I like this. Here are two normalcy's:
3. It is NORMAL for lay Catholics to be knowledgeable about their faith, the Scriptures, the doctrinal and moral teachings of the church, and the history of the Church.
6. It is NORMAL for lay Catholics to have the fellowship of other committed lay Catholics available to them, to encourage, nurture, and discern as they attempt to follow Jesus.
I don't know how normal these things really are in the experience of most Catholics-but no doubt they should be. Both (and see the rest) are critical to renewing the culture.
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I have finished Walter Macken's Seek the Fair Land. I heartily recommend these historical novels on the Irish saga. Of course reading the Macken trilogy-especially this last (actually the first) makes me more committed to getting Lives of the Irish Martyrs (Myles O'Reilly) back in print.
Now maybe I can finish John Senior's Death of Christian Culture.
Oremus pro invicem!
I vote for "Lives of the Irish Martyrs" getting back in print too.
ReplyDeleteIt is a long book-partitioned by 'martyrs under Henry VIII', martyrs under Elizabeth .... Cromwell.... etc. I am thinking when we do it, it will be in three volumes instead of one-just for economic reasons. But we will see. Glad there is some initial interest.
ReplyDeletets said...
ReplyDelete"Ivote for "Lives of the Irish Martyrs" getting back in print too."
Hear! Hear!!
THE
IRISH
KNEELERS
We are St. Joan,
Philomena, Campion.
The Faith in its whole
Is what we do champion.
We are St. Margaret,
Pearl of York,
Where the bowels of the Faith
They tried to torque.
We are Sir More,
That's Thomas, the Saint,
Whose reputation
They could not taint.
We are vocations,
In Ireland, kneeling,
Adoring His presence,
It's not just a feeling.
We are descendents
Of Irish and beggin'
To stop all the men
Who are turning us pagan!
We are the poor,
Uneducated ones,
But in faith, well-informed,
The heretic shuns.
And when we are told,
"Don't kneel anymore."
Since we don't hold doctorates...
We kneel and IGNORE!!