Fr David. I would like to ask you this. How do you feel about sharing a platform with the former leader of the DUP? A party that has had prominent links with paramilitary organisations in Northern Ireland, had been very openly anti-Catholic in the past, has strong links with the Orange Order? The links of which I have listed seem to get ignored by GBeebies. But let me guess the single issue obsession the church has with abortion must trump that. Note that that Arlene Foster opposed the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. Not very Christian is it?
The connection between attitudes to Brexit and to COVID is pretty simple, really, Those who seek out actual research, understand statistics and mathematics, and don't get their ideas from social media are not easily fooled, and were generally both anti-Brexit and understood the types of risk associated with COVID, as well as the complexities of the situation. Those who relied on social media (where, incidentally, pro-Brexit and anti-vaxx messages were both heavily promoted by Russian interests as part of a strategy of attacking Western social cohesion), were pro-Brexit and simplistic and sceptical about COVID. That's why there was a very clear correlation between education levels and the stance on Brexit, and why the same sort of split appeared over Covid. So, for example, the concept of a package of measures leading interrelatedly and incrementally to reduced pressure on health services, which in turn allowed capacity planning and management leading to reduced overall population death risks, is a complex one, and understanding it leads to one set of judgements. Arguing that masks (or any other single intervention) doesn't protect you as an individual, and ignoring the more complex issues, is simplistic, and leads you in another direction. Likewise, the sort of mind that reacts to claims by reading EU legislation and finding out that you can have whatever colour of passport you like within the EU quickly identifies that the claim (like many others) is false - the simplistic approach simply believes it because the Daily Mail said so, and amplifies it. Lies are far simpler to tell, far easier to spread, and far harder to turn round, than complex truths, and that affected understandings of both Brexit and Covid. It's also why it's easier for people to believe in a simple and fashionable atheism-lite than a complex Catholicism, of course.
It sounds like it but the translation are slightly different and there’s some additional prayers added and some eliminated. It’s similar to the “Sarum Use” Mass which is the Roman Mass being celebrated in England and in English before all the reforms.
I’m hope to be going to Nottingham University this year, and I was concerned I wouldn’t find a reverent Liturgy, I typed in ‘Ordinariate Mass’ in RU-vid as this parish was the first to appear. Thank you Father for this most reverent and Traditional Liturgy.
Divide and Conquer well, assuming things work out and the University and Churches are opened (!) the Ordinariate Mass takes place on a Sunday evening at 6pm. We usually have a trip to the pub afterwards. We are bang in the middle of student land (Lenton) and usually get a good number of students at the Ordinariate Mass. Hope to meet you then. Every blessing. Fr David
Thank you Fr David for the celebration of Pentecost Mass and your sermon. What impresses me enormously about the Holy Spirit is his ability to mysteriously download information in the mind of an individual human being so that, that human being can speak a language that they never knew, for the purpose of converting others to Jesus, as happened in Pentecost or accurately knows and can preach what Jesus taught his apostles, as happened with Saint Paul. knows the future with the aim that this information will enable devout Christians to prepare themselves for adversity that is to come, as happened with Jesus' prediction of the destruction of Jerusalem. Many Catholic saints were inspired to prophesy but some of their prophecies have yet to be fulfilled. The Holy Spirit is also able to impart spiritual gifts, that is supernatural graces that go beyond information, such as the gift of faith or the ability to heal others instantly like Jesus did or the ability to have other miraculous powers such as bilocation but all serve to fulfil the mission of the church, as is described in the New Testament at 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12, and Ephesians 4. I welcome any comments.
Thank you for your ministry Father! You have provided me with plenty of spiritual nourishment over the past two months. Our churches here in the Archdiocese of Atlanta in the US are opening next weekend, so I wanted to thank you and encourage you in your ministry as this is my last Sunday watching. The Ordinariate form is beautiful!
A pair of feet sticking through the ceiling reminded me of an episode of Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em! Although, to be fair, the actual chapel of the Ascension itself looks quite lovely.
🌟 Holy Spirit, please open my ears to the Voice of the Good Shepherd and my mind to all that He speaks. My precious Lord Jesus, You are my Shepherd, I choose, this day, to follow Your voice when You speak, and to do so with complete trust and abandon. I love You, my Lord, and I thank you for loving me with such tender and intimate care. Jesus, my Good Shepherd, I trust in You.🙏🏼🛐
A wonderful gospel, it was surely an act of Divine mercy that Jesus would join the two apostles walking as it were, away from the faith and leaving the disciples. I cannot imagine what they must have felt as Jesus revealed himself to them at the breaking of bread...the eucharist. Thankyou Fr David
