Postscripts From The Catholic Spitfire Grill

Catholic Carnival #111 is up on To Jesus Through Mary.  Please go visit to see what other Catholic Bloggers are saying. May I particularly suggest The Educational Tour Marm’s post on cemetaries? Why? Well because it’s nice to know that I’m not the only one. I am sure that my husband rethought the wisdom of marrying me when on our honeymoon I shouted, “Stop the car!! I have to get pictures of that really cool cemetary!”….It’s interesting too.

And “Why is my cross heavier?” on www.joysoriano.com is very thought provoking.

While I am at it, I’d also like to suggest reading a post that is not on the Catholic Carnival. Contemplating Christian makes some great points about “Seeker Sensitive” churches and “reaching the lost” in response to some of the discussion on this blog. To which I’d like to say “What she said.”

Only a year after earning a master’s degree at Oxford University, Thomas Pilcher of Battle, England, resigned from his Oxford fellowship to begin seminary studies abroad. Following his March 1583 ordination to the priesthood in Laon, France, he returned to England to serve the country’s Catholics persecuted under Queen Elizabeth I. Father WIlliam Warford, a contemporary of Father Picher, said of him, “There was not a priest in the whole west of England who, to my knowlege, was equal in his virtue.” After being captured and banished from England in 1585, Father Pilcher quickly re-entered the country in secret to resume his pastoral labors. His second arrest in March of 1857 led inexorably to a death sentence pronounced against him just two week later. HE made the most of his time as a prisoner, converting thirty people during this two-week interval. On the day of his execution, Father Pilcher was dragged through the streets so roughly the he momentarily fainted from the ordeal upon reaching the scaffold. He suffered death by drawing and quartering.

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