Where to begin? An appalling statement from the Archbishop of Uganda. Seemingly so little knowledge of history, human nature, the gospel. anglican.ink/2023/05/29/279…

Pilgrimage to Iona, site of Saint Columba's monastery and an early centre of Christianity in Scotland (6th century AD). A green desert. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ☦️

June is the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Very important to remember in this month.

Ross Greer Do you think it is appropriate for an MSP to be calling another MSP ‘a nasty little bigot? If you think a highly sexualised performance like this is equivalent to the panto then perhaps you shouldn’t be an MSP. And you certainly shouldn’t be anywhere near children!

Fully agree with Douglas on this.

Tomorrow (22 June) is the thirty-seventh anniversary of the death of Father Martin Thornton. Blessed Martin Thornton, pray for us.

“The Eucharistic life, in which all are treated on absolute equality and in which they share, and become, the Body of Christ, is totally at variance with the way society treats people." Ken Leech

Fr Thornton: "The lack of spiritual healing in the modern Church is only the lack of spiritual direction in different form. And if we are truly to follow Christ in the matter, the latter art is the prior one." (Pastoral Theology, p. 40 n. 1)

Fr Thornton: "The true Gospel is concerned not so much with human improvement but with the glory of God. Spiritual life is our total response to that supreme fact." (The Purple Headed Mountain, chap. 1)

Fr Thornton: "[The first trait of the English School is] an extraordinary consistency in maintaining the speculative-affective synthesis; the theological and the emotional, doctrine and devotion, fact and feeling. This, I suggest, is the deepest meaning of the Anglican via media,

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This is amazing!

On St Benedict’s Day, Br Paul is staying, along with two of our brothers of the Little Oratory, at the Benedictine Priory of Norcia, in the birthplace of SS Benedict & Scholastica. May St Benedict’s prayer and work bring Europe once again to Christ.

Sanctissime confessor Domini, monachorum pater et dux Benedicte, intercede pro nostra omniumque salute.

Intercéssio nos, quǽsumus, Dómine, beáti Ioánnis Abbátis comméndet: ut, quod nostris méritis non valémus, eius patrocínio assequámur.

Being waist-deep in the Church Fathers, all that is necessary to be Anglican is daily commitment to the Liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer and the life of recollection which flows from it.

George Reeves So who dissolved the monasteries and crushed the Pilgrimage of Grace? Who executed John Fisher, Thomas More and Margaret Clitheroe, Margaret Ward, Anne Linne and the 40 and 85 martyrs of England? Who supressed Irish Catholics and killed Cornishmen in the Prayer Book Rebellion?

In the 1930s, an organisation known as the Irish Monarchist Society, whose members included Francis Stuart and Osmonde Esmonde, plotted to overthrow the Irish Free State and establish an independent Irish Catholic monarchy under a member of the O'Neill dynasty

The fair form of Christianity rose up and grew and expanded like a beautiful pageant from north to south... A brotherhood of holy pastors, with mitre and crosier and uplifted hand, walked forth and blessed and ruled a joyful people. (John Henry Cardinal Newman)