Promoting my new YouTube Channel on Ascension Day ...
May 18, 2022 16:13:21 GMT
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Post by rogerbuck on May 18, 2022 16:13:21 GMT
And now for something different.
I post a video that is actually NOT mine ; - )
For Robert Nugent, here in Ireland, who I have only just discovered has done a video referring to me and my work.
I am pasting in a LONG comment I just left at Robert's channel that may interest some here
"I was stunned on seeing this and had to struggle to find my voice . . .
But I am truly grateful to you for alerting folk to my Gentle Traditionalist book with such kind words—and using the call to gentleness as the theme of your video.
Yet truly, as much as I thank you for this, something else about this video (and your others that I start to discover now) hits me most of all. It is your call to what is most central in our faith: Our Encounter with Christ in His Eucharist.
Your call, that is, to "rise above" party politics, abusive language, etc. to this most ESSENTIAL thing: the meeting with Christ in the Mass deeply moves me, almost puts me to shame.
If "shame" sounds odd, it may be because I see my work as more Bellocian than anything else.
Yes, i could not have found the Church without Tomberg and he continually points, as you say, to gentleness and to the good, the beautiful and the true.
But my work is so indebted to Belloc's cultural, political and economic thrust - which ironically, could be quite combative (though, as I say on my own channel, Belloc would abhor the impudent, rebellious—and "very 21st century"—histrionics we see on YouTube today.)
Watching you, I cannot help but wonder if I do not point sufficiently to this ENCOUNTER . . .
Still, I trust my cultural/political Bellocian thrust—one that very much informs my understanding of Ireland (and Europe in general).
And this leads me to something else deeply moving in your video(s). Forgive me, if I embarrass you with my effusiveness . . .
It is your _Irishness_. In one sense, I think, coming from outside of Ireland, I can sometimes see Irishness and Irish spirituality in a way many Irish cannot. (In another sense, that is presumptuous; obviously I will never know Irishness as much as the Irish themselves!)
Still, I love Ireland, I love Irish spirituality. I love the pious spirit of Ireland, the true Ireland, beneath this globalised veneer.
And watching you, Robert, I see, I feel that spirit. Clearly your voice is neither American nor English, but distinctively Irish . . .
This means more than I can say. I am concerned that Ireland, even in its Catholicism, is too awash in American voices.
Of course, we are indebted to great things coming from the_best_ of American Catholicism on the Internet. Ireland may even be re-evangelised by America . . .
But I fear something preciously Irish is lost in the process. And your very Irish spirit is so, so needed.
Once again, though, beyond Ireland, beyond culture, politics, etc., the most central thing of all is what you call people to: MEETING CHRIST in the Eucharist.
God bless you in this great work!"
I post a video that is actually NOT mine ; - )
For Robert Nugent, here in Ireland, who I have only just discovered has done a video referring to me and my work.
I am pasting in a LONG comment I just left at Robert's channel that may interest some here
"I was stunned on seeing this and had to struggle to find my voice . . .
But I am truly grateful to you for alerting folk to my Gentle Traditionalist book with such kind words—and using the call to gentleness as the theme of your video.
Yet truly, as much as I thank you for this, something else about this video (and your others that I start to discover now) hits me most of all. It is your call to what is most central in our faith: Our Encounter with Christ in His Eucharist.
Your call, that is, to "rise above" party politics, abusive language, etc. to this most ESSENTIAL thing: the meeting with Christ in the Mass deeply moves me, almost puts me to shame.
If "shame" sounds odd, it may be because I see my work as more Bellocian than anything else.
Yes, i could not have found the Church without Tomberg and he continually points, as you say, to gentleness and to the good, the beautiful and the true.
But my work is so indebted to Belloc's cultural, political and economic thrust - which ironically, could be quite combative (though, as I say on my own channel, Belloc would abhor the impudent, rebellious—and "very 21st century"—histrionics we see on YouTube today.)
Watching you, I cannot help but wonder if I do not point sufficiently to this ENCOUNTER . . .
Still, I trust my cultural/political Bellocian thrust—one that very much informs my understanding of Ireland (and Europe in general).
And this leads me to something else deeply moving in your video(s). Forgive me, if I embarrass you with my effusiveness . . .
It is your _Irishness_. In one sense, I think, coming from outside of Ireland, I can sometimes see Irishness and Irish spirituality in a way many Irish cannot. (In another sense, that is presumptuous; obviously I will never know Irishness as much as the Irish themselves!)
Still, I love Ireland, I love Irish spirituality. I love the pious spirit of Ireland, the true Ireland, beneath this globalised veneer.
And watching you, Robert, I see, I feel that spirit. Clearly your voice is neither American nor English, but distinctively Irish . . .
This means more than I can say. I am concerned that Ireland, even in its Catholicism, is too awash in American voices.
Of course, we are indebted to great things coming from the_best_ of American Catholicism on the Internet. Ireland may even be re-evangelised by America . . .
But I fear something preciously Irish is lost in the process. And your very Irish spirit is so, so needed.
Once again, though, beyond Ireland, beyond culture, politics, etc., the most central thing of all is what you call people to: MEETING CHRIST in the Eucharist.
God bless you in this great work!"