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Zephyrinus is delighted to be able to strongly recommend, to all Readers, the availability, now, of the new Ordo MMXV, from THE SAINT LAWRENCE PRESS LTD ONLINE SHOP

An excellent Review of this Ordo can be read on the Blog of Fr John Hunwicke, which is available at FR HUNWICKE'S MUTUAL ENRICHMENT

Fr Hunwicke's Review includes the following Text:

"This little book will show you, day by day, a wonderland in which Festivals have:

Octaves and Vigils;

Humble Festivals have First Vespers, in accordance with a Tradition which goes back even behind the New Covenant to the Judaic system;

Commemorations enable you to remember Festivals which are partly obscured by other observances;

The Last Gospel is sometimes changed to enable a different Gospel to be read;

Newman's favourite Canticle "Quicumque vult" (the 'Athanasian Creed') is said; et cetera and kai ta loipa.

 

What you will get a glimpse of is The Roman Rite as it was in 1939, before the Pius XII changes got under way. Not many, of course, will feel able to observe this Calendar in their Mass and Office. But you will understand the 'reformed' rites of 1962 and 1970 so very much better by seeing what they replaced.

Rather like understanding a diverse landscape all the better, by having the geological knowledge of what's underground, so as to understand why the visible contours and strata are the way they are.

You will see, give or take some details, the skeleton and structure of The Daily Prayer of Blessed John Henry Newman, Bishop Challoner, The English Martyrs, all The Saints (and sinners and common ordinary Christians) of The Western Church in the 17th-Century, 18th-Century and 19th-Century.

You will get some surprises !

Go for it !!!"

Zephyrinus recommends this Ordo to all Readers. It contains so much information that is not mentioned, or available, to today's Catholics in their present-day "single sheet Newsletters".

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The Lincolnshire Rising.

The following Article is taken from THE LINCOLNSHIRE RISING AND MARTYRS

This Post was originally inspired by the Lincolnshire Photographer, Rod Collins. His original Post, and his Site, can be found HERE. It is a great resource for all those interested in Lincolnshire.

The Lincolnshire Rising was a righteous stand by Roman Catholics, from Louth, and the surrounding Lincolnshire towns of Caistor, Market Rasen and Horncastle, against The Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Before The Reformation, everyone in England was Catholic. The Dissolution was set in motion by Thomas Cromwell's suggested plan of asserting the nation's religious autonomy, and the King's Supremacy over Religious Matters, after the Vatican would not grant King Henry VIII a divorce from Queen Anne Boleyn.

The Lincolnshire Rising began on 1 October 1536, at Saint James Catholic Church (now Anglican), in Louth, after Vespers. This was shortly after the Dissolution of Louth Park Abbey, the same year.

The catalyst was a fervent Homily, given at Solemn Vespers, by the Catholic Priest, Thomas Kendall (not to be confused with the New Zealand Missionary, also from Lincolnshire).

1 October is now known as Lincolnshire Day.

The stated aim of the uprising was against the attempt to suppress Catholic Religious Houses, and was not against King Henry VIII, himself. It quickly gained support in Horncastle, Market Rasen, Caistor and other nearby towns.

Map of the route of The Lincolnshire Rising

and The Pilgrimage of Grace.

Angered by the actions of the King's Commissioners, the Louth, Market Rasen, Caistor and Horncastle townsfolk demanded:

The end of The Collection of the Subsidy;
The end of The Ten Articles;
The end to the Dissolution of the Monasteries;
The end to Taxes in peacetime;
A purge of Heretics in Government;
The Repeal of The Statute of Uses.

The Lincolnshire Rising was led by a Shoemaker, called Nicolas Melton, also known as Captain Cobbler, and involved 22,000 people.

The Lincolnshire Rising had no Banner, unlike The Pilgrimage of Grace, in Yorkshire, which followed The Lincolnshire Rising shortly thereafter. Though we now know that, at one point, they got a piece of White Cloth and attached a Parchment Painting of The Holy Trinity to it. Below is what it 'may' have looked like, but no one is sure.

However, by the time the group walking to Lincoln reached Market Rasen, at a place called Hambleton Hill (now Willingham Woods), there were circa 50,000 Catholics camping that evening.

With support from the local gentry, a force of demonstrators, estimated at up to 50,000, marched on Lincoln and, by 14 October, occupied Lincoln Cathedral. They demanded the freedom to continue worshipping as Catholics, and protection for the treasures of Lincolnshire Churches.

The moratorium effectively ended when the King sent word for the occupiers to disperse, or face the forces of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, which had already been mobilised. By 14 October few remained in Lincoln.

Following The Lincolnshire Rising, the Vicar of Louth and Captain Cobbler, two of the main leaders, were captured and hung at Tyburn, London. Many of the others met the same fate over the next twelve days, including William Moreland, or Borrowby, one of the former Louth Park Abbey Monks, with a Lawyer, from Willingham, being hanged, drawn and quartered for his involvement.

Soon, however, The Lincolnshire Rising helped inspire the more widespread Pilgrimage of Grace,
in Yorkshire.

THE PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE

The original Pilgrimage of Grace Badge, worn by Sir Thomas Constable of Everingham,

which was kept at Holy Rood Church, Market Rasen, until the 1920s.

The portrayal of The Pilgrimage of Grace

from "The Tudors"

THE MARTYRS OF

THE LINCOLNSHIRE RISING 

Two important notes.

The Magisterium of The Catholic Church states that acts of an unrighteous rebellious nature are sinful, and it is without doubt that many at The Lincolnshire Rising went beyond the legitimate call to Defend The Faith.

It is believed that the list below is of those who were deemed righteous in their acts

and had a level of piety in their Defence of The Faith.

Please also note that no Martyr at The Lincolnshire Rising has been Beatified, or is recognised officially, as a Martyr of England and Wales, as is so often assumed.

The following list was originally sent to the Apostolic See of Rome, for Holy Blessing and to be ‘officially’ considered as Martyrs to The Catholic Cause. Of course, not every person that died as a result of The Rising is on the list. 

They are all from Lincolnshire. If they passed Papal Approval, then these Martyrs would first be made Servants of God, then Venerable, then Blessed, and, finally, Canonised,

as Saints and Martyrs.

CLERGY

Thomas Watson, Bishop of Lincoln, 

died a prisoner in Wisbeach Castle, September 2nd, 1584. 

Henry Anderson, Secular Priest, Vicar of Morton.

John Flassher, Priest of Scartho

Ralph Grey, of Louth, Priest of Croft

William Holton, of Louth, Priest of Cockerington

John Kingston, cleric, of Louth, Priest of Tetney. 

(But, query, executed ?)

John Lyon, Priest, of Biscathorpe

Thomas Retforthe, or Redforth, Parson of Snelland

Robert Singleton, clericus, Stamford.

Thomas J. Smith, Priest of Horbelyn 

(but, query, executed ?)

William Smythe, Parson of Donnington

Bardney Abbey

William Cooper, Benedictine

William Gregory, Benedictine

John Ambrose Francis, Benedictine

John Heron, Benedictine, Benedictine. 

(But, query, was he executed?)

Hugh Lansdale or Londysdale, or Lednam, Benedictine

Richard Philip Laynton, Benedictine

John Jerome Tenant, Benedictine

Barlings Abbey

Mackerell, Matthew, Norbertine, Abbot of Barlings and Bishop. of Chalcedon

Thomas Bradley, Norbertine, sub-prior

William Brygges, alias Kendal, Norbertine

Richard Catton, alias Warryn, Norbertine

William Holme, Norbertine

James Wharton, or Hodgeson, Norbertine

Kirkstead Abbey

Harrison, Richard, Cistercian, Abbot of Kirkstead Abbey, 

executed at Lincoln

Henry Jenkinson, Cistercian (professed of Vaudey). feudal, Thos., S.T.B., & Priest of Louth.

Reginald Kirbye, or Wade, Cistercian 

(professed of Vaudey).

William Swale, alias Ripon, Cistercian.

Louth Park Abbey.

William Burraby, alias Moreland, Cistercian

Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

Thomas Foster, S,J., died in Lincoln prison, 1648.

John Hudd, John, S.J., died prisoner at Lincoln, 1649.

Lay People

Lord John Hussey, of Sleaford, 

hanged at Lincoln, July, 1537.

Robert Hudson of LouthRobert Cotman of Spilsby

Edward Leche, yeoman, of Fullaby

Robert Leeche, husbandman, March, 1537

William Leeche, yeoman, of Lincolnshire, 

executed, July 8th, 1539, at St. Thomas Waterings

John or Thomas Manbye of Louthe

Roger Neve, saddler, Lincolnshire, 

executed at Tyburn, 27th March, 1537.

Thomas Noble of Louth

William Nixon [Nycson] of Alford

Richard Phelipson of Alford

William Smith of Louth

John Wade of Boston

James Willson of Alford

Thomas Yolk of Louth

O Sacred Heart.

My love, I offer Thee,

Who has bestowed on me

Love vaster than the sea.

O Sacred Heart.

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Advent. Part Six.

Text taken from The Liturgical Year by Abbot Gueranger, O.S.B.

(Translated from the French by Dom Laurence Shepherd, O.S.B.)

Advent. Volume 1. St. Bonaventure Publications, www.libers.com

Originally published 1949.

Republished by St. Bonaventure Publications, July 2000.

Unless otherwise stated, Illustrations are taken from UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

which reproduced them, with the kind permission of St. Bonaventure Press, from 

The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, 1952 Edition.

The Virgin in Prayer

by Giovanni Battista Salvi "Il Sassoferrato",

Jungfrun i bön (1640-1650). 

National Gallery, London.

(between 1640 and 1650).
(Wikimedia Commons)

Mother of God.

Queen of Heaven.

Mother of The Church.

Mediatrix.

Co-Redemptrix.

Our Lady.

Blessed Virgin Mary.

Ora Pro Nobis.

The Catechism of The Catholic Church states:

"The Church's Devotion to The Blessed Virgin is intrinsic to Christian worship."

From that time, The Roman Church has always observed this arrangement of Advent, which gives it four weeks, the fourth being that in which Christmas Day falls, unless 25 December be a Sunday.

We may therefore consider the present discipline of the observance of Advent as having lasted a thousand years, at least as far as The Church in France kept up the number of five Sundays as late as the 13th-Century.

The Ambrosian Liturgy, even to this day, has six weeks of Advent; so has The Gothic, or Mozarabic, Missal. As regards The Gallican Liturgy, the fragments, collected by Dom Mabillon, give us no information; but it is natural to suppose with this learned man, whose opinion has been confirmed by Dom Martene, that The Church of God adopted, in this, as in so many other points, the usages of The Gothic Church, that is to say, that its Advent consisted of six Sundays and six weeks.

Jacinta Marto.

Photo: 1917.

Source: http://www.todayscatholicworld.com/jacinta-
marto-fatima-portugal-1917.jpg

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Shortly before her death, at age 9, 

Blessed Jacinta Marto of Fátima 
asked that everyone Consecrate themselves 

to The Immaculate Heart of Mary.

With regard to the Greeks, their rubrics for Advent are given in the Menaea, immediately after The Office for 14 November.

They have no proper Office for Advent, neither do they Celebrate during this time The Mass of the Pre-Sanctified, as they do in Lent.

There are only in The Offices for the Saints, whose Feasts occur between 14 November and the Sunday nearest Christmas, frequent allusions to The Birth of The Saviour, to The Maternity of Mary, to The Cave of Bethlehem, etc.

On the Sunday preceding Christmas, in order to celebrate the expected Coming of The Messias, they keep what they call The Feast of The Holy Fathers, that is The Commemoration of The Saints of the Old Law.

They give the name of Ante-Feast of The Nativity to 20, 21, 22, 23 December; and, although they say The Office of several Saints on these four days, yet The Mystery of The Birth of Jesus pervades the whole Liturgy.

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THIS CONCLUDES THE ARTICLE ON THE HISTORY OF ADVENT.

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Please Pray.

I'm passing on an E-Mail received from Fr de Malleray, FSSP,

(Chaplain for the Non-French Pilgrims to the Notre-Dame de Chrétienté Pilgrimage)

Fr Denis Coiffet, FSSP.

Please Pray for the hospitalised General Chaplain of the Chartres Pilgrimage, Fr Denis Coiffet,

who is in a critical condition

Fr Coiffet has undergone treatment for cancer over the past months and was admitted into hospital in Paris several weeks ago. He is conscious and peaceful, offering up his sufferings for Souls.

Born in 1952, Fr Coiffet is a co-founder of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP), in 1988, and has been an indefatigable apostle, particularly involved in the French Scout Movement.

He has received The Last Rites and my confreres from Versailles visit him daily

and communicate to him the Prayers of the Faithful and Clergy.

No doubt that, despite his imperfect English, Fr Coiffet would be glad to know that English Pilgrims to Chartres remember him in their Prayers.

Cordially in Our Lady,

Fr de Malleray, FSSP, (Chaplain for the Non-French Pilgrims

to the Notre-Dame de Chrétienté Pilgrimage)

Fr Denis Coiffet, FSSP.

The "Ins And Outs" Of Cricket. A Clarification.

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FOX SPORTS

You have two sides.

Illustration:

SPORTSWORLD CARDS

One out in the field.

And one in.

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SPORTSWORLD CARDS

Each man that's in the side that's in.

Goes out.

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SPORTSWORLD CARDS

And when he's out.

He comes in.

Illustration:

SPORTSWORLD CARDS

And the next man goes in.

Until he's out.

Australian cricketer Charlie Macartney,

taken in the 1920s.

Illustration: CRICPIX

When they are all out.

The side that's out.

Comes in.

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SPORTSWORLD CARDS

And the side that's been in.

Goes out.

Illustration:

SPORTSWORLD CARDS

And tries to get out.

Those coming in.

Illustration: CRICKET

Sometimes you get men still in.

And not out.

Illustration:

SPORTSWORLD CARDS

When both sides have been in.

And out.

Illustration:

SPORTSWORLD CARDS

Including the not outs.

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SPORTSWORLD CARDS

The winner is declared.

Illustration: THE TELEGRAPH

If there is one !!!