tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post54790197596689932..comments2024-03-25T20:43:33.067+00:00Comments on A Clerk of Oxford: Conditor alme siderum: Holy maker of sterres brightClerk of Oxfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-63218492921500086412013-12-09T23:25:05.901+00:002013-12-09T23:25:05.901+00:00Dear reader,
Thank you - such thoughtful comments...Dear reader,<br /><br />Thank you - such thoughtful comments mean a great deal to me. I write about the things I know best and love most because I want other people to know and love them too. Although I'm fortunate enough to live in a beautiful place, I nonetheless (also being of a melancholic temperament) do very much know what you mean about that feeling of alienation. Storing up beauty Clerk of Oxfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919708325900229717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758649432241863530.post-81823887212086334512013-12-09T16:33:05.496+00:002013-12-09T16:33:05.496+00:00We sang ‘Conditor’ yesterday at Evensong, but the ...We sang ‘Conditor’ yesterday at Evensong, but the translation in our Hymnal, and I with it until now, missed the bit about Christ as spouse coming forth from his chamber (which will be mirrored at Candlemas – at the other end of the Incarnational season – when one of the antiphons at the Procession exhorts, ‘Adorn your bridal chamber, O Zion, and receive Christ, the King’).<br /><br />I’ve Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com