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- epsilon on 8 March 2010
Hello Roger – have just re-read this post – it is so profound! Are you still... - roger on 5 March 2010
Philip, thank you for this unexpected kind encouragement again and prayers! After finding your... - philip johnson on 3 March 2010
your faith is strong .you are in my prayers.god bless you and god bless the pope.... - roger on 28 February 2010
Thank you Benjamin for this beautiful quote and for your warm words. They help, for much the... - roger on 28 February 2010
Thank you so much Philip. This kind, warm encouragement means a lot to us. For this internet... - roger on 28 February 2010
Yes Edwin. Catholicism is a living, growing tradition. I cannot help but feel that part of... - Benjamin on 25 February 2010
Revisited your blog; I am thankful for your journey and witness to me. I will revisit... - philip johnson on 24 February 2010
great writing.you are true followers of the one true faith. god bless .philip. - Edwin Shendelman on 24 February 2010
“For I really have come to believe that a de-sacramentalised,... - roger on 23 February 2010
Yes Edwin. There is a favourite quote of mine that makes old friends of mine yawn by now.... - Edwin Shendelman on 23 February 2010
I guess what I am trying to get at here is the need to hold two different ideas... - roger on 22 February 2010
Thank you for this Edwin. My original post invoked the word STRUGGLE quite consciously I...
- epsilon on 8 March 2010
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Author Archives: roger
Book Review: Marian Apparitions, the Bible and the Modern World – Donal Anthony Foley
The Miraculous Medal, struck in Paris after 1830 Apparition in the Rue du Bac.
I wonder …
Do I simply call this a book? Or would it be more accurate to call it an unexpected trove of treasure I have discovered by the Grace of God?
But to be prosaic for a moment, this is of course, [...]
This Joy
If people only knew …
For two days running, circumstances led me to miss Mass. This is very unusual for me and accustomed as I am to daily Mass, its absence was very noticeable.
I suppose some reading this might consider my going to Mass daily as some kind of zealous pious dutifulness. If they only knew [...]
The Death Cult Progeny of the Enlightenment III
At the end of preceding segment, I turned to the subject of hope. For I share a world with many who are losing hope as to the sustainability of our present civilisation.
And as I have written earlier in this little series, I myself have little hope in the prospects of creating an ultimately sustainable civilisation [...]
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Book Review: When Corporations Rule the World by David C. Korten
A Great Tree Trunk for understanding Corporate Control and the Idols of Modern Secular Civilisation.
Thank you, Friend(s) Unknown (You know who you are)
Just a little whisper now …
We have links to Amazon with a request to help this work.
Until lately, these were hardly used, but just recently someone or some ones, presumably in America, started using them.
Whoever you are Unknown Friend(s), I want to say: we are grateful.
This site is being born in real difficulty, which by so-called first [...]
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Valentin Tomberg: The Impoverishment of Protestantism
I have warned here that these webbursts may be very fragmentary, even cryptic at times. Here is an example of what I mean.
Recently some unpublished notes by Valentin Tomberg were released. They contained a single sentence which HIT me very, very deeply.
“The impoverishment of humanity caused by Protestantism: without the Mother the Word is not [...]
The Death Cult Progeny of the Enlightenment II
Stripped and naked, we die.
Were you to ask me dear Reader, for a five word précis of my last entry at this weblog, I doubt I could do much better than that.
For the point of that entry was that the fruits of the Enlightenment had left us stripped, stripped of the very things needed for our survival.
These include [...]
Every Secret Misery and Silent Agony
Bursting:
I have mentioned at this site before Paray-le-Monial, where His Most Sacred Heart once was seen, blazing like the sun. And I have mentioned before, how while bearing heavy suffering, how held and bathed I felt in the love of that Most Sacred Heart, which still can be felt beating there … beating at Paray-le-Monial in France.
And there, there I had experiences [...]
Just What Pray Tell is a Webburst?
Well, a little while ago there was an announcement saying a new blog called Webbursts would be starting here.
And just what pray tell is a Webburst?
It is first of all, an experiment. I don´t know if these webbursts will succeed. I just want to play a little …
A confession: with much of my writing I tend to be what [...]
The Death Cult Progeny of the Enlightenment
Is the only means for saving human civilisation through the restoration of the lost authority of the Church?
Is the only means of restoring the lost authority of the Church through the undoing of so, so much that happened in the wake of Vatican II?
Whatever the merit of these questions and however bizarre they will no doubt appear [...]
The Lost Piety of Catholic France II – Our Lady of La Salette
Our Lady of La Salette – 1896 French postcard image
Since the period of the French Revolution, there has been a series of Marian Apparitions, eight of which – as is commonly known - have been approved by the Church. This is to say that among untold hundreds of alleged apparitions, the Vatican after prolonged and exhaustive [...]
“The Hushed Movement of Wings”
I realise I have not yet said just exactly what a webburst is. And I plan to, soon.
But one thing that will be included in the webbursts – though the webbursts will not be limited to this – are pointers.
I want to point to things on the web that seem to me particularly beautiful or [...]
The Lost Piety of Catholic France (Part I)
For years I have been grieving the Lost Piety of Catholic France.
But really, the title of this new series here is euphemistic. Because when one knows the history of post-revolution Catholic France and when one has faith, it is hard to avoid stronger titles, such as the Destroyed or Murdered Piety of Catholic France.
Still I will [...]
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The Webbursts are Coming …
A new and different weblog will shortly be properly commencing at this site …
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Still in Construction
Coming:
On this new page we will be adding Devotions to the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts, imagery and likely more.
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Imaging the Sacred
I was happy to discover this old image of the Mystery of Ordination on the web. And I am doubly happy to republish it here.
To my mind, such images can play a truly healing role in our troubled society. Why? There are two reasons at least.
The first is to do with the cultural invisibility of [...]
DVD Review: The Song of Bernadette
A very, very moving account not only of the Miracles of Our Lady, but also of the Lost Piety of Catholic France.
The Radical Courage of Charles A. Coulombe
This entry is again mainly just a pointer, a pointer to a very long piece that has now been placed in the Reviews.
But first a very personal notation …
2009 was a year wherein I was hit, HIT very deeply indeed by the writings of one Charles A. Coulombe.
One Charles A. Coulombe, Catholic American author and Papal [...]
Book Review: Puritan´s Empire by Charles A. Coulombe
A Very Personal Review of a Very Catholic Deconstruction of America.
Blind Faith in the Dogmatic Authority of Secularism