Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.
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I offer a wide range of guided walks around the city and university. These can be a general introduction to the history and architecture or looking at specific themes and subjects.
I am a Catholic and a historian based in Oxford, where I am a member of Oriel College. My research, for a long delayed D.Phil., is a study of Richard Fleming, Bishop of Lincoln in the second decade of the fifteenth century. I also work as a freelance tutor in History and as an independent tour guide.
I was received into the Church in 2005 and am a Brother of the External Oratory of St Philip Neri at the Oxford Oratory.
The Ambrosian Mass of Holy Thursday
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The mandatum ceremony according to the Ambrosian rite One of the most
beautiful features of the traditional Ambrosian Rite is its unique manner
of celebrat...
Tapestries of the Papal Court for Holy Thursday
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If you take a look at images or photographs of papal ceremonies from prior
to the 1970's you will frequently see large tapestries forming a part of
the lit...
"So what does it SYMBOLISE?"
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I sometimes think that this is a profoundly UnCatholic question to ask. Of
course, as concerns the Consecrated Eucharistic Elements, the prods both
inside ...
Book Review: Francois Mauriac's "Holy Thursday"
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My best friend and I read this book during Lent and got together after Mass
on Friday last week to complete our discussion of Nobel Prize winning
Franco...
Saint Gabriel
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The angels call for our veneration and awe as part of God’s creation. Part
of the destructive modernism of the 1970s included advice to Catholic
school t...
The Lord’s descent into the underworld
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At Matins/the Office of Readings on Holy Saturday the Church gives us this
'ancient homily', I find it incredibly moving, it is about Holy Saturday,
about ...
Continuing the Ricardian theme I have now found another picture of the tomb at Sheriff Hutton ascribed to Edward Prince of Wales about which I wrote in my post on churches dedicated to St Helen.
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