Fatima beckons

"Repent, do penance, pray...."

We leave, on Wednesday, for Fatima.

There we will join a small group of pilgrims led by an old and venerable priest; one who eschewed the Vatican II changes and carried on celebrating the Latin Mass.

from 1973 to within the past few years he travelled the country, bringing Mass and the Sacraments to the young, the old and the dying (especially dying priests).

He is, alongside Fr Hugh Thwaites, probably one of the most well known priests in England and Wales. But, he keeps a low profile.

We shall have daily Mass in the hotel chapel plus the Rosary and Benediction and all the prayers associated with Fatima.

All friends, readers, commentators and critics will be remembered in our prayers.

We will be in Fatima from 10th to 14th May - blogging may be sporadic; we shall also spend a little time in Lisbon.


Please pray for my niece, Mary, who is suffering from a serious brain tumour, thank you.

March with Our Lady in London October 8th

The annual Rosary Crusade of Reparation march will take place in London on Saturday October 8th.
It is a heartening and deeply spiritual experience to walk through the City's streets, singing hymns and reciting the Rosary and affirming one's Catholic faith.

Motorists stuck in the traffic will look at you as if they would like to see you re-routed via Tyburn Tree, but, no matter. They will only be delayed by a few minutes, say a prayer in response to their glaring looks.

The march leaves Westminster Cathedral at c. 1.45pm and heads off to the London Oratory where Mass and Benediction are normally offered.

And this year the march will be led by none other than the
 Rt Reverend Monsignor Keith Newton, Protonotary Apostolic and Ordinary of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

So, dust off your zimmer frames and get cracking!