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Tag Archives: Catholic France
French Fragments: A Cryptic Travelogue for Any Who Care to Listen (Part IX: Nectar in a Sieve)
Fragments of a soul beholding the death of the Church in France:
In the past, how my liberal Catholic heart failed to FEEL the Tragedy of the Church.
Still further in the past, how my unconscious liberal New Age heart had not the least idea of any of this.
In the past, how I failed to account for [...]
French Fragments: A Cryptic Travelogue for Any Who Care to Listen (Part VIII: To Become More Pierced)
More fragments. Very personal:
Travelling through France.
So very hard to find a daily Mass.
But here appears to me an opportunity. Yet another half-dead convent – the second half dead convent we have found which appears like this. The aged sisters dressed as to be nigh-indistinguishable from the non-religious state. No young at all.
Am I being condemnatory, [...]
French Fragments: A Cryptic Travelogue for Any Who Care to Listen (Part VII: To Protect the Church)
Continued Soul Fragments:
This church in Montauban has served me.
Has served to remind once again of what France once had.
Even still in the Nineteenth Century, after the Revolution, but before the Third Republic.
This France … La Vraie France … fostered all that still breathes in this church in Montauban.
This open church in the city of Montauban. [...]
French Fragments: A Cryptic Travelogue for Any Who Care to Listen (Part VI: The Presence)
More fragments from a soul in France:
This church in Montauban in France.
So filled with the Presence, so still … so still.
Calling me into silence. Effortlessly.
The Presence here, deep, rich.
Non-secular. Bathes me.
The Secular world outside this Church stimulates, stimulates, stimulates.
It seeks to stimulate desire. Capitalist desire. Erotic desire. Even desire for blood and violence.
That HORRIBLE computer game, [...]
French Fragments: A Cryptic Travelogue for Any Who Care to Listen (Part V – on France and Ireland: Again )
Very personal fragments, whilst I travel through the wilderness:
Eucharistic Adoration in a French PARISH Church!
Every weekday in a French Church!
Such a rare thing. Such a very, very rare thing.
I sit in the silence before the Blessed Sacrament and the importance of this seems to impress itself powerfully on my soul.
In Ireland, I recall all [...]
French Fragments: A Cryptic Travelogue for Any Who Care to Listen (Part IV – on Charles Coulombe and Josephin Péladan)
Somewhere in France. Soul contents. Very personal.
Our Lady is calling me, calling me to be more decisive.
On fundamental things.
To be in fact more like that writer who has moved me so deeply.
That writer, that Papal Knight Charles A. Coulombe.
I do not agree with Mr Coulombe on all things, to be sure.
I cannot support his Feeney [...]
French Fragments: A Cryptic Travelogue for Any Who Care to Listen (Part III: Our Lady Calls)
Webbursts. Things bursting in my soul in France. Unfinished things.
The voices of my friends, the voices in my psyche:
“Do not be so radical, Roger.
Do not be so Manichaen.
So dualistic.
So black and white.”
More voices:
“The pre-Revolution Church of the Ancien Régime was not whiter-than-white.
The Revolution though filled evil, was not quite blacker-than-black. There was concern for the poor [...]
French Fragments: A Cryptic Travelogue for Any Who Care to Listen (Part II – on France and Ireland)
Fragments of a soul in France. Pieces, just pieces. The italics are meant to convey their fragmentary nature:
The Battle … the Battle is still not lost in Ireland.
Yet.
There, the suppression is not as fierce – yet – as the fearsome French Republic.
That Third French Republic in particular, which expropriated all the property of the Church, expelled [...]
French Fragments: A Cryptic Travelogue for Any Who Care to Listen …
You can listen or not.
I don’t care.
But if you do listen, this will be very personal and very cryptic.
I created these Webbursts as home for Fragments and Unfinished Things.
Later on, they can be more fleshed out, elsewhere at this site.
For now, should you care to listen, just know I cannot explain everything. As I travel through [...]
Catholic Tradition, Charles Taylor and the Final Triumph of the Hollow Men (Part II)
Today I am continuing from thoughts last time on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age – an 800 page narrative, as to how we exited the Medieval worldview and entered our fragmented, post-modern age.
As I said before, this is a masterpiece I hope to review fully in time and these are entries toward that final review. [...]
Book Review: The Autobiography of Saint Margaret Mary
What we have to do with here is a small volume of autobiography by the Seventeenth Century French saint, who beheld the Sacred Heart and brought its Public Devotion to the entire Catholic world.
This short book was written in the saint’s own hand in the form of a narrative, with no distinctive breaks or chapters.
From [...]
A Tridentine Preview
A lot of work is presently going into a new aspect of this website, which I hope will soon debut under the name of Tridentine Archive.
The Archive among other things, will be representing to the twenty-first century certain older out-of-copyright texts, which deal not only with the Sacred Heart, but also the entire Tridentine period [...]
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King of Hearts
Cor Jesu, Rex et Centrum omnium cordium
(Heart of Jesus, King and Centre of all hearts -
From the Litany of the Sacred Heart).
It is frequently asserted in certain Catholic Traditionalist circles that the religion of the so-called “Spirit of Vatican II” is a new religion, so different to what preceded it, that it must be considered [...]
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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 [...]
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.
Valentin Tomberg on “A Special Intervention from Heaven …”
Dear Friends, known and unknown,
I continue to feel need for a time of contemplation before resuming this weblog “properly”. In the meantime, I expect I will be posting another article and further reviews, including possibly reviews of Valentin Tomberg’s Degeneration and Regeneration of Jurisprudence and Foundations of International Law as Humanity’s Law - whose towering moral [...]
Pointing and Stammering: French Noël 2006
A fragmentary, very personal piece touching on Catholic France, the Sacred Heart, the Da Vinci Code, Valentin Tomberg, the Novus Ordo, global capitalism and more ...
Posted in Articles Also tagged Capitalism, Conspiracy, Da Vinci Code, Sacred Heart, Valentin Tomberg 9 Comments
Book Review: France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart – Raymond Jonas
The Dream of a Sacred Civilisation
French Fragments: A Cryptic Travelogue for Any Who Care to Listen (Part X: Pyramids on the Nile)