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1 January - February 2021 Newsletter of the SSPX in Great Britain and Scandinavia Consecration of the Chinese People to Our Lady of

O Mary, Mother of God, our Mother, with sincere filial love, we consecrate to thy most tender, most loving Immaculate Heart, our bodies, souls, abilities, lives, words and deeds, and all that we have. We also consecrate to thee the Chinese people throughout the world. We pray that thou wouldst be the Mother of priests and all missionaries. May they loyally and zealously proclaim the kingdom of God. Be the Mother of all Christians. Help them to progress in virtue and make to shine forth evermore the splendour of faith. Be the Mother of all unbelievers. Deliver them from darkness and lead them into the light of Faith. We beseech thee to show mercy to the immense population of Chinese descent. They have all been re- deemed by the Precious Blood of thy Di- vine Son. Through thy most efficacious in- tercession, may they all take refuge in the of Jesus, the Source of life and holiness, and become one fold under One Shepherd in the Church.

Our Lady, Help of Christians, pray for us.

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4 Going Chinese Editorial 6 Can I take the Covid-19 vaccine? 16 Divini Redemptoris 18

Spirituality Father Zhu Shude SJ 21 Cardinal Kung 22 Too many vocations? 26

Catechism Light of the World 30

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Chinese communism with western characteristics

Rev. Robert Brucciani, District Superior

My dear faithful, subvert the . In the light of recent events, it seems that Summary: Political, economic and Our Lady of Fatima’s prophecy of cultural power in China is concen- global communism is being real- trated in the hands of the Chinese ised and that we would do well to Communist Party (CCP). Cultural emulate the faithful Catholics of power includes power over reli- China who preserved their faith in gion. With direct help from the a godless communist state. west, China has embraced state- controlled capitalism and is now a global superpower. In the west, Essence and properties of political, economic and cultural communism power is similarly concentrated, not in the hands of a political or- The essence and properties of com- ganisation or individual state, but munism are described by Pius in the hands of a less visible finan- XI in his encyclical Divinis Re- cial elite. In both China and the demptoris. Communism is atheistic west, cultural power has been exer- materialism in which: cised to promote an antithetical culture of death and to oppress and there is no room for the idea of

6 January - February 2021 God; there is no difference between matter and spirit, between soul and body; there is neither survival of the soul after death nor any hope in a future life. .. Communism, moreover, strips man of his liberty, robs hu- man personality of all its dignity, and removes all the moral re- straints that check the eruptions of blind impulse. There is no re- cognition of any right of the indi- vidual in his relations to the col- lective; no natural right is No room for God in the Cultural accorded to human personality, Revolution of 1966-76. The current which is a mere cog-wheel in the regime of 2020 is again destroying Communist system. In man's rela- churches and religious symbols. tions with other individuals, be- sides, Communists hold the prin- ciple of absolute equality, rejecting all hierarchy and di- godless, classless society with the vinely-constituted authority, in- common ownership of property. cluding the authority of parents. Perhaps, Mao Tse-Tung’s ignorance of human nature was so profound Communism in China that he believed that a communist utopia was possible, or perhaps he Shortly after Mao Tse-Tung, the Sec- just saw the communist ideology as retary-General of the Chinese Com- a vehicle to absolute power. Either munist Party (CCP), rose to abso- way, he used his absolute power to lute power when he declared the create a totalitarian regime, a servile foundation of the People’s Republic state. of China on 1st October 1950 in Tiananmen Square in China, he set The CCP started with the destruc- about dismantling Chinese society. tion of the natural order of society: The stated aim of the CCP was to it imposed its communist ideology create the ideal communist state: a and instilled fear in the whole popu-

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lation by ever-changing laws, threats, and arbitrary arrests. It de- Chinese Communism: Capit- clared whole classes (landowners, alism with Chinese charac- businessmen, intellectuals, the en- teristics tire middleclass) and religions as enemies of the CCP and dispos- After a power struggle following sessed them. It even dispossessed Mao Tse-Tung’s death in 1976, Deng the peasants – taking away both Xiaoping was proclaimed “Para- their own land and the land that had mount Leader” by the CCP. Den been given to them from the spoils Xiaoping addressed the problem of of private landowners. It destroyed economic failure by introducing independent enterprise and wealth. market capitalism into China, ar- It killed as many as 60 million souls guing that it was simply a temporary in its prisons and labour-camps. adaption of Communist principles Catholics were especially perse- to suit local conditions in order to cuted and the CCP-controlled eventually achieve the communist Chinese Catholic Patriotic Associ- utopia of a classless society with ation (CCPA) was established in common ownership of property. The 1957 in an attempt to replace the reforms both encouraged enterprise Catholic Church in China. and tolerated ownership, but always under CCP control. This is the The only political party allowed was model that the current General Sec- the CCP; the economy was centrally retary of the CCP, Xi Jinping has de- planned by the CCP, culture was dic- veloped since becoming the “Para- tated by the CCP, and religion was mount Leader” in 2012. made subservient to the CCP. The result was a cruel backward failure. With a huge supply of cheap labour, How could it be otherwise when the massive investment from western natural law was trampled upon and banks and multinationals, open all aspiration to virtue extinguished? western markets, gifted technology All those who held positions of au- from the west (supplemented by thority were party officials and all state-sponsored industrial espion- party officials were corrupt. age), total political control and cul- tural tyranny, China has pursued a vigorous and unscrupulous strategy of economic imperialism. It has both purchased influence and se-

8 January - February 2021 cured resources abroad by hoover- is true for economic power because ing-up commercial assets, bank- almost every government, company rolling foreign politicians and aca- and individual is dependent on the demics, and enslaving developing banks who lend them money, countries with too-good-to-be-true thereby becoming dependent upon infrastructure projects. The net res- those who control the banks. Fi- ult is that China is now a super- nally, western culture, being driven power on centre-stage in world af- by global media companies, politi- fairs while remaining godless and in cians, academia and the host of in- contempt of the natural law. This stitutions of the capitalist state, con- contempt is clearly manifest in its forms itself to the money elite too. barbaric population control pro- gramme and extensive use of “re- Even the Catholic Church, once a education centres” for religious and powerful force for natural and su- political dissidents. It is important pernatural order in the world, ap- to note two facts: first, none of pears to be in the thrall of the same China’s development would have elite. Since the Second Vatican been possible without western cap- Council, its churchmen, wanting to ital, western markets and western be loved by the world, have shut collaboration; and second, China re- their eyes to the supernatural end of mains totally dependent on the west man and to the social reign of Christ for its continued prosperity. the King to embrace the new global culture with its new secular religion. They have even submitted them- Concentrated power in the selves to the Chinese authorities of west late, thus betraying their own perse- cuted children there. Political, economic and cultural power in the west has also followed a trajectory of concentration. The The party cannot last source of the west’s political power is dubiously claimed to be demo- In short, power has been purchased cracy, but in reality it is the money with money, but this resource has elite who exercise such control over its limitations. When all the money education, media, big business and in circulation is borrowed and there politicians that they abrogate polit- is not enough economic growth to ical power to themselves. The same pay back the interest, the whole

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money system is destined to col- after the manner of the People’s Re- lapse. This is an urgent problem that public of China, but instead of there the world, including China, is facing. being a visible pinnacle of power - Since the policy of quantitative eas- the Paramount Leader with his own ing employed by central banks in cult – the source of power in the 2009 to prop-up the teetering finan- west is hidden from view and oper- cial system after the 2008 debt ates through the myriad of institu- crisis, the world financial system tions that make up the “Establish- has been on life-support with no ment” following the model of real remedies to bring it back to cultural hegemony described by the health. Marxist thinker Antonio Gramasci (1891-1937); and instead of worship- ping the head of state, a new reli- Going Chinese Communist gion of earth-worship and political with western characteristics correctness is being imposed.

Enter the Covid-19 virus response with its truly massive government Who is the Paramount borrowing, unprecedented erosion Leader of the west? of individual freedoms (notably reli- gious practice), alarming increase in Allusions have been made to the surveillance and targeted economic “money elite” as being in direct con- sabotage – all coordinated on a trol of governments, economic global scale. policy and culture in the west and having indirect control of China. What we are living through now This money elite is believed to be looks very much like a controlled made up of members of the Roth- demolition of the old-world order schild, Rockefeller, Carnegie, and based on the US dollar to clear the other financial dynasties, together way for the “Great Reset” which with global stars that have made promises all things wonderful, but their own way into the inner circle. really is communism without any in- There is plenty of evidence to sup- tention of ending in the common port this claim - even their own ad- ownership of property. The west is mission -but are they at the top of going Chinese with western charac- the pile? What is uniting them to- teristics: namely, totalitarian control gether? Is it Freemasonry or some- of politics, economics and cultue thing to which Freemasonry is sub-

10 January - February 2021 servient? When one considers that a common theme of political, eco- nomic and cultural change over the last 70 years is the deliberate erosion of natural law and the pro- motion of the culture of death, it would seem that there are darker forces than the greed or megalo- mania of an elite in play. When we also see that the Catholic Church has been the object of an organised infiltration and has suffered its own The young were invited to form the revolution (at the Second Vatican Red Guard to perpetuate the Council), we discern the footprints bloody . Rival of Satan in the world. groups fought against CCP officials and against each other. The Re- volution ate many of her children. Going Chinese Catholic

What we are witnessing now could our energy into the supernatural. well be the fulfilment of the proph- ecy of Our Lady at Fatima on 13th If our society is descending into July 1917: that Russia’s errors - the Chinese communism with western tenets of communist ideology - will characteristics, we would do well to spread across the whole world. see how the Catholic Church sur- vived and even grew in the face of For Catholics, because we are in by the CCP. From 1952 such small numbers and because the Church in China went under- large sections of the hierarchy of ground, and despite social isolation, the Church are complicit in the re- arrests, fines, imprisonment, brain- volution, it is unrealistic to imagine washing, torture and executions, that we could overcome the forces many Catholics persevered. Faithful of evil by throwing ourselves into Catholics ran to Our Lady when those institutions where the cultural they were threatened: they recited of death now reigns. As in China, her rosary in the absence of Mass, the natural route is ostensibly and joined her in the closed; we should therefore put all absence of a parish structure. They

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riages, and encouraged devotion and perseverance among the faithful when there were no priests left. They worked in secret, giving Cath- olics and catechumens a formation that would help them both endure the suffering of persecution and spread the faith to other afflicted souls who, stripped of the distrac- tions of the material world, were fertile ground for the divine life.

It is unlikely that Catholics in the west will be subject to the same physical sufferings as the Chinese Catholics, but moral, financial and legal pressure must certainly be ex- pected. We should emulate the Chinese Catholics in the ir virtues of prayer, penance and perseverance, Our Lady of China and perhaps it is time to re-kindle the Legion of Mary in the District or to use the Militia Immaculatae in the flocked to her shrines. Rosaries same way.. were the weapons, the Legion of Mary was the army. In Fatima, Our Lady revealed to Lu- cia, Francesco and Jacinta that the Brought from Ireland to China by errors of Russia might be averted by Fr. Aedan McGrath of the Mission- the consecration of Russia to the ary Society of St. Columba in 1931, Immaculate Heart of Mary, the five the Legion of Mary became an in- first Saturday devotion and the daily strument of survival of the Catholic recitation of the rosary. While only Church when the visible hierarchy the pope in union with all the bish- was dismantled by the CCP between ops of the world can consecrate 1950 and 1955. Legionaries trained Russia to the Immaculate Heart of catechists, baptised, witnessed mar- Mary, it is a cause for which we can

12 January - February 2021 both earnestly pray and campaign. As for the five first Saturday devo- tion and the daily recitation of the rosary, this is something that most Catholics can do – certainly daily rosary.

We should be ready to follow the ex- ample of persecuted Chinese Cath- olics who themselves were like the Holy Family in many ways. The Holy Family were shelterless because they were forced to leave their home to comply with a law of gov- ernment, unwelcome and treated like cattle by the establishment in Bethlehem, and having to abandon everything in their flight from Herod. Having lost everything in the world, they nevertheless possessed the greatest of all treasures: the Di- vine Infant – God in the flesh and God in their souls.

As we adore the Child Jesus in the Our Lady of China crib this Christmas, let us beg the graces of fidelity and fortitude for what may well be a dramatic year Heavenly Mother who holds out her ahead. On behalf of all the members Son to us. of the Society, dear faithful, please accept my thanks for all your spir- Our Lady of China, pray for us! itual and temporal help over the last year, and please be assured of our desire, prayers and sacrifices that you may find true peace where it alone can be found: in the arms our

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Other news

In Principio The scholarly Irish SSPX news- letter is always worth a read. This month, it has missionary theme and can be found on the Irish website (www.fsspx.ie) or you can subscribe for a postal copy at St. Pius X House, 12 Tivoli Terrace South, Dun Laog- haire, Dublin A96 KV65, Ireland ([email protected]).

Rosary Crusade Elsewhere in this newsletter you will find a sheet to record the rosaries you have offered for the intention of the SSPX Rosary crusade for the libera- tion of the Mass (it is still banned or restricted in many parts of the world) and for voca- tions. All rosary tallies should be sent to [email protected] of to St. George’s House, 125 Arthur Road, Wimbledon SW19 7DR.

School raffle 6th Jan St. Michael’s Raffle has gone on- line this year because paper raffle tickets are deemed un- safe. £2000 has been raised so far. Go to the website: https:// go.rallyup.com/sspxstmichaels

14 January - February 2021 15 Moral theology

Can I take the Covid-19 vaccine?

Rev. Robert Brucciani SSPX

Many faithful have asked for This conclusion may sound sur- moral guidance in relation to prising and repellent and in- the Covid-19 vaccines. There stinctively wrong, but the con- are many articles on the sub- clusions follow through from ject which give difference an- moral theological principles. All swers or none at all. This art- of the SSPX’s moral theologians icle is an attempt to bring agree. clarity and sound judgement to the question. The question in our present situ- ation must consider (a) whether Can I take the Covid-19 vaccine if it the certain defined circum- is developed from aborted foetal stances exist and (b) the addi- cells? tional circumstances that are With regards to the morality of particular to the case. receiving a vaccine developed from foetal cells, the Pontifical Certain defined circumstances Academy for Life published a The certain defined circum- document in 2005 which con- stances are summarised as cluded that in certain defined follows: circumstances, it is morally per- 1. The illness is grave. missible to receive a vaccine de- 2. There are no alternative veloped from foetal cells. vaccines.

16 January - February 2021 3. One has vigorously protested sarily available to an the use of aborted foetal individual. cells. 3. This is a personal obligation.

Additional circumstances With regards to the additional The additional circumstances of circumstances: the present situation may 4. Catholics should employ all include: reasonable means to avoid 4. Governments, media and mul- cooperating in the New World tinational corporates are Order ‘s imposition of the cul- working hard to establish a ture of death. fundamentally anti-Christian 5. The risk of a rapidly deployed New World Order with the vaccine is real, but impossible culture of death at its heart. yet to quantify. The global imposition of an 6. Penalties may well be im- abortion-tainted vaccine is posed in the future, but not part of this work. yet in the UK. 5. A rapid development of a vac- cine increases the risk of ad- Judgement verse side-effects. In light of these concrete cir- 6. There may be onerous penal- cumstances, the vaccine de- ties imposed on those who re- veloped from aborted foetal fuse the vaccine such as dis- cells might be received without missal from work or even the sin (a) by a member of the vul- removal of children by the nerable group when no alternat- authorities. ive vaccine is available and after protest or (b) if the penalty for Consideration of circumstances refusing the vaccine is so oner- Are thecertain defined circum- ous as to threaten personal or stances realised in the present family livelihood and after situation? protest. 1. The illness is grave only for a small group. St. Alphonsus Liguori, Patron of 2. There are alternative vac- moral theologians, pray for us. cines, but they are not neces-

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Divini Redemptoris

Pope Pius XI On communism 1937

Summarised by Hans Coessens

Divini Redemptoris delivers a the doctrines of the Catholic decisive condemnation of the Faith. Communism is based communist regime of the Soviet upon the principles of historical Union and of the communist and dialectical materialism form of government in itself as which teach that the governing being totally incompatible with forces of human history are ma- the Catholic Faith. It is an ideo- terial and not spiritual, and that logy that threatens to under- through conflict man will even- mine the entirety of the founda- tually arrive at his final syn- tion of the Christian civil order thesis which is the perfection of by eliminating the public recog- a classless society. The Com- nition of the rights of God over munist State is there to perpetu- all human societies and coun- ate revolution on behalf of the tries. In the face of such a proletariat by whatever means it threat, the Church invites Cath- deems necessary until the uto- olics to disassociate themselves pia of a classless society is real- from communist movements in ised, after which it will disband. their own countries. As such, the Communist move- ment is against both right In essence, the doctrines of reason and Divine Revelation Communism as espoused by because it simply denies the Karl Marx are incompatible with natural law at every level: in the

18 January - February 2021 “In teaching this enlightening doctrine, the Church has no other intention than to realise the glad tidings sung by the Angels above the cave of Bethlehem at the Redeemer's birth: ‘Glory to God . . . and . . . peace to men . . .’" Pope Pius XI

individual, in the family and in ganda which is so pernicious society. that little by little it corrupts the hearts of all men without them Pope Pius XI suggests that Com- ever fully realising that they munism finds so many adher- have fallen prey to it. It is then ents because of the worldwide no surprise that the commun- economic crisis, causing hard- istic fallacy finds itself increas- ship and anger, and the nature ingly popular in a society which of liberal economics which has is largely de-Christianised. contributed to the religious and moral destitution of the working The third reason for the spread classes. in the popularity of Communism can be found in the conspiracy Another reason for the spread of of silence of the non-Catholic Communism among the working press who keep silent on the classes can be attributed to the terrors that are taking place in spread of propaganda: a propa- , Russia, and . The

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silence is the result of short- the Social Kingship of Christ, sighted political policies, and of the only True remedy there is occult forces that have been for the ills that our present soci- working to overthrow Christian ety faces. Pope Pius XI encour- Social Order. ages Catholics to do so and guarantees that such actions Communism is opposed to will always have his blessing everything that is godly; it con- and blessings from God. Priests siders religion to be the “opiate should be reminded of their sac- of the masses”, because it red duties and should work with claims that all life is ultimately a zeal to bring forth numerous terrestrial affair, and all of life souls into the fold of the ends at the grave. What better Church, who through neglect or means is there to prepare a fer- ignorance of sacred things, may tile ground for a Communist re- fall prey to the deceptions and gime than to forbid all of the errors of our times. public ceremonies of the Church, to discourage and stop With this in mind, it is necessary religious education in schools to turn to the protection of Saint and remove it from public life? Joseph, who was himself an ex- emplary workman, and a mem- The State needs the Church as a ber of the working class. He teacher of doctrine and incul- bore the weight of poverty, and cator of virtue in order to com- all of its burdens. To him was bat the errors of moral liberal- entrusted the care of the Divine ism and, by seeking first the Child when Herod’s assassins Kingdom of God, to attain the were let loose to kill Him. In a goal of earthly peace. life of faithful performance of everyday duties, he left an ex- in the public ample for all those who must sphere is absolutely necessary gain their bread by the toil of in order to promote the King- their hands. The Church there- dom of God on earth, and to en- fore places Her vast campaign in sure the peace of nations. Cath- the fight against communism olics who are engaged in the under his banner. body of politics should strive and work towards promoting

20 January - February 2021 Biography

Father Zhu Shude SJ (1913-1983)

After Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976) Kong. Yet I cannot find anyone, declared the founding of the apart from myself, who is People’s Republic of China in preparing to leave Hong Kong 1949, missionaries and Chinese for China. Everyone laughs at clergy flooded out of mainland me for being a fool. In the eyes China to escape the coming anti- of the world I am indeed the Christian . There biggest fool ever born! When a were some clergy, however, who merchant cannot make a profit remained with their beleaguered in one place, he will move flock, such as the American Je- somewhere else. Yet I am a suit, Father Charles McCarthy, priest, and the life of a priest is SJ, (1911-1991) and the Chinese to serve his flock. As long as Jesuit, Father Zhu Shude, SJ there are Christians left in (1913-1983). Shanghai, I must return there. Because I am a priest. I In 1949, Father Zhu was in Hong represent Christ and his Kong receiving his fellow Je- Church. Wherever I am, the suits fleeing the mainland, and Church is. I am willing to stay he decided that the Christians in in Shanghai, to let the Shanghai needed him to remain communist party know that the with them through the storm. Catholic faith is still alive. Despite the entreaties from his fellow priests to stay in the Zhu was arrested in 1953, and fi- safety of Hong Kong, Zhu nally died in a labour camp in boarded a plane for Shanghai. In 1983 after thirty years of hard- a poignant letter left for his ship and torment. He remains a brother, he wrote: heroic example among Chinese Catholics today of what it Every day many people are means to love Christ, the escaping from China to Hong Church, and China.

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Cardinal Kung The Cardinal Mindszenty of China

From the Cardinal Kung Foundation

Ignatius Pin-Mei Kung was or- which there was to be uninter- dained a priest on 28th May rupted round-the-clock recita- 1930, consecrated on the tion of the rosary in front of a Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, statue of Our Lady of Fatima 7th October 1949, just after the which toured all the parishes of Chinese Communist Party Shanghai. The holy statue finally (CCP) had taken over China, arrived at Christ the King and made the Roman Catholic Church where a major arrest of Bishop of Shanghai, and the the priests had just taken place Apostolic Administrator of only a month before. Bishop Souchou and Nanking in 1950. Kung led the rosary there while hundreds of armed police Bishop in a persecution looked on. At the end of the ros- In defiance of the CCP, Bishop ary, Bishop Kung prayed: "Holy Kung personally supervised Mother, we do not ask you for a members of the Legion of Mary miracle. We do not beg you to to train catechists to pass on the stop the persecutions. But we faith when all the priests were beg you to support us who are gone. He declared 1952 to be a very weak." The police left the in Shanghai during church.

22 January - February 2021 Between 1951 and 1955 all for- eign priests and religious sisters were deported from China, sometimes after time in prison. Chinese , priests, sisters and legionaries were typically arrested, subject to public humi- liation, brainwashing sessions, torture, and sent to labour camps for long periods (often more than 20 years) or simply executed. Not all Catholics re- mained faithful. Meanwhile con- versions continued – especially in the prisons.

Bishop imprisoned Bishop Kung along with more than 200 priests and other Cath- olics was arrested on 8th September 1955. He was subjec- “Ignatius, Bishop of Shanghai ted to a mob "struggle session" 13th August 1950” (an orchestrated denunciation by a baying crowd which some- Long live the Pope" from the times becomes violent) in the Bishop. The crowd responded old Dog Racing Stadium in immediately, "Long live Christ Shanghai. Thousands were the King, Long live Bishop ordered to attend and to hear Kung". Bishop Kung was quickly the Bishop's public confession dragged away to the police car of his "crimes." With his hands and disappeared from view until tied behind his back, wearing a he was brought to trial in 1960 Chinese pajama suit, the 5-foot when he was sentenced to life tall bishop was pushed forward imprisonment. to the microphone to confess. To the shock of the security po- The night before he was brought lice, they heard a righteous loud to trial, the Chief Prosecutor cry of "Long live Christ the King, asked once again for his cooper-

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not even permitted to receive his relatives, or letters, or money to buy essentials.

In 1979, Bishop Kung was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in pectore (in secret). Not even Bishop Kung was aware of this honour.

Cardinal liberated Eventually, in 1985, in the face of international pressure and Ignatius, Bishop of Shanghai the opening of China to western about to be arrested capitalism, Bishop Kung (as he 8th September 1955 was still publicly known) was released from jail to serve an- other term of 10 years of house ation to lead the Chinese Cath- arrest under the custody of the olic Patriotic Association schismatic Patriotic Association (CCPA). His answer was: "I am a bishops who betrayed him and Roman Catholic Bishop. If I de- betrayed the Pope and who nounce the Holy Father, not usurped his diocese. After two only would I not be a Bishop, I and a half years of house arrest, would not even be a Catholic. he was officially released, but You can cut off my head, but never pardoned. you can never take away my duties." Shortly before Cardinal Kung was released from jail, he was Bishop Kung spent a total of permitted to join a banquet or- thirty years in prison with long ganised by the Shanghai govern- periods in isolation. Numerous ment to welcome His eminence requests to visit the bishop Cardinal Jaime Sin, made by international religious of Manila, on a and human rights organisations, friendly visit. This was the first and senior foreign government time that Cardinal Kung had met officials were rejected. He was a visiting bishop from the uni-

24 January - February 2021 versal Church since his impris- prayers for his people and his onment. Cardinal Sin and Car- activity to make known the dinal Kung were seated on op- plight of Catholics in China. Ex- posite ends of the table asperated, and in a final gesture separated by more that 20 com- of malice, the Chinese govern- munists, and were prevented ment symbolically confiscated from speaking privately. During Cardinal Kung’s Chinese pass- the dinner, Cardinal Sin sugges- port in 1998, thus making him an ted that each person should sing official exile – rejected by his a song to celebrate. When the nation, just like Our Lord. time came for Cardinal Kung to He died on 12th March 2000 sing, in the presence of the aged 98 years in Stamford, Chinese government officials Connecticut. and the Patriotic Association bishops, he looked directly at In his Mission magazine in 1957, Cardinal Sin and sang "Tu es Bishop Fulton Sheen wrote: Petrus et super hanc petram "The West has its Mindszenty, aedificabo Ecclesiam" (Thou but the East has its Kung. God is are Peter and upon this rock I glorified in His saints." will build my Church).

Cardinal Sin immediately car- Retreats 2021 ried Cardinal Kung's message to Saint Saviour’s House, the Holy Father and announced Bristol to the world that this man of God had never faltered in his Mar 6 : Lent Day of Recollection love of the Church or his people Mar 22-27 : Passion Retreat despite unimaginable suffering, May 3-8 : Marian Retreat isolation and pain. Jun 25-27 : Couple’s W/E Retreat Jul 12-17 : Men's Ignatian Twilight years Aug 2-7 : Women's Ignatian Cardinal Kung left China in 1988 Aug 20-22 : Youth Conference and finished his years in the Sep 10-12 : Men's Ignatian United States. In 1991, he was Oct 8-10 : Women's Ignatian officially presented with his car- Dec 4 : Advent Recollection dinal’s hat on 29th June 1991 at the Vatican. He never ceased his

25 Appeal

Too many vocations?

A noviciate is needed

Founded in 1961 by Fr. Basilio girls and take care of the elderly Rosati, a Passionist priest, the who are often found abandoned Consoling Sisters of the Sacred on the street and in miserable Heart of Jesus were entrusted to condition. Fr. Emmanuel du Chalard (SSPX) by Father Basilio in In 2014, when the first American 1996. Currently, their mother- postulant arrived in Italy, house is in Vigne di Narni, Italy homage was paid to Our Lady of where their community prays, Guadalupe, and her image was teaches catechism, assists the enthroned in the convent. From SSPX in its and look that moment the flow of young after the aged in their nursing Americans has been non-stop and in the neighbourhood. and the Congregation now has 45 members of 7 nationalities In 2006, Providence blessed (26 professed sisters, 8 novices, them with a new apostolate in 11 postulants). – an orphanage and old- age home. With the help of be- Given the lack of space, but not nefactors from all over the wanting to refuse vocations, world, they constructed a truly the sisters have been obliged to remarkable building that houses put bunkbeds in the bedrooms, almost 100 people. The 7 Indian in the workroom, and even in sisters are tireless in their ded- the Superior’s office. ication to educate the orphan

26 January - February 2021 Mother Superior with novices and postulants at the mother house at Vigne di Narni

The Consoling Sisters in India

27 Appeal

Moreover, additional girls have Therefore, the Community turns asked the sisters to visit. Not to you, dear benefactors, asking having any place left to put you to be instruments in the these girls, the sisters urgently Hands of God to offer to His fu- need a place that is large ture spouses a place where, in enough for at least 20 people, to silence, obedience and fraternal begin a Noviciate to form the charity, they can learn how to girls in the beginning of their re- become true Religious who con- ligious life. sole the Heart of Jesus and spread the devotion to Him After innumerable prayers and through the whole world. long hours of research, St. Joseph has granted them the The Sisters assure you of a spe- great grace of finding an ex- cial remembrance in their daily Capuchin convent, built in the prayers and sacrifices. 1600s, 40 minutes from Vigne, with an optimal structure (re- stored in 2000), with 30 bed- How to help rooms and 5 acres of land. Un- fortunately, not having been occupied for 5 years, the con- Donations vent has suffered damages and Make donations through the vandalism: gutters and pipes SSPX with reference “Consoling stolen, electric and hydraulic Sisters.” panels damaged, windows broken, etc. Or write to: Mother Superior The price that is asked is Ass.ne Suore Consolatrici del €1,150,000. The Community, S. Cuore di Gesù onlus having no income, lives solely Via Flaminia Vecchia, 20 on Divine Providence and does 05035 Vigne di Narni (TR) not have the means to pay this Tel. 0039 0744 796406 price. E-mail: [email protected]

Postulants always welcome!

28 January - February 2021 The abandoned Capuchin monastery that would make a perfect noviciate.

Plenty of rooms with a view.

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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 (Penny Catechism 1933). This is the only known primary school textbook series which is written for the Penny Catechism. The series can be found in its en- tirety at: http://www.straphaelshomeschool.co.uk/the-light-of-the-world/ ✠ Of your charity please pray for the souls of

Mrs. Patricia Jepson of Brinnington who died on 12th Nobember 2020 Mr. Joseph Gallagher of Glasgow who died on 20th November 2020 Jay Martin Allen of Berkshire who died on 7th December 2020 Edward Liffey of Jersey who died on 8th December 2020 Alan King of Sea Palling, Norfolk who died on 10th December 2020 Br. Gabriel of Ecône, Switzerland who died on 18th December 2020 Mrs. Patricia Boyle of Motherwell who died on 19th December 2020

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

January

Rev. Fr. Bernard Enright, Rev. Fr. Urban Snyder, Rev. Fr.Arthur Amy, Rev. Fr.John Coulson, Rev. Fr. Eldred Leslie, Andrew Baker, T. Hillier, Hugh Ross-Williamson, Sister Dermot, Adela Wright, Patrick Vinton, I. Pharoah-Band, Arthur Scannell, Eugene Merano, Bernard Gilbert, Arthur Somerford, Violet Shea, P. Hoskisson, Eric Smith, Frank Pike, Fiona Ward, Christopher Sullivan, Alan Coe, Joan Southwell, Veronica Adams, Eliza Danilo, Eileen Adams, Florence Adams, Dr. John Hamerton, Dr. Peter Hall, James Kenney, Mary Coey, John Yates, Teresa Power, Elizabeth Bannerman-McGregor, Harold England, Agnes McLaughlin, Cecily Stanley-Clarke, Rose Spruce, Reginald Thomas, Dora Dombre,James Jackson, David Green, Graham Lenthall,Winifred Bryan, Rose Davis, Margaret Brucciani, Elsie Bavington, Mr. Sullivan, Henry Brett, Rita Embray, Richard Mirn, Hilda Hans- ing, Mary McEnery,Wilhelmina Wingerden, Margaret Coupe, Margaret Harries, Isabel Murdoch,Jean Cunning- ham, Doris Breddy, Franciszek Trembalowicz, Gladys Bird, Andrew Tannahill, Gerard Oxley, Ernest Duus- Jensen, Francis Adams, Stella Collier, Chase Harrison, Audrey Krynski, Stephen Johnson, Richard Neville, Mary Black, Roland Cumberbatch,Anne Marie Firth, Maurice Flynn, Stephen Weetman, Gertrude Hill, Philom- ena Thompson, Ruth Ward, James Byrne, Dorothy Callaghan, Constance Cordwell, Vera Cosgrove, Sydney Fenton, Patricia Venn, Mary McLaughlin, Amy Warner, Veronica Crisp, Carmen Whitworth, Connie Scruton, Rosa Patricia Hall, Alexander Kelly, Joseph Lee, Paddy Campbell, Monica Wright, Maria Dean, Brian Eustace, Isobel Gaggero, Joan Howarth, Norman Jenkins, Augustine Okereafor, Muriel Fleming, Hazel Sime, William Bailey, Marjorie Plume, Anelia Carnoustie, Thomas Blundell, Francis Strimatis, Frank Williams, Joseph di Guiseppe, Robin Pannell, Clement Charlery, John Blackshaw, Helena Brown, Heather Gierak, Francis McEl- waine, Alice Pratt, Sarah (Sadie) Quinn. Charles Kennedy, Maureen Burrows, Michael Evelyn Turner, William Jackson, Edna Neesam, Clare Marie Officer, Ivy Scaife, Veronica Spender, Oliver Ibeamuchem, Rosina Perry, Clarice Stansfield, Michael James ap John, Editha Thomas, Zita Martinez

February

Rev. Fr. Henry Rope, Rev. Fr. Edward Wright, Rev. Fr. Guy Bouvier, Rev. Fr. John Brady, Br. Alban Michael, F.M; Vera Lux, Helen Scott, Dennis Hazell, Jane Dickie, Kate Barford, Mary Healy, Harold Forteath, Mary Connolly, William Sims, Gwendoline Shields, Kathleen Donovan, T. McTigue, Frederick Tomlinson, Joan Ferguson, Car- oline Laurie, John Johnson, Evelyn Tree, Emily Malley, Eugene Howson, Peter Ward, Ethel McCarthy, Phyllis Thomas, Claude Head, Margaret Kerichard, Margaret Daly, Dorothy Yates, Emmie Titley, Helen Ferguson, Mary 32 January - February 2021 Leetch, Austin Yates, John Leetch, Edith Jerey, Margaret Ashby, Monica Hall, Miss M Gatenby, Anthony Town- send, Olive Booth, Robert McAllister, Tadeusz Turek, Molly Price, Joseph Brown, Simone Macklow-Smith, Stephen Conyngham, Paul Armstrong, Ernesto Criscouli, Eileen Mungovin, Marion Spring, Josephine Conlon, Hugh Byrnes, Pamela Frith, Agnes Leyden, Gemma Francis, Phyllis Western-Pick, Michael Yates, Joseph Reader, Margaret Connolly, Marjorie Tomlinson, Dorothy Rust, Eleanor Evans, Edward Black, Phyllis Brooker, Edna Proctor,Annie Kenny, Monica Hunter, Ruby Dolden, Edward Ryan, Dorothy Sheridan, David Read, Vivien Drummond, Joan Gordon-Thompson, Philip England, Dominique Beschizza, Cyril Benedict, Joseph Tipping, Paddy Campbell, Hilda Lovelace, James McClaerty, Eileen Clarke, Ruth Croxted, Theresa Singleton, James O’Donoghue, Jim Collins, Peter Lyons, John Marshall, Mary Agnes Adams, Lionel Rice, Stephanie Hill, Rita Campbell, Margaret Rowling, Eamonn Short, Muriel Fenn, Graeme le Monier, Anne Read, John Clague, Stephen & Joyce Power, Molita Hale, James Shallcross, Patrick Halligan, Marion O’Grady, Peter Forrestier- Smith, John Middlehurst, Brian Martelli, Edward Atkinson, George Nicholson

“Il faut finir! Il faut finir! You have to finish! You have to finish!”Every priest who has passed through the Seminary of Ecône will fondly remember these words when they think of Br. Gabriel. He would emerge through the kitchen swing door push- ing a trolley upon which were the leftovers. Depositing large portions without ask- ing on reluctant plates, he wagged his head from side to side, “Il faut finir. If fait finir.”Having joined the society as its first brother in 1973 , he was a model of fidel- ity and stability for seminarians. He was a simple soul but had an encyclopaedic memory of everything that passed through his world which was the Society. Dear Br. Gabriel did eventually finish. He died on 18th December aged 79, fortified by the rites of Holy Mother Church and by the prayers of so many priests and seminari- ans. Please pray for his soul that he may enjoy the life that never ends.

33 Church of the Holy Cross, Woking Crisis in the Church

Church of the Holy Cross Sandy Lane, Woking GU22 8BA

A recent conservation survey of this beautiful church revealed the extent of the repairs required to the roof, gutters, stonework, brickwork and interior plaster. These repairs will be effected over 2021, but will cost about £400,000. A fund has been established and any help you can give will be gratefully received. See the in- side cover for bank details (mention “Woking Fund” on any donations).

Photo: Anointing of hands on ordination day at the Sacred Heart Seminary in Year Planner 2021

Jan 10 All day adoration at Ss. Margaret & Leonard, Edinburgh

Candlemass. Taking of the cassockb y the new seminarians at Flavigny. Feb 2 Tonsure ceremony at Dillwyn. 8-13 Priests' Retreat, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

17 ASH WEDNESDAY

26-28 40 Hours Devotion at St. Joseph & Padarn's, London N7 6BB

Mar 6 Lenten Day of Recollection, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

22 Passion Retreat, St. Saviour's House, Bristol Ordination to Minor Orders and Perpetual Engagements at the St. Thomas 26 Aquinas Seminary, Dillwyn, USA 27 Sitientes. Ordinations to the Subdiaconate in Ecône,Dillwyn & Zaitskofen.

Apr 4 EASTER SUNDAY

12 All day adoration at St. Michael's School, Burghclere

18 Good Shepherd Sunday -for vocations

May 3-8 Marian Retreat, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

13 ASCENSIOND AY

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

23 PENTECOST SUNDAY

Ordination of Rev. Dominic O'Hart at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Dillwyn, Jun 11 USA 25-27 Married Couple's Retreat

Jul 3 Rev. Dominic O'Hart 1st Mass at St. Michael's School, Burghclere

11 Rev. Dominic O'Hart 1st Mass at St. John's, Dublin

12-17 Men's Ignatian Retreat

18 Rev. Dominic O'Hart 1st Mass at Corpus Christi, Athlone

? Boys' Camp

? Girls' Camp

23-25 Cantebury Pilgrimage

40 Mass Times

JANUARY FEBRUARY

1st 3rd 6th 10th 17th 24th 31st 7th 14th 17th 21st 28th

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

0800 0900 0800 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0800 0900 0900 Bristol 1830 1100 1830 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1830 1100 1100 0630 0630 0630 0630 0630 0630 0630 0630 0630 0630 0630 0630 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 Burghclere 0715 0715 0715 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 1900 1900 1900 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 Colleton 13th 3rd ------Manor 1130 1130 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 Edinburgh 1230 1230 1230 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

Gateshead 1200 1800 1200 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1200 1800 1800

Glasgow 1830 1030 1830 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1830 1030 1030

Groombridge 0830 0830 1100 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830 1100 0830 0830

Herne 1230 1230 1830 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1830 1230 1230

Jersey ------? - - - - ?

Leicester 1100 1100 1100 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 1100 1900 1900 (St. Joseph) 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 London 0715 0715 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0715 0800 0800 (Wimbledon) 1100

Manchester 1230 0930 1230 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 1230 0930 0930

Middlemarsh - 1600 - 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 1600 - 1600 1600

Portsmouth - 1700 1800 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 - 1700 1700

Preston 1100 0930 1100 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 1100 0930 0930

Rhos-on-Sea 0900 1700 0900 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 0900 1700 1700

Taunton 1130 1100 1130 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1130 1100 1100

Woking 1030 1030 1930 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1930 1030 1030

41 Mass Centres

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

BURGHCLERE Scotland Saint Michael’s School Chapel Harts Lane, Burghclere, Hants RG20 9JW ABERDEEN Tel: 01635 278 137/173 Aberdeen Foyer Marywell Centre, [email protected] Marywell St, Aberdeen AB11 6JF Resident: Tel: 01857 616206 Rev. Fr. John Brucciani (Headmaster) Rev. Fr. Reid Hennick CARLUKE Rev. Fr. Thomas O'Hart Saint Andrew’s House Br. Ignatius 31 Lanark Road Br. Gerard Mary CssR Carluke, Lanarkshire ML8 4HE Tel: 01555 771523 CHULMLEIGH [email protected] Colleton Manor Chapel Resident: Chulmleigh, Devon, EX18 7JS Rev. Fr. Sebastian Wall (Prior) Tel: 01769 580 240 Rev. Fr. Anthony Wingerden GATESHEAD EDINBURGH Church of the Holy Name of Jesus Saints Margaret and Leonard Gladstone Terrace West, Bensham 110 Saint Leonard’s Street Gateshead NE8 4DR Edinburgh EH8 9RD Tel: 07443 588 039 Tel: 01555 771523 GROOMBRIDGE (Tunbridge Wells) GLASGOW Church of Saint Pius V, Saint Andrew’s Church, Station Road, Groombridge TN3 9QX 202 Renfrew Street, Glasgow G3 6TX Tel: 01892 654 372 Tel: 01555 771523 HERNE STRONSAY Saints John Fisher & Thomas More Church St Columba’s House, Herne Street, Herne CT6 7HR Stronsay, KW17 2AS , Tel: 01857 616206 Tel: 020 89467916 Resident: Rev. Fr. Nicholas Mary CssR LEICESTER Br. Louis-Marie CssR Church of Saint Anne Abingdon Road, Leicester LE2 1HA Tel: 01858 555813 England LIVERPOOL BINGLEY The Church of Saints Peter and Paul The Little House 35 Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool L8 7LA Market Street, Bingley BD16 2HP Tel: 01772 562428 Tel: 01274 567786 LONDON Church of Saints Joseph and Padarn Salterton Road, N7 6BB Tel: 020 8946 7916 42 January - February 2021 MANCHESTER Church of Saint Pius X, Scandinavia 16 Deer Park Road, Manchester M16 8FR Tel: 01772 562 428 AALBORG, DENMARK

MIDDLEMARSH / HOLNEST OSLO, Saint Lawrence Chapel Tel: 01963 210 580 [Mass celebrated in Holnest in wintertime] MALMÖ, SWEDEN

PORTSMOUTH STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Our Lady Help of Christians 14 Kingston Road, Porstmouth PO1 5RZ Tel: 01635 278137 Rev. Fr. Håkan Lindström, St. George’s House, 125 Arthur Road, PRESTON London SW19 7DR St. Mary's House Tel: +44 20 8946 7916 12 Ribblesdale Place, Preston PR1 3NA [email protected] Tel: 01772 562 428 www.fsspx.uk/en/scandinavia [email protected] Resident: Rev. Fr. Vianney Vandendaele (Prior) Rev. Fr. Gary Holden

Our Lady of Victories Church East Cliff, Winckley Sq, Preston PR1 3JH Pious Groups

TAUNTON OF ST. PIUS X Church of Our Lady of Glastonbury Rev. Fr. Gary Holden 17 South Street (off East Reach), TA1 3AA [email protected] Tel: 01823 652701 OF ST. STEPHEN WOKING Rev. Fr. Lawrence Barrett Church of the Holy Cross Mr. Richard Cullen Sandy Lane, Maybury, GU22 8BA [email protected] Tel: 01483 767 537 EUCHARISTIC CRUSADE Rev. Fr. Vianney Vandendaele Wales [email protected]

RHOS ON SEA MILITIA IMMACULATAE Saint David’s Chapel Rev Fr. Robert Brucciani Conwy Road, (A547) Mochdre LL28 5AA, Mr. Howard Toon Tel: 01492 582586 militia-immaculatae-1.org [email protected] Jersey ST. RAPHAEL'S HOMESCHOOL & OL FATIMA CORRESPONDENCE Saint Nicholas Centre, Greve d'Azette CATECHISM COURSE St. Clement, Jersey Miss Monica Marshall Tel: +44 1534 857 186 [email protected]

EMERGENCY NUMBER: 0754 888 0281

43 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 ad- ministering 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.