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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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Tag Archives: Catholic Mystery
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Also tagged Catholic Ireland, Personal/Autobiography - Roger, World Tragedy 3 Comments
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, [...]
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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Materialism, Truth and the Catholic Mystery
Recently here, I reported how moved I once was by the words of Latin Mass priest in Ireland who regretted a contemporary tendency in the Church to de-emphasise the need for the Sacrament of Confession. His point was that people who availed themselves less often of this Sacrament, availed themselves less of the “Sanctifying Grace” [...]
Book Review: Meditations on the Tarot – Anonymous (with an Afterword by Hans Urs von Balthasar)
Roger says: This book liberated me from the New Age mindset and brought me to Jesus Christ and His Church, for which I am grateful beyond any measure I can ever possibly communicate.
This Joy