After four years in the Diaconate, Eric was raised to the Priesthood in a moving ceremony on the Feast of Pentecost, Sunday, May 31st. Bishop Anthony pontificated at the Solemn Mass and was assisted by Bishop Robert McBride who acted as Archdeacon and represented the Ecumenical Society of Saint Augustine with which the Arch –
Confraternity is in full communion. Dame Della Edling, Chapter Chairman, was unable to attend because of a previously arranged commitment to visit our Faithful in Scotland. In her absence Dame Joan Rawlins,OSP acted as the canonical witness to the Ordination.
Father Eric’s new vestments, chalice and paten and other altar accoutrements were blessed during the Vigil of Pentecost ceremonies on Saturday evening.
All present commented how moving the service was, especially the intonation  of the Litany of the Saints and the singing of Veni Creator Spiritus.
The Ordination was according to the traditional Roman Rite. We were blessed with beautiful weather and the ensuing delicious buffer lunch, provided by our new priest, was eaten on Bishop Anthony’s terrace.
Father Eric’s first public Mass was offered at the Mission of Saint Matthias, Barnsley Central, on the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity on June 7th. There are nice photos of the Ordination on the ArchConfraternity Website. Everyone offers Father Eric hearty congratulations and Godspeed as he builds up his Mission.

This beautiful Feast occurs on Wednesday, July 1st; its importance
is marked in this month’s Devotions. There will be Solemn Mass at Hampstead at 7pm and at Abertillery at 6pm. For other Masses, please consult Clergy and Guardians.

These Monmouthshire Martyrs were put to the sword in the early British Christian era. There is much devotion to them among traditional Catholics in South Wales and Monmouthshire. Accordingly there will be Solemn Mass at Usk on their Feast. July 3rd.
Thanks to Renee for her constant, generous hospitality and to Father Flynn for all he does. A summer Party will follow the Mass and we hope many from the surrounding Missions will do their best to attend.

Another reminder to our South Wales Faithful! The Feast of Our Lady of Penrhys occurs on Sunday, July 19th and is to be observed throughout the ArchConfraternity. It is not of Obligation in the Czech Lands, although Fathers Vojen & Zezulek have already told Bishop Anthony that they will keep this intrinsically Welsh Feast because it is part of the Metropolitan’s Episcopal Title.
Solemn Mass at 11am, thanks to Glenys and Dai. The Celebration “bring-and-share” lunch will be followed by our annual Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Penrhys. Will our South Wales people please come!!

Bishop Robert McBride is very kindly treating Bishop Anthony to a Heritage Day Steam Train Trip to York from Kettering on Saturday, 11th July (as if I were not boarding and alighting  enough trains already!!). On Sunday, July 12th Bishop Anthony will offer Solemn Pontifical Mass in Bishop Robert’s new Kettering Oratory of Our Lady of Walsingham. The Mass will be at Noon and all are welcome. The Consecration of this new Oratory of The Ecumenical Society of St. Augustine will occur on Saturday, June 27th and will obviously be an occasion for members of that Society.
The Mass on July 12th will be an Old Rite Latin Mass. On Monday, July 13th Bishops Robert and Anthony will drive to Leicestershire for luncheon with Mrs Celia Pemberton, one of Bishop Anthony’s supporters & seamstress-in-chief for Saint Anthony’s, Hampstead, who has now left London. Both bishops are very keen to see Celia’s lovely new cottage.  Bishop Anthony and our London Faithful miss her very much.

This takes place annually and is this year on Saturday, July 18th when we commemorate the poignant Martyrdom of Ss Nicholas & Alexandra and their family. There will be Solemn Liturgy at Hampstead at Noon according to the traditional Rite of the Holy Russian Orthodox Church and we do hope many of our London Faithful will come. This is the second Feast of the year (the other being the Triumph of Orthodoxy in January) when we offer Holy Mass according to the Russian Liturgy. It is a joyful reminder to all our Clergy that part of our Apostolic Line of Succession comes through the Russian Orthodox Church which accepts our Orders as valid. The Divine Liturgy will be offered in English and will be followed by the customary Veneration of the Sacred Ikon of the Russian Imperial, Martyred Family which was blessed for us by +Alexei, the late Patriarch of Moscow.

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

Mr.& Mrs Mistry;Jenny Rees; Jill Emery ;Peggy & Charles White; George Hepworth;Angela King;Tam McBride;Shelley Breach;Linzee Hickox;Mr.Aslan (Hampstead); Marie Jones;Peter Dean;Mavis Williams(Breconshire);
Meryl Lay(Bracknell);Richard & Heike Podger;Will Malyon(Canterbury); Valerie Crombie;Jan Harper;Olive Almond; Elsie Davies;Janina Harper;Doris Ford; Margaret Wyatt;Gertrude Perkin; Edith Barraskell;Mike Ryan;
Peggy Derwent(Southampton); Zdena Havlova;Father Bohuslav;Jan Graf;Eva Motlova;Jirina Starkova;Jaroslav Havlicek;Sonja Trpikova;Marie Starkova(Czech Missions);Eileen Thomas;Tony Keane;Barbara Evans(Ebbw Vale) Lyndon Brain;Breda Williams(Cardiff); Brian Tidey; Brynfil Taylor;Marian James;Kate Haines; Phillip Preece;
Eileen Jones;Carol & family(Abertillery);Mr.Aylesbury;Frances Duggan;Wendy 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 Vincent(Winchester);Selina Harper;Phil O’Hare;Robin Bencard;Gordon Passmore
(Battersea);Peggy Witcombe(Blackwood, Monmouthshire);Paul Topley (Mill Hill);James Milton; Cynthia Bodkin;
Betty Baker; Ann Mocatta(Worthing);Gerald Wilson;Tom Smith(Edinburgh);  Betty Dawkins; Netta Piotrowska;
Hanna Mlodnicka;Terence Warburton(Shepherds Bush);  Beryl Hickman; Patricia Earl-Williams (Southampton);
Christopher Biston(Norwich);Ross Fraser(Dundee); Carys and Philip Day(Usk);Sandra Cavacuiti(Golders Green);
Gee Cayley; Sylvia Wynn(Hove); Noel Clarke(Huddersfield);Linda Tillgallon;Rosemary McGagh (Bo’ness); Juliet Spicer(Edinburgh); Peter Casselton(Morden);Nigel Bunce (Swindon);Tracy Kerr(Jersey);Dot Unwin(Kilburn);Will Owen;Tony Gross (Chelsea);Francis Hudson(Barry);Tony Banks;Jacky Tuppen;Tanya Wolfman(Brighton);Bishop Trevor Twentyman(Oxfordshire);FrankRaymond;TimWilliams(Midhurst); Mrs Katie Dorran;Ben Catty(Finchley); Sister Tessa Fisk(Lindisfarne);Phillip & Mavis Boylan(Whitehaven,Cumbria);Gladys Target;Ffion Edwards;Hefyn Walters(Rhondda); Patricia Wroe;(Barnsley); Mike Farrar(Charterhouse, London);Bill Barnes(Cambridge); Kim Morgan; John Allen (Cardiff);George Robins(Barnsley); Christopher and Cathy Bosworth(Northampton);Stephen Chester(Shepherds Bush);Janet Girsman(Esher);Jim & Margaret Ford(Dulwich);David Foulkes;Terry Dwyer;Mary Molloy(Manchester);Josie Poultney;David Noble;Glenys Price; Mrs Pugh; Maud Baskerville (Ebbw Vale);Anthony Dunlavy (Walsall);June Dunlavey (Peterborough);Herbert & Elsie Buckingham (St.Albans);Harry Young(Glasgow);
Zdena Vychodilova;(Chrudim); Sister Pat Wade(Teddington); Mary and William Wishart (Burnt Island, Fife);
John Hickey(Egham,Surrey);Countess Maryse-Antoinette de Goutiere;Helen Mango;Rosemary Burton;June Stubbs         (Westminster); Bernard Phillips;Mrs Inack;Paul O’Hagan(Cardiff); Daveen Saywell(Bo’ness); Clive Christie(Kos);