tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post5150620933132335136..comments2024-03-12T07:54:08.013+00:00Comments on Offerimus Tibi Domine: Ushaw College to closeFr Simon Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05375804232895565241noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-89952645922697224112015-05-07T00:59:34.655+01:002015-05-07T00:59:34.655+01:00The Church is an Organism. A very delicate organis...The Church is an Organism. A very delicate organism based on an invisible belief that we are all taught and inspired to bring into the physical world. <br />Sadly, the Victorian Era's last gasp,,,ember really is the survival of two things<br />-Our Blessed Queen Elizabeth and the hard times She Is inherited from. <br />-and both the Roman and Anglican Church's waining while the new Age of Enlightenment has begun with the discovery of the Atom, the "god partial" and everything else connected in the tinker-toy assemblage of our modern world. <br />It used to be said (by Carl Marx) "religion is the opium of the people" well,,,,it's changed to, the computer is the opium of the people. And it is. It's not a bad thing, but it's a disapline that will and has lulled the mind to darker places then the average mind was ever to know. This can be said of the positive too. We've seen religion used in the wrong too to be fare. <br /><br />The beautiful architecture is the culmination of this belief system afore mentioned. It is the physical metamorphosis of the invisable thing we call Faith. <br />To save the Pugin Chapel, I would tare everything else down imidiately, and start from the beginning. This will assure that the Chapel will at least survive another 50 years of bottomless pit maintainence it probably all costs. And then Hope that the culture in that day will take a new interest in these Victorian structures. What Saint was it who cut off a part of his body to survive?Belldavid1000https://www.blogger.com/profile/17365973059373943290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-54158492318542104162010-10-24T17:11:23.797+01:002010-10-24T17:11:23.797+01:00In addition to the fact that the LMS organises the...In addition to the fact that the LMS organises the week long course for priests wishing to learn to celebrate the EF of Mass we must look at the waste in the diocese of Hexham & Newcastle where MILLIONS of pounds were spent setting up a Youth (or should that be YOOF) Village when probable half of the amount could have been expended in renewing (& updating) Ushaw College where for so many years priests were formed to serve the Church.<br />Please look at my blog www.latinmasshexhamnewcastle.blogspot.comDavid O'Neillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04023042558615821880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-48465781891589261682010-10-15T00:35:07.106+01:002010-10-15T00:35:07.106+01:00Father
The news of the closure is not yet given on...Father<br />The news of the closure is not yet given on the seminary website. How odd.<br /><br />On Toulon I have a contact there who suggests that the Bishop spends too much time away from the diocese. I do not know enough about this to say how fair this is.<br />It seems also that a number of the priests ordained come from outside the diocese. So again there may be things that we do not know.<br />What is clear is that orthodoxy is encouraged and this is surely something good. The website is well worth a visit too for French readers.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036933832060349206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4598228705498900088.post-52057234722391122342010-10-11T18:52:39.247+01:002010-10-11T18:52:39.247+01:00Hello, Fr Simon, Just discovered your blog.
Yes, ...Hello, Fr Simon, Just discovered your blog.<br /><br />Yes, very sad about Ushaw closing, and very unfair on the students - if they go to Oscott or Allen Hall, they may have to make up a number of courses for the STB or PhB (Louvain), because the course structures are not very compatible.<br /><br />The closure should have been managed over 3-4 years to allow some synchronisation of course material.<br /><br />Still, we reap what we sow. Forty years of rubbishy catechetics have produced a catastrophic decline in the Church, and although Lancaster and Shrewsbury are going through a turn round, certain other dioceses are still stuck with the same insipid nonsense in their schools, and probably with sweeping parish closures to come in the next ten years.<br /><br />Ushaw bites the dust, but isn't it wonderful that Oscott and Maryvale are going from strength to strength!<br /><br />Fr Francis MarsdenF Marsdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04348628602646025343noreply@blogger.com