For only the second time since the Reformation, the Holy Mass has been offered within the ruins of the former Norbertine abbey of Bayham, in Kent. The Sung Mass, celebrated by Nobertine Subprior, Fr Stephen Morrison, in the traditional Premonstratensian use of the Roman Rite, was the culmination of a special day commemorating Bayham's Norbertine heritage. It was fitting to hold this day during this 900th anniversary year of the Papal Bull, 'Apostolicæ Disciplinæ' of Pope Honorius II approving the Norbertine Order (1126). Prior to the Mass, there was a Norbertine medieval chant workshop (courtesy of the Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge, participants then sang the Mass), short historical talks and a family rosary. The Mass concluded with the veneration of the relic of St Nobert.
In his homily, Fr Stephen said: “I am privileged to offer the Holy Sacrifice again here on this sacred ground, the once rang to the chant of the Divine Office, and no fewer than three daily Masses. We give thanks for that continuity we find in the Church. We give thanks for our faith, the Faith of our Fathers, and we give thanks that out of the ruins of worldly crises, God continues to plant the seeds of new growth…Like St Norbert, may we treasure the Holy Mass to our dying breath and draw from it the grace to become Saints in the times that it has pleased Almighty God to place us.”
Bayham Abbey (dedicated to Our Lady in her Annunciation) near Tunbridge Wells was founded in 1208 from two pre-existing communities, the abbeys of Brockley (St Mary's) in Kent and of Otham (St Mary and St Lawrence) in Sussex. Jordan, Abbot of Otham, then became the first Abbot of Bayham. Via the merger, it can be seen as a daughter house of Sulby and Durford, both of which descended from the first English Norbertine Abbey, Newhouse (Lincolnshire), founded from our Abbey of Licques (Flanders) in 1143. Bayham was one of over thirty Norbertine houses in England until its dissolution under Cardinal Wolsey in 1525, some years before King Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries.
How can you watch this and not want cry, and then die for Christ?
Today in 1794, 15 Carmelite Nuns knelt before their Abbess and asked her permission to die for Jesus. They all went to the guillotine with songs of praise on their lips, while one stayed hidden to carry the Carmelites forward!
The French Revolution was unadulterated evil.
“It is necessary people amend their lives.
Let them offend our Lord God no more. He is already much offended.”
When the Queen of Heaven speaks, we must listen.
July 13, 1917.
Regina Caeli!
Let us rejoice and pray for the 4 new priests ordained by His Eminence Raymond Cardinal Burke for the Institute of Christ the King.
ad Jesum cum Petro!
This whole issue of excommunicating the SSPX has become nonsensical
Pope John Paul II excommunicates them
Pope Benedict lifts the excommunications
Pope Francis gives them faculties for confession and marriage
Pope Leo excommunicates them and declares confession and marriage invalid
The Vatican has made excommunication a political football not a medicincal act of mercy
Thank you, Father! This is exactly what I’ve been proposing! We have to change our language when it comes to talking about those who struggle with same sex attraction.
To call someone “gay” or “lesbian” or “LGBTQ etc” is to call someone by their disorder.
It strips the human person of their God given dignity. So good to see some priests saying this so clearly!
Thank you, Father! God Bless you!
🙏🏻❤️🔥
It seems that the SSPX’s strategy is to force the Pope to excommunicate them as schismatics so that the very next day, they can apply for interfaith dialogue, be met in the Vatican by an official delegation, get treated like royalty, pray with the pope (with a photo-op), and perform formal liturgical functions in St. Peter’s.
Or, does this only work for Anglican women larping as bishops?
@reignofmary7@rosaryknight I agree and felt the same way. I didn't notice it was James martin in the photo until reading the comments though, which didn't help but make me more ill.
If autism has always been with us (and the intellectually lazy excuse is that there’s better diagnoses now) well…
Then where are they hiding all the OLD AUTISTIC PEOPLE?!!
Good source of mine says bishop Martin is trying to recruit some people to turn people away if the chapel gets full tomorrow. As of this afternoon, he had not found any takers.
If it’s overfilled every week it’ll look bad on him. Imagine people spilling outside even into the winter and news asking why? He’s already asking people NOT to go every week.
Bishop Schneider onthe LGBTQ+ "Pilgrimage" to St. Peter's Basilica
“My reaction was a silent cry of horror, indignation, and sorrow. All true believers in the Church—both faithful and clergy—who still uphold the validity of God’s commandments and take Him seriously, should experience this provocation as a brazen slap in the face. I believe that many faithful Catholics and members of the clergy remain stunned by such a massive blow and require time to recover. An unprecedented act has taken place in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, one that may fittingly be described, in the words of Our Lord, as an 'abomination of desolation standing in the holy place.'” - Bishop Athanasius Schneider (Keynote Speaker at this year's Catholic Identity Conference)
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There seems to be a PATTERN…
Uvalde Shooter - Trans
Denver Shooter - Trans
Georgia Shooter - Trans
Nashville Shooter - Trans
Colorado Shooter - Trans
Aberdeen Shooter - Trans
Minnesota Shooter - Trans
lowa Shooter - Gender Fluid
Philadelphia Shooter - Trans