His Lordship, Emeritus Bishop Basil Meeking, conferred the Sacrament of Holy Orders upon Br Jean Marie, F.S.S.R., on Saturday 11 April 2015, in the first Extraordinary Form priestly ordination in the South Island for many decades. Deo gratias!
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New Zealand seminarians at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter Left to right: Daniel Mould (5th year seminarian from Timaru), Brendan Boyce, Fr Anthony Sumich and Roger Gilbride
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Bishop Schneider: You want to know how to combat the Gnostic errors flying through the Church? Here’s how. Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Battling the New Gnosticism It is a sad truth that we are in a time of great crisis in the Church. God is with us, however. You have asked me what the faithful can do to combat the errors spreading through the Church. I would like to answer with some suggestions: We must create groups of true Catholics, scholars, families, and clergy who will spread courageously the full Catholic truth, especially on the Church’s teachings on the family, on nature, and...
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VOTIVE MASS OF SAINT AUGUSTINE, BISHOP, APOSTLE OF ENGLAND SHRINE OF SAINT AUGUSTINE THE CATHOLIC CHURCH OF RAMSGATE AND MINSTER RAMSGATE, ENGLAND 9 MARCH 2015 1 Thes 2, 2-9 Lk 10, 1-9 SERMON Praised be Jesus Christ, now and forever. Amen. How great a blessing to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at the Shrine of Saint Augustine, Apostle of England, so near to the place at which he, together with some forty other monks, arrived in the year 597 on a mission received from the Roman Pontiff, Pope Gregory the Great: the mission of the new evangelization of...
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FSSP Advent Newsletter “By the grace of God, on the 28th of August 2014, having completed a novitiate year at Ezechiel House in Sydney, we arrived in Denton, Nebraska, U.S.A. It was late summer, and, rising upwards from an otherwise unassuming countryside of corn ‐ husks, stood our destination – the Fraternity’s international English ‐ speaking seminary of Our Lady of Guadalupe.”
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One of the most telling differences between the Traditional Latin Mass and most celebrations of the Novus Ordo is the manner in which the congregation receives Holy Communion. In the Traditional Mass, Communion is received on the tongue and kneeling; in the Novus Ordo in the hand and standing. Many clergy and laity are implacably opposed to the traditional practice, but, as LMS Chairman Dr Joseph Shaw explains here, the traditional practices of Communion on the tongue and kneeling go back many centuries.
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Interview with Cardinal Burke where he talks about the time before the Second Vatican Council, marriage and the Synod on the Family. Cardinal Burke also adds some personal insights, including about his devotion to St Joseph and St Therese of Lisieux who have helped him throughout his priesthood. He also mentioned the importance of St Therese’s “little way” and his devotion to the Rosary. Cardinal Burke enjoys the writings of Archbishop Fulton Sheen. http://www.gloria.tv/media/v6WpZoaFx8t
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