tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post6617454729065539759..comments2024-03-27T02:55:10.109-07:00Comments on Irish Papist: Uphill and Against the TideMaolsheachlannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-36787457632748043202017-04-23T18:00:41.367-07:002017-04-23T18:00:41.367-07:00I think it was actually Mother Theodore I was talk...I think it was actually Mother Theodore I was talking about that time, as I thought it was strictly missionaries you wanted. snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-62709825147056607442017-04-23T07:24:31.304-07:002017-04-23T07:24:31.304-07:00I'm here working on my book. I was pretty sure...I'm here working on my book. I was pretty sure I'd included the story of St. Maria Mazzarello and the ship. Believe it or not, it's in my chapter on humour!Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-26899744791155761882017-04-23T06:11:38.301-07:002017-04-23T06:11:38.301-07:00As Oscar Wilde once said, nothing would be funny i...As Oscar Wilde once said, nothing would be funny if nothing was serious. (Well I saw the quote attributed to him once, but never since.)Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-18368586877241013722017-04-23T06:05:40.044-07:002017-04-23T06:05:40.044-07:00I think including a piece on St George excludes an...I think including a piece on St George excludes any Irishman from accusations of fanaticism.<br />I remember reading a short book on bl Mary Theresa Ledóchowska, who always looks so contrary in photos. Actually the episode I found funny-and it's mostly just the way it was written,I think-could nearly have been included as a lead on missionary stories, except that she never left Europe, her religious society is mostly to produce media for the missions and fundraise. But Cardinal Lavigerie was quite a hero in her eyes and , due to dine misunderstandings of times and logistics, she ended up charging up hills by foot to meet him before he left a conference in Switzerland- the way it was described,a well-brought-up lady-in-waiting loosing her etiquette,I just started laughing and my mother looked at the cover and looked at me and looked back at the cover and back at me..."is she funny?... She actually looks quite serious!"Séamusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-67516387838141157642017-04-23T05:28:02.052-07:002017-04-23T05:28:02.052-07:00I don't know anyone who doesn't have serio...I don't know anyone who doesn't have serious personality problems! Actually, I do, but they are very dull...<br /><br />This whole question of fanaticism is one that interests me. Sometimes I think the test is whether a person has any kind of sense of humour.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-6708932846288950382017-04-23T05:25:24.791-07:002017-04-23T05:25:24.791-07:00I think Fr Liam Creede, for that we his name, was ...I think Fr Liam Creede, for that we his name, was taking largely about personality. I'm sure we all knew plenty of devout Catholics or proFamily, proLife pro-our anti-anything activists who have serious personality problems,I certainly do-perhaps it's just Perth.<br />The Saints book that influenced St Ignatius Loyola's life apparently included the life of an early hermit(I think from memory his name is St Humphrey in English but he's usually called by his Latin name) who scared the few passers-by he had by his appearance -he wore only long hair and leaves, his nails were uncut and, as he had to crawl on all fours to get out of his cave he would have seemed like a beast... But his voice was so gentle and so cultivated that those who managed to hear him invite them back lost their fear rather quickly. Apparently he was one that stuck in Ignatius' mind for some reason. One Jesuit scholar mentioned that that particular saint had been excluded from what was the last printing of the volume at that time, so Loyola had actually been given an ' earlier edition'Séamusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-32643077384522380862017-04-23T04:59:39.825-07:002017-04-23T04:59:39.825-07:00Well, the priest has a point, but it does make me ...Well, the priest has a point, but it does make me wonder how saints are NOT fanatics. They certainly seem like fanatics from the outside!<br /><br />Yesterday there was a protest for the right to protest in Dublin city centre, held to support some lefties who were quite rightly punished for trapping a government minister in her car for three hours. I thought it would be funny to have a counter-protest protesting against the right to protest. I didn't do this for two reasons: 1) I was working. 2) I wouldn't have had the courage. But it would have been funny. I hope even the protestors would see the joke.Maolsheachlannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09406722311993627528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7091756463128804432.post-63148393588410317282017-04-23T04:48:58.576-07:002017-04-23T04:48:58.576-07:00Well,I suppose it becomes unhealthy when we get ps...Well,I suppose it becomes unhealthy when we get psychopathic tendencies or view everything politically. Not in the sense that left-wing campaigners see us,who will think all serious minded Catholics are pschyo. I noticed in the Sydney diocesan paper that a Mass for Life was being said in their cathedral for the Annunciation, but proAbortion activists held a rally outside; the photo shown had a young lady with a placard DOWN WITH POPES & PIGS. The people inside were, after all, only praying...so we can see who had the psychotic tendencies there.<br />No one is saying that protesting is unhealthy straining, not by a long shot.<br /> A Catholic balance is probably summed up in the words of a well-known mission priest here (who was Irish-born actually ) who in a booklet produced for the coming of St Thérèse's relics over fifteen years ago said that ' saints are never fanatics, they are people of exquisite spiritual finesse '<br />This same priest used to like the saying 'any dread fish can floaty with the tide, only a live one can swim against the current '<br />The two sayings need not be contradictory either for religion or nationalism.Séamus(Australia)noreply@blogger.com