ÑContra MundumÑ Volume VI, Issue 7 February 2004 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 February 2nd. NOTES THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE, or FROM THE THE PURIFICATION of CHAPLAIN MARY THE COMMONLY CALLED CANDLEMAS DAY PHIPHANY means manifesta- Blessing of Candles, Procession, Etion, and the three great mani- and Solemn Mass 7:30pm festations or first revealings of Christ The feast falls on a Monday this are those to the Wise Men, at the year. The Mass begins with the tradi- tional blessing of candles in the pavilion, Baptism of Jesus, and at the first and procession into the main church. miracle at the Cana wedding feast. You may bring unused household But all during the Epiphany season candles for blessing. Be sure they are we have at Mass revealings of Who wrapped and have your name on them. Christ is, and in one of those inci- The parking lot is well-lit, kept clear dences the manifestation came as an of snow, and the pavilion is handicap accessible, as is the church. outcome of the healing of a leper. It says that great crowds followed Je- finished the work which Thou gavest places will be but a single character- sus and that He withdrew to a lonely Me to do.” Christ’s prayer was the istic of our life lived for God. place to pray. fellowship of His commissioned life FATHER BRADFORD Here is a manifestation of Christ: with and from the Father. in prayer. The daily life of Our Lord There is a union of work and was overcrowded. Can you imagine prayer in Christ’s life. The two are SHORT NOTES being His appointments’ secretary? not rivals. Each is fellowship with The disciples could hardly keep up the Father. Jesus passed from one There was an Anglican Use Mass with their Master. We get that im- to the other and back again, easily. celebrated in Whitestone, N.Y. with pression in many places reading the Work prayed out, and prayer lived, the permission of the Bishop of gospels. But Jesus, Whose life was seamlessly. So Christ’s prayer was Brooklyn, on January 4th. Father a commission from the Father, must the manifestation of the will of God Wilson was celebrant and have time for prayer. His prayer is to One Whose life had been given preacher. Another will be celebrated His appreciation of His Incarnate to God to do His will in everything. on March 21st at 3pm in the Spring- Life as doing the Father’s will. Seeing the life of Christ manifested field, Mass., cathedral chapel by Fr. this way in prayer, let us resolve to At the beginning of that life Jesus George Greenway. Father Bradford follow Jesus and bring our prayer once said “wist ye not that I must be will preach. in My Father’s House?” And at the life more to bear upon daily life, so near end of that life He said “I have that our time in solitude and in public Page 46 Contra Mundum

$2875 has been collected as our F.M.S., Wilfred Veldkamp, Bob and contribution towards the publishing Gloria Molloy, Rita Strow, Philip cost of The Book of Divine Worship. Crotty, and Deacon Con- The book is now available for pur- nolly. chase, at $25.00 plus postage and There will be a memorial Mass handling. The book is a hardback edi- for Stephen Molloy on Saturday, tion of 1000 pages. You may obtain February 7th in the convent chapel. a copy by sending a check payable to “Our Lady’s Dowry” in the amount of $30.00 ($25.00 plus $5.00 packing and shipping) to: Ash Wednesday is the First SAINT OF THE Our Lady of the Atonement Day of Lent. Roman MONTH 15415 Red Robin Road, This year it falls on February San Antonio, Texas 78255 25th. Brenda Bubeck is home now All Catholics will want to be convalescing from year-end sur- in Church on this day as part gery. Cards would be welcomed. of their Lenten observance. Brenda and Don Bubeck live at 54 You may attend any Catholic Haverhill Street, Apt 3F, Brockton, service. the Anglican Use MA 02301. Mass will be in the Convetnt Father Bradford will say Mass chapel at 7:30pm. for and then speak to the Holy Name Sodality on February 23rd. You may Jones’ interesting conversion story obtain details from Marie Fox at 617- reprinted in the January/February 323-3558. 2004 edition of The Catholic An- Many thanks to Fr. James swer. Fr. Jones had kindly written it O’Driscoll and Deacon Michael Con- out for our parish paper’s Septem- nolly for assisting Father Bradford at ber, 2003 edition. Our readers will the Solemn Mass on the Feast of know The Catholic Answer as a fine the Epiphany, and to Msgr. William magazine. Helmick for use of the St. Theresa of CYRIL (826-869) In our February, 2000 parish Ávila Chapel that evening. Marcia AND METHODIUS (815-885) paper it was noted that the New Rand provided us with a lovely cake Feast 14 February Year’s Day Mass had been well at- and reception afterwards. tended. That was true in 2004 as HESE two brothers, sons of Save the date: June 13th, Corpus well. Something brings our people Ta distinguished Greek family, Christi, for Fr. James O’Driscoll’s out on New Year’s Day morning, and both became monks and were sent celebration of his 25th ordination we’re glad of it! as missionaries into Moravia (now anniversary. We’ll be invited. He Czechoslovakia) in 863. Hence they Future dates for Evensong & is parochial vicar of St. Clement’s came to be known as the Apostles of Benediction: April 18 and June 6, Church, Somerville, and a long-time the Slavs. in the St. Theresa of Ávila Chapel, friend of ours. Sundays at 5:00pm. The brothers had gone to Bring palms for burning, Febru- Constantinople shortly after This year’s readers at Christmas ary 15-22, for use on Ash Wednes- becoming priests, and the younger Lessons and Carols were Burt, day. was a librarian at the great religious Marcia Rand, Bro. Jerry Dowsky, We were glad to see Fr. Carleton foundation of Santa Sofia. The Contra Mundum Page 47

Emperor sent them into Moravia Pope John Paul II nominated Cyril see no mere man was fighting, it was at the request of the local ruler, and Methodius as joint patrons of God fighting in man.” Rostislav, who was dissatisfied with Europe together with St. Benedict. Reprinted from Magnificat, Feb. 2003, Vol. 4, No. the missionaries currently at work 13, Page 177 With permission of Magnificat® USA, LLC, Dunwoodie - 201 Seminary Avenue, there. These were Germans, and THE BRITISH MARTYRS Yonkers, New York 10704 or Web site: www. were not teaching in the vernacular. magnificat.net. All rights reserved. In preparation for their work Cyril VER the years 200 men and BLESSEDS WILLIAM SPENS- invented an alphabet and, with the Owomen have been beatified for ER AND ROBERT HARDESTY help of Methodius, translated the their heroic witness to the Catholic Martyrs († 1589) Gospels and the necessary liturgical Faith in the British Isles during and after the Protestant Reformation. While studying at Oxford Univer- books into Slavonic. Once arrived, sity, William Spenser, of Yorkshire, impact was immediate and great. Here we continue brief mention of some of these individual martyrs. England, was not yet a Catholic Rivalry with the Germans already himself, but he was already trying there was inevitable; the German to persuade other students to enter bishops refused to recognize their BLESSED JOHN NUTTER the Church. William subsequently followers, so they were forced back Priest and Martyr (†1584) embraced the Catholic faith while toward Byzantium. An Oxford student, John Nut- residing in Rheims, France. After When they arrived in Venice ter, of Reedley Hallows, England, being ordained to the priesthood, on the way home they found journeyed to , France, to study he returned to England. Coming to themselves enmired in the Photian for the priesthood with his brother, his parents disguised as a laborer, schism. The pope sent for them and (Blessed) . Ordained he succeeded in converting them they brought with them to Rome in 1582, Father John Nutter and two also to the Catholic faith. He would the relics of St. Clement, one of the other priests boarded a ship headed regularly visit the Catholic prisoners early . Arriving in Rome they for northern England. However, the at York Castle to instruct them and were received with great honor. vessel ran aground near the more administer to them the sacraments. Cyril became a monk, but died southern English port of Dunwich. He was captured by the Elizabethan soon afterwards. He is buried in the The discovery of Catholic books authorities and sentenced to death Church of Saint Clement where an and Mass supplies hidden in bales for being a priest. Arrested together ancient fresco depicts his funeral. on the ship led to the arrest of the with Father Spenser was a young Bereaved and alone, the older three priests by the Elizabethan man named Robert Hardesty. He brother Methodius was consecrated authorities. During his imprison- was condemned to death for help- an Archbishop and sent back to ment, Father Nutter exercised his ing Father Spenser and the Catholic Moravia. There again the Germans priesthood in bringing a number of prisoners in York Castle. Robert opposed him, and cast him into his fellow prisoners into the Catho- spent his time in prison preparing prison for two years. In time the lic Church. He also did not hesitate for his execution with much prayer pope secured his release, but told to rebuke inmates who engaged in and meditation. him to cease using the vernacular immoral conversation or conduct. Reprinted from Magnificat, Sept. 2002, Vol. 4, liturgy. In 879 he was recalled to When on February 7, 1584, Father No. 7, Page 337 With permission of Magnificat® USA, LLC, Dunwoodie - 201 Seminary Avenue, Rome to face charges of heterodoxy Nutter was condemned to death, he Yonkers, New York 10704 or Web site: www. and disobedience, but was cleared and four other priests condemned magnificat.net. All rights reserved. of both charges, and again sent as with him (Blesseds Thomas Hem- Archbishop into Czechoslovakia. erford, , John Munden, Methodius is now regarded as and ) responded by a pioneer in the use of vernacular chanting the thanksgiving hymn, Te in the Liturgy and as a patron Deum. A witness of Father Nutter’s of ecumenism, revered both by execution observed that the priest Eastern and Western Christians. was so tranquil that “it was easy to Page 48 Contra Mundum FOOD the Bomb itself, is on the political level. What has to be redeemed here The most searching and profound is the uncaringness, the cynicism, the prayer any of us can make is to eat blind commercialism which affects our dinner. To eat at all is to recog- on the one hand the hungry millions nize – if we are humble enough to but also the way food is prepared, admit it – our total dependence. marketed and advertised here. In FIRST SUNDAY IN LENT The trouble is that, in the West, this area, as in others, our need to February 29, 2004 something frightful has happened learn to love matter is part of the kit Solemn Evensong & Benediction to our attitude to food. For all sorts for survival. of economic and other reasons our 5:00pm To fast is to learn to love and ap- appetite for food is grossly over- Saint Theresa of Ávila Chapel preciate food, and one’s own good stimulated, with the result that many fortune in having it. of us over-consume it. OTHER SPECIAL SERVICES MONICA FURLONG I find that there are three levels on DURING LENT which I need to tackle the problem. Stations & Benediction, Friday, On the first level I need to ‘tune March 5th, Fr. Carleton Jones, OP QUOTES in’ much more patiently and atten- preaching, Saint Theresa of Ávila tively to what my body is saying Chapel to me about its hunger or lack of For almost five centuries [Roman ’s Day, Friday, March it. Over the years I have developed Catholics] have been warning that l9th, Mass at 7:30pm Saint Theresa the dangerous trick of using food Protestantism lacks an authoritative of Ávila Chapel to achieve other ends apart from final voice on arguments about faith Feast of the Annunciation, Thurs- fulfilling simple physical needs – to and morals. In 1927 Ronald Knox, day, March 25th Mass at 7:30pm tranquilize me when I am anxious, to son of an Anglican divine but an Saint Theresa Convent Chapel cheer me when I am sad, to pep me influential convert to Catholicism, Stations & Benediction, Friday, up still further when I am jolly. In dryly wrote that “if Christianity is March 26th Saint Theresa of Ávila the end it is hard to know any longer still in process of formulation af- Chapel, preacher: Fr. John Farren, whether I am hungry or not, hard too ter twenty centuries, it must be an OP, Rector of St. John's Archdioc- to break out of ‘automatic’ eating at uncommonly elusive affair.” And esan Seminary. regular times. he asked: “Why should a divine structure send in continual bills for The next level is what we actually alterations and repairs?” FASTING do about reforming our eating hab- its. I recently decided that I wanted GEORGE WILL Do not limit the benefit of fast- to shake up my ideas about food in Newsweek ing merely to abstinence from food, from top to bottom, trying to throw for a true fast means refraining from modish ideas about slimming out of evil. Loose every unjust bond, put the window but to cherish the cross Small sins, if neglected . . . away your resentment against your little infant inside me whose fierce He that walks in his love and neighbor, forgive him his offences. rebellion has stymied more than one mercy, and being free from great and Do not let your fasting lead only to sensible eating plan; working mainly deadly sins, such crimes as murder, wrangling and strife. You do not eat from the idea of what my body needs, theft, adultery, is also sorry for those meat, but you devour your brother; in terms of nutrition, but also respect- that seem to be small, sins of thought you abstain from wine, but not from ing what it likes. or of tongue, or of want of moderation insults. So all the labor of your fast in things permitted, does the truth of is useless. The third level on which we have to care about food, that most crucial confession and comes to the light in ST. BASIL THE GREAT of twentieth-century questions after good works, seeing that many small Contra Mundum Page 49

sins, if neglected, are fatal. Small are the drops that swell the river, tiny the grains of sand, but if such sand is heaped up, it presses and crushes. Bilge-water, allowed to accumulate in a ship’s hold, does the same thing as a rushing wave. Little by little it leaks through the hold; and by long leaking and no pumping, sinks the ship. What is this pumping, but that by good works, by sighing, fasting, giving, forgiving, we take care that sins do not overwhelm us. ST. AUGUSTINE

At first glance, it seems that the named Bernadette. From then on a Previous parish retreat conduc- liturgy is marginalized in a society spring has flowed out of the grotto, tors have been Fr. Romanus Cessario, that is amply secularized. However, the water of which has been the OP, Fr. Peter Stravinskas, and Fr. it is a fact that, despite the seculariza- means of curing hundreds of thou- Carleton Jones, OP (twice). - tion, in our time a renewed need of sands. Pilgrims from the remotest spirituality re-emerges, in so many The cost of the retreat will be parts of the world going to the shrine forms. How can one not see in this $90 per person. This amount covers number about a million a year. The a proof of the fact that in the inner two nights’ lodging and five meals, cures are certified by a bureau of being of man it is not possible to plus part of the honorarium for our eminent physicians, most of whom cancel the thirst for God? There are conductor. You may make financial are non-Catholic. At Lourdes physi- questions that find an answer only arrangements with our treasurer, cal cures are not the only ones made; in a personal contact with Christ. Bruce Rand. there are also many conversions. Only in intimacy with him every life The Congregation of acquires meaning, and can arrive at We aren’t going to Lourdes, but experiencing the joy that made Peter the congregation will have its annual Saint Athanasius, retreat, over the weekend of April say on the mountain of the Transfigu- The Revd.. Richard Sterling Bradford, ration: “Master, it is well that we are 30-May 2, 2004. The retreat will Chaplain here” (Luke 9:33 par). be at Saint Benedict Abbey in Still River, and it will be the second time Saint Theresa Convent POPE JOHN PAUL II our retreat conductor has been Fr. Chapel from the Apostolic Letter on the Sacred Liturgy on the 40th anniversary of Joseph Wilson. Fr. Wilson, well- 10 St.. Theresa Ave. known to the whole congregation, Sacrosanctum Concilium West Roxbury, Mass. was our very first retreat conduc- tor and has been our celebrant and Rectory: 192 Foster Street, RETREAT preacher on at least one occasion Brighton, MA 02135-4620 every year. He was last our Sunday One of the most famous places celebrant on May 18, 2003. He is Tel/Fax: (617) 787-0553 of pilgrimage is the Grotto of Our a frequent contributor to several Web: http://www.locutor.net Lady of Lourdes, France. In 1858, Catholic publications and in demand the Blessed Virgin, proclaiming as a mission preacher and quiet day Sundays 10:30am. Sung Mass, fol- herself the , conductor in parishes and monastic lowed by coffee and fellowship in appeared there to a little peasant girl communities around the country. the convent solarium. Page 50 Contra Mundum St.. Theresa Church and Convent Chapel, West Roxbury, MA 02132 Pine Lodge Road (off St.. Theresa Avenue) Park either in the church parking lot or on Pine Lodge Road. The side door of the convent is open during the time of our services. Directions by Car: From the North: Route 128 to Route 109, which becomes Spring Street in West Roxbury. Spring Street ends at a traffic light at Centre Street in sight of the church. At this light bear left onto Centre St.. and immediately turn right at the next light onto St.. Theresa Ave. From the South: Route 1 north through Dedham to Spring Street. Turn right onto Spring Street then follow the directions above. From Dorchester and Mattapan: Cummins High- way to Belgrade Avenue to Centre Street left on St.. Theresa Ave. From Boston: VFW Parkway to LaGrange Street. Turn left onto LaGrange Street, crossing Centre Street and turn right onto Landseer Street. Turn left into the church parking lot. Directions by Public Transportation: Orange line to Forest Hills terminal. Bus to West Roxbury. #35 bus to Dedham Mall. #36, #37, and #38 also stop at St.. Theresa’s. Commuter train to West Roxbury Station is a short walk to St.. Theresa’s. Departs from South Sta- tion, but no Sunday service is available.

Contra Mundum The Congregation of St. Athanasius 10 St.. Theresa Avenue West Roxbury, MA 02132