tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4702382876668711798.post204280978561018469..comments2023-10-21T13:33:22.177+02:00Comments on Thoughts from a Catholic Oasis: Stanbrook 6 continuedJanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00419516065899508757noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4702382876668711798.post-7604268865282135012011-02-21T18:38:45.735+01:002011-02-21T18:38:45.735+01:00Father Mark, thank you for making time to comment ...Father Mark, thank you for making time to comment here. I agree with everything you say, but I doubt whether any of the French communities could have afforded the price.<br /><br />I too was chilled by the architecure of the new place and was choked by Dame Julian's tone when she spoke of the complete absence of the gothic arch. Just plain insensitive to the MEANINg of the gothic design. Some would say she was glorying in iconoclasm.Her description of the old Stanbrook conveyed it as forbidding dark and hemmed in. Totally untrue as demonstrated by the photo gallery I put up in one post.<br /><br />I'm afraid the 'revised modernist version' of English female Benedictinism is firmly in control at least in EBC houses. I don't know of any where the EF is celebrated.<br /><br />For the Solesmes community at Ryde, they sing the entire office in Latin and with Chant, but I think that even they have versus populum and the NO. Fr Tim goes there occasionally. I'll ask him.<br /><br />For the monks, I saw photos of Belmont yeterday and they had a 'Benedictine altar arrangement' at least when + Nichols was there to celebrate Mass for them. They have a good reputation for their music which is largely of the kind you (and I)would appreciate.<br /><br />Tyburn: I think they have an occasional EF but I'm not sure.<br /><br />Catholic Comes Home:<br />Yes I'm afraid I can't help but share your reactions.<br /><br />Still tryingto get your blog on my list but will not give up!Janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00419516065899508757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4702382876668711798.post-59558534776785540922011-02-21T16:03:18.569+01:002011-02-21T16:03:18.569+01:00Found these posts on Stanbrook very
interesting.My...Found these posts on Stanbrook very<br />interesting.My overwhelming first and last thoughts are of, the terrible loss.A Catholic Comes Homehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06090444350806953332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4702382876668711798.post-5989214520152082612011-02-21T15:36:07.288+01:002011-02-21T15:36:07.288+01:00There is something uspeakably sad about the demise...There is something uspeakably sad about the demise of the old Stanbrook. Would that it had been offered to one of the more thriving Benedictine abbeys of women (en France peut–être) that have kept the traditional liturgy and the usus antiquior! Such a measure could, I think, mark the a new beginning. I refuse to believe that the traditional Benedictine life for women in England is moribond, although a certain modernist revision of it certainly is. The photos of the new Stanbrook that I have seen leave me rather cold. The spareness and squareness of the architecture ("not a gothic arch in sight", said one of the nuns, almost triumphantly, in an interview) suggests something of the functional boxes of a trend that, selon moi, is already passé.Dom Mark Daniel Kirby, O.S.B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14034562300755426873noreply@blogger.com