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Belloc’s prose glitters and crashes like ocean breakers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBelloc sees sailing as an analogy to life: full of “great visions” and “intolerable tediums,” “alive with discovery, emotion, adventure, peril, and repose.” For Belloc, the sea “presents, upon the greatest scale we mortals can bear, those not mortal powers which brought us into being. 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From his memories of the outbreak of the first World War to denunciations of rationalism, this cruise can transport the reader from his armchair to the lashing spray and biting wit of this monumental figure of English literature. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Everything Belloc touched turns to magic for me. This book, however, is the closest the great man ever came to autobiography.” —Roger Buck\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Belloc thought that the cruising of a boat is akin to the adventure of a human soul… undertaken with purpose yet subject to innumerable diversions; aided by unforeseen blessings and opportunities yet troubled by terrible anxieties. 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Not so—at least in France—as this volume makes perfectly clear. Le Brun immerses us in the colourful landscape of pre-Revolution Catholic worship which, in spite of many differences in local detail, displays a living liturgical and cultural integrity that is utterly enviable in our own highly compartmentalised and fragmented set of secular subcultures.” —Alcuin Reid, OSB, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Organic Development of the Liturgy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Originally intended as a kind of ecclesiastical \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMichelin Guide\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Le Brun’s travelogue through the churches of France now serves as a liturgical time machine. While one may not always find oneself in sympathy with the author’s judgments, the spirited, imaginary debates a reader can have with Le Brun make for delightful company along this literary pilgrimage.” —Urban Hannon, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThomistic Mystagogy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In our age of information saturation, it is astonishing how little access the English speaker has to data about the worship practices of our Catholic ancestors. Filling this lacuna is a fresh translation of Le Brun’s eighteenth-century classic. Readers will be surprised by how much authentic liturgical diversity existed during a time of alleged Tridentine ossification.” —Michael P. Foley, Baylor University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo read more:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sicutincensum.wordpress.com\/2025\/07\/10\/liturgical-treasures-of-pre-revolutionary-france\/\"\u003eLiturgical Treasures of Pre-Revolutionary France\u003c\/a\u003e,\" \u003cem\u003eCanticum Salomonis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/2025\/07\/liturgical-travels-through-france-new.html\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.newliturgicalmovement.org\/2025\/07\/liturgical-travels-through-france-new.html\"\u003eLiturgical Travels Through France\u003c\/a\u003e,\" \u003cem\u003eNew Liturgical Movement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Os Justi Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42043226620002,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":42043226652770,"sku":null,"price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"eBook","offer_id":42043226685538,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/liturgicaltravels.jpg?v=1751924060"},{"product_id":"cromwell","title":"Cromwell","description":"\u003ch4 data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003eHardcover | 330 pp.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA re-typeset premium edition of Belloc's classic text, which has been out of print for 22 years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003eA landed Puritan enthusiast, made rich by the Great Pillage, Oliver Cromwell felt called by God to do His work by any means. Like a judge of the Old Law bearing a mandate, he would rid the Elect of its foes, especially Papists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western preFade fadeIn\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eBacked by the money power of London, he used subterfuge to kill the king, and his talent on the battlefield to crush the outgunned Royalists. In Ireland, he mounted genocide: butchering Drogheda, as he presided over the the looting of a nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western preFade fadeIn\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eWith Charles I beheaded, Cromwell as Protector ruled Britain with an iron fist. In toppling the old regime to carve out a republic, had he merely made himself another king?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western preFade fadeIn\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eMaster historian Hilaire Belloc paints a portrait of the revolutionary squire who was the chief slayer of monarchy, killed to make way for rule by wealth. Who in pursuing his dark quest ordered up the deaths of innocents, and knew nothing of God's mercy, only His awful will.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mysterium Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42181416747106,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0566\/1353\/5842\/files\/cromwell.jpg?v=1758033332"},{"product_id":"charles-i","title":"Charles I","description":"\u003ch4 data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003eHardcover | 306 pp.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA re-typeset premium edition of Belloc's classic text, which has been out of print for 19 years\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"preFade fadeIn\"\u003eIn an increasingly divided England the wealthy eyed the Crown and plotted revolution. Monarchy went back beyond tradition and was a symbol of the nation's unity: the people were embodied in one man. England was the first to lose it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"western preFade fadeIn\" data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"\u003eCharles Stuart, once a sickly child, manned the tottering throne (which was weakened and despoiled by theft) with tenacity and dignity and was led, outgunned, into a war which ended with his murder. 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