Notes from the Ninth Circle

Essays, commentary, videos, information about political events, freethought, social democracy, history, and anything else I feel like writing about. Poems too, and a few short stories.

12 March 2022

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 5: Secular Ecclesiastical Divisions

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The following accounts for the divisions of the secular (secular as opposed to regular, not secular as in temporal and opposed to religious)...

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 4: Regular Clergy

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Simply and in brief, here is a description of regular clergy (a term which takes in both ordained and lay) living collectively according to ...

23 February 2022

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 3: The Canonical Hours of the Day

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Also known as the Liturgy of the Hours (in the Roman Church), the Daily Office (in the Anglican Communion), and the Divine Office (in other ...

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 2: What is a day?

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To better understand the Divine Office (Liturgy of the Hours), we need to first exam the definition of a day, specifically, the diving line ...

20 February 2022

The Medieval Church in the Isles, Part 1: The Dioceses

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Many of the medieval dioceses of the Church in the Isles and its outlying districts (Brittany, Britonia, Channel Islands) had their roots or...

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Chuck Hamilton: I am a Terran, a citizen of Earth. The whole world is my home and all its people my brother, sisters, and cousins regardless of organic or synthetic origin. Like our distant cousins on other planets across space and throughout time, we are all children of the Universe. None of us asked to be born, and none of us will get out of here alive.

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