Ep. 85 - One Old Booser Worse than Another

Why can’t we use Guinness instead of wine at Mass?

Topics include Leopold Bloom’s thoughts on Communion wine, lots of lotuses, why wine must be used in the Mass instead of Guinness, temperance, transubstantiation, shew wine, cadging wine at Mass, Old Glynn, sacred music, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, footdrill, sacred music as a lotus, how sacred music is a bit sexy, how sacred music helps put butts in seats, Mercadante, Mozart, Palestrina, Dermot’s love of 12th c. polyphony, the Liturgy of the Hours, Benedictine and Chartreuse, and castrati.

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Further Reading:

1. Budgen, F. (1972). James Joyce and the making of Ulysses, and other writings. London: Oxford University Press. Retrieved from https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AMF2PZFZHI2WND8U 

2. Gifford, D., & Seidman, R. J. (1988). Ulysses annotated: Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses. Berkeley: University of California Press. Retrieved from https://tinyurl.com/vy6j4tk 

3. Igoe, V. (2016). The real people of Joyce’s Ulysses: A biographical guide. University College Dublin Press.

4. Schulte, A.J. (1907). Altar Wine. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.Retrieved April 13, 2022 from New Advent: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01358a.htm