The Catholic Truth Society have kindly reminded me (amid the all the confusion it has caused, how could one forget!) that it is a year since the Synod began. They wish to sell Amoris Laetitia at just £2.50 (instead of £4.95) as a celebration of the historic event. I think it is reparation and plenty of it that is required one year on.
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The Catholic Truth Society have kindly reminded me (amid the all the confusion it has caused, how could one forget!) that it is a year since the Synod began. They wish to sell Amoris Laetitia at just £2.50 (instead of £4.95) as a celebration of the historic event. I think it is reparation and plenty of it that is required one year on.
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This article is from Paix Liturgique, it shows that everywhere the people crave the sacred. Canon Montjean will be well known to any reader of this blog as the rector of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest's apostolate at New Brighton, Wirral. A group of laymen in Mauritius had been asking for Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio to be applied on the island since 2007. Since no local priest seemed qualified for the celebration of the traditional Mass as per the Motu Proprio prescriptions, the local ordinary, Bishop Piat of Port-Louis, finally decided to kill two birds with one stone: he invited a Canon of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest to take care of this celebration and to take over the chaplaincy of three local health centers.
Through this nomination Bishop Piat is responding both to a pastoral need (spiritual and sacramental aid to the sick) and to the needs of the Summorum Pontificum faithful, all the while contributing to his diocese’s liturgical enrichment and peace.* We have pointed out this solution of a possible use of Ecclesia Dei community priests more than once: entrust chaplaincies such as hospital chaplaincies to them. It is an example of pastoral pragmatism that we gladly propose for meditation to our European pastors who are running out of priests. . . I – BISHOP PIAT’S COMMUNIQUÉ Canon Moreau of the Institute of Christ the King has been sent on mission to Mauritius for a renewable period of three years. Port-Louis, 10 August 2016—The Institute of Christ the King is a congregation of priests who, while in full communion with the Pope and the bishops, celebrate Mass in the “extraordinary rite,” i.e. the Mass in Latin according to the rite of Saint Pius V that prevailed from the Council of Trent to Vatican II. Pope Benedict XVI asked the bishops to allow the Holy Mass to be celebrated in this extraordinary rite if they received a request from a group of faithful. In point of fact, a group of Mauritian laypeople have been asking me for the possibility of participating in this extraordinary rite for several years. That is why I am glad today to welcome Canon Moreau of the Institute of Christ the King, which is in full communion with Rome. Canon Moreau will celebrate Mass in Latin according to the extraordinary rite every Sunday at Saint Joseph’s chapel at the convent of the Daughter of Mary, in Rose-Hill. He will also be the chaplain at the State hospital and at the Bon-Pasteur and Mauricienne clinics. II – THE REFLECTIONS OF PAIX LITURGIQUE 1) Bishop Piat has been bishop of Port-Louis since 1993, after being coadjutor there, and he belongs to the Congregation of the Holy Ghost. Although it took him some time to respond to the request of the faithful desirous of benefitting from the riches of the traditional liturgy, he nevertheless did end up finding a solution that is the more satisfying for being part of the diocese’s ordinary life. Canon Moreau’s nomination was published in the diocesan weekly and, as a beautiful album of photos indicates (see here), Bishop Piat personally presided at the first Mass celebrated by Canon Moreau in Saint Joseph’s chapel in Rose-Hill on 21 August 2016. 2) Canon Moreau’s first Mass drew over 150 faithful; ensuing Masses have drawn about a hundred. At the diocesan level over 300 of the faithful signed the petition for the application of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum. These numbers demonstrate that in Mauritius, as everywhere else as demonstrated by our international survey campaign, demand for the celebration of the extraordinary form is universal. 3) Rose-Hill, where Canon Moreau celebrates his Mass, is the second most populous town in a country whose majority population is Indian by descent; Hinduism is, in fact, the first religion there. Yet Catholicism amounts to 26% of the population. Furthermore the country is bilingual, and although the plan is for Canon Moreau to conduct this apostolate mainly in French, he has just arrived from an apostolate of several years in the United States (California and New Jersey) and will have no trouble communicating with his flock in English as well. We’ll wager that the bishop took the canon’s missionary experience into account when he made his decision. In fact, readiness to go on mission is a characteristic of many of the priests who are devoted to celebrating the traditional liturgy. 4) One of the more unusual aspects of Bishop Piat’s decision is that he took it, or at least formalized it, at the very time that he reached the canonical retirement age for bishops: 75. How often have we heard priests and bishops justify their refusal to apply Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio on the grounds that they were reaching the end of their mandate and did not wish to “impose their choice” on their successor! That attitude, which is part bureaucratic part bad faith, often finds its corollary in the successor who explains to the same people with their request that he needs “to get better acquainted with the diocesan situation” before making a move. None of that in Bishop Piat, who leaves his successor with a situation that is clear and satisfactory to all concerned, Deo gratias! ------- * Before the diocese offered a regular celebration of the traditional Mass, several Mauritian laymen turned to priests of the African district of the Society of Saint Pius X for years to have access to it. Although the bishop originally looked upon the SSPX priests’ missions with goodwill, he then opposed them and went so far as to publish a harsh communiqué warning against Archbishop Lefebvre’s foundation in 2015. It will be up to his successor to “put the pieces together again” with the future Prelature of Saint Pius X. Saturday 1st October
Low Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary, Buckley at 12.30pm Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Sunday 9th October Low Mass at St Francis of Assisi, Llay at 120pm XXI Sunday after Pentecost Saturday 15th October in association with The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest Missa Cantata at Our Lady of Sorrows (Wrexham Cathedral) click here for more information. Votive Mass of St Richard Gwyn and veneration of the relic from 11am Sunday 23rd October Low Mass at St Winefride's, Holywell at 11.30am XXIII Sunday after Pentecost This month is dedicated to both the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Most Holy Rosary and the Holy Angels. Thus, the First Sunday by right belongs to Our Lady, and the preferred Mass is the Votive Mass of the Most Holy Rosary, as on the feast of the 7th October with a commemoration of the XX Sunday After Pentecost, as permitted by the 1962 rubrics of the Missale Romanum.
The Rosary consists of a chaplet of roses, so to speak, dedicated to Our Lady, Queen of Heaven and earth. She gave the beads the name “Rosary.” As we pray the Rosary, our mind should concentrate on the mystery of Our Lord’ s life and death and resurrection from the dead. His work was something with which the Blessed Virgin was intimately associated. The Our Father, Apostle’s Creed and Glory be are also said, and the 150 Hail Mary’s, the Angelic Salutation, take the place of saying the 150 psalms. Although the Rosary has been around for many centuries, the Feast of the Holy Rosary was established to commemorate the victory of the Christians over the Mohammadens on Sunday, 7th October 1571, when a superior Turkish fleet was destroyed by the Christian forces at Lepanto, in Portugal, which kept the Islamic invaders out of Western Europe. Pope St. Pius V had asked that the fate of Europe be placed in the hands of Our Lady and had requested that all Christians pray the Rosary. Were we to say the Rosary with the fervour of those Christians of long ago, we could make the world a paradise, free of abortion, hatred and war. At this particular time, the Rosary is particularly appropriate, and we should petition Our Lady daily to end war which is, after all, a punishment for sin. Today is Feast of the Holy Guardian Angels whose job is to guide us daily and defend us from evil and the devil. Although not commemorated in the Mass under the newer rubrics, pray especially today to your own guardian angel to protect you from sin and evil. During the Month of October, in all churches and oratories, the Rosary and Litany of Loreto are traditionally recited daily. (The prayer Ad te, beate Ioseph, etc. is recited daily) This was by meands of a decree of Pope Leo XIII, 20th August 1885 and the Sacred Congregation of Rites on 3rd May 1960 PRAYER TO ST. JOSEPH Ordered to be said during the Month of October by the Holy Father, as above. To thee, O blessed Joseph, do we fly in our tribulation; and having implored the help of thy most holy spouse, we confidently crave thy patronage also. Through that charity which bound thee to the Immaculate Virgin Mother of God, and through the paternal love with which thou didst embrace the Child Jesus, we humbly beseech thee graciously to regard the inheritance which Jesus Christ hath purchased by His Blood and with thy power and strength to aid us in our necessities. O most watchful guardian of the Divine family, defend the chosen children of Jesus Christ; O most loving Father, ward off from us every contagion of error and corrupting influence; O our most mighty protector, be propitious to us, and from heaven assist us in this our struggle with the power of darkness; and as once thou didst rescue the Child Jesus from deadly peril, so now protect God’s Holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all adversity: Shield, too, each one of us by thy constant protection, so that, supported by thine example and thine aid, we may be able to live piously, to die holily, and to obtain eternal happiness in heaven. Amen |
Oremus pro Pontifice nostro Francisco: Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum eius.
Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui facis mirabilia magna solus: praetende super famulos tuos, et super congregationes illis commissas, spiritum gratiae salutaris; et, ut in veritate tibi complaceant, perpetuum eis rorem tuae benedictionis infunde.
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