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.
On-line access provided by West Sussex Libraries

The Drina Bridge

The Drina Bridge

My desk, like the Drina Bridge, is a conduit of human passage.

Today, Hosea, in the Liturgy

Vitis frondosa..

fructum producens sibi..

Osee 10,1

Henry de Motherlant

Of M Henry de Montherlant, Mr Peter Quennell

It is this gift of poetic assimilation, shown in the fusion of sensous and intellectual imagery, that gives the book [Le Songe - The Dream] its literary value.

Weiden and Nicolson 1962

Ivor Andrić

In his 1961 Nobel Prize Award response

Cogitavi dies antiquos et annos æternos in mente.

I recall the iconic pose of M Ivor Andrić before The Drina Bridge recorded in monochrome.

My desk: a conduit of human passage, like the august Drina Bridge.

Grateful Acknowledgement

Novo Vulgata Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio

Weiden and Nicolson 1962 Translation Henry de Montherlant The Dream with its jacket design by Philippe Julian

Nobel Prize Foundation
Samsung Galaxy AutoDesk SketchBook

Cum vero corde

A Motto

The writing desk and bench have a motto

Cum vero corde

LH II:777

vere, real life, integrated

cor, mind, judgement

Grateful Acknowledgement

Liturgia Horarum Volume II

English Oak

Poem

My English Oak Writing Desk and Bench

The man who made my desk

Knew a good deal about my temperament

He had a useful informer:

His friend the child who grew up

Exposed to my cultural influence

Now a woman entering university

I drew my technical design

And passed it to AT exactly a month ago

Stressing the two most important measurements

Humeral length

Tibial length

For poise it has

Carthusian exactness

The oak is untreated

Character grade

I have yet to imbibe its grain

My first piece of writing was the cheque

For one thousand two hundred pounds sterling

I wrote this with my Waterman Concorde

Êncre Havanne

The desk was installed after Vespers of

The Feast of Saint Peter and Saint Paul Apostles

And consecrated after the Dominical Rosary Eight in the evening

Sunday June twenty-ninth

Two thousand fourteen

Sitting at it for the first

Was a drawing out of grace, words, and deep inventiveness

So let me learn the mystery of the bench and desk’s grain and character

Epiloque

The commission gave me opportunity to encourage the craftsman to use protective accessories: certified visor, respiratory filters and dust extractors, skin protection, correct lifting technique. Only this week, the Health and Safety Executive published its report on Asthma and Occupational Exposure to Allergens, wood dust being one of the most irritant.