#rubrics

[vezimira]

a cheatsheet for painting your rubrics

[inconsistently--consistent]

I despise rubrics that stipulate I need to go “above and beyond” for full credit. If I do everything you asked me to well I deserve a 100%. If I go “above and beyond” I deserve extra credit.

There is no job where you have to go “above and beyond” to get paid. Usually you get a bonus or a raise if you go “above and beyond”. At least in theory. 

This goes double for the public high school teachers I had who weren’t expected to ~actually~ complete all the district/school admin asked them to do. That being said teachers also deserve a pay raise and lower expectations. Especially so if they really did accomplish all that was asked of them and then some. (Personally I have never encountered a teacher who was able to do everything the district/admin asked them to because it was SO extensive)

[thetwistedrope]

Calling the Four Winds

Calling the Four Winds

For years now I’ve wanted to try and create some sort of ritual that would call the rain to me. After reading a paper by Jorgensen, which discusses the ways in which mythology symbolism can be layered into ritual/heka, I finally reached a point where I felt like I could finally wrap my mind around what such a ritual would entail. This post is basically about said ritual. If you’re not interested…

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[mculf]

Travelling in my Held leatherpants and Puma Rubrics.

[heretic-deb]

The Fractal Blades

I have recently finished a commission for The Fractal Blades Kill Team. Those of you who know me well will be aware that I have an affection for the Thousand Sons and to be able to paint some in my work time was a real pleasure. The five terminators were a great deal of fun and it reminds me that I really should make time to finish off the eighty or so rubric marines and sorcerers I have kicking…

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[septembersung]

A Coherent and Complete System

A priest who begins to learn about the old Rituale Romanum, with its collection of Blessings, may be surprised to notice that no blessing is provided for purificators...

“Therefore, only the corporal and the pall came in direct contact with the Most Blessed Sacrament, so only these were blessed/consecrated. It did not make sense to bless or consecrate purificators, since they did not share this same finality.

Knowledge of this is helpful for any priest to handle the Blessed Sacrament properly and reverently now. Forgetting these things is what, in part, has led to the aberrations that we regularly see now — such as the deplorable practice of using soaked purificators to “purify”. In parishes where Holy Communion is distributed under both kinds in the modern rite, a clean purificator should be used for the purifications, so that the minister can indeed be morally certain that he has removed all trace of the Precious Blood. This moral certainty, as Fr. Finigan wrote about, is practically guaranteed by the old rubrics, whereas, as I have written, the new are so vague that one has to think things through much more to work out a system that affords the same certitude. And more than our own sense of certitude, the proper respect due to Christ, truly present in the Holy Eucharist.

Fortunately, the new rubrics do contain this important proviso, found in GIRM # 42, which teaches us effectively that where there are lacunae, we should look to what was done before:

Attention must therefore be paid to what is determined by this General Instruction and by the traditional practice of the Roman Rite and to what serves the common spiritual good of the People of God, rather than private inclination or arbitrary choice.

What we see in the old rubrics and in the old blessings is a coherent and complete system.”

[robertogreco]

The rubric to end all rubrics: let's talk about what we're learning.

Jesse Stommel

[vezimira]

look, its the laughing girls meme but with rubrics