A Solemn Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary of all connected to Young Catholic Adults

 

A Solemn Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary of all connected to Young Catholic Adults events and media sites:-
                                             
Most Holy Virgin Mary, tender Mother of men, to fulfill the desires of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the request of the Vicar of Your Son on earth, we consecrate ourselves and our families (and all connected to Young Catholic Adults) to your Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart, O Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and we recommend to You, all the people of our country and all the world.

Please accept our consecration, dearest Mother, and use us as You wish to accomplish Your designs in the world.

O Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary, and Queen of the World, rule over us, together with the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, Our King. Save us from the spreading flood of modern paganism; kindle in our hearts and homes the love of purity, the practice of a virtuous life, an ardent zeal for souls, and a desire to pray the Rosary more faithfully.

We come with confidence to You, O Throne of Grace and Mother of Fair Love. Inflame us with the same Divine Fire which has inflamed Your own Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart. Make our hearts and homes Your shrine, and through us, make the Heart of Jesus, together with your rule, triumph in every heart and home.

Amen.

Scientific Evidence Of Host Particles Walked On In Catholic Churches

A wonderful blog post can be seen below from: http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com:-

"Whether you are a traditional Catholic or a progressive modernist Catholic, you should at least care that  particles of Jesus from the Holy Communion are falling on the ground and being stomped on all the time in Catholic Churches through out the world.  Here is the scientific proof.  You can see the white particle on the upper right hand side of the paten.I left this particle on the paten after giving Holy Communion this morning at Holy Latin Mass to take a picture of it.  I did this so to show the world scientific proof that large particles, like this one, are falling on the ground and being walked on in most Catholic churches that do not have patens to catch these particles.

I left the paten in a protected area on the altar until after Holy Mass so that I could take the picture of it.  I them consumed the particle and purified the paten.  It is quite often that I see these particles and carefully brush them off the paten into the chalice after the altar boys pass the paten to me at the end of Holy Communion.

All over the world where I travel, the only place I still see patens being used is in Mexico.  Here in the United States the use of a paten is very rare and considered “extreme traditionalism”.  Jesus is dropped on the floor, walked on, to make sure we are not “traditionalist”.

The exact same thing happens when the Holy Communion is given in the hand.  Wear black cotton gloves the next time you receive Jesus on the hand.  You will see tiny specks and large specks depending on what comes when the host is given.

Again, permission to receive Holy Communion in the hand is an Indult (out of the ordinary permission to do and can be revoked at any time). It was given to some countries where, in disobedience, some priest began copying protestants.  The protestants purposely  receive the bread in the hand to show that it is not God/Jesus in the bread they eat at their  services.

Let us all pray for an end of the walking of God on the floor of Catholic Churches. And we can start by receiving Jesus humbly on the tongue kneeling down.  Copy this picture and give it to your parish priest.  Ask him if he has seen large particles fall too.

Forgive us Jesus for not loving you and protecting you from sacrilegious tramplings underfoot."

H/t to:- http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2014/05/03/scientific-evidence-of-host-particles-stomped-on-in-catholic-churches/

Churches celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass will be able to have a special Mass for the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Fatima.

By Attributed to Joshua Benoliel - http://www.santuario-fatima.pt in Ilustração Portuguesa no. 610,
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News from Prinknash Abbey today: the EF Low Mass on Saturday 13th at 11am will be a Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The email states:-

"Churches celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass will be able to have a special Mass for the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Fatima. The Vatican has issued a decree allowing the celebration of a Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on May 13, instead of the commemoration of St. Robert Bellarmine found in the 1962 Missal."

Cheltenham Young Catholic Adults - May 2017 Events

Sat 20th May - 2pm Social - Steam and Real Ale Festival at Cheltenham Racecourse.  (text 07908105787 for more details)

Thursday 25th May at 7pm - Low Mass, The Ascension (EF) at St. Gregory's Church, Cheltenham (GL50 3PR), preceeded by a Rosary and confessions - the Rosary and the serving are organised by Cheltenham Young Catholic Adults.


PLEASE NOTE - the Ascension is no longer a Holy Day of Obligation in England and Wales.

Tags: Cheltenham Young Catholic Adults,  Old Rite Mass, Social.

EWTN to Air the Message of Fatima – Month by Month, Message by Message

From https://insideewtn.wordpress.com:-

"The Miracle of the Sun occurred on Oct. 13, 1917, during the sixth and final monthly apparition of Our Lady of Fatima to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal. A torrential rain had been falling. The ground became extremely muddy. Everything and everyone was soaked. The sun, which began zigzagging in the heavens and throwing off many colors, suddenly appeared to become unhinged from the sky and to hurtle down towards the earth. People screamed in fright. And then, in an instant, the sun returned to the heavens and the ground and everyone standing on it was completely dry.

During this 100^th anniversary year, the Church invites her children to return to Fatima. To assist in this effort, EWTN is premiering a blockbuster mini-series, “The Message of Fatima.” Over the next six months, viewers will have the opportunity to experience the six apparitions, month by month, message by message.

Not everyone knows that an Angel appeared to the three shepherd children in 1916 to prepare them for the apparitions from the Mother of God the following year. Episode 1 of this important docu-drama, which airs at 6:30 p.m. ET, Wednesday, May 10, prepares viewers for what is to come by conveying the Angel’s messages. At 8 p.m. ET that same evening, Fr. Mitch Pacwa will interview Writer/Director Mazzeo on “EWTN Live.”

Then, just as at Fatima in 1917, EWTN will air an account of one of the six apparitions on the 13^th of the same month in which they originally occurred. Each monthly episode will begin at 6:30 p.m. ET, beginning Saturday, May 13 and ending Friday, Oct. 13 with the Miracle of the Sun.

Filmed on location in Fatima, the series will feature reenactments by children who look stunningly like the original seers, expert commentary, an original score, authentic costumes, and settings such as the church in which the Fatima seers were baptized, went to their first Confession, and received their First Holy Communion.

Despite the supernatural subject of the series or, more likely because of it, filming hasn’t been easy. As Fr. Louis Marie O.P., Promoter General of the Rosary, one of the film’s experts, told Mazzeo: “If you’re working for Our Lady, the devil will attack you.”

Mazzeo said he soon realized that falling into bed after a hard day of filming and forgetting to say his rosary was not a good idea! “I got attacked by a group of mosquitoes and my face swelled up really huge,” he said. “Also, the audio didn’t record one morning, so we had to shoot the whole thing again.”

After incidents like the above, Mazzeo said the crew became “very particular to say our prayers.” And they paid off. “I’m sure there’s been a spiritual battle over the program, but I think we’re winning it.”

Mazzeo said he hopes viewers will take away a greater belief and knowledge of the message of Fatima. “I always try to go for the wow factor and I think Our Lady has helped a lot with that.”
But while the mini-series is entertaining, it is also important.

“Pope Benedict XVI said, “We would be mistaken to think that Fatima’s prophetic mission is complete,” Mazzeo said. “The message will continue to be lived out as long as there are people on earth. It’s a private revelation, so we don’t have to believe it, but it does lead us to and re-emphasize the deposit of faith. I cannot say for sure that anything will happen this year, but I believe that the message of Fatima is not finished yet. The prophesies are ongoing.”

H/t to https://insideewtn.wordpress.com. See more at:- https://insideewtn.wordpress.com/2017/05/04/ewtn-to-air-the-message-of-fatima-month-by-month-message-by-message/

May the Marian Month - 'Bring Flowers of the Rarest'

From wikipedia:-

"Canon Sydney Alfred MacEwan above (19 October 1908 – 25 September 1991)^[1] was a Scottish tenor, who sang traditional Scottish and Irish songs.^[2]

He was born and brought up in the Springburn area of Glasgow by his mother alone, after his father left the family. Sydney was the younger of two brothers.

At the age of 18, Sydney MacEwan entered training to become a Jesuit priest at Manresa House in Roehampton, London, but left after a deeply unsatisfactory first term. He chose to study at Glasgow University instead. While at university, his vocal talents were noticed and he began a singing career on the advice of Sir Compton Mackenzie and John McCormack. He began recording for Parlophone in 1934 while still attending the Royal Academy of Music in London. He toured in 1936, playing to audiences in Canada, the United States and Australia, and the tour was repeated in 1938. However, throughout his life MacEwan had retained a deep love of the Catholic Church and, despite his earlier experience with the Jesuits, chose to abandon his fame and success to enter the Pontifical Scots College in Rome, to follow his vocation to become a priest. He was ordained in St Andrew's Cathedral, Glasgow in 1944 and celebrated his first Mass at St Aloysius' Church.

He nonetheless continued to record and tour. Further trips to North America and Australia took place until as late as 1956; those concerts helping to provide funding for the building of St Columba's Cathedral in Oban. He helped with funds to renovate the Church of St Margaret's in Lochgilphead, in Argyll, where he was parish priest for 17 years before moving to St Andrew's Church in Rothesay. A stained glass window in the church in Lochgilphead is dedicated to the MacEwan family. He was featured on the BBC's This Is Your Life programme in October 1962 and his autobiography, On the High C's, was published in 1973.... He spent his later years as retired priest, assisting when necessary at Our Lady and St Mun's church in Dunoon.^"

Great News! New Oratory at Bournemouth to begin!

By Didier Descouens - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, 

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News was announced yesterday of the start of the new Oratory at the Sacred Heart Church in Bournemouth which will begin on 31 May. Canon Peter Edwards, Fr. Dominic Jacob, and a student brother will form the initial community. The Sacred Heart is an ideal location for an Oratory, being in the centre of town, just off Richmond Hill.

Bournemouth is in the Diocese of Portsmouth and Bishop Egan has given his warm encouragement to the formation of the new Oratory.

Fr David Hutton was to have been one of the members of the oratory in formation but sadly he became seriously ill. He was clothed in the Oratorian habit in January and died on the feast of his patron St David, on 1 March this year. (See: obituary notice.) Please remember him in your prayers and please pray for the success of the new Oratory.

H/t (and welcome back! to the irrepressible Fr. Tim Finigan at http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.co.uk)

"In the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within." Bella Dodd (Former High Ranking Official in the American Communist Party)

Have you ever wondered why the Church is in a state of confusion today? Bella Dodd a former Communist leader explains why.

Speaking as a former high ranking official of the American Communist Party, Mrs. [Bella] Dodd said:

"In the 1930s we put eleven hundred men into the priesthood in order to destroy the Church from within." The idea was for these men to be ordained and progress to positions of influence and authority as Monsignors and Bishops. A dozen years before Vatican II she stated that: "Right now they are in the highest places in the Church” — where they were working to bring about change in order to weaken the Church's effectiveness against Communism. She also said that these changes would be so drastic that "you will not recognise the Catholic Church."

The whole idea was to destroy, not the institution of the Church, but rather the Faith of the people, and even use the institution of the Church, if possible, to destroy the Faith through the promotion of a pseudo-religion: something that resembled Catholicism but was not the real thing. Once the Faith was destroyed, she explained that there would be a guilt complex introduced into the Church.... to label the ‘Church of the past’ as being oppressive, authoritarian, full of prejudices, arrogant in claiming to be the sole possessor of truth, and responsible for the divisions of religious bodies throughout the centuries. This would be necessary in order to shame Church leaders into an ‘openness to the world,’ and to a more flexible attitude toward all religions and philosophies. The Communists would then exploit this openness in order to undermine the Church."

Our Lady of Fatima to visit Cardiff Cathedral for Centenary Commemorations

Author Therese C.

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News from WAF England and Wales:-

"This year the Church celebrates the Centenary of the apparitions of Our Lady at Fatima, Portugal. To mark this great event, the World Apostolate of Fatima England and Wales (WAF), is arranging for the National Pilgrim Statue with the Relics of the seers Blessed Francisco and Blessed Jacinta to travel around Wales and England.

On Saturday 6th May 2017 the Statue and Relics will be welcomed to St David’s Cathedral, Cardiff for the 10.00am Mass and will remain at the Cathedral until the Vigil Mass (5.30pm) and be present for the Sunday Morning Choral Mass (11.00am).

On the Saturday, the Rosary and devotions will take place together with veneration of the Relics and enrolment into the Brown Scapular. At 3.00pm on Sunday 6th May, it is hoped that a procession with the Statue will take place from the Cathedral on Charles Street to the the Gardens of Nazareth House for the annual May Procession, Rosary and Crowning. This will conclude with the 6.00pm University Mass.

The National Pilgrim Statue was crowned by Cardinal Vincent Nichols on 18th February 2017 at Westminster Cathedral to inaugurate the Centenary celebrations. In an over flowing cathedral the Cardinal said:

“The Statue of Our Lady of Fatima is on a journey around the cathedrals of England and Wales in these coming months. I pray that this will be a time of grace for many, as they honour Our Lady of Fatima in this centenary year.”

On Wednesday 10th May at 9.00pm the Statue and relics will be the focus for the annual candlelit procession at Belmont Abbey.

The Month of May will close with the visit of the Statue and Relics to the Welsh National Shrine of Our Lady of the Taper at Cardigan Saturday May 27th 10.00am and then to the Diocese of Menevia and the Cathedral Church of St Joseph for the Vigil Mass and Sunday Masses 27th/28th May.

For Further information please contact Father Jason Jones. Spiritual Director for Wales of the World Apostolate of FatimaChurch of the Sacred Heart, School Rd Morriston Swansea SA6 6HZ.

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Booking Now Open for Young Catholic Adults Weekend - 2017

Young Catholic AdultsNational weekend  at Douai Abbey 20th-22nd OCTOBER 2017. Featuring Fr. Lawrence Lew OP., and Canon Poucin ICKSP.
 
BOOKING NOW OPEN!

To book see:-  https://v1.bookwhen.com/youngcatholicadults-douai2017

Latin High Mass in the Extraordinary Form at Downside Abbey on 17th June at 11am.

There will be a High Mass (EF form) at Downside Abbey on 17^th June at 11am.

 
For extra details see:- https://www.facebook.com/events/1655317694776682/.

100,000 Page Views!

Youngcatholicadults-latestnews.blogspot.co.uk/ hit 100,000 page views on Good Friday! See below:-

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Happy Easter!

Good Friday - "No doubt but this was the Son of God."

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The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Mark 

"When the sixth hour came, there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour,and at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabachthani? which means, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?*1 Hearing this, some of those who stood by said, Why, he is calling upon Elias.And thereupon one of them ran off to fill a sponge with vinegar, and fixed it on a rod, and offered to let him drink; Wait, he said, Let us see whether Elias is to come and save him.Then Jesus gave a loud cry, and yielded up his spirit. And the veil of the temple was torn this way and that, from the top to the bottom.The centurion who stood in front of him, perceiving that he so yielded up his spirit with a cry, said, No doubt but this was the Son of God."

*1 Ps. 21.2.

ASK FATHER: In confession, must we say which sins are mortal, which venial?

Taken from Fr. Z's wdtprs:-

"QUAERITUR:

I know, to make a good confession, we need to confess mortal sins and the number of times we committed the sins. But I am often confused about whether a sin I committed is mortal or not. So I just go ahead and confess the sins along with the number, whether it is mortal or venial. Is it necessary for a good confession, as opposed to simply preferable, to come up with *which ones* are mortal and *which ones* are venial ? Nowadays, I simply preface my confession with something like “I have a hard time discerning if a sin is mortal or venial, so I just confess them indiscriminately”. Is that good practice ? The priests I confessed to have never inquired any further. And if it is necessary, do I have to mention the sins with the appropriate qualification in my next confession ?

It sounds to me as if you are doing just fine.  Don’t worry.   Your practice of simply confessing the sins you identify by kind and number is great.   If you aren’t quite sure about the gravity of a particular sin, just go ahead and confess it.

We are required to confess all mortal sins in kind and number.  We may confess venial sins.  You may say “These are my venial sins….”, if you wish.  You don’t have to.   You don’t have to confess your sins in order of gravity or severity.  Just confess them all sincerely.   If it helps you to be orderly, great!  Be orderly.  If you confess venial sins, they are forgiven too, along with the more serious ones.  As a matter of fact, your unconfessed venial sins are also forgiven along with the mortal sins.
So long as we do our best and make a sincere confession of the serious sins which we can remember, all our sins are forgiven, mortal, venial, those we remember and confessed, those we don’t remember… all of them.

To make a good confession, it helps to examine your conscience every evening.  That way we keep tabs on ourselves more easily, and when it comes time to go to confession we are better prepared and more comfortable in getting it all out.  Also, we know ourselves better, which is important.
And for everyone out there reading this who has not gone for a while, for whatever reason…

What happens when you make your sincere confession? What happens even if you sincerely can’t remember every thing?

WHAMO! All your sins will be forgiven, taken away, gone.  They aren’t simply overlooked, or covered over.  They are eradicated, washed clean in the Blood of the Lamb, never to be held against you when you come to your judgment.

Also, and this is important, there is no sin so horrible that we little mortals can commit that God will not forgive provide we ask for forgiveness.

Though your sins be red as scarlet, they will become as white as snow.
So, dear readers, look at your life with honesty, and go to confession. That’s it. Then you will be able to go to Communion again just as if it were your First Holy Communion all over again.
If you are nervous, or don’t know quite what to do, just say that to the priest: “Father, it’s been awhile and I’m not quite sure how to start.  Could you give me a hand?”  Easy.  Remember that you, and not the priest, are your own prosecuting attorney.

To repeat, there is no sin that we little mortals can commit that is so bad that our almighty, loving God will not forgive, provided we confess our sins and ask for forgiveness.
God’s mercy is magnificent and it is ours for the asking."

GO TO CONFESSION!