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    "The Ghost of Identity"

    THE GHOST OF IDENTITY Something I just read ....I think it's a minor work of genius and there may be some stuff that might be of interest to some people here. It's a very personal kind-of biographical sort of text, of coming to adulthood, the story of one English man, who long aspired to become...
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    St Patrick's Purgatory

    (very much a north of ireland thing) THREE DAY PILGRIMAGE - Lough Derg Has anyone here ever undertaken anything like this? (This specific pilgrimage is also the topic of a series of poems, "Station Island", by Seamus Heaney) (An intense 3-day pilgrimage, fasting eating only bread & salted...
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    "How to be a traditional Catholic"

    A rather interesting blog post, I think, on that topic. http://ttonys-blog.blogspot.com/2009/02/how-to-be-traditional-catholic.html I was going to pick out individual points raised, but actually most of them seem fairly pertinent nowadays
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    In praise of the catholicity of the church

    So, typically, I would spend part of a thursday evening going to holy hour and benediction at this wonderful and very traditional church in the city where I work (and where I used to lvie). (I am not Catholic yet, despite very much wanting to be so, and having long been certain that that is...