Simile est Regnum Cælorum

Paris soir le 27 juillet

Pleinement, Cher Éminence,

Simile est regnum cælorum thesauro abscondito in agro..

una preciosa margarita.. Amen

Ev. s. Matt. 13,44..46

Le royaume des Cieux est comparable

à un trésor caché dans un champ..

ou encore.. une perle de grand valeur..

My English Oak Desk and Dialogic Writing

A New Setting

My English Oak Writing Desk will be two years old June 29.

It's in a new setting I'd hardly imagined when I first sat down to write at it on the farm. I've lost count of the hours of pleasure my desk has afforded, and the inspiration it continually nurtures for me.

What is Good Writing?

Good writing is good dialogue. 

Middendorf, M 1992

To companion my desk, a new discovery has been Mikhail Bakhtin's The Dialogic Imagination, and its contribution to Dialogic, one branch of which is to discover the dialogic heart of written communication.

Good writing is good dialogue.

Context prevails over text.

op cit Middendorf 1992

Studying Texts

Recently, studying two texts: one, a business essay in a National Daily; the other, an essay in an Educational Journal, I balked at the absence of rhetoric, which made the writing serviceable, but distinctly inelegant to my ear.

I readily allow Dialogic Theory that sanctions this, remembering, the greater bonus attains in

When students learn dialogizing as a habit of mind, more than their writing improves.
op cit Middendorf 1992

du beau aussi pour l'éducation

aussi pour l'éducation

Oui on peut faire de beau aussi pour l'éducation.

Observed Monsieur le Président François HOLLANDE when he visited Collège Louise Michel à Clichy-sous-Bois (Rentrée Scolaire), early morning yesterday.

M HOLLANDE's speech to Ministers, College Staff, and Students was admirable, concluding with

Mais au moins que tout soit fait pour que la jeunesse de France puisse être accompagnée, encadrée, éduquée, servie par la République.

Four Words

Four words with their French value are striking

accompagnement scolaire, dispositif d'aide à la réussite scolaire

encadrer

éduquer

servir

International Literacy

On the eighth of this month we mark UNESCO International Literacy Day.

A youth cycled up to a cash dispenser outside the bank and, leaning from his cycle, rested his head in the coup of the automat, shaded from the sun's glare in his expensive dark glasses, he transacted his withdrawal.

The UNESCO literacy aim is to promote literacy for all as a tool for empowerment and social and human development.

Saint Gregory the Great

Today is the Feast of that gifted Educator of personality: Saint Gegory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Church

et vitæ altitudinem, et linguæ efficaciam donare.

LHIV:1180

to endow the sublime in life; accomplished, fertile speech..

The Optometrist

Walking home today in his lunch, the Optometrist hailed me Glorious weather!

So true.

du beau aussi pour l'éducation.

Greatful Acknowledgement

Elysée Notices Discours lors de l'inauguration du Collège Louise Michel à Clichy-sous-Bois (Rentrée Scolaire) M François HOLLANDE

Le Petit Robert édition 2015

UNESCO Literacy United Kingdom Office

Liturgia Horarum Volume IV

Nichts Abstraktes

Nichts Abstraktes

Dieser Friedhof ist nichts Abstraktes. Hier liegen nämlich auch Polen.

Polen: Die Wiedergeburt eines Staates.

von Robert Baag.

Gesichter Europas. Deutschlandfunk.

Samstag den 23 August 2014

The vignettes in this series Gesichter Europas are lyrical, and carry that delicacy of narration I associate with Theodor Storm.

Olsztyn

The head forester described how he came upon the cemetery of Olsztyn, deep in a forest, overgrown, and unmarked.

He set about thinning the timber to mark an oasis of clearing for the cemetery, in which a thousand five hundred fallen Russian, and German and Poles of the 1914 war rest.

When asked how he had funded the task of clearing, and then erecting memorial tablets, and a crucifix, the head forester, with a knowing smile, attributed the cost to creative Polish accounting.

There was no official budget.

Love what is Real

Choose and love what is real, expressed HH Pope Francis, joined by HE Cardinal Parolin's Keep your gaze on essentials, in their common invitation to the Rimini Friendship Symposium August 24 to 31.

Liturgy

This morning in the Liturgy of Hours I read plantatum secus decorsum aquarum.. LH IV:545

Later in the morning a Messe Fondation pour le 70e anniversaire de la libération de Paris was celebrated in Notre-Dame-de-Paris.

The Titulaire des grandes orgues introduced the Credo with a dozen bars of august improvisation, and married to this an Offertoire sur le Credo improvisée à chœur d'anches.

The Communion antiphon was

De fructu operum tuorum, Domine, satiabitur terra, ut educes panem de terra, et vinum lætificat cor hominibus: ut exhilaret facem in oleo, et panis cor hominis confirmet.

Graduale Triplex Communione p.329

Vivos et Mortuos

Dieser Friedhof ist nichts Abstraktes..

The cemetery at Olsztyn;

the fallen Parisians and their fellow countrymen..,

German,

Russian,

Poles.

Immense thoughts of Europe.

..iudicare vivos et mortuos..

..to form an opinion of the living and the dead..

..Dieser Friedhof ist nichts Abstraktes. Hier liegen nämlich auch Polen.

Grateful Acknowledgement

Deutschlandfunk

Vatican News

Liturgia Horarum

France Culture

Notre-Dame-de-Paris

Graduale Triplex

Un trésor caché

Scripture

Le royaume des Cieux est semblable

à un trésor caché dans un champs..

à un marchand qui cherche de bonnes perles..

à un filet jeté dans la mer..

The Floods and the Blockhouse

Oh, such an humane account of the town's response to floods, and the unassailable strength of the Bridge over the Drina! The enchanting humour of rayah (Christian Serf), Mukhtars, Kmets (Christian Headmen), Mordo Papo parish priest, Mula Ismet the Višegrad hodja, Hadji Liacho the rabbi.

Then, the coming and going of the blockhouse; the resinous, menacing monstrosity with its first prey: the innocuous mystic eccentric Jelisije of Čajniče, and the Serbian youth Mile, from the water-mill at Osojnica.

Lourdes

Monseigneur le Recteur of the Basilica of the Rosary at Lourdes, in his homily at Mass today, said

Dear brothers and sisters, dear pilgrims, You are the treasure in the field, You are the pearl of great price, You are the net cast into the sea and filled with good fish to be sorted and gathered in the last times..

Des choses nouvelles et des choses anciennes

C'est pour quoi tout scribe instruit de ce qui regarde le royaume des Cieux est semblable à un père de famille qui tire de son trésor des choses nouvelles et des choses anciennes.

Grateful Acknowledgement

S Matt 13:44, 45, 47, 52 Sainte Bible de Rome

Monseigneur le Recteur de Basilique du Rosaire de Lourdes

France Culture

The Bridge over the Drina Ivo Andrić Translated Lovett F. Edwards Harvill Press 1995

Saint Bridget of Sweden Religious Patron of Europe

Words

Iam vos mundi estis propter sermonem..

Ev s. Ioann. 15,3

mundus, clean, neat, elegant

This reflection comes from the festal Liturgy of Saint Bridget of Sweden, The Vatican 7.30 this morning.

You are already elegant on account of the words..

Spiritual Heritage

Saint John Paul II described the spiritual heritage Old Europe has to offer, when he proclaimed Saint Bridget copatron of Europe (Quibus Sancta Birgitta de Suetia) October 1, 1999.

In some ways, Saint John Paul II, in his Motu Proprio, touches on the heart of the spirituality of Old Europe, and dissects it for display, just as Doctor Ivo Andrić paints a commerce of belief of the Ottoman Balkans in his The Bridge over the Drina.

Words. Stories. Thoughts. Quietness.

Iam vos mundi estis propter sermonem..

Ev s. Ioann. 15,3

Grateful Acknowledgement

Nova Vulgata Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio

Radio Vaticana

Santa Sede Documents

Collins Latin Gem Dictionary 1957, 1970

The Bridge over the Drina Ivor Andrić Translated by Lovett F. Edwards The Harvill Press 1995

Lucis Creator Optime

Creativity

Mr T Markham wrote a paper The Politics of Journalistic Creativity. The author presented a theoretical explanation of a fascinating characteristic of journalism operating within the confines of markets, house style, blogs, social media.

My study of the paper provided an opportunity to look at Creativity from a perspective offered by Scripture and Liturgy.

Genesis

The Creation in Genesis describes a passage from darkness, void of form, to the glory of man.

Let us create man

God saw it was good

God rested

These three stages recount

The doing, the act, Let us create

Appreciating the result, God saw it was good

Leisure to enjoy, and referesh; to hallow rest after Creating, God rested

Here is a vigorous model of creativity.

Liturgical Hymns and Sequences

The hymns and sequences share a lively pattern of Creativity.

Deus Creator omnium

Lucis Creator optime

Veni Creator Spiritus

Veni Sancte Spiritus

Lucis Creator Optime

Lucis creator optime,

lucem dierum proferens,

primordiis lucis novæ

mundi parans originem

Word Values

optimas: aristocratic, the nobility - here, something refined, namely, appealing to gracefulness, rather than to entitlement.

proferre, bring forth, enlarge, quote, publish.

primordium, beginning, namely the essential origin.

parare, prepare, get ready, provide, intend, set about; procure, get, buy; arrange

mundus, toilet, gear; universe, world, heavens; mankind.

A Synopis

Light's creator, most excellent

Publishing the light of days

Essence of new light

Arranging the origin of all

A Model for any Confine

Thus, when I speak of Creativity, here is its model, operable in any confine

Grace

Endeavour

Inspiration

Art

Grateful Acknowledgement

The Politics of Journalistic Creativity Markham, T Journalism Practice 2012 6(2):187-200

Paper for Private Study provided by Access to Research Public Library Service with West Sussex Libraries

The Jerusalem Bible 1990

Liturgia Horarum Volume III

Collins Latin Gem Dictionary 1957, 1970

Oxford English Dictionary, to consult on confine, and publish.
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