tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post4900470953326169953..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: Our Lady WalsinghamFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-27832482547222887722009-10-04T18:10:51.405+01:002009-10-04T18:10:51.405+01:00"Forty years after, it was complete".
W..."Forty years after, it was complete".<br /><br />We have lived thru a second Reformation. This time it was done by the Bishops, under the auspices of Rome.<br /><br />It is difficult now, for me to feel too nostrlgic looking at "Bare ruined choirs". We are, quite literally, looking at the new bare ruined choirs.<br /><br />No monarch now to blame or greedy courtiers.Edward P. Waltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02819348411129870835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-64339163085235710912009-09-25T00:56:19.347+01:002009-09-25T00:56:19.347+01:00May Our Lady of Walsingham watch over all of Engla...May Our Lady of Walsingham watch over all of England, and may all of England return soon to the true faith.<br /><br />-- Mack in TexasMacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-91342974025380759862009-09-24T20:34:57.308+01:002009-09-24T20:34:57.308+01:00I visited the Slipper Chapel for the first time th...I visited the Slipper Chapel for the first time this Easter, and it had a profound effect on me. I have always been sad to stand in an English medieval church and see the vestiges of Catholicism around me, and think what might have been. In the chapel, although it had been used as a barn for centuries, I finally stood somewhere that was an unpolluted link to a time when Catholicism could be practised innocently without fear or misunderstanding. The image of the BVM is such a beautiful one, and so small and simple (reconstructed from an image on a seal, I believe. I really felt in touch with medieval catholicism and the Age of Faith, and tears were in my eyes.Dillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01205740584849200357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-56537749110576016552009-09-24T18:45:11.138+01:002009-09-24T18:45:11.138+01:00From my copy of Thomas More, by Peter Ackroyd:
&q...From my copy of Thomas More, by Peter Ackroyd:<br /><br />"Perhaps the Lord spoke to him of a time, soon to come, when there would be no more lights and images, no more pilgrimages and processions, no guild plays and no ringing for the dead, no maypoles or Masses or holy water, no birch at midsummer and no roses at Corpus Christi . . ."<br /><br />"This reformation did not occur quickly; it was a slow and difficult process, reversed and then advanced, working through three reigns against the natural piety and traditionalism of the people. Forty years after the death of More, it was complete."<br /><br />Hurts to read it.Bill of L.A.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-71928851773173747712009-09-24T16:16:22.883+01:002009-09-24T16:16:22.883+01:00"I could weep for Our Lady at Walsingham"..."I could weep for Our Lady at Walsingham" says Sandy. <br /><br />I would agree, but I think Our Blessed Lady would be far happier to hear us recite the Holy Rosary as an act of Reparation for the outrages commited against her Son Jesus and to hear the Prayer for England being said by Catholics the length and breadth of the Country! <br /><br />Let's not go too far down the route of 'mysterious hidden replica statues', lest Dan Brown gets another idea!Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13031618301013986930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-52105963025848496442009-09-24T15:31:07.590+01:002009-09-24T15:31:07.590+01:00The Reformation in England differs quite a bit fro...The Reformation in England differs quite a bit from those in other countries in that it was motivated principally by the greed of the monarch and his cronies.Crux Fidelishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03949811845963570447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-17046881607021267652009-09-24T14:18:46.834+01:002009-09-24T14:18:46.834+01:00I am always very concious of the desecration when ...I am always very concious of the desecration when in the grounds of the ruined Abbey.Just a grassy knoll where once stood Our Ladys Holy House.When it was excavated in 1961,they found a layer of ash,the remains of the burning.I have heard it said that the original statue was hidden,and that a replica was,in fact,burned at chelsea.Where would they have hidden it? Maybe in the Holy Well ,now silted up.Who knows!<br />I could weep for Our Lady at Walsingham.Sandynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-64457302217528742332009-09-24T14:08:03.051+01:002009-09-24T14:08:03.051+01:00This country ceased to be ''great''...This country ceased to be ''great'' when she rejected the Faith.Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-81595786408162062522009-09-24T13:01:15.251+01:002009-09-24T13:01:15.251+01:00I hear you Father.
So true!
And, so sad!
JARayI hear you Father.<br />So true!<br />And, so sad!<br />JARayJARayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138004129894177863noreply@blogger.com