Contents 3 Chairman’s Message Joseph Shaw raises a glass in thanksgiving for a decade of Summorum Pontificum 6 LMS Year Planner – Notable Events 7 Liturgical Calendar and News 8 History in the making – Alan Frost reports on the first ordinations in the Traditional Rite in England for more than 50 years 11 Thoughts from my heart – Andrew Brayley discusses the diary kept by Mgr Pericle Felici during Vatican II 12 Obituary: Damien Ashby remembered 13 Angels and devils – Canon Amaury Montjean, of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, on the writings of St Francis de Sales 14 A stitch in time…saves a chasuble The Guild of St Clare held its first ever Sewing Retreat at the Carmelite Retreat Centre, Boar’s Hill, just outside Oxford earlier this year. Barbara Kay reports 15 Roman report – Alberto Carosa talks to Coetus Internationalis Summorum Pontificum Secretary, Guillaume Ferluc 16 Reports from around the country – What’s happening where you are 22 Glorious tradition – Canon Gwenaël Cristofoli ICKSP on great times in Preston 24 Art and devotion – Caroline Shaw looks at El Greco’s The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, painted between 1586 and 1588 for the Parish Church of Santo Tomé, Toledo 26 Our Lady’s Wishes – Mary O’Regan on the Third Secret of Fatima 27 Thirty years of the Old Rite – Peter Clarke reports from the Isle of Wight 28 Restoration drama – In this follow-up to his summer feature on the Sacred Heart Church at Caterham, Paul Waddington reports on the recent restoration of the wall paintings in the Sanctuary and Lady Chapel 30 Review – Annie Mackie-Savage discusses a new book on marriage 31 To guard and to guide – Do we still believe in Angels? asks Fr Bede Rowe 33 Mass listings 40 The Peace of Christ – Latin Mass Society Chairman, Joseph Shaw, looks at the history of the paxbrede 42 My first Latin Mass – Mackenzie Robinson remembers a special experience at Buckfast Abbey 43 An emotional response – The Lone Veiler on Holy Communion 44 Review – The Lutheran revolt was, ultimately, a revolt against reason, sense, balance, normality and even common humanity, as James Bogle explains 46 Crossword and classified 47 Macklin Street
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We’ll climb that mountain Joseph Shaw raises a glass in thanksgiving for a decade of Summorum Pontificum
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Mass of Ages No. 193 Cover image: Ordinations in the Traditional Rite at St Mary’s Shrine, Warrington. © John Aron
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en years ago Pope Benedict XVI promulgated ‘motu proprio’ – ‘by his own initiative’ – the Apostolic Summorum Letter Pontificum: it was published on 7 July 2007, and came into force on 14 September. For those readers who have encountered the ancient Mass only since 2007, and perhaps have had experience of difficulties which still impede its celebration today, it may not be easy to imagine what things were like before that date, and therefore what difference this document made. If so, allow me to enlighten you. Under the previous legal situation, as then understood, the celebration of the Traditional Mass was possible under an ‘indult’: that is, a permission which lifted, under certain circumstances, the force of a general rule. Pope John II, mindful of the work of the Society of Pius X, described the desire for the ancient Mass as a ‘rightful aspiration’, and pleaded with bishops to be ‘generous’ in their permissions, but, having given them the power to give permission for the Vetus Ordo, he left the ultimate decision in their hands. The result could not be described in any sense as ‘generous’ provision, for a number of reasons I can’t explore here. This practical difficulty was joined by a theoretical one for Catholics attached to the Traditional Mass: conservative and liberal Catholics alike frequently criticised us for wanting something which was, in the last analysis, banned, and banned, presumably, for our own good.
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