Dowry Autumn 2019, Issue N˚43 “O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon England thy Dowry.”

(Picture: Restored In this issue: statue of Archangel St Michael on the top of Editorial: God is at work Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey. Our turbulent My First Christendom Pilgrimage To Chartres times make his intercession more The Fraternity in the Czech Republic needed than ever: Reviving Religious Life in Britain Holy Michael the Archangel, defend us Catholic Film Production in the day of battle. Be our safeguard against Heroic Priest in the Trenches the wickedness and the snares of the devil. Fostering Extra-liturgical Devotions May God rebuke him we humbly pray and do FSSP England Charity Bursar’s Report thou O Prince of the Heavenly Host, cast Mental Prayer as Union with Christ into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who For Your Diaries wander through the world seeking the ruin Support Our Apostolate of souls. Amen.)

(N˚41, Spring 2019)

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rethren, be sober and total number of our candidates for year. In the watch: because your the priesthood to 180, including our Portsmouth diocese, we give thanks ‘B adversary the devil, as a other seminarians from the UK for the steady growth of our roaring lion, goeth about seeking Emmanuel, Gwilym and Miklos. personal parish in Reading, and for whom he may devour!’ (cf 1 Peter the ordination by Bishop Philip 5:8). How does this warning by the Pray also for several young women Egan of four Gosport Franciscan first Pope St Peter apply to us in about to begin religious training in priests – the first time in decades a 2019-2020 Britain and Ireland? Are various convents. Pray for three English diocesan bishop would the lion’s fangs closer to our souls young men beginning an informal ordain his own subjects in the than we assume? life in common to discern God’s traditional form in his own will for them. Pray for other young cathedral. The devil is the master of despair. adults who are bold enough to He leads the wicked to distrust commit to Christian marriage (three Although still modest in sizes, our God’s mercy, thus neglecting to couples in or from Warrington only congregations in Warrington, repent. Those seeking justice, the this past summer, others in Reading Reading, Chesham Bois and devil tries to weaken through and one more betrothed couple from Edinburgh are dynamic, as multiplying scandals without and London). Our monthly youth group evidenced by their many varied within the Church. No doubt he is in London stably attracts 70 young devotions and extra-liturgical particularly active nowadays. As a activities. In Ireland where we serve consequence our supernatural trust every other Sunday, our families in Christ the Saviour and in His and young adults are also Holy Church can be lessened. Let Altogether, 45 young men generously committed and continue us assess our condition and exercise entered our seminaries to beg of God for a permanent the virtues contrary to despair and apostolate by our Fraternity. disbelief. Our forthcoming retreats last month. on the sanctity of the Church will be Dear friends, let us cast away any opportunities to strengthen up our hint of despair and gloom, for those are the devil’s minions. Let us faith and hope. Let us ask for the professionals. Last summer we firmly believe Our Lord Who help of God Almighty, of Our Lady organised Catholic holidays for 100 assured that ‘The gates of hell shall Immaculate, of St Michael the youths. Meanwhile, in Bedford, not prevail against [Holy Church]’ Archangel and all the holy angels Warrington and Reading, families (Matt 16:18). Let us ask now saint and saints. Let also take courage are courageously taking educational John-Henry Newman to obtain for from the good example of not a few initiatives with the assistance of our England a new spiritual spring. lay people, priests and even priests. prelates. With our bishops, let us take part in At long last, thanks to your the preparation of the Rededication ‘Where sin abounded, grace did generosity, we signed the purchase of England as the Dowry of Mary th more abound’ (Romans 5:20). Dear of Priory Court, the large building next 29 March. Having much to be friends, there are signs that the next to St Mary’s Shrine Church in thankful for to Almighty God, let us grace of God is at work, and Warrington. This will help us do pray that our communities continue powerfully so. As you will read in more and better for God and souls. to grow and thrive. this issue of Dowry, young people As ever, we give thanks for the Please be assured of our prayer on are starting answering the call to fatherly support of our Archbishop this feast of the Divine Motherhood religious life: pray for Tom and Malcolm McMahon OP of of Our Blessed Lady. Henry from England and for Conan Liverpool, who came like every from Ireland who began formation year to give the sacrament of Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, to the sacred priesthood at our Confirmation to our candidates, Superior of the English seminary in America. Altogether, most of whom were adult converts FSSP Apostolate, 45 young men entered our prepared by our priests over the past 11 October 2019. □ seminaries last month, bringing the 2

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My First Christendom Pilgrimage To Chartres

By young pilgrim Jacek Witkowski, from Juventutem London

hen questioning people was I prepared for the inspiring be a good Catholic have a role to about this, one would unity expressed by the others in my play in my life. normally expect answers chapter. It was needless to say, that I W The truth is, this journey is for summing up to “done it once, that have made good friends with the was enough” or “it was good fun, rest of the English-speaking anyone. I have met so many but… no showers and not enough community before we even exited different people travelling, 7 and 70 rest…”, but the fact of the matter is Paris. year olds alike, short, tall, blonde, that people coming from the brunette, male, female… More than that, this walk, or as Chartres pilgrimage are rarely first- If you feel like you would like to timers or ones to shy away from a some veterans would call it, “stroll expand your understanding of our spiritual challenge, especially in the park of over 100km” was when combined with a little bit of a physical exertion. Or at least after a sufficient amount of time has passed in order to forget about the bruised legs and painful blisters… which most people tend to do relatively quickly.

Instead, one hears expressions, such as “you have to come next year, it will change your life!” (when touching upon the subject of the pilgrimage with a group of Chartres veterans, one should expect to hear a chorus of joyful, Latin, Catholic marching songs). The fact of the matter is that there is only one word to describe attending this holy feast filled with rosary praying, faith, connect with other, great during Pentecost: “life changing”. continuous singing, quiet Catholics or even complete your contemplative walking and conversion to the true faith, then For me, this journey started as meditations given by priests, without doubt, this journey is something to stop the nagging of my brothers and laymen alike, giving perfect for you. family to see for myself and ending everyone a lot of important up in an unexpected realisation that information on subjects varying There is only so much words can this was the answer to my prayers from discerning vocation to how to explain, and in this particular case… pretty much all along. No-one live a good and virtuous Catholic you have to experience what prepared me for the 14,000 people I life as well as history on various countless others have experienced. will see gathered in one place, and saints and the Catholic church itself And hopefully, with some grace then filing out in what seemed to be throughout the ages. In an from God, I will see you there. and endless stream of French, extraordinary turn of events, I was German, American, Flemish, ¡Viva Cristo Rey! given the opportunity of a lifetime Belgian, Irish, Canadian (yes, even to really learn, think through, pray Save the dates for the forthcoming Swedish!) travellers spanning as far and realise how big God, my love pilgrimage of Pentecost: 30th May – as the eye could see ahead. Neither for Him and how important it is to 1st June 2020. □

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The Fraternity in the Czech Republic

By Deacon Roger Gilbride, FSSP

fter China, the Czech this group of faithful his attitude had had the same revelation, and so Republic, is the country changed. In a land thirsting for one travelled to Jerusalem to take A with the highest percentage practicing Christians and for priests, precise measurements between the of atheists in the world, and it is in this vibrant group of dedicated Garden of Olives, the Sanhedrin’s this land of St Wenceslaus and Catholics was a pleasant sight for court, Pontius Pilate’s palace etc. In numerous other saints that Fraternity the bishop. In fact, this bishop the village of Římov and the of St Peter has a growing presence. recently invited the FSSP into his surrounding farmland 25 stations The FSSP now counts three Czech diocese, and since Autumn 2018 the were erected to mark each of the priests, one deacon, and one Fraternity has had a permanent significant stops that our Lord made seminarian. The priests take turns to reside at our new apostolate and visit the Mass centres in four dioceses.

Since his days as a seminarian, Fr Jakub Zentner (the first Czech ordained for the FSSP) has been ploughing the soil of his home country by organising summer camps for young people and other activities associated with the Traditional Mass community. Following his priestly ordination in 2016 he made monthly visits to the Latin Mass community in Prague as well as to Litoměřice (known in German as Leitmeritz) in northern Bohemia.

In the summer of 2016 traditional confirmations were held at the presence in his southern Bohemian during His Passion. The entire Way Cistercian monastery of Vyšší Brod diocese. of the Cross is 7km. The Via Crucis (known by the German name in Jerusalem had different traditions Hohenfurth), a community of monks We have been given custody over over the centuries, one of which had that celebrate exclusively the the Loreto Chapel in the village of 25 stations. Some years later the traditional liturgy. Dozens of Římov, 14km south of České Muslim rulers of Jerusalem faithful from around the country Budějovice (Budweis). This is an destroyed several of these 25 gathered at the abbey for the important church since it is stations, but by this time the replica ceremony presided over by His connected with a Church-approved had already been completed in Excellency Monsignor Athanasius th apparition of the 17 Century. In Southern Bohemia. Schneider, who preached in Czech. 1626 Our Lord Jesus Christ and Our Lady appeared simultaneously to Prague was once – a long time ago – The bishop of the local diocese of two priests in the area asking them one of the capitals of the Holy České Budějovice (Budweis) to build an exact copy of the Way of Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Monsignor Vlastimil Kročil was the Cross in Jerusalem. The two Bohemia was a bastion of the initially somewhat cautious. priests soon learned that the other Catholic faith. So how did Bohemia However, as he learned more about

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were no priests to meet them. Secondly, in 1950 the communist rulers unleashed a brutal oppression upon the Church: priests were executed or sent to work in uranium mines, and all monasteries were closed, and the public life of the Church was heavily restricted.

By 1968 the Czechoslovak leaders realised that soviet communism was an unpopular failure, so began economic and social reforms, including introducing religious freedom. become the thoroughly non- Following the First World War, the The Soviet Union with other religious society that it is today? monarchy was abolished, and in Warsaw Pact countries, fearing they The roots of the crisis stretch back 1920 the ‘Czechoslovak National would lose Czechoslovakia to the many centuries, but the more Church’ was established, to which West, invaded. Under the Soviet proximate causes, however, are to one million Czech Catholics occupation Church attendance was a be found in the last two centuries. migrated. National identity became sign of an ‘anti-communist’ more important than one’s faith. sentiment. With a devastated First, in 1782 the Emperor Joseph II economy it was suicidal to challenge of Austria, influenced by In 1938 Nazi German occupied the establishment. So, communism Rationalism, suppressed the 'useless' Czechoslovakia and a new wave of succeeded in choking Christian life, religious institutions. The loss on persecution came. The public life of almost to the point of extinction. purely contemplative communities the Church was restricted, and many dealt a major blow to the life of the priests were sent to concentration When the Soviet Union collapsed in Church. camps. Following the Second World the early 1990s the Church in the War two more waves hit. First, 3 new Czech Republic could breath The next major assault on the Faith million ethnic Germans were freely again, but thirty years later was secular-nationalism which arose expelled, most of them Catholics. the country is still suffering from the during the 1848 Revolution. This Their homes and villages were taken spiritual amnesia brought about by movement was opposed to the over by settlers from far away who 70 years of Socialist, then Nazi, then Hapsburg monarchy, and since the had no connection with the land, no Communist rule. Despite the Church was an important pillar of community life, and little religious ongoing difficulties there are that empire, it was anti-Catholic too. affiliation, and in any case there pockets of revival across the country, our new apostolate is one of them. Among many spiritual fruits in the last two years, several adult converts have been baptised by our priests. Much work certainly still needs to be done, but let us give thanks for the good work that the Lord has begun and pray that it may continue to prosper.

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Reviving Religious Life in Britain

By Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP. For the benefit of our readers outside Great-Britain, the assessment and remedies offered in this article apply outside of Britain; indeed throughout our formerly Christian Western countries.

Introduction observing God’s commandments. Such is the religious state. It is a They choose to embrace God’s blessing for those called to it. But it etter is one day in Thy counsels as well. They want to is also a blessing for those who courts above thousands. spend their entire lives in close witness it. Why is it so? ‘B How lovely are thy proximity to where God dwells. tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! my They withdraw from the secular The religious state is a blessing for soul longeth and fainteth for the world and organise their lives all, because it sets a higher standard courts of the Lord.’ This Introit (at together as religious communities. of perfection. It encourages all in the the beginning of the Mass on the Their lives focus on prayer, religious world to aspire to a closer union 14th Sunday after Pentecost) study, penance and works of charity. with God while on earth, so as to expresses the desire of our souls to enjoy it forever in heaven. Since our spend our lives closer to God, They want to give God every human nature is fallen we constantly actually to dwell in God’s house, as possible space in their hearts, in lean towards the easier options, to an anticipation of the blessed their days and nights. To that end, the peril of our souls. This soon dwelling promised to us in God’s they renounce earthy possessions leads us to venial sins and ultimately celestial courts if we die in His through the vow of poverty. They to mortal sins. On the contrary, the grace. give up the goods of marriage and presence of religious men and family bonds through the vow of women near us demonstrates to us This is why some Catholics will chastity. Lastly, through the vow of that one can be blessedly fulfilled in come to church every day. They do obedience, they offer up to God poverty, chastity and obedience. well. Even outside of Holy Mass, their own will as a beautiful Religious life manifests spiritual they will enter a Catholic church sacrifice to follow the will of God in freedom on our doorstep. And we all daily and pray to God truly present all things through the legitimate will crave spiritual freedom. there. Other Catholics want more. of their superiors. Contemplative religious also pray They want more than simply for their fellow-Catholics in the

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Secular clerics must be even holier

What of priests who are not in monastic Fraternity of St Peter or the Institute sweet and my burden light.’ Third, life, one may ask? Are they of Christ the King Sovereign Priest) when tying the cincture around his dispensed from following the three is manifested in the three prayers waist, the cleric says: ‘Gird me, O evangelical counsels of poverty, traditionally said when dressing Lord, with the cincture of purity, chastity and obedience? On the every morning. First, for the and quench in my heart the fire of contrary, even without taking the cassock: ‘O Lord, the portion of my concupiscence, that the virtue of three vows of poverty, chastity and inheritance and my chalice, You are continence and chastity may abide obedience as religious do, secular He who will restore my inheritance in me.’ We can admire the wisdom clerics have an even greater to me. Amen.’ This prayer expresses of Holy Mother Church, no doubt obligation than religious to strive for the cleric’s dying to worldly speaking for Our Lady herself, who perfection. ‘Greater interior sanctity possessions, for the sake of gaining knows well how necessary the virtue is needed for that very noble Christ and being granted access to of chastity is for those who are to ministry in which Christ Himself is the Father’s eternal kingdom. imitate the virginal Saviour. served in the sacrament of the altar, Indeed, the black cassock can be than is needed for the religious seen as a shroud separating the man Saving one’s soul for heaven state. … Thus a cleric in sacred of God from earthly goods. Second, orders would, other things being when putting on the collar, the cleric Let us summarize our human equal, sin more grievously if he prays: ‘Set me under your sweet condition. Configuration to Christ is should do anything against sanctity yoke, O Lord, and that of Mary your necessary for salvation. Life in than a religious who is not in sacred Mother.’ This prayer asks for the heaven is the real life, while life on orders, although the lay religious is virtue of obedience. The submission earth prepares for it. We must then bound to regular observances to of the will is joyful and fruitful organise our life on earth as an which those in sacred orders are not when intended to conform to the anticipation of heaven, free from the bound’ (cf St Thomas Aquinas, will of the Sovereign High Priest allurements of created goods. This is Summa Theologiae, 2-2, q. 184, a. Jesus Christ and of His Immaculate best secured through the three 8). Mother. This surrender will bear the evangelical counsels of poverty, fruit of humility and meekness, after chastity and obedience. Christ This commitment of secular clerics Christ the High Priest who taught: practised them; religious orders to the evangelical counsels (whether ‘Take up my yoke upon you, and implement them in various ways, in dioceses or in communities such learn of me, because I am meek and whether contemplative or apostolic. the Oratorians, the Priestly humble of heart... For my yoke is

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St Ignatius Loyola affirms that, ‘We run to the cloisters instead, where must praise highly religious life, God calls no one to religious life as their cells will be computer-free but virginity, and continency; and an escape from the hardships of crucifix-fitted, and where in a matrimony ought not be praised as marriage and factory or office work. communal room the Internet will be much as any of these.’1 Certainly, Cloisters are no places for self- used only, if at all, to order new marriage and family life are seekers. Cowls do not fit cowards. candles and incense or to answer excellent things, willed and blessed But a sober awareness of one’s prayer requests left on the by God. In our day and age, the limitations combined with a painful community’s website. married state requires heroic virtues experience of the seductiveness of to be lived in perfection. Thank God modern society makes religious life How many young women, weary of for the courageous spouses and a wise option. Fallen men and hoping for a trustworthy partner, parents who give us such an women are more likely to save their will reluctantly slip in their handbag example of fidelity and dedication. immortal souls in a community the pills they should never had Matrimony and religious life are not mandated by the Church for that bought in the first place on their way in concurrence with each other, but explicit purpose. If such was the to that party, feeling that ‘there mutually beneficial. Together they case in the bygone days of seems to be no other way to get a flourish – or deteriorate. But Christendom, how much more man’s attention’. Let them fly to a religious life is a more radical favourable is religious life in our good convent instead. There, their surrender to God. It is like stepping times of institutionalised vice and of faces adorned with comely wimple hand-free into eternity even before state-of-the-art temptations! and veil, their hearts supported judgement. When we die, we will through sisterly friendship and bring nothing with us but our good How many lonely young men, enthused with holy purity, they will works and our merits. We will have sitting on their beds late at night, strive under the constant protection nothing to present God with but His wish they had the courage not to of the manliest of friends, the Lord very grace, inasmuch as we will visit certain websites on their Jesus for Whom every trusting soul have welcomed it while on earth. smartphones… Let these youngsters

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Dowry – Catholic periodical by the FSSP in Great Britain & Ireland (N°43, Autumn 2019) is unique: ‘One is my dove, my precedence, and answering the call in their lives will have been an perfect one’ (Canticle 6:8). must be postponed as long as enrichment benefitting them and the necessary. Furthermore, acquiring wider Church. On the opposite front, Weighing pros and cons some life experience is useful in one cannot try marriage, since the answering the call with less naivety commitment lasts as long as one’s What if one fails though? What if and, once professed, to be protected spouse lives. People in the world one enters a religious community against regrets born of an idealised can join third-orders whereby they and sooner or later leaves it? Will it perception of life in the world. share in the spirituality and in some not be a waste of time? Will not privileges of religious orders as people in the world laugh at such On the other hand, a religious tertiaries or oblates.2 But this option misfits, who thought themselves calling (or a call to the priesthood) is will benefit only those who find that holier until, having hit the ceiling of a grace from God, both precious and they must remain in the world after their lofty dreams, they come down fragile. Using the arguments listed having completed due discernment. to earthly reality? above as excuses to cover up one’s selfishness, ambition or cowardice Assuredly, a traditional Catholic These concerns are valid. Prudence would be gravely sinful. In addition, view is that each and every is needed, especially as regards the our fallen condition and the adolescent and young adult should completion of studies before persuasive malice of modern society earnestly and over a period of time applying to a noviciate – if a must be countered through a greater ponder before God with the help of genuinely Catholic university trust and generosity when a trusted priest whether they should chaplaincy is available. The advice considering a possible call. As to enter Holy Orders or religious life. of parents must be also considered being mocked as misfits: I The freer from sentimental out of the piety owed to them. personally know of several men and attachment one is at the time of However, parents have a duty to women who left their communities discernment (and from vice even support vocations to consecrated life while still on formation and are now more so), the more reliably one will among their children and should fulfilled as spouses and parents, detect God’s response. welcome it as a grace from God for while lending their spiritual their entire family. If a child is the experience to contribute actively to Some of the bitter consequences of only support left on earth to his the life of their local parish or the current sexual abuse crisis might parents in their old age or disability, diocese. Provided they left for the have a cleansing effect by God’s then the care of them takes right reasons, the discernment stage permission. One of them is fewer

(Photos previous pages: Newly built abbey of the Benedictines of Gower in Missouri;

FSSP seminarians, Wigratzbad.

Left: photo by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash.)

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Dowry – Catholic periodical by the FSSP in Great Britain & Ireland (N°43, Autumn 2019) candidates wrongly (Photos double page: applying for the sake Alice in Wonderland by of prestige and Marjorie Torrey; Crypt of La Tourette status. On the Dominican Convent, contrary, becoming a completed in 1961 by religious or a priest Le Corbusier; nowadays supposes Sister of Providence N. that one will bear R. during a liturgy some of the installing her as a opprobrium incurred member of her order’s General Council in by other consecrated 2006.) people for their crimes. This is not without redemptive merit, after the most of whom are example of the generally near Saviour who, now make attractive spa-hotels retiring age. How did it come to although innocent, was reviled and while some of the few young this? died for the sins of all men. religious orders lack facilities. The However, those in civil society who vast amounts of money generated by All orders have fallen victim of the truly thirst after justice will not the sale of this real estate patrimony aggiornamento which, sixty years despise a priest or religious for the to developers is immediately spent ago, was sold to the Bride of Christ sake of his habit, but rather will to cover the cost of healthcare for as a rejuvenating unguent. The expect him or her to be faithful to the elderly members of the famous works of fiction by Anglican the worthy purpose of his or her community (often the majority); or clergymen Jonathan Swift and consecrated state. even to pay the huge fines incurred Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis

by those convicted of crimes. The Carroll) can help us illustrate this Where to apply near us? buildings still in religious use have spiritual metamorphosis. From the

often very few monks or sisters left, 1960s onward, many a religious How to answer a call sister felt as if having to religious life in swallowed Alice in post-Christian Britain Wonderland’s ‘Eat though, since most Me’ cake. We can religious orders are in picture a hypothetical catastrophic decline ‘Abbess Alice’ with few remaining subsequently growing members below out of proportion with seventy years of age? her religious Sadly this is part of the environment. Like crisis which has been Carroll’s heroin, she affecting the Church suddenly feels over the past sixty constrained by the years. There are much rule, the cloister and fewer monasteries and customs of her order as convents than in the if they had shrunk 1950s. Every month, around her soul. The some close down. change in her habit Their handsome expresses this, as its architectures and sleeves withdraw from spacious grounds, knuckles to elbows, its funded in ages of faith hem from heels to with the widow’s mite, below knee and its veil

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many others stayed on with heroic obedience and hope. Noticing the painful contradictions with their founders’ intuitions and the approved customs of their orders, these religious either doubted or opposed the new ways, but remained in any case. Why did they not leave? Because they knew that religious life is essential to the Church and because they trusted that God would make them bear fruit according to His holy will. Thus, they were stripped of the cherished traditions which had attracted them in the first place to this order or that convent, and which had shaped their calling and guided their response for the love of God and neighbour. from shoulders to nape; until wiped out once by the Saxons, later Not a few underwent this process in civilian clothes replace it entirely. by the Danes, then by the imitation of the Saviour’s stripping This quick evolution simultaneously Protestants. But this time, we did it of His garments. According to affects her imaginary counterpart to ourselves. We thought we knew tradition, Our Lady had spun with ‘Prior Gulliver’ whom we now better how to stay alive and even her virginal hands the seamless tunic observe waking up in his cell one how to grow: instead, oblivious of for her Son Jesus. After Our Lord’s morning as Swift’s character in the treasures we discarded, now we example, these religious found Lilliput, strongly tied down with die. themselves exposed to the contempt invisible strings, that is, the religious of the world and soon nailed to the observances which in his eyes White martyrdom Cross in spirit. In communities modernity turns into contemptible whose raison d’être was divine hindrances. Like in Swift’s tale, Over the past decades, while scores worship, they had to undergo the ‘Prior Gulliver’ eventually manages of thousands of contemplative and impoverishing of the liturgy, soon to break his bonds, emerging a ‘free’ apostolic religious were leaving disfigured through trite innovations man. He ends up either deserting his their monasteries and convents, or even disgraceful improvisations. monastery or ‘modernising’ it, that is, pruning and purging his monastic life frame from its ‘medieval accretions’.

Many saintly founders of once flourishing communities would today have difficulty recognising the constitutions, habit, horarium, liturgy, enclosure, diet and curriculum they had prescribed under divine inspiration with the Holy See’s subsequent approval. If the same founders knocked at the door, not all their sons and daughters would recognise, welcome and follow them. Here in Britain, religious life was nearly

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(Photos double page: An old Trappist lay brother is given Holy Communion in the modern way; young members of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer at Golgotha Monastery Island in Papa Stronsay, Scotland in 2018.)

However, such communities are as yet comparatively few. If then one wishes to be formed traditionally, and to worship according to the traditional Roman liturgy in full canonical communion with the Church, the options are even fewer in this country. Those who like to Most priest religious stopped abandon you’. Please God, as they have habitually the traditional offering individually the Holy closed their weary eyes they heard liturgy can apply for the Marian Sacrifice of the Mass, while non- His voice again: ‘Well done, good Franciscan Friars and Sisters in priests were bullied through and faithful servant... enter thou into Gosport, the Institute of Christ the liturgical anarchy. Enclosed nuns in the joy of thy Lord’ (Mt 25:20) – of King (for French-speakers), or the particular were at the mercy of Him whose Sacred Heart was also Benedictines of Silverstream Priory whichever celebrant would be pierced for the sins of all men. They in Ireland. Men who want simply the assigned to them, and were often were in good company if they traditional Latin liturgy can join the subjected to his liturgical abuses and suffered with Our Lady’s Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer in doctrinal whims – a bitter paradox Immaculate Heart, with her whose Scotland, or the Priestly Fraternity for an age claiming to free up white martyrdom co-redeemed the of St Peter (candidates for both Catholic women from ‘clerical world. Secular clergy who offered communities are formed at the same oppression’. Simultaneously, within up similar trials endured in the English-speaking seminary in orders whose charism was context of their seminaries, parishes, Denton, Nebraska). Women can join intellectual more than liturgical, deaneries and dioceses are included the Carmels of Lanherne in orthodox members were subjected to in our gratitude. The sacrifices of so Cornwall; or of Birkenhead the no less painful process of many such religious, nuns, (Liverpool) where the traditional doctrinal deformation. Those who seminarians, priests and even Latin Mass if now offered daily. would not promote modern bishops constitute a treasury of Less than three hours east from ambiguities and errors would be merits stored up in God’s mercy for London outside Saint-Omer, the intimidated, ridiculed, pushed aside, the new generation to use. dying Benedictine abbey of St Paul- and forbidden to publish and to de-Wisques was saved from closure teach. The traditional few six years ago when traditional monks from Fontgombault took it As the years went by, these pitiable In various countries from the 1970s over (cf Dowry N°21, Spring 2014). religious (whether contemplative or onwards, notably in France, other Could not this option be tried in apostolic) must have offered up their religious were inspired to found England before it is too late for our silent and unnoticed sufferings for distinct communities where the dear Benedictine monasteries? the welfare of the Church and the time-proofed traditions of the glory of God. Many died of sadness, Church would be upheld. To them This gives hope, but it still is heartbroken, clinging in bitter as well the younger generations are insufficient, especially to satisfy desolation to the promise they had indebted. With patience, humility apostolic vocations. What if a once received as novices, long and perseverance, they demonstrated traditionally-minded Catholic in before, when the One calling them that the Roman traditions could still Britain aspires to join a teaching or to the religious state had whispered be followed in communion with the nursing order such as the Salesians to their young souls: ‘Never will I Church and for the benefit of souls.

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Dowry – Catholic periodical by the FSSP in Great Britain & Ireland (N°43, Autumn 2019) or the Daughters of Charity of Saint consecrated people with that is timely for them to beg God for a Vincent de Paul, or a preaching one distinctive status, they would no revival of religious life here in such as the Jesuits and the doubt have grown into great Britain. It is inspiring to learn the Dominicans? Over the years, I have spiritual assets to their communities history of religious expansion in our also encountered a certain number and to the Church, as the earlier country. It is pious to ask God that of young men who were not called history of religious communities He may deign to make use of one, by God to become priests but who amply demonstrates. however wanting in skills and would have strived as lay brothers if virtues, to restore religious life only that option had existed at the The time to found has come throughout the land. time. It was suppressed in most religious communities since the Such a lack of options compared Walk in their footsteps 1970s through a misguided sense of with the needs of a Catholic equality claiming that ‘everybody population under growing This will not sound like wishful had to be priests’ or choir nuns. In ideological pressure suggests a thinking if one only considers effect, such upgrading denied the possibility that can no longer be historical precedents in the life of distinctiveness of a lay religious ruled out. Namely, the young the Church in this country: vocation. Paradoxically, this generation may be called to found ‘democratic’ change forbade its own orders, or re-found or import  In 305, the young Protomartyr religious life for all such young men some. Extreme caution is needed of England St Alban gave up his (and women). They live the best here against pride, rashness, life to allow a missionary priest they can while remaining in the inexperience and illusions. God is to continue the work of world, although deprived of the the one who calls to religious life, evangelisation. specific frame of sanctification and also the one who can raise  In 563, St Columba of Ireland which they aspired to. This is unfair founders and foundresses in a given founded a monastery on the on them and detrimental to society. time and country. But when devout western Scottish island of Iona. Had they been allowed to become Catholics look at the urgent needs, it  The Roman monk St Augustine

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of Canterbury landed in Kent in York – ‘the most learned man  In 1184, the Knight Templars’ 597, and monasteries became anywhere to be found’ – became headquarters was established in established throughout England, the main advisor to Emperor London, their round church still notably in Lindisfarne with the Charlemagne, fostering the standing between Fleet Street saintly bishops and monks Carolingian renaissance across and the River Thames (cf Aidan and Cuthbert. Europe. picture below).  In 660, martyrdom-survivor St  Arrived in 1077 soon after the  At Aylesford Carmelite Priory Winifred was abbess in Wales; Conquest, the Order of Cluny in Kent in 1251, St Simon in 664 St Hilda, abbess of the was running twenty-four Stock, General of his order, double monastery of Whitby, monasteries in England 58 years received the Brown Scapular hosted a Synod decisive for later. from Our Lady. English Catholicism; while in  St Stephen Harding, in the 12th  In the same 13th century, the 673 St Etheldreda founded a century, co-founded the mendicant orders founded by St double monastery at Ely. Cistercian order which spread Dominic and by St Francis  At the monastery of Jarrow in fantastically with one hundred started in England. Our streets 731, St Bede the Venerable houses founded within his and monuments still bear the completed his Ecclesiastical lifetime, the first in England at names of Blackfriars History of the English People. Waverley, Surrey (1128). The (Dominicans), Whitefriars  English monks spread the faith Premonstratensians followed, (Carmelites), Greyfriars far outside England, to mention with up to thirty houses across (Franciscans) and Austin Friars here only the 8th century. St England. (Augustinians). Willibrord (†739) and St  In 1181 St Hugh of Lincoln Boniface (†754) evangelised became Prior of the first And when all seemed lost The Netherland and Germany. Carthusian monastery founded In 782, the monk Alcuin of in England. In the sixteenth century, once the

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Church had been wiped out from was founded in Rome around British land through the tyranny of a 1552 by St Philip Neri, and lustful monarch supported by the imported into England by Bl. greed of his entourage, everything John-Henry Newman who seemed lost from a human founded the first Oratorian perspective. And yet, God in His congregation in Birmingham in mercy called into action amazing 1848, followed the following initiatives of apostolic zeal, turning year by a second house in the blood of his religious martyrs London; now also in Oxford, into an ink of fire to write some of Manchester, York, the most memorable pages of Bournemouth, Cardiff… English history, sowing the seeds of  For the Catholic education of the rebirth granted to the modern boys, schools were founded by era. Benedictine monks as well as by the Salesians of Don Bosco, De  From the 16th century onwards, la Salle Brothers and more. during the Protestant revolt and  In 1883, French Carthusians in subsequent persecution of the  In the North West for instance, exile founded the largest Church, the newly founded Bl. Dominic Barberi was Charterhouse in the world in Jesuits laboured for Christ assisted by Elizabeth Prout, later Parkminster, West Sussex. In across this land: notably Ss Mother Mary Joseph, the 1903, the Tyburn Nuns arrived Edmund Campion, Robert foundress of the Sisters of the in London, also in exile from Southwell, John Ogilvie; Fr Cross and Passion (picture top). France, followed by many John Gerard, and many other th French religious.  Further in the 19 century, the scholars, martyrs and educators.  Oratorians arrived. The Oratory From 1904 until her death in Older orders also gave many 1942, Mother Mary of Jesus, a martyrs and confessors. French Carmelite née Madeleine  In the 19th century, when the Dupont (picture bottom), Catholic faith ceased to be founded no less than thirty-three persecuted, female religious Carmels across England – more communities appeared and than St Teresa of Avila herself. multiplied, taking care of  In 1911, Blessed Mother children, of the poor, of the sick, Elisabeth Hesselblad founded in and of the elderly. Let us list England a new branch of the just a few of them: Institute of Bridgettine order. the Blessed Virgin Mary,  More recently, convents of Canonesses of the Holy Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Sepulchre, Franciscans Charity spread, taking care of Tertiaries, Poor Clares, the homeless. In London the Augustinians (Austin Dames), Sisters readily attended the Carmelites, Cistercians, traditional Mass when offered Visitation Nuns, Faithful for them. Companions of Jesus, Ursulines  Finally, in the year of the Lord of Jesus, Presentation Nuns, 2019, with trembling and Sisters of Mercy, Good confident joy, you knocked at Shepherd Sisters, Sacred Heart the door of… Nuns, Providence (Rosminians), Notre Dame de Namur, Infant Mystic Monks vs. Starbucks Jesus, Holy Child Jesus, Charity of St Paul, Franciscans of Once on the wall of a retreat centre Immaculate Conception… – and was displayed a large framed map of four times more! religious houses across medieval

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Britain. Literally everywhere one could see the symbols for monasteries, abbeys, priories, nunneries, commanderies etc. Most of them would have had attached to them a school, a hostelry for pilgrims or a hospital for the sick and poor. They were depicted on the map in various sizes and colours according to the religious order they belonged to: Cluniacs, Dominicans, Franciscans, Carmelites, Templars, Carthusians, Premonstratensians, etc. They shone as so many stars, an amazing constellation of in Wyoming, USA. What now? We time-proofed traditions, customs and powerhouses of consecration to God cannot revert to the medieval map of virtues of Catholicism. and of service to neighbours (cf map religious Britain. Can we catholicise right). How many of those still stand the Starbucks Coffee map instead? Through the mercy of God and the as houses of Catholic prayer and Yes we can. By God’s grace: reduce prayers of many, this may well have charity? What have we replaced coffee; drop the bucks; reach for the started already. As we write, three them with? Supermarkets? stars. more young men from England and Cinemas? A modern equivalent Northern Ireland have begun would be the map of coffee shops, Starting near you formation to the sacred priesthood at spreading across the UK quicker our international seminary in than the Cistercian abbeys of old: Dear younger friends in particular, America. Over the past month, five light blue for Caffè Nero, dark blue the holy traditions of the Church are young women in England, for Costa, light green for Greggs, time-proof means of sanctification separately, shared with us their dark green for Pret A Manger, red and of configuration to Christ. Your resolution to enter religious life very for Wild Bin Café and pink for generation has the wonderful soon, while a sixth one just began Starbucks Coffee (cf map above). privilege of widening the use of her postulancy. Simultaneously, not What we do not have yet in England these holy traditions across the far from us, three more young men is the Mystic Monk Coffee, a brand country. You are the ones who will are about to start life in common to successfully started by the newly- found, re-found, restore religious discern the will of God. And surely founded traditional Carmelite friars life or innovate according to the there are many more young people

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Dowry – Catholic periodical by the FSSP in Great Britain & Ireland (N°43, Autumn 2019) elsewhere in Britain preparing for need consecrated men and women edification of worshippers. Now, such wonderful commitments; and who will reach out to children and with Islam and aggressive even more of them wishing for it, families and teach natural law and secularism on a combined rise, we who only wait for a signal. divine law. Now, when so many need learned and fearless religious Something is happening. Now is the young adults are undermined in their to preach redemption through Jesus signal. Reach out. Do not remain God-given sexual identity, we need the only Saviour, for the love of the isolated. Contact us. We will assist consecrated celibates who will care triune God. you. The time has come for the specially for them. Now, with an younger generation to enter the lists ever-accelerating consumption and Conclusion of consecrated life. information frenzy, we need contemplatives offering to souls the Dear young friends, do not nibble at Now, in post-Christian Britain, now, balm of silence and stillness. Now, life in Christ: embrace it fully. Dive we need you to revive the failing with abortion hailed as a right and into grace. Enter the lists. For too orders. Read their constitutions and baby parts on auction, we need new long you have kept hiding in the history. Learn the life of their congregations trained specifically wood: now step onto the field. founders and ask for their for pro-life work and for bio-ethical Become a monk. For too long you intercession. Pray for their ageing study. Now, with euthanasia have sat on the fence: now fend off members who meritoriously prowling about the elderly and those for Christ and souls. Become a persevered during the on-going gravely ill, and soon the disabled as priest. For too long you have hunted crisis. We are indebted to them. once under Nazi Rule, we need short-lived fun: now invest all in doctor and nurse religious to protect everlasting joy. Become a nun. New needs call for new orders their frailty. Now, with womanhood assassinated through pornography, Leave the world behind, to better If it is God’s will, like in earlier contraception and feminism, we lead it to Christ. Step into eternity, crises of the Church, you will import need female religious embodying embracing Christ’s own way of life, or start new orders. On the one the Marian splendour of true poor, chaste and obedient. Be hand, human nature remains fallen womanhood, in fruitful consecration passionate for the honour of God and does not change; neither does after Our Lady’s example. Now, and the salvation of the souls He God’s response, namely, grace. On with shrinking parishes, ageing redeemed through His Blood. In the other hand, modernity brings congregations and dismal liturgies, humble petition to God Almighty, new challenges, calling for inventive we need expert clerics to display the muster the formidable power of solutions. Now, with Catholic sacred mysteries on a full liturgical intercession of the thousands of education practically forbidden, we scale to the glory of God and the saintly British monks, friars, nuns,

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sisters and priests along the Caraman, Family Publications, 2006 Ampleforth and its origins, edited by seventeen centuries of British (cf article in Dowry No 42). Abbot Justin McCann and Dom Christianity! None of them was born The Last Abbot, by A. F. Webling, Columba Cary-Elwes, London: a saint. Like you they felt Edmund Ward, Leicester, 1944. A Burnes Oates & Washbourne, 1952. inadequate to the task. But they poignant dramatised narrative on the trusted in God, like you should. Ask The French Exiled Clergy in the end of the great Abbey of St them. They will obtain for you British Isles after 1789, by Dom Edmunds in Bury Saint Edmunds metamorphoses more wondrous than Dominic Aidan Bellenger OSB, under Henry VIII. those mentioned earlier in Swift and Downside Abbey, Bath, England, Carroll’s fictions: by God’s grace, Edmund Campion: Jesuit and 1986. sitting ducks will become soaring Martyr, by Evelyn Waugh, 1935. Fr Luigi Gentili and his Mission doves and fat calves will be turned A Benedictine Martyr in England, 1801-1848, by Denis Gwynn, into leaping deer: ‘As the hart Dom John Roberts OSB, by Dom Dublin, Clonmore and Reynolds, panteth after the fountains of water; Bede Camm, OSB, London: Bliss, 1951. On the Rosminians in so my soul panteth after thee, O Sands & Co, 1897. England. God!’ (Ps 42:21). Father Dominic Barberi, by Denis Life is short and judgment nigh: Gwynn, Kessinger Publishing, begin today. ‘O God, better is one 2010. An inspiring account of the day in Thy courts above thousands. zeal for England of the saint who How lovely are thy tabernacles, O received John-Henry Newman into Lord of hosts! my soul longeth and the Church. fainteth for the courts of the Lord.’ A Job in Jeopardy, Elizabeth And may Our Lord and Our Lady, Prout, Foundress of the Sisters of and the countless saints from the Cross & Passion, by Sister Britain and Ireland assist you in Barbara Sexton, C.P., Cross & answering the call, now. □ Passion Communications, Salford, 2010. The perseverance of a young English convert who founded the We heartily recommend as female branch of the Passionists in further reading among many England. other good books: In the Silence of Mary, The The Saga of Citeaux, First Epoch: biography of the life and work of Three Religious Rebels: The Mother Mary of Jesus, Notting Hill Forefathers of the Trappists. Carmel, London, 1964. The life of Excellently dramatised by Fr. Mary the French Carmelite who founded Raymond Flanagan, O.C.S.O., this Memoirs of missionary priests, as 33 Carmels throughout Britain book illuminates the lives of St. well secular as regular, and of other between the years 1907 and 1938. Robert, St. Alberic and St. Stephen Catholics, of both sexes, that have Harding, who taught the first suffered death in England, on Cistercians how to be “gallant to religious accounts, from the year of 1 Rules for Thinking with the Church, God” and make “no compromises.” our Lord 1577, to 1684 / gathered, #4. partly from the printed accounts of Life of St Thomas À Becket, by Mrs 2 Communities whose members do not Hope, London: Burns & Oates, their lives and sufferings, published take the three vows are not religious in a 1868. by cotemporary authors, in divers canonical sense, neither are the languages, and partly from associations of faithful attached to them. However, joining such associations is The Angel of Syon, the Life and manuscript relations, kept in the very beneficial spiritually, e.g. the Martyrdom of Bl. Richard Reynolds, archives and records of the English Confraternity of Saint Peter, whose Bridgettine Monk, by Dom Adam colleges and convents abroad, and 6,600 members worldwide pray for Hamilton OSB, Sands & Co, 1905. oftentimes penned by eye-witnesses priestly vocations and ministry:

John Gerard, autobiography of an of their death, by Richard Challoner, (www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity- Elizabethan, translated by Philip London, 1742. of-saint-peter/).

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By Stefano Mazzeo, an EWTN director, producer and scriptwriter

hroughout the ages, the At EWTN we are attempting to from the Latin Mass Society’s shop Catholic Church has utilised redress the balance and make a on line. the best of the arts and series of docudramas and films that T A call for Auditions - The Message cutting edge technology to promote give an accurate picture of Church the gospel of Jesus Christ. The great history. This series of films is called of Lourdes cathedrals and churches were built ‘The Christendom project.’ So far For our The Message of Fatima to house the single most important we have made films on the History production we shot some clips for event in the lives of Christians, the of the Catholic Church in Wales, the First Saturdays Devotions Holy Mass. The Church also The Crusades, The Inquisition and sequence at St Mary’s Warrington, employed the greatest artists to we are now working on an eleven- many thanks to Fr de Malleray for produce art depicting scenes from part series on The "Reformation". all his help with our productions so the bible and lives of the saints, Note the quotes, as we do not think far. We shot this series both while Gregorian chant and in Fatima and in England polyphony swelled the and also in a London people’s hearts and helped studio. Our Lady of Fatima them raise their souls to was played by a young God in worship. The English Catholic actress, as monasteries were spiritual was Sr Lucia and the actor and economic powerhouses for Angel of Peace, also a of what was to become Catholic young man from known as Christendom. England. We hope to do They provided care for the same thing for our The sick, orphans and widows; Message of Lourdes and were at the forefront of production, to be filmed in the advances in science, Lourdes and Britain next engineering and food year. production. Therefore, if there are any Therefore it was the Catholic it was a true reformation but a aspiring actors or actresses among revolution. Church that was the springboard and the traditional Catholic world and basis for Western civilisation, the I do not own a television set myself, would like to audition for a part in dominant culture of today’s world, nor do I watch live streaming, for to our next production The Message of not because we are better than any do so would mean I would need to Lourdes which we hope to film next other people, but because fund the abortion-supporting and year, probably in and around Christendom was based on the natural-family-destroying TV Lourdes but also in Britain, we’d teachings of Jesus Christ and His corporations; in addition, you never like to hear from you. For the lead Church. And yet, to listen to the know what is going to pop up on the roles of St Bernadette and Our Lady modern media, one would think the screen next. I am sure all good of Lourdes etc., they would need opposite was the case as Church traditional parents who read Dowry acting experience and be history is often painted in the do not need reminding that the professional or semi-professionals, darkest way. Regrettably, the internet is extremely toxic, or at least have drama training; the Catholic Church for the last century especially for children. However, for same applies to the supporting has failed to deploy the most those of you who do not have a TV actors. We hope to audition early powerful form of the media at its but have controlled use of a next spring (2020). Also, we are disposal, namely, film and computer you can buy our DVD's ever in need of film crew members. television. from EWTN’s religious catalogue or Contact: [email protected]. □

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Compiled by Anne Maria Drury

n recent times, there has been of his death, 16th August, he had had a complete nervous breakdown much interest in WWI hero Fr worked in the front line, and even in after a fire in the Seminary and he I William Doyle,3 an Irish front of that line, and appeared to did not enjoy good health generally. Military Chaplain. Fr Doyle was know no fatigue, he never knew fear. However, his devotion to Christ was highly regarded by his Protestant He was killed by a shell towards the so intense, along with his many commanders and fellow officers, close of the day, and was buried on daily sacrifices, that God rewarded both for his dedication to duty and the Frezenberg Ridge… He was his efforts with great courage and immense courage on the battlefield. recommended for the Victoria Cross fortitude on the battlefield. Whilst Fr He won the Military Cross Doyle would have done and was also commended for everything possible to save the Victoria Cross. the lives of his soldiers, as a priest his main concern William Joseph Gabriel would have been to provide Doyle was born in Dalkey, a spiritual nourishment to suburb of Dublin in Ireland, them and to administer the on March 3, 1873. He was Last Rites to the dying. This the youngest of seven is the most important thing children. He entered the for a Catholic and gives Jesuit Novitiate at the age of them great comfort as they 18. Soon after his ordination draw their last breath. This in 1907, his superiors duty he carried out to an appointed him on the outstanding degree and, on mission staff for five years. many occasions, putting his He was finally appointed own life at risk at the same during World War I chaplain time. th of the 16 Irish Division, Let us now read Fr Doyle’s serving with several own account on the morning different regiments. Having st by his Commanding Officer, by his of 1 August 1917: fulfilled his priestly duties in an Brigadier, and by myself. Superior ‘Morning brought a leaden sky, outstanding fashion for almost two Authority, however, has not granted more rain, and no breakfast! Our years, he was killed in the Battle of it, and as no other posthumous cook with the rations had got lost Ypres on August 16, 1917, ‘having reward is given, his name will, I during the night, so there was run all day hither and thither over believe, be mentioned in the nothing for it but to tighten one’s the battlefield like an angel of Commander-in-Chief's Despatch… I belt… But He Who feeds the birds mercy.’ This good shepherd truly can say without boasting that this is of the air did not forget us, and by gave his life for his sheep. a Division of brave men; and even mid-day we were sitting down General Hickie wrote to a friend on among these, Fr. Doyle stood out.’ before a steaming tin of tea, bully 18th November 1917 that ‘Fr. Doyle beef and biscuits, a banquet fit to set Although General Hickie and many was one of the best priests I have before an emperor after nearly others said that Fr Doyle never ever met, and one of the bravest men twenty-four hours fast. Not for a seemed to know fear, nor show it to who have fought or worked out here. moment during the whole of the day those around him; he did actually He did his duty, and more than his did the merciless rain cease. The speak of his fears in his memoirs. duty, most nobly, and has left a men, soaked to the skin and beyond Many times he ‘trembled with fear’ memory and a name behind him that it, were standing up to their knees in as the German shells landed around will never be forgotten. On the day a river of mud and water, and like him. Also, in his early life he had ourselves were unable to get any hot 20

Dowry – Catholic periodical by the FSSP in Great Britain & Ireland (N°43, Autumn 2019) food till the afternoon. Our only the poor fellow could do to show his “No one has been yet appointed to consolation was that our trenches gratitude that he had not been left to my place, and Fr. Doyle has done were not shelled and we had no die alone and that he would have the double work. So unpleasant were the casualties. Someone must have had consolation of receiving the Last conditions that the men had to be compassion on our plight, for when Sacraments before he went to God. relieved frequently. Fr. Doyle had night fell a new brigade came in to Sitting a little way off I saw a no one to relieve him and so he relieve us, much to our surprise and hideous bleeding object, a man with stuck to the mud and the shells, the joy. Back to the camp we had left his face smashed by a shell, with gas and the terror. Day after day he the previous night, one of the one if not both eyes torn out. He stuck it out. hardest marches I ever put in, but raised his head as I spoke. ‘Is that cheered at the thought of a rest. the priest? Thank God, I am all right “I met the Adjutant of one of my Once again we got through Ypres now.’ I took his blood-covered two battalions, who previously had without a shell, though they fell hands in mine as I searched his face only known Fr. Doyle by sight. His before and after our first greeting to me was: ‘Little Fr. passing; good luck was on our side for once.’

Fr Doyle wrote this last account on 10th August 1917, the very week of his death, as he went about his priestly duties among the Irish Soldiers: “A sad morning as casualties were heavy and many men came in dreadfully wounded. One man was the bravest I ever met. He was in dreadful agony, for both legs had been blown off at the knee but never a complaint fell from his lips, even while they dressed his wounds, for some whole spot on which to Doyle, they all call him that more in and he tried to make light of his anoint him. I think I know better affection than anything else, injuries. ‘Thank God, Father, he now why Pilate said of Jesus, deserves the V.C. more than any said, I am able to stick it out to the ‘Behold the Man’ when he showed man that ever wore it. We cannot get end.’ The Extreme Unction, as I our Lord to the people after His him away from the line while the have noticed time and again, eased scourging.” men are there, he is with his own his bodily pain. ‘I am much better and he is with us. The men couldn’t An excerpt from Prof O’Rahilly’s now and easier, God bless you,’ he stick it half so well if he weren’t book on Fr Doyle: said, as I left him to attend a dying there. If we give him an orderly, he sends the man back, he wears no tin man. He opened his eyes as I knelt “Fr. Doyle is a marvel. You may beside him: ‘Ah! Fr. Doyle, Fr. talk of heroes and saints, they are hat, and he is always so cheery.’ Doyle,’ he whispered faintly, and hardly in it! I went back the other “Another officer, also a Protestant, then motioned me to bend lower as day to see the old Dubs, as I heard said: ‘Fr. Doyle never rests. Night if he had some message to give. As I they were having, we’ll say, a taste and day he is with us. He finds a did so, he put his two arms round of the War. dying or dead man, does all, comes my neck and kissed me. It was all

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Compiled by Fr Konrad Loewenstein, FSSP from reports by local parishioners

n Reading and Warrington, our After reading the lurid headlines of stations we also pray for the Holy main apostolates in England, priestly scandals over the past few Father’s intentions and then pray a we offer a number of activities years, it would be easy to become decade of the Holy Rosary and the Ito the faithful, liturgical, apostolic disillusioned in our Faith because of FSSP Confraternity Prayer. The and devotional: choirs, pro- the grave sins of a few, and the Stations are prayed on Monday and life groups, youth groups, men’s spiritual tepidity of others, in the Friday after the mid-day Mass.” groups, women’s groups (taking the clergy. Yet that is the last thing we form of a mothers’ group in should do! Perhaps the fallen priests The Daily Rosary Warrington), daily Rosary, Stations need our prayers the most, and so it “I would never have imagined that of the Cross and a monthly Divine is our duty to pray for their in my 80th year as a retired permanent Deacon from the Shrewsbury Diocese, I would be leading the devotions of the Rosary, Angelus and seasonal anthems to Our Lady prior to Mass and also a Eucharistic Rosary on a Saturday morning. This has proved to be spiritually beneficial and a remarkable ‘curtain raiser’ to the celebration of Holy Mass – the silence on Saturday after the devotions and during exposition of the Blessed Sacrament prior to Benediction is deep and profound as if it were a loving embrace from Our Blessed Lord Himself! The Rosary devotions are linked to the appropriate litanies of Our Lady, St. Joseph and the Sacred Heart; also the Fatima Prayers. The Mysteries Mercy group (at Warrington). In conversion. The many good holy are introduced in a variety of ways, this article we present comments priests need our prayer too; and the either quotes from Sacred Scripture from participants in these world needs more holy priests. or a simple spiritual intention. devotions, expressing that Catholic For these intentions we at St. Singing has now taken a place in the spirituality which both flows from, Mary’s have decided to make the devotions, singing the Latin Gloria, and corresponds to, that of the Holy Stations of the Cross twice a week. a couple of Ave Maria’s and, during Mass. I believe we can offer a ‘widow’s exposition, ‘O Sacrament most mite’ that we hope makes a spiritual Holy’. The Stations of the Cross for difference for the Church: to ask It seems to me that this treasury of Priests God for graces to help her priests to prayer in the Catholic Church unites “Our Lord Jesus once said, ‘Strike grow in holiness and for her young the People of God in their distinctive the shepherd, and the sheep of the men to discern better if God is identity in their parish life and flock will be scattered.’ And thus calling them to the priesthood. especially in their relationship with Satan hates priests and seeks to We conclude each station with the Our Blessed Lady in her Shrine of topple them: Corruptio optimi ‘eternal rest’ petition for the souls Warrington.” pessima. of priests in Purgatory. After the

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The Chaplet of Divine Mercy Men of St Joseph is a response to the Faith. It’s exactly what I was The Chaplet is prayed at St Mary’s growing need for Catholic men to looking for!” on the second Tuesday of each discover their divinely appointed The Warrington Men’s Group (cf month after Mass. It opens with a masculine roles. Through the picture above) begins at 7pm every reading from St. Faustina’s Diary example of St Joseph and through Wednesday evening with Low Mass, which reveals her intimate the strength that comes from after which there is time for relationship with Our Blessed brotherhood, men will restore their thanksgiving or confraternal Saviour. We then recite the Our hope, refresh their faith and set exchange and snack. A talk by one Father, Hail Mary, and Apostles’ about the task of rebuilding the of the clergy follows at 8pm with an Creed and then continue with the family, the parish and the opportunity for questions. At singing of the petitionary prayers as community; they will convert 9.15pm the evening is concluded given to Saint Faustina on the themselves to the love of the with a litany and prayers to St. Rosary beads used for the five Fatherly Heart of God. We meet Joseph, and sung Compline. The Mysteries. weekly in small groups throughout group has proved successful, and we There then follows a concluding the country for learning to be normally have at least 20 men prayer and the Litany of Divine faithful to the Catholic Church in the attending (including some non- Mercy. Within the context of the fellowship of good and like-minded Catholics), with age ranging from 20 revelations by Our Lord of the men. This has changed my life in to 80. Some travel an hour to attend, extent of His Divine Mercy many many ways. I have become a better after a busy days’ work. It clearly graces are promised through the husband, a better father, a better fulfils that need which in the past recitation of the Chaplet, especially friend, and a better Catholic. I would was provided by the lay in the presence of the dying. encourage all men of faith to align confraternities, widely spread out in The Chaplet stands alone as a prayer their hearts with that of St Joseph the Catholic world. for mercy from Our Heavenly Father and join a local group today. For based on the redemptive merits of more information please visit The Mothers’ Prayer Group Our Divine Saviour. We trust that at http://www.menofstjoseph.uk/.” “The ‘Mothers’ Prayer Group’ was the Shrine this prayer is our small “As a convert of some ten years, I started in England in November contribution for ‘the atonement of have been searching for ways to 1995, and has spread rapidly so that our sins and those of the whole learn more about our Catholic there are now thousands of groups world’.” Faith. The men of St Joseph group around the world. The group started came at a good time and I feel when two Catholic grandmothers, St Joseph’s Men’s Group blessed to be a part of it. The Veronica and her sister-in-law “Proverbs 27:17 says, ‘Iron wonderful, insightful teachings by Sandra, felt led by the Lord to start a sharpens iron, and one man our priests and the great fellowship Mothers’ Prayer Group, and to pray sharpens another.’ have enriched and deepened my in a special way for their children.

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They felt that they should bring all Warrington, followed by questions sent us words of support.” the pain and the worries they have and answers. Weather allowing, we for their children to Him and to trust readily go out for a trek together. Pro-life activity in His words, ‘Ask and you will After the walk, we have a picnic “Our pro-life meeting is held on the receive’. lunch or we call on the way back at last Saturday of every month. Our “At St Mary’s, we insist on some pub where we discuss any aim is to be a steering committee for presenting all our petitions through topic of interest (still connected with pro-life events, and to champion our Immaculate Mother Mary, who our Catholic faith!). The priest is pro-life causes, such as plight of knows best how to secure from Her happy to answers any questions. It is vulnerable babies in the womb, and Son His help for our own children. a very informal and friendly those at risk at the end of life. There have been many, many atmosphere. It helps us make We begin with Adoration from wonderful answers to prayers. We friends, as many of us feel isolated 10.00am till 10.15 a.m. in the meet once a week every Wednesday as Catholics and we find that church, and then move to the annex at 1pm at St Mary’s Shrine.” Juventutem is a rare opportunity to at the side. We start with pro-life “In Reading, the Ladies Group let our beliefs show without being prayers and cover forthcoming pro- meets monthly on a Saturday intimidated. Like us on Facebook! life events such as 40 Days for Life, morning for Holy Mass, convivial “The Juventutem London group has arranging to attend for a few hours breakfast (with croissants!), a talk been running for years and has as a group. We also help to arrange by the priest and a time of silence increased significantly with now transport to events such as the with confessions.” about 70 attending the Sung Mass annual March for Life in London. with homily and the social in the We have an annual pro-life chain Juventutem Youth Groups church hall after. Before Mass, the commemorating the enactment of “Young adults and young chaplain Fr de Malleray FSSP hears the Abortion Act in April, and we professionals between 18 and 35 confessions for one hour, and facilitate letter-writing to MP’s gather each month in Reading and blesses items of devotion after. It regarding pro-life legislation and Warrington for a convivial lunch takes place one Friday a month at St prospective dangers in sex-education and afternoon. About a dozen attend Mary Moorfields in the City, two programmes for school-children. each group. Often we will have steps away from Liverpool Street The highlight of the pro-life Mass, a pizza and a talk on matters station. There always new faces and calendar, which we organise of doctrine and spirituality given by some non-Catholics or non- annually, is the Pro-life Garden our chaplain, either Fr O’Donohue Christians. They love to discover Party at the end of June, featuring FSSP in Reading (picture below, at traditional Catholicism. Last year talks from luminaries of the pro-life Douai Abbey), or Fr Verrier FSSP in Cardinal Nichols of Westminster community. □

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FSSP England Charity Bursar’s Report

By Fr Matthew Goddard, FSSP

am writing, dear readers, two small administrative ‘t’s yet to more immediate repairs and wearing my ‘bursar’s hat’, in be crossed and ‘i’s to be dotted maintenance. We have therefore I order to give you an update on before we can give a final sought to identify solutions to the financial position of our charity, authoritative figure, but our provide for its financial viability, ‘FSSP England.’ On behalf, also, of provisional total for the Jewel looking to the future. This has led to all my priestly confreres here in Campaign is £62,173.40 plus some some new ideas regarding how some England, let me begin by thanking Gift Aid which is yet to be claimed. of the Priory Court buildings you for your great generosity, Deducting what has already been (picture below) can be utilised, once particularly over the past four years utilised on subsidising running costs, we have ensured that the Shrine since we took over St Mary’s such as fuel bills, repairs, community’s need for a hall, music Shrine, Warrington.

Many of you will remember that our arrival at St Mary’s was something of step in faith on a financial level, because initially the shortfall between income and expenditure sat around £1,000 a week – more than a slight cause for concern! However, I am pleased to report that over the past four years not only have the numbers attending St Mary’s increased to around 150 on a Sunday and 30 on the average week day, but those faithful have significantly increased the level of financial giving. Sunday collections vary somewhat, but once standing orders to the Shrine are factored in, the average deficit, just considering maintenance and insurance, due to room, meeting rooms and other regular income, is a small fraction of the increase in regular donations we necessary space is met. what it was; while we have regularly were able to ‘ration’ Jewel been blessed with one-off donations. Campaign fund spending, and still With some larger benefactors kindly Our grateful thanks to our have just under half this amount in agreeing that some or all of their Warrington faithful and supporters reserve to provide a financial buffer donations can be used for purposes from elsewhere for their generosity! for the Shrine for a few more years. outside of the Priory Campaign, it is now looking very likely that we will Your contributions to our last major However, aside from the matter of be creating a small number of one- campaign, the Jewel Campaign, the Shrine’s regular income and bedroomed flats in one of the units which addressed the shortfall in expenditure, the trustees of our of Priory Court, in order to provide income for the running of St Mary’s, charity have also become rental income. God willing, that provided vital funding from our increasingly aware of the fact that St income will provide for the Shrine’s commencement in Warrington in Mary’s Shrine, being a historic future. Looking ahead, this November 2015 until the summer of building, is likely to need significant accommodation might also provide 2018 when the current Priory amounts of money spending on it in opportunities for our older clergy if Campaign began. There are one or the medium to long term, beyond

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Mental Prayer as Union with Christ

The distinctions applied to priestly prayer by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP hold true for lay people as well.

o man can fall gravely if he their orthodoxy and their ministry. demanding utter clarification. For prays earnestly. Analysing Catholic contemplatives, N the causes for the priestly The external similarities between nothingness – the ‘nada’ of St John crisis in modern times necessarily Catholic contemplation and Zen of the Cross – is not the goal, but a points to a problem with priestly meditation are well known. Since means to an end that is God prayer. Praying, so as to preach the World War II, many Catholic Himself. Nothingness expresses the Good News with fruit, was deemed contemplatives have attempted to acknowledgement by the a priority for the Apostles: ‘We will draw from Oriental traditions. contemplative of his need to give ourselves continually to prayer Unlike liturgical prayer which renounce every created activity in and to the ministry of the word’ requires codified phrasing and order to let himself be filled by the (Acts 6:4). If a priest fails to pray, gestures, and unlike even meditation Uncreated God, a supremely his fall is nigh. But what if a priest which articulates faith data, personal entity. The Catholic mistakes prayer with breathing contemplation leaves out any contemplative is certain that God techniques, and theologal union with deliberate activity of the soul. The acts in him more powerfully when mental relaxation? We think that no memory, intellect and will of the sensory evidence and intellectual few priests (not to mention other contemplative seek to recall, know assessment are sacrificed through a consecrated persons and the laity) and desire nothing. humble, prolonged and filial act of have been so misled, with dire faith. Indeed, when after prayer the consequences for their spiritual life, But a lethal ambiguity lies here, Catholic contemplative stands up

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Father: ‘Sanctify them in truth’ (John 17:17). Down to our times, some Catholic priests and religious promote meditation after the Oriental fashion, seeking to provide a meta-dogmatic haven. Because such practices fall within private experience rather than being written statements expressly contradicting Catholic doctrine, they are deemed compatible with the Creed of the Church. Meanwhile, they actively undermine the faith of many: Man, Jesus Christ. The peace (Photos: experienced in this surrendering can 1) in the personal nature of God and A Sister of the Poor at prayer; of the soul; Carthusian monks of be facilitated through learning and Parkminster.) experience, but it remains 2) in the absolute distinction fundamentally a gift from a loving between God as Creator and God, received by the soul in grateful everything else as his creation; 3) in the dignity of the body as again to fulfil his duties of state, he humility. In contradistinction, substantially united to the soul; knows that his understanding of Oriental masters teach that 4) in the total gratuitousness of what he is to do and his ability to techniques efficaciously raise the divine grace; and fulfil it stem from the grace instilled trained contemplative to spiritual in him by God while he was fulfilment, of his own accord. 5) in the necessity of conversion to contemplating. Christ through his Church for salvation. Prayer is a chief duty and

On the contrary, the Oriental occupation of clergy. But many contemplative does not believe in priests in the modern era were It seems that Zen bogged down personhood, neither human nor misled into false contemplation, many Western priests at the expense divine. Consequently, the forgetting the essential distinctions of their Catholic faith. This latent nothingness he seeks leads to his just stated. Their legitimate desire apostasy is not the least harmful to annihilation as a rational subject and for universal peace and fraternity the souls of the shepherds, and of cannot connect him with a non- could be better fulfilled, they were their flock. Clergy and laity alike existing deity. This error stands in told, by reaching and dwelling should assess whether their daily total opposition with Catholic beyond dogmatic barriers. They spiritual time is a prayer in the contemplation. There, the believer dived into Oriental ‘contemplation’ Catholic sense or some relaxation knows himself to be someone, not to escape dogmas, while often after the Oriental fashion. May the something. He surrenders the use of engaging into Marxism to end class great Catholic doctors of his memory, intellect and will by no conflict. They forgot that human contemplation Ss John of the Cross means to an impersonal whole, but fulfilment is secured precisely and Teresa of Avila obtain sure to a well-identified personal God, through dogmas, which translate guides for our souls on such a i.e. his Creator as the Holy Trinity, God’s revelation for human souls, beautiful and rewarding path. □ and his Redeemer as God made after Our Lord’s petition to his

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Scope: Holy Church is under attack and The priests and Holy input for fellow priests, regardless her priests undermined. Can we of what form of the Mass they Church: her sons and still profess the Church as holy offer. In fact, most participants and the priesthood as sacred? The defenders. are diocesan clergy who say only traditional ecclesiology, or mostly the Ordinary Form of spirituality and liturgy explain In the brand new retreat centre in the Mass. why the sins of her sons wound historic Jesuit college in The themes over the years are the Bride of Christ and yet do not Lancashire. Make use of the diverse: The Prayers of the mar her purity, neither invalidate Theodore House Oratory or St Missal, Year of Mercy, Year for their calling. After the example of Peter’s church for private prayer Priests, The Priest and Our Lady, the Sovereign High Priest Jesus and Holy Masses, adoration and The Priest and Martyrdom, The Christ, today as ever, priestly Compline. Enjoy the beautiful Priest and the Eucharist. sanctity is essential to the welfare surrounding countryside with its Audio conferences of previous of Holy Church. network of footpaths. retreats

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