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Author Archives: kim
To Suffer the Modern Liturgy and not to Fume …
I have just returned from Holy Mass with the Institute of Christ the King, here in Madrid.
I feel so nourished by this Mass. So deeply nourished, physically and spiritually, that my soul is singing.
Nourished by the beauty of the chapel. Nourished by the beauty of the vestments and altar. Nourished by the beauty of the [...]
Holy Week
Today is Maundy Thursday and as I prayed the Holy Rosary this morning, whilst walking our small dog in a park in the capital of Spain, Madrid, I was aware of a great hush in this city, usually hustling and bustling at 8 o’ clock in the morning.
A great hush, as this Catholic country [...]
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Everybody´s Fine?
Returning from Holy Mass recently one morning, I felt very sad.
I found myself sitting opposite a large poster advert for a film called Everybody´s Fine.
The poster, like most forms of advertising, is designed to draw people in and it is successful. I found it difficult not to look at it – it took an act [...]
We All Suffer because We are Fallen … And Yet There is Hope
My little dog suffers, part of fallen Creation.
The woman upstairs suffers because she is fallen.
The man in the street suffers because he is fallen.
We all suffer because we are fallen.
My husband suffers because his mother screamed at him.
She suffered because her father beat her mother.
I suffer because my mother abandoned me as a child.
She suffers [...]
Book Review: The Secret of the Rosary by Saint Louis de Montfort
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The Novus Ordo Fails to Guard and Contain
On reading the chapter entitled Liturgical Reform, in Iota Unum, by Romano Amerio, many thoughts and feelings are with me. How to put into words that which I am experiencing? I will begin with something that happened the other night.
I attended a Novus Ordo Mass. I found the liturgy particularly disorganised and chaotic. On receiving communion, [...]
From Ordinary to Extraordinary
Recently at the Tridentine Latin Mass, I experienced something so beautiful.
After the consecration and elevation of the Host, I bowed my head in reverence and prayer and then when the server rang the following bell, I lifted my head.
I saw the robe of the priest held up, slightly curved behind the priest. The chalice was [...]
Denial of the Fall II
And the serpent said to the woman: No, you shall not die the death. For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods … (Genesis 3 iv- v, Douay Rheims translation of the Vulgate).
I am grateful for all the rich comments [...]
Denial of the Fall
Living with family at the moment in this Spanish town, filled with New Age oriented folk, means that I am being repeatedly confronted with New Age ideologies. In this world I am experiencing, is a powerful sense of idealising the positive and undermining the negative.
Recently, I heard two people talking, about some very painful issues [...]
The Global Tragedy of Demythologisation
Some time ago, I stayed with a friend who is studying Catholic Theology at a Swiss university. We had some difficult conversations about the Faith. Difficult because we once shared many beliefs, but now stand in very different places. Our current differing perspectives clashed.
Something my friend said to me, still rings in my ears. She [...]
Lead Us Not into Media Temptation …
Some time ago, I was at the St.Pius X Priory in Caussade, France, when a Franciscan brother celebrated Mass. In his homily, he spoke of the importance of prayer in times of temptation. Of how we, as children of God, become like babies in such times, and as such, need to cry to our parent [...]
Our Mother, the Church
Several years ago, a friend of mine spoke to me about a Catholic study group she had been part of. The group consisted of mainly women and there was much talk against the then pope, John Paul II, who had declared that the Church lacked authority to ordain women.
These women claimed that they were searching [...]
Welcome Home? From the New Age to Catholicism – Part Two
As Roger has mentioned in his weblog, we have been staying with family in southern Spain. Although there is a strong Catholic community here amongst the native Spanish people, the ex-patriate Brits, of whom there are many, tend to be drawn to the New Age. Our family is involved in this New Age way.
So Roger and I [...]
Coming Home: From the New Age to Catholicism – Part One
In the summer of 1998, four years after I began work at the New Age centre in Cambridge, Roger and I were in Switzerland.
Although Roger had already converted to Christianity, I had virtually no interest in it. In fact, I was pretty much opposed to Christianity, in particular to the institution of the Church.
I knew nothing about Catholicism [...]
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Where Have I Come From? A Touch of Biography …
The next few entries will focus on my conversion to Catholicism. This will be expressed very much through my experiences of the Church as ‘homecoming’. A theme that lives with me daily.
But first of all, here is a touch of biography to give a small glimpse at my life before I came to the Church.
As previously mentioned [...]
Towards God
I will never forget my first Latin Mass. It was incredible.
With the priest facing the tabernacle, his back turned to us, it was as though he was leading us to our Lord.
The beautiful robe the priest wore seemed to cover us all, being an instrument in this sacred journey. Each and every prayer and word spoken [...]
His Heart, O So Tender, So Pierced
One Thursday night, when I was praying the Holy Hour, I began to feel a tender quality in my heart.
I heard the continuous cry of a young dog, outside in the snowy cold night. That cry seemed to go straight into the tenderness in my heart. I wondered as I prayed, if I was experiencing [...]
Cor Jesu, láncea perforátum
Welcome to my weblog and thank you for coming.
There are many themes and aspects to the faith, I want to explore here, centred around the mysteries of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady and Her Rosary, Holy Mass, Holy Mother Church and far more.
First of all, I will present something I wrote about the [...]
Book Review: The Autobiography of Saint Margaret Mary