tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post6917700577434118665..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: Newman and friendsFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-77934069751937764702008-08-25T11:05:00.000+01:002008-08-25T11:05:00.000+01:00There is one name which used to come up regularly ...There is one name which used to come up regularly when I inhabited the British Isles and that was Norman St. John Stevas.<BR/>In those days even the BBC used to pronounce his name as Norman SingeN Stevas. It's a bit like Magdalen College being pronounced as Mawdlin College.<BR/>By the way, when I was a boy at school we had a priest used to teach us. His name was Fr. St. John Oram.....Father SingeN Oram.<BR/><BR/>JARayJARayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18138004129894177863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-60278154250125776872008-08-24T23:39:00.000+01:002008-08-24T23:39:00.000+01:00And they could't even pronounce Ambrose St John(I'...And they could't even pronounce Ambrose St John(I've always understood its pronounced Singen)! <BR/>They kept saying St John.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-87734784953005039402008-08-24T20:37:00.000+01:002008-08-24T20:37:00.000+01:00The current hypersexualized revisionists are compe...The current hypersexualized revisionists are compelled to reinterpret everything as tawdry. They're relentless and boringly predictable.The Black Mantillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02277630737886059550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-27904091967694404582008-08-24T15:34:00.000+01:002008-08-24T15:34:00.000+01:00Poor Peter Tatchell. He really does come up with a...Poor Peter Tatchell. He really does come up with a lot of nasties doesn't he. The BBC like that sort of thing for some reason. It's why I don't listen or watch any more.<BR/><BR/>(Btw Father I've asked a question about the Sacrament of the Sick on my blog. If you get a minute I could use some advice.)<BR/>God blessWhiteStoneNameSeekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13817511811745085749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-33780151169096002902008-08-24T14:51:00.000+01:002008-08-24T14:51:00.000+01:00I am reading CS Lewis The Four Loves & particu...I am reading CS Lewis The Four Loves & particularly the chapter on Friendship.Today it seems to me we have often lost the art. I also enjoy 'Ever Yours Affly' on Newman's women friends..how come Tatchel doesn't mention them??Jackie Parkes MJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07986690514568554656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-9579266348624692862008-08-24T14:00:00.001+01:002008-08-24T14:00:00.001+01:00I thought that the chap who answered Tatchell's cr...I thought that the chap who answered Tatchell's crazy suggestions (the former press spokesman for the archbishop of Westminster I think)did a pretty good job. I must admit that I uttered a few things in the direction of the radio during the interview (nothing too unseemly though).<BR/><BR/>Fr. A.M.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-23512446166842230452008-08-24T13:35:00.000+01:002008-08-24T13:35:00.000+01:00That piece on the radio got me sooooo angry, I had...That piece on the radio got me sooooo angry, I had to get up and turn the radio off before I threw it out of the window...<BR/><BR/>...and the interview had only gotten as far as introducing Peter Tatchell who mentioned the "gay-hating Church"! It was pretty obvious what the agenda was going to be!Mulier Fortishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01186202810919174492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-91410010183198555202008-08-24T12:26:00.000+01:002008-08-24T12:26:00.000+01:00Allowing Tatchell to advertise his rediculous view...Allowing Tatchell to advertise his rediculous views on the BBC just goes to show how corrupt the corporation is.nickbrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09803733028691380861noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-12533442675996427462008-08-24T12:11:00.000+01:002008-08-24T12:11:00.000+01:00Well said, Father. Newman's cult deserves much mor...Well said, Father. Newman's cult deserves much more exposure and support within the country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-32864529777790737182008-08-24T11:36:00.000+01:002008-08-24T11:36:00.000+01:00Peter Tatchell would do well to read Newman instea...Peter Tatchell would do well to read Newman instead of misappropriate him for his own ends. Newman sees human friendships as “the preparatory exercise for the love of all men”, thus supernaturalising them, instead of viewing them within a Freudian pan-sexualist hermeneutic. One quote should suffice to show the difference between him and Tatchell (this is from the Parochial and Plain Sermons and is entitled "love of relations and friends". <BR/><BR/>“By trying to love our relations and friends, by submitting to their wishes, though contrary to our own, by bearing with their infirmities, by overcoming their occasional waywardness by kindness, by dwelling on their excellences, and trying to copy them, thus it is that we form in our hearts that root of charity, which, though small at first, may, like the mustard seed, at last even overshadow the earth. The vain talkers about philanthropy, just spoken of, usually show the emptiness of their profession, by being morose and cruel in the private relations of life, which they seem to account as subjects beneath their notice. Far different indeed, far different (unless it be a sort of irreverence to contrast such dreamers with the great Apostle, whose memory we are today celebrating), utterly the reverse of this fictitious benevolence was his elevated and enlightened sympathy for all men.”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-27906325188566953702008-08-24T10:57:00.000+01:002008-08-24T10:57:00.000+01:00"In a world that is unable to understand friendshi..."In a world that is unable to understand friendship without sexualising it..."<BR/><BR/>You've hit the nail on the head!PJAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592149546038164628noreply@blogger.com