There are three great joys in my life, my darling husband Roger Buck, my Catholic Faith and Ireland. And this short episode on our YouTube channel brings the three together in a new and exciting way.
Most of the videos on this channel are well researched and planned out. This first of these conversations departs somewhat. Although being loosely planned, it is far more spontaneous, which is, of course, how conversations are. Therefore the pace is more lively perhaps.
The first of these episodes, Kim and Roger Buck Episode 1, among other things, focuses on my conversion from the New Age to Catholicism.
I speak about the radical difference between the two, highlighting the stress on personal power in the New Age comparing it with a quality of humble surrender to God in His Church with Catholicism. Plus, how as a New Ager I thought it peculiar and stupid even to think of God and a person!
Yet, during my conversion to the Catholic Church, I discovered that Jesus was now my personal friend!
And Ireland, how I have come to love Ireland—the beauty of this ancient land and the Catholicism in which she has been bathed for centuries. As well as the generosity of heart of the Irish people—who live prayer, as though it is the air they breathe. Having lived in many lands, I have never met such a prayerful generous hearted, communitarian people.
And that comes to the pain I express in this episode about what my people, the English, have done over the centuries to these faithful Irish.
This, in turn, brought our conversation to a book I read Crow Glen written by an old friend from Cork, Marella Hoffman, who presents the harrowing history of the rural village she grew up in.
While the book is very moving on that level and valuable in other respects—for instance giving such a wonderful portrait in terms of how Catholic Ireland used to be— it also has an unfortunate tendency to reduce the Church to humanistic terms that hardly does justice to the Catholic Mystery.
We move on then on to great Irish nationalist figures, as Maud Gonne and W B Yeats, and Charles J Kickham, who wrote the deeply moving, also harrowing, yet delightful book, Knocknagow.
And prayer, my prayer life, is also touched on.
Be sure to listen to this unusual burst of conversation bringing together these three loves – my husband Roger Buck, my Catholic faith and Ireland.
Foreword for Monarchy by Roger Buck
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