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About Me
- Joanna Bogle
- Auntie has learned, with mingled pleasure and amusement, that her Blog annoys some people, especially angry dogmatic ones, and entertains and encourages others of a gentler sort. This has confirmed her decision to continue blogging although Auntie's life is busy and she has duties and responsibilities which on the whole she knows to be of more importance. Auntie enjoys (although not neccesarily in this order)her work (writer, biographer, historian) and domestic duties, academic studies(Maryvale Institute), family, friends, and community responsibilities. She relishes the new translation of the Mass, the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, her own excellent local Catholic parish, traditional hymns (especially, perhaps, Anglican ones) rain, good literature, sleep, the English coast, Autumn, buttered toast, and a number of other things too precious and important to list here. She feels priviledged to belong to a Church which produced John Paul II and Benedict XVI and she finds their teachings an inspiration.
God bless our new Pope Francis
3 comments:
I am feeling thoroughly numb. It seems like nothing in this world is consistent anymore. I admire his Holiness for taking this bold step on behalf of the Church, but I feel sick at having to lose him. He has become a father figure for the Church and he will be sorely missed.
I'll miss Pope Benedict, He is one of the rarest & wisest, most cultured men I know, my prayers for him and his successor.
Please also Auntie, could you pray for my son who is looking for a job at present. God knows I have petitioned all the saints.
Much appreciated.
Thanks.
Thanks, Auntie. Meanwhile, today's New York Times tells us what we are supposed to think about the Holy Father:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/opinion/farewell-to-an-uninspiring-pope.html?src=me&ref=general
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