Lunch will be provided; you can give a donation if you wish, but if you have already spent money travelling, there is no need to feel obliged to do so. We'll have a short meeting for the Guild to highlight any issues or concerns that people have about how the Guild should work. The main thing is that this is an opportunity for us to meet up personally - these occasions are always enjoyable.
If anyone needs help with their train fare, please let me know (in the strictest confidence): (blackfencatholic@gmail.com).
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As a Carmelite, I'm endeared to see you have chosen Blessed Titus.
Father, perhaps you may be interested in a new series I've started called, "Catholics in the Combox".
We Catholics need to stand up for truth, but it's even better when we are fully aware of the many traps that lay waiting for us.
Pope Benedict spoke about the need for fraternal correction, and he also pointed out how this should be carried out.
My new series, "Catholics in the Combox" is aimed not just at comboxers, but anyone involved in developing new media and engaged in social media.
The first topic I chose was "Rash Judgment" because I don't think we are aware of it. I don't recall being taught when the 8th Commandment brought up. It always focused on "don't lie" and "always tell the truth". I was fascinated to see what St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Francis de Sales, Servant of God Fr. John Hardon and others had to say about rash judgment.
Just for the post series, I've put in a pretty tight set of commenting guidelines, asking people to avoid hot-button issues, and to hopefully find more quotes from others on rash judgment. I'd like to hear people's thoughts, as well.
I think it's possible to boldly proclaim the truth while not being in harmony with the Gospel on the virtues.
Check it out here: Catholics in the Combox: 01 Rash Judgment
I know this first one is kind of long. It was hard to stop once I started finding the quotes.
Unfortunately, the meeting will clash with the procession of the Blessed Sacrament from Westminster Cathedral to St George's Southwark (starts at 1.15) in memory of the Holy Father's visit and Newman's Beatification. Given that I'm not a blogger (merely a former Blogdog owner), I think I'd better go on the procession, given the importance of public witness. Real shame, because I was really looking forward to meeting all those famous people.
Might be able to come to the Mass first though. In fact, I could pick up to three people from a station (Greenwich, Kidbrooke or Eltham, preferably all from the same one!) if that would help. Perhaps you could put anyone who needs a lift in touch with me if so (away 17th–24th)? Couldn't drop them off though afterwards, though, obviously.
But I hope you will arrange another occasion before too long. Although I love the Extraordinary Form, I'm not sure that it would be wise to associate the Guild with this exclusively; the last thing you want is to become a clique, and I do think there could be a danger of that. Perhaps next time you could arrange a glorious setting of the new missal? Just a thought. I don't mean to sound impertinent!
At this time of year (actually at most times of year) there are bound to be clashes on any given Saturday. This is a healthy sign of how many good initiatives are growing.
I agree that the Guild need not be associated exclusively with the old rite - but it may be that many of the members prefer it. At Blackfen we do the old rite reasonably well (I hope). Another venue in the future may be a good place to have a "model" new rite Mass.
@Father Finigan
"LONDON UNITED WILL NEVER BE DIVIDED" were the words that I chanted to my MP David Evennett when I met him at Hall Place in Bexley last Friday, and I think he agreed as we had just been discussing the proposals to move electoral boundaries here in London yet AGAIN.
A piece of God's planning that I love, is the synchronicity of combining your event at Blackfen on the 1st October 2011, with the BIG Blessed Sacrament Procession to celebrate the first Anniversary of the Beatification of BL John Henry Newman, and the 2010 visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Britain, the procession starts at Westminster Cathedral at 1:15p.m
Our Lady of the Rosary ( http://the-hermeneutic-of-continuity.blogspot.com/2011/05/visit-to-tomb-of-blessed-john-paul-ii.html ) pray for us!
PAPA VERO ORA PRO NOBIS!
God Save the Queen!
PS Hope to see you all there on October 1st 2011 "They who want to win the world for Christ must have the courage to come into conflict with it." Blessed Titus Brandsma.... HOW TRUE!!!
PPS I took Holy Communion this morning at Our Lady of the Angels in Erith, and I raised the subject of today's Papal Mass in Berlin with the Capuchin Friars. Here is a text that I sent this morning "JAM LUCIS ORTO SIDERE" to BBC Radio London 94.9, a poet and singer associated with Catholic Radio, and my 3 children, Siobhan, Michael Roy, and Joseph John : LONDON 75 years ago in 1936 Hitler's Olympic Stadium hosted the Berlin Olympics. Today a German Pope will hold a Papal Mass there. Let us pray that it is a "666 OUT, 999 IN" service of City Challenge exorcism timed to perfection for London's 2012 Olympics. In XtO "Vesper" aka ROY HOBSON RICS 1984, CInstCES 1990,Grad Dipl QS too!
Bl Titus Brandsma, pray for us!
@Father Finigan
It was good to meet those involved with the Guild of Blessed Titus Brandsma today at Blackfen.
I wish to confirm that the High Mass was my very first Latin Mass and as yet I have not suffered any serious side effects.
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