After all, have not His words and life shown him to be a God, not "of affliction," but "of peace?" Has he not brought us "back" to His own "blessed Land" from our own "captivity" (Introit) in which "through our weakness, we become entangled" (Prayer)? Have we not become "enemies of the Cross," bringing about our own "destruction," as the Epistle describes it?
The Epistle advises, however, that we first of all "stand fast in the Lord" and "be of one mind in the Lord" with one another in order that He might "reform the body of our lowness" in personal and public life and be delivered from the "depths" (Gradual). Christ will turn around to help us anywhere on the road of life if we only touch "the hem of His garment" in faith. But if we surround ourselves with a multitude of creatures and created things who laugh their Creator to scorn, "making a tumult," He will only come in when we put them out (Gospel). Hence, when we "pray" (Communion), our chief petition should be for an "increase of our service" to God (Secret), and to "overcome human dangers" so as to share in the "Divine" life.
Had the 13th November fallen on a day other than Sunday, the staunch defender of the Faith, Pope St. Martin I, who condemned Monotheism through a council, would have been honoured. The heresy which taught that Christ had only one nature, the Divine, had affected the emperor and Martin was arrested and exiled. Due to his ill treatment, Martin died for the True Catholic Faith and is considered a martyr. In the 1962 Missal, no commemoration of the Saint is made at the Sunday Mass. Yet, we for our own part can pray to St. Martin for strength to overcome heresy!
On the second Sunday of November falls Remembrance Sunday. One Requiem Mass may be celebrated for those who died in the Two World Wars. The Mass said is that ‘of the Anniversary’. A Requiem Low Mass will be celebrated at St Francis of Assisi Church, Llay Chain, near Wrexham, LL12 0NT at 12.30pm.