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Tag Archives: Reflections
What’s it all for?
A few days ago, I said (I think in a comment) that most people are not interested in religion, and most of those who are interested are interested for the wrong reasons. We thus have a minority of whatever image … Continue reading
Benedictine and Ignatian Views of the Liturgy
I have just received some links to two interesting articles on fundamental attitudes regarding the liturgy – The Ironic Outcome of the Benedictine-Jesuit Controversy and Sacramental or devotional. . . The latter article was written by a Lutheran. This was … Continue reading
In the Midst of Life…
Something quite scary happened to me this morning. I woke up at about 5am needing to go to the bathroom. About two steps from the bed, my head reeled and my legs gave way under me – I had collapsed. … Continue reading
Romanticism and Modernism
Someone sent me a link to this most illuminating article. Owen Barfield’s Critical Semantics: Diagnosing Modernity in History in English Words I make my living by translating texts, substituting concepts in French by equivalent English ones, using the most appropriate … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism / Liberalism, Medieval Catholicism, Modernism, Reflections, Roman Catholicism, Romanticism
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Le Cri de Coeur
My blog is constantly accessed from Liturgiae Causa, and I have read the two most recent postings. I met Patricius last spring in London, a young man of good urban appearance and intelligence. Not being a medical professional, I wouldn’t … Continue reading
Theologically Modernist, Liturgically Traditionalist
The blog by this name, until now a newly-opened blog with no articles, is now in business. The sub-title I know nothing. There is nothing that I know. But the heart senses certain things might seem an anti-intellectual point of … Continue reading
Knuckle up or else!
I have the impression of such a challenge in Odd One Out which comments on articles to which I have added thoughts in this blog. Should we just put aside all we love, snap into lockstep, “convert to the true … Continue reading
The Liturgical Wilderness
There have been some interesting comments on Gathering a Sense of the Lay of the Liturgical Land : Traditional Catholicism. One comment in particular struck me, sent in by someone who comments here too. From a practical point of view, … Continue reading
The Minority of the Minority
The Real Live One blog, to my delight, has truly come alive with thought-provoking reflections. The two I most have in mind are the most recent. Gathering a Sense of the Lay of the Liturgical Land : Traditional Catholicism From … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism / Liberalism, Ecclesiology, Liturgy, Modernism, Reflections, Roman Catholicism
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Young Fogey’s Latest
John Beeler has come up with Catholic Defcon, the new Anglo-Catholicism, and more. He makes much of my article about terrorists and liturgists, quoting it quite extensively. The question of Archbishop Marini is probably a storm in a teacup, since … Continue reading
The Blue Flower 