Letters

Narrow way

F. Thims

Contents - Dec 2007 - Buy a copy now Editorial: Liturgy: light at the end of the tunnel - Michael Gilchrist Liturgy: Australian archbishops report progress with new English Mass translations - Michael Gilchrist News: The Church Around the World Schools: The state of Catholic education: teacher and student experiences - Br Barry Coldrey Catechetics: Religious education in Catholic schools: the role of parish priests - Michael Gilchrist Church History: Interesting aspects of ecumenical councils - Frank Mobbs Britain: British Catholicism: the salt has lost its flavour - John Haldane 1962 Missal: Australian bishops support Benedict XV's liberalising of the Latin Mass - AD2000 Report Architecture: Did Vatican II recommend the removal of altar rails? - M. Cassey Letters: Dissent - Brian Bibby Letters: Far-sightedness of Father Purcell - Fr Brian Harrison OS Letters: Response - Don Gaffney Letters: Narrow way - F. Thims Letters: Latin Mass - Carol V. Phillips Letters: Pope's Masses - Paul Martin Letters: True Church - Peter D. Howard Letters: Homosexual 'marriage' - Arnold Jago Letters: Unbaptised infants - Lawrence R. Hurley Letters: Archaeology - Ann Marie Streda Events: Latin Masses for Christmas in Caulfield and Kew Books: JESUS, THE APOSTLES AND THE EARLY CHURCH by Pope Benedict XVI - Tim Cannon (reviewer) Books: THE CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD AND WOMEN by Sara Butler MSBT - Paul Woodbury (reviewer) Books: Books available from AD Books Reflection: May we deepen our longing for the Lord's coming - Bishop Arthur Serratelli

Congratulations on a magazine so genuinely Catholic. It lights up the narrow way and warns us of the dangers of being side-tracked into broader and easier ways.

How blessed I've been to have had grand priests. A mixed lot, some cranky, but what faith they all had!

Their old sayings still stay with me: 'The straight and narrow way would be much easier if more people used it'; 'You start the day well when you start it on your knees'; 'Say 'good morning' to all but make sure God's at the head of the list'; 'Don't end your life in arrears with your Sunday Masses'; 'Don't try to go to heaven alone. Take others with you'; and 'The family that prays together stays together'.

So here's to the old days, hard days, when the narrow way was well sign-posted - in real black and white. And here's to the present day bishops and priests who'll put back the signs. We'd love to lend a hand.

F. THIMS
Tugun, Qld

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 20 No 11 (December 2007 - January 2008), p. 14