The Journal of the Association for Latin Liturgy — No 137

In the Summer 2010 issue

A new name...... 3 AGM 2010—Southwark Cathedral ...... 3 Spring Meeting 2011—St Leonards-Mayfield ...... 6 Feast of St Philip Neri at the Oratory ...... 7 From the Press ...... 9 Miscellenea The Ambrosian Rite...... 12 Online chant resources...... 12 Et in essentia unitas ...... 12 Letters to the Editor...... 13 Book Review Vita Communis: The Common Life of the Secular Clergy by Fr Jerome Bertram, Cong. Orat...... 14 Spring Meeting 2010 ...... 16 The Funeral of John Henry Cardinal Newman ...... 17 Some Texts and their Interpretation I: From the Rule of St Benedict ...... 19 An Echo from the Bad Old Days ...... 21 Fr Adrian Fortescue—two autograph letters ...... 22 LETTERS NOT AVAILABLE IN THE ONLINE EDITION

www.Latin-Liturgy.org ASSOCIATION FOR LATIN LITURGY Founded in 1969 to encourage and extend the use of Latin in the liturgy of the under the patronage of the Bishops’ Conference of & Wales

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2 A NEW NAME FOR OUR FORMER ‘NEWSLETTER’

rom this issue, what has been known since the inception of the F Association just as the ‘Newsletter’, now has a title more in keeping with its nature. Starting off as a single duplicated sheet of paper, it gradually grew and developed over the years, through many different manifestations, until, particularly under the editorship of Edward Barrett, it became something much more substantial and scholarly than a mere ‘newsletter’. We think members will welcome this change, which is actually long overdue.

AGM 2010 St George’s Cathedral, Southwark

OUR AGM THIS YEAR will take place on Saturday 23 October at St George’s Cathedral, Southwark. Its foundation goes back to the construction of a large chapel in 1793 where, according to tradition, the first High was celebrated in London, outside the chapels of ambassadors, since the time of James II. The present Proceedings will begin with Solemn site was purchased in 1839, and the High Mass at 11.30am, celebrated by Fr church, designed by Augustus Welby Luke Smith from Margate. Northmore Pugin, was opened in 1848. After a buffet lunch in the Amigo Room, Its High Altar stands on the very spot adjacent to the Cathedral, there will be a where Lord George Gordon’s march talk at 2.15pm given by Mgr Bruce began which was to lead to the anti- Harbert on “New English and the Future Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780. The for Latin”. Mgr Harbert was a member church became a cathedral on the of the Association’s Council from 1994 restoration of the Hierarchy in 1850, and to 2003 when he left for the US to was the centre of Catholic life in London become Executive Secretary of ICEL. It until the opening of Westminster was whilst Mgr Harbert was at ICEL Cathedral some 50 years later. It that there was a ‘sea-change’ in its suffered serious damage during World relations with , to the extent that War II, and was rebuilt and reopened in after more than a decade of uncertainty 1958. One wonders how it would now we now have agreed translations, fully in appear if its reconstruction had been accordance with Liturgiam Authenticam, delayed into the 1960s. 3 which are expected to come into use The cathedral is on Lambeth Road, SE1 next year. Mgr Harbert’s talk comes at a 7HY, opposite the Imperial War crucial time in the recent history of the Museum. The nearest Tube station is Liturgy, and we can expect a talk of Lambeth North and the nearest main line great interest and relevance. station is Waterloo. Full directions appear on the Cathedral’s website: Tea and the AGM will follow, and the day will conclude with Solemn First http://www.southwark-rc- Vespers of the Sunday. cathedral.org.uk/cathedral/index.htm .

Mass will be sung by the cathedral choir under the direction of Nick Gale. Any If you would like to have the buffet member wishing to serve is asked to lunch, please complete the enclosed contact Edward Barrett form and send it – with payment – to Ian ([email protected] or Wells by 16 October. 020 7978 5676).

Agenda for the Business Meeting

1 CHAIRMAN ’S R EPORT

2 TREASURER ’S R EPORT An Income and Expenditure Account and Balance Sheet for the year ending 5 April 2010 will be distributed at the meeting.

3 SUBSCRIPTION R ATES FOR 2011/12 Current rates of subscription, which came into effect on 6 April 2007, are: Members in the UK: £15 Members in the rest of Europe: £20 All members outside Europe: £25 Reduced rate in the UK and rest of Europe (for priests, religious, students, persons under 18, and retired): £8 Joint membership – for those living in the UK at the same address, Latin Liturgy being sent in the same mailing: £18 Council proposes that these rates are maintained for the forthcoming year.

4 ELECTION OF C OUNCIL FOR 2010/11 The Constitution provides for a Council with a maximum of 12 members, three of whom shall hold the offices of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer with the others being ordinary members. The three Officers retire annually; ordinary members serve for periods of two years. All are eligible for immediate re-election. The Council has power to co-opt up to three ordinary members to serve for two years.

4 The present Council is: Officers elected until October 2010 Chairman: Bernard Marriott Vice-Chairman: Edward Barrett Treasurer: Jeremy de Satgé Ordinary members elected until October 2010 Ruth Bleakley Fr Guy Nicholls Fr Anton Webb Ian Wells Ruth Bleakley is unable to stand again for election. We thank her for her service on Council including being Membership Secretary and working on the despatch of publications. Ordinary members elected until October 2011 Fr Kevin Hale Mike Withers Ben Whitworth

Thus the AGM will be invited to elect a Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer for the year to October 2011, and up to six ordinary members until October 2012. If fewer than six ordinary members are elected, it will be open to Council to co-opt additional members until October 2012 provided that the maximum number of Council members is not exceeded.

Council nominates the present Chairman, Vice-Chairman and Treasurer for re- election in the same posts, Christopher Francis for election as an ordinary member, and Fr Guy Nicholls, Fr Anton Webb and Ian Wells for re-election as ordinary members. Any member may make alternative nominations for any of these positions. If you feel able to make a contribution to the running of the Association by being a Council member (or in any other way) you are very welcome to discuss this with the Chairman (0116 285 6158). The names of nominees, whose prior consent must be obtained, and those of proposer and seconder, must be received by the Chairman not later than Saturday 16th October 2010.

5 GENERAL DISCUSSION Any member wishing to put a motion to the Business Meeting must notify the present Chairman in writing by 16 October, giving the name and address of a member who has agreed to second it. But it is open to any member to raise topics informally under this item.

5 SPRING MEETING at St Leonards-Mayfield School, Mayfield, Sussex 7th May 2011

ur Spring meeting next benefactor and given to the Society on year will be held at St condition that the ruins of the Great Hall O be restored. Restored they were, and the Leonards-Mayfield School. We have been invited by the school Great Hall now, as then, serves as the and by the sisters of the Holy Child school’s chapel. The restoration was carried out by Edward Welby Pugin, and Jesus who have given us permission the chapel opened in 1865. to hold our and Vespers in the historic chapel. The Great Hall was built about 1325 and is of national importance in that there is The school is situated around what no other building in the country that both remains of one of the palaces of the has wider arches supporting the roof, of Canterbury before the and is older. For its time, it is the most Reformation. In 1863 a party of nuns spacious building in the land. The now- and children from the convent of the Venerable Cornelia Connelly is buried in Holy Child Jesus at St Leonards-on-Sea the chapel. came for a picnic amongst what were then ruins of the Great Hall of the The day will begin with Solemn Mass in palace. The historical associations with the Chapel, with singing by the school the pre-Reformation Church inspired schola, as well as parishioners and Cornelia Connelly, founder of the members of the Association. The music Society of the Holy Child Jesus, to will be under the direction of Peter consider purchasing the property. Collins, the school’s Director of Music. Eventually the property was bought by a As well as being a choral specialist, Mr Collins is an outstanding organist, having played at , St Paul’s, etc. We are very fortunate to have his services as our organist for the day. Lunch will be available in the school, and in the afternoon one of the Sisters of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus will speak about the life and work of Cornelia Connelly. The day will conclude with solemn Vespers of the Sunday. The school is in a charming village in a beautiful part of the country a few miles south of Tunbridge Wells. Full details of Restoring the Great Hall, 1864 Photograph by Edward Fox of Brighton the day and how to get there will appear

6 in our next issue. There is ample parking As this meeting is being held on private and we plan to organise lifts from property, we will, on this occasion, have Wadhurst, the local railway station. to restrict the day to members of the Much information may be seen on the Association and anyone accompanying school’s website: them. Please make a note of the date in http://www.mayfieldgirls.org . your diary now!

Feast of St Philip Neri at the

t the London Oratory the revealed. The big six were joined on the feast of St Philip Neri is gradine by a matching seventh, four A more handsome candles stood between celebrated every year with suitable solemnity. This year the the relics, two very large ones on the occasion reached new heights. There floor on either side and another four behind the communion rails, all is always a visiting preacher, but this perfectly fitting for a solemn celebration. year we had a visiting celebrant in Sounds from the organ loft announced the person of , our the orchestra tuning up. We knew that still relatively new of Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis (the ‘Nelson Westminster. His Grace delighted us Mass’) was scheduled, so this was going all by celebrating a full Latin novus to be a great evening. ordo Pontifical Mass, just as we would wish. An unaccustomed roar of traffic noise burst forth as the great west door was Because of some confusion over times, opened and a procession of ministers many of the ever enthusiastic faithful went to greet the prelate. As they moved had assembled half an hour earlier than to St Joseph’s Chapel, where the Blessed necessary. By 6.00 pm the congregation Sacrament was for the time being was already half full but, bizarrely, the accommodated, one could recognise the sanctuary was dark with not a candle modest figure of Archbishop Nichols in alight. The aspect was more eerie choir dress. The choir launched into a because the Blessed Sacrament had been powerful rendering of Ecce sacerdos removed from the tabernacle, which magnus . After praying for a while before therefore stood there unveiled and naked the Blessed Sacrament, all continued to in the gloom as a large bronze cylinder. the sacristy for the vesting of the prelate, However, signs of things to come for which generous time was allowed. included a neat throne, nicely clothed in white and gold, arranged on a small dais The entrance procession comprised a on the north side of the sanctuary. suitably full complement of servers and priests in choir dress. The sacred Eventually all candles were lit and the ministers wore the best gold High Mass customary splendour of the sanctuary vestments, from the ‘Arundel’ set. The

7 interesting that he also went out of his way to speak of the importance of the diaconate. He echoed what we had once been assured by Fr Guy Nicholls that once ordained deacon one does not lose that status on becoming a priest, or indeed a bishop. He was himself wearing a dalmatic as well as the chasuble and pallium. Archbishop was assisted by Fr Ronald Perhaps he was impressed by the Creighton-Jobe and Fr Patrick Doyle as Oratory’s practice in respecting all these deacon and subdeacon, and by the traditions, and not disturbed to find , Fr Ignatius Harrison as assistant himself assisted by priests vested as priest in cope. The latter role in the deacons. novus ordo is not of course particularly demanding, but there is never harm in The music at the celebration was of the ‘adding dignity’. The processional cross standard we have come to appreciate. was carried before the archbishop by the The wonderful Nelson Mass is perhaps long-serving novice Brother Edward, long but that means longer enjoyment vested in gold dalmatic, who according and who is in a hurry? Nobody was to Oratory practice, in which the surprised that the Sanctus and processional cross is rarely carried, Benedictus should be split as in unvested after arrival in the sanctuary traditional practice. On this occasion, and re-appeared in choir dress. one was not too irritated by the odd but entrenched practice of deferring the The archbishop was meticulous in his Agnus Dei until after the priest’s celebration and took care to pronounce Communion. Other music included the Latin clearly and accurately Wingham’s Pangamus Nerio (Sewell’s throughout. After the Gospel was sung, version having been sung at First in Latin, he came to preach at the ambo, Vespers) and Mozart’s Ave verum. The no doubt at his own request, whereas recessional was Bach’s Prelude & guest preachers are usually led to the Fugue in G (BWV541). It is true to say . In his homily he spoke eloquently that the archbishop took everything in about ‘Filippo de Neri’ and reminded us his stride, bearing in mind the unfamiliar of the influence of Borromeo and aspects of Oratorian practice: all Latin, Francis de Sales. He spoke at length of celebration ad orientem , the people course of and the receiving communion kneeling at the excitement over his forthcoming altar rail. beatification by the Holy Father. It was Edward Barrett

8 FROM THE PRESS

THE C ATHOLIC H ERALD of 2nd July can be read online at: carried a review by Alcuin Reed of www.adoremus.org/0210TOC Heaven and Earth in little Space by the Anglican Bishop Andrew Burnham IN THE ‘C ATHOLIC D ILEMMAS ’ COLUMN (Canterbury Press £16.99) one notable of The Catholic Herald on 9th July the quotation from which is the following: questioner asked ‘I am visiting Paris ‘If less and less is asked of those who soon on business and would like to practise the faith, fewer and fewer attend a traditional Mass. I am not sure people will practise it, and the faith that whether it would be right for me to go to they practise will also gradually St Nicholas de Chardonnet’ [which is diminish’. He clearly feels that this the Paris HQ of the SSPX]. Fr Tim applies equally to the churches of Finigan, who conducts the column, Canterbury and Rome. responded, after a brief but lucid explanation of the current status of the DISCUSSION of the new English Society: ‘I think it need not cause you translation of the Mass occupied much scruples to attend Mass at St Nicholas… space in the February edition of It would also be appropriate for you to Adoremus Bulletin , a fair amount of it pray for a beneficial outcome to the refuting the view widely held (or discussions between the SSPX and the apparently so) in the , that ’. He went on to list two other it is part of a process of ‘systematic churches, ‘in communion with the dismantling of the great vision of the Diocese of Paris’, which employ the Council’s decree’ [i.e. Sacrosanctum usus antiquior : St Germain d’Auxerrois Concilium ] – thus the Revd Michael and St Eugène-St Cécile. Ryan of Seattle. Other choice phrases from his article in the Jesuit publication America (December 2009) were MASS OF A GES , the official organ of The ‘instructions from the Congregation for Latin Mass society, printed in its May Divine Worship that have raised issue the text of the lecture given by rubricism to an art form’, ‘the Colin Mawby at the inaugural meeting encouragement of the so-called of the Gregorian Chant Network. Taking ’, and ‘before long the as his starting point some words of the priests of this country will be told to take Holy Father addressed to Mgr Domenico the new translations to their people by Bartolucci, Director Emeritus of the means of a carefully orchestrated Sistine Chapel Choir, Mr Mawby education programme that will attempt explored the themes of the church to put a good face on something that musician as an agent of evangelisation clearly does not deserve it’. Lots of and of the particular property of thoughtful consideration and open- plainsong (so much used today in mindedness there, then! The secular, even commercial contexts) to considerable body of writing on this convey the true nature and character of subject in the relevant issue of Adoremus the Faith, in a way that words alone can 9 not. He sounded a warning note, still exceptional circumstances; but this alas very necessary, against those seems to have created a sense that unless misguided and patronising persons who one has a ministry one does not think they know best what ‘the people’ participate. This is clearly wrong, since need: music which is ‘popular’, it would mean that 95 percent of ‘accessible’, ‘contemporary’. As Mr Catholics never participate.’ Mawby says: ‘this attitude is gravely insulting and does great damage to ‘W E SHOULDN ’T BE SCANDALISED that liturgical worship’. on altars there are these instruments in support of prayer’: thus Fr Paolo Padrini, THE C ATHOLIC H ERALD reported on 7th a consultant to the Vatican’s Pontifical April that ‘Catholics in England and Council for Social Communications, on Wales may be able to use the new the launch of his iPad application which translation of the Mass by the middle of contains the entire Roman Missal in next year’; also that the Holy Father English, French, Spanish, Italian and would be using it during his forthcoming even Latin (!) including, it is implied, visit to Britain. There was a further the lectionary [ Catholic Herald July announcement that the Catholic Truth 16th] . Fr Padrini, who has already Society intends to print about ten brought us the iBreviary, stated that an thousand copies of the new altar missal, upgrade would be available with in three different sizes. At the end of the suggestions for homilies, an idea which same month it was reported that the we feel might evoke some interesting Congregation for Divine Worship was responses from priests. Perhaps, though, on the point of formally approving the kissing the iPad after having proclaimed new translation, though Cardinal Pell, the Gospel from it might be felt to be an the chairman of the Vox Clara osculation too far. Certainly, given the committee, said that further ‘technical tendency of these devices to cease adjustments’(what these might be was functioning when they get wet, care will not specified) would have to be made have to be taken not to sprinkle them too before the new translation’s actual liberally with holy water. manifestation in Advent 2011. IN T HE C ATHOLIC H ERALD OF A UGUST FR G ARY D ICKSON , a parish priest in 13th Fr Anthony Symondson SJ writes County Durham, in the course of an on the chapels, currently taking shape in extensive article in The Catholic Herald the three English Oratories, which will of July 2nd, entitled ‘Why the Old Form be dedicated to the newly beatified thrives in my parish’, makes the Cardinal Newman. As has already been following interesting observation: announced, the Holy Father, during his ‘Undoubtedly the lay ministry of Lector forthcoming visit to the Birmingham was built in to the New Form so as to Oratory, will be the first to venerate facilitate lay activity in the rite itself; Newman’s relics in the newly dedicated Extraordinary Ministry [of the and re-decorated chapel there, which ] was not built in to the New was formerly that of St Philip Neri. In an Form: it was established for use only in interesting aside, Fr Symondson reminds

10 us that there is a curious parallel to the front of the altar will be Newman’s arms paucity of the Newman relics, for when and his motto Cor ad cor loquitur (‘the the body of Fr Faber of the London heart speaks to the heart’). Oratory was exhumed at Sydenham in the 1950s ‘all that was found was a pair JOANNA B OGLE WRITES for an American of patent leather shoes’. audience in the July-August edition of Adoremus Bulletin , on the Westminster At Oxford, as part of the extensive Cathedral Choir School. Covering alterations and enlargements in hand ground which will be familiar to most there, there will be an entirely new English readers but not necessarily to chapel dedicated to the Cardinal; our transatlantic friends, she describes meanwhile a temporary shrine in the the work of the choir and something of south aisle is planned, to coincide with its history, including the fact that in the the beatification. 1970s it very nearly ceased to exist. But it is at the London Oratory that the Among her concluding observations is most ambitious project is being the following: ‘A question arises: why designed, in the form of an ambitious can’t this sense of relishing the great and entirely new shrine, replacing the liturgical riches of the Church, and the Calvary Chapel beneath the organ loft. musical tradition, be something more This will be in a formal classical style, widely enjoyed? Learning to sing enriched with coloured marble, and its glorious music for Mass is something focal point, above the altar, will be a that huge numbers of children could copy in oils of Millais’ portrait of relish. Is it possible for ordinary parishes Newman, at present in Arundel Castle. to offer some opportunities so that the Across the gradine of the altar will be chance to discover the riches of the inscribed the words from the cross on Church’s tradition could be shared more Newman’s grave: Ex umbris et widely?’ imaginibus in veritatem (‘out of shadows and images into the truth’) and on the ‘This is a challenge that has been taken up at Westminster. Jeremy de Satgé,’ [who is of course one of the Association’s own distinguished and leading lights!] ‘a musician whose own son is a chorister at the choir school, has launched a Westminster Diocesan Children’s Choir — open to any London child who wants to join. Advertised by posters and announcements in parishes, it now meets at the Choir School on Saturday mornings, and is steadily acquiring musical skills. There is enthusiasm, and even some modest official funding from Britain’s Department of Education program called

11 “Sing up!”, which encourages music for Liturgical Studies series in conjunction the young. with the Alcuin Club since 1987.

Dr Coultman adds that a copy of the IN THE SAME ISSUE OF THE BULLETIN Missale Ambrosianum can be obtained there is yet more material on the (cost about £80) from: Arcidiocesi di forthcoming new Mass translations, in Milano, servizio per la Pastorale the form of extensive interviews with Liturgica, Piazza Fontana 2, 20122 Cardinal Francis George of Chicago and Milano, . Fr Anthony Ward of the Congregation for Divine Worship. Also Helen Hull Hitchcock contributes a long article entitled ‘Liturgical Landmark: The New Online chant resources English Missal’. All of these can be seen at: http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cant www.adoremus.org/0710TOC greg/all_masses.html provides the music and a recording of all the Propers for Readers unable to access the full web every Sunday of the Year, and http:// address for Adoremus Bulletin articles musicasacra.com/communio/ amongst should go to www.adoremus.org , click on many other things allows one to ‘Archives’ (left-hand side of screen under download the Liber Usualis; it is a very ‘Adoremus Bulletin’) and then on the large file, however, and a fast and required month within year. reliable broadband connection is essential.

The Ambrosian Rite Et in Essentia Unitas We are grateful to Dr R Coultman for The May edition of Adoremus Bulletin sending us information about two carried a most instructive comparison of publications in the Joint Liturgical translations of the Preface of the Most Studies series, published by the Alcuin Holy Trinity, from 1957 to 2009. It is Club and The Group for Renewal of available online at Worship: Ambrosianum Mysterium: The Church of Milan and its Liturgical www.adoremus.org/0510Eucharist Tradition by Cesare Alzati, translated by PrayerPreface George Guiver. Volume I £5.95 and and certainly merits close examination. Volume II £9.90. Subsequent correspondence brought up the baffling omission of the word The Alcuin Club promotes the study of differentia in this Preface in the Missal Christian liturgy, especially the liturgy of Paul VI, something which, as far as of the Anglican Communion. The Group this editor knows, has never been for the Renewal of Worship, an satisfactorily explained; its absence Anglican group of some thirty years’ certainly spoils the prose rhythm of that standing, has been producing the Joint passage.

12 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [who would ask readers kindly to note that longer letters may have to be edited for reasons of space.]

Dear Sir I am always interested in various translations. I agree with Michael Morris Having read the article ‘Londinium that the Book of Common Prayer does Subterraneum’ in the latest newsletter, I have a deep sense of worship and thought that readers might be interested dignity, and it seems to me that the in hearing about Wallsend Station on the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Tyne and Wear Metro. The station is a could be taken direct from the Anglican few minutes’ walk from the remains of version. The Canon, of course could not; the fort which stood at the eastern end of one feels that Cranmer was never quite Hadrian’s wall (and the modern museum satisfied that he’d driven his point home on the site), and all the signs on the as to the notion of sacrifice. station are in both English and Latin. I suspect that this is true of no other But the archaic language could well be railway station. The Latin name of the retained, with its use of ‘thee’ and station is the name of the fort, ‘thou’, just as it is in the Our Father and Segedunum. There are ‘air-brushed’ Hail Mary. photographs of local streets on the In France everything takes on a political station walls, with the words on the shop ‘colour’, so that if you kneel and pray in fronts, road signs etc put into Latin. Latin you are classed by progressives as Philip Bell a Far Right collaborator, while if you Hitchen, Hertfordshire take communion in the hand, stand rather than kneel and like modern rhythmic hymns you are classed by Dear Sir traditionalist as being communist and I should hate to be deprived of the breath Masonic! It’s all much more virulent and of fresh air that the ALL Newsletter bitter than in the UK. I’m not quite sure always brings. It’s lively and broad- that our dear Pope Benedict, being by minded without being unorthodox, nature a teacher of deep thinking on a instructive without the slightest person-to-person basis, quite realises pedantry. what he has to contend with in some of the Lefebvrist priests. They hope to take This time I was most interested in all the the Church back to what she was before, reminiscences of the early post-conciliar whereas Benedict wishes to enrich both years. How I sympathise with those who tendencies, old and new, each humbly felt considerable angst: they certainly and gratefully accepting what is good in were years which tended to throw the other. Let us pray that with God’s people, especially converts, into a state grace he will succeed. of confusion. (I was interested to read that Tony Simons was received just a Rosalind Guinard few months before I was!). Gujan-Mestras, France

13 BOOK REVIEW Vita Communis—the Common Life of the Secular Clergy

FR J EROME B ERTRAM of the Oxford Miss Prism: “That is obviously the Oratory, already the author of numerous reason why the Primitive Church has books and other works, gives us in Vita not lasted up to the present day”. Communis a comprehensive survey of In passing I may say that Fr Bertram’s what has become in our day an even occasional flashes of dry wit made more important question than it already reading this book even more enjoyable was: what is the best way, practically, for me, though he also knows when to socially, spiritually and morally, for the refrain from saying too much. Although Catholic clergy to live? Together or they are not the province of this review, alone? Should they be collegiate or questions of clerical marriage, isolated? This deeply interesting and and chastity are inevitably key issues scholarly book provides the answers during some historical periods. We read, which can be drawn from history, and for example, that the Fourth Council of gives some useful pointers to how the Toledo in 633 laid down that ‘if the Church might proceed today in an age bishop discovers that any clerics have (as far as Europe is concerned, anyway) women living with them illegally, the of an increasingly severe shortage of bishop is to take them away and sell priests. Of course, we must bear in mind them’. The author wisely passes over when looking for the solution to our this startling revelation without further present difficulties in the light of the comment. past, that social conditions and understanding of human psychology To turn to more central matters, and one have in past ages been in many ways of importance to our readers, the author very different from what they are now. makes the following point early on: As Fr Bertram says at the outset: “When we consider what the clergy did ‘It is often pointed out that priests lived and how they lived in the early Church in community in the ‘early church’ but and at all times up to the late eighteenth the history of the Catholic Church in the century, we must get away from the past forty years has shown us very comparatively modern idea that their clearly that there is no point in reviving primary role was ‘pastoral’ – it was not, something that was done in the early it was cultic.” And again: “The role of church until we know why the later the cleric…is to serve the people in a church ceased to do it’. One is reminded church, and this service is primarily of the following, Anglican, exchange in liturgical. ‘Pastoral’ work in the modern The Importance of Being Earnest : sense of caring for those in need was not the task of the clergy in the early Canon Chasuble: “The precept as centuries, or indeed for long afterwards: well as the practice of the Primitive it was the responsibility of the entire Church was distinctly against Christian community. Clergy were matrimony”. 14 cultic: the minor orders were each and decadent music”, and in the 14th defined by their function in the liturgy, century the far-sighted Francesco, the role of the priest was to immolate the Bishop of Gubbia, explicitly forbad all sacrifice.” clergy to possess or play a guitar. On a more positive note, we have from the Readers with an interest in Latin as a statutes of the college of St Elizabeth in means of communication outside the Winchester, founded in 1301, detailed liturgy will also find useful material arrangements for divine worship. here, for example the contrast between “Matins of Our Lady is followed by the Latin of the Rule of Chrodegang Matins of the day, sung carefully (c.753): “Latin is here well on the way to without one side of the choir becoming a modern language, with the overlapping the end of the other choir’s appearance of a definite article (still verses, and with a pause in the middle of hovering between ille and ipse ) and very each verse. Every day there are to be hazy ideas about case endings for nouns sung Masses of the Blessed Virgin and and adjectives…” and the Latin of the St Elizabeth, two said Masses for the Institutio Canonica (816): “What is most dead and one of the Holy Spirit, noticeable about the text . . . is the followed by the High Mass . . .” immense superiority of its prose style. An improvement in Latin scholarship Later on, inevitably, the story becomes was, of course, a characteristic of more sombre with the rise of Charlemagne’s new Imperial style, and Protestantism, although the Counter- it was clear that the rough and ready Reformation is fully and positively dog-Latin of Chrodegang would not do”. treated. The second great blow to the There is no doubt that during the early collegiate life of the clergy, and one Middle Ages the greater involvement of from which it never really recovered, the church with secular power, the rise was given by the French Revolution and of the prebendal system and the by the parallel revolutions and anti- increasing wealth of the Church as a clerical movements in other European whole, became threats to earlier ideals of countries. a materially modest and well-disciplined Of all the numerous endeavours in the clerical life in community. The question community life of the secular clergy, as cannot be pursued within the bounds of opposed to monasticism, virtually the this review, but a sort of tidal pattern only one that has survived, and indeed emerges, of decay and reform, from flourished, is that of the Oratory of St century to century. Readers who know Philip Neri, to which the author belongs David Knowles’ books on the history of and to which he is naturally attached in English monasticism will be familiar more than one sense. The Oratorian with this phenomenon. model is particularly interesting in that Some of the interesting asides in this there are no vows as such, but it does book concern music. In 964 Edgar was offer the prospect of stability and of encouraging St Oswald of Worcester to mutual intellectual and social support for “eliminate the clerics with their filthy priests living together, and as such Fr Bertram offers it as a possible model on 15 a wider basis for the future of the remarkable achievement, and we are priestly life, one which would counteract greatly in his debt. the loneliness and isolation experienced Christopher Francis by many priests today, solitary in their presbyteries. Jerome Bertram Cong. Orat. Vita Communis: The Common Life of the Secular Clergy 316 pp Gracewing Fr Bertram’s marshalling of vast £15.99. amounts of evidence during all the succeeding periods of the church’s Also available in person (not mail order) history is exemplary. That he has from the Bookshop, the produced a totally readable, coherent opening times of which can be found at: and thought-provoking account is a www.oxfordoratory.org.uk/contact.php

SPRING MEETING 2010 at Farnborough Abbey

olemn Mass was S celebrated by Dom Cuthbert Brogan OSB for the feast of St Joseph the Worker, particularly apt as the abbey houses the National Shrine to St Joseph. A small schola sang the Mass Propers and led the congregation in Mass no I, Lux et Origo. The famous Cavaillé-Coll organ was played by the abbey's organist, Neil Wright. After lunch we were given a talk on the history of the abbey by the abbot, including a visit to the crypt to see the tombs of Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie. Refreshments were taken in the guesthouse on the abbey's farm where we were delighted to see a couple of lambs born only hours before our arrival. This most interesting day concluded with First Vespers of the Fifth Sunday of Easter.

16 The Funeral of John Henry Cardinal Newman

t 7.30pm on Wednesday, 11th A August, Mass was celebrated at the to mark the 120th anniversary of the death of its founder. For press and public, the occasion of his funeral, on 19th August 1890, could hardly have been in greater contrast to the early days of the Birmingham and London Oratories, forty years before. Both Newman and Faber were reporting large numbers at each of several Sunday Memorial tablet: Birmingham Oratory cloisters Masses. But ‘Papal Aggression’— Over the years, of course, anti-Catholic perceived by the Establishment to be feeling diminished but, as late as 1884, evidenced in Wiseman’s remarkably The Times , commenting on the opening triumphalist letter of October 1850 ‘out of the Brompton Oratory, found it of the Flaminian Gate of Rome’— necessary to warn that ‘. . . this need not fuelled intemperate speeches in be taken as showing any new leaning on parliament, angry letters to The Times , the part of England towards the Church and some seven thousand public of Rome, or as holding out the slightest meetings across the country. In the 1st probability that she would ever return to November edition of Punch a cartoon it . . .’ entitled ‘The Guy Fawkes of 1850’ depicted the newly-appointed Cardinal Reporting Cardinal Newman’s funeral, Wiseman and the ex-Anglican Newman The Times was restrained and respectful: behind a guy-masked Pius IX. “The funeral services which have The following year, in one of his extended over the greater part of the ‘Lectures on the Present Position of week that has elapsed since Cardinal Catholics in England’, Newman referred Newman's death were brought to a close to ‘a clergyman of the Establishment’ yesterday with a solemn Pontifical Mass who had told his congregation that and Requiem at the Oratory Church, ‘transportation was too good for us, and Edgbaston, followed by a shorter funeral he thought we all ought to be put to service at Rednal, where the remains of death’. Could this have been The Rev the Cardinal were then interred. Mr Aytoun whose poem, published in “The Birmingham Oratory, never rich the Christian Times in January 1851, in light or artistic beauty, had more than included the following lines? its natural gloom upon it yesterday. [The ‘The cup of sorcery in thy hand, beautiful present church was built as a Still in the same array memorial to Newman 20 years after his As when our fathers, in their wrath, death.] From earliest dawn Masses had Dashed it and thee away?’ been offered up without interruption at

17 the numerous altars, stripped of all but open, glass-panelled hearse, drawn by the imperative ecclesiastical adornment. four horses, which awaited it outside. In the centre of a space cleared in front Here a numerous, but patient and of the chancel lay the coffin of the reverent, crowd had assembled, while Cardinal. A black cloth covered the the sides of the road were lined with floor, and the unpretending bier was vehicles of every description, containing draped in sombre harmony with its persons anxious to witness the departure surroundings. Over the coffin lay a or follow in the track of the funeral purple velvet pall, relieved by a cross procession. Some 30 policemen bordered with gold, and four tall tapers accompanied and cleared the way for the burnt at each corner. There was nothing procession. The distance to Rednal is more, either of ecclesiastical pomp or about seven miles, and along a great part ostentatious display, and the only patch of the route, more particularly in the of brightness was the scarlet biretta neighbourhood of Edgbaston and placed at the foot of the coffin. Just Northfield, were scattered groups of above it, on the pall, lay the Cardinal's silent spectators, who uncovered as the hat, with its heavy tassels, but beyond cortege passed. There were nine this there was nothing to denote that any mourning carriages for the one of more than ordinary fame lay accommodation of the invited guests, waiting his interment. but a score or more of other vehicles “After the pall had been removed the joined in the procession. It is estimated coffin was seen to be of plain polished that in the neighbourhood of the Oratory oak with brass mountings, and the alone the crowd must have numbered inscription under the Cardinal's arms is nearly 20,000 persons .” as follows: ``Eminentissimus et reverend-issimus Joannes Henricus Newman, Cardinalis Diaconus S. Georgii in Velabro. Obiit die xi. Augusti, MDCCCXC. R.I.P." The Cardinal's arms on the pedestal beneath consist simply of three hearts, with the motto, ``Cor ad cor loquitur," and the Cardinal's hat surmounting them. “The Bishop of Clifton, who had been selected as preacher as being the oldest prelate present, and, moreover, as one who had been intimately associated with the deceased Cardinal for a great number of years, read his sermon, which This sketch, from the Daily Graphic of occupied over three-quarters of an hour, 20th August 1890, of the start of the in a voice occasionally quite indistinct funeral procession to Rednal, shows how through emotion. little the external appearance of the “On the conclusion of the church Oratory has changed in 120 years. ceremony the coffin was removed to the Mike Withers

18 SOME TEXTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION I: From the Rule of St Benedict ‘Alleluia’ quibus temporibus dicatur

t Benedict, in Chapter XV of vero nunquam dicantur cum Alleluia, S his Rule , specifies at what nisi a Pascha usque ad Pentecosten. seasons ‘Alleluia’ should be said. A sancto Pascha usque ad Given the immense importance of the Pentecosten sine intermissione Rule there have naturally been several translations into English of Benedict’s dicatur ‘Alleluia’, tam in psalmis, work. One of the earlier versions is that quam in responsoriis. So, from published by Washbourne in 1875, the Easter to Pentecost, and the quam… title page of which reads ‘The Rule of tam we might express by ‘as with the Our Most Holy Father St Benedict, psalms, so with the responsories’. Patriarch of Monks, From the old The next liturgical season is from English edition of 1638, edited in Latin Whitsun to the beginning of Lent, where, at the night office, only the last six psalms have Alleluia: A Pentecoste usque ad caput Quadragesimae omnibus noctibus, cum sex posterioribus psalmis tantum ad nocturnos dicatur. Then there is the general rule for Sundays, except in Lent: Omni vero Dominica extra Quadragesimam, Cantica Matutini, Prima, Tertia, Sexta, Nonaque [that is, the canticles of matins and all the other night and day-time offices] cum Alleluia dicantur. For Vespers, though, there is a different procedure, for Benedict says that it must be said with St Benedict antiphons – Vespera vero cum detail of fresco by Fra Angelico c. 1440 antiphonis. Finally (and this covers Museo di San Marco, Florence every season except the one he and English by one of the Benedictine mentioned at the beginning) he lays fathers of St Michael’s, near Hereford’, down that except from Easter to the establishment more familiarly known Pentecost, the responsories are never to us as Belmont Abbey. In that edition, to be said with Alleluia: Responsoria in the chapter just discussed, the Latin word Vespera is translated as ‘Even-

19 song’, a word which now has wholly apostle – sciens illam terribilem Apostoli Anglican connotations, which was sententiam dicentis – that such a one is originally not the case at all. delivered over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit Benedict was very much a practical man, may be saved in the day of the Lord: recognising the importance of discipline traditum huiusmodi hominem Satanae in in a community, and, as another chapter interitum carnis, ut spiritus salvus sit in (XXV) illustrates, while always fair, was die Domini. rigorous when the situation called for it: De gravioribus culpis As Dom David Knowles remarked, ‘the spirit of the Rule is a spirit of order and The Brother who is guilty of more of the forming of nature to receive grace grievous faults – qui gravioris culpis by way of gentle, steady growth’. noxa tenetur – should be barred from both the common meal table and [more Although St Benedict certainly speaks surprisingly perhaps] from the place of ‘as one having authority’, we should community prayer: suspendatur a mensa note that in Chapter LX his rule makes it simul et ab oratorio. Then this: nullus ei clear that the Abbot is not normally a fratrum in ullo jungatur consortio, priest, and that a priest in the community neque in colloquio. This is what we is entirely subservient to the Abbot: sciat would call, to put it crudely, ‘sending se omnem Regulae disciplinam him to Coventry’; literally, let none of servaturum, nec aliquid ei relaxabitur - the brethren keep him company, or talk let him know that he will have to to him. Instead, cibi autem refectionem observe the full discipline of the Rule, solus percipiat – let him take his portion and that no relaxation will be made for of food alone – mensura vel hora qua him. praeviderit ei Abbas competere – in such measure and at such a time as the Abbot In time, of course, the evolution of the shall deem suitable – and let no-one who Benedictine Order began to modify these passes by bless him or the food which is original dispositions. given to him – nec a quoquam Christopher Francis benedicatur transeunte, nec cibus qui ei datur. Of course we do not know exactly what sort of mischief these gravioribus culpis might consist of, but Moving house? Benedict and his readers would have had a pretty clear notion; nothing trivial, certainly, because the offender is to be alone at the work allocated to him ( solus sit ad opus sibi injunctum ) in penitential sorrow ( in paenitentiae luctu ). St Benedict, ever scripturally minded, pushes the point home with I Please tell the Membership Corinthians v 1: the erring brother must contemplate that terrible sentence of the Secretary

20 An echo from the Bad Old Days The following recently came to light in our archives. It was certainly not intended quite seriously at the time, and we reprint it now not without a slight feeling of trepidation. Satirical it may be, but it does bring back the flavour of the period, as those who were there at the time will appreciate. For those young enough to have escaped the seventies, it will give a whiff of the times, quite sufficient to indicate just how ghastly they were. RELIGIOUS BOOKS FOR 1977: OUR SELECTION BY ‘NIHIL OBSTAT’

GOD AND THE MOTORIST by the There has long been a need for a book Revd. Alphonse Teilhard-Bugatti S.J. explaining not so much the actual (Faith Trend £2.50) content of the Sunday readings as the Your car and the God/man relationship, infinitely more absorbing and the place of the rear-view mirror in complicated matter of the selection of Christian existentialist thought, the optional readings. Now that the new 17- moral theology of zebra crossings, the year lectionary cycle, produced by the religio-social relevance of Belisha Vatican’s Congregation for the Beacons, and an analysis of trans- Proliferation of Liturgical Flux, is about denominational driving characteristics to come into force, the need for a are among the topics amusingly treated concise guide is even more urgent, and by this popular and well-known author, Fr. Crumm’s book fulfils the who is a member of the Vatican’s requirement admirably. The price is Commission for Motorised rather high, but as the author suggests on Evangelisation of Service Areas. He the dust-jacket, the scripturally-minded includes extracts from the Encyclical parish priest can always raid the Holy ‘De Motorum Conducto’, and there is an Souls and Foreign Mission boxes, appendix in which the superstitious cult assuming his church still possesses of St Christopher is neatly ridiculed by them. In the Guide, such questions as Mgr. Marcel Fausse-Choix, Bishop of whether on the 16th Sunday of the Year Rideau-entre-les-deux-Champignons, (formerly Easter Day) the 7th reading who is himself a noted motorist. should be chosen from Year 13 or 14 in a leap year are ably dealt with. It is a Altogether, here is a volume calculated pity, though, that the many alternative to instil new spirit into the Christian as readings for the new feast of Yom he speeds down the outside lane of the Kippur are not accorded a fuller Great Motorway of Life. treatment. THE SIMPLE-MINDED CATHOLIC’S ALSO RECEIVED GUIDE TO THE SUNDAY READINGS by Fr. B. Crumm Soc. M, HAPPY SONGS FOR HOLY PEOPLE J, J, & St. Fr. X. (Newprayer by Chris Curlew (Merry Christian Music Publications £13.75) £7.99) Parts for guitar, pan-pipes, 21 synthesiser, drums and marimba [but not 500 Green stamps) for organ] are also available. WE SHALL OVERCOME: the thrilling OVER-REACTION IN THE story of the suppression of the lace cotta PATRIARCHAL GROUP SITUATION among the American clergy, by the Very – a study of the Council of Trent, by the Revd. Joseph C. Bandwaggon. Revd. Abraham P. Summerbummer D. (Shoddypubs. Inc N.Y. $4.50) Phil. (American Institute for Theological Insight $16.95) THE WORD SET FREE: Why the Vernacular Liturgy means ever-greater THE RITE OF BLESSING A Mass attendance. By Mgr. J.D. TELEVISION (Catholic Crashingbore (Crutchley and Junket Telecommunications Institute 25p or £6.95)

FR ADRIAN FORTESCUE n the next few editions of Latin letters in a biographical or historical I Liturgy , starting here, we shall context, as there are experts on be publishing in facsimile ten Fortescue who will be able do that autograph letters of Fr Adrian more precisely than we can. Readers Fortescue (1874-1923). should note that these letters will appear only in the print edition, and Famous into our own time for his will not be available on the website, many important books, among them either now or in the future. The Ceremonies of the Described (1917, many times The copyright of these letters revised), The Mass: A Study of the remains with the Editor, from Roman Liturgy (1912) and The whom any permission to reproduce Uniate Eastern Churches (1923), them by any means, or to quote Adrian Fortescue was a remarkable from them, must be obtained in figure, and as these letters show writing. (they have never before been seen The first letter reproduced is dated outside the family of the recipient) ‘St John of Beverley 1901’, and the had a markedly humorous (and second 6th June in the same year. In sometimes mischievous!) side to his the original of the first letter the character. They were written in 1901 words ‘three glasses of port’, ‘quite and 1902 to Cecil Mallaby Firth, the civil’, ‘9.30 pm’, ‘walked’ and distinguished British Egyptologist ‘comb my hair’ are written in bright (1878-1931) and passed in due red ink. The drawing of the peony is course to his daughter. in the same black ink as the rest of We are not attempting to put the the letter. 22

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Fr Adrian Fortescue from ‘Adrian Fortescue: A Memoir’ by John G. Vance and J. W. Fortescue

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