About Us

We are Kim and Roger Buck and are, as we say, a married Catholic couple. We are also converts who once spent a great deal of time engaged in the New Age movement. Since our conversion, we have both studied religion at British and Irish universities. We hope these personal statements from each of us can give you a fuller sense of who we are:
 
Kim
 
“In Easter 2000, I was confirmed into the Catholic Church. The graces, the joy, the depth of meaning I have experienced since then are immeasurable.
 
As I look upon a world that has become dry, with its emphasis on rationalism, relativism and materialism, I weep. I weep for the loss of Mystery that the Catholic Tradition holds. I weep for the loss of the Sacramental life which if truly lived, permeates every part of our existence, with the Mystery of Jesus Christ become flesh, through His Immaculate Mother Mary.
 
The ever pressing reality of our fallen predicament and our incredible need for redemption is brought to life in the daily sacrifice of the Mass and our daily Catholic prayers.
 
How can these things be communicated to a world with deaf ears? The best I can do is aspire to be a living example of these profound mysteries which permeate my life and the lives of so many.”
 
Roger
 
“I dedicated nearly twenty years of my life to New Age spirituality. For more than two years, I lived at the Findhorn Community in Northern Scotland, which many see as the leading world centre of the New Age movement.
 
My way into the Church was through the anonymous masterpiece Meditations on the Tarot. Without this life-transforming book, I might never have been able to free myself from the New Age mindset. Despite its unusual nature and hermetic approach, this is a book replete with the Catholic Mystery, as well as a book for which Hans Urs von Balthasar – nominated a Cardinal by John Paul II – wrote a foreword.
 
I join my wife in mourning the decay of the Catholic Tradition.  The Sacrifice on Calvary is being buried and forgotten. The loss of the traditional Mass only contributes to this tragedy. I deeply honour the work of those who have sustained the Mass in the Sacred Liturgical language of Latin. And I aspire to join their effort to sustain a living traditional Catholicism, in faithfulness to the Holy Father and the Magisterium. But at the same time, what I mean by “traditional” is implied in these words of  the Ven. John Paul II: “Fidelity to roots does not mean a mechanical copying of the patterns of the past. Fidelity to roots is always creative, ready to descend into the depths, open to new challenges, alert to the “signs of the times”.

Most of the writings at this site are my own. I hope they may be useful to some folk. This being said, I want to definitively stress that although I have studied theology, I am no theologian and do not wish to simulate an expertise I do not possess. These writings are simply my reflections …”

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