tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post941917183872349037..comments2023-12-24T11:20:38.708+00:00Comments on The Muniment Room: Managing DeclineTtonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185875893212146794noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-17343437393695476322010-10-11T20:02:29.182+01:002010-10-11T20:02:29.182+01:00Dissolution of the Monasteries? Can't blame H...Dissolution of the Monasteries? Can't blame Henry VIII for this one.Carolinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04126083786598869477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-37603468409676693822010-10-11T12:44:56.346+01:002010-10-11T12:44:56.346+01:00The announcement of this decision would be distres...The announcement of this decision would be distressing enough whenever it was made; the severing of the link with Ushaw's glorious history is a loss to all Catholics in this country, while the prospective loss to the Church of its fine Goldie chapel if the college is sold for commercial development is almost unbearable.<br /><br />However, the timing of the announcement, coming as it does so swiftly as it does after the Papal visit, is a temptation to the cynical to see it as an attempt to pre-empt any possible effect of the "Benedict Bounce". Ttony notes "an obvious and clunking allegory about stewardship"; in this decision can also be seen a clear parallel with the parable of the landowner who ordered the fig tree to be cut down before the gardener had had a chance to dig round it and manure it (Lk 13:6-9).<br /><br />I am becoming increasingly fearful for our bishops: they display no sign of awareness that they will one day be required to answer for what they have done.pattifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14471601225724857390noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-79341226703318565042010-10-09T23:42:35.688+01:002010-10-09T23:42:35.688+01:00I think I was six when I saw what they could do to...I think I was six when I saw what they could do to us at Fountains abbey.<br />I wasn't prepared for what we could do to ourselves.Mike Cliffsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06405021835510775527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-18905197508134515872010-10-09T21:26:31.133+01:002010-10-09T21:26:31.133+01:00I'm not sorry to see it go - students not allo...I'm not sorry to see it go - students not allowed to kneel during Mass, aged nuns who hadn'y seen a novice in decades determining in selection commitees who entered th seminary. Last, and by no means least, it hosted a Methoidst service in which the nave Altar was used for the Communion service: <br />http://methodist-presandvp.blogspot.com/2009/11/youth-assembly.html<br /><br />http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/features/4753069.Alternative_diet/Ernie Skillennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-90471083610312875062010-10-09T20:35:03.451+01:002010-10-09T20:35:03.451+01:00We need to get a group together to save this place...We need to get a group together to save this place.Et Expectohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04273064434098923960noreply@blogger.com