Felis Fidelis

    My name is not particularly important; my friends call me various things depending on how they know me. I am in my mid-twenties. I have been running this website since 2022, but it took its present form in October of 2024. At the moment I am a sacristan for a Roman Catholic church of relatively great renown. In my spare time, I tend to work on various projects, namely the typesetting projects you can find on the Books page. My principal interest is the Use of Sarum, otherwise known as the Sarum Rite. Beyond this, I do have some amount of interest in the Dominican and Carmelite rites. I hope, some day, to live with others according to the Rule of St. Augustine, using the Sarum books, but I must confess I tend to doubt it shall ever happen. Nonetheless, these typesetting projects keep me going.

    I am aggressively Gothic, and decidedly not-baroque; I am more krummhorn than violin. For want of books, I currently observe the Roman Office of 1960, albeit with a modified psalter to address several issues I have with the Pian arrangement.

    I don't expect this site to be of much use to anybody. I would be suprised to find it has any visitors at all. But if you do see this, I hope at least something I have done here has been of value to you.

    Felis Fidelis began in 2022 as a sole proprietorship specializing in vestments and paraments. It was, to be frank, absolutely and unequivocally disastrous. Whilst I enjoy vestments very much, I know them not to be what God wants me doing, so I no longer make them (except for particular exceptions for particular people). Not long after that failed, I realized how much I enjoyed typesetting, how rare the books I enjoy are, and how logical it would be to combine the two. Here we are.

    I have a million ideas I'd like to try -- the Breviarium S. Ordinis Praedicatorum of 1909, the Breviarium Carmelitarum of 1938, and a new print of the Tridentine office being very high up the list, but Sarum is King. I hope, when I die, if I should leave nothing else behind me on this earth, I shall have at least provided the slightest spark to the revival of Sarum, or to the revival of reverent and ancient liturgy. In this, as in all things, to God be the glory.