P. Terentius Afer Redux: Blogoral Calendar

Calendar Of Annually Revised Posts.

Advent.
Hell Yes There's A Santa Claus. (6 Dec)
O What's an Antiphon? (17 Dec)
Christmas / Navidad / Weinachten. (25 Dec)
The 12 Days of Christmas.
Happy Whatever Day This Is. (1 Jan)
Wilhelm Löhe. (2 Jan)
Epiphany / Theophany / Los Tres Reyes. (6 Jan)
Roman Empire/Church, East/West/Holy. (16 Jan)
- founding day of the Roman Empire
Candlemas. (2 Feb)
A Love Story For St Valentine's Day. (14 Feb)
The Confession of St Peter. On Chairs Too. (22 Feb)
Readin', Writin', and Absolute Multitude. (25 Feb)
- founding day of The University of Iowa
The Transfiguration of Jesus.
What's A Septuagesima? Gesimatide.
What's A Quadragesima? Lent / Fastenzeit.
Divine Service -- What's That and Why Bother? (12 Mar)
- the real feast of St Gregory the Great, not 3 Sep
Divine Office -- What's That and Why Bother? (21 Mar)
- the real feast of St Benedict, not 11 July
The Annunciation / Lady Day. (25 Mar)
Palmarum and Holy Week.
Maundy Thursday / Gründonnerstag.
Good Friday / Karfreitag.
Easter Vigil / Osternacht.
Pascha / Easter / Counting the Omer.
Paschaltide / Quinquagesima paschalis.
The Founding of the City, 21 April.
May Day, May Day!
CFW Walther. (7 May)
Pentecost / Shavuot / Pfingstfest.
Armed Forces Week And Day.
Memorial Day Is Not All Saints Day. (30 May)
St Boniface, OSB. (5 June)
When In Rome ...
The Nativity of St John the Baptist. (24 June)
The Augsburg Confession. (25 June)
The Fourth of July.
A Different St Nicholas -- and Alexandra, Passion-Bearers. (17 July)
Robert Barnes. (30 July)
The Dormitory of Mary. (15 August)
On St Bernard, Sacred Heads, ATMs and Other Stuff. (19 Aug)
St Monica and Vatican II For Lutherans. (27 Aug)
- Vatican II's Monica feast day, the real one is 4 May

Augustine and Happy Birthday, Western Catholic Church. (6 Sep)

Arminius. Herman the German. Us.

Temples, Taxes, Vespasian and Now.
Holy Crap Day. (14 Sep)
The Divine Setting. An Essay on the Lifted Cross.
It's Fall, What Happened to the High Holydays and Sukkoth?
St Michael's Day / Michaelmas / Michaelistag. (29 Sep)
Jerome. (30 Sep)

Hold Fast to Hype. (11 Oct)
Boethius, Terence, Wheel of Fortune. (23 Oct)
Reformation Day etc / Reformationstag usw. (31 Oct)
Election Day.
What's An Armistice? Veterans Day/St Martin's Day. (11 Nov)
Thanksgiving. (19 Nov)
A Thanksgiving That Lasts An Eternity.

Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.

What Does This Mean? It means You should pray for a sound mind in a sound body. The line comes from Decimus Junius Juvenalis' Satire Ten, line 356. It's important to understand that Juvenal goes on to say you should ask for a strong heart that sees long life as the least thing giving the ability to endure anything, a heart that has neither wrath nor desire, and would prefer the hard labours of Hercules to the self-indulgent pleasures and luxuries of Sardanapalus, the decadent Assyrian king of legend. The satire laments that Rome has abandoned the true Roman values of the Roman Republic with the Roman Empire, people now caring only for food and entertainment (panem et circenses, line 81) and leaders who will provide it to them.

Semper idem sed non eodem modo.

What Does This Mean? It means Always the same but not in the same way. The line is a motto used by the Austrian (the part where he was born is now in the Ukraine) music theorist Heinrich Schenker. He may have based it on lines from either or both of Augustine's Confessions or Irenaeus' Against Heresies, that say God is always the same knowing in the same way things that are not the same nor in the same way. He saw tonality as the composing-out through structural levels in music of this divine attribute, for which the Nazis rejected him as having corrupted music theory with Jewish monotheism. He died in 1935 before Germany's annexation of Austria in 1938, but his wife Jeanette ended up in Theresienstadt, which the Nazis tried to make a showcase for how the camps weren't so bad (the same one from which Dr Viktor Frankl survived to give Man his greatest psychology, logotherapy), and died there four months to the day before the Soviet Army liberated the camp 8 May 1945.

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