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!

THREE REQUIEM MASSES

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.


Posted on Monday, June 13, 2022
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