I might be so far gone from things Catholic that I don't even count as one anymore- but I visited Lourdes and it has left its magic in my soul. There was a review about this movie about Lourdes on the America website. And there is a beautiful trailer for it on YouTube with English sub-titles. I hope we at least can see this movie in a film festival or something.... eventually.... (Just listening to the French is a wonderful treat for me!)
Apologies.... I know that the embedding only shows part of the screen here on my blog, and I don't know how to alter that... I suggest you take the link to YouTube itself.
Does one every really get away from catholic roots?
ReplyDeleteI still feel something..even if it is just to marvel at the cathedrals etc
Maybe we of our generation don't simon- not sure if it has as much hold on the young though. I am just trying to find a kind of peace on the outer edges, knowing I won't ever 'return'.
ReplyDeleteNo but thanks for asking Margaret its Nell!
ReplyDeleteI guess I'm glad I have the choice to return or not to those roots. But I was re-reading Yeats Second Coming and that made my uneasy on more than one level (I was trying to cut and paste this here but couldn't sorry)
Nell
Nell, I visited Ireland when I was still a young woman- and it was just the norm to go to church on Sunday. But in 2006 when I was back in Ireland it was clear the whole church thing had collapsed- I guess with the sexual abuse scandal though there may be other things.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in stock still well imbued with the Irish Catholicism. Maybe that is why Lourdes spoke to me so strongly.
GK Chesterton said of the church that "Something that has survived nearly 2000 years of utter corruption must be of divine inspiration"! And as I get older I'm finding that my disgust/discomfort with the administrative branch of the Church is not enough of a reason for me to abandon the carcase of my faith to be picked over by some clerical vultures.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a place where ritual(some of it of with an obviousley pre-christian basis), in some shape or form was a meaningful part of everyday. And when I return 'home' I find that faith still forms at least part of the familiar, if not the everyday, vocabulary of life for many people.
I think the Irish (and unfortunately that includes you Margaret!) gloss over and take for granted our familiarity with the syntax of faith. At some visceral level we know what the tatty offerings tied onto the statue of a Virgin mean. Then maybe just going with that feeling is only star one can steer by in these stormy times?
Just thank you for access to Winter Pilgrims blog....Good lord what a gal!
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Nell, A priest I respect- Marist- says I need to follow the pull of my heart.. and I think he is right there.
ReplyDeleteI think 'winter pilgrim' is some sort of 'extreme pilgrim'. I love reading her accounts- but I can never imagine doing anything remotely similar!!!