Dear Lady, pray for your faithful people!
Our Lady of Walsingham, by your intercession, reclaim your Dowry!
St. John Fisher, pray for England!
St. Thomas More, pray for England!
St. John Roberts, pray for Wales!
Martyrs of England and Wales, pray for us!
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It is truly a stunning work. Anybody who hasn't read it should download it from the Vatican website and read it for Christmas.
Well, that's only a day away, so maybe you can give yourself a little longer...It's not difficult, for the most part, just really profound, and you'll find that you have to stop and think about every other sentence or so. "Hope" is the Pope's theme this year, and in fact I think the word is in the title of his trip to the US this year.
Getting back to Britain, however, it's really a shame that the UK bishops are so resistant to Rome. The Church is doing better than the Anglicans there, but that's at least in part because there are many Catholic immigrants to Britain from places like Poland and Africa. The British bishops have, like all the Europeans, cheerfully presided over the emptying of their churches.
Amongst the current episcopate, there is probably one St. John Fisher somewhere, quietly pastoring his flock in some out of the way place, while the rest of these ropey renegades run headlong into apostasy and betrayal.
As in the 16th century, there is a persecution awaiting which will blow this chaff away and renew the Church. Only this time it won't be a headstrong monarch who will do the winnowing. It will be Islam.