I’ve been tagged!
4 February, 2008 by PF
Berenike (Goldilocks of Warsaw) writes:
Padre, you have a very satisfying bookshelf - share it with us:
The 123 Rules:
1. Pick up the book nearest you with at least 123 pages. (No cheating!)
2. Turn to page 123.
3. Count the first five sentences.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five other bloggers.
(though many people seem not to bother with the last bit..)
Here are my three sentences:
He was neither in, nor out of the Oxford Movement, but a most sympathetic outsider, and the letters written in 1845 contain references, fairly numerous, to the great ‘going-out’ from the City of Confusion that was in progress around him. In April we find him writing to a Mrs. Wilkinson who, it would seem, was housekeeper ar Oscott, and who had been ousted from her rooms by Miss Gladstone. Gladstone, President of the Board of Trade under Peel, found time in 1845 for more than commercial matters and published a ‘Manual of Prayers from the Liturgy’.
Can you guess who is the He referred to here? (-For bonus points, you can tell me the title of the book too.)
It’s probably good blogging manners not to tag strangers, so I tag
The Passionist Charism;
Liam (but I know he’s busy writing his review essay, so I don’t expect a hasty response);
The Sisters of the Gospel of Life;
Norbertine Vocations (but only with the Novice Master’s permission);
I would have tagged Paulinus, but cheeky Berenike got there first.
You got hit too, eh?
I was thinking of passing the tag to you!
I’m too slow I suppose!
Yes, I was intending to tag you too, but then I saw you had already been hit.
Goldilocks? Does she creep into the Retreat and eat your porridge? Bad girl!
Thanks I’ll get onto that, is he Venerable John Henry Cardinal Newman? Can’t give you the book.
Good guess, Liam, but it’s not Cardinal Newman.
John Keble, perhaps?
Ooh, please, Father, can I have a go? Is it Manning, Father? Is it?
BA (who’s not a blogger, but a lurker in the windows of other men’s blogs)
Hmmm, I’m trying to triangulate between Oscott and Gladstone - seeing the Oxford Movement is of no help, as we’re so helpfully advised, HE was neither in nor out of it. 1845 makes it a bit early for Lord Acton, although I’m not entirely ruling him out. James Hope-Scott was close to Gladstone during this time along with Manning so if BA hasn’t got it with Manning, I might go for Hope.
It will surely take a Wise Man to get thi….. no, it couldn’t be Wiseman?
Stephen
I’m sorry your comment wasn’t posted earlier. I’ve just found it in my spam box. Ignatius (or George as he was then) Spencer was appointed spiritual director at Oscott in 1839; Wiseman arrived there the following year. They worked togethr at Oscott until December 1846 when Spencer joined the Passionists.