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    22/02/2024 - 17:49

    Trip to Ireland, part 3: Waterford

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    The final stop of my trip to Ireland was Waterford, where I attended Mass in the very impressive St John's church, celebrated by Fr Patrick O'Donahue FSSP. I joined the chant schola for the occasion.
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    The Latin Mass Society of Ireland 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:
    You'll find the Latin Mass Society's 'Iota Unum' series on any podcast platform.

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    21/02/2024 - 17:40

    Trip to Ireland, 2: Galway

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    At the Roundtower Association conference in Galway we had a beautiful Mass celebrated by Fr Philomeno of the Marian Franciscans, and a rosary procession through the streets.

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    Then the conference continued, with Robert Colquoun of 40 Days for Life, and me. With due acknowledgement to the Roundtower Association, you can hear my talk here:
    Culture, Modernity and Post-Modernity

    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).
    Videos of all the talks will be available in due course.
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    21/02/2024 - 16:18

    Trip to Ireland: part 1, Silverstream, Dublin, Knock

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    Last week I was in Ireland, to attend a splendid conference in Galway. Before going there, however, I visited Silverstream Priory, which is north of Dublin, where I met Prior Basile McCabe. 
    The following day, I gave a talk in Dublin's Catholic Central Library, on the 'Family and Culture: Lose One, Lose the Other'. I introduced the idea of luxury beliefs, developing the argument of my book, The Family, the Liturgy, and the Crisis of Modernity.

    I recorded my talk, so you can listen to it as a podcast (I've given it a slightly snappier title):
    Families, Culture and Luxury Beliefs
    You'll find the Latin Mass Society's 'Iota Unum' series on any podcast platform.
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    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).

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    20/02/2024 - 17:25

    Ash Wednesday and St Valentine: for Catholic Answers

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    I'm behind with my blogging, but here's something I wrote for Catholic Answers and some photos of an Ash Wednesday Mass.
    The article begins:
    The 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.

    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.

    This year, we have the coincidence of Ash Wednesday and the traditional date of the feast of the Roman martyr St. Valentine.

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    17/02/2024 - 10:07

    Talks and Endorsements for 'A Defence of Monarchy'
    Buy the book from the publisher, Angelico Press, Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, the Latin Mass Society shop, and elsewhere. 

    Short talks on the book from the book launch (you can also find these on pod-cast platforms under 'Latin Mass Society: Iota Unum):


    Endorsements


    HE Eduard von Habsburg, Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See

    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.

    Fr Calvin Robinson, Patron of the British Monarchist Society

    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.

    Gavin Ashenden, Chaplain to the Queen 2008-2017

    This excellent and intriguing new book edited by Dr Shaw, defending the monarchy from a Catholic perspective, offers not only an informed perspective on  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.  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.


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    10/02/2024 - 16:06

    Server training and vestment mending in London

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    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.
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    The next dates are 

    Saturday 20th April (booking page)

    Saturday 8th June (booking page)

    See the Society of St Tarcisius website, and the Guild of St Clare, for more information.

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    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.
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    08/02/2024 - 15:57

    Candlemas in Oxford

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    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.
    The congregation for such Masses has been growing: this time it was close to 80; 50 used to be a good turnout.

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    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.

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    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.
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    06/02/2024 - 15:47

    Visit to Ireland
    I shall be giving talks in Dublin and Galway in the next few days; all are welcome.

    On Thursday 8th February I will be speaking at Dublin's Catholic Central Library T 7PM. 

    Central Catholic Library,
    74 Merrion Square S,
    Dublin 2, D02 HH99

    The talk will be called 'Culture and the Family: Lose one, Lose them both'.

    On Saturday 10th, I am taking part in a conference in Galway, with Robert Colquoun and Fr Philomeno of the Franciscans of the Immaculate. The Conference is called 'She Will Crush Your Head'.

    My talk will be called 'Modernity and Postmodernity, on the
    Liturgy and Marriage'

    I will also be at the regular FSSP Mass in Waterford on Sunday 11th.

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    22/01/2024 - 18:25

    Chairman's Briefing: the African Bishops and the Vatican

    Another of my 'briefings' to supporters of the Latin Mass Society.

    It begins:

    Cardinal Abongo

    In the last Briefing 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.

    You can see my latest 'briefing' here.

    Sign up to receive them by email here, along with our monthly newsletter.

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    13/01/2024 - 12:03

    Book launch for 'A Defence of the Monarchy'

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    Short podcasts from contributors' presentations forthcoming.
    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 here.
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