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Tag Archives: Spirituality
Soteriology
I have felt a little “low” these past few days, but I know that we all have to make progress in both our service to our Churches and our own intimate spiritual lives in whatever way we live them. The … Continue reading
I’m Spiritual but not Religious
I’m Spiritual but not Religious. This is one of the most hackneyed self-descriptions we hear from many of our contemporaries. Most of us who are attached to churches as clergy or laity would say that it is impossible to be … Continue reading
What are we trying to reclaim?
Looking through certain blogs that try to maintain pressure against continuing Anglicans and rekindle the embers of the polemics of 2010 and 2011, I feel a certain melancholy and muse about a future world where there would be no churches, … Continue reading
Pearls of Wisdom
Lest I should be seen to be the old square liturgy buff I am, I would like to share some quotes from Pope Francis in Few Surprises. Francis Is Just That Way. I confess that in general, through the fault … Continue reading
Evangelical Catholicism Revisited
A few days ago, I had my rant (Evangelical Catholicism and New Evangelism) about the kind of Christian evangelism that resembles modern business and marketing methods. Everywhere we turn, we find advertising (Wikipedia article that equates advertising as a kind of … Continue reading
Maundy Thursday Mass
Secular life is often parsimonious with the liturgy during the week. Here in France, school holidays no longer correspond with Easter but fixed dates in the spring time according to the region. Necessity brought me to celebrate the Maundy Thursday … Continue reading
Judas
I have rarely seen religious sculpture that expresses very much, but this one in amazing. With a HT to Rorate Caeli, I reproduce Antonio Castillo Lastrucci’s El beso de Judas. The expressions are amazing. The face of Judas is bestial … Continue reading
Saturation of Suffering
It is Holy Week and we celebrate the Transitus Domini, the Paschal Mystery of our Redemption. This awesome Mystery is seen both from a “high” and theological / liturgical point of view and from the human angle. The other point … Continue reading
Rigorism,Tutiorism and Probabilism
I wrote this article in the defunct English Catholic blog. At the time, I was concerned for matters which are of no relevance today. Simply, I thought it would be of interest in light of the fact we have a … Continue reading
Fools for Christ
Is this an image of the Church? This moving image shows a person who appears to be a strict-observance Franciscan praying in St Peter’s Square before the white smoke appeared. The western Church had St Francis of Assisi himself. One … Continue reading
The Blue Flower 