About the Author
Were the author of this blog to die today, something like the following would be inserted into the Necrologium Sancrucense:
Admodum Reverendus et Clarus Pater Edmundus Waldstein, professus et sacerdos Sanctae Crucis, doctor theologiae, magister theologiae, baccalaureus artium, lector in instituto theologico nostro.
The Necrologium has very strict ideas of what is worth mentioning; it would not mention that he was born in the eternal city, nor that he is related to theologian Michael Waldstein, jurist Wolfgang Waldstein, onetime Commonweal editor Philip Burnham, political theorist James Burnham, and Hollywood actress Jane Wyatt.
Were he to die today, no one would have any use for his wish list on amazon.de.
About the Categories
Miniature from the Liber Avium in Codex Sancrucensis 226
The posts in this blog are divided into three main categories: the dove, the falcon, and the opalescent parrot. The first two are to be taken allegorically and are inspired by an illumination from Codex Sancrucensis 226. One might think that dove and the falcon exhaustively divide all possible blog topics, but they don’t, and therefore there is also the opalescent parrot. This bird is described by Alfred Noyes:
ONCE upon a time, my little ones, there was a be-yewtiful parrot. He had long green wings, eyes like rubies,with grey wrinkles round them, and a crest that looked as if it had been dyed in the blood of Prester John. But, when he ruffled his feathers, he looked like an opalescent mist of emotions. So he was called the Opalescent Parrot. He was hatched by the Orinoco, where the Spanish bells go ping-pang-pong when it is time for the alligators to eat another explorer ; but there must have a conventional strain in his blood, for he actually cracked his shell at the very moment in 1837 when the Archbishop, Dr. Howley, entered Kensington Palace, and therefore it is only right that the misguided bird should be called a VICTORIAN parrot. (Alfred Noyes, The Opalescent Parrot)
He seems to me almost the Platonic form of a certain type of blogger.
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Your blog is really fascinating! As you know, the impressive sarcophagus in the “Totenkapelle” is still empty 🙂 !
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What I find amazing: Here I was, maybe 1983-84??, a baby sitter, holding a small crying baby in Rome, wakeful–his brother Johannes and sister Maria already asleep,–the child grows up and writes beautiful prose. Perhaps I should not be surprised, considering his parentage.
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I’m studying in Gaming now, and found your site by googling Fr Reto Nay. God bless you! We attended Holy Mass at Heiligen Kreuz early in the semester
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I suggest you talk to the librarian at HK about your Amazon wishlist–convince him new inventory is needed and all that.
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Greetings,
I like the picture of the Anointing at Bethany, (Mary drying Jesus feet) can I use a cut out of it for a book cover ?
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Father I am trying to reach Father Christopher Robert Abeynaike. I want to ask if he’d be so kind as to consider letting me have a copy of his dissertation (“The Eucharist in relation to the priesthood of Christ in the Letter to the Hebrews” by Roberto Abeynaike), which has become very important to my research.
My name is Dr. Dominic Pedulla and my email is pedullad@outlook.com.
Could you tell him or ask him to email me?
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