OBSEQUIES FOR GILES CANON GOWARD

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!

OBSEQUIES FOR GILES CANON GOWARD

The Requiem Mass for our late confrere, Chaplain of Magistral Obedience, the Very Reverend Giles Canon Goward, twenty-fifth Rector of St Mary's College Oscott, will be held tomorrow, Monday 8th February, at Noon.

The Order will be formally represented in Choir by our confrere Andrew Grant. Numbers, due to Covid, will be limited.

The Mass may be followed live on YouTube, by CLICKING HERE. The photograph above shows the lying-in this evening in the Pugin chapel of the College.

Canon Goward died a holy death, fortified by the Sacraments and surrounded in his last hours by groups of his seminarians reciting the Holy Rosary around his bed in the College. Vespers of the Dead were sung in the Chapel that evening, in the presence of His Grace the Archbishop. Please pray for the repose of the Canon's soul, for his Seminarians and the community of the College, and for his family.

Requiescat in pace.

PRAYER OF THE ORDER OF MALTA

Lord Jesus, Thou hast seen fit to enlist me for Thy service among the Knights of St John of Jerusalem. I humbly entreat Thee through the intercession of the most holy Virgin of Philermo, of St John the Baptist, Blessed Gerard and all the Saints, to keep me faithful to the traditions of our Order. Be it mine to practise and defend the Catholic, the Apostolic, the Roman faith against the enemies of religion: be it mine to practise charity towards my neighbours, especially the poor and the sick; Give me the strength I need to carry out this my resolve, forgetful of myself, learning ever from Thy holy Gospel a spirit of deep and generous Christian devotion, striving ever to promote God’s glory, the world’s peace, and all that may benefit the Order of St John of Jerusalem. AMEN