Having been offline for most of the summer, I wasn’t able to post here my acknowledgements of Jim Parkinson, one of the great men of letters of our time, and Bishop Peter Elliott, a great Catholic liturgical teacher.
And today is St Dominic’s Day, and as well as honouring the spiritual figure whom I so admire for catalysing a unity of scholarship and proclamation I try to uphold, the day reminds me of the last Van Morrison album that really comprehensively sank into my spirit (Moondance, His Band and the Street Choir, and St Dominic’s Preview; Tupelo Honey just didn’t register with me…).