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Tag Archives: Reflections
Gender Bending
One problem with modern society is labelling and stereotyping without seeking to understand the profound dimensions of things. With a hat tip to Deborah Gyapong (Foolishness to the World), I came across an article on gender identity by Monsignor Tony … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism / Liberalism, Liberalism, Moral questions, Pastoral matters, Philosophy, Politics, Reflections
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Lenten Asceticism
People are free to do what they feel to be best, but we were warned by the Gospel of Ash Wednesday – keep it to yourselves and don’t broadcast that you are being holier than thou! Christ is most categorical … Continue reading
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Tagged Lent, Life after Death, Life and death, Reflections, Spirituality
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Church and Culture
I would like to draw your attention to an article from a blog for which I have a lot of esteem – Sitz im leben. It is good to see this blog come out of a long bout of writer’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian culture, Culture, Ecclesiology, Liturgy, Reflections
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When the boats are laid up…
What do we sailors talk about when our boats are laid up for the winter? Good use of Facebook can make it so different. I put out a New Year greeting showing the photo of John Wesley and I side … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority / Anarchy, Christian Anarchism, Long Hair, Reflections, Sailing, The Sea
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Desiderata
I found this on my longhair forum, so full of wisdom: Desiderata Max Ehrmann, writer and lawyer (1872-1945) Go placidly amid the noise and the haste and rememeber what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without … Continue reading
Food for thought
Hat tip to John Beeler in his latest round-up. In particular, he quotes a blog posting – Post rationalism. I have often lain awake thinking about these things, and there is nothing we can do about the society in which … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism / Liberalism, Mystery of Evil, Philosophy, Reflections, Religious pathology
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Pessimism
John Beeler wrote another well-reflected posting a few days ago – Pessimism about Catholic traditionalism is unfounded in my opinion – in response to my A Sobering Article. Whilst John tries to find a way to distinguish ideologically-motivated traditionalists from … Continue reading
A Sobering Article
There is a blog on which fewer posts are put up, but when they are, they are well thought out and often profound. One is Gathering a Sense of the Lay of the Liturgical Land : The contemporary context. I … Continue reading
Secrecy
It was in 2012 that I last wrote on this subject of secrecy. Only a year before, Archbishop Hepworth still had secret dealings with Rome and “everything would be all right”. A month later, the bombshell exploded about the sexual … Continue reading
Old Embers
Early this morning, I took a look at some sites I hardly ever look at. I remember those frenzied days of 2010 to 2012 when I was in the TAC and thought “Anglicanorum coitusinterruptus” (sorry, I couldn’t resist it) was … Continue reading
The Blue Flower 