Category Archives: Kim’s Weblog

Traditional Catholic Education: Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me …

By kim | Published: 27 April 2012

Traditional Catholic Education: an unforgettable memory of the tradition at work in Catholic France.

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Sacred Heart: Burning Furnace of Charity

By kim | Published: 19 April 2012

From Kim – as she returns to blogging here, as well. As I prayed the Holy Hour on Thursday night, I gazed upon this image of Our Lord. The image that I love so much, from a previous, more pious age. As I prayed, I was struck in a new and different way, by the [...]

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Feast of the Sacred Heart II

By kim | Published: 1 July 2011

Last year, Roger wrote at length about the Feast of the Sacred Heart – so nearly forgotten by the post Vatican II Church. This year, I would simply like to say: Praise be to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus – burning with love and mercy for each and every one of us, every moment [...]

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Partaking in His Fatal Sadness

By kim | Published: 6 March 2011

Saint Margaret Mary before the Sacred Heart – from Tuam Cathedral, Ireland. Design: Joshua Clarke. Photograph courtesy Andreas F. Borchert under the CC-BY-SA-3.0 license. The practice of praying the Holy Hour began with the words Our Lord spoke to St Margaret Mary in Paray-le-Monial, when He said: “Every Thursday night, I shall give you a [...]

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Her Heart Pierced by a Sword

By kim | Published: 20 September 2010

I have just finished praying the Rosary, sitting under the shade of the oak woodland. The sun is shining, filtering through the beautiful new oak leaves. There is fresh new growth all around me. The birds are singing, there is a gentle breeze and Osiris our cat is sitting on my lap. This is how [...]

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To Suffer Liturgical Abuse and not to Fume in Anger …

By kim | Published: 11 May 2010

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 [...]

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Holy Week

By kim | Published: 1 April 2010

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?

By kim | Published: 23 February 2010

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 [...]

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We All Suffer because We are Fallen … And Yet There is Hope

By kim | Published: 4 February 2010

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 [...]

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The Novus Ordo Fails to Guard and Contain

By kim | Published: 23 January 2010

Experiencing the Novus Ordo after the Latin Mass.

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From Ordinary to Extraordinary

By kim | Published: 1 December 2009

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 [...]

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Denial of the Fall II

By kim | Published: 16 November 2009

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 [...]

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Denial of the Fall

By kim | Published: 22 October 2009

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 [...]

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The Global Tragedy of Demythologisation

By kim | Published: 8 September 2009

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. [...]

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Lead Us Not into Media Temptation …

By kim | Published: 2 September 2009

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 [...]

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Our Mother, the Church

By kim | Published: 30 June 2009

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, Ven. John Paul II, who had declared that the Church lacked authority to ordain women. These women claimed that they [...]

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Welcome Home – From the New Age to Catholicism – Part Two

By kim | Published: 29 May 2009

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 [...]

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Coming Home: From the New Age to Catholicism – Part One

By kim | Published: 16 May 2009

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. [...]

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Where Have I Come From? A Touch of Biography …

By kim | Published: 14 May 2009

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 [...]

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Towards God

By kim | Published: 29 April 2009

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 [...]

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