De Cura Animarum: Finding Good Blogs

Sunday, 25 October 2009

Finding Good Blogs

I have not been spending a lot of time reading other blogs of late due to a new busy schedule and other pressing items. I have discovered another blog of a priest just north of me in Newcastle that I am adding to my links. Glad to know you are around Father Brown writing on Forest Murmurs!

2 comments:

Fr Michael Brown said...: Thanks for the plug. I had the impression that you had moved to London. I look forward to meeting you some time!; 25 October 2009 22:12
Tertium Quid said...: I just discovered your blog. I am a Catholic layman, a convert who grew up with the 1928 Book of Common Prayer and went several directions before crossing the Tiber (with lots of prayerful help) in 1996.

Keep blogging.; 1 November 2009 23:31

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"I was once, five or six years ago, taken by some friends to have dinner with Mary McCarthy and her husband, Mr. Broadwater... She departed the Church at the age of 15 and is a Big Intellectual. We went at eight and at one, I hadn't opened my mouth once, there being nothing for me in such company to say... Having me there was like having a dog present who had been trained to say a few words but overcome with inadequacy had forgotten them. Well, toward morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist, which I, being the Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend. Mrs. Broadwater said when she was a child and received the host, she thought of it as the Holy Ghost, He being the most portable person of the Trinity; now she thought of it as a symbol and implied that it was a pretty good one. I then said, in a very shaky voice, Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it. That was all the defense I was capable of but I realize now that this is all I will ever be able to say about it, outside of a story, except that it is the center of existence for me; all the rest of life is expendable."

- Flannery O'Connor