Ite Missa Est Freedom of the Children of God

Ite Missa Est Freedom of the children of God

1 July - August 2021 Newsletter of the SSPX in Great Britain and Scandinavia

Rev. Fr. Dominic O’Hart celebrates his first Mass after his ordination at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Dillwyn, Virginia on the 11th June 2021. The deacon is his brother Rev. Fr. Thomas Hart. Ite Missa Est Newsletter of the Society of St. Pius X in Great Britain & Scandinavia

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Freedom

The liberty of the glory of the children of God

Rev. Robert Brucciani, District Superior

My dear faithful, as a perfection in man and how it is misunderstood by the world. I want to be free! I want freedom! This is a universal cry. You hear it Modern notion of freedom sung by pop stars and chanted by To the world, freedom means seething crowds; you are three things: promised it by campaigning politicians and online ads; you – no external coercion (no see it on graffitied walls and in exterior obstacles to choice); the eyes of those held against – no internal constraint (no their will. Freedom! limitation by nature); – autonomy (being able to One would have thought that a choose good or evil). universal will for freedom might bring about a certain degree of liberation, but instead men find This definition sounds appealing themselves enslaved to their to the modern man and, as such, passions within, and a growing is the currency of modern culture. totalitarianism without. No external coercion This appears to be a great paradox, but it isn’t really when To the liberal world, freedom as a one understands what freedom is perfection is the absence of

6 July - August 2021 coercion: the possibility of actions: I can be promiscuous if I indulging every whim without use contraception; I don’t have to inhibition, the enjoyment of every work because the state won’t let pleasure without consequence, me starve. I don’t have to pray and the abolition of every taboo. because I have decided that there is no God. I can decide myself It is opportunity without any where my ultimate perfection rules, except perhaps “as long as I (heaven) lies: in sensual pleasure, don’t hurt anyone,” or “infringe fame, power or nirvana.” upon the rights of another,” or “as long as everyone consents.” Complete autonomy Thus, a liberal might proclaim, “I am free to use my body as I wish: To the world, being free means to get drunk, to wear what I like, having the possibility of choosing to continue my marriage or not. I anything: good or evil. It is having am free to decide to kill the child autonomy. For the liberal, in my womb. I am free to believe freedom as a perfection is the whatever I like and to practice undetermined will: the will in any religion I want - in public as potency rather than act. Freedom well as in private - without is pro-choice: being able to governmental or societal choose how to live one’s life constraints.” without reference to nature, to finality, to goodness, to God. For No internal constraint the liberal, the glory of man is having the possibility of choosing, The world’s notion of freedom is rather than having made the right not only freedom from external choice. coercion but freedom from the internal constraints of human nature. Root problems with the modern notion of freedom “I can be whatever I want to be: a man or a woman, or even a Problems with the liberal notion chicken. I can do whatever I like of freedom as a perfection stem if I can remove the unwanted from the fact that modern man natural consequences of my (philosophers, scientists,

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politicians and the general attains perfection. For man, populace) have the wrong this is the contemplation of understanding ofbeing in general God in the Beatific Vision. and the wrong understanding of man in particular. Modern philosophy and science have no notion of the formal Four causes of being cause of a thing (soul, essence or Aristotelian philosophy tells us nature) and consequently no that every created being may be notion of the final cause of a defined by its four causes: thing. They only see the material cause, something of the efficient – Efficient Cause: how a thing cause, and forces (mechanical, is made; electrical, magnetic, and – Material Cause: what a thing gravitational). is made of; – Formal Cause: what makes Modern scientists cannot detect the thing what it is. In man, the spiritual order with their ~ this is the soul (as a co- instruments and so either principle with the body); disregard it or deny it altogether. ~ it is the essence: the thing that makes a man what he Problem with the “no external is, the thing that gives his coercion” definition of freedom being coherence, unity With no concept of the nature of and identity; the thing, there is no concept of ~ it is the nature: that the rules attendant to that nature. principle of all movement and rest of the thing: that For example, we are not free to which makes man desire drink petrol, to fly unaided, to what he desires, hate breathe water. These things are what he hates; that which against our nature and will lead to determines where his our physical demise. Similarly, ultimate perfection lies – we’re not free to be promiscuous, where he would be to lie, to ignore God because ultimate at rest these things will lead to our – Final Cause: This is the spiritual demise. If freedom is to ultimate end in which a being

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be a perfection then it should lead attempt to shore-up an inevitable to our perfection when we disintegration of order. practise it, both physically and spiritually. And then, of the constraints that the world does admit: when Freedom to do anything we liked people say that we should be free is in fact dangerous for us as to anything we like as long as we individuals and as a society don’t hurt anyone, they forget that because freedom is necessarily man is a social being and that co-related to our nature. This everything we do will affect the means that the external coercion rest of society. The girl who thatimpedes the choice of evil is spends hours admiring herself in good. For example, it is good to secret or the boy who is addicted ban pornography, it is good that to computer games in his room we have many of our civil laws will necessarily affect those (not all) and a police force to around them. enforce them, it is good that we have bannisters on the stairs and Those who claim that consent is tamper-proof lids on medicine the condition of complete liberty bottles, it was good that, as err in the same way but with children, we were coerced into accomplices in their error. saying the family rosary by loving “My rights stop where another’s parents. start” is also popular, but all rights are in view of the common To pursue freedom as if it were good, not the co-existence or simply the absence of constraint competition of individual goods. is in fact to invite slavery: not only to one’s own disordered will, Problem with the “no internal but for all society. Not only do constraint” definition of freedom individuals become slaves to their passions –addicts to vice – but Believing that I can choose my they are also likely to become own nature and my own finality is slaves to the state because a clearly delusional. It reduces the vicious society will most likely whole world to the absurd, and tend to totalitarianism as it ironically, it is more restrictive: multiplies laws and increases its powers of enforcement in an – Ifamanchosestobea

10 July - August 2021 woman, he is not free to The world’s freedom is the same attain to the perfection of as that promised by Satan to womanhood (he can’t bear Adam & Eve: “you shall be as children, he can never be a gods, knowing good and evil.” mother). (Gen 3:5). It is an illusory – Ifamanchosestobea freedom from God’s law: freedom chicken, he is even more from the natural law, from Jesus severely handicapped in Christ, from the Church and even attaining the perfection of from God. chickenhood. Both fallen men and Satan pursue this false notion of freedom and In effect, by choosing an identity are thereby slaves. Men become and a finality at odds with my real slaves to the world, the flesh and identity and finality, I become the Devil. Satan is a perpetual enslaved by my choice and do slave to his hatred of God. myself real harm. I can never be happy or arrive at the perfection of my real, unchangeable nature True freedom which is given to me by my Creator. So what is true freedom as a perfection in man? This is Problem with the “autonomy” answered by St. Thomas in his definition of freedom treatise on the angels. To the world, freedom is autonomy. It is the will inpotency Whether a beatified angel can sin? to both good and evil which is the (1aQ62a8ad3) same as saying: the will in …it belongs to the perfection potency to both perfection and of its liberty for the free-will to enslavement, or even self- be able to choose between destruction. opposite things, keeping the A far greater perfection is the will order of the end in view; but it in potency to one good or comes of the defect of liberty another. And greater still is the for it to choose anything by will, not in potency, but in the act turning away from the order of of choosing good. This is freedom the end; and this is to sin. as it exists in God. Hence there is greater liberty

11 of will in the angels, who practice. We procure exterior cannot sin, than there is in freedom by Catholic Action. And ourselves, who can sin. by practice our freedom we are delivered from the servitude of Freedom is always relative to the corruption, into the liberty of the end in view: the finality of a thing. glory of the children of God. One is free if one directs oneself (Rom 8:21) towards the ultimate perfection consequent to one’s nature. In Jesu et Maria, Rev. Robert Brucciani The greatest freedom, therefore, is to be found in heaven where we ______cannot but chose that which leads to God, because the vision of God is wholly satisfying, admits of no Other news lessening, and is without fear of loss. Ordinations

True freedom is not being free The following ordinations of old-Mi- from coercion, having the choice chaelians took place in June: of identity or the choice between good or evil. True freedom is the – Rev. Fr. Dominic O’Hart or- th liberty of knowing, loving and dained to the priesthood on 11 serving Almighty God. It is: June at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Dillwyn, U.S.A. – the interior freedom of virtue – Rev. Fr. Emmerich Jeindl or- which makes choosing good dainded to the priesthood on easy, 24th June at Sacred Heart Semin- – the exterior freedom of a well- ary, Zaitskofen, Germany. ordered society which protects and encourages us to Also from the District: choose good, – Rev. Mr. Bernard Bevan or- – and it is the very act of dained to the diaconate on 1st choosing good. July at St. Pius X Seminary, Ecône, Switzerland.

We gain interior freedom by living Retreats the Christian life of prayer, mortification, and religious The retreats at St. Saviour’s House have resumed. The postponed

12 July - August 2021 priests’ retreat will take place from Portsmouth Chapel closure 30thAug - 4th Sep and the postponed We regret to announce the closure Ignatian Retreat for men will take of Our Lady Help of Christians place from 25th - 30th October. Call or Chapel, Portsmouth due to low email St. Saviour’s House, Bristol to attendance and due to the book: [email protected] increasing claims upon our priests as a result of growing Summer Camps attendance elsewhere. This Subscriptions are open for the boys’ evolution appears to be a trend in camp at St. Michael’s School, 2nd-7th the district; where there is a August. Send an email to “parish life” possible, [email protected] for an congregations are thriving. May application form. God bless those faithful who have laboured over the years to make The girls’ camp, 9th-14th August also this chapel a worthy place for the at St. Michael’s School. Send an offering of the Divine Sacrifice. email to [email protected] for an application form. We are also looking for volunteers for the girls’ camp. Please email to Summer Fayre the same address. Saint Michael’s School Burghclere Eucharistic Crusade 3 July recruitment drive 12noon - 4pm Parents are strongly encouraged to enrol their children (7-15 years) in the Eucharistic Crusade. It is not an onerous commitment Founder’ Spirit and membership is an antidote to Conference the poisonous culture in which Saint Saviour’s House, today’s children are forcibly Bristol immersed. The Hostia is its 21 -23 Aug [email protected] excellent monthly publication. Sign-up! Email to Rev. Fr. Vianney Vandendaele [email protected]

13 St. Thomas à Becket

Freedom for the Church

St. Thomas à Becket 1120-1170 (Feast 29th December)

British Museum Exhibition

St. Thomas à Becket was one of blow. the most venerated saints of the The voice of the blood and the the Middle Ages. He was cry of the brains spilt and martyred for resisting King scattered by the bloody swords Henry II in his attempt to of the devil’s henchmen filled subordinate the Church to the heaven and earth with a great state. The state’s desire to usurp tumult. the rights and power of the Benedict of Peterborough, Church is the “background noise” Monk of Canterbury, 1173 of both medieval and modern history. Here are the News of the violent crime sent biographical details of the shock waves across Europe. Just exhibition at the British over two years later, the pope Museum to mark the 850 years made Becket a saint. His shrine since his martyrdom. The text is attracted hundreds of thousands taken from the panels on display. of pilgrims and his story has echoed through the ages. Thomas Becket: murder and the making of a saint The story of Thomas Three knights rush in as Becket Becket 1120–70 prays at an altar. Horrified monks watch as one strikes the fatal Thomas Becket was born in 1120

14 July - August 2021 in Cheapside, a stone’s throw from St Paul’s Cathedral. He had a comfortable childhood. His parents Gilbert and Matilda were immigrants from Northern France, and part of a wealthy merchant community living in the commercial heart of London. The city was a hub of activity where, according to Becket’s clerk and biographer William FitzStephen, ‘...from every nation that is under heaven, merchants rejoice to bring their trade in ships.’ This alabaster sculpture of 1350-75 Around the age of 18 Becket went from Derbyshire is a rare survivor to study in Paris, a formative of the Reformation experience that laid the foundations for his rise. It was an Theobald was life-changing. In exciting city, home to some of the 1154 the archbishop greatest teachers of the time. The recommended him as royal core curriculum focused on the chancellor to the new king, Liberal Arts: grammar, rhetoric, Henry II, and the two men became dialectic, arithmetic, geometry, great friends. music and astronomy. In 1162 Henry II nominated After three years in Paris, Becket Becket as Archbishop of returned to England. In search of Canterbury, following Theobald’s new opportunities he seized upon death. It was a controversial the chance to work as a clerk for appointment. Becket was not a Theobald, Archbishop of priest and until then had lived a Canterbury, joining a group of worldly, secular life. The king ambitious young men. At the time wanted him to remain chancellor, Canterbury Cathedral was a hoping that having his friend in centre of learning and artistic both positions would increase patronage. The legal and royal control over Church and diplomatic training that Becket State. This plan failed when received in his nine years with

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unresolved, with neither king nor archbishop willing to concede. With the situation spiralling out of control, Becket was brought before the king and accused of trumped-up crimes. Fearing for his life, on 2nd November 1164 the archbishop fled abroad. He spent six years in exile under the protection of Henry’s rival, Louis VII of France, returning on 2nd December 1170. Becket found himself in France at Reliquary from 1180-90 showing the the same time as Pope martyrdom and burial of St. Thomas. Alexander III, who was locked in disagreement with Frederick Becket renounced the Barbarossa, an emperor with vast chancellorship and began to territories in central Europe. Like oppose Henry. In 1164, with Becket, Alexander was in exile tensions escalating, the and sought protection from King archbishop escaped across the Louis VII of France. Alexander Channel. was later responsible for Becket’s canonisation as a saint. Henry II saw Becket’s rejection of the chancellorship in 1162 as a On 14th June 1170 Henry II had his betrayal. Over the next two years son Henry, known as ‘the Young their relationship disintegrated. King’, crowned joint monarch in One issue in particular divided Westminster Abbey to secure the them. The king demanded that succession. The ceremony was churchmen accused of serious conducted by Becket’s rivals, the crimes be tried in secular rather Archbishop of York and Bishop of than religious courts. Becket London whereas it was the refused to endorse this Archbishop of Canterbury’s infringement of the rights of the ancient right to perform Church, provoking the king’s coronations. outrage. The matter remained The coronation of the Young King

16 July - August 2021 spurred Becket into action and, after agreeing a fragile peace with Henry II, he decided to return to England. Fatefully, before leaving France he carried out the sentences of excommunication endorsed by the pope. On 2nd December, Becket returned to Canterbury and the cathedral he had not seen for six years. At his Christmas court in Normandy, Henry learned that Becket had excommunicated the The Mass of St. Thomas crudely th English bishops involved in his blotted-out in a 15 century missal after the Reformation son’s coronation. He few into a rage, calling Becket a traitor and ‘low-born clerk’. Four knights, of healing visited Canterbury. Reginald FitzUrse, Hugh de To appease the pope [or was it in Morville, Richard Brito and genuine remorse?], Henry II William de Tracy, heard the king’s performed penance twice in outburst. They hatched a plan to Normandy in 1172. He finally bring the archbishop to Henry and visited Canterbury two years headed for England to arrest him. later. In an astonishing act of Canterbury Cathedral, Becket’s public humiliation, the king last sanctuary, would become the walked barefoot through the city stage for his violent death. and knelt before Becket’s tomb. News of Becket’s death spread He acknowledged his involvement across Europe like wildfire and in the crime and was punished by was met with outrage. Henry II monks. From then on, Henry initially refused to punish the adopted St. Thomas as his perpetrators and was widely protector. implicated in the murder. Meanwhile, Becket’s cult spread Miraculous cures were attributed throughout Europe. In recognition to Becket and pilgrims in search of his martyrdom and miracles,

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the pope canonised Becket as St. Thomas of Canterbury in February 1173. Over the next fifty years, his legacy as a defender of the rights of the Church against royal tyranny became firmly established. St. Thomas was one of medieval Europe’s most popular saints. His shrine was visited by hundreds of thousands of devoted pilgrims.

Under Henry VIII, St. Thomas’ Today, relics of St. Thomas Becket shrine was destroyed. His cult at St. Mary Major’s Basilica, Rome was banned, to the shock of people across the country and throughout Europe. On 5th alive through the devotion of September 1538, Henry VIII Catholics and those seeking a arrived in Canterbury. During his model of opposition to unbridled three-day stay royal agents began power. Catholics continued to demolishing St. Thomas’ shrine, honour him secretly at home and prising off the jewels and openly on the Continent. People smashing the marble base. They fleeing religious persecution packed up its precious metal in under the Tudors smuggled relics crates, which were taken to abroad to protect them, including London. St. Thomas’ bones were several believed to be of removed, and a rumour spread St. Thomas. that they had been burnt and the ashes scattered to the wind. Part of a series of unexpected attacks on St.Thomas’ cult, it was soon followed by a royal order to outlaw his name and image across the country. St. Thomas’ memory was kept

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19 Sacred Heart St. Michael Archangel Church Project

Dear Faithful, Design After twenty years in our The design is almost finalised. makeshift chapel at St. Michael’s The church will be located on the School, we are delighted to vegetable patch to the immediate announce a project to construct a left of the main entrance. It will new church on the same property. be of romanesque proportions, A growing congregation and the faced in red brick and tiled to inadequacy of the present chapel complement the existing school (it is both too small and wanting buildings. It will have a capacity in magnificence) lend increasing of about 240 souls, together with urgency to the project. a large windowed narthex (“cry room”). The sanctuary will be large enough for a Solemn High

20 Mass and will be flanked by two Timescale chapels and large wrap-around – 2020 Dec: Architects sacristy. appointed The surrounding land will be – 2021 Jan: Project team landscaped and developed for appointed parking and a new school drop-off – 2021 Jun: Pre-application point. The church will be – 2021 Aug: Planning independent of the school application buildings so that it can remain – 2022 Jan: Tendering open all day. – 2022 Jul: Construction begins – 2023 Jul: Construction ends

21 Cost & Funding

The budget is £2 million of which half will be paid from the recent sale of St. Gabriel’s Highclere and half must come from fundraising efforts. The fundraising target is therefore a heady £1 million, but to-date we have raised £176,000 for the project. A new website has been launched to manage the fundraising efforts and we appeal to your generosity to contribute: www.stmichaelarchangel.co.uk

St. Michael Archangel Church Project www.gtap.uk/51/sms-church

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The project is naturally under the patronage of St. Michael Archangel as patron of the school. If Providence permits the project to be realised, this church will be the first church built for the glory of the Tridentine Rite of Mass in this country for half a century. It will be a banner unfurled in the battle that has raged since the beginning of time, and a sign of contradiction to the conciliar church and to a world in the throes of Marxist revolution. It will be a protection and source of grace for our families. And, by the sacrifice of our vegetable patch, it will be a seedbed of vocations! Please pray for the success of the project. St. Michael Archangel, pray for us.

In Jesu et Maria, Rev. Robert Brucciani

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Matters arising

Topical questions in the light of moral theology and canon law

Rev. Fr. Nicholas-Mary C.SS.R.

My son/daughter is a Catholic, general convictions of Catholics but is getting married in a in this country before the non-Catholic religious Council. Its author, Fr. John F. ceremony/at the civil registry Macdonald, speaks first of the office. May I attend his/her case of a Catholic who has validly wedding? married a non-Catholic (with the due dispensation) in a Catholic This question is sadly common, wedding, but who attempts to and behind the few words in have an additional ceremony which it is posed lie before a non-Catholic minister: unfathomable sorrow and disappointment. The fact that The question is sometimes traditional and modern priests asked, by the non-Catholic will often give opposing answers partner to a mixed marriage to it only adds to the tension which has taken place in the caused within families by the Catholic church, whether the heartbreaking situations that give Catholic may accompany the rise to it. non-Catholic partner to the non-Catholic church for the Let us begin by citing a Catholic purpose of going through a Truth Society pamphlet produced similar religious ceremony in 1960¹ to get a snapshot of the there. This is gravely forbidden

24 July - August 2021 and the Catholic who would also be taken as an apparent presume to do this would incur approval of such an action on the penalty of the part of a fellow Catholic. excommunication mentioned in The author bases his Canon 2319 §1.10 of the Code condemnation of the practice on of Canon Law.² The law of the the imperative both to avoid Church is clear on this point. It active participation in non- states that even when a Catholic worship (a sin against dispensation from the Faith) as well as the causing of impediment of mixed religion scandal (a sin against Charity), as has been given by the Church, do all the moral theologians of the the parties cannot, either past. Writing in 1960 he does not before or after their marriage even consider it necessary to before the Church, go, whether examine in detail the case of the in person or by proxy, to a non- Catholic who attempts to marry Catholic minister acting as solely before a non-Catholic such, for the purpose of giving minister, adding simply that “all or renewing their matrimonial that has been said above applies consent. The Catholic would be to any form of marriage which a giving at least external Catholic may go through in a non- approval to a purely non- Catholic church.” Catholic religious rite as well as taking an active part in it. Fr. Macdonald then addresses the Such an action would be the matter of Catholics attempting to cause of grave scandal to marry civilly: others. Catholics themselves, Since, in normal and this includes even the circumstances, Catholics are nearest relatives who may be bound to be married before an strongly tempted to go, would authorised priest and two not be allowed to attend the witnesses, the Church does not ceremony, even as spectators recognise as valid any merely in a merely passive sense, civil union that may be entered because of the scandal that into by a Catholic. Although would result as well as the Catholics are not thereby appearance of religious excommunicated, they are indifference that would be considered to be living in sin given. Their presence would

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and they are forbidden to there to rejoice with them on receive the sacraments until what ought to be one of the they have complied with the greatest occasions in their laws of the Church regarding lives. Because of the scandal the marriage of her subjects. that would be caused by their The Church, however, is presence, Catholics, no matter anxious that, wherever how close the relationship may possible, these civil unions be, are not allowed to attend should be made valid in her the weddings of fellow eyes both for the spiritual good Catholics in the Register of the parties concerned as Office. For the same reason a well as for that of the offspring. Catholic may not be present at To this end the Church is the wedding of a non-Catholic always ready to give every to a divorced non-Catholic in assistance to any Catholic who the Register Office.³ [...] The has contracted a civil marriage presence of a Catholic in such and afterwards wishes to put cases would be looked upon as the marriage right in the eyes a form of approval of a union of the Church so that he/she which is invalid in the eyes of may be able to return to the full God. practice of the faith. It is a If such clarity reigned in 1960, great sorrow to any Catholic what can we say of the situation parent when a son or daughter today? Capuchin author Fr. Regis of theirs chooses to break the Scanlon4 sums it up thus: law of the Church by going through a form of marriage in Traditionally, Catholics did not the Register Office. It should participate in invalid marriage also be a cause of sorrow for celebrations because it was the parties themselves to know seen as approval to adultery or that, because the presence of fornication.5 As invalid their Catholic relatives and marriages increased among friends would be looked upon Catholics, however, moralists as a condonation of the began to de-emphasise the violation of a serious law of the danger of scandal from these Church, they are depriving celebrations. [...] Reports of themselves of the company of Catholics being ridiculed by those who normally would be family members for not

26 July - August 2021 attending invalid marriages of ...The pained parent [is] correct relatives indicate that a type of in neither attending nor reverse legislation has taken participating. Clearly, the root. The unwritten rule now primary wrongdoer is and seems to be that the Catholic remains the marrying adult must attend the invalid who marries invalidly. This is wedding of a loved one, and the doubly unfair since it will pain exception, for which the and hurt observant Catholics Catholic will receive much much more than nominal ones, flack, is to avoid these who can hardly frame the celebrations. question in religious terms at all. It seems to me that the And a similar view in 19936 from same maxim - presence means his fellow U.S. theologian Mgr. consent - also holds for less William B. Smith († 2009): blatant cases. I doubt that there is any more Fr. Scanlon examines the advice painful family problem than given by many priests today that this, which has only grown as long as their child is made worse over the past 25 years. clearly aware of their disapproval, The most searing pain involves then it is permissible for parents those Catholic parents who to attend their invalid weddings: have truly lived and loved the faith as the very centre of their Obviously, the need for lives - and one or more of their clarification implies that grown children for whom the scandal will be caused. The faith means little, or nothing; explanation to the child by the and in the most extreme cases parents is supposed to cancel deliberate defiance of the 'laws or wipe out the scandal from of the Church' is used as a tool parental attendance at the to test or taunt the natural wedding celebrations. The family love parents have for problem here, however, is that their own children. it is impossible for parents to make the child clearly aware of Since then the situation has only parental disapproval of the worsened further. He concludes invalid marriage when the child that “presence means consent” knows full well that the parents and that in such cases: are attending the wedding

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celebrations. [...] The only way null in the eyes of God, and, for parents to convince their effectively, of two people child that they seriously choosing to live in sin, then there disapprove of the invalid can be no cooperation in it by marriage is to avoid the faithful Catholics. Any gifts given wedding celebrations to the couple either singly or altogether. If one follows jointly must not be associated [certain modern] pastoral with either their empty ceremony advice, however, not only will or their state of life, and they may actions supporting parental not be treated as being married disapproval be lacking, but, until such time as they rectify instead, the parents' actions their marital status before God. will contradict their words of We leave Fr. Scanlon to conclude: disapproval. When words and actions collide, the best that The idea of a Christian can be hoped for is that the cooperating in the evil act of child will be confused, and the adultery or fornication by worst that can happen is that attending an invalid marriage the child will be more seems so contrary to correct influenced by the actions than reasoning and Sacred Scripture by the words. The same must that one wonders why so many be said for [similarly modern] Catholics today attempt to advice that the friends and justify it. [...] Again, there is no relatives might avoid the way to clearly communicate wedding ceremony, but attend this truth to an invalidly- the wedding reception. marrying son or daughter other than by avoiding the wedding It should be noted that this latter celebrations altogether. What course of action has defenders must not be overlooked here is even amongst orthodox that it is the rejection of the theologians who see the the Gospel by the invalidly- reception merely as a family marrying son or daughter that gathering. It is hard to imagine is the primary cause of such a situation, for inasmuch as separation, not Christ or the the gathering is in any way a parents. The claim on the part celebration of a wedding that is of pastoral moral theorists,

28 July - August 2021 therefore, that parental where it belongs. The very attendance at invalid weddings justification offered by those is justified on the grounds that who favour the new pastoral the parents should not approach fosters immaturity in 'irretrievably cut off' their the young by stripping them of children must be rejected as responsibility for their own false, and as bad psychology. actions. [...] Rather, the pastors The notion of parents and moral theorists must adopt 'irretrievably cutting off' their an approach which encourages son or daughter merely by adults to hope in the young by following their own conscience giving them the opportunity to turns out to be a case of be responsible for their own inverted logic. Who is cutting moral actions. But for this to off whom? No one is be possible, both parents and demanding that the parents children must be made clearly shun their invalidly-marrying aware of the evil of invalid child, but only that they shun marriages and the immorality the marriage. As long as Mom of formal cooperation in these and Dad keep the lines of celebrations. communication open from their side, no one is being Notes irretrievably cut off. If a son or 1. Fr. John F. Macdonald, Attending Non- daughter, however, refuses to Catholic Services, London, 1960 (CTS) pp.8-12 associate with the parents . following the wedding, he or she is cutting off the parents, 2. The 1917 Code of Canon Law is here not vice versa. It is downright referred to. The 1983 Code still forbids “either immoral to make the parents before or after the canonical celebration [...] feel guilty for following their another religious celebration of the same consciences, especially when marriage for the purpose of giving or renewing their consciences are formed matrimonial consent. Likewise, there is not to according to Christ and his be a religious celebration in which the Catholic Church. It is the children who assistant and a non-Catholic minister, each are out of step with the Gospel, performing his own rite, ask for the consent of not the parents. Let us put the the parties.” The penalty of excommunication responsibility for the break-up was abrogated in 1966, however, and the new

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legislation is open to various exceptions Homiletic & Pastoral Review, February 1988, incompatible with traditional discipline. pp. 20-27.

3. “On the other hand, a Catholic may attend 5. As well as, in the case of attempted the valid marriages of non-Catholics in the marriages before a non-Catholic minister, to Register Office. The ceremony is not looked heresy, schism or religious indifferentism. upon as a religious service and the Church 6. Mgr William B. Smith, Modern Moral recognises the validity of such marriages of Problems. San Francisco, 2012 (Ignatius) p. non-Catholics provided no impediment exists 127. which would make the marriage invalid in a particular case.”

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Canterbury Retreats 2021 Pilgrimage Saint Saviour’s House, 23 -25 July Bristol

Please register Aug 2-7 : Women's Ignatian Aug 20-22 : Youth Conference Sep 10-12 : Men's Recollection Oct 8-10 : Women's Recollection Oct 25-30 Men’s Ignatian Dec 4 : Advent Recollection

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The Light of the World series is the 1954 Syllabus of Religious Knowledge in Scotland and based upon the Catechism of Catholic Doctrine . The series can be found in its entirety at: http://www.straphaelshomeschool.co.uk/the-light-of-the-world/ ✠ Of your charity please pray for the souls of

Mr. John Mackay of Inverness who died on 18th June 2021 Mrs. Margaret Ballard of Carshalton, Surrey who died on 24th June 2021 Mr. Frank Williams of Preston who died on 27th June 2021

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

Father Basil Wrighton, Father Oswald Baker, Edith Knott, Walace Watts, John Adams, Frank McNally, Stella Booth, Lily Beswick, Marie Patterson, Mary Shakespeare, Mary Mooney, Robert Kemp, Elizabeth Landon, Miss J Beauvoisin, George Moorat, Gregory McDonald, Gertrude Dougal, Luis Parfitt-Spencer,Anne Callaghan,Vera Forder, Thomas Rigby, Elizabeth Pfaff, Alfred Bransby, John Hurrell, Derek Colley, Francis Mooney, Patrick O‘Connor, Raymond Griffiths,John and Joy Deegan, Dorothy Reid,Ada Mary George,Veronica Anderton-Web- ster, Niall Maddock, Josephine Ryan, Lillian Bentley, Patience Baldwin Thrower, Rita Callaghan, Mary Fitzger- ald-Fox, Paul Vigoureux, Sheila Shepherd, Karol Bettany, Godfrey Gilbert, Ellen Cranstone, Isobel Yates, Anna Trapani, Joseph Kibbey, Roy Warner, Mary Ainsworth, Nora Docherty, Jean Johnstone, Alfonsus Valori, Mary Stukis, Francis Pangrazi, Constance Hardera, Bernard Prescott, Elizabeth Whiteford, Joseph Mate, Margaret Kingon-Rouse, Catherine Ruth Grizell, Belinda O’Connor,Elizabeth Wilkinson, Barbara Dowey, Florence Scaife, Iris Chambers, John Bristow, John Boyle, Valerie Potkins, Aidan Fanning, Maurice Marshall, Brendan Collins, Kenneth Archer, Charles Kennedy, Zadislaw Siemaszko, John Barbour, Rita Cunningham, Edward Stratton, Sylvina Subdi, Anthony Higgins, Anne Busby, Ray Woolfe, Peter King, John Bishop

August

Father Louis Coache, Father Michael Cresswell, Brother Joseph C.S.S.R., William Roser, Mrs Young-Bateman, Lucy Cheffers, Moira Campbell,Adolphine Rhead, Patricia Grimer,Mrs Maxwell, Irene Marshall, Mary Clarihew, Joseph Bolton, Amy Lynch, Mrs Mather, Joseph McAsey, John Galloway, Angela Cookson, Winifred Kenny, Nora Walsh, Catherine Livesey, Irene Bowman, Nora O’Brien, May Wood, Mary Davis, Winifred Conway, Elise Denning-Smitherman, May Holden, Geoffrey Backus, Francesco Trapani, James Havelock-Walker, Lilian Nich- olson, James Glynn, Margaret Saunders, Reginald Hill, Anne Teresa Callaghan, North McIntyre, Sheila Tree, Mary Malloy, John Francis Corcoran, Mary Anne Tibbott, Theresa Couldery, Mary Maguire, Josephine Boyle, Mr H Farnworth, Aileen Grossmith, Cecil Russell, Winifred Walmesley, Vivian Tristram, Kathleen Baker, Edward Marchant, Rita McCarthy, Reginald Chapman,Anthony Codd, Catherine Derham, Mary Ellen Holland, Michael O’Connor, Xavier Craig, Daniel Daly, Douglas Campbell, Richard Holden, Joan Goodbam, George Campbell, Mary Proctor-Blagden, Doris Curwen, Tony Foster, Mary Griffin, Doreen Hurst, Anthony McLane, Kathleen Mil- lington,Jane Philipps, Mary O’Hare,Jean Marie Szimjonka,Audrey Bocar,Arthur Whieldon, Mary Prendergast, Robert Allen, Anthony Beswick, Mary Tudor, Ralph Cowan, Peter Denning-Smitherman, Kathleen O’Brien, John O’Connor, Albert Edwards, Bryan Phipps, Cynthia Bettany, John McCarthy, Mary Mills, Michael Whit- marsh-Everiss, Margery Delafield, Jane Southgate, Maureen Donnelly, Peter Barry, Josephine Crosby, Iris O’Leary, Henry Connor, Elizabeth Mac Brádaigh, Rita Rowan, Ursula Collins, Johanna Plumridge

34 July - August 2021 Mr. Frank Williams, sacristan for many years at Our Lady of Victories, Preston, suffered a heart attack as he knelt down by the side of Rev. Fr. Holden for the Asperges at Sunday morning Mass on 26th June. He fell into the arms of Fr.Holden who carefully laid him down on the sanctuary floor. While waiting for the ambulance, he received Extreme Unction and the Apostolic Benediction, but died shortly after the paramedics arrived. He had celebrated his 87th birthday on 22nd June. What a blesséd death! Godspeed you dear Frank to your eternal reward. May perpetual light shine upon you. Requiescat in pace.

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We’re still soldiers. Old Michaelians (2013): Rev. Fr.Joannes Rehm (left) was ordained last year and Rev. Fr. Emmerich Jeindl was ordained this year.

Rev. Fr. Emmerich Jeindl, ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Tissier de Mallerais at the Sacred Heart Seminary, Zaitskofen, Germany on 24th June 2021.

40 July - August 2021 “You see this young man here? One day he’s going to be a priest,”says Valentine O’Brien (left) about his incredulous friend, Dominic O’Hart in 2004.

On 11th June 2021, Rev. Fr. Dominic O’ Hart was indeed ordained a priest. Here he gives his first blessing to his brother, Rev. Fr.Thomas O’Hart. Deo gratias.

41 Chronicle

On the Feast of the Sacred Heart, eleven young ladies received the religious habit of the Consoling Sisters of the Sacred Heart at Albano, Italy.

42 July - August 2021 Photos: Arbër Ndoj - Copyright www.fsspx.it

At the same ceremony, two novices made their religious profession and received the signs of their vocation as spouse of Christ from the hands of the Superior Gen- eral of the Society, Don Davide Pagliarani. 43 Year Planner 2021

Jul 3 St. Michael's School Summer Fayre

12-17 Men's Ignatian Retreat POSTPONED to 25 Oct

23-25 Cantebury Pilgrimage

Aug 2-7 Women's Ignatian Retreat, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

2-7 Boys' Camp

9-14 Girls' Camp

21-23 Founder's Spirit Conference (18-35yrs), St. Saviour's House, Bristol

30-4 Priests' Retreat, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

Sep 4-5? Walsingham Pilgrimage

7 St. Michael’s School, Michaelmas Term begins

8 Alld ay adoration, St. Andrew's, Glagow

9 Alld ay adoration, St. Saviour's, Bristol

10-12 Men's Ignatian Recollection, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

20 AllD ay Adoration, Our Lady of Victories, Preston

21 AllD ay Adoration, St. George's House,W imbledon

25 Rev. Dominic O'Hart 1st Mass at St. Michael's School, Burghclere

Oct 8-10 Women's Ignatian Recollection, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

22 St. Michael’s School, Half-Term holiday begins

25-30 Men's Ignatian Retreat, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

Nov 1 ALLSAINTS

3 St. Michael’s School, Half-Term holiday ends

Dec 1 AllD ay Adoration, Our Lady of Victories, Preston

4 Advent Recollection, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

8 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BVM

15 St. Michael's School, Advent Fair, End of Term

16 Alld ay adoration, St. Saviour's, Bristol

44 Mass Times

JULY AUGUST

4th 11th 18th 25th 1st 8th 15th 22nd 29th

Bingley 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500

0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 Bristol 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 Burghclere 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700

Colleton 21st 11th - - - - - Manor 1130 1130 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 Edinburgh 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

Gateshead 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800

0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 Glasgow 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

Groombridge 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830

Herne 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230

Holnest 1700 1700 1700 - 1700 - - 1700 1700

Horncastle 1530 1530

24th 28th Jersey ------1030 1030

Leicester 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

Liverpool 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300

London 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 (St. Joseph) 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 London 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 (Wimbledon)

Manchester 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930

Preston 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930

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

Taunton 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

Woking 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030

45 Mass Centres

DISTRICT HOUSE Saint George’s House BRISTOL 125 Arthur Road Saint Saviour’s House Wimbledon SW19 7DR Saint Agnes Avenue, Knowle, Bristol BS4 2DU Tel: 0208 946 7916 [email protected] [email protected] Tel: 0117 977 5863 Resident: Resident: Rev. Fr. Robert Brucciani (District Superior) Rev. Fr. John McLaughlin (Prior) Rev. Fr. Håkan Lindström (District Bursar) Rev. Francis Gallagher Rev. Fr. Francis Ockerse (District Secretary) Rev. Fr. Lawrence Barrett Rev. Fr. Matthew Clifton Sr. Marie-Charbel JssR Sr. Mary Joseph JssR

Scotland BURGHCLERE Saint Michael’s School Chapel ABERDEEN Harts Lane, Burghclere, Hants RG20 9JW Aberdeen Foyer Marywell Centre, Tel: 01635 278 137/173 Marywell St, Aberdeen AB11 6JF [email protected] Tel: 01857 616206 Resident: Rev. Fr. John Brucciani (Headmaster) CARLUKE Rev. Fr. Reid Hennick Saint Andrew’s House Rev. Fr. Thomas O'Hart 31 Lanark Road Br. Ignatius Carluke, Lanarkshire ML8 4HE Br. Boniface Tel: 01555 771523 Br. Gerard Mary CssR [email protected] Resident: CHULMLEIGH Rev. Fr. Sebastian Wall (Prior) Colleton Manor Chapel Rev. Fr. Anthony Wingerden Chulmleigh, Devon, EX18 7JS Rev. Fr. Marc Hanappier Tel: 01769 580 240

EDINBURGH GATESHEAD Saints Margaret and Leonard Church of the Holy Name of Jesus 110 Saint Leonard’s Street Gladstone Terrace West, Bensham Edinburgh EH8 9RD Gateshead NE8 4DR Tel: 01555 771523 Tel: 07443 588 039

GLASGOW GROOMBRIDGE (Tunbridge Wells) Saint Andrew’s Church, Church of Saint Pius V, 202 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6TX Station Road, Groombridge TN3 9QX Tel: 01555 771523 Tel: 01892 654 372

STRONSAY HERNE St Columba’s House, Saints John Fisher & Thomas More Church Stronsay, KW17 2AS , Tel: 01857 616206 Herne Street, Herne CT6 7HR Resident: Tel: 020 89467916 Rev. Fr. Nicholas Mary CssR Br. Louis-Marie CssR HORNCASTLE Horncastle Community Centre Manor House Street England Horncastle, Lincs LN9 5HF Tel: 0208 946 7916 BINGLEY The Little House LEICESTER Market Street, Bingley BD16 2HP Church of Saint Anne Tel: 01274 567786 Abingdon Road, Leicester LE2 1HA Tel: 01858 555813

46 July - August 2021 LIVERPOOL The Church of Saints Peter and Paul 35 Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool L8 7LA Tel: 01772 562428 Scandinavia

LONDON AALBORG, DENMARK Church of Saints Joseph and Padarn Salterton Road, N7 6BB OSLO, NORWAY Tel: 020 8946 7916 MALMÖ, SWEDEN MANCHESTER Church of Saint Pius X, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 16 Deer Park Road, Manchester M16 8FR Tel: 01772 562 428 Rev. Fr. Håkan Lindström, MIDDLEMARSH / HOLNEST St. George’s House, 125 Arthur Road, Saint Lawrence Chapel Tel: 01963 210 580 London SW19 7DR [Mass celebrated in Holnest in wintertime] Tel: +44 20 8946 7916 [email protected] PRESTON www.fsspx.uk/en/scandinavia St. Mary's House ______12 Ribblesdale Place, Preston PR1 3NA Tel: 01772 562 428 [email protected] Pious Groups Resident: Rev. Fr. Vianney Vandendaele (Prior) Rev. Fr. Gary Holden THIRD ORDER OF ST. PIUS X Rev. Fr. Gary Holden [email protected] Our Lady of Victories Church East Cliff, Winckley Sq, Preston PR1 3JH ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF ST. STEPHEN Rev. Fr. Lawrence Barrett TAUNTON Mr. Richard Cullen Church of Our Lady of Glastonbury [email protected] 17 South Street (off East Reach), TA1 3AA Tel: 01823 652701 EUCHARISTIC CRUSADE Rev. Fr. Vianney Vandendaele WOKING [email protected] Church of the Holy Cross Sandy Lane, Maybury, GU22 8BA MILITIA IMMACULATAE Tel: 01483 767 537 Rev Fr. Robert Brucciani Mr. Howard Toon militia-immaculatae-1.org Wales [email protected] RHOS ON SEA ST. RAPHAEL'S HOMESCHOOL & Saint David’s Chapel OL FATIMA CORRESPONDENCE Conwy Road, (A547) Mochdre LL28 5AA, CATECHISM COURSE Tel: 01492 582586 Miss Monica Marshall [email protected] Jersey

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47 The Society of St. Pius X is an international priestly society of common life without vows, whose purpose is the priesthood and that which pertains to it.

Since its foundation by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970, the Society has formed priests according to the immemorial teachings of the Catholic Church. 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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