As Cardinal Mercier said : "When prudence is everywhere, courage is nowhere."                                                                                  From Cardinal Sarah : "In order to avoid hearing God's music, we have chosen to use all the devices of this world. But heaven's instruments will not stop playing just because some people are deaf."                                                                                              Saint John-Paul II wrote: "The fact that one can die for the faith shows that other demands of the faith can also be met."                                                 Cardinal Müller says, “For the real danger to today’s humanity is the greenhouse gases of sin and the global warming of unbelief and the decay of morality when no one knows and teaches the difference between good and evil.”                                                  St Catherine of Siena said, “We've had enough exhortations to be silent. Cry out with a thousand tongues - I see the world is rotten because of silence.”                                                  Chesterton said, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”                                                Brethren, Wake up!

FEAST OF OUR LADY OF WALSINGHAM

Feasts are coming thick and fast, this week. Tomorrow is the Feast of Our Lady of Walsingham, the principal shrine of England, and one dear to the heart of the Order of Malta, being our second oldest regular annual pilgrimage accompanied by Malades – Our Lords the Sick. This day was previously the feast of Our Lady of Ransom, established in the 13th century (with the Order of Mercedarians) to free captives from the Turks, another apostolate close to the hearts of our own Order. This feast is, in England, effectively subsumed into the Walsingham devotion. Our Lady of Walsingham frees souls captured in sin and error, with our prayers.

In a spirit of oecumenism, we give below the Collect of the Mass as authorised by Pope Francis for use in the Ordinariate Missal, which is based upon that authorised for the Shrine of the Holy House of Loreto by Pope Innocent XII, and adapted for Anglican use by the great liturgist and anglo-papalist (Fr) Henry Fynes-Clinton, guardian and benefactor of the Anglican shrine.
O GOD, who, through the mystery of the Word made flesh, didst in thy mercy sanctify the house of the Blessed Virgin Mary: do thou grant that we may keep aloof from the tabernacle of sinners, and become worthy indwellers of thy house, through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, every one God, world without end. Amen.
The photograph above shows the Westminster diocesan shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham at Corpus Christi Maiden Lane. This is itself a loose copy of the altar of the Holy House of Loreto, and was designed by a member of our Order.

Our Lady of Walsingham, pray for us.
Our Lady of Ransom, pray for us.
Our Lady of Philermo, pray for us.
Posted on Sunday, September 23, 2018
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