LMS Walsingham Pilgrimage: booking open, early bird discount: 26-30 Aug

Sign up before Easter Sunday and get 10% off! More info and booking here.

Non-members can join the Latin Mass Society while booking and get the members' discount: from anywhere in the world.

The dates are 26-30th August, Thursday evening in Ely to Sunday afternoon in Walsingham. (There's an extra Mass on Monday for those who've stayed the night in the area.)

The LMS Walking Pilgrimage to Walsingham is a fantastic experience. Not as grueling as the Chartres Pilgrimage in terms of daily distance, and also pretty flat, it is still a very serious walk over three days with singing, praying, spiritual talks from our chaplains, and the Traditional Mass.

Our singing is led by our wonderful cantors - there is one assigned to each chapter - and we have freshly-made hot evening meals thanks to our superb catering team. And porridge for breakfast!

Follow in the footsteps of England's kings, peasants, sinners and saints: come to Walsingham, and do it the hard way, on foot!

More info and booking here.

 

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November Sewing Retreat: Booking open

The Sewing Retreats of the Guild of St Clare (affiliated to the Latin Mass Society) are always booked out and this autumn's event will be the first after two were knocked out by Covid. Don't delay booking your place!

The retreat giver will be Fr Timothy Finigan.

The dates are 12th-14th November 2021

Venue: the Guesthouse at Douai Abbey in Berkshire.

Come and help make or mend vestments, all skill-levels catered for (honestly!), with Fr Finigan's spiritual conferences and daily Traditional Masses.

Booking and more details here.

Private Masses in St Peter's: who's in the cross-hairs?

Private Masses before a 'First Mass' of a newly ordained priest
(Fr William Barker FSSP) in Bavaria, in a church near Wigratzbad.

I was at school next to a vast church with masses of unused side-altars, and they are an apt symbol of the changes which followed the Second Vatican Council. Why would a priest wish to celebrate Mass on a day when he has no public Mass to say? Why bother? Or else, why not tag along with a crowd of priests putting on a concelebrated Mass, so he can tick the box saying he's attended the community's 'conventual' Mass and the box saying he's celebrated, both at once?

New podcasts, with Roger Buck

The Latin Mass Society's Iota Unum Podcast series continues with two podcasts with the author Roger Buck. You can find them on Podbean, Spotify, and ITunes: search for the Latin Mass Society

The New Age: Roger Buck talks to Joseph Shaw

Part 1: What is the New Age? (Podbean)

Part 2: Theosophy and the roots of the New Age (Podbean)

Roger Buck was born in California, was brought up partly there and partly in England, and has also lived in various places on the Continent. He is currently living in Ireland. He spent close to three years living at the New Age centre at Findhorn in Scotland, and nearly twenty years in the New Age milieu, before his conversion. Roger’s conversion story is described in his book Cor Jesu Sacratissimum, which defends the Latin Mass and details the tragedy of the post-Vatican II Church.

More about Roger Buck can be found here:

Roger’s website

Roger’s YouTube channel

Roger’s books:

The Gentle Traditionalist: A Catholic Fairy-Tale from Ireland (2015) (LMS Shop)

The Gentle Traditionalist Returns: A Catholic Knight’s Tale from Ireland (2019) (LMS Shop)

Cor Jesu Sacratissimum: From Secularism and the New Age to Christendom Renewed (2016) (LMS Shop)

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The New Feminism tells women to accept abuse

Most people are blissfully unaware of the vast extent of intellectual fakery which inhabits universities around the world. The fact that a great deal of it is paid for by taxpayers is bad enough, but sometimes it rises to levels which raise a different kind of question. This is the case with this article by Alison Phipps, Professor of Gender Studies at Sussex University. She shares this institution with the ‘Gender Critical’ feminist Kathleen Stock whom I wrote about here, but describes her colleague’s views, such as that women should not have share refuges with biological males, as beneath debate (“‘Reasonable debate’ cannot counter unreasonable ideas.”). In the article, Phipps writes that women expressing trauma about sexual violation, a phenomenon she describes as “white tears”, is a tool of oppression.

It is difficult to find words to do justice to the outrageous nature of this claim, and its calamitous consequences if taken seriously. But these are not the ravings of a lone madwoman. Phipps is a professor at a serious university, these reflections of hers are published in a mainstream journal, and she has also published a book on the same theme, with Manchester University Press. More significantly, she is one of many radical feminists of the new school. Put “white tears” (with quotation marks) into Twitter’s search bar, and say hello to a truly grim new world.

Letter of the Week: Brexit

In this weekend's The Tablet.

I suspect that Robert Tombs, emeritus professor of French history at Cambridge, knows rather more about the workings of history than your reviewer, Christopher Bray (Books, 27 February). 

But however much he objects to the optimistic message emerging from Professor Tombs’ book, This Sovereign Isle, one wonders how the post-Brexit counsel of gloom which Mr Bray prefers is supposed to help anyone, particularly when so much of the same has already been disseminated by The Tablet. 

Of course, passionate Remainers may find it embarrassing if this country achieves prosperity, over coming years, outside the European Union. They may even be tempted to work against it. But isn’t it now time to face reality and move on? We’ve left, and we must make a success of it. 

JONATHAN LUXMOORE 

WARSAW, POLAND 

The author, the journalist Jonathan Luxmoore whose international reporting often appears in The Tablet and The Universe, and who has also written on Poland for Mass of Ages, is the author of The God of the Gulag, a two-volume study of the persecution of Christians under Communism.

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Spring Mass of Ages available

In this issue: • Fr Timothy Finigan shows what we should learn about Lenten penance from Challoner • We report on an LMS gift of a set of faldstool covers to Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane • David Gornall SJ looks at where we are now, fifty-five years after the Second Vatican Council • Charles A. Coulombe remembers John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute.

Thanks to the cooperation of priests in whose parishes the Traditional Mass is celebrated, Mass of Ages is available from more than 120 cathedrals and churches around the country. See HERE for stockists. If you do not live near one of these but would like a copy of the magazine, we would be very happy to send one from the LMS Office. However, due to the high cost of postage, we do ask that you cover the cost of postage. See here for details.

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