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2015-06-23T11:01:18-05:00

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What I Did on My Summer Vacation

Last updated on: June 23, 2015 at 11:01 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Here’s a list of the cool Catholic stuff I saw on my two weeks in England and Italy: The site on Tower Hill where St Thomas More and St John Fisher were beheaded St Henry Walpole’s name carved by him in wall of the Salt Tower at the Tower of London Tyburn where the priests were hung drawn and quartered The relics of St Cuthbert Mayne The tombs of Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I and close by that of Mary Queen... Read more

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2015-06-23T11:03:57-05:00

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The Hand of St Etheldreda

Last updated on: June 23, 2015 at 11:03 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Today is the memorial of St Etheldreda–a saint I have come to admire for, I suppose, not the best reasons. First of all I rather like her because of her name. Come now, St Etheldreda is a corker of a saint’s name you must admit. Then I like her because she was not only a Saxon queen, but also the founders of a great monastery. Next I like her because her body was incorruptible for hundreds of years. The shrine... Read more

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2015-06-23T08:07:38-05:00

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Laudato Si….Too Much of a Good Thing?

Last updated on: June 23, 2015 at 8:07 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

There’s an amusing scene in the film Amadeus in which Mozart asks the rather dim witted Emperor if he likes the opera Mozart has just performed for the first time. The Emperor ponders for a moment and tries to pin down what he doesn’t like about the work and finally waves his hand dismissively and says, “It has too many notes.” I must confess that my first impression of Pope Francis’ new encyclical is much the same….”it has too many words”... Read more

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2015-06-19T08:12:28-05:00

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England and Italy Round Up

Last updated on: June 19, 2015 at 8:12 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Sorry no blogging for the last two weeks, but I’m now back in the USA after an utterly fantastic two weeks in England and Italy. Both weeks were more pilgrimage than vacation, but that’s what a true pilgrimage is: a holy vacation. I’ll be writing more later as it all continues to sink in but one of the greatest parts of the trip were the unexpected blessings and delightful meetings. Here are a few as a way of round up:... Read more

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2015-06-10T09:33:06-05:00

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England I Loathe and Love

Last updated on: June 10, 2015 at 9:33 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

This latest visit to England has been full of mixed emotions. Visiting as a tourist for the first time has given me a glimpse of a wonderful country where I spent twenty five years of my life through a new lens, and of course I felt nostalgic for England. Who wouldn’t on a perfect June day in the Norfolk countryside? This was my first visit as a “working Catholic priest”. Before I have visited for family reasons. Therefore to celebrate... Read more

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2015-06-10T01:04:16-05:00

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The Devil Fights Dirty

Last updated on: June 10, 2015 at 1:04 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Here in Stratford-on-Avon some of us went to see Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta at the Swan . It was an excellent performance and one of the delights was to sit opposite a group of English schoolchildren and watch their faces. They were spellbound by the magic of the theater. The play itself reveals Marlowe’s rumbustious imagination with wickedness that is rollicking. Barabas the Jew is completely over the top in his Machiavellian devilry as he schemes to murder two young... Read more

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2015-06-09T17:22:01-05:00

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The Clash of Secular and Sacred

Last updated on: June 9, 2015 at 5:22 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

My article for Imaginative Conservative this week connects with my visit to England. It is an analysis of two films by Robert Bolt: Man for All Seasons and The Mission When church and state conspire together the state ultimately wins, for the church’s real power can never be of this world, and any true believer who is involved in the clash between secular and sacred power will have to face stark choices. The tensions and personal cost when this clash reaches a... Read more

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2015-06-09T17:10:53-05:00

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English Martyrs Pilgrimage Diary 4

Last updated on: June 9, 2015 at 5:10 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Sometimes on a pilgrimage like this shepherding thirty or forty people and their luggage some stuff goes wrong. You miss a connection or someone gets lost or you could have had some details organized better. On the other hand, sometimes unexpected gifts are given. We’re still talking about the serendipitous Corpus Christi procession at Oxborough Hall and the unexpected privilege of celebrating Mass in the historic chapel. Last night we only had time for a short walk around Cambridge. We... Read more

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2015-06-09T03:02:05-05:00

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England Pilgrimage Diary 3

Last updated on: June 9, 2015 at 3:02 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

We’ve been away from internet for a few days on our English Martyrs-Literary Pilgrimage of England with Joseph Pearce After a Saturday evening hike around London’s West End with dinner at in Chinatown we left on Sunday morning for the cathedral city of Ely where we visited the little church of St Etheldreda. Sunday morning Mass was about to start as we trooped in to venerate the relic of St Etheldreda–her mummified hand. The shrine of Etheldreda stood in the church... Read more

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2015-06-06T12:06:07-05:00

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England Pilgrimage Diary 2

Last updated on: June 6, 2015 at 12:06 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

We are having an action packed pilgrimage! After yesterday’s moving and powerful visit to Tyburn and other London churches we boarded the coach today for a trip to Canterbury. We visited the delightful church of St Thomas of Canterbury and met the priest and venerated the relics of St Thomas a Becket and relics of Bl Oscar Romero. I had not connected the two, but both were assassinated in church because of their opposition to the temporal power. Both were... Read more

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