tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-304909222024-03-19T04:38:15.593+00:00LMS ChairmanThe Chairman's blogLatin Mass Societyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17951084157414901564noreply@blogger.comBlogger3050125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-49976601733545240492024-03-09T09:30:00.000+00:002024-03-09T09:44:15.174+00:00Walsingham Pilgrimage Volunteers needed, 5: First Aiders and photographers<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53152730649/in/album-72177720310843702/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="DSC-65"><img alt="DSC-65" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53152730649_5076574d2e.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A photo by a professional photographer, John Aron. <br />See what he's done with the depth of field?</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>Booking is now open for the LMS Walking <a href="https://lms.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=260&reset=1">Pilgrimage to Walsingham</a>, which takes place from Thursday 22nd August to Sunday 25th August. But before we can welcome 200+ pilgrims, we need to be able to look after them. This is the last of these appeals, for two more categories of volunteers:<b> First Aiders and photographers.</b><div><br /></div><div><b>First Aiders</b> need (at least) a certificate showing they have done a short course about it. These courses can be done in a single day and if you do one specially then the LMS will repay you the cost of the fee. (We'll pay for a First Aid bag for you as well of course.) Courses are done by St John's Ambulance and others and certificates last for three years. This is an opportunity to learn something useful and make yourself useful on the pilgrimage, and we'll even waive the pilgrimage fee.</div><div><br /></div><div>We waive the fee because being a First Aider will change your pilgrimage experience. In breaks and at the end, your time is not your own: you'll have to make yourself available to the needs of others. On the road you may need to drop out to minister to a twisted ankle or a pilgrim with sun stroke. We'll get you a lift back to the column of course, but you will have a duty to your fellow-pilgrims first and foremost. <b>It is a burden, and also a privilege.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>Very few First Aid needs on the pilgrimage go beyond the very basic -- stinging nettles, blisters and (when it is hot) sun stroke cover about 90% of them -- but we absolutely need to have people to help with these, and less experienced First Aiders will be backed up by more experienced as required, with the support drivers available to get injured pilgrims to where they need to be.</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53152956313/in/album-72177720310840871/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="IMG_3204"><img alt="IMG_3204" height="500" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53152956313_99191ee292.jpg" width="497" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taken by me.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><div><br /></div><div>On <b>photography,</b> if we are to promote the pilgrimage from year to year we need photographs of it. We have a system of pilgrims' snaps being gathered up for social media but we do also need someone with a proper camera willing to take time out at regular intervals to take high-quality photos. This makes a huge difference to public perceptions of the event.</div><div><br /></div><div>You might think: who cares what people can or can't see online? Actually, it is important. We walk down lanes and through villages, and passers' by see us, bearing witness to the Faith and to the significance of Walsingham as a sacred place. Photography magnifies this witness and extends it to people who are not physically there at 9am or whatever in some tiny Norfolk village. <b>Photography is part of the apostolate.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>So if you have a decent digital camera and know how to use it; if you are fit enough to get ahead of the column from time to time; if you understand the liturgy enough to get decent photographs of that: then let us know and we'll give you a big discount on your booking fee. And you can make some beautiful images of a truly remarkable event.</div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-size: large;">If you wish to be considered for these roles, please email walsinghampilgrimage@lms.org.uk</b></div><div><br /></div>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53151961802/in/album-72177720310843702/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="DSC-191"><img alt="DSC-191" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53151961802_38dec15d8b.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another by John Aron.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div>Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-21788588418942159182024-03-08T10:00:00.000+00:002024-03-08T10:00:00.158+00:00Walsingham Pilgrimage volunteers needed, 4: marshals and campsite volunteers<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53153027533/in/album-72177720310843702/" title="DSC-101"><img alt="DSC-101" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53153027533_1400ab32e8.jpg" width="500" /></a><div><br /></div><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>Booking is now open for the LMS Walking <a href="https://lms.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=260&reset=1">Pilgrimage to Walsingham</a>, which takes place from Thursday 22nd August to Sunday 25th August. But before we can welcome 200+ pilgrims, we need to be able to look after them. Today I appeasing for two more categories of volunteers: <b>marshals for the walking part of the pilgrimage, and volunteers to assemble and dismantle things like gazebos at the campsites.</b><div><br /></div><div>Being a marshal is an unglamorous role, and it can also be quite solitary, since you walk between, behind, or ahead of the chapters. It is nevertheless essential. First, for road safety, managing cars passing sometimes on quite narrow roads. Secondly, to assist pilgrims who need to drop out.</div><div><br /></div><div>We prefer to have as marshals people who have walked the pilgrimage at least once before. An obvious qualification is being sufficiently fit to do the walk!<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53159018075/in/album-72177720310919654/" title="62dc4fe5-a7e0-47a9-9ef4-ce4a042cbdd2"><img alt="62dc4fe5-a7e0-47a9-9ef4-ce4a042cbdd2" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53159018075_1037e6d8e2.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Another of taking part in the pilgrimage, that does not involve the walking, but still requires physically active people, is the role of campsite volunteer. As the pilgrimage has grown, the cooking team has outgrown the often tiny kitchens in some of the venues we use, and have to cook outside, under cover. By the same token, it is harder to fit everyone into the halls at these places to eat. </div><div><br /></div><div>Similarly, we are bursting out of the churches we use along the route, and have to consider the celebration of the liturgy outside.</div><div><br /></div><div>So we are increasingly using gazebos and the like to keep the rain (or sun) off. This is a new aspect of the pilgrimage, and we need to establish a group of people able to spend time in the afternoon assembling these things, and in the morning taking them down again, while the walking is going on.</div><div><br /></div><div>Again, unglamorous, and largely hidden from view, but absolutely necessary for the good of the whole pilgrimage, and the glory of God.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>If you would like to volunteer for these roles, please email walsinghampilgrimage@lms.org.uk</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53156793461/in/album-72177720310888056/" title="IMG_3254"><img alt="IMG_3254" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53156793461_0a783afa53.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div>
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Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div></div></div></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-54703938600809078332024-03-07T10:00:00.000+00:002024-03-07T10:00:00.140+00:00Walsingham Pilgrimage volunteers wanted, 3: singers<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53152739094/in/album-72177720310843702/" title="DSC-48"><img alt="DSC-48" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53152739094_2cc7112352.jpg" width="500" /></a><div><br /></div><div>Booking is now open for the LMS Walking <a href="https://lms.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=260&reset=1">Pilgrimage to Walsingham</a>, which takes place from Thursday 22nd August to Sunday 25th August. But before we can welcome 200+ pilgrims, we need to be able to look after them. We need volunteers! Today I am going to talk about <b>singers.</b></div><div><br /><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>
<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53159083773/in/album-72177720310919654/" title="8ea34ba0-e1ab-43d7-bfd9-ff04ef9a7323"><img alt="8ea34ba0-e1ab-43d7-bfd9-ff04ef9a7323" height="375" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53159083773_a5cba6e5f0.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Good Music, along with good food, may be said to power the pilgrimage in its natural aspect. But unlike the food, however good, the music has a significance at the supernatural level as well, because it can also be prayer.</div><div><br /></div><div>It will be no surprise for readers to hear that a lot of prayers are said on the pilgrimage. Pilgrims are divided into 'chapters' which are small enough for people to hear instructions from the front to the back, with the help of megaphones, and also for collective prayer. When we say the Rosary, we sing it: we have settings of the Hail Mary in English, Latin, and French. We also sing the Litanies of Our Lady, of the Saints, of St Joseph, and of the Sacred Heart. In addition, we sing many popular chants, such as the <i><a href="https://youtu.be/WuK59jQ5bwU?si=yZwJ9XExx85Paxil">O filii et filiae</a> </i>(though we sing it better than the guys in the link), vernacular hymns, and when the going gets tough, even some patriotic songs.</div><div><br /></div><div>We believe the singing is very important and go to a lot of trouble over it. We have a book of all the chants and hymns, often with the music (and other useful prayers and information), the <i><a href="https://lms.org.uk/product/vademecum-peregrini">Vademecum Peregrini</a>,</i> which everyone has, and <i>every chapter has a cantor.<span><a name='more'></a></span></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>That's right: every chapter of 20-30 pilgrims has an experienced singer with a megaphone to lead the singing. Someone who can set the pitch, sustain the tune, can sing the litanies while the other pilgrims make the responses, and so on. Otherwise this task falls on the chapter leader, who has a lot of other things to think about.</div><div><br /><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>
<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53152738439/in/album-72177720310843702/" title="DSC-61"><img alt="DSC-61" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53152738439_a0105dccdc.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>This has been the practice of the LMS Walking Pilgrimage since the very early years, and it is a huge boon for the pilgrims. It means the singing consistently happens, and is not interrupted every time the chapter leader has to do something or talk to someone. Singing on the road has many challenges, but in the Walsingham Pilgrimage it works very well, is audible, and includes everyone.</div><div><br /></div><div>Naturally, these cantors also accompany the sung Masses. For these we have an all-male chant schola, supplemented by ladies for the final Mass in the Catholic Shrine to sing polyphony.</div><div><br /></div><div>What this requires, of course, is a set of 'chapter cantors' who are experienced chant singers, know the repertoire (or can quickly learn it), and have, yes, <i>stamina.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>We don't sing <i>all </i>the time. There's no point singing against loud traffic or when the chapter is strung out on a narrow path, and it is in any case good to have breaks for private prayer and, indeed, conversation. Nevertheless, we do a lot of singing, and these cantors have to walk the whole distance with the pilgrims, so this, like other volunteering roles, is pretty demanding. It is also, of course, extremely rewarding.</div><div><br /></div><div>Cantors able to do this exist, and we have been using them for years. Now, however, we are getting more chapters, and we need more cantors<i>.</i> I am planning to get together with the cantors once or twice before the pilgrimage to cover any gaps in knowledge of the music, but experience of singing chant is necessary in order to grasp the <i>way</i> that chant is sung, its ethos as sacred music.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>If you are reasonably fit, and have experience singing chant, you can do it. You'll get a free place on the pilgrimage, and a reward in heaven. So who's up for it? Please email walsinghampilgrimage@lms.org.uk</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>
<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/36900930221/in/album-72157688616348135/" title="DSC_7496"><img alt="DSC_7496" height="385" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4411/36900930221_9156410ba9_c.jpg" width="501" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div></div></div></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-29125276133827385612024-03-06T10:00:00.000+00:002024-03-06T10:00:00.137+00:00Walsingham Pilgrimage Volunteers wanted 2: drivers<div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/36870981252/in/album-72157688616348135/" title="DSC_7763"><img alt="DSC_7763" height="173" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/4341/36870981252_9893bdd859.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Booking is now open for the LMS Walking <a href="https://lms.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=260&reset=1">Pilgrimage to Walsingham</a>, which takes place from Thursday 22nd August to Sunday 25th August. But before we can welcome 200+ pilgrims, we need to be able to look after them. We need volunteers! Today I am going to talk about <b>drivers.</b></div><div><br /></div><div>The Pilgrimage has always had 'support drivers', and these have been becoming more and more numerous in recent years. For this year, we are in particular need of a van driver, as we need to have two luggage vans, and not just one. We can't get a lorry down the country lanes, so we hire an 'extra long' Mercedes Sprinter, or the the equivalent.<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div>The luggage van is just one part of the support driver team. We also have a mobile sacristy, dedicated transport for the equipment used by the cooking team, and a special vehicle for portable loos. </div><div><br /></div><div>We also need cars to ferry volunteers from one place to another, to allow priests who have to say a private Mass to rejoin the walkers, and to pick up pilgrims who are injured or exhausted. </div><div><br /></div><div>We are particularly keen to hear from drivers with experience driving vans, for the luggage vans, who have the necessary category on their driving license.</div><div><br /></div><div>Most of our larger vehicles are hired for the occasion; other drivers bring their own, especially if they have people-carriers. Naturally, all expenses can be claimed back from the LMS.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">If you would like to take part in the pilgrimage without walking, but in a way crucial to operation of the pilgrimage and indeed to the comfort and safety of walking pilgrims, please consider volunteering as a driver. <b>Please email walsinghampilgrimage@lms.org.uk</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53159083988/in/album-72177720310919654/" title="6542dea2-884a-4390-ad57-c07a2cadd1b7"><img alt="6542dea2-884a-4390-ad57-c07a2cadd1b7" height="800" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53159083988_8359390014_c.jpg" width="450" /></a><div><br /><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><div> Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div></div></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-39669296121955191982024-03-05T01:30:00.001+00:002024-03-05T13:37:46.007+00:00Walsingham Pilgrimage Volunteers needed, 1: cooks and cleaners<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53157283713/in/album-72177720310888056/" title="IMG_3305"><img alt="IMG_3305" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53157283713_d1359397a2.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><br /></div><div>Booking is now open for the LMS Walking <a href="https://lms.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=260&reset=1">Pilgrimage to Walsingham</a>, which takes place from Thursday 22nd August to Sunday 25th August. But before we can welcome 200+ pilgrims, we need to be able to look after them. We need volunteers who give up their chance to walk in order to do some quite unglamourous jobs, such as cooking and cleaning.</div><div><br /></div><div>Each day of the walk there is breakfast and an evening meal. We don't just give pilgrims a paper cup of coffee or an empty milk carton of instant soup (happy though these memories of Chartres are!). While the size of the pilgrimage makes it possible, our cooking team continues to provide real food: bread and jam, porridge and hard boiled eggs for breakfast, and a hot meal made from basic ingredients in the evening. </div><div><br /></div><div>There is plenty of penance to be had in getting up early to walk 20 miles or so, but our pilgrims don't set off with an empty stomach, and the evenings are convivial. It is another element of Catholic culture which we are aiming to restore, and a reflection of our respect for the walking pilgrims.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Quisquis enim potum dederit vobis calicem aquæ in nomine meo, quia Christi estis : amen dico vobis, non perdet mercedem suam. <i>Mark 9:41</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><i><br /></i></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">For whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, assuredly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.</span><div><br /></div><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53157216505/in/album-72177720310888056/" title="IMG_3269"><img alt="IMG_3269" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53157216505_23d20f57da.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>The cooking team is led by a professionally qualified cook, and the core team has many years' experience of cooking for the pilgrims in the unique conditions of the Walsingham Pilgrimage. They need help from a wider group of people who would like to participate in the pilgrimage in this special way, both in preparing meals and in preparing venues and cleaning them after the pilgrims have departed.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>You do not need to be a highly-skilled cook. </b>What you do need is patience, an even temper, a willingness to do what you are asked even if this is not very interesting, a willingness to work in a team and make yourself as useful as possible, plus <i>commitment</i> and <i>stamina.</i></span></div><div><br /></div><div>Because this is hard work. Being a volunteer in an event like this is not the easy option, and precisely for this reason all the graces of the pilgrimage are available. </div><div><br /></div><div>It may be impossible for you to attend some of the main Masses, but Masses are celebrated specially for the volunteers, and we hope to have a chaplain just for the volunteers.</div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>If you wish to be considered for this role, email walsinghampilgrimage@lms.org.uk</b></span></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53157216095/in/album-72177720310888056/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="IMG_3285"><img alt="IMG_3285" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53157216095_99e7c262db.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A concession to mechanisation.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Traditional Latin Easter Triduum Services
in the Archdiocese of Westminster cancelled<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Latin Mass Society is grieved to announce that the
Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, will not give permission
for the celebration of the major services of the Sacred Triduum (Maundy
Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday) according to the liturgical books in use
before the Second Vatican Council: the Traditional Latin liturgy or </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vetus
Ordo</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">There has been a celebration of the Traditional
Triduum in the Archdiocese, with the permission of successive Archbishops,
since the 1990s: first in Corpus Christi Maiden Lane, and then in St Mary
Moorfields in the City of London. In recent years these services have been
attended by up to 200 people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">His Eminence places this decision in the context of
his ongoing dealings with the Dicastery for Divine Worship in Rome, writing ‘My
approach to these matters is to be within the parameters laid down by the Holy
See while waiting for the judgment of the Holy See on which, if any, parish
church may be used for the celebration of Mass according to the Missal
antecedent to the reform of 1970.’</span><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/b8e8b7dc9428edab/Documents/Triduum%20Press%20Release%20Feb23.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">His decision, he explains, was made ‘for the sake of
the wider provision’.</span></p><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/52804116246/in/album-72177720307368460/" title="IMG_2153"><img alt="IMG_2153" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52804116246_b25b14f804.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Comment from the Latin Mass Society<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The faithful attached to the </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vetus Ordo,</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> served
by Sunday celebrations in St James Spanish Place, the London Oratory, and other
locations, will now be denied the chance to attend the most important
liturgical days of the year according to this liturgy within the Archdiocese of
Westminster.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">When Pope Francis’ Apostolic Letter </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Traditionis custodes,</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
which restricted the </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vetus Ordo,</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> was published in 2021, Cardinal Nichols
summarised the Holy Father’s concerns, adding: ‘In my judgement, these concerns
do not reflect the overall liturgical life of this diocese.’</span><a href="https://d.docs.live.net/b8e8b7dc9428edab/Documents/Triduum%20Press%20Release%20Feb23.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">[2]</span></span></span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">LMS Chairman Joseph Shaw comments: “In this decision,
as in the earlier ending of the 50-year tradition of two annual </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vetus Ordo</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
Masses at the High Altar of Westminster Cathedral, and the 20-year practice of
the Archdiocese providing the Sacrament of Confirmation according to the </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vetus
Ordo</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">, it seems that Catholics attached to the older liturgy are being
punished for misdemeanours that Cardinal Nichols believes they have not
committed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“We await with concern the decision of the Dicastery
of Divine Worship concerning the current celebrations of the Vetus Ordo on
Sundays and weekdays in the Archdiocese, which have enriched and consoled many
hundreds of Catholics over the decades. This form of the Mass never ceased to
be celebrated regularly in the Archdiocese, thanks to the pastoral solicitude
of Pope Paul VI in 1971, and of successive Archbishops, in allowing it to
continue. It is tragic to see that pastoral attitude now being put aside.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">“At the same time, we can reassure Catholics attached
to the ancient Latin liturgy that the Triduum will still be celebrated in
London, outside Westminster Archdiocese, and that the Latin Mass Society will
continue to support these and other celebrations of this venerable liturgy.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/52803546642/in/album-72177720307368460/" title="IMG_2241"><img alt="IMG_2241" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52803546642_8cdcc08313.jpg" width="500" /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Notes for Editors<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Latin Mass Society was founded in 1965 to support
the continued celebration of the Catholic liturgy in the form it took at the
eve of the Second Vatican Council: the ‘1962 Missal’, the ‘antecedent Missal’,
the </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Vetus Ordo</i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> or Traditional Mass.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Greater London area is served by three Catholic
dioceses: Westminster, Brentwood, and Southwark.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The “English Indult” granted by Pope Paul VI in 1971
allowed the Vetus Ordo to continue to be celebrated in England and Wales
without a break, even while it was prohibited in the rest of the world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Services of the Easter Triduum began to be celebrated in
Corpus Christi Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, by the parish priest, Canon McDonald,
in the early 1990s; the full set of major services were celebrated from 1999. Ten
years later these moved to the larger church of St Mary Moorfields in the City
of London. They were not celebrated in 2021 due to COVID restrictions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Latin Mass Society</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Press contacts: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Communications Officer, Portia Berry-Kilby portia@lms.org.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Chairman, Joseph Shaw oxford@lms.org.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Registered Office: 9 Mallow Street, London EC1Y 8RQ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">020 7404 7284 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">info@lms.org.uk<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Registered Charity Number: 248388<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> In an email of 23<sup>rd</sup>
February to Fr Michael Cullinan, who was to have been the principle celebrant
of the Triduum services. Quoted with permission.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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of Westminster
https://rcdow.org.uk/cardinal/news/cardinals-message-to-clergy-about-traditionis-custodes/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div></div><div>[Photos from last year's services.]</div><br />
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Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-70345000315964448052024-02-23T17:25:00.000+00:002024-02-23T17:25:00.128+00:00Guild of St Clare Sewing Retreat: photos<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53541400818/in/album-72177720314917832/" title="IMG_0020"><img alt="IMG_0020" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53541400818_c458228d52.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><br /></div><div>Another successful Sewing Retreat was organised by the Guild of St Clare, for prayer, the traditional Mass, spiritual conferences, and the making and mending of vestments.</div><div><br /></div><div>The retreat giver was Fr Edward van den Burgh of the London Oratory.</div><br /><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53540339742/in/album-72177720314917832/" title="IMG_0025"><img alt="IMG_0025" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53540339742_8b3977a2cc.jpg" width="500" /></a><div><br /></div><div><span><a name='more'></a></span>The Guild's National coordinator was live-tweeting the retreat: if you are on Twitter ('X') give her a follow: @guildofstclare and see her thread <a href="https://x.com/guildofstclare/status/1758633787892875300?s=20">here</a>.</div><div><br /><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>
<div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53541543979/in/album-72177720314917832/" title="IMG_0042"><img alt="IMG_0042" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53541543979_9001740ae4.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script> </div><div><br /></div><div>Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-62202163895755956522024-02-22T17:49:00.014+00:002024-02-22T17:49:00.133+00:00Trip to Ireland, part 3: Waterford<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53532910915/in/album-72177720314828158/" title="IMG_0259"><img alt="IMG_0259" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53532910915_744e6da523.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><br /></div><div>The final stop of my trip to Ireland was Waterford, where I attended Mass in the very impressive St John's church, celebrated by <a href="https://fssp.ie/">Fr Patrick O'Donahue FSSP</a>. I joined the chant schola for the occasion.</div><div><br /><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53531591992/in/album-72177720314828158/" title="IMG_0278"><img alt="IMG_0278" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53531591992_49e37f4359.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.latinmassireland.ie/">The Latin Mass Society of Ireland</a> very kindly organised another occasion for me to give a talk, and although fairly short notice they filled a room in the Galmont Hotel to listen. I spoke about Catholic Families and Intentional Communities: spoiler alert, they aren't the same thing. You can listen to the talk here:</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Families, Catholic Culture and Intentional Communities</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yb6px-158b8a8?utm_campaign=admin_episode&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=episode_share">Latin Mass Society Podcast - Families, Catholic Culture and Intentional Communities | Free Listening on Podbean App</a></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;">You'll find the Latin Mass Society's 'Iota Unum' series on any podcast platform.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>
<div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53532670318/in/album-72177720314828158/" title="IMG_0244"><img alt="IMG_0244" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53532670318_f3bc0efd4b.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script> </div><div><br /></div><div>Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-70951032583303334052024-02-21T17:40:00.000+00:002024-02-21T17:40:00.547+00:00Trip to Ireland, 2: Galway<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53532774699/in/album-72177720314818550/" title="IMG_0048"><img alt="IMG_0048" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53532774699_6953ca3933.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><br /></div><div>At the <a href="https://roundtower.org/">Roundtower Association</a> conference in Galway we had a beautiful Mass celebrated by Fr Philomeno of the Marian Franciscans, and a rosary procession through the streets.</div><br />
<div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53532638223/in/album-72177720314818550/" title="IMG_0122"><img alt="IMG_0122" height="321" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53532638223_7672c79283.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script> </div><div><br /><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53532768364/in/album-72177720314818550/" title="IMG_0199"><img alt="IMG_0199" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53532768364_0970bc9158.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><div><br /></div><div>Then the conference continued, with Robert Colquoun of <a href="https://www.40daysforlife.com/en/">40 Days for Life</a>, and me. With due acknowledgement to the Roundtower Association, you can hear my talk here:</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Culture, Modernity and Post-Modernity</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-4nmex-158b84b&source=gmail&ust=1708618462934000&usg=AOvVaw09U-UZfX_b2PVhV_WcmgSQ" href="https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-4nmex-158b84b" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.podbean.com/eas/<wbr></wbr>pb-4nmex-158b84b</span></a><br /></div><div><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /></div><div>You'll also find it on any podcast platform by searching for 'Latin Mass Society' or 'Iota Unum' (the name of our series of talks).</div><div><br /></div><div>Videos of all the talks will be available in due course.</div><div><br /></div><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53531555832/in/album-72177720314818550/" title="IMG_0241"><img alt="IMG_0241" height="246" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53531555832_f4dfc52e20.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script></div><div><br /></div><div>Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-69515669132226340402024-02-21T16:18:00.002+00:002024-02-21T16:23:47.230+00:00Trip to Ireland: part 1, Silverstream, Dublin, Knock<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53532476741/in/album-72177720314840419/" title="IMG_0001"><img alt="IMG_0001" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53532476741_5c1a1fafc3.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><br /></div><div>Last week I was in Ireland, to attend a splendid <a href="https://roundtower.org/">conference </a>in Galway. Before going there, however, I visited Silverstream Priory, which is north of Dublin, where I met Prior Basile McCabe. </div><div><br /></div><div>The following day, I gave a talk in Dublin's <a href="https://www.catholiclibrary.ie/">Catholic Central Library</a>, on the 'Family and Culture: Lose One, Lose the Other'. I introduced the idea of luxury beliefs, developing the argument of my book, <i><a href="http://www.lmschairman.org/p/the-liturgy-family-crisis-of-modernity.html">The Family, the Liturgy, and the Crisis of Modernity</a>.</i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>I recorded my talk, so you can listen to it as a podcast (I've given it a slightly snappier title):</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Families, Culture and Luxury Beliefs<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-iw8cn-158b8b2&source=gmail&ust=1708618462934000&usg=AOvVaw1OdXzoQdcyKqtCkTcw_cPa" href="https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-iw8cn-158b8b2" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">https://www.podbean.com/eas/<wbr></wbr>pb-iw8cn-158b8b2</span></a></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">You'll find the Latin Mass Society's 'Iota Unum' series on any podcast platform.</div><div><br /></div><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53532755664/in/album-72177720314815992/" title="IMG_0030"><img alt="IMG_0030" height="376" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53532755664_5d02cd4296.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>Before the Galway conference, which will be the subject of the next post, I and other conference participants visited the Shrine of Our Lady of Knock, where Fr Philomeno of the Marian Franciscans celebrated a Low Mass (in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel).</div><div><br /></div>
<div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53532621278/in/album-72177720314815992/" title="IMG_0037"><img alt="IMG_0037" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53532621278_33bf2f8df1_z.jpg" width="497" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script> </div><div><br /></div><div>Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-47546539282052147412024-02-20T17:25:00.002+00:002024-02-20T17:25:10.499+00:00Ash Wednesday and St Valentine: for Catholic Answers<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53541203961/in/dateposted/" title="IMG_0003"><img alt="IMG_0003" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53541203961_c5af46af44.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><br /></div><div>I'm behind with my blogging, but here's something I wrote for Catholic Answers and some photos of an Ash Wednesday Mass.</div><div><br /></div><div>The article begins:</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">T<span style="background-color: white; color: #002856;">he Church’s liturgical calendar throws up some oddities sometimes. One set of Sundays, and other feasts and fasts, is fixed in relation to Easter, which moves around the spring. Another of feasts is fixed to Christmas, and a third is fixed to calendar dates. And so different occasions can coincide: a feast of the “sanctoral cycle” can fall on a Sunday, and all the feasts of the spring and early summer are vulnerable to being swallowed up by the events of Lent and Eastertide.</span></span></div><div class="jsx-3e747287f40b833b body-half" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #002856;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A feast day like Christmas will fall on a Sunday only approximately once every seven years. Even less frequent are the occasions when significant dates of the sanctoral and paschal cycles coincide. The most famous of these occasional coincidences is that between Good Friday and the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25. It last happened in 2016 and will not happen again until 2157.</span></p></div><div class="jsx-3e747287f40b833b body-half" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #002856; margin-top: 15px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">This year, we have the coincidence of Ash Wednesday</span> and the traditional date of the feast of the Roman martyr St. Valentine.</span></p></div><div><a href="https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/valentines-and-ashes">Read it all, there</a>.<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><br /><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53541629095/in/dateposted/" title="IMG_0005"><img alt="IMG_0005" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53541629095_a081d46311_z.jpg" width="427" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>
<div><br /></div><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53541528729/in/dateposted/" title="IMG_0009"><img alt="IMG_0009" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53541528729_851dede733_z.jpg" width="427" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script> </div><div><br /></div><div>Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-86850101196321987962024-02-17T10:07:00.002+00:002024-02-17T10:07:36.233+00:00Talks and Endorsements for 'A Defence of Monarchy'<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnRr9U8g3kmhVFo62bnJRThqcz5A03gy_BZ64u-CENYat8F_VYvodHvuPPK5D8KR7fJsmc3R0i71EoLpM77UJ1DZCWDzTH6HIu_mVNyz953XKwOple4EmfTlnrJYa7ZYV_XOMjXAIFnX7sBCynLSxuVQtUVg9geS7_DcFFoShWD1CGgeVIgLREg/s828/Monarchy%20coverr.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="555" height="399" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglnRr9U8g3kmhVFo62bnJRThqcz5A03gy_BZ64u-CENYat8F_VYvodHvuPPK5D8KR7fJsmc3R0i71EoLpM77UJ1DZCWDzTH6HIu_mVNyz953XKwOple4EmfTlnrJYa7ZYV_XOMjXAIFnX7sBCynLSxuVQtUVg9geS7_DcFFoShWD1CGgeVIgLREg/w267-h399/Monarchy%20coverr.png" width="267" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #6f7287;">Buy the book from the publisher, </span><a href="https://angelicopress.com/products/a-defense-of-monarchy-joseph-shaw?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=5mWXaNrZfmfon-e5SjN1Dxvba1pyahfFdKzWRRKRBfgIzgWZGySiAjGeBeGtM2aQ.TDEpuf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #3659e3; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title="https://angelicopress.com/products/a-defense-of-monarchy-joseph-shaw?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&_kx=5mWXaNrZfmfon-e5SjN1Dxvba1pyahfFdKzWRRKRBfgIzgWZGySiAjGeBeGtM2aQ.TDEpuf">Angelico Press</a><span style="color: #6f7287;">, </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Defence-Monarchy-Catholics-under-Protestant/dp/1621389596/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3LWBU2XZDJ288&keywords=shaw+defence+of+monarchy&qid=1702409237&sprefix=shaw+defence+of+monarchy%2Caps%2C323&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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font-size: medium;">, the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/product/defence-monarchy-catholics-under-protestant-king">Latin Mass Society shop</a>, and elsewhere.</span><span face="Neue Plak, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif"> </span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #222222;"><span style="color: #6f7287;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Short talks on the book</b> from the book launch (you can also find these on pod-cast platforms under 'Latin Mass Society: Iota Unum):</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-pgybv-157320a">James Bogle;</a> <a href="https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cyaap-157320c">Sebastian Morello</a>; <a href="https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-rv9n3-15731fe">Joseph Shaw</a></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span><span face="Neue Plak, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;">Endorsements</span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: #222222;"><span style="color: #6f7287;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span><span face="Neue Plak, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>HE Eduard von Habsburg</b>, Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This is an incredibly interesting and well done book. It is especially valuable that it makes the argument in favour of even a weak monarchy, in its constitutional powers and even in terms of the personal commitments of it representatives. Instead of giving way to despair, the book encourages us to continue to appreciate the constitutional and symbolic importance of monarchy, while we wait for a monarchy that embodies Catholic principles in their fullness.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>Fr Calvin Robinson</b>, Patron of the British Monarchist Society<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This book provides many lessons to Roman Catholics on why the British monarchy is a good thing; how Christians can be united around the British institution, even with our differences; and a staunch reminder that British heritage is undeniably Catholic, and a strong preserver of Catholic tradition through ceremonies such as the coronation and funeral services of the monarch. The last thing any traditionalist should want to see is the end of Catholic tradition.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Gavin Ashenden</b>, Chaplain to the Queen 2008-2017</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">This excellent and intriguing new book edited by Dr Shaw, defending the monarchy from a Catholic perspective, offers not only an informed perspective on</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">constitutional developments and realities, but makes a powerful case that the monarchy we have offers us a great deal more than would a republic. It also serves as a defence of the integrity of Elizabeth II against under-informed anxieties held by some passionate defenders of the rights of the unborn child.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The grasp of constitutional and historical development makes refreshing reading for anyone interested in our constitutional settlement not only as a matter of history, but also to furnish us with ways of judging the political dilemmas a turbulent cultural future may present us with.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div></span></span></div>
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Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-11434779543514388952024-02-10T16:06:00.001+00:002024-02-10T16:06:00.152+00:00Server training and vestment mending in London<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53511303329/in/album-72177720314587370/" title="IMG_9944"><img alt="IMG_9944" height="699" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53511303329_435deb82aa_z.jpg" width="467" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><br /></div><div>One of our regular events at St Mary Moorfields, the Society of Tarcisius doing server training and the Guild of St Clare, in the basement, mending vestments.</div><div><br /></div><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53511416310/in/album-72177720314587370/" title="IMG_9945"><img alt="IMG_9945" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53511416310_79886f7512.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>The next dates are </div><br />Saturday 20th April (<a href="https://lms.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?id=258&reset=1">booking page)</a><br /><br />Saturday 8th June (<a href="https://lms.org.uk/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=259">booking page</a>)<br /><br />See the Society of St Tarcisius website, and the Guild of St Clare, for more information.<span><a name='more'></a></span><span></span><br /><br /><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53511306219/in/album-72177720314587370/" title="IMG_9961"><img alt="IMG_9961" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53511306219_3e56889ca6.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>
<div><br /></div><div>It was a special occasion because by chance it fell on the feast of St Blaise. The parish priest, Fr Christopher Vipers, gave us the Blessing of Throats.</div><div><br /></div><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53510094777/in/album-72177720314587370/" title="IMG_9966"><img alt="IMG_9966" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53510094777_b58423ea87.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script> </div><div><br /></div><div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53511151798/in/album-72177720314587370/" title="IMG_9969"><img alt="IMG_9969" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53511151798_6ca3cf0222.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-11778057848476005132024-02-08T15:57:00.001+00:002024-02-08T15:57:00.128+00:00Candlemas in Oxford<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53511414275/in/album-72177720314608169/" title="IMG_9907"><img alt="IMG_9907" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53511414275_6b3657a90f.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><br /></div><div>It's been too long since I posted images of a High Mass in Oxford. This was for Candlemas; we had polyphony, blessing of candles, procession, and the full works in SS Gregory & Augustine's Oxford. The celebrant was Fr John Saward, Priest in Charge.</div><div><br /></div><div>The congregation for such Masses has been growing: this time it was close to 80; 50 used to be a good turnout.</div><div><br /></div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53510978756/in/album-72177720314608169/" title="IMG_9931"><img alt="IMG_9931" height="281" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53510978756_4bfa91d31f.jpg" width="500" /></a><div><br /></div><div>SS Gregory & Augustine's is not a church in which I can easily sneak closer to the sanctuary with the camera; as a result, as Mass progresses the photos are taken through a bank of incense-smoke.</div><div><br /></div><div><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53510088317/in/album-72177720314608169/" title="IMG_9929"><img alt="IMG_9929" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53510088317_c803313b89.jpg" width="500" /></a><div><br /></div><div>We are indebted to Tom Neal (right) and Dominic Bevan (left) for leading professional polyphonists and amateur chant singers on this and on many other occasions.</div><div><br /><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>
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Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-86776653758122709312024-01-22T18:25:00.000+00:002024-01-22T18:25:22.387+00:00Chairman's Briefing: the African Bishops and the VaticanAnother of my 'briefings' to supporters of the Latin Mass Society.<br /><br />It begins:<br /><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0I2AtLsF23Ma-4Z3boiEjSwOFYUYzJa5_8avHlATyCSLhUe6ZxxSUgsnqBK6_Lit63NCpqVs3lQN8aZqOOEltetkY-gd9ULxpFcRQVWP5ESpiE3g_9MW8nk2vUzJAFQxBCCAW29z1ch37j9Ffr6p64padj9zIjuohyatm8Oemw1g5Bu5-z2UjNA/s605/ambongo_fridolin_20_0214500.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="605" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0I2AtLsF23Ma-4Z3boiEjSwOFYUYzJa5_8avHlATyCSLhUe6ZxxSUgsnqBK6_Lit63NCpqVs3lQN8aZqOOEltetkY-gd9ULxpFcRQVWP5ESpiE3g_9MW8nk2vUzJAFQxBCCAW29z1ch37j9Ffr6p64padj9zIjuohyatm8Oemw1g5Bu5-z2UjNA/s320/ambongo_fridolin_20_0214500.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cardinal Abongo</td></tr></tbody></table>In the <a href="https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/4988?id=108378.2605.1.28838f8b64a9539485a0f3ab25898f52">last Briefing</a> I introduced Fiducia supplicans and initial reactions to it. These reactions have continued to come in, and many of them are less than welcoming. Indeed, only a small number of Bishops’ Conferences have made statements expressing any pleasure about the document being published. Most official reactions have been very guarded, and some, while diplomatic, clearly regard the document as ill-judged. Many of the strongest negative reactions have come from African Bishops’ Conferences.<br /></blockquote><br />You can see my latest 'briefing' <a href="https://madmimi.com/p/1826a81?pact=106954-179023885-6081624327-e667111b7dec82d744aba1717774149e1f8cc9d0">here</a>.<br /><br />Sign up to receive them by email <a href="https://lms.org.uk/newsletter">here</a>, along with our monthly newsletter.<br /><br />
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Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-31209724346654497362024-01-13T12:03:00.002+00:002024-01-13T12:03:49.837+00:00Book launch for 'A Defence of the Monarchy'<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53459260158/in/photostream/" title="IMG_9894"><img alt="IMG_9894" height="338" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53459260158_6636e65e55.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><br /></div><div>Short podcasts from contributors' presentations forthcoming.</div><div><br /></div><div>Coincidentally, Gavin Ashenden has published Part I of a conversation we had on the subject: find it on your podcast provider (Gavin Ashenden: 'Merely Catholic') or listen to it <a href="https://t.co/PSWftdtFE1">here</a>.</div><div><br />
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Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div><br />Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-1563393701784934382024-01-10T12:17:00.004+00:002024-01-10T12:17:51.103+00:00Anniversary Requiem for Pope Benedict XVI: photos<a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53455398205/in/album-72177720313970214/" title="IMG_9872"><img alt="IMG_9872" height="333" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53455398205_4d0decd3a5.jpg" width="500" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script><div><br /></div><div>This took place on Monday 8th January in Corpus Christi Maiden Lane. Sung Mass was accompanied by the Southwell Consort who sang Palestrina's <i>Missa pro Defunctis.</i> The celebrant was Fr John Scott. It was well attended and the music was wonderful--as usual, the Consort fielded a huge number of singers, both amateur and professional, with a professional conductor.</div><div><br /></div><div>May Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, rest in peace.</div><div><br /></div><a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/53454987471/in/album-72177720313970214/" title="IMG_9832"><img alt="IMG_9832" height="640" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53454987471_555e91f44d_z.jpg" width="418" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script>
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Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-79540675285249714742024-01-09T17:45:00.003+00:002024-01-09T17:45:37.684+00:00Artistic modernists rally for the Traditional Mass: in the Catholic Herald<div>My latest for the Catholic Herald, on my book on the petitions to save the Traditional Mass: <i><a href="http://www.lmschairman.org/p/the-latin-mass-and-intellectuals.html">The Latin Mass and the Intellectuals</a>.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Fm5UEsCZPwrUuA4na1eg-lP6mmJRY_Hrg413yQlTkcPNechCrIGvafZqNJhnLSbUU2s7Vf3XMLNo9QWq6EabKN2hZzdyb2nr0xZYZ1VOO7LEfGOvR7Gfetj3yFH0YFV11WVdXOeSMDYW9vPPcbtB-Pff4hUI02Qhu2rcuKR1CPwkyp1VwX4r_g/s800/Front%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="528" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Fm5UEsCZPwrUuA4na1eg-lP6mmJRY_Hrg413yQlTkcPNechCrIGvafZqNJhnLSbUU2s7Vf3XMLNo9QWq6EabKN2hZzdyb2nr0xZYZ1VOO7LEfGOvR7Gfetj3yFH0YFV11WVdXOeSMDYW9vPPcbtB-Pff4hUI02Qhu2rcuKR1CPwkyp1VwX4r_g/s320/Front%20cover.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Strange bedfellows: Unlikely figures who rallied around the Traditional Latin Mass in the 60s and 70s</span><div><br /></div>When the post-Vatican II liturgical reform was getting underway in 1966, and again when the reformed Mass had been unveiled in 1971, petitions signed by intellectuals and cultural figures – poets, writers, artists, musicians – called for the preservation of the older liturgy, alongside the new. These voices were heard by Pope Paul VI, who tried to insist on the preservation of the sung Latin Office in Sacrificium laudis in 1966, and granted England and Wales permission for continuing celebrations of the older Mass in 1971. This was extended to the whole world by Pope John Paul II in 1984.<br /><br />It is not surprising to find among the 1966 petitioners the reactionary convert novelist Evelyn Waugh, or the 1971 petitioner Agatha Christie, with her appreciation for the reassuring and nostalgic alongside the sinister and murderous. It is more surprising to find the non-Catholic, homosexual artistic modernists Benjamin Britten and WH Auden, both signatories in 1966. Auden, who by then had returned to the High Anglicanism of his upbringing, went on to criticise Anglican liturgical reform in the strongest terms. Before his death, TS Eliot also turned out to have archly traditional opinions on Anglican worship.<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/strange-bedfellows-unlikely-figures-who-rallied-around-the-traditional-latin-mass-in-the-60s-and-70s/">Read it all there</a>.<br /><br />
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Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-61921363815578004462023-12-31T15:02:00.001+00:002023-12-31T15:02:00.129+00:00Artistic modernism and the Traditional Mass<div>My latest for the European Conservative: some reflections arising out of the work I did for <i><a href="http://www.lmschairman.org/p/the-latin-mass-and-intellectuals.html">The Intellectuals and the Latin Mass</a>, </i>about the intellectual and artistic signatories of petitions to save the Traditional Latin Mass.</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div>A key passage:</div><br />This is a reminder that the relationship between artistic modernism and traditional artistic forms is a complex one. By definition, modernism involves a rejection of artistic conventions, but there is an open question as to which conventions are being overturned. The impulse of modernism is a response to modernity—new technology, social change, and so on—but there is again an open question regarding what form this response will take. <br /><br />Those brought up in a strongly-manifested Catholic culture may feel that modernity is a challenge that requires the Church to change in order to address it, or they may feel even that modernity has proved the Church wrong. Artistic modernism may be an expression of this stance: James Joyce is the outstanding artistic example of such a view.<br /><br />Other artists, no less rebellious, took things in a very different direction. Those whose lives have been dominated by a secularised culture, characterised by mass-produced art, may also take the view that their own culture is inadequate to the demands of the time: demands made, in particular, by the wars, political crises, and economic convulsions of the modern age. It is equally clear, however, that this culture is itself the product of modernity: in other words, modernity has created a culture which does not equip people to deal with modernity. To rebel against it, and to seek out less inadequate cultural forms, may involve the overthrow of the modern in the interest of reviving something older.<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/essay/artistic-modernism-and-the-catholic-ghetto/">Read the whole thing there.</a></div><br />
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Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-23007715727834798762023-12-30T15:01:00.008+00:002024-01-02T13:07:16.894+00:00Non-Catholics supporting the Traditional Mass<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUt3UniQ8QLB1jxFohICKFN64C-YiCwVrYQpPeW3xYcUb8ESEdD4JwewkA-LFtuFVzuKxH4-gOJId5RkCEA0HleugP7O_xiQoCcAF155oV1o9bzkIhv6mBdQy_KxG5O6p2OlgJgmCExfgKkVwhfQak1XD23PFmPa8WkfDDstxiYllSz3A-O97pg/s891/Front%20cover.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="891" data-original-width="588" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwUt3UniQ8QLB1jxFohICKFN64C-YiCwVrYQpPeW3xYcUb8ESEdD4JwewkA-LFtuFVzuKxH4-gOJId5RkCEA0HleugP7O_xiQoCcAF155oV1o9bzkIhv6mBdQy_KxG5O6p2OlgJgmCExfgKkVwhfQak1XD23PFmPa8WkfDDstxiYllSz3A-O97pg/s320/Front%20cover.jpg" width="211" /></a><i>My latest on 1Peter5. It begins:</i></div><div><br /></div>Last month I launched a new book, <a href="http://www.lmschairman.org/p/the-latin-mass-and-intellectuals.html">The Latin Mass and the Intellectuals: Petitions to Save the Ancient Mass from 1966 to 2007</a>. Many, if by no means all, readers will have heard of the “Agatha Christie Petition” which was presented to Pope Paul VI in 1971, stimulating him to given the first “indult” in favour of the Traditional Mass, for England and Wales. The story is much more complex and interesting than this, however.<br /><br />For many years the main public source of information about the petitions was a 1999 <a href="https://lms.org.uk/1971-english-indult-recollection">article</a> by Alfred Marnau, that had appeared in the Latin Mass Society’s Newsletter and was subsequently made available online. English-language references to the 1971 petition since then, up until now, have invariably used this as their sole source. It hasn’t helped that the UK Catholic press at the time of the petition and indult observed a substantial, if now quite complete, news blackout about them. The Latin Mass Society had to feed the news to The Times newspaper in order to get it into the public domain at all, and the text of the Indult was not made available to them by Cardinal Heenan for many months. Readers may remember the inability of the archivists at the Dicastery for Divine Worship to <a href="https://onepeterfive.com/a-letter-from-the-vatican-on-traditionis-custodes/">find the indult</a> (we sent Cardinal Roche a copy).<br /><br />Alfred Marnau was a hero of the early movement; after the petition he became the Chairman of the Latin Mass Society, and later founded Pro Ecclesiae et Pontifice to campaign on orthodox doctrine and Catholic education. However, in 1999 he was dying, and his article gives a rather incomplete picture of the petition, its organisation, and its wider context. He doesn’t claim to have written the text, for example, but does not explain that the original was in Italian, and that in addition to the <a href="http://www.fiuv.org/p/the-marnau-petition-of-1971.html"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>57 names</a> that were published in The Times on 9th July 1971 there were <a href="http://www.fiuv.org/p/the-1971-petition-extra-names.html">another 48</a>, non-UK based petitioners, whose names later appeared in Italian and French publications. The whole list of 105 was finally published in Una Voce Italia in their newsletter, that December.<br /><br /><a href="https://onepeterfive.com/when-non-catholics-tried-to-save-the-latin-mass/">Read the whole thing there.</a><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.lmschairman.org/p/the-latin-mass-and-intellectuals.html">See more about the book here</a>.<br /><br /><div><br /></div><div>Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-23190956503119188012023-12-22T11:15:00.012+00:002024-01-16T11:21:22.853+00:00Reactions to Fiducia Supplicans<div>I'll try to keep this up to date: not with the reaction of every bishop in the world, but groups of bishops and other significant groups.</div><div><br /></div><div>The text of the Declaration <i><a href="https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20231218_fiducia-supplicans_en.html">Fiducia supplicans</a></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><b>Bishops of <a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/archbishop-prohibits-priests-from-performing-any-form-of-blessing-of-same-sex-couples-in-response-to-new-vatican-declaration/">Kazakstan</a></b></div><div><br /></div>'To bless couples in an irregular situation and same-sex couples is a serious abuse of the most Holy Name of God, since this name is invoked upon an objectively sinful union of adultery or of homosexual activity.'<div><br /></div><div><b>Bishops of <a href="https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2023/12/ukraine-bishops-conference-chooses.html">Ukraine</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>'<span style="background-clip: padding-box; background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", Garamond; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We see the danger in ambiguous wording that causes divergent interpretations among the faithful. What we missed in the document is that the Gospel calls sinners to conversion, and without a call to leave the sinful life of homosexual couples, the blessing may look like an approval.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", Garamond; font-size: 16px;"> '</span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bishops of <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KlKknGgkx49oEqhYxvtX9azvaKtYt1gb/view?usp=sharing">Zambia</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>'In order to avoid any pastoral confusion and ambiguity as well as not to break the law of our country which forbids same sex unions and activities, and while listenig to our cultural heritage which does not accept same sex relationships, the Conference guides that the Declaration from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith of December 18th 2023 concerning the blessing of same-sex couples be taken as for further reflection and not for implementation in Zambia.'</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bishops of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EpiscopalConferenceMalawi/posts/pfbid02BfqeCGg8RmF533kJao7WPYCn43UhaqiVR7PjLbV3KNp2AhnfPcTHbquU35QrEPM6l">Malawi</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>'...to avoid creatuig confusion among the faithful we direct that for pastoral reasons, blessings of any kind for same-sex unions of any kind, are not permitted in Malawi.'<span><a name='more'></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bishops of <a href="https://www.africa.com/concerning-fiducia-supplicans-a-declaration-by-the-dicastery-for-the-propagation-of-the-faith-on-the-pastoral-meaning-of-blessings-in-the-church/">Nigeria</a></b></div><br />' In conclusion, the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria assures the entire People of God that the teaching of the Catholic Church on marriage remains the same. There is, therefore, no possibility in the Church of blessing same-sex unions and activities. That would go against God’s law, the teachings of the Church, the laws of our nation and the cultural sensibilities of our people. The CBCN thanks all the Priests for their accompaniment of married couples, asking them to continue in all they do to sustain the sacrament of holy matrimony and never to do anything that would detract from the sacredness of this sacrament.'<div><br /></div><b>Cardinal Ambongo of Congo, <a href="https://x.com/dianemontagna/status/1737883334103933430?s=20">President of Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa & Madagascar</a> (SECAM)</b><br /><br />'The ambiguity of this declaration—which lends itself to many interpretations & manipulations—is causing much perplexity among the faithful & I believe that...we need to speak out clearly on this issue in order to give clear guidance to our Christians.'<div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://x.com/LukeCoppen/status/1738223188881063939?s=20">Bishops of Zimbabwe</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>In respect of the law of the land, our culture and for moral reasons we instruct pastors to desist from actions that may be deemed as the blessing of same sex unions bringing confusion and even scandal to our people.</div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://catholic-trends.com/2023/12/21/full-text-bishops-of-ghanas-statement-on-vatican-declaration-on-blessing-same-sex-couples/">Bishops of Ghana</a></b></div><br />'We wish to reiterate that priests cannot bless same-sex unions or marriages.'<div><br /></div><div><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "noto serif", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Archbishop Franz Lackner, Chairman </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "noto serif", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">of the <a href="https://www.kathpress.at/goto/meldung/2331691/lackner-segenswunsch-eines-gleichgeschlechtlichen-paares-nachkommen">Austrian Bishops’ Conference</a></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: noto serif, Georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>He expressed 'joy' at the document. 'I believe that the Church recognizes that a relationship between two people of the same sex is not entirely without truth: there is love, there is fidelity, there is also need shared and lived in fidelity. This should also be acknowledged.'<br /><br />'Basically, you can no longer say no.' (machine translation)<div><br /></div><div><b>Bishops' Conference of the <a href="https://www.usccb.org/news/2023/statement-usccb-vaticans-document-addressing-pastoral-blessings">United States</a> </b>(this is the entire statement)</div><br />'The Declaration issued today by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) articulated a distinction between liturgical (sacramental) blessings, and pastoral blessings, which may be given to persons who desire God’s loving grace in their lives. The Church’s teaching on marriage has not changed, and this declaration affirms that, while also making an effort to accompany people through the imparting of pastoral blessings because each of us needs God’s healing love and mercy in our lives.'<div><span style="font-family: noto serif, Georgia, times new roman, serif;"><br /></span><div><b>Bishops' Conference of <a href="https://x.com/FrUgochukwu/status/1737812116009349251?s=20">Ghana</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>'The blessing which the Declaration says could be givien to everyone refers to prayers that people may request for. [sic] For those in a state of sin, the prayers are meant to lead them to conversion. Therefore, the prayers for persons in same-sex relationships are not intended to legitimise their way of of life, but to lead them on the path of conversion (cf. paras 38, 42-45).</div><div><span> 'In conclusion, we wish to reiterate that priests cannot bless same-sex unions or marriages.'</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bishops' Conference of <a href="https://www.eglisecatholiquerwanda.org/spip.php?article2082">Rwanda</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>'The Catholic Bishops' Conference in Rwanda informs
priests, priests, all Christians and devout people that the Church's teaching
on Christian marriage has not changed. As a result, the Church cannot bless
same-sex marriage because it would be contrary to God's law and culture.</div><div><span> '</span>We call on priests, priests and other Christians to join us
in our mission to be close and accompany our young people and married couples
who continue to appreciate the sacraments of marriage and its sacred
sovereignty.' (machine translation: impressed Word includes Kinyarwanda...)</div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div><b>Bishops' Conference of <a href="https://www.aciafrica.org/news/9868/catholic-bishops-in-kenya-defend-fiducia-supplicans-say-not-endorsing-same-sex-marriages">Kenya</a></b></div><div><br /></div>'This declaration does not in any way approve of ‘Same-sex Marriages’ nor try to give a back-door recognition of such a union. It does not seek an alternative ‘union blessing’ to substitute a Sacramental marriage.' </div><div><br /></div><div>'The Church does not withhold a blessing to an individual who seeks it with an attitude of truth and faith. This blessing can be given even to non-Catholics, or non-Christians who honestly wish to receive God's blessing.' (No link from report to the full statement.)</div><div><div><br /></div><div><b>Cardinal Vincent Nichols, President of the Bishops' Conference of <a href="https://x.com/holysmoke/status/1738126112469791193?s=51">England and Wales</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>'It is to remain clear that such moments of prayer and blessing are quite different from a blessing of the union or partnership itself and are a moment of turning to God for his mercy and for his grace to lead a life of increasing faithful love and service in obedience to the Lord.'</div><div><br /></div><div>(A longer 'note' is sent to priests but is not to be shared publicly.)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bishops of the Province of <a href="https://rennes.catholique.fr/actualite/411579-fiducia-supplicans-reflexions-et-orientations-des-eveques-des-dioceses-de-louest/">Rennes, France</a></b></div>'it is right, as the Declaration emphasizes, not to contribute to creating "confusion" (n. 4, 5, 30, 31, 39) or "scandal" (n. 30, 39). <b>For this reason, it is appropriate to bless spontaneously, individually, each of the two people who form a couple, regardless of their sexual orientation, who ask for God's blessing with humility and in the desire to conform more and more to his holy will</b>.' (Emphasis original. Machine translation)</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://x.com/dcrosaryrally/status/1738630228375732380?s=20"><b>Melkites in the USA</b></a></div><div>'If there is a request to attend or do a blessing or ceremony either inside or outside a church it can only be done with my prior written permission. Disregard for this prescription will result in canonical penalties.'<br /><div><br /></div><div>--------------</div><div><br /></div><div><i>To keep these together, reactions from Germany.</i></div><div><div><br /></div><div><b>Bishop Bätzing, <a href="https://www.dbk.de/presse/aktuelles/meldung/bischof-baetzing-zum-roemischen-dokument-fiducia-supplicans">President of the German Bishops' Conference</a></b></div><br />'I very much welcome this document and am grateful for the pastoral perspective it adopts. In Fiducia supplicans it is explained that, in principle, it is possible and permissible for the ordained pastor to respond to the wishes of couples who ask for a blessing for their partnership, even if they do not live in all respects according to the norms of the Church. This means that couples who do not have the opportunity to have a church wedding due to a divorce, for example, and same-sex couples can be given a blessing.' (machine translation)<div><br /></div><div><b>Irme Stetter-Karp,<a href="https://www.zdk.de/veroeffentlichungen/pressemeldungen/detail/Segen-fuer-gleichgeschlechtliche-Paare-ZdK-begruesst-Grundsatzerklaerung-des-Vatikans-1608i/"> President of the Central Committee of German Catholics</a> (ZdK)</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div>'It turns out that theological honesty and a sense of faith are important milestones on the way to changing the Church. A mere bondage to prohibition is not Catholic.'<div>'To be Catholic in these times means to expect change.' (machine translation)</div><div><br /></div><div><i>Three early reactions from individual bishops.</i></div><div><br /><div><div><div><b>Bishop <a href="https://www.dowr.org/statements/2023-12%20Fiducia%20Supplicans.pdf">Robert Barron</a>, Auxiliary Bishop of Winona-Rochester, USA</b></div><div><br /></div><div>'I believe that the declaration is very much congruent with the pastoral instincts of Pope Francis,
who always wants to remind those who are living the Christian life in a less than perfect way that
they are, nevertheless, loved and cherished by God. To all of Jesus’ brothers and sisters, the
Church should never fail to be a source of welcome, compassion, and blessing.'</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Archbishop <a href="https://rcadc.org/statement-of-archbishop-mark-otoole-on-fiducia-supplicans/">O'Toole of Cardiff</a>, Wales</b></div><br />'I invite all in the Archdiocese of Cardiff and the Diocese of Menevia to read and reflect on <i>Fiducia supplicans </i>carefully, so that they are aware of the parameters in which clergy may impart a blessing to others who seek it from them.'<div><br /></div><div><b>Bishop <a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/256342/bishop-munilla-fiducia-suplicans-not-heretical-but-application-will-be-chaotic">Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante</a>, Spain</b></div><div><b><br /></b>'It’s surprising that (they did not) proceed in a synodal manner, in line with the ecclesiology of the Second Vatican Council. We would have been spared the dissenting reactions of episcopal conferences that we are witnessing, for example.'</div><div>Implementation will be 'chaotic'.</div><div><br /></div><b>Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas of <a href="https://www.complicitclergy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Blessing-of-Mercy-Episcopal-Guidance-for-the-Implementation-of-Fidueia-Supplicans.pdf">Lingayen Dsgupan</a>, The Philipines</b><br /><br />'Therefore, when a Catholic priest prays a blessing of mercy on a couple in an irregular situation, who “desire to entrust themselves to the Lord and His mercy, to invoke His help, and to be guided to a greater understanding of His plan of love and of truth” (no. 30), he is asking God to have pity on both of them and to give them the grace of conversion so that they can regularize their relationships.<br /><span> '</span>This blessing of mercy is not and cannot be a blessing of sanctification since we cannot ask God to bless something that, as Fidueia Supplicans explains, is not “conformed to God’s will, as expressed in the teachings of the Church” (no. 9). Priests who are invited to bless couples in irregular situations should choose the appropriate words to reveal this intent of the Church.'</div><div><br /></div><div>------------------------------<br /><div><br /></div><div>Other reactions of interest.</div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://x.com/JamesMartinSJ/status/1736752055362936938?s=20"><b>Fr James Martin SJ</b></a></div><div><br />'The Vatican's new declaration "Fiducia supplicans" is major step forward in the church's ministry to LGBTQ people and recognizes the deep desire in many Catholic same-sex couples for God's presence in their loving relationships.'</div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://catholicherald.co.uk/uks-confraternity-of-catholic-clergy-publishes-letter-reaffirming-traditional-church-teaching-after-fiducia-supplicans/">Confraternity of Catholic Clergy</a> (UK)</b></div><br />'We note the noble pastoral desire to assist people to move forward by renewal of life and the call to conversion, building on all aspects of natural good will and virtue. Nevertheless, we see no situation in which such a blessing of a couple could be properly and adequately distinguished from some level of approval. Thus, it would inevitably lead to scandal – to the individuals concerned – to those involved directly or indirectly in the blessing – or to the minister himself. Furthermore, we fear that the practice of these blessings would confuse the faithful over the actual theology of marriage and human sexuality. Indeed, from the comments in the media over the past few days, and from concerns passed on to us by the faithful, we can already see such misunderstandings. We believe that genuine charity always follows true doctrine and that such blessings would work against the legitimate care a priest owes is flock. With honest parresia and from our own experience as pastors we conclude that such blessings are pastorally and practically inadmissable.'</div><div><br /></div><div><b><a href="https://x.com/TheNakamoku/status/1738215181447016472?s=20">Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div>'Marian clergy ... are prohibited from blessing irregular relationships, unions, or same-sex couples in the United States and Argentina, or while travelling abroad. ... We see no situation in which such a blessing of a couple could be properly and adequately distinguished from some level of approval of the irregular relationship, leading to the scandal of the faithful. Such blessings (liturgical or spontaneous) would work against the legitimate care a priest or deacon owes his flock.'</div><div><br /></div><div>A few more African countries are included on <a href="https://www.nigeriacatholicnetwork.com/summary-of-the-responses-of-ten-bishops-conferences-in-africa-to-the-document-fiducia-supplicans/">this website</a> but there are no links.<br /><div><br />
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<div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="300" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Tnx_830VlMI?si=ZdGzMJCk-1ZfHbO6" title="YouTube video player" width="530"></iframe> </div><div><br /></div><div>Support the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/membership">Latin Mass Society</a></div>Joseph Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06587987442560784792noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30490922.post-38022011270748987452023-12-20T10:00:00.000+00:002023-12-20T10:00:00.140+00:002024 Ordos from the LMS and the FIUV<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgJo14NLUR2bSfPOkLl8L2TIhGEhFNyrGB6RrmbgWufhgemdwo7Kl-GENmVys_NsuoYAUczWxPltgb7VfkeByngdVzjzDzbWkRflI05zcF8wo0wq7H-dlKzbXRWOI8Ps15LuSm2_MkulH-5NhxlvNkYeTueku0VweVwpp5xBmPB0KQvKtF81v4X6AioI/s640/FIUV%20Ordo.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="440" height="505" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzgJo14NLUR2bSfPOkLl8L2TIhGEhFNyrGB6RrmbgWufhgemdwo7Kl-GENmVys_NsuoYAUczWxPltgb7VfkeByngdVzjzDzbWkRflI05zcF8wo0wq7H-dlKzbXRWOI8Ps15LuSm2_MkulH-5NhxlvNkYeTueku0VweVwpp5xBmPB0KQvKtF81v4X6AioI/w347-h505/FIUV%20Ordo.jpg" width="347" /></a> </div><span style="font-size: medium;">The Federation's own Ordo, giving the Mass to be said every day of the year according to the Universal Calendar (1962), is now available as a <a href="https://lms.org.uk/sites/default/files/resource_documents/fiuvordo2024/ordo2024.pdf">pdf download here</a>.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Hard copies will be available to buy in the New Year, from the <a href="https://lms.org.uk/fiuvordo">LMS online shop.</a></div><div><br /></div>The FIUV took up the publication of this Ordo when the PCED, which used to do it, ceased to exist. It is modelled on the old PCED Ordos.<div><br /></div><div><i>Do support the FIUV by <a href=" http://www.fiuv.org/p/friends-of-international-federation-una.html">becoming a Friend</a>!</i></div><div><br /></div><div>The Latin Mass Society's Ordo, which has the feasts of the dioceses of England and Wales, be be <a href="https://lms.org.uk/product/latin-mass-society-ordo-2023-24">purchased in hard copy here</a>. It will be available online <a href="https://lms.org.uk/ordo">here</a>.</div><div><br /><br />
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