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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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Category Archives: Roger's Weblog
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 [...]
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 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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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 [...]
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 [...]
Outraging Modern Sensibilities …
Dear Readers, I wish you all a Blessed New Year.
Now this will not be so much a usual entry, but more a pointer to a very long comment concerning Valentin Tomberg I have posted elsewhere here.
If this link does not take you directly to the long comment, you will just need to scroll down the page till you get [...]
Remember Christ Our Saviour …
God rest ye merry, gentlemen
Let nothing you dismay
Remember, Christ, our Saviour
Was born on Christmas day
To save us all from Satan’s power
When we were gone astray …
How profoundly different is this old English hymn from so many of the dominant narratives of secularism!
Satan - are we not meant, in this modern day and age, to have moved beyond such [...]
Cry from the Heart
May I be permitted, may I permit myself, I wonder, a lamentation here, a cry, even a scream from the heart?
Cry out, as I continue in the personal and autobiographical mode of my last entry – in which entry I also invoked the words of a deceased, anonymous author writing in French, just before the arrival of the new [...]
Posted in Roger's Weblog Tagged Catholic Ireland, Catholic Mystery, Personal/Autobiography - Roger, World Tragedy 3 Comments
Who I am – Some Notes (Part I)
xThere are many blogs where the blogger reveals a great deal of his or her personal life and day-to-day affairs. And such, I am sure is appropriate and meaningful for many forums.
I have wanted to do something a bit different here: to try to address more universal themes, and use the personal mainly for illustrative purposes.
But for [...]
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Acceptable Loss?
This entry like a number of mine, you will see, is tagged Dictatorship of Secularism.
And these tagged entries refer to my growing conviction over years, as I study the rise of secularism, of how we are being manipulated, robbed, co-erced and ultimately controlled.
Now in terms of these webmusings, there is a book that I am finding to [...]
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings IV (Valentin Tomberg on False Hierarchy)
I no longer recall my exact words of course.
But the essence of the conversation remains engraved on my mind.
It was a warm, sunny Spring day in France. People in shirt sleeves were frolicking in the shine. But it was too warm, too pleasant. It was too early in the Spring.
My beloved turned to me and said: “We aren´t going to [...]
The Strange Joy and Power of Catholicism
I am still needing to deliberate further on continuing my musings on the biosphere, law and more. In the meantime, Kim should be posting more soon, and I am pasting in a little fragment written a long time back:
“Years ago, I attended a lecture by an impressive man, who would later become the Archbishop of Canterbury, [...]
An Interlude on Evil, the New Age and Dialogue …
I have been intending to and will be returning to my very personal and unfinished ponderings on Global Warming, Law, Valentin Tomberg and what the Holy Father has recently been saying which relates to all of that …
But first, an interlude.
I have been very moved and stirred by the dialogue going on at my wife Kim´s [...]
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings III (Valentin Tomberg on Law and the Goddess Economy)
What kind of civilisation is it, that could result in the most unimaginable scale of loss as that suggested by Global Warming?
Is it arguably not a civilisation which has placed certain goods - or gods – above all else? For example, the exterior good of scientific progress over and above the interior good of prayer, veneration, devotion [...]
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings II (Valentin Tomberg on Disintegration – Death)
My last web entry tried to introduce the personal context within which I try to grapple with Global Warming.
It is the context, as I said, of a practising Catholic aspiring to deep and very regular Sacramental Communion. It is also that of ongoing study of Catholic Tradition and the history of the transition from a Western medieval Catholic world [...]
Posted in Roger's Weblog Tagged Capitalism, environment, Epistemology, Law, Materialism, Valentin Tomberg 2 Comments
Unfinished Personal/Global Musings Part I (Introduction)
Authority … one has authority or competence to speak about something the more consciously and fully one has experienced it. In writing of things New Age for example, I feel a certain degree of confidence, given that I have had long, intimate involvement with this phenomena. I completely identified with the New Age movement for many [...]
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Ireland, O Ireland!
I have been hoping to continue from the themes of my last entry. That is to say, I have wanted to further explore the profound questions of what is the response called of a traditional Catholic to Global Warming … Global Warming as the latest fruit of an increasingly materialistic society.
Unfortunately many pressures are keeping [...]
Global Warming and Catholic Response
In 1891, Pope Leo XIII brought forth the encyclical Rerum Novarum. It was a milestone in the Catholic Tradition, inaugurating a new era of Papal Social Encyclicals responding to the social injustice of the modern world.
The latest being the magisterial Caritas in Veritate of His Holiness Benedict XVI.
In Rerum Novarum Leo XIII challenged unrestricted capitalism, [...]
The Death Cult Progeny of the Enlightenment III