter because of your kindness, whose hope returned because of your encouragement, or whose life took a different course because, for a brief moment, someone chose to care.

Perhaps that is what Zosima wanted his readers to remember. Every life touches countless others, and every act of love leaves the world a little richer than it was before.

[Great British PAC Campaigns 🇬🇧 @GBPAC_Campaigns]

Superb update from Misley Mandarin on the Chagos islands. They have been there now for six months. They are doing this for all of us. We need to get them resupplied. Heroes. 🇮🇴🇬🇧

[Jmy @JmyLss]

If a man and a woman marry in order to be companions on the journey from earth to heaven, then their union will bring great joy to themselves and to others.

St. John Chrysostom

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

"Keegan’s ascent to the peak of the game’s elite was unforeseen, few recognising his talent early on, most dismissing him as too small. He always credited Sister Mary Oliver, the nun who ran his Catholic primary school football team and who refereed with a crucifix around her neck, as being as important to him as a mentor as Bill Shankly was. “Kevin’s football must be encouraged,” she wrote in a school report, which gave him immense self-belief."

RIP

https://t.co/AIBF69hJws