Tag: TradWorld
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Roger Scruton: “We do not merely study the past…”
“We do not merely study the past, we inherit it, and inheritance brings with it not only the rights of ownership, but the duties of trusteeship. Things fought for and died for should not be idly squandered. For they are the property of others, who are not yet born”
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Chivalry as Formalized Courtesy
Romantic courtesy is a liturgy of service which springs from the veneration of the Lady. Its goal is simply the lady’s felicity, and her looks and gestures are signs of acceptable service. All veneration is a selfless art, requiring patience, constancy, and discipline — in short, virtue. Eros may or may not…
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Conversation: Liturgy as Form, Toward Ecstasy
[Preliminary notes] To choose the random is the point of the post-modern, and is essence of the demonic. Chosen un-relation is the world that Adam created when he hid his ass behind the bush, choosing a place un-related to God. People cannot touch each other without structures, and un-relatedness is death. The mood…
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Conversation: Sweetness Moves Toward Liturgy
Conversation in new truth takes on formal voices. The room feels hushed.Formality, you see, is not the mode of distance, but of preciousness. It is the courtliness of the lord and the lady on the hidden stairs. Formality is real when the gestures are stylized and the eyes are moist. “Liturgist”. To some,…
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The Liturgy of Fathers
God walked in Eden in the cool of the day. A Father ventures into the son’s world to enjoy his son’s work from that day. The father, now resting from his own work, the garden, loves to see how his son’s work adds to it. The son lives inside his father’s work, while adding his…