Fr. Gabriele Amorth, Famous Exorcist Speaks About Fatima: Has The Consecration of Russia Been Done?

Cheltenham Catholic Adults Event October 2021

Cheltenham Catholic Adults (formerly Cheltenham Young Catholic Adults) will be restarting on Sat 2nd Oct with a social at 12pm. Please bring your own food and drink.

For more details text Damian on 07908105787.

It seeks to:-

-Foster authentic Catholic teaching and spirituality

-Promote a spirit of charity as practiced by the great saints of the Church such as St. John Vianney, St. Francis de Sales and the English Martyrs 

-We aim to promote a spirit of beauty and reverence in the Sacred Liturgy

-Cheltenham Catholic Adults is open to all ages.

It's sister group is YCA - see:- http://www.youngcatholicadults.co.uk/ and http://youngcatholicadults-latestnews.blogspot.co.uk/ for more details.

The group page is:-http://cheltenhamcatholicadults.blogspot.com/

MASS OF THE AGES: Episode 1 — Discover the Traditional Latin Mass

After her husband dies, Kristine seeks refuge in Traditional Catholicism. An introduction to the Traditional Latin Mass with stunning visuals and an original score. HELP US REACH MILLIONS OF CATHOLICS: https://massoftheages.fund + FIND A LATIN MASS NEAR YOU IN ENGLAND AND WALES: https://lms.org.uk/mass-listings

Mass Cancellations in the Diocese of Clifton

As of 17th July 2021 all EF Masses at Our Lady of Glastonbury were cancelled.  The parish blog at:- http://frbederowe.blogspot.com has also been deleted.

Prinknash Abbey, near Gloucester,  have ceased the very popular 11am EF Mass (approx a couple of months ago) - no official explanation has been given.

The monthly Cheltenham Mass at St. Gregory's Church, which was to become weekly as of the first Wednesday in September (this was already stated in the parish newsletter) has been cancelled in August as no permissions have been given by the Bishop. It is not known what will happen in the future.

It would appear that all other diocesan EF Masses have ceased in the diocese, at Cirencester, Bristol, Bath, Yeovil and Warminster.

First Wednesday Cheltenham EF Mass - Cancelled

The monthly first Wednesday Low Mass (4th Aug) Cheltenham Mass at St. Gregory's Church Cheltenham, has been cancelled. 

It is not known whether permission will be given to continue this Mass in the future.

Traditionis Custodes - Updates for England and Wales Available at YCA Facebook Page

Latest updates for England and Wales can be seen at the YCA Facebook group at:-

https://www.facebook.com/groups/15913673965/

URGENT - Traditionis Custodes - the 2021 YCA Event is under Review

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The 2021 Young Catholic Adults event is currently under review - relevant permission(s) will be applied for. 

If it can go ahead the news will be posted on this site.

FATIMA Official Trailer (2020) - This film will be shown in UK cinemas from 25th June 2021

This film will be shown in UK cinemas from 25th June 2021. The new film on Fatima will be shown in Cinemas from 25 June. Some of the WAF England and Wales Committee members have written this review (for your guidance only): “The film is based on the memoirs of the Servant of God Sr Lucia. The story covers her childhood year starting off with the appearance of the Angel of Portugal and leading on to the apparitions of Our Lady. To understand the film, you would need to know the story of Fatima as not all events or apparitions are covered, and some artistic license is made. The film covers the reality of life in Portugal at that time with a modern perspective which makes it enjoyable to watch. The film, however, misses the important message of the Five First Saturdays devotion which is a pity, and it would have been good to end with this message. Overall, a good and enjoyable film.” You can see cinemas where the film will be available here: https://www.fatimafilm.co.uk/tickets/.

Good News the Return of the Young Catholic Adults Event 30th October 2021 (Subject to Covid)

Good news - a limited YCA national day will hopefully take place on Saturday 30th October (not the usual 3 weekend ) - this will, of course, be dependent what happens with covid.

Even if the "in person" events have to be cancelled there will be an online event in the afternoon.

St. Gregory's Church Cheltenham First Wednesday Mass for Pope St. Pius V on May 5th at 7pm

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The regular first Wednesday schedule continues with a Low Mass for St. Pope Pius V May 5th at 7pm.

"He began his pontificate by giving large alms to the poor, instead of distributing his bounty at haphazard like his predecessors. As pontiff he practiced the virtues he had displayed as a monk and a bishop. His piety was not diminished, and, in spite of the heavy labours and anxieties of his office, he made at least two meditations a day on bended knees in presence of the Blessed Sacrament. In his charity he visited the hospitals, and sat by the bedside of the sick, consoling them and preparing them to die. He washed the feet of the poor, and embraced the lepers. It is related that an English nobleman was converted on seeing him kiss the feet of a beggar covered with ulcers. He was very austere and banished luxury from his court, raised the standard of morality, laboured with his intimate friend, St. Charles Borromeo, to reform the clergy, obliged his bishops to reside in their dioceses, and the cardinals to lead lives of simplicity and piety. He diminished public scandals by relegating prostitutes to distant quarters, and he forbade bull fights. He enforced the observance of the discipline of the Council of Trent, reformed the Cistercians, and supported the missions of the New World. In the Bull "In Coena Domini" he proclaimed the traditional principles of the Roman Church and the supremacy of the Holy See over the civil power.

But the great thought and the constant preoccupation of his pontificate seems to have been the struggle against the Protestants and the Turks. In Germany he supported the Catholics oppressed by the heretical princes. In France he encouraged the League by his counsels and with pecuniary aid. In the Low Countries he supported Spain. In England, finally, he excommunicated Elizabeth, embraced the cause of Mary Stuart, and wrote to console her in prison. In the ardour of his faith he did not hesitate to display severity against the dissidents when necessary, and to give a new impulse to the activity of the Inquisition, for which he has been blamed by certain historians who have exaggerated his conduct. Despite all representations on his behalf he condemned the writings of Baius, who ended by submitting.

He worked incessantly to unite the Christian princes against the hereditary enemy, the Turks. In the first year of his pontificate he had ordered a solemn jubilee, exhorting the faithful to penance and almsgiving to obtain the victory from God. He supported the Knights of Malta, sent money for the fortification of the free towns of Italy, furnished monthly contributions to the Christians of Hungary, and endeavoured especially to bring Maximilian, Philip II, and Charles I together for the defence of Christendom. In 1567 for the same purpose he collected from all convents one-tenth of their revenues. In 1570 when Solyman II attacked Cyprus, threatening all Christianity in the West, he never rested till he united the forces of Venice, Spain, and the Holy See. He sent his blessing to Don John of Austria, the commander-in-chief of the expedition, recommending him to leave behind all soldiers of evil life, and promising him the victory if he did so. He ordered public prayers, and increased his own supplications to heaven. On the day of the Battle of Lepanto, 7 Oct., 1571, he was working with the cardinals, when, suddenly, interrupting his work opening the window and looking at the sky, he cried out, "A truce to business; our great task at present is to thank God for the victory which He has just given the Christian army". He burst into tears when he heard of the victory, which dealt the Turkish power a blow from which it never recovered. In memory of this triumph he instituted for the first Sunday of October the feast of the Rosary, and added to the Litany of Loreto the supplication "Help of Christians". He was hoping to put an end to the power of Islam by forming a general alliance of the Italian cities Poland, France, and all Christian Europe, and had begun negotiations for this purpose when he died of gravel, repeating "O Lord, increase my sufferings and my patience!" He left the memory of a rare virtue and an unfailing and inflexible integrity. He was beatified by Clement X in 1672, and canonized by Clement XI in 1712." (Source: the Catholic Encyclopedia).

The English and Welsh Martyrs - May 4th Feast Day

English and Welsh Martyrs taken from The Supremacy and Survival Blogspot

May 4th is the feast of the English and Welsh Martyrs (EF calendar), Stephanie A Mann writes (h/t tohttp://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.com/):-

"When we speak of ALL the Catholic Martyrs of England and Wales, it is a considerable number:

~54 were Beatified on December 29, 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (including Thomas More and John Fisher and 11 others who would later be canonized)

~Pope Leo also declared 30 martyrs Venerable on that date (which is the feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury)

~Pope Leo XIII beatified nine more martyrs on May 13, 1895

~136 more were beatified by Pope Pius XI on December 15, 1929 (29 of those martyrs would later be canonized

~Pope St. John Paul II beatified 85 more martyrs on November 22, 1987

So there are 42 canonized martyrs: St. Thomas More, St. John Fisher and the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales. There are 242 beatified martyrs; and 30 venerable martyrs--314 Martyrs of England and Wales! (Not counting the Irish martyr St. Oliver Plunkett or the Scottish martyr St. John Ogilvie.)

Their feast has been celebrated on May 4 since 2000 since that is the anniversary of the executions of the protomartyrs of the English Reformation under Henry VIII in 1535: The Carthusians John Houghton, Robert Lawrence, and Augustine Webster; the Briggitine Richard Reynolds, and the priest John Haile.

Since I first "appeared" on the Son Rise Morning Show in 2010, we've told the stories of many of these martyrs--Anna Mitchell, Matt Swaim, and I even completed a weekly series on the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales in 2020 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of their canonization! So tomorrow, I thought we'd focus on what these martyrs model for us: their courage, their constancy, and their conversion.

Courage is perhaps almost too obvious: they risked their lives by being true to Jesus and His Church, to the unity of the Church, to the celebration of the Sacraments, and the protection of priests. Since executions, either by burning, beheading, hanging, or hanging, drawing, and quartering were public, they knew the agonies they could or would suffer.

If they faced a court and were condemned, they would hear the judge announce (language alert) what they would suffer: you will be "laid on a hurdle and so drawn to the place of execution, and there to be hanged, cut down alive, your members to be cut off and cast in the fire, your bowels burnt before you, your head smitten off, and your body quartered and divided at the Queen's/King's will, and God have mercy on your soul."

To take two obvious examples, St. John Fisher and St. Thomas More heard those words and returned to their cells in the Tower of London, not knowing that Henry VIII would commute their death sentences to being beheaded, merely, on June 22 and July 6. The martyrs who suffered before them on May 4, 1535 heard those words and then suffered the full torture of that punishment as traitors to Henry VIII. The Carthusians were wearing their habits and St. John Houghton still wore his hair shirt. 

Condemned martyrs might have been spared part of the agony of that form of execution if they died by hanging before the evisceration, but they would not know that would happen, so faced agony as they were dragged through the streets to their place of execution; as the first suffered, the others witnessed what they would endure. Executioners could be efficient, or inept like the one who tortured Blessed Hugh Green, unable to locate his heart to cut it out of his chest (August 19, 1642). 

Before their trials and executions, they demonstrated courage through imprisonment and torture, especially during the Elizabethan era: hanging by the wrists, the rack, flogging, and the Scavenger's Daughter. Clamped in irons, kept in the Little Ease, where they neither stand upright or lie down completely--the Tudors especially practiced many forms of torture to break the spirit of the martyrs. St. Robert Southwell's father exhorted Queen Elizabeth I to try, convict, and even execute his son rather than leave him in such filth and darkness.

These English and Welsh martyrs give us a model of constancy: they remained true to their faith through all the dangers and difficulties. Some of the missionary priests returned to England again and again after imprisonment and exile. The missionary priests had to hide, travel constantly while the laity protecting them had to be on constant look out, always aware of their danger. In the midst of all the changes in religion, in doctrine, worship, and devotion occurring all around them, these lay martyrs remained true. They--and many who did not suffer martyrdom--paid the fines, prayed the Rosary of Our Lady, counting on their fingers if it was too dangerous to use beads, made Acts of Perfect Contrition and Spiritual Communions, joined their intentions to Masses celebrated throughout the world; hid their Catholic books, and tried their best to practice the Faith of their Fathers and Mothers. The pressure to conform to the Established Church of England must have been enormous, financially, legally, socially, and within the family: but they were constant.

This might seem contradictory, but they also give us models of conversion; we might also say of contrition and repentance. Unlike the Carthusian priors, all the abbots and priors of the monasteries and priories of England took the oaths Henry VIII demanded: but a few repented and returned to the Faith: the last Abbots of Glastonbury, Colchester and Reading Abbeys finally refused to surrender and dissolve their monasteries and thus suffered martyrdom (beatified by Pope Leo XIII on May 13, 1895).

St. Edmund Campion, SJ was a Catholic when Queen Mary visited his neighborhood in London; he was an Anglican when Queen Elizabeth I visited Oxford and he was on his way to a brilliant career in academe and the Church of England. But then reading the Fathers of the Church and talking to others who had returned to the Catholic Church made him pause, leave his career track, and become a Jesuit and then return to England as a priest. When he was martyred on December 1, 1581, another future martyr converted after some of Campion's blood splashed on him, and St. Henry Walpole, SJ left his study of the law, became a Jesuit, and was martyred on April 7, 1595.

Two of the three female saints canonized among the 40 Martyrs of England and Wales, St. Margaret Clitherow and St. Anne Line, were converts. when St. Anne Line, alias Anne Heigham Line  became a Catholic she and her brother William Heigham were disinherited and disowned by their Calvinist father. In 1586 she married Roger Line, another disinherited convert. Not long after their marriage Roger and her brother William were arrested for attending Mass and exiled from England. Roger lived in Flanders and died in 1594. 

Left without the financial support Roger had sent her from Flanders, Anne did not return to her father and renounce her Catholic faith; instead she managed a house in London established by Father John Gerard, SJ, as a refuge for Catholic priests, a dangerous occupation. She was arrested on Candlemas, the Feast of the Purification or Presentation on February 2, 1601 after helping the priest Blessed Francis Page, SJ escape arrest. Before she was hanged to death on February 27 that year she proclaimed: 

"I am sentenced to die for harbouring a Catholic priest, and so far I am from repenting for having so done, that I wish, with all my soul, that where I have entertained one, I could have entertained a thousand."

She is is a model of all three of these virtues: courage, constancy, and conversion.

Catholic Martyrs of England and Wales, pray for us!"

For this and other articles about the English and Welsh martyrs please goto:- http://supremacyandsurvival.blogspot.com/.

Sung Mass for the Feast of St.Gregory the Great - St. Gregory's Church, Cheltenham at 7pm on Friday 12th March

There will be an extra Missa Cantata for the patronal feast of St. Gregory the Great Church in Cheltenham. This will be the first Sung Mass, in this church, for 50 years.

There will also be Low Mass at 7pm on the first Wednesday (3rd March) at St.Gregory's.

All are warmly welcome.

Young Catholic Adults Zoom Book Event Sat 20th February Starts at 2:30pm

 "[A]n outstanding resource for the ongoing discussion on the post-conciliar liturgical reform... Matthew Hazell is to be congratulated for creating a comparative tool to facilitate such a debate" -- Fr Uwe Michael Lang, C.O., in Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal

Young Catholic Adults Zoom Book Event  Sat 20th February Starts at 2:30pm

Timetable

2:30pm Rosary

3:00pm Matthew Hazell talks about his book Index Lectionem followed by questions. 

To book please send an email confirming your attendance to Dom. Christopher Greener O.S.B. at:-  christopher@douaiabbey.org.uk BY WEDNESDAY 17th February 2021.

To buy Index Lectionum go to :- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Index-Lectionum-Comparative-Extraordinary-Lectionary/dp/1530230721.

EF Low Mass for the Epiphany at St. Gregory's Church Cheltenham

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There will be an EF Low Mass for the Epiphany at St. Gregory's Church,  10 St James' Square, Cheltenham GL50 3PR, on Wednesday 6th Jan at 7pm.

The celebrant will be Fr. Philip Thomas - all are very welcome. 

EF Christmas Day Masses in England and Wales

For all EF Christmas Day Masses in England and Wales see:- https://lms.org.uk/mass-listings

Missa Cantata - First Sunday of Advent - Livestream Mass (EF)

Lockdown Livestream Mass - Sunday 22nd November 2020 at 10:30am: Last Sunday after Pentecost (EF Form) from ICKSP

Lockdown Live Stream - Sunday Mass (Extraordinary Form - High 24th Sunday after Pentecost) - Sunday, November 15

Lockdown Streamed Masses - Low Mass (EF) — 23rd Sunday after Pentecost

As all public Masses are banned, in England until December, here is a streamed Low Mass (EF) — 23rd Sunday after Pentecost (from Oxford Oratory).

Dies Irae - Gregorian Chant for Holy Souls

Latin

Dies irae, dies illa,

Solvet saeclum in favilla:

Teste David cum Sibylla.

Quantus tremor est futurus,

Quando iudex est venturus,

Cuncta stricte discussurus.

Tuba mirum spargens sonum,

Per sepulcra regionum,

Coget omnes ante thronum.

Mors stupebit et natura,

Cum resurget creatura,

Iudicanti responsura.

Liber scriptus proferetur,

In quo totum continetur,

Unde mundus iudicetur.

Judex ergo cum sedebit,

Quidquid latet apparebit:

Nil inultum remanebit.

Quid sum miser tunc dicturus?

Quem patronum rogaturus?

Cum vix iustus sit securus.

Rex tremendae maiestatis,

Qui salvandos salvas gratis,

Salva me, fons pietatis.

Recordare Iesu pie,

Quod sum causa tuae viae:

Ne me perdas illa die.

Quaerens me, sedisti lassus:

Redemisti crucem passus:

Tantus labor non sit cassus.

Iuste Iudex ultionis,

Donum fac remissionis,

Ante diem rationis.

Ingemisco, tamquam reus:

Culpa rubet vultus meus:

Supplicanti parce Deus.

Qui Mariam absolvisti,

Et latronem exaudisti,

Mihi quoque spem didisti.

Preces meae non sunt dignae:

Sed tu bonus fac benigne,

Ne perenni cremer igne.

Inter oves locum praesta,

Et ab haedis me sequestra,

Statuens in parte dextra.

Confutatis maledictis,

Flammis acribus addictis,

Voca me cum benedictis.

Oro supplex et acclinis,

Cor contritum quasi cinis:

Gere curam mei finis.

Lacrimosa dies illa,

Qua resurget ex favilla.

Judicandus homo reus:

Huic ergo parce Deus.

Pie Iesu Domine,

Dona eis requiem. Amen.

English

Day of wrath, that day,

As the world dissolves in cinders,

Testified by David and the Sibyl.

Oh, how great shall be the quaking,

When the Judge will descend,

Investigating all things strictly.

The trumpet, emitting a wondrous sound,

Through the sepulchres of all regions,

To summon all before the throne.

Death and nature will marvel,

When these creatures are resurgent,

To the Judge responding.

The written book will be brought forth,

In which all is contained,

From which the world shall be judged.

The Judge, therefore, will sit,

Revealing all that is hidden:

Nothing unavenged will remain.

What shall I, a wretch, then say?

Which patron will I entreat,

When even the just are not secure?

King of tremendous majesty,

Who freely gives salvation to the saved,

Save me, Oh, font of mercy.

Remember, pious Jesus,

That I am the cause of Thy way:

Do not lose me on that day.

Seeking me, Thou sank down wearily:

Redeeming me by suffering the Cross,

Such a great labor should not be lost.

Just Judge of vengeance,

Make a gift of remission,

Before the day of the accounts.

I sigh, like the guilty one:

My face reddens in guilt:

Spare the supplicating one, Oh, God.

Thou, who absolved Mary,

And heard the robber,

Give hope to me too.

My prayers are not worthy:

But Thou who art good, graciously grant,

That I not be burned in everlasting fire.

Among the sheep grant me a place,

And away from the goats separate me,

Setting me to stand at Thy right hand.

Once the cursed have been silenced,

Sentenced to acrid flames,

Call me with the blessed.

Praying humbly and kneeling,

My contrite heart like ashes:

Take care of my final end.

Tearful will that day be,

Whereby rising out of the dust.

The guilty man will be judged:

Spare them, Oh, God.

Pious Lord Jesus,

Grant them rest. Amen.

Pray the Rosary. Wear the Brown Scapular. Things are Going to get Ugly, both in the Church and in the World.

"We reap what we sow. Stay in the state of grace. Pray the Rosary. Wear the brown scapular. Things are going to get ugly, both in the Church and in the world. Yet, this is no time to cower in fear but to fight in the light of day against those who seek to drag us down to hell. Have no fear!" Fr. Dana Christensen. 

Vatican Mints "Pagan Idol" Coin

Yet more bizarre actions from the Vatican. For excellent analysis of this latest issue, see:-https://wdtprs.com/2020/10/jesuits-promote-pachamama-day-i-am-not-making-this-up-vatican-earth-mother-coin/.

October is the month of the Rosary

SISTER LUCIA FROM FATIMA INTERVIEW 1957

The Miracle of the Sun in Fatima October 13, 1917