Whatever you do, DON'T stop to stay at a hotel.
Posted on 03/26/2013 6:55:35 AM PDT by marshmallow
Acts such as showering the Princess’s hearse with flowers show that the public is reverting to a “Catholic” approach to death after centuries of protestant reserve, the Archbishop of Westminster, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols suggested.
He said that the Princess’s funeral in 1997 marked a watershed in British history and would be remembered as the “end of the Reformation in England”.
Catholic practices such as prayers for the souls of the dead and a belief in saints, which were dismissed by protestant reformers in the 16th Century, are now being rediscovered, he said.
The recent growth in unofficial roadside shrines commemorating people killed in accidents – often filled with flowers photographs and mementos – has also been widely interpreted as marking a change in the way the British respond to death.
Interviewed in a BBC documentary about shrines and other places of religious significance in Britain, the Archbishop said that English people were rediscovering their ancient Catholic “voice”.
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If only it were so.....the Churches are EMPTY, even the Catholic ones....very very sad.
If I remember correctly, Princess Di was dabbling in everything but Christianity prior to her death.
What happened in England was not so much the Reformation as it was Henry VIII inflicting his will upon the people. He totally destroyed the role of charity in the country.
Before Henry's actions to secure a new wife for himself, the government played no role in caring for the poor and needy. The people did it themselves because the Church encouraged them to.
After Henry ransacked the monasteries, guess where all the poor went? To London.
By the time of Elizabeth so many poor beggars were moving to London that Parliament passed a series of poor laws - two consequences of begging were having a hole drilled through the beggar's ear and of course hanging.
No, England was a much kinder nation when the people controlled their own lives without the assistance of a monarch plying his own will.
Very important points. Charity is such a good thing — it needs to be kept out of the hands of the government, because the government is inherently centered upon its own self-interest, which is inimical to the idea of charity. Churches, neighborhood groups, benevolent societies — the needy can and should be helped by caring people. But government only helps government.
I was at the 11:00 Latin mass at Farm Street Church (Jesuit) in Mayfair, London. I saw the 9:30 Mass let out - since my daughter and I arrived early. I was impressed with how full the church was for both masses.
On the other hand, I have noticed a decline in Mass attendance at home in the last few years.
In my neck of the woods they are filling up with muslims. And I'm pretty far from civilization as I knew it.
It matters not so much the numbers of people in the pews but instead the content of the hearts of the people who are there.
You ignore the effects of the enclosures for the depopulating the country. When lords discovered they could make more money selling wool to Belgian mills than they could raising foodstuffs from individual tenant plots they enclosed their lands, ousted most of the tenants and raised sheep. As to the Anglican Chuch and the Reformation, while the Anglicans do not have the panoply of saints the Romans do, they do celebrate saints by name. In fact their celebration of Francis Bernadone rivals any seen in Italy.The purifying of the Anglican Church was attempted by Knox and his followers and by the Puritan parlimentarians. Its success was modest in the end.
With government, your assets are confiscated at gunpoint and used to buy votes.
Nothing charitable about the latter, and those dispensing it are giving away someone else's money.
That's correct. Diana was very much into the occult---psychics, astrologers, fortune tellers, and New Age practices such as crystals. She believed her grandmother watched over her as a ghost.
Sad.
Enclosure really became a big thing during the Tudor period, so it coincides with Henry's seizure of church land. England had been a farming society, with much land owned by the Church, with an understanding that "the commons" could be used to support local residents. The Acts of Enclosure took the lands from the Church and gave it to wealthy landowners. They decided that sheep were better than crops. Wool could be sold for cash across the Channel, so "the commons" disappeared and the landowners became far wealthier. The people suffered. The only recourse became government assistance.
As I said at the beginning, enclosure and the English Reformation are separate topics, but one feeds upon the other to some extent.
In my earlier post, I indicated that the Acts of Enclosure took land away from the Church, and that is not an accurate statement.
I LOVE the Farm Street Church!!! Used to be my Church and I just went to Mass there in November, but the Church was not even half full.
I see you are a teacher from your profile page. Then you must know that no one can describe the entire complicated history of England adequately in one paragraph, especially when neither David Hume nor John Lingard could do it in less than two volumes.
I’m a Christian, and I am fascinated by the occult.
I don’t “dabble” in it, though. I read about it. “Know your enemey”, don’t you know?
Practice it? I would beafraid to even try, and I don’t want power, the purpose of dabbling in the occult to begin with. I just want to know what’s going on.
But from what I read, even by many occultists, it is not something to fool around with.
When those first started showing up here a few decades ago, it was was the first true sign that America was slipping into becoming a dingy third world nation and starting to resemble Mexico.
You’re absolutely right, it IS nothing to fool with.
I think we should objectively be familiar with the tools of the occult, but with all due respect, being “fascinated” by it is worrisome, especially as you’re a Christian.
So says Andrew Morton. But I don't know how different "Countess Spencer held a very special place in Diana's heart and she sincerely believed that her grandmother looked after her in the spirit world" is from orthodox Christian beliefs about loved ones looking down on someone from heaven. We don't know where Diana's belief ends and Morton's interpretation begins. Also he doesn't "time stamp" his claim so it's hard to tell if this was Diana's adult belief or something she held onto as a child.
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