God Rest You, Hairy Gentlemen...

Keen observers may have noticed that this page has been strangely silent over the past week. Worry not! In the words of Bob Cratchit, the author has been "making rather merry", as should all good bearded Catholics at this blessed time of year.

Reliable intelligence has it that he has been preparing a subterranean lair, the better to conduct Manly Pursuits. Already he has picked up a number of books that had languished in boxes, and is leisurely and luxuriantly reading and re-reading the Confessions of St. Augustine, C.S. Lewis' The Pilgrim's Regress, and Tolkien's Silmarillion as well as his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight... all while wreathed in a cloud of aromatic pipe smoke. Between these, he is digesting the latest issue of Gilbert magazine.

Is life not astonishingly wonderful?

Regular rabble-rousing will commence after the New Year. Meanwhile, continue having a Merry Christmas!

Comments

[pcNielsen]

I didn't make it through Lewis' Regress, but have two of his that I haven't read thanks to Christmas. I tried winning a copy of Orthodoxy here at Urbana, but my aim was off (you won by throwing a dart at a particular part of a dart board).

[Jeff Hendrix]

May I suggest Maxims of Christian Chivalry? A blessed Yule

[John Kasaian]

Merry Christmas & a very Happy New Years to you & your family, Tim!

[Del]

Tolkien's Sir Gawain is an awesome read!

My boys and I have both read it -- without being assigned to do so -- and enjoyed it immensely. It's so hard to find good, enjoyable poetry these days.

[Lee]

Happy New Year!

Here's a hairy clerihew to start of the year -

Thanks to Edward Lear
I no longer fear
any beard-nesting fowl
(except, perhaps, an owl).

[Lee]

In keeping with the spirit of the site, we could change that poem to read:

Thanks to Edward Lear
I no longer fear
any beard-nesting fowl,
including the bearded-screech owl.

h

[Andrew Preslar]

Oh! New favorite blog. And I came to that conclusion (if an immediate reaction can count as a conclusion) before I noticed that you linked to my Tolkien post at Called to Communion.

My red beard has been coming in (alas, slow and thin) ever since I woke up to the fact that the RCs at CTC were outdoing the BCs (Byzantine Catholics) in that category. We all have to do what we can, more or less.

[Shakespeare's Cobbler - who forgot how to log in]

All as it should be. Break the conventions, keep the commandments!