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Submitted by
Name: Sandra Etemad
From: Norristown, Pennsylvania
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Wow -- thanks for the wonderful page on various ways to sing the Psalms! I'm an Episcopal priest and used N.T. Wright's book, A Case for the Psalms, for a summer book group. I took several of my liturgical resources there (Carl Daw's HymnTune Psalter is really terrific, although the lectionary is from the Book of Common Prayer which hardly anyone uses any more, and there's no index to Psalm numbers, so you have to flip through!), but your discussion is fantastic and a great resource for me and also for any parishioners who are interested in looking close (mostly choir members, I'd guess). Thanks very much for your work and care; the rest of your site is very interesting, too.

Admin reply: Thanks for the kind words! I'm glad the material on the Psalms was useful.

Added: August 8, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Karolina
From: Poland
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Admin reply: I was going to ask you if there were any accent marks in the Polish version, but then I remembered I already made the Polish version (and there were LOTS of accent marks!). Please scroll down on that web page to find it.

If there were a compelling reason to make a new illustration with no rays, I would do it, but I don't think there is a compelling reason, so I hope you can live with the design as it is.

Added: August 3, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Karolina
From: Poland
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Admin reply: Please supply me with the Polish translation, and I will make it. As for the rays, I'm not sure I can remove them from the illustration at this point. Why no rays?

Added: August 2, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Chris Hawkins
From: England, UK
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Added: August 1, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Jessica B
From: Delaware,USA
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Admin reply: That's great news! Thanks for the info.

Added: July 20, 2016

Submitted by
Name: T.R. LOHMEYER
From: CONYERS, GA
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Admin reply: I'm glad to hear that you have been able to use the images! The project you proposed is a very worthy one, and I'll consider it and reply later. It would take a little time for me to complete. Of course, as you know, no image is required on the brown scapular, and my personal preference has been plain brown (which is why I have not considered creating an image until now)!

Added: April 16, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Simon J. Birnbaum
From: Karlsruhe, Germany
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Comments:
Hello Russ,
I tried several times to submit a message, but the machine refused to accept it. Any idea?

Admin reply: Well, it worked this time!

Added: April 15, 2016

Submitted by
Name: Frank Dagostino
From: Oakley California
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Comments:
Your posts on the Shorter Christian Prayer have been very informative but I do have a question: if one uses eg The Grail Revised Psalms for
daytime prayer or office of readings, do we use antiphons or not? If so,
where do we find them?
I have arthritis in my hands so using the lighter SCP is much easier to
deal with.

Admin reply: I assume we would use the antiphons. But I'm hardly an expert on this subject. The best place to as is at the Coffee and Canticles blog: http://dariasockey.blogspot.jp/

That's where I ask my questions!

Added: April 4, 2016

Submitted by
Name: John deWolf
From: Halifax, Nova Scotia
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Admin reply: I'm sorry to hear that. I have no idea who could fix a bent M90 nib, and I hear that steel is difficult to bend back to its original shape. But you could try contacting Pilot or perhaps John Mottishaw at nibs.com

Added: March 28, 2016

Submitted by
Name: chris
From: st louis
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Comments:
There was a portrait of a christ-like portrait on Sherlock's wall, very dark and frontal Black on a white background small but large enough to see that it looks like a portrait of a brooding face with long hair. I've seen it a few times in the Jeremy Brett series. Does anyone know who the artist is?

Admin reply: I have no idea. But it sounds like a criminal's portrait.

Added: March 27, 2016