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24 June 2019. Nativity of St. John the Baptist

John forms a kind of boundary between the two Testaments, Old and New. The Lord himself says, The Law and the prophets were until John…

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Brendan Hoban: Religious faith was the bedrock for the Queen
September 23 2022
Sean O’Conaill
Given that only a sincere faith could have allowed Queen Elizabeth II to stick so solidly to her constitutional duties, to surmount the tragedies and very public humiliations of close family members - and even gracefully to address the challenge of a reconciliatory visit to Ireland - there was obviously a limit to the extent that she could truly ‘get’ Jesus’s message re the incompatibility of great wealth and the kingdom of heaven, or see that the institution she represented was an obvious handbrake on the ‘levelling up’ that the Tory party now claims to espouse. She was as much a prisoner of ‘the crown’ and its castles as an heiress to them. It is not therefore difficult to see why her observant faith coincided with the closure of over 1000 Anglican churches in Britain during her reign. How could the professed faith of a church so constitutionally constrained gain wider traction as a commitment also to social justice and equality? There too a clear discernment of the sins of pride and covetousness - the sins that undergird injustice - was historically off limits. But for an accident of history this conundrum could now be for an English Catholic hierarchy to resolve, and it would be that Catholic church that would find itself described by the UK left as ‘the Tory party at prayer’. Sooner or later it is for church leaders so situated to either put up with such constitutional constraints - and watch the faith and the Gospel itself lose credibility - or to see and to call out the historical compromise that lies at the root of the separation between a sincere egalitarianism and an observant Christian faith. An established Christian church is also an historically doomed church, because the essence of establishment is assent to social inequality and the moral inertia and hypocrisy of a privileged social elite. Would there ever have been a Karl Marx or an atheist backlash against Christendom if Christendom had ever been truly and deeply Christian? Our current Irish Catholic hierarchy may also be in deep historical trouble, but I doubt that they envy their counterparts in the Church of England.
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Brendan Hoban: Religious faith was the bedrock for the Queen
September 23 2022
Paddy Ferry
Brendan, an excellent and very fair appreciation of the late Queen Elizabeth, her life and, also, of the whole funeral process and ritual. Apparently, her faith was such that she knelt at her bedside every night --I presume until her legs would no longer allow her -- and prayed. How the whole process was handled from leaving Balmoral that Sunday to travel to Edinburgh --I stood among the throngs on Queensferry Road in Edinburgh and watched her pass by --until she was finally laid to rest in St. Georges chapel in Windsor was so impressive. Except for what you correctly referred to as "the stilted liturgy". The actual service in Westminister Abbey left me completely unimpressed. Was it really necessary to have the arcane language in the scripture readings, for example? Of course, we were told the whole thing had been in preparation for decades and it was all, probably, as she herself wished. But, I found what should have been so uplifting very disappointing.
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September 25 2022
Fr. Tomy Mathew
Nice reflection
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Seán Ó’Conaill: ‘Sin’? Time to Put Up or Shut Up
September 23 2022
Paddy Ferry
Excellent, Seán. I have taken the liberty of sharing it on the Scottish Laity Network FB page.
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