Our Contemplative Sisters in Lanherne, England are featured in an article by Father Joseph M Taylor on New Liturgical Movement complete with a long article and beautiful pictures, a few of which are included below. It focuses on the Sisters use of the complete 1962 Office and Missal. It also mentions the Sisters’ need for donations.

The Skull of English Martyr, St. Cuthbert Mayne

Thank you Fr. Taylor and NLM

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Abp Raymond Burke makes his entrance:

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Our Sisters and Friars Provided the Gregorian Chant. In the front row in the choir are two Americans: Fra Ephraim and Fra Pio Maximilian as well as Fra Bernard from South Africa who spent his Postulancy and Novitiate in the US:

FI Sisters in the choir. Image from Dr Robert Moynahan and Inside the Vatican:

In these videos uploaded by John Sonnen and taken by Mr. Jan Bentz you can hear the Gregorian Chant of the FI’s:

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Also from John Sonnen: Another FI among the clerics

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An FI Friar (as sub-deacon) leads the celebrant, Abp. Burke:

Homily #091016 ( 07min) Play – Here was a Duchess of Poland that would make it to Mass in any weather. She would walk barefooted carrying her shoes in her hand, and if she saw anyone coming she would hide the sacrifice she was making and put her shoes on.
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Homily #091015 ( 06min) Play – For a time frivolous conversations there (in the convent), too, checked her progress toward perfection, but finally in her thirty-first year, she abandoned herself entirely to God. A vision showed her the very place in hell to which her apparently light faults would have led her, and she was told by Our Lord that all her conversation must be with heaven. -magnificat.ca
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Homily #091014 ( 08min) Play – Here Fr. Angelo gives some thoughts on the authority of the Pope even over our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

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Homily #091013 ( 08min) Play – When he was raised to the throne, the virtues of his earlier years, simplicity, gentleness, humility and a tender charity, but above all his angelic purity, shone with new brightness. By a rare inspiration of God, though he married to content his nobles and people, he preserved perfect chastity in the wedded state. So little did he set his heart on riches, that three times when he saw a servant robbing his treasury, he let him escape, saying the poor man needed the gold more than he. He loved to stand at his palace-gate, speaking kindly to the poor beggars and lepers who crowded about him, and many of whom he healed of their diseases. The people rejoiced in having a Saint for their king.  -www.magnificat.ca

Today also is the anniversary of the “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima.
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Homily #091012 ( 08min) Play – Their moment of grace came and they let it go by. When we sin venally, mortally, or by faults, we let grace go by.
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Homily #091011 ( 27min) Play – Why did God create us? To know Him, to love Him, to serve Him, that we may be happy with Him for all eternity in the next life.
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Homily #091003 ( 07min) Play – “You have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go…To save them, God wishes to establish in the world devotion to My Immaculate Heart…and the Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays.”

“…on the first Saturday, confess, receive Holy Communion, recite the Rosary and keep Me company for 15 minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary, in a spirit of reparation, I promise to assist them at the hour of death with all the graces necesary for the salvation of their souls.”  -Our Lady of Fatima

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Homily #091002 ( 07min) Play –

DIRECTORY ON POPULAR PIETY AND THE LITURGY

PRINCIPLES AND GUIDELINES

Vatican City December 2001

Paragraph 217. Popular devotion to the Holy Angels, which is legitimate and good, can, however, also give rise to possible deviations:

The practice of assigning names to the Holy Angels should be discouraged, except in the cases of Gabriel, Raphael and Michael whose names are contained in Holy Scripture.
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St. Augustine says: “‘Angel’ is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is ’spirit’; if you seek the name of their office, it is ‘angel’: from what they are, ’spirit’, from what they do, ‘angel.’”¹⁸⁸ With their whole beings the angels are servants and messengers of God. Because they “always behold the face of my Father who is in heaven” they are the “mighty ones who do his word, hearkening to the voice of his word”.¹⁸⁹