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Tag Archives: Spirituality
Celtic Christianity Revisited
It was about eight months ago that I wrote the posting Celtic Christianity. I gave a brief historical sketch about this branch of Christianity which is largely lost in the mists of time. Like Eastern Orthodoxy, the Celtic Church was more … Continue reading
Religion and Spirituality
This is a question that always ‘bugs’ me and makes me think. I often come across “apologists” who try to back you into a corner with the usual dilemma – my way or the highway. All or nothing. You can … Continue reading
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Tagged Psychology, Religious fanaticism, Religious pathology, Spirituality
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Esoteric Christianity
For many years, I have accepted that there is an esoteric or “gnostic” * element of Christianity. Like anything, esoterism can be taken to excesses and balance is lost. There have to be two opposing forces like a sailing boat … Continue reading
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Tagged Celtic Christianity, Independent / Old Catholicism, Modernism, New Goliards, Spirituality, Theology
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Monastic spirituality in parishes
Doing my daily rounds of the blogs (perhaps when I should be in prayer), I came across On Silence and Sundays. It is a frequent observation that there doesn’t seem to be the slightest trace of spiritual life in most parishes, … Continue reading
Nietzsche, Christianity and Weakness
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is best known for having said that God is dead. Our literalist minds would take him as meaning that God had been a living being and had ceased to live. Did he not mean … Continue reading
The Mass of the Five Wounds
The Roman Rite today celebrates the Feast of the Sacred Heart, which is absent from any missal prior to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – including Sarum. However, the medieval devotion to the Five Wounds of Jesus celebrates in a … Continue reading
Changing heart
I have little time this morning for a blog post, but the thoughts are there and preoccupy my mind. I expressed my concern about ‘conservative’ Christianity, and a comment came from one of our regular commenters, an independent priest. A … Continue reading
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Tagged Conservatism / Liberalism, Religious fanaticism, Religious pathology, Spirituality
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Derek Olsen on the “core”
The noise is abating, though in some blogs, the same mantras are being chanted over and over again. I won’t go on myself as it is pointless. Perhaps human learning is like training horses, with an electric cattle goad and … Continue reading
Innocence lost
I often stand in awe of children and those who make fresh discoveries. Their sanctuary is one to be left pure and above all undefiled by those who took their bite of the Apple and were banished. Notes on the … Continue reading
The Trouble with Adjectives
Facebook keeps sending me e-mails, usually vast amounts of “I’m really keen about that cause” and other pieces of junk, but now and again one gets a link to a blog or an article. Fr Sutter has written Ancient Worship…Timeless Faith. … Continue reading
The Blue Flower 