tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post937216516826216394..comments2024-03-12T19:57:41.861+00:00Comments on THINKING CATHOLICISM: Thinking Catholicismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-25368622954212685462017-05-30T10:41:09.825+01:002017-05-30T10:41:09.825+01:00Maggie the Meter Maid LOLMaggie the Meter Maid LOLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-73401327038999809662017-05-30T00:44:57.593+01:002017-05-30T00:44:57.593+01:00π π π ππ π π πMagna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-6995835100314322662017-05-29T23:57:53.792+01:002017-05-29T23:57:53.792+01:00Now don't be horrible about Magna Carta, who&#...Now don't be horrible about Magna Carta, who's had a hard day at work :<br />https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/ad_170962066-e1433074165580.jpg?w=480&h=460&crop=1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-59798237511243360642017-05-29T20:43:14.730+01:002017-05-29T20:43:14.730+01:00More like self deception. πMore like self deception. πMagna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-48459137258530528802017-05-29T20:26:42.973+01:002017-05-29T20:26:42.973+01:00Hey Maggie .... big knowing wink ;-)Hey Maggie .... big knowing wink ;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-69797405979724800012017-05-29T20:06:57.551+01:002017-05-29T20:06:57.551+01:00'Moment of recognition'? It's way beyo...'Moment of recognition'? It's way beyond you, dear.Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-77356935070893489582017-05-29T20:06:46.741+01:002017-05-29T20:06:46.741+01:00Anon at 19:31, you will find out what Ms Carter lo...Anon at 19:31, you will find out what Ms Carter looks like here - Big Lily tuck this on her new iPhone a few days ago.<br /><br />https://giphy.com/gifs/Zx12n2W9mDpNS<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-85025910997997306292017-05-29T20:05:48.169+01:002017-05-29T20:05:48.169+01:00You said, dopey, 'it's only dying'. He...You said, dopey, 'it's only dying'. He knows this, and isn't making an issue if it.<br /><br />Keep your eye on the ball, old bean.Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-69835648080202296192017-05-29T20:00:10.157+01:002017-05-29T20:00:10.157+01:00I didn't say he was trying to avoid death you ...I didn't say he was trying to avoid death you nasty old sow. He won't avoid death in any case. I'm saying face death whatever way it comes with courage. Life belongs to God. Have some faith.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-7967084567902191772017-05-29T19:42:40.110+01:002017-05-29T19:42:40.110+01:00From Cecily.. cont'd.
Apologies, I meant to w...From Cecily.. cont'd. <br />Apologies, I meant to write "like Simon of Cyrene" in my previous post. <br /><br />(I had been writing a treatise on Nicodemus earlier in the evening and blame my error on that!) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-75827222792886231632017-05-29T19:33:58.108+01:002017-05-29T19:33:58.108+01:00Er, dopey at 19:21, he isn't trying to avoid d...Er, dopey at 19:21, he isn't trying to avoid death. <br /><br />Never mind 'balls', grow a brain.Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-19377546894303095652017-05-29T19:31:31.387+01:002017-05-29T19:31:31.387+01:00Every time that aul doll Carter opens her bake on ...Every time that aul doll Carter opens her bake on here, I find myself thinking 'that aul trout sounds awful familiar' - but I can't place her. <br /><br />It's like when you see somebody and you know that you know them from somewhere but, for the life of you, you can't remember where. Usually, you remember all of a sudden much later on. <br /><br />I am waiting for that moment of recognition coming to me as to the identity of Maggie, the aul' beg lolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-67697455476593524982017-05-29T19:25:23.443+01:002017-05-29T19:25:23.443+01:00That is right, Pat and suffering can be mental or ...That is right, Pat and suffering can be mental or physical or both. I don't think we will fully understand it this side of eternity but I do know that, like Nicodemus, we are sometimes chosen to put our shoulder to the Cross. <br />Perhaps it is in those moments that we turn to God and become closer to Him. His presence becomes more real to us. Maybe it's a way in which we can make restitution for the pain we have caused others and a means by which we help the Holy Souls so that they can in turn help us. Cecily. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-67212262420859538712017-05-29T19:21:53.629+01:002017-05-29T19:21:53.629+01:00What a load of mawkish, self pitying, cowardly old...What a load of mawkish, self pitying, cowardly old claptrap! Your life is not your own to take. You are not your own property. You have been bought and paid for. Get over yourselves. It's only dying you are doing. Everyone has to do it. It's a transitional process. Grow a pair of balls!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-71706159157933938922017-05-29T18:25:47.916+01:002017-05-29T18:25:47.916+01:00They did not withdraw voluntarily.
Public opinion...They did not withdraw voluntarily.<br /><br />Public opinion forced the issue.Thinking Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-42132821530789178212017-05-29T18:23:45.964+01:002017-05-29T18:23:45.964+01:00There is great value in suffering.
But not all ar...There is great value in suffering.<br /><br />But not all are called to suffer equally.Thinking Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-12097009365690376892017-05-29T18:22:53.852+01:002017-05-29T18:22:53.852+01:00But lots of "lurve" on display.But lots of "lurve" on display.Thinking Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-90747397733319107602017-05-29T18:20:18.448+01:002017-05-29T18:20:18.448+01:00Father, I believe that you are a priest and NOT an...Father, I believe that you are a priest and NOT an atheist.<br /><br />I spoke about this topic in my homily in The Oratory yesterday and showed the video of Father John Shields to my congregation.<br /><br />One of the things I said was:<br /><br />"If I ride the "bucking bronco" to the end and manage to join my terminal sufferings with the sufferings of Jesus on Calvary he will say to me: "Well done good and faithful servant".<br /><br />But if I cannot do that and conclude things earlier by my own hand and then apologise when I meet him for not being able to ride the "bucking bronco" he will say me to:<br /><br />"No need to apologise. I finished you suffering for you myself".Thinking Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-32271183946314325082017-05-29T18:14:32.930+01:002017-05-29T18:14:32.930+01:00Why would I deliberately lie about being a Priest,...Why would I deliberately lie about being a Priest, I was being honest about the topic in question. Perhaps you would have preferred me to be dishonest about it. As MC correctly observes, how does my opinion make me an atheist?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-55086595792851347412017-05-29T17:58:12.450+01:002017-05-29T17:58:12.450+01:0017:09, how does wanting to avoid excessive and exc...17:09, how does wanting to avoid excessive and excruciating suffering make one an atheist?Magna Cartahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10242128271477821605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-78940060953046078712017-05-29T17:55:45.836+01:002017-05-29T17:55:45.836+01:00Are there not value in suffering or do we have to ...Are there not value in suffering or do we have to run away from every thing and see no value in anything. Christ suffered for us and went through it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-10230144007958084442017-05-29T17:09:57.142+01:002017-05-29T17:09:57.142+01:00Your comment at 12:52, if in fact you are - as you...Your comment at 12:52, if in fact you are - as you claim to be - a priest - you prove Pat Buckley's often stated belief that some Catholic priests are actually atheists. <br /><br />May God forgive you and have mercy on your soul. <br /><br />Between perverts on the one hand and charlatans like you on the other, the priesthood is in dire straits.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-84670769095040692502017-05-29T16:50:35.842+01:002017-05-29T16:50:35.842+01:00We are all close behind you. Leonard Cohen's l...We are all close behind you. Leonard Cohen's letter to Marriann in her last few days is very lovely.janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05480966555246917336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-38061673372767949482017-05-29T16:38:15.541+01:002017-05-29T16:38:15.541+01:00God bless,Hank and I wish you the very best of luc...God bless,Hank and I wish you the very best of luck! <br />You won't go before your time and who knows what good work would go into eternity undone unless Hank does it as intended! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-66825207420589869552017-05-29T15:52:15.517+01:002017-05-29T15:52:15.517+01:00I believe that people in this modern age are talki...I believe that people in this modern age are talking about end of life quite openly and honestly.<br />For some it's not to be the usual suspect defences such as being a burden, the indignity of being nursed, the onset of age related diseases, the quality of life. I don't think there are any of us who havenβt talked about it.<br />The problem of course arises when we try to bring God into the equation or man made rules harboured in religions.<br />Don't get me wrong I think the advances of medicine and medical procedures are brilliant without them I would surely have died 26 years ago, never mind the multilevel drug regime that I am on just to keep me alive today in my early 50's.<br />But the topic is very much a Western World one, for as we know in the "" other worlds you'd be left to demise happily at own leisure so to speak.<br />Me as a burden well I've paid my taxes all my life but you to maintain my current quality of life it works out to just over Β£3500 per month, some would say money well spent; others not.<br />As for my own personal demise yeah I look forward to it, instructions and more so agreement with the wife is that I am a do not resuscitate if we both feel or that she feels my quality of life is such that to pass over would be the best thing.<br />Next week I head for another heart procedure that the consultant said for most people it's a 1 in a 1000 chance of dying in the process but for me the odds are 1 in 300 of dying. I erupted into loud laughter when he said this. With the look of concern on his face I had to put himout of his misery and I told him that those odds were better than the 1 in a 100 that he gave me last time.<br />Call it clique but I feel we have to talk about death as a friend and not a dirty secret. As part of my ministry I have met with many people who have been just given the news of X months or X years and it's amazing, beautiful and a whole lot of other nice words that could be said about such but the best I've heard to date was from a young woman who beamed, smilING proudly as she said.<br /><br />"WELL WE ARE NOT BUILT TO LAST YOU KNOW" Big Hankhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00937603095036374725noreply@blogger.com