tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90018116540613236192024-03-13T04:10:04.551+00:00Ecumenical DiablogEcumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.comBlogger495125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-47243421681751516932022-11-09T08:03:00.001+00:002022-11-09T08:03:00.170+00:00To GK Chesterton [A Letter From Albino Luciani, later Pope John Paul I]<p>Dear Chesterton,</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6_wCiGIaZz1Wh57nYiuUwHIkSXSAKhORFGN3oW2_9y2hwuNy0vAz517XqQjmGyw34P2PI19E4ICr96uzigTqygdVqaTtcNJKGQ66uhi189Q6Le4mEEMZ3pSvZR0ADxfV3po3s9oqtyCEtEbK_G_Vgfzpl4jAyOq3nkrgh6oVbQlnBl2uKxOPkQGWog/s1600/IMG-20220904-WA0021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="898" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy6_wCiGIaZz1Wh57nYiuUwHIkSXSAKhORFGN3oW2_9y2hwuNy0vAz517XqQjmGyw34P2PI19E4ICr96uzigTqygdVqaTtcNJKGQ66uhi189Q6Le4mEEMZ3pSvZR0ADxfV3po3s9oqtyCEtEbK_G_Vgfzpl4jAyOq3nkrgh6oVbQlnBl2uKxOPkQGWog/s320/IMG-20220904-WA0021.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>On Italian television during the past few weeks we have been seeing <a href="https://ecumenicaldiablog.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-bbcs-father-brown-etc.html" target="_blank">Father Brown</a>, your surprising detective-priest – a character who is typically yours. A pity we haven’t also had Professor Lucifer and the monk Michael. I’d very much have liked to see them as you described them in <a href="http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/ball_and_cross.html" target="_blank">The Ball and the Cross</a>, sitting beside each other on the flying ship.</p><p>When the flying ship is above St Paul’s Cathedral, the Professor gives ‘a shriek indescribable’ as they pass the cross on the ball set on top of the dome.</p><p>‘ “I once knew a man like you, Lucifer,” ’ says Michael. ‘ “...This man also took the view that the symbol of Christianity was a symbol of savagery and all unreason. His history is rather amusing. It is also a perfect allegory of what happens to rationalists like yourself. He began, of course, by refusing to allow a crucifix in his house, or round his wife’s neck, or even in a picture. He said, as you say, that it was an arbitrary and fantastic shape, that it was a monstrosity, loved because it was paradoxical. Then he began to grow fiercer and more eccentric; he would batter the crosses by the roadside; for he lived in a Roman Catholic country. Finally in a height of frenzy he climbed the steeple of the Parish Church and tore down the cross, waving it in the air, and uttering wild soliloquies up there under the stars. Then one still summer evening as he was wending his way homewards, along a lane, the devil of his madness came upon him with a violence and transfiguration which changes the world. He was standing smoking, for a moment, in front of an interminable line of palings, when his eyes were opened. Not a light shifted, not a leaf stirred, but he saw as if by a sudden charge in the eyesight that this paling was an army of innumerable crosses linked together over hill and dale. And he whirled up his heavy stick wand went at it as if at an army. Mile after mile along his homeward path he broke it down and tore it up. For he hated the cross and every paling is a wall of crosses. When he returned to his house he was a literal madman. He sat upon a chair and then started up from it for the crossbars of the carpentry repeated the intolerable image. He flung himself upon a bed only to remember that this, too, like all workmanlike things, was constructed on the accursed plan. He broke his furniture because it was made of crosses. He was found in the river.” ’</p><p>‘Lucifer was looking at him with a bitten lip,’ you continue.</p><p>‘ “Is that story really true?” he asked.</p><p>“Oh, no,” said Michael, airily. “It is a parable. It is a parable of you and all your rationalists. You begin by breaking up the Cross; but you end by breaking up the habitable world.” ’</p><p>The monk’s conclusion, which is yours, dear Chesterton, is quite right. Take God away and what is left, what do men become? What sort of a world are we reduced to living in? ‘Why, the world of progress!’ I hear someone say. ‘The world of affluence!’ Yes, but this famous progress isn’t at all it was once cracked up to be. It contains other things in itself: missiles, bacteriological and atomic weapons, the present process of pollution – all things that, unless they are dealt with in time, threaten to plunge the whole human race into catastrophe.</p><p>In other words, progress that involves men who love one another, thinking of themselves as brothers and as children of the one Father, God, can be a magnificent thing. Progress that involves men who don’t recognize a single Father in God becomes a constant danger: without a parallel moral progress, which is continuous and internal, it develops what is lowest and cruellest in man, making him a machine possessed by machines, a number manipulated by numbers; he becomes what Papini called ‘a raving savage, who, to satisty his predatory, destructive, and licentious instincts, no longer uses a club, but has the immense forces of nature and mechanical invention to draw upon.’</p><p>Yes, I know there are plenty of people who think the opposite of this. They consider religion a consoling dream, invented by oppressed people who imagine another world, a non-existent world in which they can later find what is stolen from them today by their oppressors. These oppressors have arranged the whole thing for their own benefit, to keep the oppressed underfoot and to quieten the instinct towards a class struggle, and instinct that, were it not for religion, would urge them to fight.</p><p>It is no good reminding these people that the Christian religion itself favours the revival of proletarian awareness, that it exalts the poor and foresees a just future. ‘Yes,’ they reply, ‘Christianity does awaken the awareness of the poor, but then it paralyses it by preaching patience, and by substituting faith in God and trust in the gradual reform of society for the class struggle.’</p><p>Many also think that God and religion, by fixing people’s hopes and efforts on a future, distant paradise, alienate man, and prevent him committing himself to a nearby paradise, to achieving one here on earth.</p><p>It is no good reminding them that, according to the recent Council, a Christian, just because he is Christian, must feel all the more committed to support progress for the good of all, and social advancement for everyone. ‘All the same,’ they say, ‘you think of progress through a transitory world, waiting for a definitive paradise which will never be achieved. We want our paradise here, as a result of all our struggles. We can see the beginning of it already, whereas your God is actually called “dead” by some theologians. We agree with Heine, who wrote: “Do you hear the bells? Down on your knees! We are taking the last sacraments to a dying God.” ’</p><p>Dear <a href="https://www.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk/" target="_blank">Chesterton</a>, you and I go down on our knees before a God who is more present than ever. Only he can give a satisfactory answer to the questions which, for everyone, are the most important of all: Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going?</p><p>As to the heaven that will be enjoyed on earth and only on earth, and in the near future, after the famous ‘class struggle’, I’d like to quote someone much more gifted than me and, without denying your merits, than you too, dear Chesterton: Dostoevsky.</p><p>You remember his Ivan Karamazov. He was an atheist, a friend of the devil. Well, he protested with all an atheist’s vehemence against the paradise achieved through effort, suffering, and the martyrdom of countless generations. To think of our descendants being happy thanks to the unhappiness of their ancestors! Ancestors who struggle without ever receiving the share of joy, often without even the comfort of a glimpse of paradise when they emerge from the hell they have gone through! Multitudes exterminated, wounded and sacrificed merely to provide the soil in which to grow the future trees of life! Impossible! says Ivan. It would be a pitiless, monstrous injustice.</p><p>And he was right.</p><p>The sense of justices that lies in every man, whatever his faith, demands that the good we do and the evil we suffer should be rewarded, that the hunger for life found in everyone should be satisfied. Where and how, if there is no other life? And from whom, if not from God? And from what God, if not the one of whom St Francis de Sales wrote: ‘Do not fear God, who wishes you no harm, but love him a great deal, who wishes you so much good.’</p><p>What many people fight is not the true God but the false idea they have made of God: a God who protects the rich, who only asks and demands, who is jealous of our growing prosperity, who spies continuously on our sins from above, to give himself the pleasure of punishing us.</p><p>Dear Chesterton, you know God isn’t like that; you know that he’s both good and just; the father of prodigal sons, who wishes them all to be, not sad and wretched, but great and free, and creators of our own destiny. Our God is not man’s rival, he wants us to be his friends, he has called us to share in his divine nature and in his eternal happiness. And he does not ask anything excessive of us: he is content with very little, because he knows quite well that we haven’t got very much.</p><p>Dear Chesterton, I’m sure, as you are, that this God will make himself ever more known and loved: by everyone, including those who reject him, not because they are evil (they may be better than both of us!), but because they look at him from a mistaken point of view. If they continue not to believe in him, he replies: ‘Well, I believe in you!'</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Printable GK Chesterton Prayercards in English, Welsh, Irish, German, Polish, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Italian, Latin, Maltese, Romanian, Russian, Latvian, Slovakian and many other languages here; http://www.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk/ Print some off and post photos of them around the World.The one in the photo above is in Italian, and is being held by Reverend Lo in St Peter's Square, Rome earlier this year when Blessed Pope John Paul I was being Beatified.</span></p>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-81156240792673015372022-10-22T08:00:00.003+01:002022-10-22T08:00:00.184+01:00Fr Brett's Sermon On The 12th Annual GK Chesterton Pilgrimage<p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ08bdyILbZ7sdnJNyCrLl0L1CfslQCHy2TzdQzD1jgXi-wdzCfmzY7RhvpHPu41KbpKKoqpnuVYVH0_B9NmgeUhnRE4WoZ5aRBZEK7JVh0pZihdLM-S-pbuCK_4RHLloMS7-VcfMxHgA-K6vCSDVy5O4kY6QVy_h9GzJvNsk2kl0EsBjtPcYT-mBkwA/s3264/Fr%20Neil%20Brett%20Preaching%20GK%20Chesrterton%20Pilgrimage.jpg" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Segoe UI", Helvetica, "S60 Sans", "BBAlpha Sans", Droid, Tahoma, Arial; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1836" data-original-width="3264" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ08bdyILbZ7sdnJNyCrLl0L1CfslQCHy2TzdQzD1jgXi-wdzCfmzY7RhvpHPu41KbpKKoqpnuVYVH0_B9NmgeUhnRE4WoZ5aRBZEK7JVh0pZihdLM-S-pbuCK_4RHLloMS7-VcfMxHgA-K6vCSDVy5O4kY6QVy_h9GzJvNsk2kl0EsBjtPcYT-mBkwA/w400-h225/Fr%20Neil%20Brett%20Preaching%20GK%20Chesrterton%20Pilgrimage.jpg" width="400" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Chesterton wrote <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/470" target="_blank">Heretics</a> (1905) and <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/130" target="_blank">Orthodoxy</a> (1908) long
before he was Received into the Church on July 30th 1922, 100 years’ ago. Truth,
orthodoxy, excludes error. There is no room for half-truths in Chesterton:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“There is something to be said very error, but whatever may
be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is
erroneous.” (Orthodoxy).<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The great encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis was published
in 1907, On The Doctrines of The Modernists: “the synthesis of all heresies” as St Pius
X summed up Modernism. It was promulgated between Heresy and Orthodoxy. Loisy
was perfectly clear: a Modernist "is ruled by the single wish to be one with
Christians and Catholics who live in harmony with the spirit of age". <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Chesterton wrote: “It is always easy to let the age have its
head; the difficult thing is to keep one’s own.” How much longer are we going
to allow this age to have it's head? When a blasphemous parody of the prayer Our
Saviour gave us can be taken into the intimacy of our very schools to groom our
Catholic children to perversity and the sin that cries out for vengeance. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">When “practising Catholic” political leaders can promise to
reverse the first victor over the evil of abortion which the US has seen in 50
years. When the Church in Germany, amidst the roar departing adherents,
desperately offers Modernists everything they want of the spirit of the age.
When the beauty of the traditional Mass is supressed despite those words: “What
earlier generations held as sacred, remains sac and great for us too, and it
cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">What scope for t pen of Chesterton, incisive, thrusting
between chromosome and cross-dressing! Not wielded with the intent of
cancelling person but of cancelling the cancer of error. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">“It is easy to be a modernist; as easy to be a snob. To have
fallen in those open traps of error and exaggeration which fashion after
fashion and sect after sect set along the path of Christendom – it would indeed
be simple. It is always simple to fall: there are an infinity of angles at
which one falls, only one at which one stands.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Chesterton looked deep into the history of this country to
inspire us to fight the pagan onslaught. He went back to 878: the struggle of
Albert the Great against the Danes. He locates it, with <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1719/1719-h/1719-h.htm" target="_blank">poetic licence</a>, in the
valley of the White Horse, focused on a fork in the road, a place of decision
and fate. Things go badly, the mighty Guthrum routs the men of Wessex. With
many stout warriors slain, Albert survives the rout to witness the enemy
confident in victory:</p><p class="MsoNormal">“On a dark horse at the double way<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">He saw great Guthrum ride,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Heard roar of brass and ring of steel,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The laughter and the trumpet peal,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The pagan in his pride.” </p><p class="MsoNormal">We too know the pagan in his Pride. The message of the
Battle of Ethandune is that victory can be won from the jaws of defeat. That is
the way of the Cross. </p><p class="MsoNormal">“… Alfred in the fern hard by<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Set horn to mouth and blew.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">The men of Wessex found new heart, and in the carnage which
followed, Guthrum was humbled. And an even greater miracle occurs: his
conversion:</p><p class="MsoNormal">“In Wessex in the forest,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In the breaking of the spears,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">We set a sign on Guthrum<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">To blaze a thousand years.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Far out to the winding river<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The blood ran down for days<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">When we put the cross on Guthrum<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In the parting of the ways.”</p><p class="MsoNormal">Just when the new pagans think they have it all on their
side, and can relax in their Pride, then the Church will muster once more.
Respond to the call. In the contradiction of the Cross which is at the core of
all the paradoxes which Chesterton made his hallmark.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">How will victory look? The conversion of the human heart.
One by one. That’s always the battle. The recognition of sin, the need for
repentance. It will be the blood of Christ which will bring cleansing from sin,
healing and new life.<o:p></o:p></p><p>
<span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">May Chesterton be our inspiration. No
half-truths here, in the parting of the ways: “there are an infinity of angles
at which one falls, only one at which one stands.” We stand at the angle of the
Cross. </span></p><p><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span></p><p><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Sponsorship over the years, of some of those walking 27 miles on
the GK Chesterton Pilgrimage has raised over £20,000 for the Pro-Life work of <a href="https://goodcounselnet.co.uk/" target="_blank">The GoodCounsel Network</a>. You can donate to support them here, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 107%; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="http://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/gkcwalk22">www.justgiving.com/fundraising/gkcwalk22</a></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;">Find
the GK Chesterton Prayer in over twenty languages on our website. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: center;"><a href="http://CatholicGKChestertonSociety.co.uk">CatholicGKChestertonSociety.co.uk</a></span></p><p><b><span style="color: red;">Email <a href="mailto:CatholicGKCSocety@yahoo.co.uk">CatholicGKCSocety@yahoo.co.uk</a> to recieve a copy of <i>GK's Meekly </i>which will contain a full report of the Pilgrimage itself.</span></b></p><p><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></span></p>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-21104235792577526792022-02-11T17:46:00.000+00:002022-02-11T17:46:05.849+00:00A Dishonest Atheist? Heaven Forbid.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvZvQry9UUDcWPYFX6If-mtCnH76h0eTQwDWZBcnmj6PP-u8zzmgpmfpGggsC3rkI6b7lu4A5xf2HfgI3z4fAJQz15Lf1jWB1CFgWMA0hqS_FXzz3R8NuYW9udgeVdQAkHWu3qdZbGoO0mKXfDXeyWcxhaKCyhndeLXi7aWSophG6jBnEF61YaMuCd5w=s2712" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2712" data-original-width="1820" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvZvQry9UUDcWPYFX6If-mtCnH76h0eTQwDWZBcnmj6PP-u8zzmgpmfpGggsC3rkI6b7lu4A5xf2HfgI3z4fAJQz15Lf1jWB1CFgWMA0hqS_FXzz3R8NuYW9udgeVdQAkHWu3qdZbGoO0mKXfDXeyWcxhaKCyhndeLXi7aWSophG6jBnEF61YaMuCd5w=s320" width="215" /></a></div><p>Paul Vitz author of Faith of the Fatherless, a Psychology of Atheism, tells a very interesting story in his book.</p><p> Some years ago, at a conference in Dallas, Ellis and I spoke one after the other. Ellis spoke as an atheist psychologist and I as a theistic psychologist. Each talk lasted about forty minutes, and since we both sat on the dais, we heard each others papers. Ellis heard a short form of the thesis of this book. After the session was over, he told me as we walked out together that the thesis did not apply to him since he had a good relationship with his father. I replied that a psychological hypothesis is fortunate to be valid in even 50 to 60% of the cases.</p><p>Back in New York City, I sent a copy of my talk to a friend who is a book editor, Dr. George Zimmar, who was at the time working for the Praeger Publishing Company. A few weeks later, he phoned to tell me that he had read the paper and, incidentally, thought it was helpful for understanding Albert Ellis. I was quite taken aback and told Zimmar that Ellis had personally denied the relevance of my thesis to his life. “Well,” my friend replied, “We are publishing his biography, and I was reading the page proofs last night; I think he fits your hypothesis.” Later, when the biography appeared, I read about Ellis’ childhood. The author, Daniel Weiner, describes Ellis as suffering from “Parental neglect and serious illness throughout his childhood.” </p><p>This is taken from page 74 of <a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/9781586176877" target="_blank">Faith of the Fatherless</a>. The whole book is well worth a read.</p>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-56035657292027503842022-01-31T23:30:00.004+00:002022-01-31T23:30:40.489+00:00Lee Child You Had One Shot And You Blew It!<div id="yiv1027243200yMail_cursorElementTracker_1643669362253" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_Hu7SUvKUWaJE1JfpQzecQ_ZHiKN9KLstXK2ZMTNPpm6Z747zSYhzA84iA6eFDMV4s8hzsmmaemP74A8pP0ZhXuPC1X7_J8dQQlgbFf5HKCyp75a-KDKPxWSQ4PfmXlT9ycR8_xYf5hDrFWxVb9rnoWhpn7eQ4qijdsHl1ewcWWGimZhZihujH9D2qw=s2884" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2884" data-original-width="1818" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_Hu7SUvKUWaJE1JfpQzecQ_ZHiKN9KLstXK2ZMTNPpm6Z747zSYhzA84iA6eFDMV4s8hzsmmaemP74A8pP0ZhXuPC1X7_J8dQQlgbFf5HKCyp75a-KDKPxWSQ4PfmXlT9ycR8_xYf5hDrFWxVb9rnoWhpn7eQ4qijdsHl1ewcWWGimZhZihujH9D2qw=w161-h256" width="161" /></a></div>The remote control for my television broke a good while ago and so, to change channels now, I’m reduced to getting up and pushing the buttons on the box itself to change channel. One evening during the first lockdown, after watching the news I went channel hopping. I stumbled across a film which intrigued me and I started to watch it, I wanted to know what had happened and there seemed to be some mystery going on, but then blasphemy after blasphemy ensued and I turned the film off. I checked the television guide to see what the film was called and found that it was a Jack Reacher film based on a Lee Child book called 'One Shot', I decided that if I came across a cheap copy of the book in a second-hand or charity shop I’d buy it, as the book may not contain blasphemy, and wanted to find out what had happened in the story.</div><div id="yiv1027243200yMail_cursorElementTracker_1643669362253" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div id="yiv1027243200yMail_cursorElementTracker_1643669142771" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">During the same lockdown I found a few bags of books placed outside a then closed by order of Boris Johnson, second-hand bookshop which I like to frequent, I took the bags away with me for safe keeping. At this point I would like to say the bags contained the book that I was hoping to acquire, but alas they did not. After that particular lockdown had ended I took the books into the bookshop and the owner was very happy to receive them, in fact so much so that when I tried to buy a book or two from his shelves he insisted that I receive them with his compliments. I haggled with him as best as I could, but in the end the best that he would do was to allow me to pay half price for one of the three books that I was acquiring! I would not have minded, but I had from time to time been throwing the odd pound coin or two into an empty coffee cup during the lockdown to spend on books once bookshops had reopened, you know to help boost the economy and all that. But no matter as this allowed me to buy some other books from another local independent bookshop!</div><div id="yiv1027243200yMail_cursorElementTracker_1643669142771" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div id="yiv1027243200yMail_cursorElementTracker_1643669237392" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">And so, now armed with a copy of 'One Shot' by Lee Child, I went off to find out what had happened. I wasn’t really interested to find out about the main character spending a night with a Norwegian dancer. Nor was I interested in the details of his old relationship with a woman who had previously been in the army with him either. In fact the comment of Helen, the lawyer in the story, really summed this up best, ‘That’s more information than I needed, Reacher.’ We then add some bad language to this and worse still blasphemy upon blasphemy and so Mr Child you had one shot and you blew it.</div><div id="yiv1027243200yMail_cursorElementTracker_1643669237392" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1mL_0c4_7LTiUNZDT2sVVKU9IKQQUtyU0MxAvjQ1YBBOAVB6uMg4g8jXcEVXevAHbHY8WPZVJj67EYhQsQ19SSTaPou7eG87Yh3yWF7Chsp3CSXMJW6pdLhZpn7m29ZWWD6breiaPVjKQ93-hLQobbvEDqYsZ0hZdWHnwqzTXdj8fEcKstg8WKqIlDA=s2111" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2111" data-original-width="1836" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi1mL_0c4_7LTiUNZDT2sVVKU9IKQQUtyU0MxAvjQ1YBBOAVB6uMg4g8jXcEVXevAHbHY8WPZVJj67EYhQsQ19SSTaPou7eG87Yh3yWF7Chsp3CSXMJW6pdLhZpn7m29ZWWD6breiaPVjKQ93-hLQobbvEDqYsZ0hZdWHnwqzTXdj8fEcKstg8WKqIlDA=w174-h200" width="174" /></a></div>Jesus Christ is the Son of God. No one should take His Name in vain. I can't stop you doing so Mr Child. However Christians really need to explain to God why they watch films or television shows with any blasphemy in them, read books or magazines with blasphemy in it, etc. It is easy these days to search online for a detailed parent’s guide to any film you plan to watch, which should point out any blasphemy. The Divine Praises were introduced to make reparation for the sin of blasphemy, say them when you have a moment. Reading Fr Paul O'Sullivan’s short booklet, <a href="https://www.olrl.org/pray/wonders.shtml" target="_blank">The Wonders of the Holy Name</a> is also well worth while.</div><div id="yiv1027243200yMail_cursorElementTracker_1643668980719" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">My copy of Lee Child's book? Yes, I tore it in half and it has gone in the recycling bin.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVtWCcy9vdC9SUX8B7uhpNy5CACEWDYbGj2nYi4kef5l85HOSDaCMcp3Hqds1Ald2WHUyukOGiG6F1SvmAs6zhVcBxxVTBziFeXRJUblN03cg1I9htEVRjdvm_RUn7o2xdlD3fowAb2zZzTB9x5AphaN9ZxYr75-N2tiCN7W_QSr24W25bl7y77Cw76A=s3082" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3082" data-original-width="1836" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVtWCcy9vdC9SUX8B7uhpNy5CACEWDYbGj2nYi4kef5l85HOSDaCMcp3Hqds1Ald2WHUyukOGiG6F1SvmAs6zhVcBxxVTBziFeXRJUblN03cg1I9htEVRjdvm_RUn7o2xdlD3fowAb2zZzTB9x5AphaN9ZxYr75-N2tiCN7W_QSr24W25bl7y77Cw76A=w119-h200" width="119" /></a></div><br /><div id="yiv1027243200yMail_cursorElementTracker_1643668980719" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-82001339467470821092022-01-28T16:35:00.003+00:002022-01-28T18:21:06.268+00:00Old Rite Confirmations Versus New Rite Confirmations<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9qZvZmPi4sCcQ9a1_FCzPQTj3pbN1YLC3PPmfe9BmokgQnkQkd4-WezL_IMBDdVqYvXF5okq6S8Hfx4LQzM6LypWociMZmWMHN0u7c8GpVjQuavs2YfNZJwP0IP7RmoQul5qVx7J2cHLOfGCDy3si1xSJVe-eK7CnANVt13Z9xFw5sD6zLW5XcYoRQA=s1536" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh9qZvZmPi4sCcQ9a1_FCzPQTj3pbN1YLC3PPmfe9BmokgQnkQkd4-WezL_IMBDdVqYvXF5okq6S8Hfx4LQzM6LypWociMZmWMHN0u7c8GpVjQuavs2YfNZJwP0IP7RmoQul5qVx7J2cHLOfGCDy3si1xSJVe-eK7CnANVt13Z9xFw5sD6zLW5XcYoRQA=w200-h200" width="200" /></a></div>From time to time I put up posts asking people to test their memory by telling me where they were 21 years ago today for example. It amazes me the number of people who cannot answer the question. I of course would reply the I was in Anerley with my then fiancée Clare, my Confirmation Sponsor Dougie and Archbishop Michael Bowen.<p></p><p>The previous year I’d stopped attending Masses organised by the SSPX, but as I wished to be Confirmed before getting Married I contacted an English Bishop who had said Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and asked him if he would Confirm me in the Old Rite. I’m sad to say that the Bishop replied that the New Rite was extremely beautiful and that I should just get in step with the modern Church. Tempting though it was to wander off to one of the four SSPX Bishops to receive Confirmation, I in fact went to Anerley and was Confirmed by Archbishop Michael Bowen. I had been <a href="http://ecumenicaldiablog.blogspot.com/2011/05/please-pray-for-my-dead-nan.html" target="_blank">Baptised in the Old Rite</a> by Fr Crowdy a few years earlier, an Oratorian Priest described by <a href="http://ecumenicaldiablog.blogspot.com/2010/07/catholics-dont-take-pill-or-tablet.html" target="_blank">The Tablet</a> as being in an irregular situation!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmMG3B4YerXTHigghruKE9emWT-i6GRT189-X39itsbNjm0_l-8Xmm2J90owWIehsOCPRg830p6zb4Bw7GMnGgm3qXq4_cXB_cxP1DYnvLFZyJdYrhuhzUfRhmxu1LinVhEr9zkhwN-DhLNyONpd-BEQ6e5vis0XXyEAJ1uPeB9MWPpRIAZHq4J_NQtQ=s1325" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1220" data-original-width="1325" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmMG3B4YerXTHigghruKE9emWT-i6GRT189-X39itsbNjm0_l-8Xmm2J90owWIehsOCPRg830p6zb4Bw7GMnGgm3qXq4_cXB_cxP1DYnvLFZyJdYrhuhzUfRhmxu1LinVhEr9zkhwN-DhLNyONpd-BEQ6e5vis0XXyEAJ1uPeB9MWPpRIAZHq4J_NQtQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>I have a preference for the Old Rite and because of this some people I will say that I am rigid and yet I was Confirmed in the New Rite. And in the year before covid struck I made a note of the Masses that I attended and found that approximately 80% were in the New Rite while most of the others where Old Rite. Sometime after my Confirmation a number of Bishops in England and Wales, showing pastoral concern for the faithful <a href="http://ecumenicaldiablog.blogspot.com/2010/11/genuflect-genuflect-no-no-not-you-my.html" target="_blank">allowed Confirmations in the older form</a> and for this I am grateful. It is sad to see that this choice will no longer be available, as in the interests of diversity and charity we will now rigidly use only the New Rite.</p><p>Please say the <a href="http://ecumenicaldiablog.blogspot.com/2020/04/say-litany-for-bishops-on-easter-sunday.html" target="_blank">Litany for Bishops</a>, </p><p><br /></p>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-71085315435611171482021-12-27T18:02:00.001+00:002021-12-27T18:02:29.124+00:00The Twenty Sixth Mystery of The Most Holy Rosary of The Blessed Virgin Mary. (“You can't call it that Dad, because it was the 4th Joyful Mystery in the past”)<p><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimSlnpBh7TfC9LmbRR40IIgOkyP9zCakOVqAXavyheozCuFGJq5A5FZzlQVc7wIvw7G5SYZByu7vL0ZHbp3kY65xYWGm4jS8Ud-ATEib65lskRj-elQ3TxGH-NCUtZvm0bjSn9ljVJx2_TCgPJTAWlKAsk89uJV4ncF3fSYnKX4NXcstu7A-PsOEQyXg=s270" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="270" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEimSlnpBh7TfC9LmbRR40IIgOkyP9zCakOVqAXavyheozCuFGJq5A5FZzlQVc7wIvw7G5SYZByu7vL0ZHbp3kY65xYWGm4jS8Ud-ATEib65lskRj-elQ3TxGH-NCUtZvm0bjSn9ljVJx2_TCgPJTAWlKAsk89uJV4ncF3fSYnKX4NXcstu7A-PsOEQyXg" width="270" /></a></div><br /><div style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">On the
Feast of the Epiphany 2021 while I was at Mass at Saint James is Spanish Place,
I noticed in my <a href="https://www.baroniuspress.com/" target="_blank">Baronius Press</a> Missal, that one of the
prayers that is in the Ordinary of the [1962] Mass is different on the Epiphany. In fact there
are only five times during the year when the <i>Communicantes</i> prayer
changes, for Christmas, for Epiphany, for Easter, for the
Ascension and for Whitsuntide/Pentecost. Four of these are Mysteries
in the Most Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but the Epiphany is not. So
that evening while thinking about, meditating on the Gospel reading that day,
St Matthew 2. 1-12, I said the prayers that make up a decade of the
Rosary. </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="eop"><br /></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">The next
day I took down my copy of Our Lady’s Dowry; How England Gained That Title, by
the Reverend T.E. Bridgett CSSR. And leaving aside the controversy over the
subtitle of this excellent book in its earlier editions, I went looking for
these paragraphs which I found on pages 215-216;</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">“I have
not been able to find in the authors who have treated of the Rosary any ancient
documents showing the nature of the meditations attached to the decades from
the thirteenth to the sixteenth century, though they assert that such
meditations were in use. I have gleaned, however, some evidence that, at least
in the sixteenth century, the mysteries’ were not precisely those now
universally adopted. Stapleton, a famous English theologian, writing in Louvain
in 1589, happens to mention those in use in his time. The five joyful mysteries
were: 1. the Annunciation; 2. the Visitation; 3. the Nativity; 4. the Adoration
of the Magi; 5. the Confession of Simeon and Anna. The five sorrowful mysteries
were: 1. the Circumcision; 2. the Flight into Egypt; 3. the Loss of our Lord
when twelve years old 4. the Crucifixion and 5. the Burial. The five glorious
were the same as at present.</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">A
Spanish writer, Father Arias S.J., writing towards the end of the sixteenth
century, alludes to the ordinary Rosary as containing the following mysteries.
The five joyful are: 1. the Annunciation; 2. the Incarnation; 3 the Visitation;
4. the Birth; 5. the Presentation. The sorrowful and the glorious are the same
as those we now select.”</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">I also
remember Clare, my then<b> </b><span style="color: #202124;">fiancée</span> traveling
to Scotland with Father Morty O'Shea and some others, to visit the Pro-life
Priest Fr Morrow, telling me that when they had finished saying the
then 15 decades of the Rosary, Father suggested saying the miscellaneous
mysteries of the Rosary. These consisted of someone in the car
mentioning an event in the life of our Lord Jesus Christ and possibly saying a
few words about it and then everyone saying the prayers that make
up a decade of the Rosary while meditating upon the event.</span></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">As one
of the main features of the Holy Rosary has been to meditate on the
life of Christ while saying certain prayers, there seemed very little
wrong in saying the ‘miscellaneous mysteries’. A few years after this
journey, Saint Pope John Paul II added the five Luminous Mysteries to the
fifteen mysteries that were then already in use for saying the Rosary. Whether
he did so because he had heard about this famous journey to Scotland is unclear
at this time.</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></div><p></p>
<h2 style="background: white; line-height: 12.0pt; margin-top: 0cm;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigH2vv9XYWbA_HyBFHXUrkw_7q3qtpAcqV_2bYHQUgw_M_bXVNWyQ57O1dgImzPx9td-lzTCCgeUdd5gQBugPNCugqb9BzdiVcZsTg_RWIzXd6QZC1OuoZfNXU6AssOceRnjoEtAtk-4CL86C2-VXR8BPnfPeei5Ky0kLYL-mc6JsVIXsIHPKYIlkMiQ=s240" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigH2vv9XYWbA_HyBFHXUrkw_7q3qtpAcqV_2bYHQUgw_M_bXVNWyQ57O1dgImzPx9td-lzTCCgeUdd5gQBugPNCugqb9BzdiVcZsTg_RWIzXd6QZC1OuoZfNXU6AssOceRnjoEtAtk-4CL86C2-VXR8BPnfPeei5Ky0kLYL-mc6JsVIXsIHPKYIlkMiQ" width="160" /></a></div></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">From all of this
it would seem clear to me that what the mysteries of the Holy Rosary
are may at times very. Adding the mystery of the Epiphany or the Adoration
of the Magi as it was called, as an extra mystery is something that I
will do myself from time to time and most surely on the 6th of
January each year. This of course only gives us 21 mysteries to say.
I'm pleased to say that in the last year I purchased two books for meditating
on the Rosary compiled by <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/kindle-dbs/entity/author/B08QG2XQWT?" target="_blank">Father Mark Higgins</a>, the first has meditations
taken from the writings of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich while the second has
meditations from the Fathers of the Church. </span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">And now this year
Father has published a third book of Rosary meditations from the writing of
Saint Bridget of Sweden along with a forth book </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">through the writings of Saint Alphonsus de Liguori</span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> Father added
five Hopeful Mysteries to the 20 mysteries we already had, he was partly
inspired to do this by the writings are Frank Duff the founder all the Legion
of Mary.</span> </span></span><span class="eop"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div></h2>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span lang="EN-US">And so without further eloquence [watch The
Quiet Man], here is the Gospel reading for The Feast of The Epiphany
interspaced with the prayers to make it a decade of The Rosary.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">When Jesus therefore was born in Bethlehem of Juda, in the days of king
Herod, behold, there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem,</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Our
Father, </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #202124;">Who art in
heaven, hallowed be Thy name; Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done on earth as it
is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but
deliver us from evil.</span><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">Saying: Where is He that is born king of the Jews? For we have
seen His star in the East, and are come to adore Him.</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><a name="_Hlk68210826"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Hail Mary </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;">full of Grace, the Lord is with thee.</span><span style="color: #333333;"> <span style="background: white;">Blessed are thou amongst
women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus.</span> <span style="background: white;">Holy Mary Mother of God,</span> <span style="background: white;">pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death</span>
<span style="background: white;">Amen.</span></span></a><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">And king Herod hearing this, was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Hail
Mary…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">And assembling together all the chief priests and the scribes of the people,
he inquired of them where Christ should be born.</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Hail
Mary…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">But they said to him: In Bethlehem of Juda. For so it is written by the Prophet:</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Hail
Mary…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">And thou Bethlehem the land of Juda art not the least among the princes
of Juda: for out of thee shall come forth the Captain that shall rule My people Israel.</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Hail
Mary…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">Then Herod, privately calling the wise men learned diligently of them
the time of the star which appeared to them;</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Hail
Mary…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">And sending them into Bethlehem, said: Go and diligently inquire after
the Child, and when you have found Him, bring me word again, that I also may
come and adore Him.</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Hail
Mary…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">Who having heard the king, went their way; and behold the star which
they had seen in the East, went before them, until it came and stood over where
the Child was.</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">And seeing the star they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Hail
Mary…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">And entering into the house, they found the Child with Mary His Mother,
and falling down they adored Him: and opening their treasures, they offered Him
gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh.</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Hail
Mary…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><b><span lang="EN-US">And having received an answer in sleep that they should not return to
Herod, they went back another way into their country.</span></b></span><span class="eop"><b><span lang="EN-US"> </span></b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Segoe UI",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Hail
Mary…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US">Glory
be…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="paragraph" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="normaltextrun"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></span></p>
<span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">O my Jesus,
forgive us our sins, save us from the fires of hell, and lead all
souls to Heaven, especially those in most need of Thy Mercy</span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjROmgGNLaj8Jtu_v5c7feLW7hzjL0O2cotwkJfK9_cMVHfZc0DsiiTahN5dU2z-zC1YEQrafYfIy1DkZ1ZVKDuT0rXmA7uIO-DNd6kIhn_cvLfB_4waVRPKwxXcM0OFYCOp-ltt6dQ6JXHn4sES0LcHu1CfRHUyfRxJ05uIU6-ABKICpUFze8KwjSgbg=s240" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjROmgGNLaj8Jtu_v5c7feLW7hzjL0O2cotwkJfK9_cMVHfZc0DsiiTahN5dU2z-zC1YEQrafYfIy1DkZ1ZVKDuT0rXmA7uIO-DNd6kIhn_cvLfB_4waVRPKwxXcM0OFYCOp-ltt6dQ6JXHn4sES0LcHu1CfRHUyfRxJ05uIU6-ABKICpUFze8KwjSgbg" width="160" /></a></div><br /><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></div>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-38266042199950686442021-08-20T08:00:00.002+01:002023-08-20T12:52:00.102+01:00Feast of Saint Ronald<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-450zqRHvUhM/YR7d_LtVdwI/AAAAAAAACAQ/LdZ8IZJH9Osm9tXdGkSwmswrn8gUKCP7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1375/20210819_233737.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="1375" height="310" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-450zqRHvUhM/YR7d_LtVdwI/AAAAAAAACAQ/LdZ8IZJH9Osm9tXdGkSwmswrn8gUKCP7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20210819_233737.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>So for Christmas last year I made Saint badges for many of my family. I didn't know what to do for my Dad, as he only has Ronald for his name, there isn't a Saint Ronald is there? <p></p>
St. Ronald was born in Agdir Norway in 1100 AD. He was a talented and venturesome son of wealthy parents. As a young boy, his parents sent him to visit the Orkney Island in Northern Scotland. He was appointed Earl of the Orkney and Shetland Islands by King Sigurd I of Norway in 1129. St. Ronald had many close calls to losing his life including a pilgrimage to the Holy Land during the Crusades. In gratitude for his life being spared, he built the Cathedral of St. Magnus in Kirkwall, Scotland. He was martyred in 1158 AD by a group of warriors rebelling against him, his rule and his religion and was buried at the Cathedral he had built. In 1192, Pope Celestine III moved St. Ronald's remains to Rome after St. Ronald's canonization. His feast day is August 20th. Two of the Orkney Islands are named after him, namely North Ronaldsay and South Ronaldsay. <br />
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So I made a badge for my Dad and the same one for myself, it's my middle name and will wear it today.<br />
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[ I sell some other badges here; <br />
https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?sid=stuartmcc1927 <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?sid=stuartmcc1927">https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?sid=stuartmcc1927 </a>]<br />
<br />Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-75391806730459193522021-07-25T20:14:00.000+01:002021-07-25T20:14:19.232+01:00Bishop to Preach on the Hundredth Anniversary of GK Chesterton's Conversion<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyJR2QWZoffy9JMH-CbK8grZKMVoCZeEbtgEfVd-m1-ky4g9uB-Kdjjz_B_XydeO3LXSVEXcepVZlcZYauS-A' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";">Watch this very special announcement at the 11th Annual GK Chesterton
Pilgrimage. Please Share. For next year's Pilgrimage details see; </span><span class="py34i1dx"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/365152871733972/"><span style="background: white; font-family: inherit, serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%;"></span><span style="color: var(--blue-link); white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="744ki-1-0"><span data-text="true">https://www.facebook.com/events/365152871733972/</span></span></span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In a letter from Bishop David Oakley, the new Bishop
of Northampton, his Lordship said, “Please be assured of my support for the
important work that you are engaged in. It is good that the [Catholic GK
Chesterton] Society is promoting the work of this important contributor to
Catholic thinking in the twentieth century. And of course, that you are engaged
in the promotion of Chesterton’s Cause. Please know of my prayers for the
Society and all you are doing at this time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="py34i1dx">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The date of Saturday, 30<sup>th</sup> July 2022 is now
firmly in the diary here, and I would be delighted to preach at the Mass.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For details of the Pilgrimage and for copies of the GK Chesterton Prayer see; </span><a href="https://www.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk/">Home (catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk)</a></p><p class="MsoNormal">Saturday 30th July 2022 will be the 100th Anniversary of the
Conversion of GK Chesterton. The location was, "the Railway Hotel in <a href="http://ecumenicaldiablog.blogspot.com/2011/06/large-turn-out-for-annual-gk-chesterton.html">Beaconsfield</a>,
the dance-room of which had been converted into a makeshift chapel in the
absence of any Catholic church in the town. In truth it was little more than a
shed with a corrugated-iron roof and wooden walls, fitted with chapel fixtures
by Sir Philip Rose and made available by the hotel's Irish landlady, Mrs
Borlase. However, if Father Rice had failed to persuade Chesterton to be
received in more luxurious surroundings [Douai Abbey School where Father was
headmaster], he was compensated amply when Gilbert requested that he be present
with Father O'Connor at his reception on Sunday, 30th July. The two
Priests <a href="http://ecumenicaldiablog.blogspot.com/2011/07/fr-z-one-of-my-followers-has-blog-likes.html">breakfasted</a> together
at the inn at which Father O'Connor was staying before walking together to Top
Meadow [GKC's house]. According to Father Rice, they found Gilbert in an
armchair reading the catechism, 'pulling faces and making noises as he used to
do when reading'. Greeting his two friends, he got up and stuffed the catechism
in his pocket. At lunch he drank water and poured wine for everyone else, and
at about three o'clock they set out for the church. While Gilbert was making
his Confession to Father O'Connor, Frances [GK's Wife], who was weeping
continually, was comforted by Father Rice."<br />
<br />
From <i><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wisdom-Innocence-Life-G-K-Chesterton/dp/0340671327/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1342818626&sr=8-5">Wisdom
and Innocence, A Life of GK Chesterton</a></i> by Joseph Pearce.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span data-offset-key="744ki-2-0" style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true"></span></span></div><p><br /> </p>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-34905407922250996652020-10-27T07:30:00.036+00:002020-10-27T07:30:05.995+00:00"By the Babe Unborn" by G.K. Chesterton<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TfcpfwB6TJ0/X43CiTOzZzI/AAAAAAAAB5c/Tk56ulCxUAsM7oocJ5xVvDh8LBsYNLFwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s225/baby%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bwomb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="224" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TfcpfwB6TJ0/X43CiTOzZzI/AAAAAAAAB5c/Tk56ulCxUAsM7oocJ5xVvDh8LBsYNLFwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/baby%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bwomb.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">If trees were tall
and grasses short,</span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As in some crazy tale,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If here and there a sea were
blue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond the breaking pale,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a fixed fire hung in the air<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To warm me one day through,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If deep green hair grew on
great hills,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know what I should do.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In dark I lie; dreaming that there<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are great eyes cold or kind,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And twisted streets and silent
doors,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And living men behind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let storm clouds come: better
an hour,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And leave to weep and fight,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Than all the ages I have ruled<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The empires of the night.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think that if they gave me
leave<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Within the world to stand,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would be good through all the
day<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I spent in fairyland.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They should not hear a word
from me<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of selfishness or scorn,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If only I could find the door,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If only I were born.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Today is the 53rd Anniversary of the passing of the Abortion Act in the UK, since then over nine million babies have lost they lives as a result of this. Please support <a href="https://goodcounselnet.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The Good Counsel Network</span></a>. You could also buy some Pro-Life, Chesterton and other badges <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/stuartmcc1927/m.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; tab-stops: 45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt 320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt 687.0pt 732.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-77148841880102033332020-10-15T08:00:00.014+01:002020-10-15T08:00:00.238+01:00GK Chesterton on Nietzsche on Nietzsche's Birthday<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2v2b6GYoqSY/X4cOWnwCNfI/AAAAAAAAB5I/B8DppMS6XHkBAYglwZtPMzqWs30SODX_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20201005_232610.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2027" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2v2b6GYoqSY/X4cOWnwCNfI/AAAAAAAAB5I/B8DppMS6XHkBAYglwZtPMzqWs30SODX_QCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20201005_232610.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">"Other vague modern people take refuge in material metaphors; in fact, this is the chief mark of vague modern people. Not daring to define their doctrine of what is good, they use
physical figures of speech without stint or shame, and , what is worst of all, seem to think these cheap analogies are exquisitely spiritual and superior to the old morality. Thus they think it intellectual to talk about things being 'high.' It is at least
the reverse of intellectual; it is a mere phrase from a steeple or a weathercock. 'Tommy was a good boy' is a pure philosophical statement, worthy of Plato or Aquinas. 'Tommy lived the higher life' is a gross metaphor from a ten-foot rule.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oqOBUHuu2A0/X4cOsktfovI/AAAAAAAAB5Q/2tEeolVXamAOJa0_J-WIGQU8261axWXXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200918_235817.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2004" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oqOBUHuu2A0/X4cOsktfovI/AAAAAAAAB5Q/2tEeolVXamAOJa0_J-WIGQU8261axWXXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200918_235817.jpg" /></a></div><p></p>
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<span original_font_attr="10.5pt" original_line_height_attr="" style="color: #1a1a1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">This, incidentally, is almost the whole weakness of Nietzsche, whom some are representing as a bold and strong thinker. No one will deny that he was a poetical and suggestive thinker;
but he was quite the reverse of strong. He was not at all bold. He never put his own meaning before himself in bald abstract words: as did Aristotle and Calvin, and even Karl Marx, the hard, fearless men of thought. Nietzsche always escaped a question by a
physical metaphor, like a cheery minor port. He said, 'beyond good and evil,' because he had not the courage to say, 'more good than good and evil,' or, 'more evil than good and evil.' Had he faced his thought without metaphors, he would have seen that it
was nonsense. So, when he describes his hero, he does not dare to say, 'the purer man,' or 'the happier man,' or 'the sadder man,' for all these are ideas; and ideas are alarming. He says 'the upper man.' or 'over man,' a physical metaphor from acrobats or
alpine climbers. Nietzsche is truly a very timid thinker. He does not really know in the least what sort of man he wants evolution to produce" -- G.K. Chesterton, "Orthodoxy", Chapter 7</span></p><p class="1qeiagb0cpwnlhdf9xsijm" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm; vertical-align: baseline;"><span original_font_attr="10.5pt" original_line_height_attr="" style="color: #1a1a1b; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">Both of the 1 inch [2.5cm] button badges above, are available here; <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?sid=stuartmcc1927">https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?sid=stuartmcc1927</a> </span></p>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-9474046592963640032020-10-02T08:00:00.060+01:002020-10-02T08:00:00.676+01:00Happy Birthday Mahatma Gandhi, Pro-Lifer inspired by GK Chesterton!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NR09AO_5nHE/X3IJEsvWsrI/AAAAAAAAB4Q/YrcNzYt5bhArzf-OceDSOF-tMlFuXXkwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200919_110950.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1957" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NR09AO_5nHE/X3IJEsvWsrI/AAAAAAAAB4Q/YrcNzYt5bhArzf-OceDSOF-tMlFuXXkwQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200919_110950.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />"<span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-size: 14px;">Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on this day in 1869 and was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and in turn inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world." Or so the internet says.</span><p></p><p><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><span><span style="color: #4d5156;">I only know that he was inspired by an article written by GK Chesterton, see Father Ian Ker's biography for details [</span><a href="http://ecumenicaldiablog.blogspot.com/2020/10/without-chesterton-would-you-have-heard.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">see last post</span></a><span style="color: #4d5156;">]. So wear </span></span><a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Read-GK-Chesterton-1-inch-2-5cm-button-badge/284023255184" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Chesterton</span></a><span style="color: #4d5156;"> and </span><a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pro-Life-Gandhi-1-button-badge/284007272061" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Gandhi</span></a><span style="color: #4d5156;"> badges to inspire others. </span></span></p><p><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u95JdqHGWBg/X3IJxtbEhuI/AAAAAAAAB4Y/fOs7yoc5rx4a-1obeYjvy9RfePMx-B-RgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200924_223604.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1974" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u95JdqHGWBg/X3IJxtbEhuI/AAAAAAAAB4Y/fOs7yoc5rx4a-1obeYjvy9RfePMx-B-RgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200924_223604.jpg" /></a></span></div><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"><br /><span style="color: #4d5156;"><br /></span></span><p></p>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-59312616584770159392020-10-01T17:00:00.001+01:002020-10-01T17:00:03.680+01:00Without Chesterton Would You Have Heard of Gandhi?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zq7HhyPin-o/X3NQRkLO6vI/AAAAAAAAB4k/C3P7gNHTy-MvuiEj0Oab9IKj8GazebfTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1360/GKC%2BIan%2BKer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1360" data-original-width="907" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Zq7HhyPin-o/X3NQRkLO6vI/AAAAAAAAB4k/C3P7gNHTy-MvuiEj0Oab9IKj8GazebfTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/GKC%2BIan%2BKer.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">“In his Illustrated London News column of 2 October 1909,
Chesterton addressed the question of Indian nationalism. “The test of a
democracy is not whether the people vote,’ he argued, ‘but whether the people
rule. The essence of a democracy is that the national tone and spirit of the
typical citizen is apparent and striking in the actions of the state.’ And he
thought that the principal weakness’ of Indian nationalists seeking
independence was that their nationalism was not very Indian and not very
national’. There is a difference between a conquered people demanding its own
institutions and the same people demanding the institutions of the conqueror. The article was read by
Gandhi, who was in London at the time to press for ‘freer rights of residence,
travel and trade to members of the
Indian diaspora in South Africa’, where he was then living He referred to the
article in a dispatch he sent to the paper he had founded in Durban, Indian
Opinion. This article for some reason did not appear until January of the
following year. In the meantime Gandhi had responded to Chesterton’s criticism
by completing in ten days, on board the ship that carried him back to South
Africa, ‘an extended defence of the virtues of ancient Indian civilisation’.
Written in Gandhi’s mother tongue, it was published under the title Hind
Swaraj, and also in English under the title Indian Home Rule, in Durban in
1910. Apart from Gandhi’s two-volume autobiography and collections of articles
and speeches, it was the only book qua book that Gandhi ever published.” From Fr Ian Ker's Biography, 'GK Chesterton', page 249 </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I just noticed that this GKC article, that had such an impact on Gandhi was published on Gandhi's Birthday. See tomorrow's post. Chesterton and Gandhi badges here; <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/stuartmcc1927/m.html"><span style="color: red;">https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/stuartmcc1927/m.html</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-77057124054551074442020-09-30T08:00:00.003+01:002020-09-30T08:00:00.214+01:00Fight Back Against Anti-Christian Attacks, in a small way.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-exrKuva85RE/X2aBRgVE1tI/AAAAAAAAB2E/aLcsG1Zjq_kKXR2PEB07c1iqYAE5Q4yCACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200919_230630.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-exrKuva85RE/X2aBRgVE1tI/AAAAAAAAB2E/aLcsG1Zjq_kKXR2PEB07c1iqYAE5Q4yCACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200919_230630.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I saw an article online that said that 'Anarchists' had defaced a statue of St Boniface in Devon with anti-Christian graffiti. They wrote "God is Dead". I've noticed lots of other anti-Christian attacks all over the place. Churches burned or vandalised, statues attacked in lots of different ways in many different locations. Priests attacked and even killed while saying Mass. I'm sure that this is not new.<br /><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>
I can't protect every Church and religious statue in the world or even locally, but I can do something. Look around you next time you are out and about, <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wfQsKTzIvsA/X3Gla3kVfdI/AAAAAAAAB3E/KBfsynl3VbwWh3J_gP7jrXBC-cnl5wcqQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200924_223450.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2031" data-original-width="2048" height="198" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wfQsKTzIvsA/X3Gla3kVfdI/AAAAAAAAB3E/KBfsynl3VbwWh3J_gP7jrXBC-cnl5wcqQCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h198/20200924_223450.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />on a bus or train, in a coffee shop or better still a book shop [second-hand]. How many of the people that you see are obviously Christian? Sometimes you may spot a Priest or a Religious Sister, or see someone carrying/reading The Bible or some other religious book. I've seen people carrying small religious statues with them and even saw a chap 25 years ago walking around Kensington, West London, with an six foot white wooden cross over his shoulder. <div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a0pTTulZdH4/X1pHEX33FsI/AAAAAAAAB1Q/0Ft2EamZ3DkbFhS5dc8uBxxABSt4FgKzACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Wilton%2BDiptych%2BOur%2BLady.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a0pTTulZdH4/X1pHEX33FsI/AAAAAAAAB1Q/0Ft2EamZ3DkbFhS5dc8uBxxABSt4FgKzACLcBGAsYHQ/w144-h256/Wilton%2BDiptych%2BOur%2BLady.jpg" width="144" /></a></div>It was Friedrich Nietzsche, who died <span style="color: black;">25th August 1900</span>, who famously said that, 'God is Dead'. I went and bought a small badge making machine. I shall be wearing a 'God's Not Dead' badge each year on the 25th August and again on 15th October, Nietzsche's Birthday. I've also made some other badges that may be a bit less 'boom!' I'm sure there are times when I won't be wearing a Christian badge, but there are lots of times when we all could. I'm selling some <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/stuartmcc1927/m.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a>. By all means, get a big wooden cross instead, or buy a badge or t-shirt from someone else, but wear something when you can.</div><div><br /></div><div>Today is the anniversary of the death of St Therese, her Feast Day is 1st October [3rd October in the Old Rite] and I have seen one of her statues vandalised, so these badges are also available.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sORYDfQuvlc/X3GnDbNjwnI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/-1NaozSHQl4VAFMGvUeCRksKRC3PYvLbQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1973/20200924_223633.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1959" data-original-width="1973" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sORYDfQuvlc/X3GnDbNjwnI/AAAAAAAAB3Q/-1NaozSHQl4VAFMGvUeCRksKRC3PYvLbQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200924_223633.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-80227436658268603682020-09-28T22:00:00.027+01:002020-09-29T10:36:44.883+01:00Commemorate the 53rd Anniversary of the Abortion Act<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nJ8heyZG4qo/X3IIN-tAmGI/AAAAAAAAB4E/G2bxnsDwbbQ_hktCZ-vCklRC6hFMrzGawCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200928_164536.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nJ8heyZG4qo/X3IIN-tAmGI/AAAAAAAAB4E/G2bxnsDwbbQ_hktCZ-vCklRC6hFMrzGawCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200928_164536.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />The 27th October 2020 will be the 53rd anniversary of the Abortion Act being passed in the UK. Millions of children have lost there lives as a result of this Act. Please join the Good Counsel Network's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2739924072936969/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Day of Prayer and Fasting for Life</span></a> on the day. Please see what public witnesses any Pro-Life groups will be having, if you are in London Good Counsel will has it's two normal daily <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://goodcounselnet.co.uk/prayer-vigils" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Pro-Life vigils</span></a> </span>telephone them the week before just to confirm times. [Not in London see;<a href="https://www.40daysforlife.com/vigil-search.aspx" target="_blank"> https://www.40daysforlife.com/vigil-search.aspx</a>]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XCQOUnbYfv0/X3ID--_-aLI/AAAAAAAAB3k/jAFT64kDfDADDIWymNbVfceaHyW8CYS6wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200924_223513.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1900" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XCQOUnbYfv0/X3ID--_-aLI/AAAAAAAAB3k/jAFT64kDfDADDIWymNbVfceaHyW8CYS6wCLcBGAsYHQ/w186-h200/20200924_223513.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><p></p><p>Wear something Pro-Life on the day, I have <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/stuartmcc1927/m.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;"><b>badges</b></span></a> if you don't have something already. You can see the post below for two other designs.</p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-55299116458523023312020-09-23T18:23:00.000+01:002020-09-23T18:23:06.400+01:00Pro-Life Poll<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v_x615U3Yno/X2uDhcsu7fI/AAAAAAAAB2k/YHB3sybxTuAyQC2Cq1Hu6RZ8noVuOzHbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1710/20200918_231646.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1675" data-original-width="1710" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v_x615U3Yno/X2uDhcsu7fI/AAAAAAAAB2k/YHB3sybxTuAyQC2Cq1Hu6RZ8noVuOzHbwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200918_231646.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Simple Pro-Life poll, 30 of these one inch, 'FORMER EMBRYO' button badges for sale in pink and blue, will chaps or ladies buy the most? <p></p><p> Blue https://t.co/e0Ft58LoAF </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1oveQ3YXluo/X2uDw3aX8mI/AAAAAAAAB2o/5dcetGJg62khW6QluEirahZJ51elpJVBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1802/20200918_231714.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1753" data-original-width="1802" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1oveQ3YXluo/X2uDw3aX8mI/AAAAAAAAB2o/5dcetGJg62khW6QluEirahZJ51elpJVBgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200918_231714.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Pink https://t.co/TzNZRDa9RK </p>Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-12201239760350715142020-07-30T08:00:00.000+01:002020-07-30T21:29:00.368+01:00A Sign From God On The 10th Annual GK Chesterton Pilgrimage<div class="MsoNormal">
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strong hopes that it will be one day acknowledged that G. K. C. died a saint.”</span><b><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> WR Titterton</span></i></b><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Friend and first biographer of GKC</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b><i><span style="color: #1d2228;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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this year’s 10<sup>th</sup> Annual GK Chesterton Walking Pilgrimage evolved on
a daily basis. At one point, it looked as if I might do the 27 mile walk on my
own as my daily exercise. But by the time we got around to the pilgrimage, it
was obvious that we could do a lot more than that. So, on Saturday, 25<sup>th</sup>
July, Kim, Andrea, Daniel and myself said the <a href="https://www.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk/Printable-Prayercards.html"><span style="color: red;">GK Chesterton prayer</span></a></span> <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">outside
St. George’s C of E church in Aubery Walk, Notting Hill, read a paragraph from
his <a href="http://ecumenicaldiablog.blogspot.com/2011/06/upon-father-finigans-orders.html"><span style="color: red;">autobiography</span></a></span>,
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then putting one foot in front of the other, set off for Mass. We were joined a
couple of hours later in Ealing by Flora and Jason. We then descended upon the
canal and more Rosaries were said. We didn’t stop until we arrived at the “Malt
Shovel” pub on Iver Lane, Cowley. We had a swift drink and then headed
cross-country, past Pinewood Studios, and onto Mass at the Bridgettine Convent
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Oakley’s permission, to have
Mass on the Altar at their outside grotto. I’m pleased to say that, despite the
inclement weather, over 50 people attended the Old Rite Mass offered by Fr.
Patrick O’Donohue, <a href="https://fssp.co.uk/"><span style="color: red;">FSSP</span></a>. He gave an excellent sermon. Father was ably assisted by altar-servers Rufus and
Nathanael at a distance. After Communion I noticed one chap quietly saying the
Chesterton prayer in Irish while kneeling in the rain. At the end of Mass, the
entire congregation joined in with Father in singing Chesterton’s hymn, “O God
of Earth and Altar”. As nobody recorded this, I have searched on YouTube and
found this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=wFG-CqYXyOo"><span style="color: red;">video</span></a> where the singing is of almost as good, although we did
not have a trumpet! (Next year?) We had asked people to pray that it would not
rain during Mass, but it did. I announced, after Mass, that this must have been
the fault of one of those joining us for the afternoon, as it had hardly rained
at all on the six morning pilgrims, and Pat put up his hand, taking
responsibility for the change in weather, as he had “not said the Chesterton
prayer for it not to rain”.<o:p></o:p><br />
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walked 20 minutes to the “Black Horse” pub in Fulmer where we could use the
bathrooms and have a quick drink. Social distancing wasn’t really much of a
problem, as people tended to walk in family groups and spread out quite
naturally, with those walking slowest falling towards the back. In fact we have
been ahead of the game on this one for years now! As always, we’d like to thank
Ken for driving the support mini-bus which rescued at least two families who
had been inadvertently left behind at the pub. And more Rosaries were said. In
total 40 people walked some or all of the 27 miles. Some in their 70s and some
not even in double figures yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Clare taking the final photos, so
this is my fault. About half of us arrived at GKC’s local pub in small
groups, but as none of us had booked, I think the poor women on the door nearly
had a heart attack. Despite the pessimist next to me saying, “This’ll go badly”
I quietly said a very long, poetical and theologically sound prayer, ‘GKC, it’s
your pub, please sort it’, well I had just walked 27 miles! And we were in,
spaces multiplied like the loaves and the fishes. <o:p></o:p><br />
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Network from this event, and you can still donate <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/gkcwalk20"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.
You can print off copies of the GK Chesterton prayer card <a href="https://www.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk/Printable-Prayercards.html"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">,
or if you live in the UK and you email us your postal address, we will pop you
ten in the post. CatholicGKCSociety@yahoo.co.uk<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the sign from God. To be honest, there were quite a few. One of the pilgrims who
walked the full 27 miles told us in the morning that they had only been Baptised
two or three years ago “after reading ‘Orthodoxy’ by GK Chesterton”. But this
was not the sign I meant. I can assure you that I paid little or no attention
to the names or numbers on the hundreds or thousands of houses that we passed along
the way. But as I paused when we leaving Fulmer, I did see this sign and took the
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">grown away from me. He was spiritualized. The old jollity, the old
friendliness remained, the old large humanity. But he was a shade more remote.
He had a little the air, which some poets and all saints have always, of
listening to something fine that you do not hear. Even when I became a Catholic
I was conscious that he had something that I did not share with him.” </span><b><i><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">WR
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The 10th Annual GK Chesterton Pilgrimage will take place on Saturday 25th July, in spite of Covid-19. There are several ways you can join us, either in prayer, or by joining us in walking a short section of the pilgrimage or even in walking the whole 27 miles! To be involved and maybe help members of your Family into the Catholic Church you can;</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">C. And if you like you can walk 6 miles after Mass to GK Chesterton's Grave. If you leave your car at the Convent the minibus can take you back for it at the end of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">D. Or meet us at 9.15am outside Ealing Town Hall to walk on to Mass (approximately 12 miles).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">E. Or, to do the whole 27 mile walk, meet us at 7.30am outside St George's C of E Church, Aubrey Walk, London, W8 7JG where GKC was Baptised as a baby, to walk 21 Miles to Mass. And 6 miles after Mass if you want.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;">F. And say the GK Chesterton Prayer on the day wherever you are. Find the prayer in a number of languages here; </span><a data-lynx-mode="hover" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk%2FPrintable-Prayercards.html%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR32wCbQr9eUPIm_0eMEPGttrwr35KU7HytKg5y9PeQwsOkL975-uprzApY&h=AT3FV8D0hvC5Rpgboi2yI_0FjhvpYAJC5f9AxTca2AGEl5qRCl1V4io_CbbkgQ0W4RLkqe1XFaUE2HGpjiLPlwneDOdyl8NvWQPCRYPCV1c7Bfv3XlQwtmUG6_luIrzmh4Y" href="https://www.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk/Printable-Prayercards.html?fbclid=IwAR32wCbQr9eUPIm_0eMEPGttrwr35KU7HytKg5y9PeQwsOkL975-uprzApY" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: white; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">https://www.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk/Printable-Prayercards.html</a><br />
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Lord have mercy on us.<br />
Christ have mercy on us.<br />
Lord have mercy on us.<br />
Christ hear us.<br />
Christ, graciously hear us.<br />
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God, the Father of Heaven, have mercy on us.<br />
God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, have mercy on us.<br />
God, the Holy Ghost, have mercy on us.<br />
Holy Trinity, one God, have mercy on us.<br />
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Holy Mary, Queen of Heaven and earth, pray for us.<br />
St. Joseph, Protector of Holy Mother Church, pray for us.<br />
St Michael, all Archangels, special servants of Bishops, pray for us.<br />
St John the Baptist, Herald of the Lord, pray for us.<br />
St Peter, pray for us.<br />
St Paul, pray for us.<br />
St Andrew, pray for us.<br />
St John, pray for us.<br />
St Thomas, pray for us.<br />
St James, pray for us.<br />
St Philip, pray for us.<br />
St Bartholomew, pray for us.<br />
St Matthew, pray for us.<br />
St James, pray for us.<br />
St Simon, pray for us.<br />
St Thaddeus, pray for us.<br />
St Barnabas, pray for us.<br />
St Matthias, pray for us.<br />
O Holy Apostles, our first Bishops, we beg your intercession on behalf of your successors;<br />
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St Thomas Becket, pray for us.<br />
St Blaise, pray for us.<br />
St Boniface, pray for us.<br />
St Cyprian, pray for us.<br />
St. Ignatius of Antioch, pray for us.<br />
St. Irenaeus, pray for us.<br />
St John Fisher, pray for us.<br />
St. Polycarp, pray for us.<br />
All martyred Bishops; pray for us.<br />
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St Athanasius, pray for us.<br />
St Alphosus Liguori, pray for us.<br />
St Ambrose, pray for us.<br />
St Anslem, pray for us.<br />
St Augustine, pray for us.<br />
St Basil and Gregory Nazianzen pray for us<br />
St Bonaventure, pray for us.<br />
St Cyril of Alexandria, pray for us.<br />
St Cyril of Jerusalem, pray for us.<br />
St Francis De Sales, pray for us.<br />
St Hilary, pray for us.<br />
St Isadore of Seville, pray for us.<br />
St Peter Chrsologus, pray for us.<br />
St Peter Damian, pray for us.<br />
St Robert Bellarmine, pray for us.<br />
All Bishops-Doctors of the Church, pray for us.<br />
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St Albert the Great, pray for us.<br />
St Ansgar, pray for us.<br />
St Charles Borromeo, pray for us.<br />
St Ildephonsus, pray for us.<br />
St Methodius, pray for us.<br />
St Nicolas, pray for us.<br />
St Norbert, pray for us.<br />
St Patrick, pray for us.<br />
St Richard, pray for us.<br />
Sts. Timothy and Titus, pray for us.<br />
St William, pray for us.<br />
St Wulfran, pray for us.<br />
All Bishops who have spread the light of Christ; pray for us.<br />
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St Leo the Great, pray for us.<br />
St Pius V, pray for us.<br />
St Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.<br />
St Pius X, pray for us.<br />
All Saints who have helped further the Faith through teaching, pray for us.<br />
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That all bishops will maintain complete obedience to the Holy Father, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will remain faithful to the Magisterium of the Church, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will defend the Faith and moral teachings of the Church, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will uphold the true teachings of the Ecumenical Councils, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will allow and defend all duly authorised Rites of the Mass, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will staunchly defend the unborn, the elderly, the sick and all defenceless people, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will provide for true and complete education of the Faith for all souls in their care, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will exercise the powers of their office to defend the faithful against heretics, apostates, and false prophets and teachers, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will use their authority and powers to correct errors and falsehoods, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will stand up for the rights of the Church when infringed upon by the State, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will develop a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will be living examples of the virtues, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will look to their saintly predecessors as examples of how they should carry out their vocations, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will encourage true vocations to the priesthood and religious life, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
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That all bishops will boldly proclaim the message of Our Lady of Fatima, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will concentrate their energies more on the spiritual than on the material needs of the faithful, we beseech Thee, hear us.<br />
That all bishops will teach and preach the truth of Humanae Vitae and Familiaris Consortio.<br />
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O God, look with favour on Thy servants, Thy bishops, whom Thou hast appointed as teachers and defenders of Thy faithful here on earth. Grant that by word and example they may assist those over whom they have been placed, so that shepherds and flocks may together attain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ, Our Lord. Amen.<br />
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Less tax, more tax, <b><span style="color: red;">Leave, Remain,</span></b> less immigrants, more immigrants, Scotland to rule England...and Wales, etc. It does not matter if you are dead, MPs have a free vote on moral issues, so you need to know where your local candidates stand on these issues. <br />
The following article was taken from the Priests for Life website <a href="http://www.priestsforlife.org/"><span style="color: #cc0000;">www.priestsforlife.org</span></a></div>
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<strong>You Wouldn’t Even Ask….</strong><br />
<strong>By Fr. Frank Pavone</strong><br />
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If a candidate who supported terrorism asked for your vote, would you say, "I disagree with you on terrorism, but where do you stand on other issues?<br />
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"I doubt it.<br />
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In fact, if a terrorism sympathizer presented him/herself for your vote, you would immediately know that such a position disqualifies the candidate for public office -- no matter how good he or she may be on other issues. The horror of terrorism dwarfs whatever good might be found in the candidate's plan for housing, education, or health care. Regarding those plans, you wouldn't even ask.<br />
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So why do so many people say, "This candidate favors legal abortion. I disagree. But I'm voting for this person because she has good ideas about health care (or some other issue).<br />
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"Such a position makes no sense whatsoever, unless one is completely blind to the violence of abortion. That, of course, is the problem. But we need only see what abortion looks like, or read descriptions from the abortionists themselves, and the evidence is clear. (USA Today refused to sell me space for an ad that quoted abortionists describing their work because the readers would be traumatized just by the words!)<br />
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Abortion is no less violent than terrorism. Any candidate who says abortion should be kept legal disqualifies him/herself from public service. We need look no further, we need pay no attention to what that candidate says on other issues. Support for abortion is enough for us to decide not to vote for such a person.<br />
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Pope John Paul II put it this way: "Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights -- for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture -- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination" (Christifideles Laici, 1988).<br />
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False and illusory. Those are strong and clear words that call for our further reflection.<br />
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"I stand for adequate and comprehensive health care." So far, so good. But as soon as you say that a procedure that tears the arms off of little babies is part of "health care," then your understanding of the term "health care" is obviously quite different from the actual meaning of the words. In short, you lose credibility. Your claim to health care is "illusory." It sounds good, but is in fact destructive, because it masks an act of violence.<br />
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"My plan for adequate housing will succeed." Fine. But what are houses for, if not for people to live in them? If you allow the killing of the children who would otherwise live in those houses, how am I supposed to get excited by your housing project?<br />
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It's easy to get confused by all the arguments in an election year. But if you start by asking where candidates stand on abortion, you can eliminate a lot of other questions you needn't even ask.<br />
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For more election related articles and information, visit <a href="http://www.priestsforlife.org/elections"><span style="color: #990000;">www.priestsforlife.org/elections</span></a> (US)<br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">So it is no good just voting for this Party or that, you need to ask all your local Candidates where they stand on abortion and how they will vote if elected.</span><br />
See how your MP has voted on Life Issues in the past and how your other local candidates would vote if elected;<br />
<span style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.spuc.org.uk/">https://www.spuc.org.uk/</a> </span>(UK)</div>
Ecumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-55569580745797588282019-10-23T16:07:00.000+01:002019-10-23T16:07:46.183+01:00Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson on GK Chesterton <div>
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And Benson read much of Mr Chesterton, and liked him in a qualified way. 'Have you read,' he asks in this year [1905], 'a book by GK Chesterton called <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/470" target="_blank">Heretics</a>? If not, do see what you think of it. It seems to me that the spirit underneath it is splendid. He is not a Catholic, but he has the spirit. He is so joyful and confident and sensible! One gets rather annoyed by his extreme love of paradox; but there is a sort of alertness in his religion and in his whole point of view that is simply exhilarating. I have not been so much moved for a long time. He is a real mystic of an odd kind.' </div>
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My Wife spotted this in the information centre at the Angilican Shrine to Our Lady in Walsingham. Henry VIII suppressed the original Shrine, the Bishop of Northampton declined the chance to open part of it up again in the late 1800s, early 1900s. It is now the National Shrine to Our Lady in England. So Bishop Doyle declining to open the Cause for the Beatification of GKC, would seem to mean that St George will need to step aside, in due course, to let GK Chesterton become the Patron Saint of England. 😁<br />
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Happy Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham.<br />
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<a href="https://www.chesterton.org/" target="_blank">The American Chesterton Society</a> where kind enough to find this quote of GKC which mentions Our Lady of Walsingham;<br />
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"<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The Dean of St.
Paul's ... unveiled to his readers all the horrors of a
quotation from Newman; a very shocking and shameful passage, in which
that degraded apostate says that he is happy in his religion, and in
being surrounded by the things of his religion; that he likes to have
objects that have been blessed by the holy and beloved, that there is
a sense of being protected by prayers, sacramentals and so on; and
that happiness of this sort satisfies the soul. The Dean, having
given us this one ghastly glimpse of the Cardinal's spiritual
condition, drops the curtain with a groan and says it is Paganism.
How different from the Christian orthodoxy of Plotinus!</span><br />
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Now it was exactly
that little glimpse that interested me … not so much a
glimpse into the soul of the Cardinal as into the mind of the Dean. I
suddenly seemed to see, in much simpler form than I had yet realized,
the real issue between him and us. And the curious thing about the
issue is this: that what he thinks about us is exactly what we think
about him. What I for one feel most strongly, in considering a case
like that of the Dean and his quotation from the Cardinal, is that
the Dean is a man of distinguished intelligence and culture, that he
is always interesting, that he is sometimes even just, or at least
justified or justifiable; but that he is first and last the champion
of a Superstition; the man who is really and truly defending a
Superstition, as it would be understood by people who could define a
Superstition...</div>
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<span class="" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Dean
Inge is a superstitious person because he is worshipping a relic; a
relic in the sense of a remnant. He is idolatrously adoring the
broken fragment of something; simply because that something happens
to have lingered out of the past in the place called England; in the
rather battered form called Protestant Christianity.<b class="" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""> It is as if a
local patriot were to venerate the statue of Our Lady of Walsingham
only because she was in Walsingham, and without even remembering that
she was in Heaven.</b> It is still more as if he venerated a fragment
clipped from the toe of the statue and forgot where it came from and
ignored Our Lady altogether. I do not think it superstitious to
respect the chip in relation to the statue, or the statue in relation
to the saint, or the saint in relation to the scheme of theology and
philosophy. But I do think it superstitious to venerate, or even to
accept, the fragment because it happens to be there. And Dean Inge
does accept the fragment called Protestantism because it happens to
be there."</span></div>
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"It's been nineteen years, you've got to stop holding a grudge against your Best man." Says the Wife again. But then I point out that it's his fault as he never thanked me for the Birthday Loot I got him back in September 2000. I reminded her that, knowing that Gareth is John Major's biggest fan, I tracked John down to the ends of the earth, carrying his very heavy Autobiography with me and got him to sign it. 'To Gareth Happy Birthday John Major July 2000.'<br />
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So the Wife, trying to change the subject, asked me if I had got John to sign my copy of his book as well? "But I don't have a copy" replies myself, to which she asks me, "What's that on your bookshelf then?"</div>
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Reminds me of Bilbo struggling to give up the One Ring at the start of the Lord of the Rings, but that was only a ring and not a book.</div>
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Miss, our Mr Chesterton dying – he was a sorter saint Miss, wasn’t he – just to
look at him when you handed him his hat made you feel sorter awesome.</i>” <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Said a maid</span> with tears in her eyes, of
a house GKC used to visit in Beaconsfield. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And
so believing this maid to be correct we set off on the 9</span><sup original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">th</sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Annual GK
Chesterton Walking Pilgrimage, on Saturday 27</span><sup original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">th</sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> July in the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand
and Nineteen. We departed from the local Anglican Church where GKC was Baptised
in 1874, St Georges, Aubrey Walk, Notting Hill. We read the </span><a href="http://ecumenicaldiablog.blogspot.com/2011/06/upon-father-finigans-orders.html" style="font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">paragraph from theAutobiography</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> about his Baptism and said the </span><a href="https://www.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk/Printable-Prayercards.html" style="font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Chesterton Prayer</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, you should do
both now.</span></div>
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joined us along the way in Acton and Ealing. In Hanwell we left the main road
to walk to West Drayton along the canal, as this is a nicer and longer route.
We left the canal near the Malt Shovel Public House, where we made a brief stop
and were joined by yet more Pilgrims. Three impatient youngsters would not wait
for the rest of us at this point, so we gave them a map and pointed out the
short cut which meant missing a pub along the way and they were off. “As
they did not want to be late for Mass!” The main group of Chesterton’s Ultra
Loyal Troop, got to the Brigittine Convent in Iver ahead of them as they had
missed the shortcut and the Pub! The two young Servers at the Low Old Rite Mass
offered by Father O’Donahue </span><a href="https://fssp.co.uk/" style="font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">FSSP</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> in thanksgiving for the conversion of
GK Chesterton, did a great job, particularly as this was the first time Rufus
had served at Mass. Father’s sermon about Our Lady was truly inspired as one of
the non-Catholics on the Pilgrimage had been chatting with one of the other
Pilgrims about this very subject in the morning.</span></div>
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a quick bite to eat we were off again. Father and others joined us for the last
few miles across the fields to Beaconsfield, where in Shepherds Lane GKC is
buried. Many Rosaries were said along the way, and we almost ended by saying
the Chesterton prayer at his graveside, which we did, but that was not the end.
For the day ended in the White Hart Public House which was Chesterton’s local
pub for many years. Sitting there in pain and laughter I realised that forty
Pilgrims had walked all or part of the 27 miles from the church to the grave
and onto the pub. And in the spirituality of GKC we gave thanks to God for all
of it, the pain, the rain, the friends, the Mass, our lives, the beer and even
the singing and as the LOCAL members of Chesterton's Ultra Loyal Troop went
home, I remembered Margaret in her 80’s walking next to a five year old across
the fields, with devotion to GKC. And not to forget William age 12 who walked
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are very pleased to say that this year's Pilgrimage has raised £3,327 so far
for the Good Counsel Network's life-saving work and you can still donate here; <a href="https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/gkcwalk2019"><span style="color: red;">https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/gkcwalk2019</span></a></span></div>
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Holiness it is interesting to read what Arthur Bryant (successor to GK as the
author of the ‘Notebook') had to say about him in regard to the feasts on
1st and 2nd November. Here is what he wrote in the October 31st 1936 edition of
the Illustrated London News, the year GK died</span>.</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are many whose names appears on no Christian calendar, who by struggle and
endeavour and conquest earned their right to be included among the saintly
company. Of such was that very wise and good man who for 31 years prior to this
summer contributed to this page. Gilbert Keith Chesterton spent his whole
life in teaching others how to live. They very sound of his name is like a
trumpet call. To him the world was like a strenuous field in which one went
about doing battle with evil in order that good might endure. If from his
generation one had to select one man who might have stood as type of Don
Quixote or of St George who slew the dragon, it was he. If any literary
name of our age becomes a legend it will be his…He was the kind of man of whom
Bunyan was thinking when he drew the picture of Mr Greatheart. His sword was at
the service of pilgrims. And what a sword it was!...his catholicism was an
all-comprehending democracy...I never met a more generous man, and I never saw
a happier. And I do not believe there is anyone who had the inestimable
privilege to know GKC who would not say the same. It is right that he
should be remembered on the day set apart for recollection of the saints of
God.”</span></div>
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Please say the #Chesterton Prayer in English, #Igbo, Latin, #French, Hungarian, #Croatian, Portuguese, #Urdu, Lithuanian, #Irish, Welsh, #Maltese, Spanish, #Polish, Romanian, #German, Latvian, #Russian, Slovakian, #Catalan or Italian <a href="https://t.co/RVAPTsmjQ3">https://t.co/RVAPTsmjQ3</a> #GKCWalkEcumenical Diabloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07238450365797558708noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9001811654061323619.post-86870182381100804102019-07-30T01:00:00.000+01:002019-07-30T01:00:18.591+01:00Read The Convert by GK Chesterton on his anniversary.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After one moment when I bowed my head<br />
And the whole world turned over and came upright,<br />
And I came out where the old road shone white.<br />
I walked the ways and heard what all men said,<br />
Forests of tongues, like autumn leaves unshed,<br />
Being not unlovable but strange and light;<br />
Old riddles and new creeds, not in despite<br />
But softly, as men smile about the dead</div>
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The sages have a hundred maps to give<br />
That trace their crawling cosmos like a tree,<br />
They rattle reason out through many a sieve<br />
That stores the sand and lets the gold go free:<br />
And all these things are less than dust to me<br />
Because my name is Lazarus and I live.</div>
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Today is the 97th Anniversary of GK Chesterton's reception into the Catholic Church, a good day to say his prayer for the Conversion of someone you know. The prayer is below, or you can print copies of in many languages here; <a href="https://www.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk/Printable-Prayercards.html">https://www.catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk/Printable-Prayercards.html</a><br />
And a good day to buy the book; <a href="https://www.chesterton.org/shop/my-name-is-lazarus/">https://www.chesterton.org/shop/my-name-is-lazarus/</a><br />
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God Our Father, Thou didst fill the life of Thy servant Gilbert Keith Chesterton with a sense of wonder and joy, and gave him a faith which was the foundation of his ceaseless work, a charity towards all men, particularly his opponents, and a hope which sprang from his lifelong gratitude for the gift of human life. May his innocence and his laughter, his constancy in fighting for the Christian faith in a world losing belief, his lifelong devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and his love for all men, especially for the poor, bring cheerfulness to those in despair, conviction and warmth to lukewarm believers and the knowledge of God to those without faith. We beg Thee to grant the favours we ask through his intercession, the end of abortion in this Country [and especially for……] so that his holiness may be recognized by all and the Church may proclaim him Blessed. We ask this through Christ Our Lord. Amen. Catholicgkchestertonsociety.co.uk </div>
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