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Hi Father, I loved the video where you had related to us the Venerable Bede's writing on the pagan mythic past and your impressions in that and the Dream of the Rood and Woden. I was curious whether or not that still was able to be linked to be able to listen to it again. I thought it was one of the better views into such things I've found. I hope all is well for each and all at the monastery. Wishing you a most blessed Pentecost and Trinity Sunday.

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I am very pleased to see you have finally made a video about this most interesting but little spoken of subject. I recently noted to a friend of mine, “he really needs to do a video on rood screens!” And, lo and behold, you have!

Come home to Holy Orthodoxy!

Didn't there used to be another video on this channel about the Use of Sarum and the historic English Church? I can't seem to find it on your channel anymore Edit: it seems to me it was about Western Rite Orthodoxy more broadly, and the historic English expression of Christian liturgy that was the Use of Sarum. I seem to recall it also included a bit about the origin of the phrase "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" (that it originally referred to abiding by local customs when it came to religion, and the importance of national churches). Second Edit: If indeed it's gone, I would be curious as to know why. I have a family member who I think would be very interested in what that video has to say, and I would love to share it with him.

Interesting. I am of English and Celtic heritage and I love the idea that England is special to Our Lady.

Curious about your sources when you talk about medieval attitudes to prayer. Would love to read more on that.

Cha sguir òran Shasainn gu bràth

great video/channel! regarding the mysterious Celtic rite, one thing that can be extrapolated from the Stowe Missal is the (seemingly, unless done as some sort of commission work for a priest/bishop from faraway lands who were keen to have a Celtic artist create something for them) abiding connection between the Mass/rite that is intimated at within the Missal and the ornate, insular art that graces the cover of the Missal.

Very interesting…what church is this? Is this Church in Communion with Rome? The Eastern Orthodox? Or is this Anglican? Just curious

This explains my spiritually perfectly ; thanks from old New Orleans 😇

So lovely and a glimpse of Heaven 😇

Just found your channel Father Felix ; thanks from old New Orleans 😇

Sounds very practical before heated Churches, thanks from old New Orleans 😇

Excellent presentation ; thanks from old New Orleans 😇

Even the earliest churches separated the people from God and made themselves the middlemen.

Thank you, Fr Felix. Good to have you back again with your wonderful videos. A very good overview of roodscreens. I look forward to your next video.

Zank you for uploading. zat vas wery interesting.

Rood screens are more to do with the Temple Jesus did away with than the New Testament Church which was not to have decadent edifices, for they met in homes & simple places. No candles, no incense, no statues/graven images & stained glass windows, no altars, no priestly vestments or headgear and no burying corpses in their meeting rooms or ground.

Rood Screens always remind me of Iconostases in the Orthodox Church, and appear to serve the same or similar purpose. Wonderful video!

Very interesting, thank you!

Many churches in Europe put the altar back out of vision with a gate so a rood screen wasn’t needed.

You leave out the history of screening the mystery of the Mass - and this is why the church used bells to let the congregation know what was happening. The Orthodox Church also shares this tradition. Many churches had curtains as well,

The goal has always been to separate the sacred from the secular or profane

Why the reupload?

So they're like the western version of the Iconostasis

Hi, as someone interested in semiotics, I like the Erasmus quote. Could you direct me as to the source? (Obviously not enough of translated Erasmus corpus for google to be of help.

Thank you, Father Felix. What an edifying work. Plenty there to encourage me to visit churches further afield.

Nice new video

Great to see another video

Is this a repost or a remake of an older video? Or am I just imagining things? Great work as usual!

So glad to hear from you again!

I'm a medieval reenactor, I reenact a franciscan and a benedictine friar from around 1410s to be precise, and your videos helped me to understand a lot of things and learn A LOT of new things! I found your channel thanks to the video about confession, and now I'm here, learning more about my own humble paternoster with wooden beads. Thank you SO MUCH for your work!

Father Felix, I read, on an “Orthodox” website, that your magnum opus, The Book of Parochial Use, has been publicly condemned by the soi-disant “Metropolitan” of this group. Such a public condemnation is not surprising to one familiar this this man’s ecclesial history. In his long career as an episcopus vagans he has claimed every title except “pope”. He is truly an exotic character and one to be avoided. I have several copies of your work and find it to be an excellent example of what Western Rite Orthodoxy should be but, alas, is not. I sent a copy to my bishop, he approves wholeheartedly. Do not let this little man, John, discourage you from continuing to offer the world a sane version of the Orthodox West.

Would it be possible for you to do a video on the monastic diurnal?

For so many weeks, i've been craving for that Kyrie Eleison+Deus Creator Omnium that took place in one of your deleted Sarum Mass videos, starting at 15th minute. It was the most beatiful thing that i've ever heard. Any chance uploading it sometime in the future?

What happened to the interviews with your Bishop? I was a few episodes in, and I cannot find them anymore.

Astonishingly interesting topic. Thank you! God Bless! I always delight in looking at the elevation of the Holy Sacrament.

Can please re-upload the prior video

Reminds me of what the Russian gangsters in prison used to pray on and fidget with. I believe they call them a chetki.

Thank you for your wonderful videos - I have a number of questions around the Sarum Rite. Is there some way I could contact you to ask you these questions? Thank you again for such wonderful videos!

I'm interested in your claim that 'the first significant post-Roman first-hand sources, both written and archaeological, of Christianity in these isles came about as a result of the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons'. Would there not be a number of letters and works from people associated with Ireland and Britain as well as a number of archeological sites, such as Clonmacnoise, which predate the late 6th century?

I have a small end table with a crucifix, two candles, and an incense burner. I also keep my Bible and my prayer book(I use a couple different ones depending on various factors). Above this, I have a set of icons that I painted myself. It isn't the most beautiful setup, but it's all homemade(except the crucifix and the candles) and it was made with prayer and love for Christ and his saints. I love the concept of the household shrine, and I even tried to build a kneeler at one point but I messed up the design and ran out of money for lumber. I'm also thinking of building a Marian garden outside my house, because I absolutely love flowers and the Blessed Mother.

Like liturgical music that follows a few patterns of rules (eg text is primary over melody), a great diversity of specific examples of home altars may arise from a few general practices: include a cross, candles, natural light, prayer books, and incense with a hand censor; eliminate synthetic materials like plastic and electronics to enter into a timeless experience of the five senses. Private prayer is essential, but so is the corporate prayer of the family, especially with children. We might try to pray all together as often as possible, even if seems less than a perfect performance. The altar should be conspicuous and central, and perhaps intertwined with the hearth and kitchen, linking prayer and eating and hospitality as parts of a whole life style wherein prayer is not entirely apart from daily life, but rather the foundation of our activity, before, during, and after. Olive oil used for cooking may be sacrificed to burn in prayer lamps as well as the skillet. With the modern economy, we may see a more complete development of home altars in areas remote from cities and Orthodox churches: where attendance at church is less frequent the importance of the home altar increases proportionately. Thus, without pretending to celebrate sacraments without a priest, the more remote homes of the faithful may cultivate a more ritualized lifestyle by using a special flagon, for example, to share holy water among the family or a special brush to anoint one another with blessed oil from time to time. What would be very interesting to note is whether a common practice of some sort develops organically, especially in the West where Orthodoxy is (re) emerging without a single, clear tradition analogous to the Eastern icon corner. In fact, in the West, flat walls tend to be preferred over angled corners...

Благодарю вас за ваши видео. Они очень познавательные. Читала что пятиконечная звезда была защитным оберегом на римских домах, и её впоследствии с этой целью начал использовать христиане вплоть до Средних веков пока она под влиянием каких-то внешних факторов не стала символом нечисти. Thank you for your videos. They are very informative. I read that the five-pointed star was a protective amulet on Roman houses, and Christians subsequently began to use it for this purpose until Wednesday.

Thank you father for this video. It is so helpful to learn about what domestic devotional practices looked like for our ancestors. Perhaps implementing some of these practices would be useful. I read my office out of the Prayerbook at the kitchen table usually by myself. I wish I could pray more often with the other members of my household, and I do wish I had a designated space where perhaps I wouldn't be so prone to distraction. I also very often find myself falling into the trap of letting the office be the totality of my prayer life. It. is easy to think of it as another obligation. it always seems harder to budget time simply for contemplation. Perhaps implementing some of the more tactile practices you mentioned would help with that: burning a candle, or having a small image to use to focus my thoughts or changing posture by using a kneeling desk may be just what I need.

Just started constructing a shrine/oratory in my home. Fascinating video, thank you kindly!

I use a small table, over which, on the wall, hang a crucifix (rather primitive, hand carved, Mexican), around which in crosswise fashion are icons of (above) Our Lady fighting a demon, (viewer's right) St. John the Divine, (beneath) a photograph of St. Hazel of Sleepy Hollow (I am a Celtic Catholic and she is one of ours, so you would not know her), (left) St. Andrew, my name saint. Also, turning the four cross-arranged icons into a sort of hexagon, are two additional icons of St. Samhthann (my religious name) and St. Guthlac. All of the icons are hand made, one by a friend--I have been greatly blessed that way. On the table are a candle, an incense burner, flowers on the feasts of the saints in the icons, and the books I use for the office. There is no cloth covering the table. I pray the office in front of it, and some personal praying as well. And thank you for this fascinating exploration of a subject that interests me very much,

Thank you for another thoughtful presentation. I look forward to these.

I am a protestant of the "Reformed" variety, so one might presume me to not have any such area in my house, yet I do, and my domestic religion is of a "higher churchmanship" than I would actually recommend for assembled church services. It's difficult to describe in text my prayer desk, but I shall try my best. It is founded upon a chest of drawers which, whilst holding many secular items, is rarely accessed. It stands facing East in the recessed area for the windows of my bedroom. In the foreground there is, from left to right, my Book of Common Prayer, a Bible, and a gospel book, with the BCP and the gospel book standing open and upright thanks to plate stands, whilst the bible lies horizontal and open, elevated and lying upon the front of a white sheet that runs through the centre of the desk. In the midgrounds are a candle on each side and a small wooden cross, behind which can be seen a Jerusalem cross sewn onto the white sheet, as here the white sheet lies vertical. In the background there stands on the left my psalter, held upright by a plate stand. In the centre, in a book stand, elevated sufficiently high that the base is above the wooden cross (and so showing the sewn Jerusalem cross in the shadow of the wooden cross), stands my large book of collects. On the right is a lamp. Since this set-up is directed towards windows, there are embroidered blinds covering the windows at time of prayer, depicting interweaved plants, and the desk is flanked by "tapestry" curtains depicting leaves and vines. As such, the desk stands in a representation of Eden, whilst being pointed towards the coming Eden in the East. If this description does not make sense I'm happy to share a photo with anyone who is curious.