FW: [Order of the Holy Rose] Memorial of St Joachim and St Anne

with the RCC

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From: mothersuperiorohr@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:54:01 +0100
Subject: [Order of the Holy Rose] Memorial of St Joachim and St Anne
To: orderoftheholyrose@yahoogroups.com; order-of-the-holy-rose@googlegroups.com

July 26, 2010
Memorial of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne,
parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Reading 1

Jer 13:1-11
The LORD said to me: Go buy yourself a linen loincloth;
wear it on your loins, but do not put it in water.
I bought the loincloth, as the LORD commanded, and put it on.
A second time the word of the LORD came to me thus:
Take the loincloth which you bought and are wearing,
and go now to the Parath;
there hide it in a cleft of the rock.
Obedient to the LORD's command, I went to the Parath
and buried the loincloth.
After a long interval, the LORD said to me:
Go now to the Parath and fetch the loincloth
which I told you to hide there.
Again I went to the Parath, sought out and took the loincloth
from the place where I had hid it.
But it was rotted, good for nothing!
Then the message came to me from the LORD:
Thus says the LORD:
So also I will allow the pride of Judah to rot,
the great pride of Jerusalem.
This wicked people who refuse to obey my words,
who walk in the stubbornness of their hearts,
and follow strange gods to serve and adore them,
shall be like this loincloth which is good for nothing.
For, as close as the loincloth clings to a man's loins,
so had I made the whole house of Israel
and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the LORD;
to be my people, my renown, my praise, my beauty.
But they did not listen.

Deuteronomy 32:18-19, 20, 21

Responsorial Psalm

R. (see 18a) You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
You were unmindful of the Rock that begot you,
You forgot the God who gave you birth.
When the LORD saw this, he was filled with loathing
and anger toward his sons and daughters.
R. You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
"I will hide my face from them," he said,
"and see what will then become of them.
What a fickle race they are,
sons with no loyalty in them!"
R. You have forgotten God who gave you birth.
"Since they have provoked me with their 'no-god'
and angered me with their vain idols,
I will provoke them with a 'no-people';
with a foolish nation I will anger them."
R. You have forgotten God who gave you birth.

Mt 13:31-35

Gospel

Jesus proposed a parable to the crowds.
"The Kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed
that a person took and sowed in a field.
It is the smallest of all the seeds,
yet when full-grown it is the largest of plants.
It becomes a large bush,
and the 'birds of the sky come and dwell in its branches.'"
He spoke to them another parable.
"The Kingdom of heaven is like yeast
that a woman took and mixed with three measures of wheat flour
until the whole batch was leavened."
All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables.
He spoke to them only in parables,
to fulfill what had been said through the prophet:
I will open my mouth in parables,
I will announce what has lain hidden from the foundation
of the world.

Feast of St James

From: mothersuperiorohr@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:57:07 +0100
Subject: [Order of the Holy Rose] Feast of St James
To: orderoftheholyrose@yahoogroups.com; order-of-the-holy-rose@googlegroups.com

25th Next Day

Feast of St. James, apostle Old Calendar: St. James, apostle; St. Christopher

St. James, known as the Greater, in order to distinguish him from the other Apostle St. James, our Lord's cousin, was St. John's brother. With Peter and John he was one of the witnesses of the Transfiguration, as later he was also of the agony in the garden. He was beheaded in Jerusalem in 42 or 43 on the orders of Herod Agrippa. Since the ninth century Spain has claimed the honour of possessing his relics, though it must be said that actual proof is far less in evidence than the devotion of the faithful. The pilgrimage to St. James of Compostella in the Middle Ages attracted immense crowds; after the pilgrimage to Rome or the Holy Land, it was the most famous and the most frequented pilgrimage in Christendom. The pilgrim paths to Compostella form a network over Europe; they are dotted with pilgrims' hospices and chapels, some of which still exist. St. James is mentioned in the Roman Canon of the Mass.
According to the 1962 Missal of Bl. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is also the feast of St. Christopher who suffered martyrdom in Asia Minor about the year 250. The devotion of our fathers, taking its due from his name (Christopher means bearer of Christ), caused them to place colossal statues of the saint bearing the infant Christ on his shoulders at the entrance to cathedrals. Thus arose the legend of the giant who carried the child Jesus over a river... and the devotion to St. Christopher as the patron of motorists and all forms of transport. He is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers.

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St. James
In Spain, he is called El Senor Santiago, the patron saint of horsemen and soldiers, and his great shrine at Santiago de Compostela in that country has been a place of pilgrimage for centuries. He is one of those that Jesus called Boanerges, "son of thunder," the brother of John the Evangelist and the son of Zebedee the fisherman from Galilee.St. James the Greater and his brother John were apparently partners with those other two brothers, Peter and Andrew, and lived in Bethsaida, on the north shore of the Sea of Galilee. How and where James first met Jesus, we do not know; but there is an old legend that makes Salome, his mother, a sister of Mary, and if this were the case, he would have known Jesus from childhood.
Along with Peter and his brother John, James was part of the inner circle of Jesus, who witnessed the Transfiguration, were witnesses to certain of His miracles, like the raising of the daughter of Jairus, and accompanied Him to the Garden of Gethsemani. Like his brother, he was active in the work of evangelization after the death of Jesus, and one legend, very unlikely, even has him going to Spain after Jesus' resurrection.
His prominence and his presence in Jerusalem must have been well known, for scarcely a dozen years after the Resurrection, he became involved in the political maneuverings of the day and was arrested and executed by King Herod Agrippa. This was followed by the arrest of Peter also, so his death must have been part of a purge of Christian leaders by Agrippa, who saw the new Christian movement as a threat to Judaism.
Jesus had foretold this kind of fate when He prophesied that James and his brother John would "drink of the same chalice" of suffering as Himself. The two brothers had asked to be seated at the right of Jesus and at His left in His kingdom, and Jesus told them that they would be with Him in a far different way than they expected.
James's death is the only biblical record we have of the death of one of the Apostles, and he was the first of that chosen band to give his life for his Master.
Excerpted from The One Year Book of Saints by Rev. Clifford Stevens.
Patron: Against arthritis; against rheumatism; Antigua, Guatemala; apothecaries; blacksmiths; Chile; Compostela, Spain; druggists; equestrians; furriers; Galicia, Spain; Guatemala; horsemen; knights; laborers; Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Nicaragua; pharmacists; pilgrims; Pistoia, Italy; rheumatoid sufferers; riders; soldiers; Spain; Spanish conquistadors; tanners; veterinarians.
Symbols: Cockle shell; dark-bearded man holding a book; dark-bearded man holding a scroll; dark-bearded man holding a sword; dark-bearded man with a floppy pilgrim's hat, long staff, water bottle, and scallop shell; elderly, bearded man wearing a hat with a scallop shell; key; man with shells around him; mounted on horseback, trampling a Moor; pilgrim with wallet and staff; pilgrim's hat; pilgrim's staff; scallop shell; sword.

Prayer

                        

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From: mothersuperiorohr@googlemail.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:19:36 +0100
Subject: [Order of the Holy Rose] Prayer
To: orderoftheholyrose@yahoogroups.com; order-of-the-holy-rose@googlegroups.com; benedictxvi@vatican.va; bischof_ralph@jesus-liebt-dich.info

Jesus says: 'I am the way, the truth and the life'. And thus we repent our every sin against our next of kin every day anew with faith, hope and trust that in unity will finally ring His one holy Catholic and apostolic church bell renewed and purified with the holy truth as its melody for eternity. Have a blessed Day and thank you to all priests for your prayers that you offer on behalf of your flock on Mary Magdalene's day to her beloved Jesus.

A Word after the Synod

We pray and continue to live the holy truth and dwell in the living word incarnated through Christ in His Angl.-Catholic church tradition, wherever we are. And we give thanks for all deacons, priests and bishops, who are staying faithful to the one holy Catholic and Apostolic church in whatever way the Holy Spirit guides them towards to lead by example in their vocation. We pray that all discern their calling regardless of worldly concerns as we are called to stand up for the Holy Eucharist and to leave the world behind as God provides for all our needs, and if we share freely, what we are being given freely, all will be well but tumbling down will be the sandcastles of man-made hell; and Christ has anyway His own consecrated church bell that will always the holy truth from the beginning of time tell, including the Book of Ruth.

We only have to trust in Him and follow Jesus in His footsteps and we will arrive safely back home, where we all belong, be it in a church with or occasionally under the blue sky as our dome - in God's house administered by priests of the true apostolic succession free of corruption and man- (and female-)made amendments - in voluntary blessed celibacy, holy matrimony or within a holy God-given community without hypocrisy and free of blasphemy but faithful to God's complete living holy family - as the holy truth has come to life through Jesus in His eternal living word that is no longer subject to any kind of secret society ritual knife. Jesus Christ - His is the way, the truth and eternal life!

We have been here before over and again in the true church of Jesus Christ, and so His disciples will simply gather at the right shore, as out is finally of the renewed and purified church with her lame game the babylonian whore in her disguise of the golden calf and cow, only that she does not know it yet, as she does not even believe in the power of the mustard seed sower, who is the Son of God beget - so, as far as we are concerned over in our midst is her tacky and pompous show with her artificially and piratery jewel encrusted glow.

We simply will in utmost obedience and humility in the Angl.-Catholic tradition serve God and with Jesus straight to God's Holy Rose garden our mustards seeds sow.

God bless you!

Mother Eliora

                       

God bless you!

Mother Eliora, 

M.S. OHR

http://abbeyoftheholyrose.webs.com/welcome.htm

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        ORDER OF THE HOLY ROSE,

A Catholic order in the Angl.-Catholic tradition 

in affiliation with Bishop Ralph Napierski in union

with the RCC

July 22nd MMX: Memorial of St Mary Magdalene

July 22, 2010
Memorial of Saint Mary Magdalene

Reading 1

Jer 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13
This word of the LORD came to me:
Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear!
I remember the devotion of your youth,
how you loved me as a bride,
Following me in the desert,
in a land unsown.
Sacred to the LORD was Israel,
the first fruits of his harvest;
Should any presume to partake of them,
evil would befall them, says the LORD.
When I brought you into the garden land
to eat its goodly fruits,
You entered and defiled my land,
you made my heritage loathsome.
The priests asked not,
"Where is the LORD?"
Those who dealt with the law knew me not:
the shepherds rebelled against me.
The prophets prophesied by Baal,
and went after useless idols.
Be amazed at this, O heavens,
and shudder with sheer horror, says the LORD.
Two evils have my people done:
they have forsaken me, the source of living waters;
They have dug themselves cisterns,
broken cisterns, that hold no water.

Ps 36:6-7ab, 8-9, 10-11

Responsorial Psalm

R. (10a) With you is the fountain of life, O Lord.
O LORD, your mercy reaches to heaven;
your faithfulness, to the clouds.
Your justice is like the mountains of God;
your judgments, like the mighty deep.
R. With you is the fountain of life, O Lord.
How precious is your mercy, O God!
The children of men take refuge in the shadow of your wings.
They have their fill of the prime gifts of your house;
from your delightful stream you give them to drink.
R. With you is the fountain of life, O Lord.
For with you is the fountain of life,
and in your light we see light.
Keep up your mercy toward your friends,
your just defense of the upright of heart.
R. With you is the fountain of life, O Lord.

Jn 20:1-2, 11-18

Gospel

On the first day of the week,
Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early in the morning,
while it was still dark,
and saw the stone removed from the tomb.
So she ran and went to Simon Peter
and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and told them,
"They have taken the Lord from the tomb,
and we don't know where they put him."
Mary stayed outside the tomb weeping.
And as she wept, she bent over into the tomb
and saw two angels in white sitting there,
one at the head and one at the feet
where the Body of Jesus had been.
And they said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?"
She said to them, "They have taken my Lord,
and I don't know where they laid him."
When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus there,
but did not know it was Jesus.
Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping?
Whom are you looking for?"
She thought it was the gardener and said to him,
"Sir, if you carried him away,
tell me where you laid him,
and I will take him."
Jesus said to her, "Mary!"
She turned and said to him in Hebrew,
"Rabbouni," which means Teacher.
Jesus said to her,
"Stop holding on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father.
But go to my brothers and tell them,
'I am going to my Father and your Father,
to my God and your God.'"
Mary Magdalene went and announced to the disciples,
"I have seen the Lord,"
and then reported what he told her.

From the Bishop of London - General Synod - What actually happened?

                        

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From: mothersuperiorohr@googlemail.com
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:17:38 +0100
Subject: [Order of the Holy Rose] From the Bishop of London - General Synod - What actually happened?
To: orderoftheholyrose@yahoogroups.com; order-of-the-holy-rose@googlegroups.com; communications@london.anglican.org

I only say this: God knows that I cried my heart out for His beloved one holy Catholic and apostolic church in the Anglo-Catholic church and for the souls, who betray it purposefully, and have failed to defend the Holy Eucharist in the Church of England as from the moment the first female priest was ordained it was already compromised and from the moment the first female bishop will be consecrated it is no longer the church of Christ but of the Anti-Christ, and those, who have a part in this, know exactly, what they are doing.
I pray that I have done all with the gifts He entrusted to me to defend and stand up for His Most Blessed Sacrament, as I feel the thorns piercing through me at the very thought of the souls, who commit this act of blasphemy and make no mistake,
blasphemy and mockery of Christ's last commandment it is. I nonetheless pray especially for those souls that they may still see God's Infinite Light and return to Christ as only Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. I share in His burden and I share in the burden of those, who live the way of Christ and carry His cross with Him and I love Him over the brim.

May God accept my tears as my silent prayer.

Blessed be God.
Blessed be the Jesus Christ, God's beloved Holy Rose, bud and blossom.
Blessed be His Most Sacred Heart.
Blessed be His Most Precious Blood.
Blessed be Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Blessed be His living Word.
Blessed be His Holy Truth.
Blessed be His Holy Family.

God bless you!

Mother Eliora
Mother Superior OHR
Order of the Holy Rose

 

 

From: communications@london.anglican.org [mailto:communications@london.anglican.org]
Sent: 13 July 2010 13:57
Subject: From the Bishop of London - General Synod - What actually happened?

 

 

From the Bishop of London

 

13^th July 2010

 

General Synod – What actually happened?

 

Dear Friends,

                         

Most of us get information about what is happening in the rest of the church beyond our own patch from the mass media. Understandably in a fierce ratings war and in the struggle to get religious news of any kind reported there is tendency to hype and dramatise and to give undue prominence to extreme voices.

 

Almost every week we are told that that the Church of England faces "the greatest crisis since the reformation" and "that a split is imminent".

 

Actually the weather at the 2010 General Synod in York was much more temperate than in July 2009.   I was very proud of the way in which your representatives from the London Diocese, speaking from different viewpoints, made a constructive contribution to many of the debates.   The Bishop of Willesden in particular with his characteristic candour shone a bright light on the complex business before us.

 

The outcome is that the measure to permit women to be consecrated to the episcopate has been remitted for consideration in the Dioceses.   This process will take about eighteen months before the matter returns to the General Synod.

 

There is no doubt that a substantial majority in the Synod and in the Church is strongly in favour of this change and for many, the Synod's decision will be a cause for heartfelt rejoicing.   It was also significant that only a very few of those opposed to this measure sought to delay the process.   There is a general feeling that it is urgent to conclude a debate which can appear somewhat introverted when our real focus must be on our unity in mission and in service to a country facing turbulent times.

 

In consequence much of the discussion was about how to secure an honoured place for those who cannot accept such a decision as one authorised by scripture and tradition and who believe that it will erect new obstacles in our relations with other parts of the "one, holy catholic and apostolic church" to which we claim to belong.

 

It is emphatically not true to say that the measure as it stands contains no provisions for those who hold such a view. Attempts during the two days of debate to amend the draft measure to remove any arrangements to assist those who adhere to the present practice of the Church were decisively rebuffed.

 

The draft as it stands offers a "statutory code of practice" to protect the position of those opposed to this development.  The question which occupied much of our time was – "Is it enough?"

 

There was clearly an anxiety in some parts of the Synod that given the sense among a number of supporters of the proposal to ordain women as bishops that this was a gospel and justice matter, "a code of practice" would not be strong enough to ensure respect for the minority who on theological and biblical grounds continued to resist the change. 

 

It is a complex question particularly given the fact that the contents of such a code have not been worked out.   At the same time a number of words which have been used in the debate thus far, such as "delegation" and "transfer" have become freighted with negative connotations.

 

The Archbishops attempted to clear a way through the impasse by introducing the concept of "co-ordinate jurisdiction". The contents of such a "co-ordinariate" would also have to be settled by reference to the, as yet undrafted, code of practice.   Although I voted for the amendment, it is unsurprising that there was a good deal of confusion about what such a concept might mean in practice.   The Archbishops' proposal failed to secure a majority in the House of Clergy although it passed the Bishops and the Laity.

 

The important point is that valiant attempts are being made to open the way for women to be consecrated bishops without excluding from the church those who adhere to the present position and who share the faith which inspires our mission.

 

We now have an opportunity to consider the draft legislation in the Diocese and I shall be setting out the process for doing this in due course.   At the same time the House of Bishops is charged with working on the vital question of the Code of Practice.   The Bishop of Willesden and I will be fully involved in these discussions.

 

There will be a special meeting of the Diocesan Synod to ponder and vote on the advice which London will be sending back to the General Synod.

 

I do hope that anyone questioning their place in the Church of England on the basis of media reports or premature judgements about the final shape of the legislation will get in touch with me or with their respective Area Bishop before making any personal decisions or public statements.

 

I returned from York clear both that the majority will is to ordain women bishops while at the same time preserving, as far as possible, the unity of the church in her mission and service to our country. 

 

 

With thanks for our partnership in the Gospel.

 

 

The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Richard Chartres KCVO DD FSA