The Hearth of Mopsus

"Gothic Isn't Just the Spiky Bits on Churches"

Thursday, 25 June 2026

A Little Light Shining

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Christine the dog lady maintained in 2021 that she would never have another Boxer after her third died . In the end she took a final beast i...
Tuesday, 23 June 2026

Nearly Forgot

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I can only imagine Il Rettore  was to blame for prompting the church, completely unsuspected by me untill it happened, to celebrate the 20th...
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Friday, 19 June 2026

St Catherine in Bruges

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Jean our sacristan and her husband have been on holiday in Bruges and spotted this image of St Catherine in the city museum, part of a group...
Thursday, 18 June 2026

To Put It Mildly I Remain Unconvinced

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Late to the party as ever, I hadn’t heard of Accelerationism before Liber Faciorum decided to place before my eyes an article describing it...
Thursday, 11 June 2026

Back to Painshill

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It is fully twenty-one years since I was last at Painshill Park, with Dr Bones on that occasion. That was blazing summer, but a rainy weekda...
Friday, 5 June 2026

Ave Verum, in Different Ways

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For Corpus Christi I made my way to St Nic's in Guildford for Mass and Benediction. The service started late for these things, at 8pm, a...
Monday, 1 June 2026

Speak For Us, Papa Leo

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Every ordained person knows the story of the medieval monastery whose report to their Bishop Visitor went ‘the community hears a sermon ever...
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I realised I actually enjoyed reading my friends' blogs, and so have made my own, with an oblique nod to 4th-century theologian Theodore of Mopsuestia. Christian and Gothic matters will probably predominate. Names are changed to protect the furtive.
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