"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

 

Third Secret of Fatima and the Smoke of Satan in the Catholic Church

Dr. Taylor  Marshall states:- 

"We track the prophecies of corruption in the Catholic Church beginning with the vision of Pope Leo XIII in 1884 (and St Michael's Prayer) and move up through Our Lady of Fatima in 1917 and Our Lady of Akita in 1973.

We also discuss Our Lady of Good Success. Dr Taylor Marshall is best-selling author of a number of Catholic books. taylormarshall.com Timothy Gordon is the author of Catholic Republic: https://amzn.to/2NIgiyi."

Faithful Catholic Bishop Morlino of Morlino has Died

One of the more tradition friendly and orthodox Bishops in the United States,Bishop Morlino of Madison Diocese, sadly died last night :-

 

Some of the comments on the Diocese of Morlino Facebook account state:-

"I am saddened to hear about Archbishop's passing. We are in desperate need of faithful pastors in these sad times. The holy Church has lost a formidable defender. May he intercede for us at the Lord's throne where I am sure he is. Requiescat in pace."

"So very sad...praying for the soul of this great Shepherd, Bishop Morlino...this is a great loss to the people of God...the good Bishop was such a Holy Man of God..."

"....this Bishop is one of the true good Shepherds who boldly proclaims the truth of the teachings of Jesus and the Catholic faith...."

"RIP to a very brave & Faithful Bishop!"   

Réquiem ætérnam dona eis, Dómine: et lux perpétua lúceat eis. (Ps. 64: 2, 3). Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion, et tibi reddétur votum in Jerúsa!em: exáudi oratiónem meam, ad te omnis caro véniet. Réquiem ætérnam dona eis,. Dómine; et lux perpétua lúceat eis.

 

 

The Proper of Time in the Post-Vatican II Liturgical Reforms by Matthew Hazell

From Dr. Hunwicke:-

"I have often used, and commented about it on this blog, Matthew Hazell's highly important Index Lectionum, which reveals the way Holy Scripture was censored in the post-Conciliar 'reforms'. It is a pleasure to commend his latest scholarly work, The Proper of Time in the Post-Vatican II Liturgical Reforms (ISBN: 978-1-7307-9522-0). It deals with how the euchology ... collects, secrets, postcommunions ... fared during this same period.

To be precise, this book homes in on one particular moment of the 'reform' process, schema 186 of September 1966 ... I will call it '1966'. This important and revealing document is hitherto unpublished. What I find fascinating is the glimpse this gives us of a particular moment in the development of the mindset of the 'reformers'.

1966 is much more conservative than what eventually emerged as the Missal of S Paul VI. Simplifying a little, one could liken 1966 to a garment which has become rather frayed over the years and needs to be repaired. So the authors suggest how it can be repaired, smartened up, and made good for use for another few hundred years. The Missal of S Paul, on the other hand, seems in comparison more like the product of a decision that the garment is totally unfit for use and needs to be dumped, so as to make way for a completely new product.

I offer just one insight into the mindset of the 'reformers': since we are near the start of Advent, let us consider their treatment of the Sunday collects for Advent. Three of these had been addressed to God the Son. The 'reformers' stated that it was now universally agreed that Prayer should be addressed to God the Father through the Son, in the Holy Spirit. What about the collects of Advent? This is what they say: "On account of their antiquity and more venerable character, we have not changed them". Read that again! "We have not changed them"!

See! They still have some sense of respect for the prayers of the ancient formulae! They are not willing to bowdlerise without explicit permission from above!

But in S Paul VI, those Advent collects disappear from the Sundays of Advent. They are removed to weekdays, where some of them (but not all) are reformulated so that they are addressed to the Father.

My own view is that it is precisely the unexpectedly direct appeal to the Lord Jesus Who is coming to judge ("Come Lord ... do not delay ... stir up thy power ...") which gives these old prayers their impassioned sense of direct urgency. Their loss, at the Sunday synaxis, represented a real impoverishment of the spirituality placed before God's people by their Liturgy. They woz robbed!

[Incidentally, the same prejudice against prayers addressed to the Son led the Anglican revisers of the Alternative Service Book  (1980) to reconstruct S Thomas's Corpus Christ collect; not even S Paul VI had dared to do this!]

A study of the documents recording the process of the revision of the hymns of the Breviary would reveal exactly the same process by which the Coetus concerned only gradually liberated themselves from respect for Tradition. These studies give the lie to the claim that 'the Council' had mandated the Pauline 'Reform' as that catastrophe eventually emerged. The persons actually engaged on that 'reform' in the mid-1960s were manifestly completely unaware that 'the Council' had mandated anything so radical. This whole narrative reveals the growth of an attitude of bland, insolent, mendacity.

The Missal of S Paul VI is not what the Council Fathers thought they were voting for. That is why even the most soundly traditionalist Fathers, such as Archbishop Lefebvre, voted for Sacrosanctum Concilium.

We cannot expect young and able scholars to produce important work like this book unless we buy and study what they produce!"

Papa Stronsay Calendar 2019. Out Now!

The Papa Stronsay Calendar is the annual offering of the Transalpine Redemptorists which enables you to easily and fruitfully follow the Church's traditional liturgical cycle. Possibly the best Traditional Catholic wall calendar on the market, it gives you each day's feast, class and liturgical colour, the lunar calendar, traditional days of abstinence, traditional feasts which are not on the universal calendar, national public holidays for six English-speaking countries, major astronomical events, and so much more, including a whole array of beautiful images which truly make this calendar a feast for the eyes!

For a more in-depth examination of the Papa Stronsay Calendar, you can see this video for the 2016 Calendar:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfBZN... To order copies of the 2019 Papa Stronsay Calendar, please visit our Website: papastronsay.com/calendar.

English and Welsh Martyrs Series - St. John Kemble the 80 Year Old Priest Priest Killed for Being Catholic

 

Source:https://lastwelshmartyr.blogspot.com

John Kemble 1599-1679

"Born in 1599, in Herefordshire into a prominent local Catholic family. He had four brothers priests. Kemble was ordained a priest at Douai College, on 23 February 1625. He returned to England on 4 June 1625 as a missioner in Monmouthshire and Herefordshire. Little is known of his work for the next fifty three years, but his later treatment shows the esteem and affection he was held in locally. Arrested during the Titus Oates Plot confusion at his brother's home, Pembridge Castle, near Welsh Newton. He was warned about the impending arrest but declined to leave his flock, saying, "According to the course of nature, I have but a few years to live. It will be an advantage to suffer for my religion and, therefore, I will not abscond." He was arrested by a Captain John Scudamore of Kentchurch. It is a comment on the tangled loyalties of the age that Scudamore's own wife and children were parishioners of Father Kemble.

Father Kemble, now 80, was taken on the arduous journey to London to be interviewed about the plot. He was found to have had no connection with it, but was found guilty of the treasonous crime of being a priest. He was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. He was returned to Hereford for the sentence to be carried out. Before he was led out for his execution Father Kemble insisted on saying his prayers and finishing his drink. The assembled party joined the elderly priest in a smoke and a drink. To this day the sayings, "Kemble pipe", and "Kemble cup", meaning a parting pipe or cup, are used in Herefordshire. Addressing the assembled crowd before his death, the old priest said: "The failure of the authorities in London to connect me to the plot makes it evident that I die only for profession the Roman Catholic religion, which was the religion that first made this Kingdom Christian."

He was allowed to die on the gallows before the butchery was carried out on his body. Thus he was spared the agonies suffered by so many of the Catholic martyrs. One of the martyr's hands is preserved at St. Francis Xavier, Hereford. His body rests in the (Church of England) churchyard of St Mary's, Welsh Newton, and local Roman Catholics make an annual pilgrimage to his grave. Miracles were soon attributed to the saintly priest. Scudamore's daughter was cured of throat cancer, while Scudamore's wife recovered her hearing whilst praying at the Kemble's grave."

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kemble_(martyr).