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1 May - June 2019 Newsletter of the SSPX in Great Britain and Scandinavia The Natural Law is like a lighthouse; it will not bring you to safe har- bour by itself, but it will ward you off the rocks of your disordered passions.

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Natural Law

God's law written into every heart

Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani, District Superior

O God, Who, in creating human will, and he was in the likeness of nature, didst wonderfully dignify God because he was in a state of it, and still more wonderfully re- grace. His nature was thus wonder- store it.. fully dignified.

My dear brethren, The state of grace was then lost with original sin, but the image of God, although damaged, remained. What is the Natural Law Adam had lost his participation in and what is it for? the supernatural life of God, but his intellect and will remained ordered There is a law written into the to God - not supernaturally, but heart of every man which is the naturally - not necessarily in their measure of his actions. It is a light actions, but in their finality which and a compass by which he may was the perfect knowledge and love rightly judge his actions. This law is of God. what we call the Natural Law. Adam also had a law within him - God made man in his own image a law which was written into his and likeness. St. Augustine says nature by which he could judge his that Adam was in the image of God actions. In his fallen state, he could because he had an intellect and only manage an imperfect, natural

6 May - June 2019 knowledge and love of God. He artist or a peasant - one cannot could not attain that supernatural fail to discern an exquisite order end for which he was made, but within and between every being of the law within him was like a light- the universe. Every grain of sand, house that kept him from the rocks every organism, plant, animal and of self-destruction. It couldn't bring man himself is an order of matter him home to his supernatural hav- seemingly infinite in complexity. en, but it preserved him so that he The more closely one observes any might be rescued. material object, the more astonish- ing are the discoveries one makes. And so it is for every son of Adam when conceived in his mother's But this order which is observed womb. Every man is in the image of by the senses, is only one facet of God, is damaged by original sin, is the order that God has created: it is incapable of that for which he was the material order of the universe. made, but is naturally ordained to Alongside this order is an order God and has the law of God within that man cannot detect directly him to keep him from self-destruc- with his senses or instruments - it tion - if he would but heed it. is the spiritual order. The most ob- vious example of this spiritual or- der is life itself. We cannot see life How do we know it exists? or the soul, but we see its effects in the extraordinary orchestra of We know that the Natural Law ex- atoms within every living creature. ists by faith and by common sense Life is an example of an order that [see next article]. We can also see can also exist free from matter; an that it is indeed "due" to man - not order that embraces not only living as a right - but as something that material creatures but includes we would expect of a God Who the immaterial creatures which is good and Who has made us for we know to be the angels and the Himself. We can see this when we demons. We cannot detect them consider the order that exists in the directly with our senses but be can universe. The reasoning is thus: - know they exist by their effects.

However one may look at the uni- Now, the spiritual order does not verse - with eyes of a scientist, an pertain only to essences or beings,

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it includes their actions too. God Natural Law - so that he can avoid has not only created a spiritual or- shipwreck. der of beings, He has also created a spiritual order of conduct so that the universe as a whole, and all Knowledge of the things individually within it, tend to Natural Law the end for which they were made. The Natural Law, therefore, being In the plants and animals, this inscribed into a man's nature is order of conduct is fixed in their knowable to all men who have the respective natures so that plants faculty of reason at least in its pri- and animals always act according mary principle which is "do good to their own nature and do what and avoid evil" and in those prin- they are supposed to do. You would ciples that can be directly derived never, for example, come across from this first principle such as the a vegan cat or a dog who was de- ten commandments. As such, these pressed because he couldn't fly. principles apply to all men, at all But man is different because he times and are entirely immutable. has free will. He can choose his ac- tions - whether they conform to his For more complex circumstances, nature or whether they go against. however, the Natural Law is not Those actions which conform to necessarily known by all men be- his nature are morally good and cause it requires a more complex those that go against his nature are reasoning and, for this reason, Pos- morally bad. Those actions which itive Law is necessary to guide man make him tend to the end for which to the end for which he is made. he was made - the knowledge, love This Positive Law is both Human and service of God - are good; those - such as the just laws of state con- that lead him to self-destruction cerning, for example, inheritance are bad. or security etc. - and Divine - when they are revealed by God, such as Now because God is good, He has the teaching of Our Lord on humili- not left fallen man like a ship in the ty in His parables. ocean without bearings. He has given man an innate knowledge of the correct order of conduct - the

8 May - June 2019 A kingdom divided

If a man ignores the Natural Law, as we have said, he is acting in a way that will not lead him to the end that God intends and he risks destruction. When Our Lord says: “Every kingdom divided against it- self shall be brought to desolation”, He was not only referring to the or- der of fallen angels, He was speak- ing of the man who ignores His law; for when a man rebels against the Natural Law, he does nothing less than rebel against his own nature. He is divided against himself and will necessarily fail. Ignoring the lighthouse, his boat will founder on the rocks of his unbridled passions.

This is indeed what we are wit- nessing in our present day. The forces of darkness are working to extinguish the light of that light- house in every soul so that few see it anymore. There is now an almost universal rejection of the Natural Law at every level in society. Re- bellion is enshrined in the laws of almost every land and the common

Ivan Aivazovsky Ship on a Stormy Sea 1886

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man has long ceased to listen to its that is in us by nature at our birth voice. Contraception, promiscuity, is elevated to a new order and given divorce, abortion, feminism, homo- effect through His grace at our re- sexuality, pornography, sex educa- birth. Let us rejoice and give thanks tion, legalisation of drugs, assisted for this. suicide, euthanasia, transgender ideology and usury represent a And when the Lord shall have comprehensive rejection of God's brought thee into a land that will for mankind and hence the floweth with milk and honey, alle- quasi totality of mankind's rebel- luia; and that the law of the Lord lion against itself. be always in thy mouth, . ( of Easter Monday)

Nature more wonderfully I wish you all every grace of the restored Risen Christ with all its attendant joy and peace. But for those for whom the light still burns - those who are still In Jesu et Maria, attentive to the lighthouse within - Rev. Robert Brucciani their fallen nature is raised up to a new order of existence by and raised higher still by every subsequent increase in sanctify- Other news ing grace. It was the Redemption wrought by Jesus Christ, which we St. Michael's School has a busy commemorated in , cele- month of May. brate now in and re-en- –– On Monday 6th May is the act every day at the Holy Sacrifice May Procession. Mass is at of the Mass that carries us away 10:30am and the procession from the rocks and towards the is at 2pm (bring your own safe haven of heaven. picnic). –– On Saturday 11th May, His The nature that God did wonderful- Lordship, Fellay will ly dignify in Adam at his creation administer the sacrament of is more wonderfully restored in us . The ceremony by His re-creation. The inclination begins at 12noon.

10 May - June 2019 quest to [email protected] On Sunday 12th May, Bishop Fellay will administer the sacrament of Rev. Fr. Gary Holden has been Confirmation at Ss. Margaret & appointed as chaplain of the Leonard's, Edinburgh. The ceremo- Third Order of the Society of ny begins at 11am. St. Pius X. We look forward to pro- moting the Third Order as a means On Saturday 11th March, the annual of sanctification and as a vehicle for March For Life will take place in our apostolate to restore all things London. Please go along to pray in Christ. For those who are inter- the rosary in reparation for the ested please contact Fr. Holden at unspeakable evil that is abortion. [email protected] Meet at St. Joseph's for Mass at 11am, the march starts at 2pm. For parents worried about the influ- Bring a banner of Our Lady if you ence of the world on their children, can. Details can be found at march- please consider enrolling them in forlife.co.uk the Eucharistic Crusade. With a monthly magazine, prayer inten- On Friday 28th June, Rev. Rupert tions and treasure sheets, it is an Bevan will be ordained to the excellent means of education and priesthood at the Séminaire St-Pie sanctification. Rev. Fr. Vianney Van- X, Ecône, Switzerland. The cere- dendaele is the chaplain and may mony begins at 9am. Please keep be contacted at [email protected] him in your prayers. There is no pil- grim group organised, but it is very easy to travel to Ecône via Geneva.

The Our Lady of Fatima Cate- chism Correspondence Course run by the Sisters of the Society of St. Pius X now welcomes children and adults to apply. This is an ex- cellent way to learn the faith in a structured manner and with indi- vidual tuition. For an application A rare vestige of our form, please write to St. George's Catholic past which House, Wimbledon or send a re- rejoices the heart

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Natural Law & Common Sense

C. S. Lewis

Adaptation of the first two chap- People say things like that every ters of Mere Christianity. day, educated people as well as uneducated, and children as well as grown-ups. Discernment by Common Sense Now what interests me about all these remarks is that the man who Everyone has heard people quar- makes them is not merely saying relling. Sometimes it sounds funny that the other man's behaviour does and sometimes it sounds merely not happen to please him. He is unpleasant; but however it sounds, appealing to some kind of standard I believe we can learn something of behaviour which he expects the very important from listening to other man to know about. And the the kind of things they say. They other man very seldom replies: "To say things like this: "How'd you hell with your standard." Nearly like it if anyone did the same to always he tries to make out that you?"—"That's my seat, I was there what he has been doing does not first"—"Leave him alone, he isn't really go against the standard, or doing you any harm"— "Why should that if it does there is some special you shove in first?"—"Give me a bit excuse. He pretends there is some of your orange, I gave you a bit of special reason in this particular mine"—"Come on, you promised." case why the person who took the

12 May - June 2019 seat first should not keep it, or that Natural Law, man cannot choose things were quite different when he to disobey them. A man can choose was given the bit of orange, or that to do something immoral, but he something has turned up which lets can’t choose to jump over the moon him off keeping his promise. or remain healthy on a diet of Co- ca-Cola. It looks, in fact, very much as if both parties had in mind some kind of Law or Rule of fair play or decent Universality of Natural Law behaviour or morality or whatever you like to call it, about which they I know that some people say the really agreed. And they have. If idea of a Natural Law or decent they had not, they might, of course, behaviour known to all men is fight like animals, but they could unsound, because different civili- not quarrel in the human sense of sations and different ages have had the word. Quarrelling means trying quite different moralities. to show that the other man is in the wrong. And there would be no But this is not true. There have sense in trying to do that unless been differences between their you and he had some sort of agree- moralities, but these have never ment as to what Right and Wrong amounted to anything like a total are; just as there would be no sense difference. If anyone will take in saying that a footballer had the trouble to compare the mor- committed a foul unless there was al teaching of, say, the ancient some agreement about the rules of Egyptians, Babylonians, Hindus, football. Chinese, Greeks and Romans, what will really strike him will be how Now this Law or Rule about Right very like they are to each other and and Wrong is called the Natural to our own. Some of the evidence Law. There are, of course, other for this I have put together in the laws to which a man is naturally appendix of another called subject, such as the physical or The Abolition of Man; but for our biological laws of nature, which, present purpose I need only ask like the Natural Law, are generally the to think what a totally known by all men through experi- different morality would mean. ence or education, but, unlike the Think of a country where people

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were admired for running away in Right and Wrong— in other words, battle, or where a man felt proud of if there is no Natural Law—what is double-crossing all the people who the difference between a fair treaty had been kindest to him. and an unfair one? Have they not let the cat out of the bag and shown You might just as well try to im- that, whatever they say, they really agine a country where two and two know the Natural Law just like an- made five. Men have differed as re- yone else? gards what people you ought to be unselfish to—whether it was only your own family, or your fellow Error about the Natural Law countrymen, or everyone. But they have always agreed that you ought It seems, then, we are forced to not to put yourself first. Selfishness believe in a real Right and Wrong. has never been admired. Men have People may be sometimes mistaken differed as to whether you should about them, just as people some- have one wife or four. But they have times get their sums wrong; but always agreed that you not they are not a matter of mere taste simply have any woman you liked. and opinion any more than the mul- tiplication table. But the most remarkable thing is this. Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Keeping the Natural Law Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a mo- Now if we are agreed about that, ment later. He may break his prom- I go on to my next point, which is ise to you, but if you try breaking this. None of us are really keeping one to him he will be complaining the Natural Law. If there are any "It's not fair" before you can say exceptions among you, I apologise Jack Robinson. A nation may say to them. They had much better read treaties do not matter, but then, some other work, for nothing I am next minute, they spoil their case going to say concerns them. by saying that the particular treaty they want to break was an unfair And now, turning to the ordinary one. But if treaties do not matter, human beings who are left: I hope and if there is no such thing as you will not misunderstand what I

14 May - June 2019 am going to say. I am not preaching, they are one more proof of how and Heaven knows I do not pretend deeply, whether we like it or not, to be better than anyone else. I am we believe in the Natural Law. If only trying to call attention to a we do not believe in decent behav- fact; the fact that this year, or this iour, why should we be so anxious month, or, more likely, this very to make excuses for not having day, we have failed to practise behaved decently? The truth is, we ourselves the kind of behaviour we believe in decency so much—we expect from other people. There feel the Rule or Law pressing on us may be all sorts of excuses for us. so— that we cannot bear to face That time you were so unfair to the the fact that we are breaking it, and children was when you were very consequently we try to shift the tired. That slightly shady business responsibility. For you notice that about the money—the one you have it is only for our bad behaviour that almost forgotten—came when you we find all these explanations. It were very hard up. And what you is only our bad temper that we put promised to do for old So-and-so down to being tired or worried or and have never done—well, you hungry; we put our good temper never would have promised if you down to ourselves. had known how frightfully busy you were going to be. And as for These, then, are the two points I your behaviour to your wife (or wanted to make. First, that human husband) or sister (or brother) if I beings, all over the earth, have this knew how irritating they could be, curious idea that they ought to be- I would not wonder at it—and who have in a certain way, and cannot the dickens am I, anyway? I am just really get rid of it. Secondly, that the same. they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Natural Law; That is to say, I do not succeed in they break it. These two facts are keeping the Natural Law very well, the foundation of all clear thinking and the moment anyone tells me I about ourselves and the universe am not keeping it, there starts up we live in. in my mind a string of excuses as long as your arm. The question at the moment is not whether they are good excuses. The point is that

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to follow the impulse to help, and Objections suppress the impulse to run away. Now this thing that judges between If they are the foundation, I had two instincts, that decides which better stop to make that founda- should be encouraged, cannot itself tion firm before I go on. Some of be either of them. the letters I have had show that a good many people find it difficult to Another way of seeing that the Nat- understand just what this Natural ural Law is not simply one of our in- Law is. stincts is this. If' two instincts are in conflict, and there is nothing in a creature's mind except those two Isn't it simply instinct? instincts, obviously the stronger of' the two must win. But at those For example, some people wrote to moments when we are most con- me saying, 'Isn't what you call the scious of the Natural Law, it usually Natural Law simply our herd in- seems to be telling us to side with stinct and hasn't it been developed the weaker of the two impulses. just like all our other instincts?' You probably want to be safe much Now I do not deny that we may more than you want to help the have a herd instinct: but instinct is man who is drowning: but the Nat- not the same as the Natural Law. By ural Law tells you to help him all instinct you feel a strong want or the same. And surely it often tells desire to act in a certain way. But us to try to make the right impulse feeling a desire is quite different stronger than it naturally is? I from feeling that you ought to act in mean, we often feel it our duty to a certain way. Supposing you hear stimulate the herd instinct, by wak- a cry for help from a man in danger. ing up our imaginations and arous- You will probably feel two desires ing our pity and so on, so as to get one a desire to give help (due to up enough steam for doing the right your herd instinct), the other a de- thing. But clearly we are not acting sire to keep out of danger (due to from instinct when we set about the instinct for self-preservation). making an instinct stronger than it But you will find inside you, in addi- is. The thing that says to you, 'Your tion to these two impulses, a third herd instinct is asleep. Wake it up,' thing which tells you that you ought cannot itself be the herd instinct.

16 May - June 2019 Here is a third way of seeing it. A was safe, but it is not. If you leave particular desire aroused by in- out justice you will find yourself stinct may sometimes be good to breaking agreements and faking follow and sometimes bad. A desire evidence in trials 'for the sake of to violently strike an enemy is to be humanity,' and become in the end a encouraged in a soldier if the op- cruel and treacherous man. ponent is a member of an invading army, but discouraged if it is his sergeant-major. A desire to eat is Isn't it just a good to follow when the body needs social convention? sustenance, and bad to follow if you have just finished dinner. The Other people wrote to me saying, Natural Law, as it martials our in- 'Isn't what you call the Moral Law stinctive desires to the good, is al- just a social convention, something ways good and there is none of our that is put into us by education?' I instinctive impulses which the Nat- think there is a misunderstanding ural Law may not sometimes tell us here. The people who ask that ques- to suppress, and none which it may tion are usually taking it for grant- not sometimes tell us to encourage. ed that if we have learned a thing The Natural Law is not any one from parents and teachers, then instinct or any set of instincts: it that thing must be merely a human is something which makes a kind invention. But, of course, that is not of tune (the tune we call goodness so. We all learned the multiplication or right conduct) by directing the table at school. A child who grew instincts. up alone on a desert island would not know it. But surely it does not By the way, this point is of great follow that the multiplication ta- practical consequence. The most ble is simply a human convention, dangerous thing you can do is to something human beings have take any one impulse of your own made up for themselves and might nature and set it up as the thing you have made different if they had ought to follow at all costs. There liked? I fully agree that we learn the is not one of them which will not Rule of Decent Behaviour from par- make us into devils if we set it up ents and teachers, and friends and as an absolute guide. You might , as we learn everything else. think love of humanity in general But some of the things we learn are

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mere conventions which might have I conclude then, that though the dif- been different - we learn to keep to ferences between people's ideas of the left of the road, but it might just Decent Behaviour often make you as well have been the rule to keep suspect that there is no real natu- to the right; and others of them, ral Law of Behaviour at all, yet the like mathematics, are real truths. things we are bound to think about The question is to which class the these differences really prove just Law of Human Nature belongs. the opposite.

There are two reasons for saying it But one word before I end. I have belongs to the same class as math- met people who exaggerate the ematics. The first is, as I said in the differences, because they have not first chapter, that though there are distinguished between differences differences between the moral ide- of morality and differences of belief as of one time or country and those about facts. For example, one man of another, the differences are not said to me, 'Three hundred years really very great and you can recog- ago people in England were putting nise the same law running through witches to death. Was that what them all: whereas mere conven- you call the Rule of Human Nature tions, like the rule of the road or or Right Conduct?' But surely the the kind of clothes people wear, reason why the people in England may differ to any extent. no longer execute witches is be- cause they do not believe there are The other reason is this. When you such things; it is not because they think about these differences be- have a different fundamental law of tween the morality of one people behaviour which is determined by and another you are, in fact, meas- social convention. You would not uring them both by a standard, call a man humane for ceasing to saying that one of them conforms set mousetraps if he did so because to that standard more nearly than he believed there were no mice in the other. But the standard that the house. measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality which is the Natural Law.

18 May - June 2019 SERMON FOR EASTER SUNDAY MORNING

shouted Crucifige, Cruci- Identification with those fige eum! who crucified Jesus

During the last week, my dear Identification with those brethren, we have heard the who rejoice at the Resurrec- four accounts of the Passion tion of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We have witnessed His We are all sinners, my dear rejection: brethren, but because we are –– by His chosen race; here on this Easter morn, al- –– by the secular powers, the though we have crucified Our gentiles; Saviour, He has won us back. –– and by His closest friends, And just as we might identify precisely when He needed ourselves in the past with His them most. executioners, today and may it be forever, we can identify our- And in all the characters that selves with Mary Magdalene, made that Sacred Heart suffer Mary the mother of James and so much, my dear brethren, Salome, with the apostles Peter there is one thing that is com- and John, with all sinners who mon. In everyone of them, if we have been forgiven. look closely enough, we can see ourselves: What must have been their hap- –– yes, it was me who fled, at piness! It is the happiness of the first sign of danger in the whole Church, the elation of the garden of Gethsemani; victory echoing down the centu- –– yes, it was me who swore ries. It is the joy of the , that I would stand by my the of angels, and - above Lord even to death, and all - the joy of the Blessed Vir- then denied Him thrice; gin Mary. –– yes it was me struck the Holy Face and spat upon Let us offer prayers of thanks Him to please my peers; and prayers for perseverance –– yes it was me who was pre- for we would never wish to lose pared to sacrifice my Lord that which has been so dearly for the good of the people, won. for human respect; –– yes it was me who went I wish you every grace and joy along with the crowd and of the Risen Christ! Blessed Virgin Mary

May, the Month of Promise & Joy

Cardinal John Henry Newman

From Meditations on the of of external Nature is a fit attendant Loreto, for the Month of May. on our devotion to her who is the Mystical Rose and the House of Gold. May the Month of Promise A man may say, "True; but in this Why is May chosen as the month in climate we have sometimes a which we exercise a special devo- bleak, inclement May." This can- tion to the Blessed Virgin? not be denied; but still, so much is true that at least it is the month of The first reason is because it is the promise and of hope. Even though time when the earth bursts forth the weather happen to be bad, it is into its fresh foliage and its green the month that begins and heralds grass after the stern frost and snow in the summer. We know, for all of winter, and the raw atmosphere that may be unpleasant in it, that and the wild wind and rain of fine weather is coming, sooner or the early spring. It is because the later. "Brightness and beautiful- blossoms are upon the trees and ness shall," in the Prophet's words, the flowers are in the gardens. It is "appear at the end, and shall not because the days have got long, and lie: if it make delay, wait for it, for it the sun rises early and sets late. shall surely come, and shall not be For such gladness and joyousness slack."

20 May - June 2019 May then is the month, if not of fulfilment, at least of promise; and is not this the very aspect in which we most suitably regard the Blessed Virgin, Holy Mary, to whom this month is dedicated?

The Prophet says, "There shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise out of his root. Who is the flower but our Blessed Lord? Who is the rod, or beautiful stalk or stem or plant out of which the flower grows, but Mary, Mother of our Lord, Mary, Mother of God?

It was prophesied that God should come upon earth. When the time was now full, how was it an- nounced? It was announced by the Angel coming to Mary. "Hail, full of grace," said Gabriel, "the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women." She then was the sure promise of the coming Saviour, and therefore May is by a special title her month. Blessed Virgin Mary

May the Month of Joy May not unfrequently. May, there- fore, is the time in which there are Why is May called the month of such frequent , because Mary, and especially dedicated to Christ has risen from the grave, her? Among other reasons there is Christ has ascended on high, and this, that of the Church's year, the God the Holy Ghost has come down ecclesiastical year, it is at once the to take His place. most sacred and the most festive and joyous portion. Who would Here then we have a reason why wish February, March, or April, to May is dedicated to the Blessed be the month of Mary, considering Mary. She is the first of creatures, that it is the time of and pen- the most acceptable child of God, ance? Who again would choose De- the dearest and nearest to Him. It is cember, the season—a time fitting then that this month should of hope, indeed, because Christmas be hers, in which we especially is coming, but a time of fasting too? glory and rejoice in His great Prov- Christmas itself does not last for a idence to us, in our redemption and month; and January has indeed the sanctification in God the Father, joyful Epiphany, with its Sundays in God the Son, and God the Holy succession; but these in most years Ghost. are cut short by the urgent coming of . But Mary is not only the acceptable handmaid of the Lord. She is also May on the contrary belongs to the Mother of His Son, and the Queen Easter season, which lasts fifty of all Saints, and in this month days, and in that season the whole the Church has placed the feasts of May commonly falls, and the first of some of the greatest of them, half always. The great Feast of the as if to bear her company. First, Ascension of our Lord into heaven however, there is the Feast of the is always in May, except once or Holy Cross, on the 3d of May, when twice in forty years. Pentecost, we venerate that Precious Blood called also Whit-Sunday, the Feast in which the Cross was bedewed of the Holy Ghost, is commonly at the time of our Lord's Passion. in May, and the Feasts of the Holy The Archangel St. Michael, and Trinity and Corpus Christi are in three Apostles, have feast-days in

22 May - June 2019 this month: St. John, the beloved disciple, St. Philip, and St. James. Seven Popes, two of them espe- cially famous, St. Gregory VII and St. Pius V; also two of the greatest Doctors, St. Athanasius and St. Gregory Nazianzen; two holy Vir- gins especially favoured by God, St. Catherine of Sienna (as her feast is kept in England), and St. Mary Mag- dalen of Pazzi; and one holy woman most memorable in the annals of the Church, St. Monica, the Mother of St. Augustine. And above all, and nearest to us in this Church, our own holy Patron and Father, St. Philip, occupies, with his Novena and Octave, fifteen out of the whole thirty-one days of the month. These are some of the choicest fruits of God's manifold grace, and they form the court of their glorious Queen.

Virgin in Prayer 1640-50 Giovanni Battista Sassoferrato at the National Gallery, London Blessed Virgin Mary

See my Blessed Mother

Revelations of Divine Love

Juliana of Norwich

Revelations of Divine Love is one she is the highest joy that I might of the great mystical works of the shew thee, and most pleasance Middle Ages. It is the fruit of the and worship to Me; and most she contemplations of an anchoress is desired to be seen of My blessed in 14th century Norwich. In this creatures. chapter she tells of how Our Lord held up His mother as testimony And for the high, marvellous, singu- of His love for every soul. lar love that He hath to this sweet Maiden, His blessed Mother, our Lady Saint Mary, He shewed her The Eleventh Revelation highly rejoicing, as by the meaning Chapter XXV of these sweet words; as if He said: Wilt thou see how I love her, that And with this same cheer of mirth thou mightest joy with Me in the and joy our good Lord looked down love that I have in her and she in on the right side and brought to my Me? mind where our Lady stood in the time of His Passion; and said: Wilt And also (unto more understanding thou see her? And in this sweet this sweet word) our Lord speaketh word [it was] as if He had said: I to all mankind that shall be saved, wot well that thou wouldst see My as it were all to one person, as if He blessed Mother: for, after Myself, said: Wilt thou see in her how thou

24 May - June 2019 The Wilton Diptyck (detail) c1395 painter unknown, at the National Gallery, London art loved? For thy love I made her and glorious, and pleasing to Him so high, so noble and so worthy; above all creatures. and this pleaseth me, and so will I that it doeth thee. And He willeth that it be known; that all those that please them [re- For after Himself she is the most joice] in Him should please them in blissful sight. her, and in the pleasance that He hath in her and she in Him. And, to But hereof am I not learned to long more understanding, He shewed to see her bodily presence while this example: As if a man love a I am here, but the virtues of her creature singularly, above all crea- blessed soul: her truth, her wisdom, tures, he willeth to make all crea- her charity; whereby I may learn to tures to love and to have pleasance know myself and reverently dread in that creature that he loveth so my God. And when our good Lord greatly. And in this word that Jesus had shewed this and said this word: said: Wilt thou see her? methought Wilt thou see her? I answered and it was the most pleasing word that said: Yea, good Lord, I thank Thee; He might have given me of her, with yea, good Lord, if it be Thy will. that ghostly Shewing that He gave me of her. For our Lord shewed Oftentimes I prayed this, and I me nothing in special but our Lady weened to have seen her in bodi- Saint Mary; and her He shewed ly presence, but I saw her not so. three times. The first was as she And Jesus in that word shewed me was with Child; the second was as ghostly sight of her: right as I had she was in her sorrows under the seen her afore little and simple, so Cross; the third is as she is now in He shewed her then high and noble pleasing, worship, and joy.

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Juliana of Norwich

13th May

Rev. Robert Brucciani

Nothing is known for certain about days, she had a series of 16 visions Juliana's actual name, family, or ("shewings") of Jesus Christ. They education, or of her life prior to her ended by the time she recovered becoming an anchoress. Juliana from her illness on 13th May 1373. was probably born around 1342. She may have been from a privi- Juliana wrote about her visions im- leged family that lived in or near mediately after they had happened, Norwich which was then the sec- in a version of the “Revelations of ond largest city in England. Divine Love” now known as the “Short Text.” It is believed to be the When Juliana was 30 years old earliest surviving book written in and living at home, she suffered a the English language by a woman. serious illness and was presumed to be near death. A came to Sometime after her visions, she administer the last rites on 8th May withdrew from the world to a life of 1373. As part of the ritual, he held a permanent seclusion as an anchor- crucifix in the air above the foot of ess in a cell attached to St Julian's her bed. Juliana reported that she Church, Norwich from whence was losing her sight and felt physi- her names "Juliana (or Julian) of cally numb, but as she gazed on the Norwich, Dame Julian or Mother crucifix she saw the figure of Jesus Julian" most probably originate. It begin to bleed. Over the next few appears that despite her seclusion

26 May - June 2019 A Woman (detail) c1435 by Robert Campin at the National Gallery, London

from the world, Juliana became a such as the problem of evil, pre- spiritual authority, counsellor and destination, salvation, and hell. advisor to many visitors. [It is ever Christ’s Passion is revealed to her thus with contemplatives!}. in all its intensity, yet through it, Juliana receives assurance of God’s Twenty to thirty years after the infinite gentleness and mercy and "shewings", Juliana wrote a theo- his everlasting love for souls. logical exploration of the meaning of the visions. It is known as “The Juliana has not been formally beat- Long Text.” None of the original ified or canonised, but is popularly manuscripts of either the Short venerated as "Saint", "Blessed", or Text or the Long Text have sur- "Mother" Juliana or Julian. Her vived, but they were extensively feast day (by popular celebration) copied. Juliana is regarded as one is on 13th May. of the great mystics of the Middle ages.

Revelations of Divine Love deals with difficult theological questions

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Treasures of the Liturgy

Eastertide

Rev. M. S. McMahon

This article is taken from 2. From the LITURGICAL CATECHISM to the Vigil of Pentecost—the peri- published in 1930. od of the Ascension. 3. The Vigil of Pentecost, the Feast Eastertide of Pentecost and its Octave.

Q. Over what period of time Q. What is the chief characteris- does Eastertide extend? tic of Eastertide? A. It lasts fifty-six days, from East- A. It is a time of spiritual joy. It er Saturday till first of the symbolises the joys of Heaven. The Saturday of Pentecost Quarter joy of Eastertide is a foretaste of Tense, that is, the Saturday before eternal happiness. . Q. What is the source of that Q. Into what three sections may joy? it be divided? A. Christ's victory in His Resurrec- A. 1. From Easter to the Feast of tion over sin and death and hell: the Ascension, which we may call “To Thee, Who died, again dost the period of the Resurrection, live. All glory, Lord, Thy people the forty days during which Christ give." lived on earth after the Resurrec- and our triumph in Christ: tion. “ Thy captive people are set free,

28 May - June 2019 And endless life restored in Thee." in the 4th century, the Octave of (Vesper Hymn of Eastertide.) Pentecost in the 9th century, and The Resurrection is the foundation the Feast of the Ascension in the of the Christian faith, and with 4th century. Christ we are all risen.

Q. How was that joy exemplified Easter and its Octave in early Christian practice? A. Easter with its Octave was one Q. What is the origin of our long holiday of obligation, during word Easter? which no servile work was allowed. A. It is derived from the Anglo-Sax- Prisoners were pardoned, slaves on name Eostra, the goddess of the were granted their freedom, and dawn and of spring, in whose hon- the rich gave bounteous alms to the our in pagan times fires of joy were poor, so that Easter joy was in the lighted at about the spring equinox. “widest commonality spread.” Q. What is its liturgical name? Q. How does this joy find ex- A. The Sunday of the Resurrection pression in the Masses of East- of Our Lord Jesus Christ. ertide? A. In the ever-recurring Alleluia, Q. How is it described in the an echo, like the , of the liturgical book called the Mar- Angels’ song. Two Alleluias are tyrology? added to each Introit and one to A. "This is the day which the Lord each and Communio, and hath made. This day is the most the Alleluiatic verse after Easter solemn of all solemnities. This Octave replaces the . The day is our Pasch. Upon this day Gloria in excelsis is said at the did Our Saviour Jesus Christ, ferial Masses of the period, and according to the flesh, rise again white are worn, the sym- from the dead.” bol of joy. Q. What is the meaning of the Q. When were the great feasts word Pasch? of Eastertide established ? A. It comes from the Greek word A. The feasts of Easter and Pente- pascha, which is derived from the cost were well established by the Hebrew pesach, meaning Passo- 2nd century, the Octave of Easter ver. The Jewish people celebrated

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the passing over of the destroying Baptism), the manna, the Paschal angel and their rescue from the Lamb, the land flowing with milk slavery of Egypt, while the Chris- and honey. tian Pasch celebrates the rescue of the human race from the slavery of Q. What is the origin of the Satan and of sin, and of its restora- present Easter Sunday Mass? tion to the freedom of the children A. It occupies the place of the for- of God. “ Christ is the true lamb mer second Mass of Easter day. Who hath taken away the sins of The first Mass at midnight or early the world; Who, by dying, hath dawn, which is now the Mass of overcome our death, and by ris- Holy Saturday, was intended for ing again hath restored our life ” the neophytes, the second Mass in (Easter ). broad daylight applied rather to the general faithful. Q. How is the date of Easter Sunday calculated? Q. Is there any special feature A. It is the Sunday which follows in the Mass and the Mass of the the full Paschal moon, that is, the Octave? Sunday which occurs after the full A. The , the Victima Pas- moon following the 21st of March, chali - one of five preserved in the the date of the spring equinox. Roman . Therefore it cannot fall earlier than the 22nd March nor later than the Q. Who is the author of this Se- 25th April. quence? A. The authorship, which is not Q. What is to be noted about the quite definitely established, is gen- Masses of this week? erally attributed to Wipo (+1050), A. They bear numerous reference court chaplain to the Emperors to the neophytes or newly-baptised, Conrad II and Henry III. who, clad in their white garments, put on them in baptism, attended Q. What important truth does it all the Station Masses of this week. imply? Cf., the Introit of Monday and Tues- A. What is so much insisted upon— day, the of Tuesday and of that the Passion, Death and Resur- Thursday, the Offertory of Wednes- rection of Our Saviour constitute day, and the many references to the one whole—the Christian Pasch: passage of the Red Sea (symbolic of “Together death and life in a

30 May - June 2019 strange conflict strive; The Prince i.e. the Sunday on which the white of life, Who died now lives and garments were discarded. The Neo- reigns.” phytes doffed their white garments on Saturday at the close of the Q. What is to be noted about the Octave and appeared in church on Post- of the Easter Low Sunday in their ordinary dress. Sunday Mass? It is also called Quasimodo Sunday A. During the whole of Eastertide from the first two words of the In- it replaces the “Deus qui nobis sub troit. sacratmento mirabili” when Holy Communion is administered in the Q. What is its most familiar church outside the Mass. name? A. Low Sunday. The word “low”— Q. What is the lesson to be arrived at by the clipping of the ini- learned from it? tial letter of the word “close" comes A. That the active participation in from the Latin clausum in the the Mass effects the loving com- phrase Pascha clausum (the close munion of all the faithful in Christ of the Pasch). But it is more likely and with one another. that the popular name has arisen from the contrast between the joys Q. When does the Octave end? of Easter and the first return to or- A. It ends with the canonical hour dinary . of None on Saturday. Q. How is the Second Sunday af- Q. Enumerate some of the popu- ter Easter called lar practices adopted at Easter A. It is called “Good Shepherd Sun- time. day " from the of the day. In A. The Blessing of meat and of the early centuries before the Cru- eggs, which were forbidden dur- cifix became the favourite symbol ing the Lent. The Blessing of the of our faith, the Christians of Paschal Lamb is the most familiar the Catacombs loved to depict Our example. Lord as the Good Shepherd seeking the lost sheep bearing a lamb upon Q. What is the liturgical name His shoulders. It made a tender ap- for the First Sunday after East- peal to their trusting hearts. er? A. Dominica in Albis (depositis),

31 X Of your charity please pray for the souls of

Mr. Richard Doherty of Glasgow who died on 23rd January 2019 Mr. Peter Forrestier-Smith of Carshalton who died on 13th February 2019 Mr. Gerard Pearce of Leicester who died 3rd April 2019 Mrs. Winifred Middlehurst of Liverpool who died on 12th April 2019

Please also pray for the following whose anniversaries occur about this time

May June Father Francis Yates, Mary Cahill, Irene Adams, Dom. Robert Mary Biddulph, Michael May, Dante Muriel Bailey, Gladys Harvey, Mary Moat, Tadeusz Spear, Elsie Burt, Mayne Mellersh, John Mathews, Czaykowski, Francis Wood, Dennis Adams, George Winifred Hill, Margaret Connett, Mary Fallon, James Smith, Mrs Warner, Mary Butler, John Callahan, Den- Blunt, Mr. Maieta, Jane Rossiter, John Smith, nis Trainer, Leroy Joseph Perry, Margaret Robinson, John Humphery, Ivy Spencer, Winifrede Bolton, D. Fitzpatrick, Hazael Young, James Shipstone, Mar- Olivia Poulton, Gabrielle Gregory, Margaret Wynne, guerite Rogers, Dorothy Alison, Louis Kelly, Veronique Mrs. P.V. Drew, Bridget Reynolds, Charles Embray, Decembre, Philip Lyons, Phyllis Balcombe, Josephine Rose Sullivan, Hugh Campbell, Mary Heathcote, Kelly, Alice Procter, Mary Sampson, Barbara Leggatt, Joyce Umfreville, Naomi Verne, John Robinson, Kit Edith Housing, Raymond McGregor, Edwin Lloyd, Freeman, Catherine O’Donnell, Edith Shepherd, Mary Angela Watson, Ruth Brawn, Joy Douglas, Madeleine Wright, Rita Doyle, Daniel Bouchard, Desdemona Bramble-Green, Florence Sheehan, Donald Lowdell, Bartlett, Charles Turner, Egons Libietis, Mary Hobbs, Michael Welch, Alban Russell, Sheila Sloan, Marie Patricia Brooker, Harold Dunkinson, Elizabeth Atkins, Belcher-Truss, Margaret Byrne, Margaret Gillespie, Mary Tweedie, Lionel Doggett, Valerie Hanssens, Desmond Singleton, Joseph Keegan, Robert Penfold, Fred Barnes, Cecily Cumberbatch, Derek and Eva Jean Calder-Smith, Martin Mongan, Michael Groves, New, Muriel Smith, Mary Carnoustie, Delia Hassell, Professor A. Cave, David Rowland, William Morgan, Peter Ward, Marjorie Salisbury, Kay Stavris, Grace Mary Wood, Josephine Shorten, Winifred Hales, Ber- Anderson, Alexander Ramnante, John Dowey, Miss L. nard Whalley, Rose Wilson, Katherine Campion-Kirk- Restieaux, Ken Cooper, Michael John Anselm-Brans- wood, Alice Hughes, Dr Brian Quigley, Philip Roche, by, Margaret Forteath, Hugh Ignatius-Quigley, Donald Dorothy McDonald, John O’Grady, Vivian Lardeaux, Humphrey, Edith Vaughan, Elizabeth Dowey, Joan Patrick Daly, Eileen Morley, Rita W.Budden, Helen Parton, Josephine Frances Clarke, Richard Steele, Wood., Ian Preece, Geoffrey Crisp, Francis Cowan, Colin Roderick Davies, Jack Thorpe, Jessie Igoe, Geraldine Weir, Arlene King, Michael Evelyn Turner, Thomas McDermott, A.E. Welsh, Mary Morris, David Frank Dusting, Margaret Taylor, Carol Thompson, Clifton, Raymond White, Philip Cookson, Paul de John Wyndham Murray, Dilys Anne Morris, Mary Remusat, Joyce Cleverly, Robin Whatley, Finbarr Morris, Margret Slowey, Frances Calcutt, Jon Peter Buckley, Catherine Gordon. Ida Joan White, Olive Wiselgren, Margaret Mayesi Lomas

Requiescant in pace I only ever knew Miss Lomas as one my "sick calls" when I was at St. Michael's School. She was born in Nottingham, but lived most of her life in Salisbury where she taught French at South Wilts Grammar School for Girls. She never married, because, as she explained, "a woman who had a career just didn't get married in my day." Visiting Miss Lomas was always a delight because she was eccentric in a charming way. Her evident weakness was for books - not so much them, even though she did that all the day long - but buying them. She simply couldn't resist the bargain that every book in a second hand bookshop represent- ed. So irresistible were they that they were piled high throughout her house. In her sitting room they even reached shoulder height and only a passage was left to the fireplace and armchair. "I have decided!" she regularly announced, "I am going to have a clear-out!" But for every bag of books that she reluctantly took to the second hand bookshop, she came back with two. Miss Lomas converted to Catholicism just before the , but was thoroughly dis- appointed by the changes that followed. Thankfully, her disappointment never dampened her faith; and neither did it dampen her spirits, for she ever-exuded a schoolgirl enthusiasm for all the local news such as you would readily imagine in a character out of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire. When living alone became too much for Miss Lomas, she moved into Braemar Lodge which is the nicest old people's home I have ever visited. Rev. Fr. Holden brought the sacraments to her for a good ten years before she died at the age of 96 last year. As her anniver- sary approaches, please say a pray for her soul for she leaves no family behind. From 18th to 23rd February, Rev. Fr. Edward Black preached a retreat to a goodly number of hailing from the District of Great Britain and the Autonomous House of Ireland. The stated goal of the retreat was an increase in the virtue of generosity in the apostolate emanat- ing from a deepening personal relationship of friendship with Our Lord Jesus Christ. Fr. Black dwelt extensively upon the experience of those who suffered persecution for Christ - particu- larly in the recent times of Soviet tyranny - and how they used their suffering to participate in His redemptive sacrifice. Characteristically, he highlighted a number of extraordinary para- doxes of our time such as how those who defend the natural law are now considered guilty of hate crimes and the enemies of society. Anticipating imminent persecution, he related how

34 May - June 2019 one priest found that reasoning with interrogators was useless. Where reason is dormant or damaged, simple affirmation of the truth had the best results.

For the record. Front row: Rev. Frs Robert Brucciani, Edward Black and Leo Boyle. Back row: Br. Ignatius, Rev. Frs. John Brucciani, Anthony Wingerden, Reid Hennick, Francis Gallagher, Marcel Ockerse, Sebastian Wall, Francis Ockerse, Håkan Lindström, Michael Seifritz, Gary Holden, Matthias Roling, Vianney Vandendaele, Lawrence Barrett, Patrick Kimball and Thom- as O'Hart.

35 Old Michaelian, Emmerich Jeindl (above right), received the second minor orders of & Exorcist on 3rd February at Herz Jesu (Sacred Heart) Seminary in Zaitskofen, Germany. Another Old Michaelian, Johannes Rehm (above left), received the first major order of Sub- deaconate on the Saturday of Sitientes (Saturday after the 4th Sunday of Lent) on 6th April. Rev. Fr. Gary Holden, their old housemaster (above centre), visited the seminary for the cer- emony on 3rd February. Deo gratias.

Meanwhile at the Seminary of St. Pius X at Ecône, Switzerland, Bernard Bevan (below) re- ceived the first minor orders of Porter & on Ember Saturday, 16th March . May many more young men answer the call to the highest office of them all! The District had the great pleasure of welcoming the 2nd Assistant to the Superior General, Rev. Fr. Christian Bouchacourt from 25th March to 2nd April. This being his first visit to this sceptred isle, he was amazed at the absence of fog and bowler hats. The official tour took in all the priories of the District where Fr. Bouchacourt was able to interview all the priests. On Laetare Sunday, Fr. Bouchacourt celebrated the at Ss. Margaret & Leonard's in Edinburgh.

On 26th March 2019, amid tight security, an accord was made at Downing Street. It was a rare event as no-one has agreed anything at Downing Street since the Brexit referendum of 23rd June 2016. Our Lady of Guadalupe & St. Gerard Majella Pro-Life Group gathers on the 2nd & 4th Sat- urdays of each month from 12noon until 2pm to pray 15 decades of the rosary outside the Town Hall in Ealing, West London. The Council have forbidden pro-life groups from standing outside the nearby abortion clinic because it might be upsetting to those who go there. May God reward the faithful who take part in these vigils. It would be a salutary thing if every Mass Centre did the same.

Gabrielle Rose Strat- ton, daughter of Dan- iel & Rowena Stratton was baptised by Rev. Fr. Lawrence Barrett on 17th February at St. Michael's School. Sr. Marie-Charbel and Sr. Mary Joseph, both resident at St. Saviour's House, Bristol, never miss an opportunity to promote the "Saville Row of scapulars." "These are the real ones," they say. "None of that polyester nonsense. It's woven wool! Guaranteed." The scapulars are on sale outside the chapel and may be ordered in any size, or quantity by contacting the sisters at St. Saviour's House. Top/bottom: Black 2.25pt 21.0 Carry-over: Black 1.5pt If this is being viewed on A4 paper, it is scaled to fit and not the final size of the calendar. Do not draw images to fit the scaled version! Day split: White-Dark50%, 0.5pt

May

St. Mary Magdalen

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

St Mary Magdalen (shown above, feast 22 July) “stooped down, and ST. JOSEPH 1 cl. St. Athanasius, 3 cl. Feria 4 cl. St. Monica, 3 cl. looked into the sepulchre, and she saw two angels in white, sitting, one THE WORKER, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor (Comm. of SS. Alexander, Widow at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been laid. Spouse of of the Church Eventius and Theodulus, [They asked], 'Woman, why weepest thou?' She saith to them, the BVM & St. Juvenalis, 'Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they 1 2 3 Bishop, Confessor) 4 have laid Him.' [Then she] saw Jesus standing, and she knew not that First Friday First Saturday it was Jesus. Jesus saith to her, 'Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest thou?' She, thinking it was the gardener, saith to Him: 'Sir, if The Blessed Martyrs of England & Wales (In England and Wales 3 cl.) thou hast taken Him hence, tell me where thou hast laid Him, and I BBl. John Houghton, Robert will take Him away.' Jesus saith to her, 'Mary.' She turning, saith to St. Brioc, B. & C.; Lawrence, Augustine Webster, Wales/Cornwall 500 Him. 'Rabboni (which is to say, Master).' [Jn 20, 11-16] Richard Reynolds & John Haile, St. Asaph, B. & C.; Wales 601 PPr. & MM.; Tyburn 1535

Second Sunday 2 cl. Feria 4 cl. St. Stanislaus, 3 cl. Feria 4 cl. St. Gregory Nazianzen, St. Antoninus, 3 cl. SS. Philip & James, after Easter Bishop, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor Bishop, Confessor (Comm. of Apostles 2 cl. (Good Shepherd of the Church SS. Gordian and Sunday) 3 cl. Epimachus, Martyrs) 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

St. Erkenwald, B. & C.; 686 St. Eadbert, B. & C.; 698 (Southwark, Comm.) (Hexham & Newcastle, Comm.) (13-May: Westminster, Brentwood 3 cl.) St. Pius V, P. & C. Translation of St. Andrew, Bl. Edward Jones, Pr. & M.; BBl. John Rochester & James 767 Apostle(St. Andrew’s & Edinburgh cl.) 3 St. Echa, B. & C.; York Fleet Street 1590 St. John of Beverley, B. & C.; Walworth, PPr. & Comp., MM.; 721 (Hexham & Newcastle 3 cl.) St. Elgine, Queen; Bl. Anthony Middleton, St. Wiro, B. & C.; Bl. Thomas Pickering, Lay York 1537 (Westminster, Leeds, 677 1590 St. Letard, B. & C; Canterbury60 0 731 1679 Middlesbrough 3 cl.) Skipton, Yorkshire Pr. & M; Clerkenwell Northumbria brother, M.; Tyburn

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Third Sunday 2 cl. St. Robert Bellarmine, Feria 4 cl. St. John Baptist de St. Ubald, 3 cl. St. Paschal Baylon, St. Venantius, 3 cl. after Easter Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of (Comm. of St. Boniface, La Salle, Confessor 3 cl. Bishop, Confessor Confessor 3 cl. Martyr the Church 3 cl. Martyr) 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 SS. Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla and Pancras, MM. Bl. John Houghton, Pr. & M.; 1535 (Brentwood 3 cl.) SS. Bassus, Fabius, MM. & St. Merwyn, V. & Abs.; St. Simon Stock, C. (Birmingham, St. Elgiva, Widow of King Northampton, Southwark 3 cl.) Lucina, Matron. (Ushaw College in Romsey, Hants; 980 Edmund; Shaftsbury 971 Hexham & Newcastle 3 cl) Bl. Juliana of Norwich, Bl. Richard Reynolds, M. St. Berethum, Ab. & C.; St. Carantac, Ab. St. Maidulf, Mk. & C.; St. Sewall de Bovill, B.; B. & C. (Menevia 3cl) 1423 (Westminster 3 cl.) 733 St. Brandon, Ab. & C.; 570 673 St. Asaph, H.; Beverley, Yorks Malmsbury, Wilts. York 1258

Fourth Sunday 2 cl. St. Bernardine of Siena, Feria 4 cl. Feria 4 cl. Feria 4 cl. Feria 4 cl. St. Gregory VII, 3 cl. after Easter Confessor 3 cl. Pope, Confessor (Comm. of St. Urban I, 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Pope & Martyr) Dedication of Cathedral Church St. Peter Celestine, P. & C. (Shrewsbury 1 cl.) Dedication of Cathedral Church St. Pudentiana, V. Translation of St. Chad, (Cardiff 1 cl.) B. & C. (Birmingham 3 cl.) St. Dunstan, B. & C.; 988 Our Lady Help of Christians (Clifton, Brentwood, Birmingham, Bl. John Haile, Pr. & M.; (Patron: Menevia; Titul. of Cath. & St. Aldhelm, B. & C.; Southwark, Westminster 3cl.) Tyburn 1535 (Brentwood 3 cl.) Patron: Shrewsbury 1) cl. Malmesbury, Wilts. 709 (Clifton, Bl. Peter Wright, Pr. & M; St. Ethelbert, King & M.; 793 St. Godrick, H. & C.; Bl. John Forest, Pr., Martyred St. William, Pilgrim & M.; SS. Fugatius & Damianus, Plymouth 3 cl.) Tyburn 1651 (Cardiff, Northampton 3 cl.) 1170 1538 1150 190 (28-May: Southwark 3 cl.) Durham by burning; Smithfield Rochester BB. & CC.; Glastonbury Fifth Sunday 2 cl. St. Bede the Venerable, St. Augustine 3 cl. Vigil of the Ascension THE ASCENSION The Queenship of the St. Angela Merici, after Easter Confessor, Doctor of the Church of Canterbury, Bishop, of Our Lord 2 cl. OF OUR LORD 1 cl. Blessed Virgin Mary Virgin 3 cl. (Comm. ofS t. John I, Confessor (Comm. of Pope & Martyr) St. Petronilla, 3 cl. Virgin) 2 cl. 26 27 28 29 30 31 June1 Rogation Day Rogation Day Rogation Day Start No vena First Saturday to the Holy Ghost (The Lesser ) (The Lesser Litanies) (The Lesser Litanies) St. Felix I, P. & M. St. Philip Neri, C. St. Mary Magdalen St. Eleutherius, P. & M. Our Lady Mediatrix of All St. Eleutherius, P. & M. of Pazzi, V. (Westminster & Portsmouth 3 cl.) St. Augustine of St. Dubritius, B. & C.; BBl. Luke Kirby, Laurence Graces (Hexham & Newcastle, Vens. Edmund Duke, Richard Bl. Margaret Pole, W. & M.; Leeds, Cardiff, Menevia 3 cl.) Canterbury, B. & C., South Wales 520 Richardson, Thomas Cottam & Vens. Robert Thorpe, Pr. & Tower of London 1541 Hill, John Hogg & Richard Thomas Watkinson, L., MM.; Bl. John Storey, L. & M.; Apostle of England 604 (Birmingham, Brentwood, Clifton, Bl. Richard Thirkeld, William Filby, PPr. & MM; , PPr. & MM.; Durham169 0 Tyburn 1571 (In England & Wales 3 cl.) Holiday York 1591 Tyburn

Portsmouth, Westminster 3 cl.) 1583 Pr. & M.; York He descended into Hell; the third day He arose again from the dead • Illustrated by Aude Medda MONTH OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

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June

The Apostles witness the Ascension

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY

Sunday after 2 cl. Feria 4 cl. St. Francis Caracciolo, St. Boniface, 3 cl. St. Norbert, 3 cl. Feria 4 cl. VIGIL OF 1 cl. the Ascension Confessor 3 cl. Bishop, Martyr Bishop, Confessor PENTECOST (Titul. of Cath., Patron of Diocese: Plymouth 1 cl.) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 First Friday

St. William, B. & C.; St. Gudwal, B. & C.; Wales, St. Willibald, York 1154 (Liverpool, Lancaster, Devon & Cornwall 640 B. & C.; England/ Hexham & Newcastle, Leeds, Salford, Bl. William Greenwood, Germany 786 (Plymouth 3 cl.) Middlesbrough, Nottingham 3 cl.) SS. Marcellinus, Peter & Bl. Francis Ingleby, St. Petrock, Ab. & C.; Bodmin, Carthusian brother, M.; Newgate St. Robert, Ab.; Northumberland B l. John Davy, , M.; Erasmus, B., MM. 1586 Cornwall 564 1537 1159 (Hexham & Newcastle 3 cl.) Pr. & M.; York 1537 Newgate PENTECOST 1 cl. MONDAY IN 1 cl. TUESDAY IN 1 cl. EMBER WEDNESDAY THURSDAY IN 1 cl. EMBER FRIDAY EMBER SATURDAY SUNDAY OCTAVE OF PENTECOST OCTAVE OF PENTECOST OF PENTECOST 1 cl. OCTAVE OF PENTECOST OF PENTECOST 1 cl. OF PENTECOST 1 cl.

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

SS. Primus & Felician, MM. St. Margaret, St. Columba, Ab.; 597 Queen of Scotland, W. SS. Vitus, Modestus and St. John of St. Facundo, C. (Dunkeld, Argyll & The Isles 1 cl.; St. Ithamar, B. & C.; Crescentia, MM. Other Dioceses of Scotland 3 cl.) Rochester 664 SS. Basilides, Cyrinus, St. Basil The Great, B., C., D. St. Edburga, Abs., V.; Translation of St. Edmund, BBl. Thomas Green, Pr. & St. Barnabas, Apostle Nabor and Nazarius, MM. St. Anthony of Padua, C., D. St. Dogmael, H. & C.; Winchester 960 B. & C. (Brentwood, Portsmouth 3 cl.) Walter Pierson, lay brother, St. Egbert, King, Mk. & C.; St. Odulph, C.; Evesham, St. Elerius, Ab. & C.; Wales 550 Bl. Thomas Scryven, Bl. Robert Salt, Mk. & M.; 1537 1537 758 Worcestershire 840 660 St. Elgar, H. & C.; Wales 1100 1537 MMk., MM.; Newgate Northumbria Wales Mk. & M.; Newgate

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TRINITY 1 cl. St. Gregory Barbarigo, St. Ephrem, 3 cl. St. Juliana Falconieri FEAST OF CORPUS St. Aloysius Gonzaga, St. Paulinus, 3 cl. SUNDAY Bishop, Confessor 3 cl. Deacon, Confessor, Doctor Virgin (Comm. of CHRISTI 1 cl. Confessor 3 cl. Bishop, Confessor of the Church SS. Gervase and (Comm. of Protase, Martyrs) Holy Day of Obligation SS. Mark and 3 cl. 16 17 18 Marcellian, 19 20 21 22 Martyrs) Dedication of Cathedral Church ‡ ‡ (Brentwood , Salford 1 cl.) St. Alban, Protomartyr of ‡ BBl. Sebastian Newdigate & St. Barnabas , Apostle Dedication of Cathedral Church England (All Dioceses in England & Humphrey Middlemore, MM.; (Birmingham 1 cl.) (Titul. of Cathed., Nottingham 1 cl.) Wales, except Brentwood 2 cl.) St. Leofgar, B., M.; St. Botulph, Ab. & C.; 680 1535 (Birmingham 3 cl.) St. Silverius, P. & M. St. Englemund, Pr. & M.; (23-Jun: Brentwood 3 cl.) Hereford 1056 (Brentwood, Northampton 3 cl.) Bl. William Exmew, M.; 1535 BBl. John Fenwick, John England/Holland 720 St. John Fisher, Cardinal, Bl. Thomas Redyng, lay St. Adulph, B. & C.; Iken, Bl. Thomas Woodhouse, Gavan & William Harcourt, Bl. John Rigby, L. & M.; Bishop of Rochester; 1537 700 1573 1679 1600 brother; Newgate Suffolk; Pr. & M.; Tyburn PPr. & MM.; Tyburn Southwark Tower Hill 1535

Second Sunday 2 cl. NATIVITY OF 1 cl. St. William, 3 cl. SS. John and Paul Feria 4 cl. FEAST OF THE 1 cl. FEAST OF 1 cl. after Pentecost ST. JOHN THE Abbot Martyrs 3 cl. SACRED HEART OF SS. PETER & PAUL BAPTIST JESUS Apostles

23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Holy Day of Obligation Vigil of St. John Vigil of The the Baptist St. Luam, Ab.; Scotland 622 Apostles SS. St. Etheldreda, V. & Abs.; (Argyll & The Isles 3 cl.) Peter & Paul (Liverpool, Hexham & Newcastle, St. Amphibalus, B. & M.; St. Bl. John Southworth, Westminster, Birmingham, Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Northampton 3 cl.) Albans 304 Pr. & M.; Tyburn 1654 (Patron of Diocese: Leeds 1 cl.; Bl. Thomas Garnet, Pr. & M.; St. Bartholomew, H. & C.; St. Solomon, M., Husband of Patron of Diocese & Titul. of Cath: St. Austell, C.; St. Hugh (Little), Child, M.; th 1608 1193 St. Gwen 434 Middlesborough 1 cl.) Lincoln 1255 Tyburn Northumberland ; Cornwall Cornwall 6 c.

Third Sunday 2 cl. “Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying, 'All power is given to Me in Him out of their sight (shown above, Ascension: 30 May). And while after Pentecost heaven and in earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing they were beholding Him going up to heaven, behold two men stood

them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy by them in white garments. Who also said, Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have 'Ye men of Galilee, why stand you

30 commanded you. And behold I am with you all days, even to the looking up to heaven? This Jesus who consummation of the world.'” [Mt 28, 18-20] “'You shall receive the is taken up from you into heaven, shall power of the Holy Ghost coming upon you, and you shall be so come, as you have seen Him going witnesses unto me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and into heaven.'” [Acts 1, 8-11] Bl. Philip Powel, Pr. & M.; Tyburn 1646 even to the uttermost part of the earth.' And when He had said these Bl. Antony Turner, things, while they looked on, He was raised up, and a cloud received 1679 Pr. & M.; Tyburn

He ascended into Heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty • Illustrated by Simon Klunder MONTH OF THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

Planner 2019

May 6 St. Michael's School May Procession 11 at St. Michael's School, 12noon 11 11:00 Mass at St. Joseph's, 14:00 March for Life starts at SW1P 3BN 12 Confirmations at Ss. Margaret & Leonard, Edinburgh, 11am 14 All day adoration at Our Lady of Victories, Preston 13-18 Marian Retreat, St. Saviour's House, Bristol 25 Youth Conference, St. Pius X Chapel, Manchester,

Jun 8-10 Chartres - Paris Pilgrimage

Conference: How To Be A Saint In The Modern World by Fr. Thomas OP at 9 St. Michael's School, Burghclere after 9am Mass

10-15 Third Orders Retreat, St. Saviour's House, Bristol with Fr. Thomas OP

Conference: How To Be A Saint In The Modern World by Fr. Thomas OP at 16 St. Joseph & Padarn's, London after 9am Mass

Priestly ordination of Rev. Mr. Rupert Bevan at the Seminary of St. Pius X, 28 Ecône, Switzerland

Jul 12-20 Boys' Camp at St. Michael's School 15-20 Men's Ignatian Retreat, St. Saviour's House, Bristol 26-28 Canterbury Pilgrimage for Vocations

Aug 5-10 Women's Ignatian Retreat, St. Saviour's House, Bristol 24-26 Youth Conference, St. Saviour's House, Bristol 30 All day adoration at St. Michael's School, Burghclere 31-1 Walsingham Pilgrimage

Sep 3 Feast of St. Pius X, Patron of the Society of St. Pius X 4 All day adoration at St. Saviour's, Bristol 18 All day adoration at Ss. Margaret & Leonard, Edinburgh 23 All day Adoration, St. George's House, Wimbledon

Chartres Pilgrimage 2019

Saturday 8th June to Monday 10th June fsspx.uk/en/news-events/events/all Mass Times

MAY JUNE

1st 5th 12th 19th 26th 30th 2nd 9th 16th 20th 23rd 29th 30th

Bingley - 1500 1500 1500 1500 - 1500 1500 1500 - 1500 - 1500

Bristol 0800 1000 1000 1000 1000 0800 1000 1000 1000 0800 1000 0800 1000

0715 0730 0730 0730 0730 0715 0730 0730 0730 0715 0730 0730 0730 Burghclere 1900 0900 0900 0900 0900 1900 0900 0900 0900 1900 0900 1200 0900 Colleton 8th 12th ------Manor 1130 1130

Edinburgh 1230 1100 1100 1100 1100 1230 1100 1100 1100 1230 1100 1100 1100

Gateshead 1100 1800 1800 1800 1800 1830 1800 1800 1800 1830 1800 - 1800

Glasgow 1830 1030 1030 1030 1030 1830 1030 1030 1030 1830 1030 1100 1030

Groombridge - 0830 0830 0830 0830 - 0830 0830 0830 - 0830 - 0830

Herne - 1230 1230 1230 1230 - 1230 1230 1230 - 1230 - 1230

Jersey - - - - tba ------tba

Leicester - 1130 1130 1130 1130 1100 1130 1130 1130 1100 1130 1100 1130

Liverpool - 1230 1230 1230 1230 - 1230 1230 1230 - 1230 - 1230

London 1900 1100 1100 1100 1100 1900 1100 1100 1100 1900 1100 1100 1100 (St. Joseph) London 0715 0800 0800 0800 0800 0715 0800 0800 0800 0715 0800 0715 0800 (Wimbledon)

Manchester 1100 0930 0930 0930 0930 1230 0930 0930 0930 1100 0930 1230 0930

Middlemarsh - 1700 1700 1700 1700 - 1700 1700 1700 - 1700 - 1700

Portsmouth - 1130 1130 1130 1130 - 1130 1130 1130 - 1130 - 1130

Preston 1900 0930 0930 0930 0930 1100 0930 0930 0930 1100 0930 1215 0930

Rhos-on-Sea - 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 - 1700 0930 1700

Taunton - 1100 1100 1100 1100 - 1100 1100 1100 - 1100 - 1100

Woking 1930 1130 1130 1130 1130 1930 1130 1130 1130 1930 1130 1100 1130

see fsspx.uk/en/scandinavia for Mass times in Scandinavia Mass Centres

DISTRICT HOUSE BRISTOL Saint George’s House Saint Saviour’s House 125 Arthur Road Saint Agnes Avenue, Knowle, Bristol BS4 2DU Wimbledon SW19 7DR [email protected] Tel: 0208 946 7916 Tel: 0117 977 5863 [email protected] Resident: Resident: Rev. Fr. Philippe Pazat (Prior) Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani (District Superior) Rev. Fr. John McLaughlin Rev. Fr. Håkan Lindström (District Bursar) Sr. Marie-Charbel JssR Rev. Fr. Francis Ockerse (District Secretary) Sr. Mary Joseph JssR Rev. Fr. Matthew Clifton BURGHCLERE Saint Michael’s School Chapel Scotland Harts Lane, Burghclere, Hants RG20 9JW Tel: 01635 278 137/173 ABERDEEN [email protected] Aberdeen Foyer Marywell Centre, Resident: Marywell St, Aberdeen AB11 6JF Rev. Fr. John Brucciani (Headmaster) Tel: 01857 616206 Rev. Fr. Lawrence Barrett Rev. Fr. Reid Hennick CARLUKE Rev. Fr. Thomas O'Hart Saint Andrew’s House Br. Ignatius 31 Lanark Road Br. Gerard Mary CssR Carluke, Lanarkshire ML8 4HE Tel: 01555 771523 CHULMLEIGH [email protected] Colleton Manor Chapel Resident: Chulmleigh, Devon, EX18 7JS Rev. Fr. Sebastian Wall (Prior) Tel: 01769 580 240 Rev. Fr. Anthony Wingerden GATESHEAD EDINBURGH Church of the Holy Name of Jesus Saints Margaret and Leonard Gladstone Terrace West, Bensham 110 Saint Leonard’s Street Gateshead NE8 4DR Edinburgh EH8 9RD Tel: 07443 588 039 Tel: 01555 771523 GROOMBRIDGE (Tunbridge Wells) GLASGOW Church of Saint Pius V, Saint Andrew’s Church, Station Road, Groombridge TN3 9QX 202 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6TX Tel: 01892 654 372 Tel: 01555 771523 HERNE STRONSAY Saints John Fisher & Thomas More Church St Columba’s House, Herne Street, Herne CT6 7HR Stronsay, KW17 2AS , Tel: 01857 616206 Tel: 020 89467916 Resident: Rev. Fr. Nicholas Mary CssR LEICESTER Br. Louis-Marie CssR Church of Saint Anne Abingdon Road, Leicester LE2 1HA Tel: 01858 555813 England LIVERPOOL BINGLEY The Church of Saints Peter and Paul The Little House 35 Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool L8 7LA Market Street, Bingley BD16 2HP Tel: 01772 562428 Tel: 01274 567786 LONDON Church of Saints Joseph and Padarn Salterton Road, N7 6BB Tel: 020 8946 7916

46 May - June 2019 Scandinavia MANCHESTER Church of Saint Pius X, 16 Deer Park Road, Manchester M16 8FR AALBORG, DENMARK Tel: 01772 562 428 OSLO, NORWAY MIDDLEMARSH / HOLNEST Saint Lawrence Chapel Tel: 01963 210 580 MALMÖ, SWEDEN [Mass celebrated in Holnest in wintertime] STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN PORTSMOUTH Our Lady Help of Christians 14 Kingston Road, Porstmouth PO1 5RZ Rev. Fr. Håkan Lindström, Tel: 01635 278137 St. George’s House, 125 Arthur Road, London SW19 7DR PRESTON Tel: +44 20 8946 7916 St. Mary's House [email protected] 12 Ribblesdale Place, Preston PR1 3NA www.fsspx.uk/en/scandinavia Tel: 01772 562 428 [email protected] Resident: Rev. Fr. Vianney Vandendaele (Prior) Rev. Fr. Gary Holden Pious Groups

Our Lady of Victories Church THIRD ORDER OF ST. PIUS X East Cliff, Winckley Sq, Preston PR1 3JH Rev. Fr. Gary Holden [email protected] TAUNTON Church of Our Lady of Glastonbury ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF ST. STEPHEN 17 South Street (off East Reach), TA1 3AA Rev. Fr. Lawrence Barrett, Mr. Richard Cullen Tel: 01823 652701 [email protected]

WOKING EUCHARISTIC CRUSADE Church of the Holy Cross Rev. Fr. Vianney Vandendaele Sandy Lane, Maybury, GU22 8BA [email protected] Tel: 01483 767 537 MILITIA IMMACULATAE Rev Fr. Robert Brucciani Wales Mr. Howard Toon militia-immaculatae.org RHOS ON SEA [email protected] Saint David’s Chapel Conwy Road, (A547) Mochdre LL28 5AA, ST. RAPHAEL'S HOMESCHOOL Tel: 01492 582586 Miss Monica Marshall [email protected] Jersey

Saint Nicholas Centre, Greve d'Azette St. Clement, Jersey Tel: +44 1534 742 884

EMERGENCY NUMBER: 0754 888 0281

47 THE LOGO

The grey letters stand for the worldwide fraternal society which is subordinate to the Catholic Faith and the content of all publications. The content - the Faith and the patron saint - is more important than the fraternal society. The logo becomes more easily readable due to the difference in grey tones.

The black letters stand for the organization itself.

The design seeks to express something The Society of St. Pius X is an international priestly society of common life of the organization’s core values, showing without vows, whose purpose is the priesthood and that which pertains ourselves fully “in the light”. to it.

Since its foundation by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970, the Society has formed priests according to the immemorial teachings of the . By offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the traditional Latin rite and administering the sacraments according to the traditional rites in vigour in 1962 (before the Second Vatican Council 1962-5), the Society’s priests perpetuate what the Church has taught and done throughout its history. By the exercise of the teaching office of its priests, the Society fights against the errors that presently afflict the Church.

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