St. Wenna, pray for us!
18th October – St Wenna, Early British Christian Saint 🏴
St Wenna was a 5th-century Brythonic Christian saint associated with Cornwall. According to tradition, she was a daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog and helped spread Christianity among the native Britons. She is said to have been martyred by pagan Saxons at Talgarth around AD 492.
Her name survives in the Cornish village of St Wenn, where the parish church bears her dedication. She is remembered as one of the early saints of Britain's ancient Christian Church 🏴
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In 2005, Oneida shut the flatware factory in Sherrill, New York.
A town that had made silverware for MORE THAN 100 YEARS was supposed to be finished.
Two men refused to let that happen.
Their names are Matt Roberts and Greg Owens.
Roberts had managed that factory. Owens was another former Oneida manufacturing manager. When the company ended U.S. production, they bought the plant and the equipment and reopened it the NEXT DAY as Sherrill Manufacturing.
They did not have a giant rescue fund.
They did not have a Hollywood ending waiting.
They had a building, some machines, and a workforce that knew how to make forks, knives, and spoons.
At first they kept making product for Oneida.
Then Oneida pulled the remaining American work and sent it overseas.
That should have been the end.
It wasn’t.
They took government flatware contracts to keep the lights on. In 2010 they filed Chapter 11. They sold unused equipment. They sold space they could no longer fill. They leased back only the part of the factory they could still run.
They came out of bankruptcy in 2013.
Then they did the thing that saved the company.
They built their own brand: Liberty Tabletop.
They sold 18/10 stainless flatware straight to customers who wanted tableware MADE IN THE UNITED STATES.
Not through a department store that could drop them overnight.
Direct.
Today Liberty Tabletop is the only company still manufacturing stainless steel flatware in America.
Same town.
Same trade.
U.S. steel.
About 70 jobs.
They did not bring back 2,000 workers. Nobody did.
What they saved was the last line.
If you want American-made forks and spoons, this is the factory that still makes them.
Support Liberty Tabletop.
THIS is what keeping manufacturing in America actually looks like. 🇺🇸
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If you had to vote in the Florida primary, who would you choose as GOP nominee for governor?
Do repost for a large sample, I want to see what people really think.
81%James Fishback
6%Jay Collins
2%Paul Renner
10%Byron Donalds
695 votes • Final results
Need to source a copy.
Currently reading the 1963 "The Governance of Medieval England from the Conquest to the Magna Carta" by Richardson and Sayles. An important history in that it absolutely rejects the Whig theory of history (and its view of the long and inevitable march towards the modern liberal state) which dominated before Marxism took over academia and fragmented into the mess which we pretend to be satisfied with today.
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ALABAMA IS HEADED TO THE MCWS FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1999‼️ @AlabamaBSB
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BREAKING
I have learned from an inside source that when the bishops of the Anglican Ordinariate bishops met with Cardinal Roche last month, he ordered that they cease to utilize priests as deacons/subdeacons (and deacons as subdeacons) during solemn Mass but rather, if there is more than one priest, they must all concelebrate, and deacons may only function as deacons.
Prior to this, the Ordinariate had been following Catholic tradition by observing the distinction of offices in the liturgy with the classic triad of priest-deacon-subdeacon, which is part of the common liturgical patrimony of Catholics.
It is, moreover, perfectly theologically accurate, since each rank in the hierarchy builds on the one that came before it and thus, obviously includes its powers. That is why a bishop in the traditional pontifical Mass wears the vestments of all ranks: alb, tunicle, dalmatic, and chasuble.
The obsession with concelebration was critiqued at the Second Vatican Council in a major intervention by the Dominican archbishop and later cardinal Paul-Pierre Philippe, as reported at New Liturgical Movement earlier this week. The same article recounts the potent critique made of concelebration by Fr. Enrico Zoffoli—one of many critiques that have been made over the years (see here, here, and here for starters).
How could it harm anyone to let a priest exercise his inferior ministerial roles? Oh, but it's so hierarchical—that must be the problem in our age of simplification and synodality. Is it the nod toward the immemorial tradition of the subdiaconate? One would think that an office Latin Christians share in common with Eastern Christians would be privileged in this age of ecumenism. (For a full defense of the Minor Orders and the Subdiaconate, see my book Ministers of Christ: Recovering the Roles of Clergy and Laity in an Age of Confusion.)
The pettiness of this intervention is apparent. The Ordinariate is minuscule, so who cares? Evidently, the observant eye of Roche & Co. notices whenever there is the slightest deviation from the utopia of Bugnini's liturgical reform, and crushes it!
Let us hope for a time when this kind of nonsense is a bad memory rather than an active burden. Meanwhile, the intelligent and pious will know how to work around the unreasonable dictates of the still-lingering Bergoglian court.
(The above text is posted at Rorate)
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Ned starts 6th grade officially tomorrow! Initially we had redshirted him, but he worked hard to catch up. Now he is only a semester "behind". He should be done with everything but Latin and mathematics by the end of the semester.
