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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

"The Jewish Psalter became the first hymn-book of the Church, and still remains the backbone of its ordered daily worship: the reading and expounding of the Old Testament, stressing the historical character of the Christian revelation, as from the beginning a vital part of the ministry of the Word. Thus Christian worship, though from one point of view it was indeed a “new song”, from another accepts and completes the devotion of the synagogue, and shows forth in its fullness the spiritual mystery towards which the sacrifices of the Temple looked. Here as elsewhere the revelation of God, breaking in upon history, accepts and clothes itself in historical forms"

— Evelyn Underhill. Worship. P. 194. (HT “Sublunary Sublime”)

"Any reader of the Confessions will be aware that, for Augustine, the reading of the Psalms was more than simply a “devotional” reading of a holy text, let alone reading to inform or instruct. The psalmist’s voice is what releases two fundamentally significant things for the Augustinian believer. It unseals deep places, emotions otherwise buried, and it provides an analogy for the unity or intelligibility of a human life lived in faith. Here is a conversation with God that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And in the course of that conversation, the human speaker is radically changed and enabled to express what is otherwise hidden from him or her. Augustine speaks of what the psalm he is discussing (Psalm 4, Cum invocarem) “makes of him”: the act of recitation becomes an opening to the transforming action of grace (Conf. 9.4.8)."

— Rowan Williams. “Augustine and the Psalms.” Interpretation 58, no. 1 (January 2004) (HT winged keel and crumpet)
zerogate: The Theodore Psalter is one of the most famous illuminated manuscripts to survive from the Byzantine Empire. Completed in Constantinople in February 1066, the Psalter consists of 208 folios which include 440 separate images, making it the most fully illuminated Psalter to come down from Byzantium.

zerogate:

The Theodore Psalter is one of the most famous illuminated manuscripts to survive from the Byzantine Empire. Completed in Constantinople in February 1066, the Psalter consists of 208 folios which include 440 separate images, making it the most fully illuminated Psalter to come down from Byzantium.

klg19: It’s fun to do the detective work, but GOSH I wish people would just link to where they found images like these!  The text is from the Psalms, and those tall, narrow Gothic letters looked English and late medieval, so I Googled “psalter” and “Innocents” and “14th century,” and discovered that the image is from the 14th-century Queen Mary Psalter, British Library, Royal Ms BVII, fol 132r.  Posted by shuddhi: Holy Innocents

klg19:

It’s fun to do the detective work, but GOSH I wish people would just link to where they found images like these! 

The text is from the Psalms, and those tall, narrow Gothic letters looked English and late medieval, so I Googled “psalter” and “Innocents” and “14th century,” and discovered that the image is from the 14th-century Queen Mary Psalter, British Library, Royal Ms BVII, fol 132r. 

Posted by shuddhi:

Holy Innocents