Monday 2 October 2017

Admonitions, Confessions, and the ordering of Catholic ritual and treatment of others

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    This, (that which is posted to the lower extremities of this submission), is how things sounded to the Old Gringo several hundred years ago...back in the 1950s and 1960s, when El Gringo Viejo was an acolyte at Saint John's Church, Episcopal in McAllen, Texas.   The three Newton brothers put in (combined) over 30 years trying to be loyal and faithful servants.  Only one made the measure, the eldest....born on a Saturday...while the two younger ones served well, tried to be "of the order born", but as I judge myself, and my judges will say, "extremely mediocre at best"
     We put the Admonitions of the Vieux Anglaise which had been tediously reduced into the Olde English.....not from the Roman Catholic Bible, Liturgy, and Litany, but from the forms of Greek, from the Hebrew, the Aramaic Hebrew, the Latin, and other linguistic influences.....and from the pens of the Monks of Ireland and over a score of the finest linquists of the period....those who were constructing a Bible in a "....tongue accustomed to those who worship in their own language."

Sir Isaac Newton
     The task was actually ordered by King James Ist, and the scores of interpreters, the greatest European linguists, many of whom were agnostics, or Jew, or Irish Catholic, theist, or English Catholic (as opposed to papal catholics), and Roman Church linguists.....and they came up with the best interpretation of the (Roman) Catholic Bible in Latin into what was then "modern English".....and a publication of a simple, Common Catholic Bible for an Orthodox (and Catholic) English-speaking Church that was not under the whims and Inquisitions of the Bishop of Rome. 



 The interpretations became cumbersome to be sure, but it also became much of the most quoted, most moving, most beautiful verbiage ever read and/or uttered by the mind and tongue of Mankind.   "Almighty Father, We who have erred and strayed like lost sheep...and followed too much in the devices and desires of our own hearts....." sounds a lot better than....'God don't make no s###' of the new Anglican approach to "relevance", and "inclusion", and "reason" and "tolerance" and "progressivism".   The Roman Catholics of to-day do little better.  Perhaps the Greek Orthodox might still have some semblance of Tradition.    This Anglican Catholic stuff was not something made up at the spur of the moment.   The translations were the work of the greatest linguistic and historian intellectuals of the day.  The translations had the approval of such personalities as Sir Isaac Newton...to this day regarded by many as the most intelligent man who ever lived.
     Oddly enough, the portrait of Sir Isaac Newton is a true portrait, but it depicts a person who is actually the "spittin' image" of El Zorro....our closest chum and friend from the extreme northern edge of the Republic of Texas.   It is an oddity...but please understand....one who says that he is a "direct descendant" from Sir Isaac....is floating balogna.   I can be a nephew of descent and El Zorro can be a nephew by descent....but Sir Isaac Newton never had issue of progeny.   His brother, yes....but Sir Isaac, no.

WE LEAVE THIS SUBMISSION BY QUOTING FROM THE KING JAMES BIBLE (UNABRIDGED)  concerning the point that "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above....''


Thanks for your continued patronage.  To-morrow, more studies from reality.


El Gringo Viejo

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