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il their deaths the last priest died in 2013 he was a hundred years old in our world of great difficulties where god is often forgotten or dismissed we need joseph for his example his guidance his prayers as pharoah said many thousands of years ago to the sons of the patriarch isaac go to joseph genesis 41 55 saint joseph pray for us our lady of philermo pray for us blessed gerard pray for us posted on sunday october 01 2023 category click to see all related faith reports film on blessed gerard next monday next monday at 15 10 european time 14 10 bst there is to be broadcast a film about our founder blessed gerard on rai the italian television service link here our thanks to our brethren in the french association for generously sending this information blessed gerard pray for us posted on friday september 01 2023 category click to see all related notices of future events belated notice portiuncula indulgence with apologies for not posting yesterday but you have until midnight tonight today is the day upon which every year we may gain the portiuncula indulgence from the afternoon on the 1st august to sunset on the 2nd this plenary indulgence may only be applied to the souls in purgatory by the act of visiting a church following confession and receiving holy communion it is thus one of the greatest acts of charity we can perform to release a soul from purgatory why would one not do this the indulgence was granted miraculously to saint francis on a night of great temptation in which he is said to have rolled as mortification in a briar bush which became a bush of sweet thornless roses originally it required a visit to the cell where he died now in the basilica at portiuncula see photo above about a mile from assisi but by successive popes in their great mercy has been granted more and more liberally until today any church may be visited to gain this indulgence this privilege has been finally established for an indefinite time by a decree of the s cong of indul 26 march 1911 acta apostolicae sedis iii 1911 233 4 and reformed and confirmed by pope paul vi in indulgentiarum doctrina 1967 this apostolic constitution established that a plenary indulgence may be gained only once a day the obligations are the usual ones of confession and holy communion ideally on the day and recitation of the lord s prayer and the creed and prayer for the holy father s intentions carried out with the will to gain the indulgence and a detachment from sin that is all the indulgence may be gained on each of the two days thus twice assisting two souls please make the effort to do this wonderful charitable work today this is gift to a soul in need for more information see here posted on wednesday august 02 2023 category click to see all related faith victory over the turks rhodes 1480ad on this day in 1659 the feast of s pantaleon was achieved a great victory over the naval forces of the turks by cardinal grand master pierre d aubusson the day is traditionally commemorated in the order as a first class feast with the following prayers added to the mass die xxvii julii festum duplex iæ classis ob insignem victoriam per emin dominum petrum d aubusson cardinalem c magnum magistrum rhodiorum contra turcas obtentam as quod officium innocentius octavus pont oratio d eus in te sperántium fortitudo adesto precibus nostris quas tibi cum gratiarum offerimus actione pro victoria magistro nostro ac ejus exercitui contra hostes fidei christianæ turcos per te mirabiliter rhodi concessa supliciter deprecantes ut solitá tuæ pietatis clementiá muniti dextráque tuæ potentiæ defensi ab hostium insidiis omníque adversitate protegámur per dominum nostrum jesum filium tuum qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate spiritus sancti deus per omnia sæcula sæculorum secreta h ostias tibi domine placationis et laudis offerimus suppliciter exorantes ut qui nos de fidei tuæ hostibus triumphare fecisti clementer ab inimicorum insidiis et omni periculo salves et munias per dominum nostrum jesum filium tuum qui vivit et regnat in unitate spiritus sancti deus per omnia sæcula sæculorum postcommunio s umptis redemptionis nostræ muneribus quæsumus omnipotens deus eorum celebratione tuæ protectionis auxilium et famuli tui n hospitalis hiersolomitani magistrum cum suo exercitu gratias de triumphis turcarum hostium fidei nomini tuo sancto referentem ab omni inimicorum incursu cunctisque adversitatibus liberes semper et protegas per dominum nostrum jesum filium tuum qui tecum vivit et regnat in unitate spiritus sancti deus per omnia sæcula sæculorum ex officia propria sanctorum ordinis s joannis hierosolimitani melitensis in usum domus coloniensis ss joannis et cordulæ typis antonii metternich mdclix posted on thursday july 27 2023 category click to see all related faith saints of the order bl david gunson pilgrimage sermon the annual pilgrimage in honour of blessed david gonson one of our three english martyrs took place on his feast day last wednesday the mass was celebrated at the church of our lady of la salette bermondsey with the 7th annual martyr sermon preached by father gwilym evans fssp former director of music of the order in england and ordained to the sacred priesthood last year it was also the first time the chasuble newly adorned with blessed david s arms has been worn for this pilgrimage there followed the silent walk to the site of martyrdom at st thomas waterings in the old kent road where we were joined by those who cannot walk the route the evening ended with supper with a conviviality worthy of chaucer s characters it was good to see so many younger members of the order and companions and many participating for the first time it is fitting thus to honour and invoke our martyr the text of fr evans sermon is given below we are extremely grateful to him the vocation of martyrdom what would you have done that s the question that i always end up asking myself whenever i read about this country in the 1530s what would i have done of course we d all like to think that we d have been among the three percent of this country s population who remained faithful so as to give up their lives for the faith but if we were faced with losing everything friends family house income even the sacraments and ultimately our lives what would have stopped us being like all the other catholics all the other bishops priests religious and pious faithful who ended up abandoning the church that they had presumably loved and cherished why was it that only three of the english knights of malta at the time of the order s suppression in this country were crowned with the glory of martyrdom three times the number of bishops it has to be said and three times the number of government ministers saints john fisher and thomas more being the only representatives of their class and the order is rightly proud of this supreme witness to the faith when so many who should have known better who should have been leading their lambs to the slaughter preferred convenience and comfort but what would we have done it s true to say that there were others who suffered a white martyrdom knights of malta who suffered exile those who died in prison and the heartbreaking account of the then grand prior william weston who was spared the gallows but collapsed and died on hearing the news of his beloved order s suppression but what of all those other knights what of those knights and professed chaplains who were later to be found in england collecting their royal pension and even in personal service to king henry viii what about fra edward bellingham now gentleman of the privy chamber or fra ambrose cave soon to be chancellor of the duchy of lancaster or to be more blatant what about fra philip babington the former knight of justice who brought the accusation against the blessed martyr that we celebrate today against his confrère in the grand priory what made a babington a babington and a gunson a gunson it s not as if one of them got lucky as if one of them managed the shortcut to heaven as if had circumstances been different it could have been otherwise gunson arrived in england after the order s suppression and indeed after the double martyrdom of fortescue and dingley he knew what was coming martyrs are not martyrs because of the incidental blood that was shed the cause of their martyrdom the cause of their blessedness their sanctity is not their death but their life the life that leads them to martyrdom martyrdom is an expression of a relationship that already exists it is a fulfilment of a love for christ and for his church of course it is only grace that can bring us to love to such an extent as to offer our lives for that love to prove that fullness of love which is martyrdom but that grace is there for us all we may not all be called to a martyrdom of blood but we are all called to be martyrs to be witnesses of truth to make that truth known through our sufferings through our sacrifices but most of all through our love through being holy to be holy is to live out one s vocation to answer god s call to our own personal holiness the vocation of the knight of malta is summed up by its famous twin charism it s enunciated in that well known prayer of the order that we ll all recite at the end of our pilgrimage this evening at the very place where our martyr lived out his vocation to the full first to practise and defend the catholic the apostolic the roman faith against the enemies of religion tuitio fidei and thereby to practise charity towards my neighbours especially the poor and the sick obsequium pauperum like all vocations it s a vocation of love it s a fulfilment of christ s double commandment of love love of god tuitio fidei and love of neighbour obsequium pauperum and in the words of christ s vicar on earth our current holy father to be holy is to love as christ loves to be holy is not to know something nor to do something not even to be something but it s to be some one to be christ at saint thomas waterings 482 years ago today blessed david gunson the good knight as he became known loved as christ loves he consummated his vocation he carried out the real work of the order which as the late pope once put it is not mere philanthropy but an effective expression and a living testimony of evangelical love that is a love that turns a life of tuitio fidei into a death in odium fidei it s a love that turns obsequium pauperum into an obsequium mortis an obsequium crucis an obedience unto death an allegiance to the cross it s a love that tells us what to do and how to be christ blessed david gunson pray for us posted on saturday july 15 2023 category click to see all related faith reports saints of the order cardinal s corpus christi homily on this day the ancient octave day of the feast of corpus christi we are happy to share a video of the homily preached by cardinal nichols at mass of the feast last sunday in the diocesan shrine of the blessed sacrament the church of corpus christi maiden lane in the presence of fra max rumney grand prior of england the mass was followed by a eucharistic procession around covent garden the video should start at the beginning of the homily at 21 23 which doesn t work in all browsers and which lasts 15 minutes if it doesn t work for you click here o sacrum convivium in quo christus sumitur recolitur memoria passionis eius mens impletur gratia et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur alleluia posted on thursday june 15 2023 category click to see all related cardinal nichols grand prior reports feast of saint fleur of beaulieu today is the feast of saint fleur one of our three illustrious dame saints saint fleur flora in latin was born about 1300 at maurs in france at the age of thirteen she took the veil in the convent of the sisters of st john of jerusalem at beaulieu in the diocese of cahors in france where she devoted herself to tending the poor and the sick in the hospital attached to the convent which served the poor travellers and orphans as well as housing a noviciate the monastic buildings were sacked in 1793 the dames expelled and killed and the buildings destroyed all that survives is the chapter house fleur subdued distractions and temptations in the love of god and in mystical experiences she had a special devotion to the passion of christ crucified to our lady of the annunciation and to saint john the baptist patron of the order of saint john she died in 1347 and her relics were venerated in the convent the relics survived and were restored to the nearby parish church of saint julien in issendolus called saint dolus before the revolution in 1852 since when there has been continuous veneration by the villagers as well as members of our order we see in the photograph our friend and confrère jacques de saint exupéry carrying the relics of saint fleur in the annual procession on this feast in issendolus presided by the bishop of cahors with madame alix de tourtier in front sancta flora ora pro nobis posted on monday june 12 2023 election of 81st prince and grand master at the council complete of state held at the aventine villa today fra john dunlap was elected as prince and 81st grand master of the sovereign military and hospitaller order of saint john of jerusalem of rhodes and of malta the new grand master addressing the members of the council complete of state said i accept this office with a profound spirit of service and with the solemn promise of a constant commitment i thank each of you for having placed your trust in me and for having shown your great love for and dedication to our order by your presence here today there are many challenges that await us but united in the awareness of our mission of tuitio fidei et obsequium pauperum witnessing the faith helping the poor i am sure that we will be able to face them together united and cohesively in the same spirit that guided blessed gerard founder of the order over 900 years ago born in ottawa canada on 16 april 1957 after studying in nice university john dunlap graduated from the university of ottawa and then obtained a juris doctor degree from the university of western ontario he was awarded an honorary doctorate in public service by john cabot university in rome fra john dunlap is a member of the new york state bar and the ontario bar association in canada in 1986 he joined the new york legal firm dunnington bartholow miller in new york city becoming a partner in 1993 he specializes in corporate and immigration law an internationally respected lawyer since 1997 he has been legal adviser to the permanent observer mission of the holy see to the united nations fra john dunlap approached the order of malta and found his religious vocation in the mid 1980s during his volunteer work with patients suffering from aids and other diseases at the cardinal cooke medical center in harlem new york he has volunteered in that hospital every week for the past 30 years admitted to the order of malta in 1996 he took his solemn vows as a pro...
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