The Burning Babe, by St Robert Southwell SJ (1561-1595, martyr)

 
The Burning Babe, by St Robert Southwell SJ (1561-1595, martyr)

"As I in hoary winter’s night stood shivering in the snow, Surpris’d I was with sudden heat which made my heart to glow; And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near, A pretty Babe all burning bright did in the air appear;

Who, scorched with excessive heat, such floods of tears did shed; As though his floods should quench his flames which with his tears were fed. “Alas!” quoth he, “but newly born, in fiery heats I fry, Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my fire but I!

My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns, Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns; The fuel Justice layeth on, and Mercy blows the coals, The metal in this furnace wrought are men’s defiled souls, For which, as now on fire I am to work them to their good, So will I melt into a bath to wash them in my blood."

With this he vanish’d out of sight and swiftly shrunk away, And straight I called unto mind that it was Christmas day."

The Alma Redemptoris Mater (Simple Tone)

The Alma Redemptoris Mater

Sung from the first Sunday of Advent until the Feast of the Purification on February 2 (the original ending date of the Christmas season), this prayer tells of Gabriel’s announcement, and of Mary’s divine motherhood.

Alma Redemptoris Mater, quae pervia caeli porta manes et stella maris, succurre cadenti, surgere qui curat, populo: tu quae genuisti, natura mirante, tuum sanctum genitorem, Virgo prius, ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore sumens illud ave, peccatorum miserere.

This translation is by the Reverend Adrian Fortescue, 1913:

Holy mother of our Redeemer, thou gate leading to heaven and star of the sea; help the falling people who seek to rise, thou who, all nature wondering, didst give birth to thy holy Creator. Virgin always, hearing the greeting from Gabriel’s lips, take pity on sinners.

Third Secret of Fatima: Who is the Bishop in White?

Was Third Secret fully revealed? Who is the "bishop in white"? This is a line by line analysis of the Third Secret of Fatima (released in 2000) with commentary about the missing part of the Third Secret (3b) by Dr Taylor Marshall and Timothy Gordon. We examine the words of Malachi Martin, Sister Lucia, John XXIII, Ratzinger, John Paul II, and others.


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Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society

H/t to https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/:-

"It's been a long-held popular belief that Christmas is the day when the most souls are released from Purgatory. 

Please send the names of your deceased loved ones before Christmas Day. As long as they're in our inbox they're enrolled in the Society perpetually (if you've sent them in before, don't send them in again). 

Enroll them in time for Christmas then consider making your Christmas Mass offertory intention for the relief of all the souls enrolled in the Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society.

Priests: The Souls still need more of you saying Mass for them! Please email me to offer your services. There's nothing special involved -- all you need to do is offer a weekly or monthly TLM with the intention: "For the Souls enrolled in the Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society."

How to enroll souls: please email me at athanasiuscatholic@yahoo.com and submit as follows: "Name, State, Country." If you want to enroll entire families, simply write in the email: "The Jones family, Ohio, USA". Individual names are preferred. Be greedy -- send in as many as you wish and forward this posting to friends as well."

UPDATED Good News the First Wednesday (5th Dec) EF Mass at St. Gregory's Cheltenhamis BACK IN THE MAIN CHURCH

UPDATED

There was a good attendance on Wednesday, at least 20 more than the last few months!!

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After many months the Traditional Mass (Low Mass) will return to the main Church at 7pm on Wednesday 5th December, the celebrant will be Fr. Goodman of the Diocese of Clifton.

The Old Rite first re-appeared at St. Gregory's in 2008 - see here.

The Transalpine Redemptorists are Always Getting Vocations - A Video of a Final Profession From a Few Years Ago

The FSSR have plentiful vocations,"On August 15th 2010, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, Br. Martin Mary, F.SS.R. made his final vows in the Congregation of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer on Papa Stronsay. His mother, father, sister and two brothers were also there for the occasion, and his father and brothers sung in the schola. This video is mostly made up of clips from the ceremony. In the evening we held our annual bonfire and BBQ, to which the residents of Stronsay are also invited, to celebrate the profession and the feast." (From the fssr Youtube Channel).

Who are the FSSR? 

From:- http://www.papastronsay.com/ "In 1999 after an unknown break that could have been as long or longer than 700 years, the wilderness rejoiced as the little Priests' Island of Papa Stronsay became inhabited again by priests and monks, the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (Transalpine Redemptorists). After many centuries the holy Mass is offered again on this island in the same Latin language as by the Irish monks who lived here over a thousand years ago, and as the Viking priests living here at the time of the Orkneinga Saga. It is true that if they appeared here we could neither speak to them in Old Norse nor in a Celtic tongue but the language and the actions of our Masses would be perfectly understood; so we could pray together as members of the same Mystical Body of Christ that knows a living unity that transcends the limits of time. It is a privilege to continue the Holy Mass here on the island that was the site of the most northerly early Christian monastery ever found. From this holy desert, the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, leave their contemplative life and set out on voyages, from this island in the North Sea, like so many Irish or Viking monks, to preach the Eternal Truths in the form of Missions wherever they are invited; which means in any part of the world. They also spread devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Succour and pray for the holy souls in Purgatory. Fundamentally our message is this: Remember O Christian soul that time passes quickly and you too must soon die, be judged and enter into your eternity of heaven or hell. You have only one soul to save; that is your chief, nay your only work. For what does it profit you if, by your work, you gain the whole world which must soon end, and lose your immortal soul in an eternity of sufferings that will never end. What exchange can you give for your soul? There is none.

At all cost then, save your soul. Lead the life of a good Catholic (for there are many bad Catholics who will lose their souls). Avoid sin and the dangerous occasions of sin, go frequestly to Confession and Holy Communion. To save your soul, to save your immortal soul: That is your only work. Do it with great love and care and invoke the assistance of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour to help you."

"Fr. Anthony Mary FSSR - "Anointed"

From the FSSR Youtube channel:-

"The Film Team have been at it again in Christchurch, New Zealand, where we run the Latin Mass Chaplaincy for the Diocese from our Monastery. This time they have produced a beautiful interview with Fr Anthony Mary, F.SS.R., the chaplain, to commemorate his 25th Anniversary of Ordination to the sacred priesthood. To find out more about the Sons of the Most holy Redeemer, you can check out our blog: http://papastronsay.blogspot.co.uk/ Our Website: http://papastronsay.com Our Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Transalpine-... For more information, photos and videos from the Latin Mass Chaplaincy in Christchurch, New Zealand, see our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/LatinMassChannel"

For more Papa Stronsay videos see:-

https://youngcatholicadults-latestnews.blogspot.com/2018/11/papa-stronsay-calendar-2019-out-now_23.html

https://youngcatholicadults-latestnews.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-does-church-use-latin.html