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Monday, December 19, 2011
With Christmas coming...
we all deserve some good cheer. I've come across this, about a great Archbishop who is a Bogle family friend and a man we much admire.
I love that: When his seminary faculty threatened to resign because he insisted that they attend daily mass, he called their bluff. That's the way to do it. I wish we saw more of it. I'm getting more like that in my old age, not with seminarians of course, but in my own little world. Happy Christmas Auntie J.
I love that: When his seminary faculty threatened to resign because he insisted that they attend daily mass, he called their bluff. That's the way to do it. I wish we saw more of it. I'm getting more like that in my old age, not with seminarians of course, but in my own little world. Happy Christmas Auntie J.
Auntie has learned, with mingled pleasure and amusement, that her Blog annoys some people, especially angry dogmatic ones, and entertains and encourages others of a gentler sort. This has confirmed her decision to continue blogging although Auntie's life is busy and she has duties and responsibilities which on the whole she knows to be of more importance.
Auntie enjoys (although not neccesarily in this order)her work (writer, biographer, historian) and domestic duties, academic studies(Maryvale Institute), family, friends, and community responsibilities. She relishes the new translation of the Mass, the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, her own excellent local Catholic parish, traditional hymns (especially, perhaps, Anglican ones) rain, good literature, sleep, the English coast, Autumn, buttered toast, and a number of other things too precious and important to list here. She feels priviledged to belong to a Church which produced John Paul II and Benedict XVI and she finds their teachings an inspiration.
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I love that: When his seminary faculty threatened to resign because he insisted that they attend daily mass, he called their bluff. That's the way to do it. I wish we saw more of it. I'm getting more like that in my old age, not with seminarians of course, but in my own little world.
Happy Christmas Auntie J.
I love that: When his seminary faculty threatened to resign because he insisted that they attend daily mass, he called their bluff. That's the way to do it. I wish we saw more of it. I'm getting more like that in my old age, not with seminarians of course, but in my own little world.
Happy Christmas Auntie J.
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