tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post8474120144941149785..comments2024-03-23T14:04:57.635-05:00Comments on Father Hollywood: European PersecutionRev. Larry Beanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06705910892752648940noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post-74903386048153422652007-07-04T01:53:00.000-05:002007-07-04T01:53:00.000-05:00Unfortunately that "German" trait is rather univer...Unfortunately that "German" trait is rather universal. The approved religion is now indeed Secular Statism, and there are a good many "Christian" churches quite heterodox enough to provide something of an unofficial state church.<BR/><BR/>Now, Celt? (I hope that's said "kelt" -- the "selts" are God's basketball team.) I have a Celtic name, though by adoption; my actual descent is English. What a great God! Were I not adopted I might have grown up ECUSA! Then grew up around a bunch of Bavarian descended people in Minnesota among whom German was still to be heard. My first Lutheran pastor used to joke (I think) that this was God preparing me to be Lutheran so I could lapse into German when ranting. Then I was culturally adopted by the Puerto Rican contingent of the student body. Only in America -- an English guy with an Irish name who prefers to speak Spanish and spouts off in German when really steamed, usually about church stuff. And now in LCMS too.<BR/><BR/>I will confess I don't really groove on the Celtic stuff. Wagner and Univision for me! And the Blues. Oh yeah, the Blues.<BR/><BR/>In respect of non anonymity:<BR/><BR/>Terry MaherPast Elderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10541968132598367551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post-13497477254450579852007-07-03T23:28:00.000-05:002007-07-03T23:28:00.000-05:00My Dear Brother in the ministry and in the Society...My Dear Brother in the ministry and in the Society of Saint Polycarp, Father Watson:<BR/><BR/>You, sir, are as Celtic as any manjack with a "Mac" or an "O'" in his surname. There are only a few men I would absolutely want next to me slaying the English with a claymore or mowing down Yankees with a cavalry saber - and you are one of them.<BR/><BR/>Dr. "Fritz" Baue puzzles me. He, too, displays the crankiness and pluck of a Celt, and yet has a Teutonic last name. I'm sure he must have some Caledonian or Hibernian in the woodpile somewhere. I know his wife is an unreconstructed Alabamian, so at least Fred is getting good counsel from the distaff side.Rev. Larry Beanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06705910892752648940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post-80732409597952653312007-07-03T23:20:00.000-05:002007-07-03T23:20:00.000-05:00Dear Solarblogger:There are a few of us. Not enou...Dear Solarblogger:<BR/><BR/>There are a few of us. Not enough, mind you, to have a kilt ceremony in church like my friends in the Anglican Catholic Church do.<BR/><BR/>While I was a seminary, Rev. Peter Cage (a great preacher, by the way, and a giant of a man who knows how to celebrate at the altar) quipped that we need a "Board for Celtic Ministry Services" in the LCMS.Rev. Larry Beanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06705910892752648940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post-81600580599557676342007-07-02T20:27:00.000-05:002007-07-02T20:27:00.000-05:00Ah the Celts.... an earthy, argumentative, warlike...Ah the Celts.... an earthy, argumentative, warlike, clan-loving group of poets who spend most of their time playing golf, the uillean pipes, the bodran; throwing bricks at foreign occupation troops of Empire (or Claymores in the good old days)smoking like chimneys and drinking strong whisky...ahh the Celts.<BR/>As "King Stephen" said in the movie "Braveheart" (paraphrase) "God created the Irish so He could have someone close to His equal to converse with."<BR/>Wish I too was a Celt<BR/>Fr. Watson SSP (East Anglia ??; close but no cigar)Jay Watsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13482261288019583877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post-5760499815895539052007-07-02T14:38:00.000-05:002007-07-02T14:38:00.000-05:00Oops. Mallie, not Malley.Oops. Mallie, not Malley.solarbloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17506179756577015681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22781533.post-67559463072389257542007-07-02T14:36:00.000-05:002007-07-02T14:36:00.000-05:00YES!Another Celt in our circles.Some of my closest...YES!<BR/><BR/>Another Celt in our circles.<BR/><BR/>Some of my closest Lutheran friends are have last names like Kyle, Byrnes, and Malley, but I'm always happy to discover more. And you're right about the authoritarian streak.solarbloggerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17506179756577015681noreply@blogger.com