Father Josef and the small group which makes up this our first Mission in Moravia send greetings in Christ to everyone in the ArchConfraternity.
Father Emilio has downloaded four coloured photos, sent from Brno, of Bishop Anthony offering Mass at the High Altar of the Minoritsky Kostel on the Feast of Our Lady of the Snows (Sancta Maria ad Nives) We thank David Tenkrat who took them during the Mass. They are on our website Gallery.

The Pontifical Solemn Mass for our people at Abertillery and Six Bells on Wednesday, August 27th really was the highlight of Bishop Anthony’s Visitation (or pilgrimage) to Monmouthshire. It followed of course the Visitation to Cardiff. We thank Mrs Catrina Morgan for all she did that day, not least in erecting a magnificent “High Altar” in her large sitting room. I counted 28 people but Catrina insists it was 29 – and I made 30! Mrs Duggan, now 89, a cradle Catholic and a friend of Bishop Anthony’s Aunt Flo, made a valiant effort to be present; she is frail and largely housebound and it was the first time she had heard the Old Mass for 35 years. There were, it must be said, many tears. The history of why so many Abertillery Catholics have left the little Catholic Church in the town is very far from edifying and its roots are in the fact that the majority of the town’s (very few) Catholics are of Italian (not Irish) descent. When the 1960s changes of Vatican Two were interpreted at Abertillery in such a despicable and vile way that the white marble Italian High Altar was destroyed (the altar originally erected with the small monies from Italian immigrants) a large number of people left and never returned. The little church was locked and barred as I passed it and Catrina assures us that more were present at our Mass than attend the one Novus Ordo service on Sunday. We thank God for all He has chosen to give us at Abertillery and Six Bells, not least because of Bishop Anthony’s close association with the area, and it is better if we leave it at that. The buffet lunch that followed was a joyous occasion and we thank everyone for their generosity and loyalty. The ArchConfraternity will never let you down! We thank God more than ever for Father Flynn!

It was good to meet so many new people at Grangetown – not least at the very enjoyable Fete for the Windsor Quay residents which was largely organised by Father Mark and Mr. John Allen and held on Friday, August 22nd. We discussed our plans for the development of the new Missions at Roath and at Cardiff Central. In the homily at the Sunday Pontifical Mass, Bishop Anthony spoke about the obedience of Our Lady to God’s Will – and how we too must strive to emulate this obedience to Christ.

The Patronal Mass of the Mission will be celebrated on Saturday, September 27th at Noon at Ben Duncan’s flat on Bolsover Street, W1. A meeting of The Chapter of Advice will follow, so we do hope that Chapter members will make a special effort to attend. One of Ben’s celebrated sausage and mash lunches will be the final item on the agenda, the fried purple onions being the vital ingredient, we all feel!! We heartily thank Ben for all he has done over the past six years.

As said last time, the Feast will be celebrated in London as well as in Bohemia. It is both a National Holiday in the Czech Lands as well as a Holy Day of Obligation – though this year it falls on Sunday (September 28th). Our work in Bohemia is now augmented by our first Mission in Moravia and we beg you all to keep our Czech Faithful firmly in your prayers. Fathers Tenkrat, Vojen and Zezulek met in Prague on Saturday, September 13th and others from our four Missions in Bohemia were present to discuss how best to bring knowledge of our work and witness to yet more Czech Catholics. They are in the happy situation that, unlike in Britain, the Novus Ordo Czech bishops are not hostile to Tradition. Thank you to Pani Janina Zezulkova for her hospitality on the 13th at Bila Hora. Seventeen were present at Mass and the subsequent conference.

This is kept of obligation in The ArchConfraternity on the last Sunday in October, this year October 26th.   Propers as in the Missal for Masses of Our Lady with  “Our Lady of Victories” added to the Collect, Secret and Postcommunion. We thank Almighty God that day for all the blessings He has, of His infinite love, bestowed on us. Please pray specially for all our Clergy.
The Feast of Christ The King is kept on the last Sunday of the ecclesiastical year, the Sunday before Advent Sunday, as in the new Rite. This is done in order that we may keep with fitting devotion the Solemnity of our most Holy Patroness – the Virgin Mary of all Victories, She who will at the end conquer all heresy and evil and bring the entire world to the feet of her Divine Son Who is our Lord, our Saviour and our God!

Rt. Honourable Margaret, Baroness Thatcher,O.M.

Mr.& Mrs Mistry;Jenny Rees;Rose Gothsch;Peggy&Charles White;George Hepworth;Angela King;Janet Guthrie;Shelley Breach;Linzee Hickox;Lesarian Purcell(Hampstead);Marie Jones;Nell Davies;Mavis Williams(Breconshire);
Meryl Lay(Bracknell);Richard & Heike Podger;Will Malyon(Canterbury);Valerie Crombie;Billy Robinson;Olive Almond; Elsie Davies;Janina Harper;Malcolm Hall;Margaret Wyatt;Gertrude Perkin;Edith Barraskell;Mike Ryan;
Honey Coleman;(Southampton);Marie Dufekova;Father Bohuslav;Jan Graf;Eva Motlova;Jirina Starkova;;Hanna Malinova;Sonja Trpikova(Czech Missions);Trevor Rees;Eileen Thomas;Tony Keane;Barbara Evans(Ebbw Vale) Lyndon Brain;Breda Williams(Cardiff);Nancy Phillips;Mr.Brynfil Taylor;Gordon Griffiths;Kate Haines;Mrs Evans;
Eileen Jones;Carol and family(Abertillery)Mr.Aylesbury;Frances Duggan;Howard Hillier;William Bard;Mrs Mason;
Mrs Hopkins(Six Bells);Patrick & Irene Cornesh(Finchley);John & Mary Hart(Alton);Della Edling(Covent Garden);
John Crouch;Mrs Grey(Oxford);Mike Gould(Paddington);Nigel & Brenda Dawson;Lisa & Kath  Mitchell;Joan Rawlins;(St.Pancras);Constance Harris(Winchester);Arthur Medrow;Selina Harper;Tom Dale;Robin Bencard
(Battersea);Peggy Witcombe(Blackwood, Monmouthshire);Anne Brown (Cornwall);James Milton;Teresa Mitchell;
Betty Baker;Ann Mocatta(Worthing);Gerald Wilson;Tom Smith(Edinburgh););Betty Dawkins; Netta Piotrowska;
Hanna Mlodnicka;Diz Harford(Shepherds Bush);Eileen Conrad-Frankowska(Bath);Beryl Hickman(Southampton);
Christopher Biston(Norwich);Ross Fraser(Dundee);Carys and Philip Day(Usk);Sandra Cavacuiti(Golders Green)
Gee Cayley;Sylvia Wynn(Hove);Noel Clarke(Huddersfield);Shirley Koster(Surbiton);Alan Feldman(West Ealing) Mrs Feldman(Thanet);Juliet Spicer(Edinburgh);Peter Casselton(Morden);Nigel Bunce (Swindon)Tracy Kerr(Jersey)  Dorothy Unwin(Kilburn);Will Owen;Jon Paul Guiaullme;Anthony Gross (Chelsea);Tony Banks;Collette Davis;Tanya
Wolfman(Brighton);Mr & Mrs Pelbrough-Power (Huntingdon);Frank Raymond;Tim Williams(Midhurst);Mrs Katie Dorran;Ben Catty(Finchley);Sister Tessa Fisk(Lindisfarne);Phillip & Mavis Boylan(Whitehaven,Cumbria);Gladys Target;Daisy Edwards(Rhondda);Ron Meehan(Cwm);Pat Wroe;Eric Bilton(Barnsley); Anna Protheroe;Mrs  Susie Shaw(Newcastle on Tyne);Bill Barnes(Cambridge); Kim Morgan;Ben Andrews(Cardiff) ;Allan Connaught;Cathy Bosworth(Northampton);Stephen Chester;Baby Charles Oldfield(Shepherds Bush);Mr&Mrs Ford(Dulwich);Grace  Withers;Phillip Clarke;Mary Molloy(Manchester);Josie Poultney;David Noble;Glenys Price(Ebbw Vale);
Anne Greenhalgh(Peterborough);Herbert & Elsie Buckingham(St.Albans);Dolly O’Hagan(Hove);
Zdena Vychodilova;(Chrudim);Alison Farnsworth(Southwell);Pat Wade(Teddington);Paulette Ellis(Gospel Oak)
Vicky Carpenter(Hampstead);Countess Maryse-Antoinette de Goutiere; Helen Mango; June Stubbs(Westminster)
Bernard Phillips;Mrs Inack(Cardiff);;Shane Paris(Gloucester);Carol Leatherland(Mansfield);Clive Christie(Kos)