A SHIP TOSSED BY WAVES

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!

A SHIP TOSSED BY WAVES

Members of our beloved Order, with its long maritime history fighting the forces of Evil in the form of our fellow men, will have no trouble relating their spiritual lives to the Gospel of last Sunday, the small boat on the Sea of Galilee overcome by waves as Our Lord slept. We live again in such times today, both in the Church, and in our Order.

Many of our readers, especially those who have been to Lourdes or worked in the Spanish Place Soup Kitchen, will know the Reverend Gwilym Evans, former Master of Music of the Grand Priory, and now a Deacon, to be ordained Priest, Deo volente, in June this year. Pray for him.

The video below is the stirring homily on Holy Mother Church and Christian Hope he preached last Sunday at the Masses at the shrine church of St Mary's Warrington – "This boat cannot sink!"

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