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1 September - October 2021 Newsletter of the SSPX in Great Britain and Scandinavia Let all everywhere ad- opt and observe what has been handed down by the Holy Roman Church, the Mother and Teacher of the other churches, and let Masses not be sung or read according to any other formula than that of this published by Us. This ordinance applies henceforth, now, and forever, throughout all the provinces of the Christian world... St. Pius V 1570

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Stumbling Block

The Tridentine of

Rev. Robert Brucciani, District Superior

The Tridentine Rite of Mass is a of faith and holiness, the sign of contradiction and a living banner. It is the moment stumbling block of the revolution of victory over and death that seized control of the rendered present. It is the means institutions of the Church at the by which that victory is brought to souls across the centuries. (1962-5). Yes, over the centuries it remains My dear faithful, unchanged in its essential parts. It is the same sacrifice, with the same , with the same Tridentine Rite of Mass purpose and the same words at its heart as were uttered by Christ The Tridentine Rite of Mass is the Himself. The surrounding supreme of the Church the words of (the which most perfectly expresses of the Mass) were added the doctrine and sanctity of the over the first six centuries and Church. It is not a passive sign of were fixed by the time of Pope St. doctrine and sanctity like a Gregory the Great (590-604). Pope crucifix or devotional picture, it St. Pius V, following a decree of is an efficacious sign, a sacrament the , promulgated which produces what it signifies, the Bull Quo primum to fix the

6 September - October 2021 Rite of Mass for all time for the always compete with the Church. Henceforth the Rite temptation to make himself God. was known as the Tridentine Rite Revolutions came and deposed of Mass. the Church in civil society When Church and walked (Protestant ), then together, Christendom was Christ (the Enlightenment), organised around the Mass. then God, (the French and Hilaire Belloc, in his Europe and Communist Revolutions), then the the Faith, observed that any natural order that He created (the medieval historian who does not Culture of Death and now Woke understand what the Blessed Ideology). Sacrament is (and by implication The most devastating revolution what the Holy Sacrifice of the of them all, however, was the one Mass is), cannot possibly by which “Non serviam” sounded understand the motives within the very corridors of the of his ancestors and hence the Church. At the Second Vatican great crises of civil history. Council, man attempted to deify The Mass was the pinnacle, the himself and put God at his jewel and the motive force of service. civilisation. It was the meeting of heaven and earth: God Man redefined descending; man reaching According to the Council, the upwards and touching God. dignity of man was no longer held tobehis potential to be raised by What happened to the God’s grace to share in the Mass? Divine Life, but was his autonomy by which he was like unto God: Revolution – autonomy of willto chose Alas, by the fall of , the echo good and evil free from the of Satan’s “Non serviam” will restraint of natural or reverberate through history until revealed law (this is the end of time. Man’s natural ); desire for the Divinity – autonomy of the intellect to

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adhere to “truths” God (Gaudium et Spes).The unmeasured by reality (this is merely “subsists” intellectual relativism); in this Church of Christ which is – the supremacy of calculated to imply that the conscience over the Eternal Church of Christ is wider than the Law as the guide for human Catholic Church and that behaviour (moral relativism); membership of the Church of – possessing by nature the Christ by , or by means to his ultimate end sanctifying grace, or by which is natural, rather than submission to the Church’s requiring supernatural grace doctrine, authority and , is for an end which is not necessary. supernatural (naturalism). The Church of Christ, according toLumen Gentiumisan St. Augustine said that “God made efficacious sign or sacrament of man so that man might become the unity of the whole human race God”. This is true if “becoming with Christ. It is clearly a new God” is understood as Church and its faithful are given a participating in His Divine Life new name: “the People of God”. by supernatural grace,butitis false if it means becoming Liturgy redefined autonomous as the Council document For a new religion and a new suggests. Church, a new liturgy was required. Hence the Novus Ordo Religion redefined Missae was promulgated on 3rd April 1969 and then allowed to Man was thus redefined at the mutate freely (see https:// Council and so his religion was catholicherald.co.uk/the-strange- also redefined. The new religion birth-of-the-novus-ordo/ ). was the Religion of Man by which men were made autonomous. It was indeed a malignant liturgy for it objectively obscured the The Church of this new religion, sacrifice of Christ by presenting the Church of Christ, seems to the Mass as a meal, and it embrace all mankind as being obscured the already redeemed by the Son of

8 September - October 2021 priesthood by turning the priest Religion of Man; a religion at the into the president of an assembly. service of a New World Order, so In practice, by its frequent much so that Pope Francis disrespect of the Blessed promulgated a new , Sacrament, it dragged God to Traditionis custodes, on 16th July earth and treated Him 2021 to nullify Summorum contumeliously. Its effect was to pontificum and to put in place kill the supernatural life of the the apparatus necessary to limit faithful, dry-up vocations and future use of the Tridentine Rite empty the churches. in the conciliar Church. In the motu proprio, Pope & Francis justifies his measures by Traditionis custodes claiming that the Tridentine Rite of Mass is a cause of disunity in After nearly forty years of auto- the Church. Such an accusation, destruction, Pope Benedict XVI like the title of the motu proprio, admitted that some blame for the is not a little ironic, for the Church’s decline must be laid at promulgation of the Novus Ordo the door of deficient liturgy, but Missae was perhaps the greatest he failed to perceive the doctrinal cause of disunity in the entire deviance from whence it sprang. history of Church. The new rite of In 2007, he promulgated Mass broke the unity of liturgy, Summorum pontificum which the unity of language, the unity of gave every priest the right to culture and, most important of all, celebrate the Tridentine Rite of the unity of belief and Mass once more. The result was supernatural life across the world felicitous, for by exposure to this and across the centuries. It was a traditionallex orandi, many new liturgy for a new religion, for faithful discovered or re- a false conception of man. discovered the lex credendi of the Church that the Council had Stumbling block sought to supplant. The Tridentine Rite began to be If the Tridentine Rite of Mass may regarded as a threat to the be regarded as a cause of revolution and its dream of a new disunity, it is only as a sign of

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contradiction to the revolution a certain Rev. Fr. Benoît Philip- and a stumbling block against pon is granted a U.S. visa, which the revolution will whereupon his return is prom- ultimately dash itself and be ised. We suspect, however, that broken. his mother will do all that is possible to frustrate this plan, St. , Protector sanctae for his family live only half an Ecclesiae, ora pro nobis. hour from Post Falls. In Jesu et Maria, Rev. Robert Brucciani Meanwhile we welcome two ______priests: – Rev. Fr. Benoît Philippon, or- Other news dained in 2020, is posted to St. Saviour’s Bristol until such a time as he can obtain his U.S. Farewells & Bonjours visa. There he will perfect his We bid adieu to two : English and assist Rev. Fr. McLaughlin in the apostolate. – Rev. Fr. Lawrence Barrett ar- – Rev. Fr. Dominic O’Hart, rived in the District after his or- newly ordained, will temporar- dination in 2013. After postings ily join forces with his brother, at St. George’s Wimbledon, Fr. Thomas at St. Michael’s St. Michael’s School Burghclere School, until a promised priest and St. Saviour’s Bristol he has from the U.S. arrives (which, in returned to his homeland, turn, is contingent upon Canada. His ready smile, gener- Fr. Hanappier in Carluke receiv- ous enthusiasm and music will ing a U.S visa). As an old boy of be missed. Thank you dear St. Michael’s, Fr. Dominic Father. O’Hart knows all the tricks in – Rev. Fr. Reid Hennick also ar- the book. The boys should be rived in the District immediately wary of this poacher-turned- following his ordination (2016). gamekeeper. When the game of After 5 years at St. Michael’s musical chairs is over, School, he has beenkidnapped Fr. Dominic will join and held hostage in Post Fr. McLaughlin at St. Saviours. Falls, Idaho until such a time as

10 September - October 2021 New faithful, old treasure professionalism too. May all the organisers and helpers be We also welcome many new thanked and blessed for their faithful to our chapels and ask work. that they be made welcome too. Newcomers are often daunted by St. Michael’s School enrolments their first experience of the Tridentine Rite of Mass. They Enrolments for the new academic might find themselves year, however, are not at record unprepared: with no missal, no levels this September. The head covering, no Sunday best absence of overseas pupils is and no idea whether to stand or partly to blame. A preference for sit or kneel. Unused to the silence homeschooling is another factor. and reverence, their children will The third factor – a reprehensible need time to acquire the virtues one – is the inclination of of stillness, silence and patience Catholic parents from among our (especially when the go faithful to send their children to on and on). Welcoming non-Catholic schools, when newcomers to Catholic tradition St. Michael’s is an economically is a mission of our Society and and logistically viable option. the condition for the return of In view of the deliberate tradition in the Church. As the corruption of morals that occurs Superior General says in the letter in non-Catholic schools (we that follows: ‘he who has no include the nominally Catholic desire to share the riches he schools among them), and in enjoys is, in all truth, unworthy of accordance with the possessing them.’ Please make of the Church, we must reprove newcomers feel like they have those who put their children’s found the pearl of great price. eternity at risk in this way. No child will be turned away from St. Fruitful summer apostolate Michael’s on account of financial The Canterbury Pilgrimage, Boys’ hardship if their parents seek a Camp and Girls’ Camp all had truly Catholic education for their record attendances this year. The children. Send an email for more organisation of these events information: reached new heights of [email protected]

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Letter from the Superior General

Don , Superior General SSPX

This Mass, our Mass, must really of Saint Pius X. However, they be for us like the pearl of great must be an occasion for us to price in the , for which we reflect deeply on the situation. To are ready to renounce do so, it is necessary to step back everything, for which we are and ask ourselves a question that ready to sell everything. is both old and new: Why is the still the apple of Dear members and friends of the discord after fifty years? Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, First of all, we must remember The motu proprioTraditionis that the Holy Sacrifice of the custodes and the letter that Mass is the continuation in time accompanied it have caused a of the most bitter struggle that profound upheaval in the so- has ever existed: the battle called traditionalist movement. between the Kingdom of God and We can point out, quite logically, the kingdom of Satan. This that the era of the hermeneutics combat culminated at Calvary in of continuity, with its the triumph of Our Blessed Lord. equivocations, illusions and It was for this struggle and it was impossible efforts, is radically for this victory that he became over – swept aside with a wave of incarnate. Since Our Lord’s a hand. These clear-cut measures victory was through the Cross and do not directly affect the Society

12 September - October 2021 Don. Davide Pagliarani through His Precious Blood, it is have become obvious to all well- understandable that its informed Catholics: the perpetuation will also be marked Tridentine Mass expresses and by conflicts and contradictions. conveys a conception of Christian Every Catholic is called to this life – and consequently, a combat. Our Lord reminded us of conception of the Catholic this when He said that He came Church – that is absolutely “to bring the sword upon the incompatible with the earth” (Matt. 10:34). It is not ecclesiology that emerged from surprising that the Mass, which the Second Vatican Council. The perfectly expresses Our Lord’s problem is not simply liturgical, definitive victory over sin through aesthetic or purely technical. The His atoning Sacrifice, is itself a problem is simultaneously sign of contradiction. doctrinal, moral, spiritual, ecclesiological and liturgical. In a But why has the Mass become a nutshell, it is a problem that sign of contradiction within the affects all aspects of the Church’s Church itself? The answer is life, without exception. It is a simple and increasingly clear. question of faith. After fifty years, the various elements that confirm the answer On one side is the Mass of the

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Ages. It is the standard of a sin, it no longer has anything for Church that defies the world and which to atone. Here is a Church is certain of victory, for its battle that no longer has the mission of is nothing less that the restoring the universal kingship continuation of the battle that of Our Lord Jesus Christ, because Our Blessed Lord waged to it wants to make its contribution destroy sin and to destroy the to the creation on this earth of a kingdom of Satan. It is by the better world that is freer, more Mass and through the Mass that egalitarian and more eco- Our Lord enlists Catholic souls responsible – and all this with into His ranks, by sharing with purely human means. This them both His Cross and His humanist mission that the men of victory. From all this follows a the Church have given themselves fundamentally militant must necessarily be matched by a conception of Christian life that is liturgy that is equally humanist characterised by two elements: a and emptied of any notion of spirit of sacrifice and an sacredness. unwavering supernatural hope. This battle that has been waged On the other side stands the Mass for the past fifty years, which has of Paul VI. It is an authentic just witnessed a highly significant expression of a Church that wants event on 16th July, is not a simple to live in harmony with the world war between two : it is and that lends an ear to the indeed a war between two world’s demands. It represents a different and opposing Church that, in the final analysis, conceptions of the Catholic no longer needs to fight against Church and of Christian life – the world because it no longer conceptions that are absolutely has any to reproach the irreducible and incompatible with world. Here is a Church that no each other. In paraphrasing Saint longer has anything to teach the Augustin, one could say that the world because it listens to the two Masses have built two cities: powers of the world. It is a the Mass of the Ages has built a Church that no longer needs the Christian city; the New Mass Sacrifice of Our Blessed Lord seeks to build a humanist and because, having lost the notion of secular city.

14 September - October 2021 Since Almighty God has allowed than the many feeble and all this, it is certainly for a greater sometimes hopeless good. Firstly for ourselves, who commentaries. have the undeserved good fortune Our Blessed Lord certainly has of knowing the Tridentine Mass another objective in mind in and who can benefit from it! We allowing this new attack on the possess a treasure with a value Tridentine Mass. No one can we do not always appreciate, and doubt that in recent years many which we perhaps preserve too priests and faithful have much out of simple habit. When discovered this Mass, and that something precious is attacked or through it they have encountered scorned, we begin to appreciate a new spiritual and moral horizon, better its true value. May this which has opened the door to the “shock”, provoked by the sanctification of their souls. The harshness of the official texts of latest measures taken against the 16th July, serve to renew, deepen Mass will force these souls to and rediscover our attachment to draw all the consequences of the Tridentine Mass! This Mass – what they have discovered: they our Mass – must really be for us must now choose – with all the like the pearl of great price in the elements of discernment that are Gospel, for which we are ready to at their disposal – what is renounce everything, for which necessary for every well-informed we are ready to sell everything. Catholic conscience. Many souls He who is not prepared to shed will find themselves faced with an his blood for this Mass is not important choice that will affect worthy to celebrate it. He who is their faith, because – and let us not prepared to give up say it once more – the Holy everything to protect it is not Sacrifice of the Mass is the worthy to attend it. supreme expression of a doctrinal This should be our first reaction and moral universe. It is therefore to these events that have just a question of choosing the shaken the Catholic Church. Our Catholic faith in its entirety and reaction, as Catholic priests and through it, choosing Our Lord as , must be Jesus Christ, with His Cross, His profound and more far-reaching Sacrifice and His universal

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kingship. It is a matter of Church, which must be ours, choosing His Precious Blood, of especially at this present time. imitating the Crucified One and of It is to that following Him to the end, by a we entrust these intentions. It is complete, rigorous and coherent to her that we address our fidelity. prayers, since no one has The Society of Saint Pius X has a penetrated deeper than Our duty to assist all those souls who Blessed Lady the mystery of the are currently in dismay and are Sacrifice of Our Lord Jesus Christ confused. Firstly, we have a duty and of His victory on the Cross. to offer them the certitude that No one greater than Mary has the Tridentine Mass can never been so intimately associated disappear from the face of the with His sufferings and His earth. This is an absolutely triumph. It is into her hands that necessary sign of hope. Moreover, Our Blessed Lord has placed the each of us, whether priest or whole Catholic Church. It is faithful, must extend a warm therefore to her that the most helping hand to them, for he who precious thing in the Catholic has no desire to share the riches Church has been entrusted: the he enjoys is, in all truth, unworthy Testament of Our Lord Jesus of possessing them. Only in this Christ – the Holy Sacrifice of the way will we truly love souls and Mass. show our love for the Church. For Don Davide Pagliarani every soul that we win to Our Superior General Blessed Lord’s Cross, and to the immense love that He manifested Feast of Saint Mary Magdalen through His Sacrifice, will be a Menzingen, 22nd July 2021. soul truly won to His Church and to the charity that animates His

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Matters arising

Topical questions in the light of moral and canon law on the purchase of relics

Rev. Fr. Nicholas-Mary C.SS.R.

Is it permitted to private the teaching of the Church on individuals to keep first class sacred relics. In 1563, the Council relics of the for private of Trent declared in its final devotion? May we purchase session that: these sacred relics when we “They think impiously who find them for sale in second- deny that [...] the holy bodies hand shops or on auction of the holy and of websites like Ebay? others living with Christ, which It is good to consider what is at were the living members of stake here; to appreciate the Christ and the temple of the zealous care with which the Holy Ghost, to be awakened by Church traditionally honours Him to eternal life and to be sacred relics on the one hand, and glorified, are to be venerated to appreciate how she condemns by the faithful, through which even the appearance of simony on many benefits are bestowed by the other. Then, by making the God on men, so that those who right distinctions, we can come in maintain that veneration and good conscience to a practical honour are not due to the relics solution. of the saints, or that these and other memorials are honoured First of all, let us be reminded of by the faithful without profit,

18 September - October 2021 Reliquary at St. Saviour’s House, Bristol

and that the places dedicated to saint's clothing or a book that the memory of the saints for the he carried constantly. Most purpose of obtaining their aid relics owned by laypersons are visited in vain, are to be are third-class relics, items utterly condemned, as the that have touched a first- or Church has already long since second-class . For condemned and now again example, some Catholics wear condemns them.” ¹ medals that contain a relic of a favourite saint. That relic is And the customary categorisation usually a small piece of cloth of these sacred remains into first-, that was touched to a first-or second- and third-class relics is second-class relic of that explained here by Professor Helen saint.” ² Hoffner: We can say that there is certainly “There are three classes of no prohibition by the Church relics. First-class relics include where the private possession and physical remains of a saint, such veneration of second and third- as hair, bones, or the incorrupt class relics is concerned, though body. Second-class relics are due care should always be taken items that were used by a saint of these as of all other sacred on a regular basis, including the items.

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When it comes to first-class relics or of passing them onto the relics, matters are more complex. Church. The traditional discipline The postconciliar legislation does enshrined in the 1917 Code of not change this, but makes it far Canon Law distinguishes between more difficult to obtain first-class notable (Latin insigne) relics and relics from the lawful authorities, those which are not notable. as we shall see as we answer the Notable relics of Saints or second part of the question. Blessed are defined as “the entire body, or the head, arm, forearm, From time immemorial the heart, tongue, hand, leg, or that Church has condemned all part of the body in which the trafficking in sacred relics, and suffered, provided it be condemned their sale as simony. whole and not small.”³ Here is how the sin of simony is defined in a popular Catholic Now whilst “notable relics of reference work of the past: Saints or Blessed may not be kept in the private houses and private “Giving or receiving, or oratories without explicit intending to give or to receive, permission of the Ordinary,”4 anything temporal for anything “small relics may be kept with spiritual. It is so called from due honour in the houses of the Simon Magus, who offered faithful, or carried on their St. Peter money for the power persons.”5 of communicating the gifts of the Holy Ghost (Acts 8). The Thus we see that private guilt of this sin arises from the individuals may keep relics of all fact that spiritual things are not classes in their possession with fit matter for bargaining. And due care. Those who do so should this, says St Thomas, for three also provide that these relics do : because the value of a not fall into the hands of those spiritual thing cannot be who will treat them profanely in estimated in money or the like; the event of their deaths. If they because the holder of anything possess notable first-class relics spiritual is merely a dispenser as defined above, they should and not the owner of it (1 Cor. speak to the Ordinary or to 4, 1); and because sale is whomever acts in his place about opposed to the origin of the suitability of keeping these

20 September - October 2021 spiritual things, since they hands, and our duty to avoid come from the gratuitous gift cooperating formally in their of God ("freely have ye simoniacal traffic. received, freely give," Mt. 10, Adding to the complexity of the 8). Hence simony is a species matter is the state of affairs in the of real sacrilege. It is of two Church today. Not only have the kinds: (1) simony forbidden by modern ecclesiastical authorities natural or divine law, and (2) presided over a half a century of simony forbidden by the neglect and even destruction ecclesiastical law. The former, of our sacred patrimony, as which is simony properly so churches, religious houses, called, is committed when seminaries etc. have closed down, something temporal is given or and their religious treasures, taken for something spiritual, including the relics of the saints, e.g. grace, , have been lost or dispersed in a consecration, jurisdiction, or new wave of iconoclasm for something temporal so comparable to the ones that closely united with a spiritual accompanied the religious thing that without that spiritual revolutions and upheavals of the thing it would not exist, e.g. an past, but they have also made it ecclesiastical benefice; the much more difficult for ordinary latter when spiritual things are Catholics to obtain new relics in exchanged for spiritual, or an officially authorised manner. temporal for temporal, when the Church has forbidden such Under the current norms, parish special transactions owing to priests and religious superiors the danger, or perhaps only the may apply to the Apostolic appearance of simony, e.g. the (the relevant office in Church forbids the selling of ) for first-class relics with (primary) relics.” 6 the written approval of their local ordinaries. Relics of “the Holy Accordingly it is only natural to Cross and of the bones or flesh of be perplexed when we are the Saints are bestowed only for confronted with an apparent public veneration in the church, contradiction between our desire oratory or chapel indicated in the to honour the relics of the saints request. No relic of the Apostolic and rescue them from profane Sacristy is given to individual

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members of the faithful for Church as the 1917 code makes private veneration.”7 These clear: norms are meant to provide a “It is absolutely forbidden model for shrines and other (nefas est) to sell sacred relics. custodians of the bodies of the The Ordinaries, deans, Saints throughout the world, and others having the care of though their application is not souls shall take care that the uniform. sacred relics, especially those This shift away from private of the Holy Cross, are not sold devotion mirrors that within the together with the inheritance Liturgical Revolution in general, and with sale of other goods, and is doubtless likewise nor pass into the hands of non- connected to ecumenical Catholics.”8 preoccupations that would seek But what about buying relics with to diminish the role of relics in a view to rescuing them rather the life of the faithful so as not to than trafficking in them? As offend the sensibilities of non- Dominican Fathers McHugh and Catholics. Callan write in their excellent If the official path is closed to us, Moral Theology, there are cases may we then make a virtue of “in which a transaction is not necessity and and honour simoniacal, but virtuous - some all the many relics at large thanks acts done in God's honour (e.g., to to the great auto-secularisation of purchase a spiritual object, such the last half century? Clearly as a sacred vessel or relic, from a there will be no problem in person who would misuse it), conscience when we rescue these when the purchaser intends the sacred goods without money prevention of profanation. It is changing hands, but may we certainly not irreverence to a redeem them for a price? sacred thing to use means necessary to rescue it from such The question pertains especially irreverence.” 9 to first-class relics, as there is no particular problem associated with the purchase of second- and third-class ones. The sale of relics has always been forbidden by the (Continued on page 27)

22 September - October 2021 Liturgy

Visitation of the sick

What to do when a priest visits with the

Leaflet to pull out and keep

When of the Sick is Preparation Required Administered What a grace it is to receive the It happens in the ordinary course Body and Blood of our Lord in of life, that at a certain moment, one’s own home! This is the the Catholic is unable to fulfil the special privilege of the sick: to be Church’s commandment to attend paid a visit by the greatest of all the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on doctors – Jesus Christ Himself. Sundays and holy days of Considering the infinite dignity of obligation due to illness. the Visitor, the faithful should take the greatest care to prepare The Church has foreseen the themselves spiritually and physical incapacity of her materially for their audience with children, and so demands her their Redeemer. priest to visit the sick of his parish. If the soul cannot come to Spiritual Preparation our Lord, our Lord will come to the soul. First of all, the soul should take care to excite a longing for our It must be noted, though, that Lord in the Blessed Sacrament for priests are not clairvoyants and some time in advance. The less must be notified by the sick that frequently the sacrament is they require a visit with the received, the more preparation is Blessed Sacrament. necessary.

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Preparation of the for a sick call

One ought to say one’s prayers, Naturally, those who are yet able pray one’s , read spiritual to fast are highly encouraged to books with this one thought in do so, being one of the mind: Tomorrow (or the day best means to prepare for after...) Jesus Christ is coming to Communion. my house; to my soul. And so the Since the faithful are always given sick should pray the good Lord to the opportunity to confess before help them to receive Him well. receiving Communion, those who intend to receive the sacrament of Fasting penance should also take care to Under ordinary circumstances, examine their con- science in the faithful are required by law to advance. fast at least one hour to the moment of receiving the Holy Material Preparation Sacrament (c. 919 §1), but the Regarding the second part of the compassionate Church dispenses preparation for the sick call: the sick from this obligation, and not the sick only, but even those –Asmall table should be set caring for them (c. 919 §3). up in the place where Holy Communion is to be given. altar. – Upon the table is spread a As he enters the sick-room, he white cloth, whereupon a says huic domui (Peace to crucifix is stood between two this house) to which the answer wax candles. is given Et omnibus –Adish or small glass should habitantibus in ea( and to all also be nearby containing those who dwell herein). clean ordinary water. – Ideally, acommunion cloth Those who are able to kneel will also be at hand to be should now do so. The priest then spread under the chin of the goes on to sprinkle the room with sick at the moment of the . Communion. Then, as directed by the Roman Arrival of the Priest Ritual, he offers to hear the of the sick. Should this In earlier times of faith, the priest be desired, all others retire from would walk accompanied by a the room, and the sacrament of procession of servers with penance is administered in the candles and bells to warn all of ordinary manner . the passing of the Eucharistic King. But now, in these “dark The priest will call the helpers or ages” where servers are lacking family members back to the room and ignorance of the reverence where they again kneel in silent due to the prevails, the reverence while the priest priest will often make the journey prepares to administer Holy alone, with no external sign of the Communion. presence of the Blessed TheConfiteor is now said by the Sacrament. sick person (or another if he is Upon entering the house, the unable), either in Latin or in the priest should be met at the door after which by the sick person or an attendee is given. who awaits silently with a lighted TheDomine non sum dignus is candle. With due regard to the then recited and communion is person of Jesus Christ, the given (the sick person holding the ordinary civilities are best left white cloth under the chin). unsaid, and the priest led to the Visitation of the Sick

On ordinary visits, Communion is decade of the rosary or some administered with the usual other prayers. formula (May the Body of our After this, the priest may stay a Lord Jesus Christ keep your soul little longer to encourage the sick unto life everlasting), but if the person and his family with a few sick person is considered to be words, but if the Blessed not far from death, the form for Sacrament is still present in one (literally, that which is or more hosts, the same taken for a journey) is reverence should be continued pronounced: Receive, brother (or and the conversation should be sister) as viaticum the Body of restrained. our Lord Jesus Christ and may He keep you from the malignant After the Departure of the Priest enemy and lead you to life everlasting. . With the priest gone, the sick should return to quiet prayer in If the sick person has a dry union with our Lord and ask Him mouth, it may be necessary for for the healing graces that He him to take a few sips of water to mercifully gave to so many while help him consume the Sacred He still walked the earth. Host. The sick have many needs and The priest then washes his fingers our Lord will never fail to listen in the dish and then goes on to to their prayers and grant them say a short prayer, asking that the great consolation when the Communion received will profit sacrament is received worthily. the sick in soul and body. He finishes the ritual with a Rewards of the Priest simple (given with the It is not only the patient who is Blessed Sacrament should he consoled, my dear brethren, the have more Hosts with him). consolation is also the priest’s when he knows that he has both Thanksgiving done his duty and enabled a soul With the little ceremony over, it is to participate more fully in the Di- now time for the sick to pray in vinity... bringing more glory to thanksgiving, with which the God in His Mystical Body. Deo priest may assist by suggesting a gratias.

26 September - October 2021 (Continued from page 22) make a greater profit by selling these venerated remains. Pope An apparent problem arises Leo XIII issued a general inasmuch as Pope Leo XIII decree forbidding any member forbade the faithful “under of the faithful, for any reason whatever pretext, even that of whatsoever, to buy or sell redeeming them, to buy or sell relics. […] The Pontiff sacred relics,” urging them to explained that, as a result of inform the local ordinaries so that the misfortune of the times, the latter could take steps to stop perverse Catholics, driven by the commerce.¹0 French historian the thirst for gold, were Canon Bernard Dolhagaray gathering up these sacred (†1913) described the background remains from all sides in order to this decree, an era in which the to put them on sale in Rome Roman catacombs and other itself, to the great scandal of sacred places were being the Christian populations. In plundered for relics to sell: the presence of this intolerable “Since that time, on the abuse, the Sovereign Pontiff, occasion of the looting of recalling the canonical churches which accompanied sanctions, absolutely forbade the political upheavals in Italy, any traffic in relics.” ¹¹ the has had to warn We see here the Pope and the the faithful. Without in any way hierarchy actively working to modifying the legislation stamp out the abuse of simony. previously sanctioned, the Nonetheless when today there is Pontiffs have protested no such law in vigour or strategy energetically against the in place, and, more crucially, profanations and sacrilegious when the hierarchy not only does attacks to which the holy not lead us in the rescue of our bodies and the shrines sacred patrimony but rather containing the sacred relics collaborates in its perdition, we have been subjected. can in good conscience turn to Audacious criminals, moral theology to guide us when stimulated by the bitter greed the positive law of the Church of gain, robbed the churches of does not provide for the situation Italy and transported the holy in which we find ourselves. remains to Rome, in order to

27 Purchase of relics

Already in 1892 Fr. Domenico theological oversight, and he Palmieri, SJ (†1909), the highly himself was subsequently considered Roman theologian and appointed theologian of the continuator of the moral theology Sacred Penitentiary under Leo of his confrère Fr. Antonio XIII and St Pius X. Ballerini, proposed that the Examining the subject of simony decree of 1878 applied only to for theDictionnaire de Théologie those who had the intention of Catholique, Canon Bride, a buying relics under the feigned professor at the Facultés pretext of redeeming them, Catholiques of Lyon, explains that whereas those who sought simply “as the code does not provide any to end the unjust and vexatious precise indication on this point, it state of affairs that sees relics in is to the interpretation provided profane hands, and who could not by ancient law that one must have recourse to the Ordinary to resort.” He then enumerates the achieve this, might buy the 'just titles' that are considered to freedom of the relic (not excuse from simony in matters of intending thereby to purchase a ecclesiastical law (and he spiritual good at a price).¹² specifically refers to the decree of This is analogous to the case of Leo XIII), and includes the the person who ransoms a slave following: or hostage (something long “Redemption or release from practised by religious orders such unjust vexation, in other as the Mercedarians and words, the right to remove, Trinitarians) without thereby even at a cost, an obstacle intentionally entering into a which unjustly opposes the contract that sets a value on a obtaining of a spiritual good. slave, or cooperating formally in Thus […] it is also permissible the trafficking of human lives. to buy, even at a very high Fr. Palmieri's opinion, based on price, relics which are publicly an analogous opinion of offered for sale, in order to St Alphonsus, the heavenly patron save them from profanation: in of moral theologians, was this case, the ordinary should permitted to be followed in be informed if this is possible. conscience in an age of minute [This] will be licit if there is no

28 September - October 2021 contract made concerning 5. Can. 1282 § 2 (e.g. the typical first- class relic with its small chip of bone.) “Only those spiritual things. Now, it seems relics may be exposed to public veneration in that there can only be a any, even exempt, churches which are authenticated by document of a Cardinal, or contract possible on the part of the of the diocese, or by an other the offender [...] The sin of ecclesiastic who has by Apostolic indult the faculty to authenticate relics. […] If the simony (if it exists) will document of authentication of sacred relics therefore be imputed only to has been lost through civil disturbances, or for the author of the unjust any other cause, the relics must not be exposed to public veneration until the bishop vexation. In the face of this sin, has given his approval.” Can. 1283 § 1 and Can. the victim, if he has 1285 § 1. There is nothing to stop the private veneration of relics without documents of proportionate reasons, may authentication by the faithful as long as they behave as one who allows the have no positive grounds to suspect that the relics are not genuine. evil to take place.” ¹³ 6. W.E. Addis & T. Arnold - A Catholic This work of the redemption of Dictionary, London, 1955 (Virtue), 15th p.rev. ed., p. 747 the sacred from profane hands has taken on epic proportions 7. Notitiae 30 (1994), 349-350 since the men of the Church have 8. Can. 1289 § 1 (echoed by Can. 1190 §1 in the 1983 code.) cast away so much of our sacred 9. J.A. McHugh, O.P, & C.J. Callan, O.P. - patrimony since Vatican II. We Moral Theology NewYork, 1958 (Wagner), Rev. need have no scruple in being ed., no. 2334 part of that noble apostolate. † 10. Decree of 21/12/1878 in: Decreta Authentica S. Cong. Indulgentiis Sacrisque ______Reliquiis Regensburg, 1883 (Pustet), no. 443

11. B. Dolhagaray - La violation des Notes catacombes ou cimetières du territoire romain 1. H.J. Schroeder, OP transl. - Canons and in: Revue des Sciences Ecclésiastiques 1902, Decrees of the Council of Trent Rockford, Ill., pp. 334-5 1978 (TAN), p. 216. Of course the Penny 12. D. Palmieri, S.J. (ed.) - Antonii Ballerini Catechism teaches that [QQ. 186-7]: “We S.J. Opus Theologicum Morale in Busembaum should give to relics, crucifixes, and holy Medullam Prati, 1892 (Giachetti) 2nd ed. Vol. pictures a relative honour, as they relate to 2, no. 299. Christ and his Saints, and are memorials of them. We do not pray to relics or images, for 13. A. Vacant et al. (eds) - Dictionnaire de they can neither see, nor hear, nor help us.” Théologie Catholique 1941 (Letouzey) 14-2 art. Simonie cols 2156-7 2. Helen Hoffner - Catholic Traditions and Treasures: An Illustrated Encyclopedia , NH, 2018 (Sophia) p. 36

3. Can. 1281 § 2

4. Can. 1282 § 1

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Father Gordon Bancks, Father George Grime, Father Peter Lessiter, Dominic Capaldi, Gilbert May, Donald Meacham, Helen O’Brien, Marjorie Beethome, Eileen O’Brien, Joseph Hunt, Joan Scorcher, Leslie Belton, Ger- ard McDonough, Eunice Spender, C.W. Warburton, Helena Henderson, Bernadette Keenan, Josephine Mary Hall, Michael Balfe, Daniel O’Connor, John Kemp, Charles Chandler, Diana Nelson, Nicholas Throck-Morton, Kathleen Pond, Philipa Reid, Frederick Smithson, Edwards, Christine McLaughlin, Christina Farrell, Des- mond Niall,Audrey du Rose,Anthony Allen, Hugh McGovern, Eileen Carroll, Ronald Henderson, Desmond Far- rell, James Scott, Cecilia Cutler, Primitiva Teresa Baalam, Theodora Beigel, Lilian Charnley, Mary Christine Smithson, Renee Sergeant, Olive Netton, Norah Tipping, Dr.A. B. Culhane, Caroline Fauvelle, Kathleen Quigley, Malcolm Potter, Joseph Whittaker Coupe, Tina Fitzgibbon, Patricia Hackett, Mary McLane, Margaret Jenkins, Alice Ketterer, Frank Conyngham, Jamie Stuart, Stella Hook, Patrick Fahy, Reginald Schofield, Grant Roberts, Michael Joseph Grizzell, Louis Payne, Thomas Charles, John Cogle, Madeleine Ruck, Margaret Bradley, John McCarthy, Dr June Barclay, John Travelono, Phyllis Daly, Eve Foster, Mary Plume, Terry Johnson, Elizabeth Mansley, Teresa Horsley, Maureen Sinclair,Alastair Pugh, John O’Neill, Anton Spradbery, Geraldine Daly, Alex- ander Mayes October

Father Dennis Marchal, Brian Moran, Mary McLaughlin,W.Herron,Terence Fitzpatrick,James Collins, Douglas Horsford, Gladys White, Maurice Percival, Kathleen Butler, Peter Beigel, Patrick Bryan, Joseph Rawcliffe, Wil- liam Irwin, Kathleen Vinton, Joan Bailey, Kathleen Breen, Tony Osborne, Constance Clark, Robert Leotard, Catherine McVeigh,James Mullaney,Victoria Parsons,Agnes Keating, Leonard Richardson, Kathleen Burgess, Mrs. Sim, Margaret Martin, Kevin Heaney, James Clarke, Aloysius Faupel, Patrick Ferguson, Cecilia Bevan, Basil Lott, Dorothy Vaughan, George Grossmith,Anthony Pratt, Glenise Kenny, Philip Douglas, Mary Salisbury, Kevin Boyle, William Garratt. Ralph Gill, Martin FitzGerald, Francs Black, Wallace Wears, Eric and Maria King- ston, Mary Knox, James Baldwin, Kathryn Groves, Peter Anyanwu, Hilda McNello, Winifred Cornwell, Mary Gaffney, Eric Hulm, Olive Emmeline Banks, Sister Carmela Pia, Mary Kibbey, Molly Hudson, Florence Duus- Jensen, Dorothea Meyerhof, Alan Wilson, Francis Gerrard Coombes, Mary Wearing, James Edward Jasper, Justin William Gilligan, Joan Scannell, Bernadette Hieron, Michael Fauvelle, Freda Angus, John Fesq, Vera Fos- sey, Margaret Brewster, John Charnley, Alma Keily, Gillian Bender, Arthur Wright, Alan Millington, Margaret Mary Clarembaux, Kitty Davies, Sister Marie Michelle, Redempta Mulhern, Marguerite Brett, Christopher Ray- mond Busby, Dora Wilson, Helga Gunther, Adrian Porwal, Elizabeth Mirfin, Michael McPake, Heather Gierak, Louis Ronchetti, Tony Spender, Susan Horton, Ursula Murphy, Irene Styles, Tom Taylor,Janette McPake, Kevin Harper-Penman, John Dunn, Dorothy Johnson, John Lineham

34 September - October 2021 of Paul Smeaton and Geneviève Degeorge at Holy Cross Church, Woking 24th April 2021 (Photo by John Aron) 35 September

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 4 cl. 2 3 cl. 3 1 cl. 4 4 cl. St. Stephen, King & ST. PIUS X,Pope, BVM on Saturday (Comm. St. Giles, ) Confessor Confessor& Patron of (Comm. Twelve Holy Brothers, the Society of St. Pius X Martyrs) (Universal Church 3 cl.) First Friday First Saturday

St. Giles, Ab. (Birmingham, Dedication of the Consecrated St. Andrewʼs & Edinburgh, 3 cl). Churches, in all churches except the of St. Cuthbert, B. & C. St. Sebbe, King, C. (Brentwood3 cl.) (Plymouth 1 cl.) (Hexham & Newcastle 3 cl.) Bl. Hugh More, M. (Nottingham3 cl.) St. Adaman, Ab. & C SS. Hildelith & Cuthberga, VV. 8th c. Ven. Richard Horner, Pr. & M. SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY St. Silin, C. Anglesey,6thc. Iona, Scotland 704 (Brentwood 3 cl.) York 1598 5 2 cl. 6 4 cl. 7 4 cl. 8 2 cl. 9 4 cl. 10 3 cl. 11 4 cl. 15th Sunday after Feria Feria The Nativity of the Feria St. Nicholas of BVM on Saturday Blessed Mary (Comm. St. Gorgonius,Martyr) Tolentino, Confessor (Comm. Ss. Protus & (Comm.St. Adrian, Martyr) Hyacinth, Martyrs)

Dedication of the Consecrated Churches, in all churches except the Dedication of Cathedral Church Cathedral (Glasgow 1 cl.) St. Wulfhilda, Abs. & V. Barking 1000 St. Laurence Justinian, B. & C. (Middlesbrough 1 cl.) BBl. John Ducket& Ralph Corby, St. Ethelburga, Queen, Widow Ven. George Douglas, Pr. & M Bl. Barlow, Pr. & M. St. Deiniol, B. & C. Wales 584 Bl. William Brown M. Ripon1605 St. Begh, V. (Lancaster 3 cl.) PPr. & MM. Tyburn 1644 Lyminge, Kent 647 York 158 Lancaster 1641 (Menevia 3 cl.) 12 2 cl. 13 4 cl. 14 2 cl. 15 2 cl. 16 3 cl. 17 4 cl. 18 3 cl. 16th Sunday after Feria The Exaltation of the The Seven Sorrows of Ss. Cornelius, Pope & Feria St. Joseph Cupertino, Pentecost Holy Cross the Blessed Virgin Mary , Bishop, (Comm. Imprinting of the Confessor (Comm. St. Nicomedes,M.) Martyrs Stigmata of St. Francis Assisi, (Comm.Ss. , Virgin, Confessor) Lucy & Geminianus,Martyrs)

St. Edith, V. Wilton,Wiltshire 984 (Clifton, Comm.) The Seven Sorrows of the B.V.M. (Paisley 2 cl.) St. Winnoc, Ab. & C. (Seven Sorrows of the BVM, Titular of The Most Holy Name of Mary St. Cormac, Irish Abbot, St. Ninian, B. & C. (Galloway 1 cl.; England/Flanders 715 St. Ailbhe, B. & C. 541 Dedication of the Consecrated friend of St. Columba; 6th c. Pro-Cathedral Menevia 1 cl.) Other Dioceses of Scotland (exc. St. Richardis, Empress, Daughter of St. Eanswida, V. & Abs. Churches, in all churches except the St. Werenfrid, Pr. & C. St. Mirin, B. & C. 6th c. Paisley), Hexham & Newcastle, King of Scotland, Abs., Widow Folkestone, Kent 640 Cathedral (Portsmouth 1 cl.) England/Holland 780 (Patron of Diocese & Titular of Lancaster 3 cl.) Scotland/Germany 887 Cathedral: Paisley 1 cl.) 19 2 cl. 20 4 cl. 21 2 cl. 22 2 cl. 23 3 cl. 24 2 cl. 25 2 cl. 17th Sunday after Feria St. Matthew, Apostle Ember Wednesday St. Linus, Pope & Ember Friday Ember Saturday Pentecost (Comm. Ss. Eustace & (Comm. St. Thomas of Martyr (Comm. Our Lady of Ransom) Companions,Martyrs) Villanova, Bishop & Confessor; (Comm.St. Thecla, Virgin & Comm.St. Maurice & Martyr) Companions,Martyrs)

SS. Januarius, B. and Comps. MM St. Adamnam, Ab. 680 St. Cadoc, B. & C. Wales 500 St. Theodore, B. & C. 690 Eight hundred SS. & MM. killedby (Argyll & The Isles 3 cl.) (Cardiff, Menevia 3 cl.) (Westminster, Salford, Southwark, Danes Kent 1011 St. Alfwold, King & M. Hexham788 St. Berchthun, Ab. Beverley 733 St. Caian Anglesey 5thc. Brentwood 3 cl.; Hexham & Newcastle, Bl. Thomas Johnson, Pr. & M. Dedication of Cathedral Church Bl. William Way, Pr. & M. Vens. William Spenser, Pr. & Robert St. Finbarr,B. & C. Comm.) (26th Sep: Lancaster 3 cl.) Newgate 1537 (Plymouth 1 cl.) Kingston-upon-Thames1588 Hardesty, L., MM. York 1589 Barra, Hebrides /Cork 625 26 2 cl. 27 3 cl. 28 3 cl. 29 1 cl. 30 3 cl. 18th Sunday after Ss. Cosmas & Damian, St. Wenceslaus, Duke, DEDICATION OF St. , Priest, Pentecost Martyrs Martyr ST. MICHAEL Confessor & Doctor ARCHANGEL

Above: Franciscan Sisters of Christ the King from Kansas City, look out to sea from the cliffs of Cornwall.

St. Honorius,B. & C. Overleaf: A happy headmaster of Our Lady Canterbury 653 (Nottingham, Southwark: Comm.) of Victories School in Manila, Philippines. Ss. Cyprian & Justina, V., MM. St. Lioba, V.& Abs. Bl. Richard Rolle, H. & C. Bl. Edward Osbaldeston, Pr. & M. St. Elvanus, B. & C. London180 St. Sigebert, King & M. Suffolk652 Wimborne, Dorset 781 Doncaster 1349 York 16th Nov 1594 October

FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 4 cl. 2 3 cl. Feria The Holy Guardian (Comm. St. Remigius, Bishop Angels &Confessor) First Friday First Saturday

BBl. Robert Wilcox, Edward Campion, Christopher Buxton, PPr. & Robert Widmerpool, L., MM. Canterbury 1588 BBl. Ralph Crockett& Edward SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY James, Pr. & M. Chichester1588 3 2 cl. 4 3 cl. 5 4 cl. 6 3 cl. 7 2 cl. 8 3 cl. 9 3 cl. 19th Sunday after St. , Feria St. , Confessor Our Lady of the Holy St. , St. John Leonardi, Pentecost Confessor (Comm.Ss. Placid & Rosary Widow Confessor Companions,Martyrs) (Comm. St. Mark, Pope & (Comm. Ss. Sergius, Bacchus, (Comm. Ss. Denis, Bishop, Confessor) Marcellus and Apuleius, Rusticus,Pr. & Eleutherius, Martyrs) Martyrs)

Dedication of the Cathedral Church St. Therese of the Child Jesus, V. (Aberdeen 1 cl.) St. Thomas of Hereford,B. & C. Dedication of Cathedral Church Bl. Robert Sutton, L. & M. St. Keyna, Princess & V. d. 25th Aug 1287 (Birmingham, Comm.) (Lancaster 1 cl.) Clerkenwell 1588 Wales/Keynsham 490 (Clifton, Comm.) (5th Oct: Cardiff, Salford, Shrewsbury St. Edwin, King & M. Bl. John Hewett,Pr. & M. Ven. J ohn Lowe, Pr. & M St. Robert Grosseteste, B. & C. and 22-Oct: Westminster 3 cl.) Hatfield Chase, Yorks. 633 Mile End Green 1588 St. Osith, V. & M. Colchester 870 Tyburn 1586 Lincoln 1253 10 2 cl. 11 2 cl. 12 4 cl. 13 3 cl. 14 3 cl. 15 3 cl. 16 3 cl. 20th Sunday after Motherhood of The Feria St. Edward, King & St. Callistus I, Pope & St. Teresa of Avila, St. Hedwig, Widow Pentecost Blessed Virgin Mary Confessor Martyr Virgin

St. Ethelburga, V. & Abs. Barking 670 (Brentwood 3 cl.) St. Wilfrid, B. & C. 709 (Middlesbrough, Leeds 2 cl.; Hexham & St. Francis Borgia, C. Newcastle, Lancaster, Liverpool, Bl. Richard Gwyn, Proto-Martyrof St. Paulinus, B. & C. 644(Liverpool, Northampton,Shrewsbury, Southwark, (City of Westminster 1 cl. Brentwood Wales, L. & M. Wrexham 1584 Dedication of the Consecrated Hexham & Newcastle, Leeds, Birmingham, Portsmouth 3 cl.) 3 cl.; All other dioceses of England & (17th Oct: Menevia 3 cl.) Churches, in all churches except the Middlesbrough, Nottingham, St. Kenneth, Ab. 599 (Argyll & The Wales. 2 cl.) St. Thecla, V.& Abs. Cathedral (Clifton 1 cl.) Southwark, Lancaster 3 cl.) St. John, C. Bridlington1379 Isles, St. Andrewʼs & Edin. 3 cl.) St. Comgan, Ab. 765 (Aberdeen 3 cl.) England/Germany 790 St. Vitalis, H. England/France740 17 2 cl. 18 2 cl. 19 3 cl. 20 3 cl. 21 4 cl. 22 4 cl. 23 3 cl. 21stSunday after St. Luke, Evangelist St. Peter of Alcantara, St. John Cantius, Feria Feria St. Anthony Mary Pentecost Confessor Confessor (Comm. St. , Abbot; Claret, Bishop & Comm.Ss. Ursula & Confessor Companions, Virgins & Martyrs)

(Contitular of Cathedral of Shrewsbury 1 cl.) St. Frideswide, V.,Patroness of the Dedication of Cathedral Church St. Syra, Princess, V. city Oxford 740 (Birmingham 3 cl.) (Southwark 1 cl.) Scotland/ 630 St. , V. Bl. Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, L. St. Vandalin, Prince, Ab. & C. St. John of Bridlington,C. St. Mellonius,B. & C. Bl. Thomas Thwing, Pr. & M. St. Nothelm, B. & C. Canterbury740 St. Mono, H. & M. Scotland 660 & M. Tower of London 1595 Scotland 720 (Middlesbrough 3 cl.) Wales/France 314 York 1680 24 2 cl. 25 4 cl. 26 4 cl. 27 4 cl. 28 2 cl. 29 4 cl. 30 4 cl. 22nd Sunday after Feria Feria Feria Ss. Simon & Jude, Feria BVM on Saturday Pentecost (Comm. Ss. Chrysanthus & (Comm. St. Evaristus, Pope & Apostles Daria, Martyrs) Martyr)

The Blessed Martyrs of St. John of Beverley, B. & C., St. Eata, B. & C. Durham700 (Westminster 3 cl.) St. , Archangel Secondary Patron of Diocese of (Lancaster 3 cl.) (30th Oct: Hexham & Newcastle 3 cl.) St. Eadsige, B. & C. Canterbury103 St. Maglorius, B. & C. Jersey 586 Middlesbrough (Middlesbrough 2 cl.; St. Bean, B. & C. (Aberdeen3 cl.) St. Elfleda, Princess, V. & Abs. Bl. John Slade, L.& M. (Portsmouth, Comm.) Liverpool, Leeds 3 cl.) St. Eadfrid, Mk. & C. Leominster675 St. Eadsin, B. & C. Canterbury1050 St. Alfred, King & C. Winchester 899 Romsey, Hants 950 Winchester 1583 Chronicle

The Rochester to Canterbury Pilgrimage saw record numbers, mostly good weather and a new route away from the roads and through summer fields.

40 September - October 2021 The boys camp looks to have been full of laughter, the girls’ camp full of jolly japes, and the ladies Ignation retreat full of silence (?)

41 Chronicle

Rev. Mr. Bernard Bevan and Rev. Fr. Lawrence Barrett take a walk along the white cliffs of Dover after the Canterbury Pilgrimage.

Rev. Fr. Benoît Philippon arrived at St. Saviour’s to await his visa to the U.S.A.. Native of Rheims, France, child of a large family, he was ordained in 2020 at Ecône.

42 September - October 2021 On 3rd July 2021, Thomas and Mary Weir received a special blessing from Rev. Fr.Wingerden on the occasion of their 50th wedding anniversary at St. Andrew’s Glasgow. . 43 Year Planner 2021

Sep 30-4 Priests' Retreat at Saviour's, Bristol

7 St. Michael’s School, Michaelmas Term begins

8 Alld ay adoration, St. Andrew's, Glasgow

9 Alld ay adoration, St. Saviour's, Bristol

10-12 Men's Ignatian Recollection, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

11-12 Walsingham Pilgrimage

20 AllD ay Adoration, Our Lady of Victories, Preston

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

25 at St. Michael's School, Burghclere 9:30am then School Fair

26 Confirmations at St. Margaret & Leonard, Edinburgh 11:00am

Oct 8-10 Women's Ignatian Recollection, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

22 St. Michael’s School, Half-Term holiday begins

25-30 Men's Ignatian Retreat, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

Nov 1 ALLSAINTS

3 St. Michael’s School, Half-Term holiday ends

Dec 1 AllD ay Adoration, Our Lady of Victories, Preston

4 Recollection, St. Saviour's House, Bristol

8 OF THE BVM

11 St. Michael's School, Advent Fair, End of Term

16 Alld ay adoration, St. Saviour's, Bristol

Confirmations Retreats 2021 & Summer Fair Saint Saviour’s House, Bristol [email protected] Saint Michael’s School Sep 10-12 : Men's Recollection Burghclere 25th Sep Oct 8-10 : Women's Recollection 9:30am - 4pm Oct 25-30 Men’s Ignatian Retreat Dec 4 : Advent Recollection

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Bingley 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500 1500

0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 Bristol 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 0730 Burghclere 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900

Colleton 8th 13th ------Manor 1130 1130 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 Edinburgh 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

Gateshead 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800 1800

0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 0900 Glasgow 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

Groombridge 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830 0830

Herne 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230

Holnest 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700 1700

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Liverpool 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300 1300

London 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 (St. Joseph) 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 1230 London 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 0800 (Wimbledon)

Manchester 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930

Preston 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930 0930

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

Taunton 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100 1100

Woking 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030 1030

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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. Benoit Philippon 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. Thomas O'Hart CARLUKE Rev. Fr. Dominic O'Hart Saint Andrew’s House Br. Boniface 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. Marc Hanappier 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 & Church St Columba’s House, Herne Street, Herne CT6 7HR Stronsay, KW17 2AS , Tel: 01857 616206 Tel: 0208 946 7916 Resident: Rev. Fr. Nicholas Mary CssR HORNCASTLE Br. Louis-Marie CssR Horncastle Community Centre Manor House Street Horncastle, Lincs LN9 5HF England Tel: 0208 946 7916

BINGLEY LEICESTER The Little House Church of Saint Anne Market Street, Bingley BD16 2HP Abingdon Road, Leicester LE2 1HA Tel: 01274 567786 Tel: 01858 555813

46 September - October 2021 LIVERPOOL The Church of Saints Peter and Paul Scandinavia 35 Upper Parliament Street, Liverpool L8 7LA Tel: 01772 562428 AALBORG, DENMARK

LONDON OSLO, NORWAY Church of Saints Joseph and Padarn Salterton Road, N7 6BB MALMÖ, SWEDEN Tel: 020 8946 7916 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN MANCHESTER Church of Saint Pius X, 16 Deer Park Road, Manchester M16 8FR Rev. Fr. Håkan Lindström, Tel: 01772 562 428 St. George’s House, 125 Arthur Road, London SW19 7DR MIDDLEMARSH / HOLNEST Tel: +44 20 8946 7916 Saint Lawrence Chapel Tel: 01963 210 580 [email protected] [Mass celebrated in Holnest in wintertime] www.fsspx.uk/en/scandinavia ______PRESTON St. Mary's House 12 Ribblesdale Place, Preston PR1 3NA Pious Groups Tel: 01772 562 428 [email protected] THIRD ORDER OF ST. PIUS X Resident: Rev. Fr. Gary Holden Rev. Fr. Vianney Vandendaele (Prior) [email protected] Rev. Fr. Anthony Wingerden Rev. Fr. Gary Holden ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF ST. STEPHEN Rev. Fr. Lawrence Barrett Our Lady of Victories Church Mr. Richard Cullen East Cliff, Winckley Sq, Preston PR1 3JH [email protected]

TAUNTON EUCHARISTIC CRUSADE Church of Our Lady of Glastonbury Rev. Fr. Vianney Vandendaele 17 South Street (off East Reach), TA1 3AA [email protected] Tel: 01823 652701 MILITIA IMMACULATAE WOKING Rev Fr. Robert Brucciani Church of the Holy Cross Mr. Howard Toon Sandy Lane, Maybury, GU22 8BA militia-immaculatae-1.org Tel: 01483 767 537 [email protected]

ST. RAPHAEL'S HOMESCHOOL & Wales OL FATIMA CORRESPONDENCE CATECHISM COURSE RHOS ON SEA Miss Monica Marshall Saint David’s Chapel [email protected] Conwy Road, (A547) Mochdre LL28 5AA, Tel: 01492 582586

Jersey

Saint Nicholas Centre, Greve d'Azette St. Clement, Jersey Tel: +44 1534 857 186

EMERGENCY NUMBER: 0754 888 0281

47 The Society of St. Pius X is an international priestly society of lifewithout vows, whose purpose is the priesthood and that which pertains to it.

Since its foundation by 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 administering the 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.

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