@Contra Mundum@ Volume XVIII, Issue 12 July 2016 The Congregation of St. Athanasius A Congregation of the Pastoral Provision of John Paul II for the Anglican Usage of the Roman Rite http://www.locutor.net Desert island It is easier to put all one’s select and talk about eight trust in God our Lord, pieces of music2 which they if one is cut off from would like to have with them if everything of the world. stranded on a desert island. Also Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual a book (assuming a Bible and diary, Pros and cons. Shakespeare already available) and a single ‘luxury’. The dog days of summer descend So, a simple turn on this for the upon us as early as the sixth of dog days of July: Which eight July, if we credit the almanac in the July saints might I like to have as Book of Common Prayer 1559: ‘Dog companions on a desert island? days beg.’ And with these hot, Saxony’s Vita Christi and Jacopo sultry days, when even the stock Ignatius — 31 July of Varazze’s Flos sanctorum. Thus market traditionally flattens out, The embroidery on the cloth of our blessed Savior and saints such our thoughts may turn to desert state for Mary Stuart, Queen of as Francis and Dominic became islands. Their range begins with Scots, read: En ma fin est mon his ‘desert island saints’, and what the cartoonist delivers as a commencement, ‘In my end lies not only did he determine to do few feet across, sited in a tropical my beginning’, and for anyone what they had done, but he also sea, with a single palm tree and with a Jesuit schooling the developed an uncanny perception perhaps a bottle containing with whom to begin July appears of the difference between volatile a message floating nearby. at the very end of the month, on and eventually jading thoughts Castaways like Robinson Crusoe the 31st, the feast of Ignatius of of worldly pleasures as against or Gilligan enjoyed somewhat Loyola, founder of the Society the lasting consolation which larger, more resourceful tropical of Jesus. This day marks the contemplating Christ and the locales, but still purgatories beginning of appointments deeds of the saints brought him. of solitude, companioned or for rectors and other positions 1 This marked the entry of the not, awaiting deliverance. within the Society. valuable gift of the discernment A Basque military man and of spirits, which became central BBC Radio has, from 1942, Spanish courtier, during a long in the spirituality which he maintained a successful and recovery from a leg shattered developed for his later followers continuous run of over three in the siege of Pamplona (1521) and companions. thousand broadcasts of Desert and with no romances available Every island community needs Island discs, wherein the host to read, Ignatius discovered an administrator, and Ignatius invites celebrity ‘castaways’ to Spanish editions of Ludolf of organized and governed and 1 And, of course, the world’s largest desert 2 Whether 78rpm shellac records or 45rpm island, Devon Island, we would find not in the discs or 33-1/3rpm ‘vinyl’, or CDs, or mp3s managed his Society of Jesus with tropics but in far northern Nunavut, Baffin or in whatever formats we have passed a splendid authority and in a Bay, and roughly the same size as Croatia. through. way that those who followed him Page 90 Contra Mundum

did so lovingly and with high Roman liturgical calendar and competence, even to a martyr’s Mass structure, not the Greek death. one. A characteristic anecdote of had them Ignatian practicality has the interrupt a return trip to lights suddenly going out in Byzantium where they were a chapel where a Franciscan, a travelling by way of Venice Dominican and a Jesuit were to have some of their pupils praying together. The OFM ordained as priests 5 . Issues had sees this as a sign of God’s arisen about the appropriateness displeasure and that He is of a liturgy in any language other calling for repentance. The OP than the three superscripted on marvels at the implications of the Cross: Latin, Greek, and how in the middle of light we Hebrew (trilingualism). find ourselves in darkness. The But Constantine held a trump SJ gets up to leave. ‘But Father, card in the relics of St Clement aren’t you going to join us in which he had recovered while our contemplations?’ —‘Later. on the Black Sea, and he brought First of all I’m going to find the mission of evangelizaion to these in a triumphal procession, fuse box.’ Moravia4 because (in his words) accompanied by miracles and Inspiring, to imagine a thirty-day “all Thessalonicans speak a pure popular venerations. Pope retreat, in illustrious company, Slavonic”.. Constantine had earlier Adrian II, the successor of with Ignatius Loyola. undertaken a mission to convert Nicholas I, received them and the relics, had the Mass sung Cyril and Methodius, and the Khazars on the Black Sea, he in Slavonic in St Peter’s, and Clement of Ohrid —07 July had worked in various languages ordained their disciples. and 17 July current at the time, and—of later Constantine became ill while Seeming contradictions accomp- importance—had repatriated the in Rome, took monastic any our next trio of July relics of Pope St Clement of Rome, vows under the name Cyril, companions: July and yet not martyred under Trajan in exile in and died fifty days later. July3, Slavic and yet not Slavic, Chersonesus on the Crimea. The Methodius returned to the apostles and yet not apostles, Moravian mission of Constantine Moravian mission with a papal Cyril and yet not Cyril, Cyrillic and Methodius required an bull authorizing the Slavonic and yet not Cyrillic: alphabet for a language with a much larger sound inventory liturgy but then, with a change Constantine the Philosopher, a than Greek or Latin, so they in Moravian court politics, the leading ninth-century scholar cleverly created one, Glagolitic, bishops of Salzburg, Passau, in Constantinople and protegé that did not look like Greek, and Feising had Methodius, of the Ecumenical in order avoid the suspicion of now archbishop of Syrmium, Photius (he of the Photian neighboring German bishops, imprisoned in Ellwangen for schism), along with his elder who also had an envious eye on two-and-a-half years until Pope brother Methodius, came Moravia. In keeping with good John VIII insisted on Methodius’ from the multi-ethnic city of Byzantine missionary principle release and curbed the claims of Thessalonica (Salonike) and they translated the liturgical the Bavarian bishops. A back- were virtually bilingual in and scriptural books into the and-forth continued until 885, Greek and Slavonic. For this vernacular and, interestingly when Pope Stephen V refused reason the Emperor enough, the major surviving to recognize Methodius’ suc- III designated them for a liturgical text from that period, cessor, Gorazd, and forbade the 3 Cyril (Constantine) and Methodius, although in Slavonic, follows the Slavonic liturgy. 7 July in the traditional calendar, moved The remnants of the Moravian in the Roman calendar to 14 February mission found their way to in 1969, various other associated dates 4 In the present–day Czech Republic, include 5 July (Slovakia), 9 March, 11 May, but extended historically over a wide area 5 Neither of the brothers had episcopal 24 May, 6 April (Pannonia) orders at the time. Contra Mundum Page 91

Macedonia and Bulgaria on tribes from the where under their pupil, Baltic to the Black Sea yet another July saint became praying and and prolific scholar, beautifully chanting 6 Here is a progress report on our response Clement of Ohrid , the saints and patrons to Dr. Philip Crotty’s generous matching work continued with the of the Orthodox grant. He will match up to $5,000 donated creation of a simplified Church. And not hard by our parishioners and friends to reduce Slavonic alphabet, what to imagine Ignatius some indebtedness left over from last year. we now call ‘Cyrillic’, adding in some of To date we have received $3,000.00 from that could now afford his war tales and ten donors. Many thanks to them! The rest to look more like Greek the dynamic of his of us have until October 15th to match the and was easier for conversion. offer and receive Dr. Crotty’s gift. scribes in the Bulgarian Orthodox and Eastern Please indicate DEBT REDUCTION on imperial court to deal St. Vladimir Catholic calendars your gift. with. characterize Vladimir, Through these extensive and along with Cyril and Methodius patient linguistic and missionary and Clement of Ohrid and Ol’ga, challenging the validity of Herod’s activities Christianity came to and all as “equal-to-the-apostles”9. marriage to Queen Herodias, the eventually flourished in the Slavic divorcée of his brother Philip. lands. Our island community for the and — month of July will need statesmen Vladimir — 15 July 09 July10 and politicians, those with a true A little over a century after the In 1535 two prominent English story to tell (for a change). work of Cyril and Methodius in Catholics Thomas More, Lord Numerous additional feast days eastern and southeastern Europe, Chancellor of England,, and John in the July calendar salute Christianity came to the Eastern Fisher, bishop of Rochester refused Catholic martyrs to the English Slavs7 when the notably pagan 11 a required oath upholding the First Reformation . Their valor and and bloodthisty Grand Prince Act of Succession which abjured witness took a prime inspiration of Kiev, Vladimir8, in a rescuing the pope and claimed annulment from the exemplary insistence of alliance with Emperor Basil II, of Henry’s first marriage. Neither Thomas More and John Fisher. converted to Christianity with More’s sophisticated legalism nor 12 the name Basil, put aside his — 14 July Fisher’s gentle trusting in human numerous concubines, married The thirteenth century gave nature spared them conviction Anna Porphyrogenita, the much the Western Church the two on a charge of high treason and sought after sister of the Emperor, most outstanding theologian- a sentence, since neither was a and began with the imposition of philosophers, whose works remain nobleman, of hanging, drawing the new faith upon the people of normative even today: Thomas and quartering, commuted to Rus’ and the surrounding tribes. beheading as a concession to 11 Some names, an incomplete list, worth Parts of Rus’ had seen Christianity rehearsing: Thomas Maxfield (1 July); John popular outrage. before this, and Vladimir’s Cornelius/Mohun, Thomas Bosgrave, John In a telling irony John Fisher was Carey, and Patrick Salmon; William Andelby, grandmother, Ol’ga (Elena), had beheaded just before the vigil Henry Abbot, Thomas Warcop, and Edward also embraced Christianity, but Fulthrop (4 July); George Beesley, Thomas of his patron saint, John the most date the conversion of Russia Belson; Patrick Cavanagh, Edward Cheevers, Baptist, who had earned King Matthew Lambert, Robert Myler, (5 July); from the year 0988. Herod’s displeasure by publicly Thomas Alfield,Thomas Webley (6 July); Vladimir’s dramatic conversion Roger Dickenson, Ralph Milner, and Laurence (and Ol‘ga’s) will make stories Humphrey (7 July); Oliver Plunkett (11 July, 9 iσαπoστολος (isoapóstolos), Slav. later 1 July); John Jones (12 July); Thomas for long desert-island evenings, ravnoapostol’nyj, a title which reaches as far Tunstal (13 July); Philip Evans and John Lloyd how bloodthirsty and vengeful back as Emperor Constantine I. (22 July); John Speed/Spence, John Boste, Scandinavian pirates preying 10 Feast moved in 1970 in the Roman calendar George Sallowell, John Ingram, The Durham to 22 June, the date of Fisher’s execution; in martyrs; Lambton (24 July); William many Anglican calendars 6 July, the date of Ward, Edward Thwing (26 July); William Davies 6 Kliment Ohridski, 17 July More’s execution,”Thomas More, Scholar, and (27 July); Edward Powell, Richard Fetherston, 7 Today Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, Reformation Everard Hanse, and Thomas Abel (30 July). 8 Volodimer Svetoslavic (958-1015) Martyrs, 1535” 12 transposed in 1969 to 15 July. Page 92 Contra Mundum

Aquinas, the doctor angelicus, and attempted to bring about a failed ye holy saints of July, pray for us. our desert-islander Bonaventure union of the Armenian church ¶ The Revd. Dcn. Michael Connolly (Giovanni di Fidenza), the with the Byzantine through the is incardinated as Archdeacon in the Church’s doctor seraphicus. Council of Hromkla15 and then Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady In order to forestall an eventual negotiated an actual reunion of Nareg in the United States and Canada rejection of the cardinalate which of Armenia and Rome in 1198 and teaches linguistics in Boston College. he had commanded Bonaventure under Pope Celestine III, a He assists frequently in the Anglican Use. to accept, Pope Gregory X sent union which persisted through His most recent contribution to Contra Mundum was in March 2016. legates in advance bearing all various high and low points, the trappings of that office. especially through the Council SHORT NOTES They intercepted him en route of Florence, but eventually fell We will offer a year’s-mind Mass at a Franciscan monastery near apart in the 1440s when the Ñ Florence, where he was engaged Cilician patriarchate became for parishioner Helen Smith on Friday, th in washing dishes. He told the marginalized by movement of July 15 at 3:30 p.m. at the Marian legates to hang his cardinal’s hat the catholicossate from Sis in Altar in St. Theresa’s Church.. You on a bush nearby because he could Cilcian Armenia to Etchmiadzin are invited to attend. May she rest in not take it with greasy hands, kept in Eastern Armenia, far from peace. the legates strolling in the garden, western influences. Ñ We have begun singing the Fifth and duly received them only after The Synodal discourse of Nerses Communion Service at Sunday Mass. he had finished his task. Who do of Lambron remains as an It is found at Nos. 747-749 in The you think will be washing the outstanding and almost Hymnal 1940. dishes on the desert isle? incontrovertible statement of Gregory commissioned his best well-reasoned ecumenism, and Ñ Congratulations to Br Anthony K. theologians, with Bonaventure his Commentary on the Revelation Cavet who in early July observes the and Thomas, to prepare for of Saint John stands as one of the 50th anniversary of his life profession the second Council of Lyons great unknowns of medieval in the Irish Christian Brothers. Br. (1272-1274) which, among other scholarship. Cavet is a member of the faculty in accomplishments, effected a re- And so, the Desert-Island saints Catholic Memorial High School, union of Eastern and Western for July16: sings in the St Theresa of Avila Christianity, albeit later repudiated The men of arms Vladimir and Parish Choir, and frequently attends by the subsequent Byzantine Ignatius of Loyola and perhaps our Holy Day and Evensong services. emperor. Thomas died on his way Methodius; Ad multos annos! to the Council, Bonaventure died the apostles Cyril and Methodius, shortly before its conclusion. Clement of Ohrid, Vladimir, and, Ñ Father Raymond Helmick, SJ The spirituality of Bonaventure’s as initiator of a monumental departed this life on April 21st, and a writings, best exemplified in his missonary activity Ignatius of funeral Mass was held at the Campion Journey of the Soul to God13 finds its Loyola; Center for him on April 26th. The complement in Ignatius’ Spiritual the unifiers and witnesses for Congregation’s condolences go to Exercises and a profitable July the Church united: Nerses of the Helmick family. May he rest in would make room for both, in Lambron, Bonaventure, Thomas peace. succession and in comparison. More, John Fisher; Nerses of Lambron — 17 July 14 the scholars: Cyril (as Constantine THE FALSEHOOD Like Clement of Ohrid, with whom the Philosopher), Clement of he shares this feast day, one of the Ohrid, Nerses of Lambron, OF RELATIVISM greatest writers and scholars in Thomas More. t is commendable that in his church but unknown outside Desert-island companions and all Itoday’s democratic societies, in a of it, and, like Bonaventure, an 15 Arm. Hromklay, Tk. Rumkale, climate of true freedom, everyone is assiduous worker for unity between 16 deserving of a supplemental listing made a participant in directing the of women saints from July: the Carmelite the churches, Nerses, archbishop body politic. Such societies call ‘for of Tarsus in Cilician Armenia, martyrs of Compiègne (17 July), Ol’ga (11 July), Mary Magdalen (22 July), Anne (26 new and fuller forms of participation 13 Itinerarium mentis in Deum. July), Veronica (12 July), Praxedes (15 14 Nerse������������������������s Lambronac’i�����������, 17 July. July), Martha (29 July) in public life by Christian and non- Contra Mundum Page 93

Christian citizens alike ... were right who recognized the to Nazareth He was a national By fulfilling their civic duties, falsehood of relativism, and with it, personality. And the Lord’s kith and guided by a Christian conscience, the notion that there is no moral law kin in Nazareth were beginning to in conformity with its values, the rooted in the nature of the human enjoy the additional luster of being lay faithful exercise their proper person, which must govern our related to the even-more-famous task of infusing the temporal understanding of man, the common . We can be sure order with ‘Christian values,’ all good and the state ... everyone went to the synagogue the while respecting the nature It is the Church’s right and duty to hear Jesus that Sabbath Day. ‘and rightful autonomy of that to provide a moral judgment on We don’t possess the sermon the order, and cooperating with other temporal matters when this is Lord gave, but St Luke tells us it citizens according to their particular required by faith or the moral law. was based upon Chapter 61 competence and responsibility. The If Christians must recognize the and that the sermon revealed Our lay faithful are never to relinquish legitimacy of differing points of Lord’s conception of the Messiah. their participation in “public view about the organization of Which, of course, would be the life,” that is, in the many different worldly affairs, they are also called right conception! But we do know economic, social, legislative, to reject, as injurious to democratic that whatever Jesus said about it, administrative, and cultural’ areas, life, a conception of pluralism that the sermon completely failed to which are intended to promote reflects moral relativism. Democracy be accepted by His hearers in the organically and institutionally the must be based on the true and Nazareth synagogue. common good. This would include solid foundation of non-negotiable Scripture says the people who the promotion and defense of goods ethical principles, which are the heard Jesus were astonished at His such as public order and peace, underpinning of life in society. teaching. “Astonishment” can mean freedom, and equality, respect for Congregation for the Doctrine of many things. But these people did human life and for the environment, the Faith not accept the Lord’s teaching on justice and solidarity ... ¶ This is an excerpt from the doctrinal its own merits. They discounted His A kind of cultural relativism note on The Participation of Catholics in teaching because it came from one exists today, evident in the Political Life, published on the feast of whose background was known to conceptualization and defense of an Christ the King, November 24, 2002. them. “Is not this the carpenter, the ethical pluralism, which sanctions OBSTINATE son of Mary?” Never mind that being the decadence arid disintegration UNBELIEF a carpenter does not automatically of reason and the principles of the disqualify someone from speaking natural moral law. Furthermore, it he incident of Christ’s the truth. Never mind that being is not unusual to hear the opinion Tsermon at Nazareth, His son of Mary should have been the expressed in the public sphere that hometown, and His rejection there, greatest of credentials! Everyone such ethical pluralism is the very disappoints us. We know this story in Nazareth must have known her condition for democracy. As a result, is told to warn about fallen human to be the outstanding holy woman citizens claim complete autonomy nature and the difficulty of claiming she was. Notice too that in Nazareth with regard to their moral choices, Christ as Lord in an obstinate Jesus was rejected because they and lawmakers maintain that they unbelieving world. But we also knew His origins, while in Judaea are respecting this freedom of choice remember the hometown hero’s they rejected Jesus saying, “we by enacting laws which ignore the welcome for such people as Charles know not from whence He is” principles of natural ethics and yield Lindbergh, General Patton, and Neil (John 9:29). Obstinate unbelief to ephemeral cultural and moral Armstrong. What a contrast when will always find an excuse! The trends, as if every possible outlook the Creator of Heaven and Earth real point is that in this crowd there on life were of equal value ... The fully incarnate in the Word-made- was no heart truly responsive to the history of the twentieth century flesh goes home to Nazareth! truth of the Gospel. It is a situation Our Lord found in many places, as demonstrates that those citizens By the time Our Lord returned Page 94 Contra Mundum does His Church to this day. setbacks on the road of Christian organising practical relief for some Our Lord warned His closest discipleship, but even more of the of the poorest, she was sent back followers if the world hated and care we need to take in the ordering to Carshalton, where she became rejected Him it would reject them of our own lives not to be left behind headmistress in 1932. But in 1937 also. But Our Saviour was also after having missed the Lord. One she was suddenly sent to India, to very clear that neither victories nor of the saddest verses in the Bible is a school at Panchgani, a remote hill setbacks in any way affected the where it is said of the Lord Jesus, station seven hours from Bombay. rightness of the cause for which we “He did not do many mighty works In July 1939 she was moved on to stand. Victories and setbacks have a there, because of their unbelief.” Karachi, where her Order had no way of affecting our enthusiasm for Father Bradford less than four schools. staying the course. But they have no ¶ This sermon was preached on July 9, The war divided India between effect on the rightness of the Gospel 2006. those Indians, particularly in faith we proclaim. the Army and the excellent civil Jesus told us any right cause in A NUN WITH A service, who were loyal to the this world almost always means DIFFERENCE Raj, knowing the benefits it had temporary loss and sometimes even conferred, and those striving at all his delightful book permanent worldly loss. But at the costs for independence without is the life story of Sister Mary heart of our story is the conviction T waiting for a peaceful handover. Alban, of the large teaching order of of the Son of God Who on Good (The result of course was the the Daughters of the Cross, which Friday did not think He was wasting bloodbath following the creation of has of course a long connection with His time. You and I are among Pakistan.) But ironically it was the the London Oratory, and at one time those countless people who have progressives who were keenest both ran both the Oratory School and the followed Christ in thinking He was to throw off their imperial chains Primary School. Members of the not wasting His time. and to get their children the best parish are sure to be interested and education available—at schools like But we have to follow the story to impressed by her story. St. Joseph’s Convent. its sad ending. When the Sabbath At first, as an Anglican, she had was over at sundown in Nazareth But alongside her school she studied for a medical career, but that day, the people came together also somehow managed to found a after four years of training, she as they always did in little end- College where women could obtain became a Catholic and was clothed of-the-weekend socials. It was full university degrees; all this when in the Order in 1907. This was a their version of gathering “after there was no building, no money, no time when joining the Church was church.” The morning’s service rich benefactors; but she had ‘the a much more controversial step and preacher had disturbed them. grit and personality to forge ahead, than it is now: there were Anglican They all knew Jesus was a notable and the Cantonment Board, when clergy who would snootily refer hometown personage. But they they saw what was happening, were to their local as were also pleased and relieved at generous beyond belief.’ Fifty years ‘the Italian mission to the Irish’. their having rejected Him and His later, a magazine produced for its She taught the older girls at her highly suspicious teaching. jubilee was able to describe it as ‘the order’s school at St. ’s, most sought after institute of higher These people had an unprecedented Carshalton, still flourishing today. education in Karachi.’ In 1952, opportunity come to them. They In 1920 she was sent to Jarrow, later after various health problems, she could have drawn closer to famous for its March, but already a returned to Carshalton where she Almighty God in a way no one ever scene of desperate poverty, where remained until her death in 1963. dreamed possible. They had missed the Catholic unemployed were The first quarter of the book tells the the chance. No one was saved that often ashamed to attend Mass story of her life. The rest is mostly day. And it is a warning to us not because of their ragged clothes. taken up with her letters, chiefly to only about our own victories and After a few years of struggle, and of her brother Nicholas Macaskie, who Contra Mundum Page 95 had been Chief of Legal Services in THE STAR-SPANGLED Berlin after the war, and was later BANNER The Congregation a High Court judge. Her discipline 1. Oh, say can you see by the of Saint Athanasius and dedication did not prevent her dawn’s early light from having a lively tum of phrase, What so proudly we hailed at the The Revd. and when a class at St. Philomena’s twilight’s last gleaming? Richard Sterling Bradford, was being particularly tiresome Whose broad stripes and bright Chaplain she had exclaimed that ‘ would stars thru the perilous fight, Saint Lawrence Church have thrown his dunghill at them’. O’er the ramparts we watched Towards the end she wrote God were so gallantly streaming? 774 Boylston Ave. wills our doing and our not doing, And the rocket’s red glare, the Chestnut Hill, Mass. our success, our promotion and our bombs bursting in air, (Parking lot behind church.) well being… We know that failure, Gave proof through the night that and all the other things heart- our flag was still there. Sundays 11:30 a.m. breaking to self-esteem, may be Oh, say does that star-spangled Sung Mass our divinely appointed royal road banner yet wave Fellowship and Coffee in the to the Holy Cross which ends on O’er the land of the free and the Undercroft after Mass Calvary. This book brings to life an home of the brave? exceptional human being, a great Rectory: achiever and an always endearing 2. Oh! thus be it ever, when 767 West Roxbury Pkwy. personality. freemen shall stand Between their loved home and Boston, MA 02132-2121 William Joliffe the war’s desolation! Tel/Fax: (617) 325-5232 ¶This article reviews the book by Joanna Blest with victory and peace, http://www.locutor.net Bogle, A Nun with a Difference published may the heav’n rescued land by Sun Hill Publishing, Cowes, Isle of Praise the Power that hath made Wight. The review was published in THE ORATORY MAGAZINE (March 2010, and preserved us a nation. Vol. 87, No. 1066) the parish paper of The Then conquer we must, when our Brompton (London) Oratory. cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.” And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave SUMMER ALTAR O’er the land of the free and the FLOWERS home of the brave! Parish Picnic You may sign up now for a Sunday Sunday, July 24, 2016 after Mass F. S. Key 1814 to provide flowers for either the high Following the picnic we ¶ Francis Scott Key (1779-1843) wrote altar or the Marian altar. The high will celebrate Evensong and the poem “Defence of Fort M’Henry” altar requires two arrangements of Benediction of the Blessed after witnessing the Battle of Baltimore an ample nature, the Marian altar one Sacrament for the Eve of the Feast aboard a British warship on which he smaller arrangement. The flowers of Saint James the Apostle and others were negotiating an exchange of prisoners. may be from your own garden, or your florist. We do have a variety of vases at the church should you need one or two. After Mass you may take your flowers home. But do sign up. The flower chart will be available after Mass at coffee hour. Page 96 Contra Mundum

St. Lawrence Church, 774 Boylston Street (Route 9). Park in the church parking lot behind the Church, off of Reservoir Rd. Chestnut Hill Directions by Car: From the North or South: Route 128 to Route 9. At signal for Reservoir Channing Road Road, take right; Church parking lot is a short Eliot St. Av distance on left. e From Boston: From Stuart/Kneeland St., turn left onto Park Plaza. Drive for 0.2 miles. Park Plaza Boylston St. (Rte 9) becomes St James Avenue. Drive for 0.3 miles. Lee St. Brookline Turn slight left onto ramp. Drive for 0.1 miles. Go Reservoir straight on Route-9. Drive for 3.5 miles. Turn left Reser onto Heath Street. Drive for 0.1 miles. Go straight voir Rd Heath St. on Reservoir Road. Drive for 0.1 miles. Parking . lot is on your right. Directions by Public Transportation: From Ken- more Square station board Bus #60, which stops in Low front of the Church. Alternatively, the Church is a ell Lane 15-minute walk from the Cleveland Circle station St Lawrence Church on the Green Line C-branch. Heath St.

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