NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS & VIEWS S t . Thomas More The Times Literary Supplement of London is not given to lavish praise, but lavish praise is heaped upon the new volumes in Yale's monumental edition of...
...TLS is especially captivated by De Tristitia, in all probability the last of More's writings in the Tower and the volume which it feels "brings us closest to More in his last crucial days...
...Cavanaugh's gmdelines: "Only buy foods that Jesus, John or Peter would bt!y...
...JOHN" DEEDY 23 December 1977:802...
...why he died, and why he sought within the framework of the law, which he knew as well as the air he breathed, to fight off death by any choice of his own until it was forced upon him without choice...
...Do not bring us to the time of trial, but deliver us from evil...
...Fitzpatrick claims to have lost over $8.6 million in revenues during the past three years...
...District Court in Chicago...
...John . . . . But the words are all More's...
...Gone is "Thy kingdom come"--probably because the kingdom idea is included in in the phrase, "For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory...
...It will remain intact in the regular Service Book...
...Chicago, incidentally, ranks as Fitzpatrick's prime copyright offender...
...Our Father Some of the most familiar phrases of the Lord's Prayer disappear in the modernized version recently approved by the General Synod of the Church of England for inclusion in the Alternative Service Book scheduled for 1980...
...Which takes care, I guess, of TV dinners and Burger Kings...
...The up-dated Lord's Prayer: "Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed be your name, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven...
...On June 12, 1535, less than a month before More's execution', "all his bokes and penne and ynke and paper was taken from hym...
...Catholic Conference failure to provide adequate direction to the 167 archdioceses and dioceses of the U.S...
...A court-supervised collection of unauthorized hymnals there revealed that 252, or 56 percent, of Chicago's 447 Catholic churches were using pirated hymnals...
...His suit charges widespread use of "pirated hymnals" in churches and schools, and attributes to the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the U.S...
...He left behind that moving passage which the Yale editors single out and which the reviewer says "reveals the unity with Christ which finally was vouchsafed to More, the words with which Christ comforts those afraid to die...
...They could have built no greater monument for the quincentenary than this noble edition of the Tower works...
...More thereupon drew the blinds of his windows and kept them shut...
...Look, 1 am walking ahead o/ you along the road...
...Newly issued are A Dialogue o[ Comfort, Treatise on the Passion and on the Blessed Body, and the De Tristitia Christi, summed up by TLS as "the sombre, lonely, but ultimately triumphant meditations...
...You are a[raid, you are sad, you are stricken with weariness and dread of the torment with which you have been cruelly threatened...
...concerning the proper use of copyrights...
...The Yale editors have done much in the past to reveal the full inward purpose of More's life and writings," wrote TLS reviewer Nicolas Barker...
...At last, as Robert Bolt has More say in A Man /or All Seasons, it was not a matter of reason...
...I conquered the world, and yet suffered immeasurably more ]rom [ear, I was sadder, more afflicted with weariness, more horrified at the prospect o/ such cruel su/fering drawing hungrily nearer...
...Gone also, "lead us not into temptation"--subs~ituted for, according to scholars, because the term mistakenly implies that God is the agent of temptation...
...With them we can see, or begin to see, the state to which his long vigil in the Tower brought him...
...In TLS's opinion, their publication could not be more appropriate...
...Give us today our daily bread...
...He said complaints to bishops about copyright infringements "were uniformly ignored or rejected," and that he had no recourse but "to resort to the courts to jar the group conscience of some in the Church back to a higher level of awareness of honesty in worship...
...at last it was a matter of love: in TLS's interpretation, love of the church "as a union of Christian people in whom Christ is present...
...Cavanaugh would say, Can you imagine Jesus coming out of the supermarket with 12 hags of chips, one for each apostle...
...It's a workshop given in C a l - i f o r n i a by Joan Cavanaugh, founder of Pace-Weight Ministries and author of More of lesus, Less o~ Me...
...Odds and Ends - - I f you think you've heard everything, how about "Christian Weight Control...
...The traditional version of the Lord's Prayer is not being jettisoned completely...
...Fitzpatrick termed his action a "last resort...
...Let the brave man have his high-spirited martyrs by the thousand, let him reioice in imitating them...
...There," says the reviewer, "are echoes of Isaiah, of Ecclesiasticus, and above all St...
...The suit has been filed in U.S...
...Dennis J. Fitzpatrick, composer-owner of FEL (Friends of English Liturgy) Publications, Ltd., has filed an 18count complaint specifying as copyright violators the Archdioceses of Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Denver, Detroit, New York and San Francisco, and the Dioceses of Arlington, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Cleveland, Fort WayneS~th Bend, Green Bay, phoenix and St...
...i~ you do not trust yourselves, put your trust in me...
...Forgive US our sins as we forgive those who sin against us...
...Amen...
...But you, my timorous and /eeble sheep, be content with me alone as your shepherd, /ollow me as your leader...
...When his jailer inquired why, More replied: "Now that the goods and tools are taken away the shop must be closed...
...Thomas More went to the block, not rushing forth eagerly, but in the coura~ us high spirits that had him protecting from the executor's ax the beard that never offended the king...
...Augustine...
...NEWS & VIEWS S t . Thomas More The Times Literary Supplement of London is not given to lavish praise, but lavish praise is heaped upon the new volumes in Yale's monumental edition of the Complete Works of St...
...Trust me...
...Here," it comments, "we can see . . . what led More on...
...Among Mrs...
...Volumes 12, '13 and 14 calied the Tower works, for having been written in London Tower while More awaited execution---coincide with international observances marking the quincentenary of More's birth...
...He estimated losses in royalties to FEL's 65 author-composers at over $750,000 for the same period...
...TLS quotes them unblushingly: 0 [aint o[ heart, take courage and do not despair...
...For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and for ever...
...Our Bishops The Los Angeles publisher of religious music, who last year brought aotion against the Archdiocese of Chicago for alleged infringement of copyrights, is now suing the U.S...
...He was beheaded Iuly 6, 1535...
...Catholic bishops for $8.6 million on similar grounds...
...Or as Mrs...
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