General. I had a major setback yesterday in going to Barnes Church for Mass and finding the heating had stopped. Suffered from mild hypothermia when my temperature went down to new low levels. It did hot help my bronchitus so went to bed early, but still in time to watch the episode of "Little Dorrit" which contained a superb performance by Tom ~Courtenay as Dorrit senior going mad.
He is in Venice and taken to a ball where he gets up and welcomes everyone there to...the Marshalsea prison. (where he spent 25 years) describing his life there to one and all. He then goes back with Amy to his home and promptly dies.
wonderful stuff. Last episode tonight. The last item I forgot about yesterday was the Assisted suicide programme on SKY TV. It will only encourage people to try the same thing, no one is being prosecuted over here now...it is a kind of law by the back door. Next stop, compulsory euthanasia ????
NEW CHILDRENS DICTIONARY. I would call your attention to the blog of St Mary Magdalen (Fr Ray Blake ) direct link from my list. This new dictionary has cut out nearly all words to do with religion (and also animals for some reason) on the grounds that modern children do not go to church so much these days so these words have ceased to have any meaning for them ! Next stop....delete the same words from other dictionaries !!!
Human Rights versus Divine Rights.The 60th anniversary of the universal declaration on Human Rights is being celebrated this week. Of course there are good things in it which no one could object to but in effect it marks the kind of final victory of the Enlightenment over its predecessors in that in effect it substitutes supposed human rights over human responsibilities ..which are of course based on Divine Law. The net result gives or can give a person rights of free speech which really are against Divine Law and our responsibilities to our Creator. Those who now propose Assisted Suicide or Euthanasia can probably apply the Universal declaration in such a way that it includes the right to terminate ones own life...and demand a change in the law. There are plenty of other examples possible. In the Vat 2 documents as I have previously pointed out, many people claim the right of freedom of conscience over the Churchs stated position etc. It has crept in here. Remember even those people we know as the Levellers at the time of the civil war were still God Fearers, yet they are known as the first revolutionaries.
Thursday, 11 December 2008
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Agreed that Little Dorrit is a must-see!!!
The 'pregnant man' story has a catch. The 'man' in question is 'transgendered', ie, started life as a woman, had a sex-change operation and is thus legally male because 'he' lives in a part of the world where a person can legally change sex. I assume that this so-called man retained 'his' uterus.
According to the news (if we are talking about the same 'man'), 'he' had a first child and stopped taking the necessary hormone pills which meant I suppose that 'his' body reverted to functioning as an adult female.
sorry, posted on wrong entry - should have been on previous posting.
Dear Father,
Yes, I agree strongly about the declaration. There was an encomium for it on the wireless last night. As I sat there the same thought occured to me - that this was man's doing, there seemed to be no place for God in it, and that it was therefore bound to bear bitter fruits. I notice, for example, that it begins "all men are born equal", not "created" - and of course we know where that sort of thinking has led. One of the worst aspects was that, apparently, this declaration was supposed to be posted on the walls of our schools. I couldn't bear to continue listening.
And as for the dictionary - words fail me! How Orwellian the news sounds! But perhaps it's not entirely surprising. It seems of a piece with modern educational approaches: "They won't have come across these words - so let's not put them in the dictionary".
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