Tag Archives: Liturgy and Sacraments

The Holy Mass: Losing Reverence means Losing Credibility …

By roger | Published: 15 May 2013

  Here are further extracts from my upcoming book: While a subtle (or not so subtle!) materialism gains ever-greater credence in the Church, that which is distinctly Catholic becomes sidelined. Nowhere is the situation more grave than in the attitudes towards the Eucharist. Following the Vatican Council, there was a widespread tendency to recast the [...]

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Upholding the Day of His Ascension

By kim | Published: 9 May 2013

    I like to think of the Liturgical Year, like a system of arteries and veins – through which the Blood flows to each and every member of the Mystical Body of Christ. The Liturgical Year makes real our Catholic Faith. As we travel through the year, we experience anew the great Mysteries of [...]

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Encountering Catholic Ireland

By roger | Published: 1 May 2013

    Last time, I promised to post extracts regarding Catholic Ireland from my upcoming book. Now, posting extracts like this is tricky. A lot of context must usually be sacrificed. And so, before launching into Catholic Ireland itself, I provide a little context from the book. We start with a little consideration of both [...]

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Secularism and the Feast of Christ the King

By roger | Published: 28 October 2012

  Today is the Feast of Christ the King. And how Kim and I have been blessed today by a high Latin Mass celebrated today by the Institute of Christ the King … Now, it is a truism that the Catholic Church has changed a great deal since Vatican II. It is also a truism [...]

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Adoration of the Precious Blood

By kim | Published: 18 September 2012

    When I gaze upon this image, I see so much. Hidden behind the image, I see our Lord Jesus Christ upon the Cross, arms stretched wide, presenting us His Heart, loving. Loving, forgiving, in the midst of His agony. His heart, like the sun, beaming, warming, as Its rays touch each and every [...]

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On J.R.R. Tolkien and the Magic of Frequent Communion

By roger | Published: 15 September 2012

One of the most gratifying things about this website lies in some of the comments I receive. After my last post here about Holy Communion, where I spoke of frequent Communion, I was very moved indeed to receive the following from Matthew: I know exactly what you mean Roger. After Mass I have often felt [...]

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On the Personal Experience of the Sacraments and the Mystery of the Church

By roger | Published: 9 September 2012

    Last time, I spoke of the crucial need to clarify and illumine the Living Mystery of the Church. For that Mystery is ever-more effaced by the currents of the Modern Age, in the post-Protestant countries most of all. Now this concern also forms one of several, interlocking themes in my upcoming book Cor Jesu [...]

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The Church as Living Organism, the Church as Mystery …

By roger | Published: 8 September 2012

    Recently I stammered here a little about the nature of the Church as a Living Organism. And I tried to draw a distinction between the Protestant emphasis on sermons and the Miracle of the Seven Sacraments: The Protestant sermon imparts beliefs. It teaches. Often very good and beautiful things. But the Organism does something else. [...]

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Catholicism: Living Mystery or Human Label?

By roger | Published: 28 June 2012

  In dialoguing with non-Catholics in secular society, the greatest problem will frequently be complete lack of understanding. This can easily arise because – often without realising it – non-Catholics and Catholics have completely different understandings of what the Church is. For within the secular world, the idea has become prevalent that Catholicism amounts to [...]

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Holy Communion with the Sacred Heart of Jesus

By kim | Published: 22 June 2012

We are still in the Octave of the Feast of the Sacred Heart and I want to attempt to capture something of my thoughts and feelings on receiving communion last Friday, on the Feast itself. Since receiving Holy Communion on that Feast, I have been focussed on the meaning of the words, Our Lord the [...]

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The (Secret) World I See

By roger | Published: 23 May 2012

Catholic Ireland, Catholic culture, the Sacraments and the black out of Catholicism in England and America.

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From 2005: Talking to the New Age (A Still Hesitant Apologetics) – Part V

By roger | Published: 21 August 2011

Foreword 2011: We continue with my serialisation of a letter originally written in 2005 mainly (though not completely and entirely) for New Age friends – who could not comprehend how I could leave my Findhorn-New Age past behind in favour of the Catholic Church. The series is subtitled “A Still Hesitant Apologetics”, because in 2005 [...]

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In the Day to Day Struggle …

By roger | Published: 8 April 2011

Frequent reception of the Sacraments as the doorway to His Sacred Heart.

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Online Petition for Protecting the Latin Mass

By roger | Published: 19 February 2011

Dear Reader, There are rumours and reports of renewed threat to the Latin Mass. How credible these are is impossible for me to judge. However sources I consider reputable such as The New Liturgical Movement and Rorate Caeli are promoting a multinational, multilingual appeal for a petition to the Holy Father. Thus I think the [...]

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The Pope on Ecological “Catastrophe … The Church is often the Only Hope”

By roger | Published: 11 December 2010

January 2011 Amendment: The following entry was originally written under a slight misapprehension as to the Holy Father’s words. In a British print journal, I had read the Pope say that in terms of the global climate crisis: The Church is the only hope. The quote had been taken from Light of the World – [...]

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The Secret Joy

By roger | Published: 11 October 2010

I was grateful here for Disciple’s comments and in surfing to his site (here) I was also moved to see something that he expresses forthrightly there. It is the joy of the Faith. Now in my hopefully soon to be self-published book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum, I also expand on this theme of the joy of [...]

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Valentin Tomberg and the Holy Father on the Moral Energy of the Eucharist

By roger | Published: 19 June 2010

Personal Memorandum: My book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum is going through unanticipated revision and expansion. The result is more delay than I would like, but what emerges has, I think, greater clarity, passion and strength. One thing that has hit me in this process is the need to speak of the Eucharist as clearly as possible [...]

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Feast of the Sacred Heart

By roger | Published: 11 June 2010

The Feast of the Sacred Heart is upon us. After the weekly Holy Hour and the monthly First Friday, this is the third and annual element of a Sacred Triad, called for by Our Lord in Paray-le-Monial, France. Here is how in the late seventeenth century, Saint Claude de la Columbiere related the origins of [...]

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Judgment, the New Age and the Christian Difference

By roger | Published: 24 May 2010

I had a dream of infidelity this night. Were I to bear the contents of this dream, the response of many I suppose would be: “So what? It was only a dream.” In the dream, in fact, it was “only” a few moments of infidelity. I pulled back and perhaps began a somewhat partial and [...]

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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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