The Hermeneutic of Continuity

On Thursday, I posted an item about Fr Lang's forthcoming talk at the London Oratory: Fr Michael Lang to speak at "Call to Youth" on translations . In the post, I wrote that the Call to Youth meetings are restricted to those aged 18-35 and asked people not to "gatecrash" if they were outside the age limit. I have heard from the Oratory that in fact, for this talk only, as an exception, ALL are invited.

One of my parishioners has commented on the post "Lent Fast Day" . I am happy to post her comment in full: Fr I believe you are treating Dermot O’Leary in a very harsh fashion, and have seriously misrepresented him. Dermot is a person that does very good charitable work, he believes in helping others less fortunate than himself and using his talents to achieve this. Misrepresenting Dermot as a shallow TV presenter is unfair, he comes from a serious journalistic background his family were regional newspaper proprietors in Ireland and he has done extremely well in his career in the British media. I respect Dermot’s involvement with Charity; he has tackled difficult health campaigns such as Male Testicular Cancer with charity Everyman. The picture of Davina McCall and Dermot, on your blog, is actually originally from a photo shoot taken as a promotion for Breast Cancer Awareness – another difficult health awareness promotion, asking women to undertake regular self-examinations. ...

On Saturday, I passed on a rumour from the Crimson Forum about Another old rite Mass in St Peter's . I don't think that the fellow had his facts right (it was a rather confused message.) I'll let you know if I hear anything more.

In the combox, it was suggested that the Votive Mass and procession at the Oratory for the feast of Corpus Christi was cancelled at the request of the Cardinal. This was not the case. All the decisions regarding arrangements for the liturgy for Corpus Christi were made by the Community. There was a Missa Cantata and Solemn Benediction in the Little Oratory.