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J.M.J.
If the web has taken away
Your ability attention to pay
You need not worry nor have fear;
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Why ROMAnce?
Only the common man is equipped to perceive the immense pleasure of orthodoxy.
Preliminary Disclaimer & Advisory
This book has teeth.
by J. P. F. McGuire
a| To give you an idea of what you’ve got on your hands this (manu)script has received so far only unqualified praise and unqualified criticism. But if you can get past your feelings and think about what this work contains please email me post-haste with your thoughts. I think I should give you fair warning that if you earned your degree and then stopped thinking you will hate me because you and I are polar opposites. I fancy that tradition and élitism are forever at odds, but I’ll let you know when I’m one hundred percent on that. For me there will always be mysteries, an attitude that for me is what being Catholic (realistic) means, and that openness permeates every word I jot as a matter of both conscience and trained habit. What drives me is mission rather than ambition. Mainly I think this is because we are all going to die, and who knows when? Once you accept that reality nothing else I say can shock you. I do not think I know anything you don’t, common man. I do think I’ve “wasted” more time than does the average Catholic linking facts that at a cursory glance look “disconnected” and maybe “irrelevant,” my hermeneutic being succinctly spiritual freedom. I suffer from Asperger’s Syndrome and have been told I sound condescending when I am merely excited. The reading that follows is not casual reading but it is common reading if you will. It is meant to help you change your life the way you deeply yearn to by challenging all the dangling threads, often including one or two you may have falsely identified yourself with and, one at a time, bringing all things life-giving into crisp perspective.
b| This is not a manuscript but simply a script intended to be not a book but a lecture, so ideally I would read it aloud in a forum of about fifty people. If you want to take such a plunge in your parish email me. My theme may be summed up as Teachings that once upon a time inspired people to give up riches, marriage and their lives or simply Doctrines that made saints. That is why naturally my trust of recently convened councils, conferences and conventions as compared with two thousand years of tradition is thin at best, but I do listen most attentively (indeed perhaps too attentively for the liking of some). If you don’t understand why I give the élites such grief then such are my failures as a writer, and there’s an end of it.
c| I don’t have an issue with authority, and I refuse to wear the mask of traditionalism. Rather I love and hate all ideologies equally just as I love and hate all races equally. There are those whose agenda hinges on eviscerating the common man so their geopolitical sorcery can work. Every time I hear some talking head or empty suit (or cassock most unfortunately) say the United Nations needs to have “teeth” I ask myself, How can I give the common man teeth for when this inevitably degenerates into tyranny? (Not that I don’t get an ecstatic thrill at the thought of a bankster-run world parliament or anything, don’t get me wrong.) I am not a relativist or an anarchist in the conventional sense (probably because I’m simply not conventional). I neither favor all authority nor oppose all authority because I deem both stances loony and mentally lazy. I am daily more convinced that there is no point that is good in the United States Constitution that will not find its best soul-sister in Catholic doctrine. I care more about man than about humanism, more about God than about theology. I don’t need endless novelty or evolution. I need freedom!
d| I do not endorse bombing the United Nations for one simple reason: abolishing one’s mental laziness will do infinitely more good, and good of an “irreparable” sort (so to speak). This book has teeth, and if you let it it will take you to the foot of the cross intellectually. This could be why it has received only unqualified praise and unqualified criticism. Without pretending to grasp the meaning behind the hunger and the distaste, that will be my gauge for now to know whether it’s fulfilling its mission.
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