Month: September 2023

My Podcast Homily for Morning Prayer in our Psalter Series for Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity was uploaded earlier today. The Psalm is Psalm 10. The Podcast Homily is linked from both the Welcome and Podcast Homilies-Morning Prayer pages. The Psalmist worries that the ungodly seem to be prevailing, a common theme both in the pre-Christian and Christian eras.

Work continues on the Angels book. I was very surprised to get three proof copies one day earlier than promised by KDP Publishing. This revised version incorporates many changes in both content and design. My wife, Corkie, had proofread the entire book during the late summer. Taking her comments, both about design and content into consideration, I revised both the Preface and Chapter 1. Other changes involved increasing the size of many images and adding several new images – “new” to the book but still very old. These include another image of the Annunciation to Mary by the Archangel Gabriel made in western France around 1500 A.D. and an illumination of the Archangel Michael trampling the Devil produced between 1486 and 1506 in Bruges, Netherlands for Joanna of Castille. This brings the total to 152 illustrations from the 3rd to the 20th C. I am still awaiting two images from the British Library. I was informed last week that they currently have a backlog of 600 requests for digital imagery!

Meanwhile, I have been busy planning revised editions of most of our books. This will allow correction of known errors/typos, the addition of material about the current AIC Bookstore Publications catalogue, including all the books published between late 2021 and the present. These will be published with an Epiphany 2024 date. The process is very time-consuming and also frustrating, because Adobe has updated InDesign, Photoshop and Acrobat, necessitating many adjustments to how things work and, surprise! surprise! taking up much more space on my Mac’s hard drive. I plan to move all old material to portable hard drives, leaving only the current versions in place.

As always, I thank you for your interest and support.

Glory be to God for all things! Amen!

My Podcast Homily in our Morning Prayer Homilies in the Psalter Series was recorded yesterday and uploaded to our Podbean, our Podcast host, this morning. It is linked from both the Morning Prayer H0milies and Welcome pages. The Psalm reading is Psalm 49.

Progress continues in the work toward the Angels: In Scripture, Prayer & Christian Tradition book. I have rewritten both the Preface and Part One-Chapter 1-A Primer on Angels. Two of the necessary written permission letters, out of four needed, have now been received. Only two images remain outstanding, both from the British Library. I anticipate receiving them later this month or in early October. My outside consultant on book design has promised her input on the draft version sometime next week.

I am organizing the promised new series of Blog postings, to be focused on things to do to defend yourself and your faith again the anti-Christian secular world.

As always, thank you for your continued interest in the AIC’s online presence.

Glory be to God for all things! Amen!

The Podcast Homily for Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity in our Morning Prayer Homilies-Psalter Series was recorded yesterday and uploaded this morning. The Psalm reading is Psalm 65.

Progress continues on the planned Angels book, which now will have a new title: Angels: In Scripture, Prayer & Christian Tradition. Items still needed are two images ordered from the British Library and permission letters from several sources for illustrations used in earlier books and a rewrite of Part I-A Primer on Angels. The changes will reflect what is actually in the book and a clearer statement of the purpose of the book. At this time there are 148 illustrations presented in 238 pages. I complicated the process with an error in a file name in the order from the British Library and ended up with an unneeded illustration and the necessity to order again with the correct file and folio number.

Two other projects underway are editing of seven earlier books to include all the new books added in 2022 and 2023 and fixing of some technical issues and writing of a new series of topical articles on the theme of defending your faith in the 21st C. Owing to price increasing in printing introduced earlier this year by KDP Publishing, prices for all our books will have to be increased.

As always, thank you for your interest in this online teaching site.

Glory be to God for all things! Amen!