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In this week's episode of The Liturgical Looking Glass we showcase a lot of plainchant (go figure), a hymn from the New English Hymnal, Bach played by a mountain stream and an exquisite sequence. It's the 25th Sunday in Ordinary time coming up, but it's also Our Lady of Walsingham this Sunday in East Anglia and so we through in something special at the end for the occasion. Listen and you'll find out.

When you read the Old Testament, where did the text come from? Can we trace the story of the manuscripts? The earliest complete Hebrew Bible dates all the way back to AD1008 but how accurate is it? Dr Kim Phillips from the Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University Library opens up for us his work on Old Testament manuscripts, in a glorious sweep that takes us from the centuries before Jesus all the way to the Middle Ages. Dr Kim Phillips studied Hebrew and the Old Testament at Cambridge University. In his PhD he looked at an important medieval Jewish commentary on the book of Isaiah and he has worked since on Hebrew and Aramaic Bible manuscripts from late Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

Fr Toby on the call to follow Jesus.

Fr Euan continues his reflections on the wisdom of King Solomon! Fr Euan is a Dominican currently based at Blackfriars in Cambridge.

Fr Alvan helps us take an introspective look at our own spiritual life. Fr Alvan is Parish Priest of St Mary's in Great Yarmouth.

Joanna Bogle talks about her upcoming Autumn History Walks around London, including the walk from Tyburn to St Dominic's Priory for the Radio Maria Worldwide Rosary on 7th October!

Fr Toby on the existential leap of faith and the life of St Andrew Kim Taegon.

The Contraception Deception: the Roots and Fruits of the Sexual Revolution – and a Catholic Solution Nicole Syed's talk given at St Mary Moorfields in London explores the history and dangers of hormonal contraception and how instead Natural Fertility Awareness empowers women with knowledge about their own natural cycles and fertility. Nicole is a FertilityCare Practitioner and Director of Integrity FertilityCare Australia and was previously Director of the London FertilityCare Centre. This talk was part of a double bill with Edmund Adamus and you can find his talk here: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/hxD2ydl8iDb.

Memory and Identity - Back to the Future through the Lens of Humanae Vitae Edmund Adamus' talk given at St Mary Moorfields in London takes us back through the history of Humanae Vitae, exploring how Pope Pius' prophetic encyclical can inform our lives today. Edmund was the former Director for Marriage and Family Life in the Diocese of Westminster. This talk was part of a double bill with Nicole Syed and you can find the link to her talk here: https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/8UUhSb47iDb.

Derek takes us into the history of tithing and the giving back to God as worship, what he has given us.