Over then last few weeks the Order has celebrated Requiem Masses for some of our late brethren. Father Michael Lang, of the London Oratory, celebrated a Mass in the Chapter Room at Golden Square for the rose of the souls of Desmond Seward, Knight of Grace and Devotion in Obedience, and Herbert Coutts, Magistral Grace in Obedience, on Monday 22nd May. On Tuesday 2nd June, in die obitus, Father John Hemer MHM offered Mass for the repose of the soul of Sir George Bowyer, benefactor and founder of our Conventual Church in London and founder of the British Association.
On Saturday 28th May many members of the Order gathered at Goring-on-Thames for Mass in the parish church of our late Chaplain Mgr Antony Conlon, the first visit we have been able to make collectively following Covid, the celebrant being his successor, Father Kenneth Macnab, who generously gave the meditations. Following a suitably convivial lunch in the new parish hall complete in Fr Antony's memory, we processed to his grave for Absolutions supra tumulum.
REQUIEM AETERNAM DONA EIS DOMINE:
ET LUX PERPETUA LUCEAT EIS.
REQUIESCANT IN PACE.
