...were honoured today at Westminster Cathedral. They were beatified 25 years ago by the great John Paul II. Today, I dropped in to evening Mass at the Cathedral - and found it was a magnificent Mass honouring the anniversary of the Beatification. Archbishop Vincent Nicholls was the main celebrant and preached a fine sermon. And we had a glorious Ave Verum at Communion...the choir is in paritcularly fine voice at present. We sang Faith of Our Fathers very heartily. I am always a bit worried with that line "How sweet would be their children's fate/If they like them could die for thee" because it just could be that this might be demanded of us....gulp...and I am not sure of my own courage...
I had gone to the Mass to meet Dan Cooper of the FAITH Movement. He ran the FAITH stall at the Towards Advent Festival and found some good opportunities to talk to people and make contacts. The FAITH Movement has its annual Winter Session in December...
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Faith of our fathers, Mary's prayers
Shall win our country back to thee
And with the truth that comes from God
Then England shall indeed be free.
I do not think you need be too alarmed, Joanna. The present Pope has not issued a Bull deposing Elizabeth II, as a predecessor of his did in 1570, deposing Elizabeth I, and releasing her subjects from their allegiance. Nor has he blessed a foreign task force sent to remove her and her government, as (I believe)a predecessor of his did to that same Elizabeth I some 18 years after 1570.
Actually that was a controversy.
Elizabeth's rivals claimed that, because Catherine of Aragon was still living when Henry married Ann Boleyn, she was illegitimate and therefore ineligible to inherit the throne. The Pope fudged on this argument, and didn't give the anti-Elizabeth party the support they felt they deserved.
Elizabeth was excommunicated, because she had accepted Catholicism during the reign of Mary. But that was an inevitable step.
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