Scottish, Catholic (Roman), vegetarian, mystic, occasional poet. Preferred future pronouns: Venerable, Blessed and (ultimately) Saint.
Joined December 2012
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Feb 27
On The Most Holy Rosary of the Virgin Mary
"The aim is to direct the attention of the mind (and heart) to a series of discrete topics, called Mysteries, which are either episodes from the life of Jesus or from the post-dormition glorification of Mary.."
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O sacred banquet!
Wherein Christ is received,
The memory of His Passion is renewed,
The mind is filled with grace,
And a pledge of future glory is given to us.
Alleluia.
Magnificat Antiphon, Second Vespers, Corpus Christi.
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O sacrum convivium!
in quo Christus sumitur:
recolitur memoria passionis eius:
mens impletur gratia:
et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur.
Alleluia.
Corpus Christi
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Fill us, we beseech Thee, O Lord, with that eternal enjoyment of Thy Divinity, which is prefigured by the reception in this life of Thy precious Body and Blood: Who livest and reignest with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Ghost, God, world without end. Amen
Corpus Christi
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Fac nos, quǽsumus, Dómine, divinitátis tuæ sempitérna fruitióne repléri: quam pretiósi Córporis et Sánguinis tui temporális percéptio præfígúrat.
Postcommunion, Corpus Christi (EF)
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"What page, what passage of the inspired books of the Old and New Testaments is not the truest of guides for human life?"
(Rule of Benedict, 73)
Those who argue that the Catholic Church devalues the Bible should reflect on why St Benedict decided in about 530AD to write this
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O how sweet,
O Lord,
Is Thy Spirit,
Who,
To show Thy tenderness to Thy children,
Feedest them with Thy sweetest
Bread from Heaven.
Magnificat Antiphon, First Vespers of Corpus Christi.
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O quam suávis est, Dómine, spíritus tuus, qui, ut dulcédinem tuam in fílios demonstráres, pane suavíssimo de cælo prǽstito, esuriéntes reples bonis, fastidiósos dívites dimíttens inánes.
Corpus Christi
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"One of the deepest forms of poverty a person can experience is isolation. If we look closely at other kinds of poverty, including material forms, we see that they are born from isolation, from not being loved or from difficulties in being able to love."
Pope Benedict XVI
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Think about this in relationship to young people who are spending less and less time interacting with real people in the real world, and more and more time interacting with their smartphone. This doesn't represent a growth in connectivity so much as an emergency of isolation.
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“The love of our neighbour in all its fullness simply means being able to say to him: “What are you going through?” It is a recognition that the sufferer exists, not only as a unit..but as a man, exactly like us"
Simone Weil
Only people pay attention to other people. Not phones
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"Art Thou the King of the Jews?
..Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of Me?"
(cf John 18:33-34)
Worth asking ourselves what grounds we have for believing in the Christ? Do we know Him, or do we just know about Him based on reports which we have heard?
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The phenomenon of people totally absorbed with their smartphones does not create a 'silent society', it creates a society where people have their minds totally filled with noise and distraction, even if their ears are not.
Hello. Here's an idea on how to seize the human back from the digital sphere. @unherd.
unherd.com/2026/06/welcome-t…
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Genuine silence by contrast stills both the outside and the inside of the mind. But especially the inside. And, yes, one of the antidotes to our current malaise is for young people to speak more often face-to-face with real humans. But another is to sit quietly not doing anything
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"I learned without guile and I impart without grudging."
(Wisdom 7:13)
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"How is it that thou canst see the speck of dust which is in thy brother’s eye, and art not aware of the beam which is in thy own?"
(Luke 6:41)
It is possible that your eyesight has been so distorted by the beam in your own eye that the speck of dust doesn't actually exist.
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If you are wondering whether the end of all things is at hand you might try "The Lord of the World" by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson.
Or, for something more spine-chilling you could try his "The Necromancers".
Jun 1
Any good Catholic novels besides Lord of The Rings?
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"When Brother Bruno was at prayer one night he was disturbed by the croaking of a bullfrog. All his attempts to disregard the sound were unsuccessful so he shouted from his window, “Quiet! I’m at my prayers.”
Now Brother Bruno was a saint so his command was instantly obeyed..."
Jun 1
🚨A barking dog to some people is just background noise.
To others, especially during prayer or moments of worship, it can feel disrespectful or disruptive.
That raises a broader question:
Should society make more accommodations for religious practices, or should religious practices adapt to the realities of public life?
🤔 Where do you stand on the balance between religious freedom and everyday public life?
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"..But now another sound intruded on Bruno’s worship—an inner voice that said, “Maybe God is as pleased with the croaking of that frog as with the chanting of your psalms...”"
Anthony de Mello: The Prayer of the Frog.
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"We experience the Church less as a voice crying in the wilderness than as a purveyor of messages from the comms team."
Bearing in mind that unless there are exceptional circumstances we almost always ignore messages from the comms team.
Jun 2
Why does the Church of England now sound like an HR department? @jmc_fire deplores clerical managerialism
thecritic.co.uk/a-memo-cryin…
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