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From http://www.youngcatholicadults.co.uk/saints.htm :- "(Portrait above) Born 1592. Fr. John Southworth came from a Lancashire family that chose to pay heavy fines rather than give up the Catholic faith. He was arrested under the  Interregnum  and was tried at the Old Bailey under Elizabethan anti-priest legislation . He pleaded guilty to exercising the priesthood and was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. At his execution at Tyburn, on 28 June 1654, he was not “drawn and quartered” as sentenced." St John Southworth, priest & martyr, pray for your flock in London! This week the Saint's body is venerated in the nave of Westminster Cathedral.

   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illuminated.bible.closeup.arp.jpg The offices from the Benedictine Monastery of Le Barroux (of Sainte-Madeleine), in France, are available on their website every day and can be found by clicking the link on the right-hand sidebar of this blog.   As their website states:- "The story of the Monastery of Sainte-Madeleine is a liturgical story. From the outset, it was the treasure of the Latin liturgy and Gregorian Chant amassed over centuries which captivated the monks. An art of praying which seemed to them newer and fresher than more recent innovations. A school of prayer in which they felt the desire and the strength to approach God through prayer. In this, they are doubtless followers of the initial intuition of their founders."   See:- https://www.barroux.org/en/liturgie/listen-to-our-offices.html .    

The photograph above relates to a Sung Requiem (Anniversary) at Prinknash Abbey, 17th June (Fathers Day weekend) for Dr. M Barker. Special thanks are due to Fr. MacDonald (Celebrant), Joshua Cruden and Fr. Hargreaves for organising the singing; together with the servers, many of whom were serving the Old Rite for the first time! Tag. Sung Mass in the Old Rite at Prinknash Abbey.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Pope_Francis_at_Varginha_%282%29.jpg The Catholic Herald has the following story:- "Pope Francis has asked cardinals resident in Rome to inform him when they leave the city, and the address of their stay....A letter from Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals, reminds the prelates of the “noble tradition” of informing the Secretariat of State whenever they travel outside of Rome." See:- http://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2017/06/13/pope-francis-asks-to-cardinals-to-inform-him-whenever-they-leave-rome/ Why would he be doing this? One explanation is that the Cardinals need to be near Rome because of an impending consistory(due to a resignation). However, there are other explanations too. Time will tell. It is true that Cardinals were (years ago) expected to let the Vatican Secretary of State their whereabouts; yet, this rule has not been enforced for years! 

 Young Catholic Adults N ational weekend  at Douai Abbey 20th-22nd OCTOBER 2017. Featuring Fr. Lawrence Lew OP., and Canon Poucin ICKSP.   BOOKING NOW OPEN! To book see:-    https://v1.bookwhen.com/youngcatholicadults-douai2017

  "The war raged on.  Europe was no stranger to war; but the ferocity and the scope of this war were unprecedented.  The slaughter proceeded on an industrial scale.  And there were the new horrors, beyond all description: the blood and mud of trench warfare; poison gas; primitive tanks, whose operators could not expect to survive more than a few minutes in an engagement; and air raids over cities.  While the three shepherd children of Fatima were keeping their appointment with the Mother of God in the Cova da Iria on June 13, 1917, 18-20 German bombers struck the city of London in broad daylight, in one of the worst air raids of the war.  Four hundred people were injured, and 162 -- including 46 children -- perished.    The peace that had fled the world had also fled Fatima, particularly in the home of Lucia dos Santos.  After the first apparition of Our Lady at the Cova da Iria, her little cousin, Jacinta, promptly broke the children's firm...

 Source:By HazteOir.org - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hazteoir/6811047527/in/photolist-pRXHhK-bnSp8V-bnSpgK-bhjYxa, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41557387 “Never forget, when you hear the progress of the Enlightenment being praised, that the devil’s cleverest ploy is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist.” — Charles Baudelaire Archbishop Charles Chaput (USA), O.F.M. Cap. writes:- "Leszek Kolakowski was an unusual man of letters. A fierce critic of the Church as a young man, he was a leading Marxist philosopher in Poland until he asked too many awkward questions about Soviet life under Stalin and got exiled to the West.  He went on to become a fan of John Paul II and one of the great scholars of the last century. Exactly 30 years ago, Kolakowski gave a lecture at Harvard entitled “The Devil in History.” Early in the talk, the mood in the room became restless. Many of the listeners knew Kolakowski’s work. They knew he could be playful and...