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We live in the mystery of God. All The Divine Mystery these external ceremonies we are doing are By Very Rev. Alphonsus Maria Duran, MJ important because they help us in our senses, in our imagination, to go into the know exactly; they’re still a mystery for us. depths of God in the soul. But we are now dealing with the mysteries. How A deeper mystery for us is the human many things happen in our souls when we mind. How much we are a mystery to attend the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the ourselves. How much we don’t know Divine Liturgy? Only God knows. So about ourselves. We can say, “Oh I know many things happen in our souls. They everything about myself.” Oh really? are very real things that happen, and we Until one day everything collapses – a car are unaware of them. accident, a mental breakdown, an emotional shake-up. And we don’t know The modern and superficial man tries what is up or what is down. We don’t to measure things by feelings. “Whatever i know the beginning or the end. We just feel is real.” Dr. Low, a famous Jewish don’t know anything about ourselves. I psychiatrist from Chicago used to say, know a fellow who used to say, “I do the “Feelings are not facts.” Sometimes we things i don’t want to do, and i don’t do can feel something very strongly, and it is the things I want to do.” He was stuck in not true. It is unreal. Other times we don’t the same situation that we are in. We are a feel something else, but it is true. mystery to ourselves, a deep mystery. Let’s celebrate this sense of mystery, Let’s talk about mystery. Today, to a good This mystery helps us to throw immerse ourselves in the mystery of God. degree, we want to have control of ourselves into the hands of God and say, In the Divine Liturgy it says that everything, to understand everything. “Well, God, here i am. You know how i thousands of angels and are around the altar worshiping God. We But we come to frustration because we am because i sure don’t.” When i think i have the whole thing figured out and i cannot see angels with our physical eyes, can’t. First, in the physical world. We but they do exist. Like we don’t see the understand our physical world more and really have perfect control of my life, then soul, but the soul exists. I more, but there are still many things we something happens and i lose perfect don’t understand. There are millions and control of my life. I’m a mystery to millions of stars and so many theories myself. about them, nothing but theories. I The most important mystery is the remember the first time that Armstrong mystery of God. Of course He has to be a In This Issue ... went to the moon. Many scientists mystery. This brings us precisely to the thought that there would be ten feet of Holy Mysteries. The word “” is The Divine Mystery ...... 1 dust on the moon, and that the men a Greek word, and it means “mystery”. In Queen Isabel ...... 2 would be buried when they stepped on the Divine Liturgy and the Holy Mass the moon. Well, when Armstrong stepped we’re dealing with the Divine Mysteries. Roads to Damascus ...... 4 on the moon he wasn’t buried in dust, These are mysteries of God – the St. Ignatius Spencer...... 5 because the moon was solid rock. The wonderful, the awesome, the profound, moon was a mystery for us. So many the infinite, the inconceivable, the Our Readers Write ...... 5 theories about how the stars are formed. incomprehensible. As we say in the Divine Vocation Hints...... 6 But they’re all only theories. We don’t Liturgy, “the mysteries of God”.

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Queen Isabel By Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez

large part of another has been — and is A True Follower of Jesus still — predominantly Catholic? Queen Isabel, who died over 500 years After Columbus’ first voyage to ago on Nov. 26, has often been likened to America, he reported to Queen Isabel St. Teresa of Jesus, the 16th century that, as far as he could see, there was not Carmelite. Venerable Juan de Palafox, who much promise of material wealth in the made extensive studies of the writings of lands he had visited. No mountains of Isabel and St. Teresa, claimed “that if St. gold or other precious metals were seen. Teresa had been a queen she would have How did Queen Isabel the Catholic been another Queen Isabel and if Queen respond to this news? Her response is Isabel had been a nun she would have recorded in history: “Though there be been another St. Teresa of Jesus.” Isabel nothing there but stones, I would was born of Catholic parents on April 22, continue there while there may be souls to 1451. save.” These words reveal her heart. Much In 1474, Isabel was proclaimed queen more than any possible monetary gain, of Castile. With her hand on the Bible, her zeal to spread the Catholic faith led she vowed to be obedient to the Queen Isabel to sponsor Columbus’ Commandments, to honor her prelates expeditions. This truth, which is often left and ministers, and to defend the Church out of history books, deserves recognition: with all her strength. The papal nuncio Editor’s Note: The 500th anniversary of Most of Spanish America is Catholic was present at her enthronement in Queen Isabel’s death prompted a Puerto because of Queen Isabel. Segovia along with the papal legate, clear Rican prelate to examine her faithful service Christ said we can know the tree by its signs of the Holy Father’s support of her to Christ and his Church. This talk is fruits. What exactly were the fruits of taking the throne. particularly appropriate as Queen Isabel is a Isabel’s faith? As the author Nemesio patron of Miles Jesu. In anyone’s eyes, Queen Isabel would Rodriguez Lois points out, America “will be considered great just by the fact that, Imagine that you have before your soon be home to more than half of the with great prudence, justice and fortitude, eyes a map of the world. Looking at the Catholics of the whole world. This is the she joined together 27 separate kingdoms map from heaven’s perspective, imagine reason for which recent have into one strongly united Spain, with her that the places strong in the Catholic faith baptized these lands with the significant husband King Ferdinand. It is a striking shine with special brilliance. Ireland, for name of ‘The Continent of Hope.’” Truly, example of how a truly Christian leader example, would be one such place. the great hope that this continent holds can elevate a people from a state of History shows that this island owes its can be traced back to the extraordinary extreme prostration to become a world faith and Catholic culture to St. Patrick, virtues of Queen Isabel: her hope of power. Before Isabel’s reign, it was often who is rightly known as the “Apostle of bringing Christ to new peoples; her not safe to walk or travel in cities or Ireland.” charity in making laws to protect these through the countryside. Many people peoples from exploitation and Now move your eyes west across the were victimized by rampant violence, and enslavement, and her great faith, whose map, across the Atlantic to America. How there was terrible corruption among civil legacy still lives in South and Central can we account for the fact that Spanish leaders. All this changed under Queen America, Mexico, the western United America, not just a small island or a large Isabel. States, the Canary Islands and the peninsula, but one entire continent and a Philippines, among other places. continued on page 3

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A Reformer of Church to the Blessed Sacrament. She also wrote which Isabel had for the Catholic faith. personally to all the bishops of her realm and State Her determination only to fight wars asking that they encourage devotion to, A true daughter of the Church, Isabel that were both just and unavoidable is and take much care in their handling of, initiated religious reforms, and then demonstrated by the fact that, whenever the Blessed Sacrament. She wrote them undertook political reforms. She knew possible, Isabel avoided fighting against not so much as their queen but as a that if she could strengthen the Spanish other Christian rulers. And she never took concerned daughter of the Church. clergy, religious orders and monasteries, sides with Christian rulers who were she would thereby obtain the spiritual The queen’s devotion to the Blessed opposing the Holy Father. In all, she betterment of her people. Once a reform Virgin Mary was not only fervent but, in a carried out two successful campaigns in faith and morals was in place, the way, visionary. She co-founded the Order against the Moors, one in Granada and political reform would be much more of the Franciscan Sisters of the one in Africa. These victories helped save successful. in 1489 with St. Spain and Europe from the very real Her reforms of Church and state Beatriz of Silva. Around the same time, Moorish threat to conquer Christendom. worked marvelously, resulting in many she also wrote to the Holy Father and In addition, her sponsorship of the good fruits: unity in the kingdom, the respectfully asked him to take appropriate evangelization of America resulted in the strengthening of the crown to better serve steps against those who denied the conversion of many native people. the people, the establishment of a stable Immaculate Conception of the Virgin peace and the restoration of justice, exemplary clergy and religious orders, a Bold, Decisive, Faith-filled unified front against the enemies of the “Isabel proved that Action faith, and the promotion and defense of Isabel proved that her Catholic faith morality. These elements form the basis of her Catholic faith was not simply a pious phrase said in good government. How many of today’s passing but the deepest conviction of her world leaders could learn from her was not simply a being. In a heroic way, her actions example of how to govern without pious phrase said in matched her words. compromising one’s faith or violating one’s Her greatest achievement was certainly conscience? passing but the deepest her impact on America. In the Isabel clearly stated her motives for evangelization of America, Granada and carrying out these two reforms: the conviction of her being. all of her realms, Isabel showed how she greatest service of God and the exaltation saw the Catholic faith as a most precious of the holy Catholic faith. Thus, the In a heroic way, her gem — a jewel that, once unveiled, would Catholic Church in Spain was well be dearly coveted by all those who prepared for the great enterprises for actions matched her accepted it. which she was destined, especially the words.” While Isabel never stepped foot in evangelization of America and all of America, her zeal to spread the Catholic Spain’s territories. Because the faith in faith caused and inspired many Spain itself was so strong, the country Mary. She did both of these things 365 missionaries to sail across the Atlantic enjoyed a unity free from the splintering years before the dogma of the Immaculate bearing the Good News of Christ. effects of Protestantism. And let us not Conception was even declared. Therefore, Isabel merits a unique title as forget the great Spanish who rose “Evangelizer of the New World.” out of Isabel’s reforms: St. Teresa of Jesus, Queen Isabel once received two St. , St. Ignatius of monks from the Holy Sepulcher of History offers no other candidates for Loyola and St. Francis Borgia, to name a Jerusalem and after they had departed, she this title. And today, Catholics in lands few. sent them the enormous sum of 1,000 stretching from my island of Puerto Rico, ducats every year which she ordered to be down to the southern tip of South used in Jerusalem for the things necessary America, and all the way to the coast of Devotion to Jesus for divine worship there, and for the California, can all look to Isabel as their and Mary upkeep and improvement of the Holy historical mother in the Catholic faith. Like these saints, Queen Isabel’s Sepulcher itself. She also gave them a veil Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez is devotion to the Blessed Sacrament was to put on top of the Holy Sepulcher, archbishop emeritus of San Juan in Puerto outstanding. She created and promoted which she’d made with her own hands. Rico. I many eucharistic associations which even From these few examples, we can gain until today, foster devotion and reverence some appreciation for the strong devotion

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Miles Jesu appreciates all the “You know…what religion has priests “one foot over the Tiber.” As Newman support of its members and the and sacrifices, and mystical rites…and care remarked, “The Creeds tell us that the Continuity Journal readers. for the souls of the dead, and the Church is One, Holy, Catholic and Without your support our ministry profession of an ancient faith, coming Apostolic…” but he, like many after him, wouldn’t be possible. In order to through all ages from the Apostles. There struggled to “…prove that the Anglican continue our work, we are in is one, and only one, religion such…it is communion was an integral part of the need of the following: called Catholicism…” Newman enthused One Church, on the ground of its in a sermon five years after his own teaching being Apostolic or Catholic…” • Phone cards for international conversion. He, Pugin and Manning were His own struggle culminated in Tract 90, calls (e.g. First National) perhaps the best-known converts of their that ambitious but essentially futile • Reams of white paper century, a century which saw Catholic attempt to prove that the 39 Articles were • Envelopes of different sizes Emancipation (1829), the Restoration of basically ‘Catholic’ in nature and origin. • Toiletries the Hierarchy (1850) and Vatican 1 Four years later, he finally hung up his • Laundry soap/tablets (1869-70). Cardinal Wiseman, the first preaching bands and became a Roman • Toothpaste Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, went Catholic. Nearly 20 years afterwards he • Cold/flu medicines, vitamin C, out of his way to be welcoming to remembered: “…on my conversion, I was antacid tablets, Claritin converts from , much as not conscious of any change…of thought • Printer cartridges for fax and Cardinal Hume was to do after the 1993 or feeling, as regards matters of doctrine; printer (colour and b/w) with ordination of women sent shock-waves of … however…I am bound to confess that I following information on clerical ‘refugees’ (and sometimes whole felt a great change in my view of the cartridges… congregations) over to Rome. HP Officejet G55, 42ml. black; …an extreme Inkjet facsimile, Sf - 335T, Between 1900 and 1960 there were astonishment that I had ever imagined it Samsung black INK-N40, three quarters of a million converts to to be a portion of the Catholic Church.” 17ml.; Canon BJ cartridge, Rome. These included Hugh Benson, the (‘Apologia’). youngest son of the Archbishop of BC-01, black. Significantly, Newman has often been Canterbury; Ronald Knox, son of the called ’The Father of Vatican 11,’ and Bishop of Manchester; a crop of writers, there is no doubt that it was a ‘watershed’ including Oscar Wilde (1900), G.K. for the Roman Catholic Church, just as Chesterton, Graham Greene, Siegfried “The point of view the ordination of women was to be to the Sassoon, Edith Sitwell, Tolkien, Muriel Anglican Church nearly 30 years later. Spark, Lord Longford, and Evelyn Waugh of every human soul is Vatican 11’s emphasis on pastoral theology who argued that, “Christianity exists in its and ecumenism, on liturgical reform and most complete and vital form in the only partial, from some the empowerment of the laity, both Roman Catholic Church.” Newman attracted ‘outsiders’ and repelled some would have agreed. So would every other of the lower slopes of ‘insiders.’ For example, John Wilkins Catholic convert. the mountain…but the (recently retired editor of ‘The Tablet’) The documents of Vatican 11, described himself at its outset as, “…this (Catholic) Church’s particularly Lumen Gentium and Unitatis Anglican who knew so little about Redintegratio stress that although, “many Catholicism,” who followed, “as best I point of view is from elements of sanctification and of truth” could the unfolding events in Rome…” exist amongst other Christians, “the one until, “Before the council ended, I had the divine top of the Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic become a Catholic.” Testimony indeed. Church.” For many people this is still a Perhaps it is only fair to say that many mountain, since her contentious claim which creates ‘cradle Catholics’ disliked changes to the antagonism, because it asserts an liturgy, receiving in both kinds and front- soul is the Holy Spirit.” absolutism, a supreme authority in a world facing altars, and that some ‘lapsed’ of relativism and ‘politically correct’ because of it. DR. PETER KREEFT equivalence. Anglicans of all persuasions PATH TO ROME SPEAKER 2004 However, post-Vatican 11 ‘high- PHOENIX, ARIZONA have found this difficult, even those with continued on page 6

4 CONTINUITY JOURNAL | FEBRU ARY / MARCH 2006 Fr. Ignatius Spencer A review by Fr. Ben Lodge, CP, Our Readers N Write... This booklet on the life of the destined to Passionist priest, Fr Ignatius Spencer, is be an Dear Steve, part of the ‘Saints of the (British) Isles’ Anglican CTS series which includes other better- clergyman, I hope this letter finds its known Englishmen, such as Edmund enjoying a way to you, as I gather you Campion, Robert Southwell and Thomas comfortable may well be in Chicago. More. Ignatius Spencer lived and worked living on his in the nineteenth century, a time less father’s I was very sorry to hear dramatic than the Reformation period estate. He that you were unwell. My when Catholics might be called to entered the thoughts and prayers are martyrdom. Yet his life and achievement, Anglican set against the background of the ministry in with you. Look after restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in 1824 and yourself. 1850 and the Industrial Revolution, when was by all accounts a most zealous pastor I thoroughly enjoyed the Irish emigrants from the famine were at the family living of Brington. pouring into English cities such as Unworldly and somewhat impractical, he conference in November Liverpool and Birmingham, deserves managed to give away most of his father’s (Path to Rome in ). wider recognition. His cause for generous allowance to the poor; when his It was so pleasant to see you canonisation was begun by the late income was reduced, he gave up wine and again and all the other Archbishop Worlock of Liverpool in 1992. puddings. His family, to which he was and remained very close, thought him a MJ’ers as well. The Spencer, whose baptismal name was ‘character’. atmosphere of Catholic George, was born into the heart of the English landed aristocracy in 1799. The A scholarly, reflective and spiritual friendship and enthusiasm youngest of eight children and the son of man, it was not long before his reading of was inspiring. You were a Earl Spencer of Althorp, he received the the early Church Fathers made him doubt big part of it, as always – so conventional education of his class, first at the historical foundations of Anglicanism get better soon – you are Eton, then at Cambridge. He retained a – a similar intellectual path to that taken lifelong love of cricket – perhaps the only by in 1845. In very much needed. relic from his public school past that he 1830 he converted to Catholicism, I am contemplating later brought into the Church. In 1819, influenced by his friendship with a retirement in the near after leaving Cambridge with a first class dynamic young Catholic layman, honours degree (achieved at a time when Phillipps de Lisle. Sent to the future. So my routine will gentlemen undergraduates often led a English College in Rome, Spencer was be changing and there leisurely intellectual life), he was taken on ordained a priest in 1832. During this should be much less stress, the continental Grand Tour. Pious, period he also became friends with Fr but I shall find a lot to do. I sincere, shy and with a gift for languages, , rector of the Passionist George noted that it was ‘the first time I community at Lucca. At first he was am of course always in entered a Catholic church’. Unlike Robert appointed to parishes in the Birmingham contact with Tom and Hugh Benson, son of the Anglican area. He used his own money to build the and hope to be able Archbishop of Canterbury, who went on a Catholic churches in and to meet Tom more often similar Grand Tour later in the century Dudley. and who also became a Catholic priest, it down in Sussex. At this time he began to develop his did not make much of an impression at particular mission: praying and getting I send you, Steve, my the time. In Milan Cathedral he found the other to pray for the conversion of kindest regards and liturgy ‘mummery’. However, narrowly England. Today such a notion is often escaping a volcanic eruption in Naples, thoughts. viewed with suspicion in certain Spencer felt convinced he had been ecumenical circles – but until the Second Yours, marked out for a special purpose in life. Vatican Council the ‘Prayer for England’ Brian Healy What form this would take was as yet was automatically recited at the conclusion unclear. As a younger son, Spencer seemed continued on page 6

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Vocation Hints: profile’ converts include Ann Widdecombe, Charles Moore, four Anglican bishops, including Graham Leonard, the Duchess of Kent and her son Lord Nicholas Windsor, Knowing God’s who had to forfeit his right to succession (he was 25th in line) under the unrepealed Act of Settlement. Most converts, of course, are less well-known and help swell the pews in Will for You an unremarked manner, whilst often bringing their ‘zeal’ and energy to bear on many aspects of parish life. Every Continuity member can be a fisher of souls. Do you know of a young man or ‘Conversion’ is not just a once-in-a-lifetime experience, a mystical moment woman, in your family or from your parish, crystallised in time: it is a continuous, ongoing process, an amendment or ‘conversion of at work or school, who could benefit from a life.’ In this sense it links with both the penitential experience of sacramental free DVD on Vocation, a vocation retreat and regular spiritual direction? Please send or ‘Reconciliation’ (where intention of amendment of life is an essential aspect of e-mail us their information and we will be Absolution) and the experience of ‘falling in love,’ where the defining moment of in touch with them.Together, with your realisation is only the beginning: it is the subsequent marriage which is the deepening, encouragement and cooperation, we can find life-enhancing experience. Though initially ‘subjective’ in nature, the effects of these many more labourers for the Lord’s work in experiences are ‘objective’ and observable, radiating outwards from the individual to the vineyard.You can be the most effective others, and to the wider world. Devotional experiences, whether in religion or vocation director to those you know and love. relationships, unite faith and reason, strengthening both… to be continued next VOCATION: 133 Ideas to month. cultivate it. Richard is conducting a study involving converts to the Catholic Church. Those interested By Fr. Eliecer Salesman in Richard’s study can reach him at [email protected] I “Come with me and I will make you fishers of souls” Roads to Damascus ... continued from page 4 –Jesus Christ The doctrines and examples in this book are taken of every Sunday Mass in this country. For Fr George Spencer, member of a once-Catholic from publications approved by the Holy Catholic family that had owned estates in Northamptonshire since the Middle Ages, now a zealous Church to whose Magisterium and authority we Catholic priest, such a mission was obvious: and to work and pray for England to return submit ourselves always and totally. to her ancient and true Faith became his particular calling. In 1846, naturally SECTION 6. TO WHAT DOES GOD sympathetic to the similar goal of Fr Dominic Barberi, who from his childhood had COMMIT HIMSELF WITH RESPECT TO dreamed of an English mission, Spencer entered the Passionist Order and was given the THE VOCATION? name Ignatius of St Paul. It is what is called the “grace of one’s state in The rest of his life, until his death by the roadside in 1864 (he had prayed to die, life.” That is, a very effective help that Our Lord unknown, in a ditch) was devoted to the cause of England’s conversion. Fr Ignatius was grants to each person whom He calls and destines indefatigable; constantly preaching on the Passion of Christ, he once also found time to to some sacred service in His Church. write 72 letters in two days. Although he used trains to save time, he covered long Pope John XXIII told how when he was elected distances on foot; he once walked 33 miles as he forgot to take money for his return train Holy pontiff (in 1958) he experienced a terrible journey. For a time he was appointed spiritual director of the seminary at Oscott. Usually fright. But as soon as he opened the book, his worked involved Missions, often in Ireland, a country he believed that would be “Imitation of Christ,” at random the first thing he instrumental in England’s spiritual salvation. He would spend 3 days on these arduous read was this phrase, “When God confides a special exercises, beginning with confessions, then celebrating Mass, then giving instruction in office to a person, He commits Himself to give him the Faith and concluding with more confessions. Sometimes he spent 12 hours daily in the helps and graces needed in order to exercise the confessional during these periods. He never took days off. well the position entrusted to him.” And later the Pope said that from that moment onward he felt Recognising that such demanding apostolic work required a deep personal spirituality, a great peace and that during the years of his Fr Ignatius combined his outward labours with constant prayer. It is right that this Pontificate he could verify that, yes, it is true that unusual, gifted and holy man should come into the public eye today for he was in many God commits Himself to help in a very special way ways prophetic: he recognised the need for an educated laity and also urged the founding the people whom He calls to an especially holy of lay communities – common today within the new movements in the Church, but vocation. The one who loves commits himself to unheard of in the mid-nineteenth century. Fr Ignatius was often rebuffed – once by the end. Newman himself in 1840, for which he later expressed his regret - sometimes mocked in the street, occasionally checked in his zeal by his Passionist superiors; yet nothing could “All the ways of this world disturb his trust and hope in God. To disappointments he would invariably respond, are as fickle and unstable as ‘Deo gratias’. We have much need of holy exemplars in this country and Fr Ignatius’ time has surely come. a sudden storm at sea” Contributed by Francis Phillips I St.

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