A child says:

My child writes to her RE teacher's question for a reason to believe in God: 'I asked God to help me with my problems and he did because in my faith we pray to God and ask for forgiveness or help.'

The teacher by the way tries to influence the children in a not so politically correct way not to believe in God...

                        

God bless you!

Mother Eliora, 

M.S. OHR

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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

ANNE DONNE: CAN I HAVE A WORD, MR L'ANSON FAUSSET?!

ANNE DONNE: CAN I HAVE A WORD, MR L'ANSON FAUSSET?!

YOU CALLED ME POSTHUMOUSLY  'MALLEABLE' TO THE POINT OF 'PATHETICALLY' -

WELL, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, DEAR HUGH,

BUT I SURRENDERED MY LIFE TO GOD ON THE WAY OF JESUS,

AND SO I MIGHT TAKE YOUR REMARK AS A COMPLIMENT 

RATHER THAN AN IMPEDIMENT,

AND SO DID MY BELOVED HUSBAND JOHN DONNE,

AS WE TOOK OUR HOLY MATRIMONY AND MY CATHOLIC FAITH

EXTREMELY SERIOUSLY AND THAT IS, WHY WE GAVE ALL SACRIFICES

FOR THE GOOD OF THE ONE HOLY CATHOLIC NATION

AND LIVED OUR LIFE TO GOD'S ELATION DESPITE 

BEING SLANDERED AND SUBJECTED TO CHARACTER

ASSASSINATION FROM THE LIKES OF YOU.

AND IT WAS NOT US, TREATING HOLY SOULS LIKE SPIRITUAL PUS

OR DELETING FROM THE BOOK OF BOOKS THE COMPLETE HOLY FAMILY'S

STORY OMNIBUS. I FOR MY PART HAVE FOLLOWED BLINDLY GOD'S 

INSTRUCTION AND EVEN PUT UP FOR THE HIGHEST GOOD OF

MY HUSBAND'S ROLE AND EVERY SINGLE HOLY SOUL WITH MY

HUSBAND'S IN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIESTLY INDUCTION.

AND MY HUSBAND AND ME WERE BLESSED WITH MANY AN ANGELIC

CHILD IN MY LABOUR'S CONTRACTION AND WE GAVE OUR LIVES

TO INSPIRE NUMEROUS OTHER HUSBANDS AND WIVES TO SERVE

ONLY GOD IN THE SANCTITY OF HOLY MATRIMONY AND I FOR MY PART

WENT INTO MARRIAGE VOLUNTARILY AND I ALSO BELIEVE BEFORE

MARRIAGE IN BLESSED CELIBACY.

BUT, OF COURSE, THAT WOULD BE TOO CATHOLIC FOR YOUR LIKING,

AND SO YOU DECIDED TO PUT FLAWS ON OUR CHARACTERS AND

DID WITH OUR BIOGRAPHY SOME HELLISH HITCH-HIKING - MAYBE

YOU ARE SECRETLY IN FAVOUR OF A MORE PAGAN APPROACH 

TO THE CHURCH FROM A SECRET LURCH LIKE A VIKING.

SEE, HOW QUICKLY SOMEBODY'S REPUTATION IS STAINED,

WHEN SOMEBODY LIKE YOU WITH YOUR OWN SUBJECTIVE

EVERY PURPOSEFUL ALLEGATION ON OUR PURITY RAINS

AND OUR LOVE AND CHARACTERS SLAINS.

HOW DARE YOU TO USE ACADEMIC MERITS FOR YOUR OWN

CAMPAIGN OF ANTI-ANNE DONNE DISDAIN - AND I KNOW YOU 

ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE BUT LET ME TELL YOU - I BELIEVE

THAT WRONG PUTS RIGHT GOD ON THE WAY OF JESUS -

AS THERE IS NO OTHER ALL-POWERFUL HOLY TRINITY, THERE IS NONE.

AND I HAVE NEVER ONCE WORN IN MY LIFE A SECRET SOCIETY CONE,

AND I HAVE NOT DRUNKEN BLOOD WITH A BLACK SABBATH DRONE.

I HAVE DEFENDED IN MY OWN LITTLE WAY JESUS' HOLY EUCHARISTIC CUP

AS I CAN REMEMBER HIS BLOOD DRIPPING ON MY HAIR FROM MY INCARNATION

AS MARY MAGDALA UNDERNEATH THE CROSS AND IT WAS ME, WHO HAD

TO LIVE IN THE SUFFERING OF MY HUSBAND'S AND MY CHILDREN'S LIVES' LOSS.

BUT THEN, YOU NEVER GAVE ABOUT US REALLY A TOSS.

BUT YOU WILL NOW LEARN THAT JESUS CHRIST IS INDEED ULTIMATELY

EVEN YOUR BOSS.

ANNE DONNE - JOHN DONNE - DONE!

P.S.: AND, BY THE WAY, MR FAUSSET, I THINK FROM NOW ON I RATHER YOUR NAME AND FAME FOREVERMORE FORGET.

YOURS FAITHFULLY IN GOD AND CHRIST, ANNE MORE

Eliora

God is my Light

Anno Domini 14th September MMX

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

                        

God bless you!

Mother Eliora, 

M.S. OHR

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

http://www.myspace.com/akathistos

                    
        ORDER OF THE HOLY ROSE,

A Catholic order in the Angl.-Catholic tradition 

in affiliation with Bishop Ralph Napierski in union

with the RCC

Your daily bread: Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

September 14, 2010
Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Reading 1

Nm 21:4b-9

With their patience worn out by the journey,
the people complained against God and Moses,
"Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert,
where there is no food or water?
We are disgusted with this wretched food!"

In punishment the LORD sent among the people saraph serpents,
which bit the people so that many of them died.
Then the people came to Moses and said,
"We have sinned in complaining against the LORD and you.
Pray the LORD to take the serpents from us."
So Moses prayed for the people, and the LORD said to Moses,
"Make a saraph and mount it on a pole,
and if any who have been bitten look at it, they will live."
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole,
and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent 
looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

Ps 78:1bc-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38

Responsorial Psalm

R. (see 7b) Do not forget the works of the Lord!
Hearken, my people, to my teaching;
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable,
I will utter mysteries from of old.
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!
While he slew them they sought him
and inquired after God again,
Remembering that God was their rock
and the Most High God, their redeemer.
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!
But they flattered him with their mouths
and lied to him with their tongues,
Though their hearts were not steadfast toward him,
nor were they faithful to his covenant.
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!
But he, being merciful, forgave their sin
and destroyed them not;
Often he turned back his anger
and let none of his wrath be roused.
R. Do not forget the works of the Lord!

Phil 2:6-11

Reading 2

Brothers and sisters:
Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God something to be grasped.
Rather, he emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
coming in human likeness;
and found human in appearance,
he humbled himself,
becoming obedient to death,
even death on a cross.
Because of this, God greatly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name
that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend,
of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.

Jn 3:13-17

Gospel

Jesus said to Nicodemus:
"No one has gone up to heaven
except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him might not perish
but might have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world might be saved through him.

                        

God bless you!

Mother Eliora, 

M.S. OHR

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

http://www.myspace.com/akathistos

                    
        ORDER OF THE HOLY ROSE,

A Catholic order in the Angl.-Catholic tradition 

in affiliation with Bishop Ralph Napierski in union

with the RCC

May the Choirs of Angels come to greet you R.I.P.

MAY THE CHOIRS OF ANGELS COME TO GREET YOU.

MAY THEY SPEED YOU TO PARADISE.

MAY THE LORD ENFOLD YOU IN HIS MERCY.

MAY YOU FIND ETERNAL LIFE.

THE LORD IS MY LIGHT AND MY HELP;

IT IS HE WHO PROTECTS ME FROM HARM.

THE LORD IS THE STRENGTH OF MY DAYS;

BEFORE WHOM SHOULD I TREMBLE WITH FEAR?

THERE IS ONE THING I ASK OF THE LORD;

THAT HE GRANT ME HIS HEARTFELT DESIRE.

TO DWELL IN THE COURTS OF OUR GOD

EVERY DAY OF MY LIFE IN HIS PRESENCE.

O LORD, HEAR MY VOICE WHEN I CRY;

HAVE MERCY ON ME AND GIVE ANSWER.

DO NOT CAST ME AWAY IN YOUR ANGER,

FOR YOU ARE THE GOD OF MY HELP.

I AM SURE I SHALL SEE THE LORD'S GOODNESS;

I SHALL DWELL IN THE LAND OF THE LIVING.

HOPE IN GOD, STAND FIRM AND TAKE HEART,

FOR PLACE ALL YOUR TRUST IN THE LORD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aUXhdCW3nI&feature=related

CHRIST NEVER INCITED WARS AND THE SWORDS HE CALLED FOR TO USE WERE THE SWORDS

OF HIS HOLY TRUTH ALONE, WHICH IS ALIVE IN HIS ETERNAL WORD, ALPHA AND OMEGA, AND IS

A NEVER CEASING PRAYER.

                        

God bless you!

Mother Eliora, 

M.S. OHR

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

http://www.myspace.com/akathistos

                    
        ORDER OF THE HOLY ROSE,

A Catholic order in the Angl.-Catholic tradition 

in affiliation with Bishop Ralph Napierski in union

with the RCC

In paradisum

In Paradisum

by Angl.-Catholic Order of the Holy Rose (OHR) on Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 10:55pm

In paradisum deducant eum angeli; in suo adventu suscipiant eum martyres, et perducant eum in civitatem sanctam Ierusalem!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOmfaUXriCQ&feature=related

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                        

God bless you!

Mother Eliora, 

M.S. OHR

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

http://www.myspace.com/akathistos

                    
        ORDER OF THE HOLY ROSE,

A Catholic order in the Angl.-Catholic tradition 

in affiliation with Bishop Ralph Napierski in union

with the RCC

John Donne: Sermon preached at the marriage of Mistress Margaret Washington at the church of St Clement Danes, May 30, 1621

John Donne: Sermon preached at the marriage of Mistress Margaret Washington

by Mutter Oberin Eliora on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 at 9:17pm

John Donne: Sermon preached at the marriage of Mistress Margaret Washington at the church of 

St Clement Danes, May 30, 1621

 

http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=%2FJohnDonne&CISOPTR=3161&REC=2

 

This is a beautiful sermon of John Donne about serving God in holy matrimony and at the same time also a history and summary of church history.

<span>John Donne was born in Bread Street, London in 1572 to a prosperous Roman Catholic family - a precarious thing at a time when anti-Catholic sentiment was rife in England. His father, John Donne, was a well-to-do ironmonger and citizen of London. Donne's father died suddenly in 1576, and left the three children to be raised by their mother, Elizabeth, who was the daughter of epigrammatist and playwright John Heywood and a relative of Sir Thomas More. [Family tree.]

 

Donne's first teachers were Jesuits. At the age of 11, Donne and his younger brother Henry were entered at Hart Hall, University of Oxford, where Donne studied for three years. He spent the next three years at the University of Cambridge, but took no degree at either university because he would not take the Oath of Supremacy required at graduation. He was admitted to study law as a member of Thavies Inn (1591) and Lincoln's Inn (1592), and it seemed natural that Donne should embark upon a legal or diplomatic career.

 

In 1593, Donne's brother Henry died of a fever in prison after being arrested for giving sanctuary to a proscribed Catholic priest. This made Donne begin to question his faith. His first book of poems, Satires, written during this period of residence in London, is considered one of Donne's most important literary efforts. Although not immediately published, the volume had a fairly wide readership through private circulation of the manuscript. Same was the case with his love poems, Songs and Sonnets, assumed to be written at about the same time as the Satires. 

 

Having inherited a considerable fortune, young "Jack Donne" spent his money on womanizing, on books, at the theatre, and on travels. He had also befriended Christopher Brooke, a poet and his roommate at Lincoln's Inn, and Ben Jonson who was part of Brooke's circle. In 1596, Donne joined the naval expedition that Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, led against Cádiz, Spain.  In 1597, Donne joined an expedition to the Azores, where he wrote "The Calm". Upon his return to England in 1598, Donne was appointed private secretary to Sir Thomas Egerton, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, afterward Lord Ellesmere. 

 

Donne was beginning a promising career. In 1601, Donne became MP for Brackley, and sat in Queen Elizabeth's last Parliament. But in the same year, he secretly married Lady Egerton's niece, seventeen-year-old Anne More, daughter of Sir George More, Lieutenant of the Tower, and effectively committed career suicide. Donne wrote to the livid father, saying: 

"Sir, I acknowledge my fault to be so great as I dare scarce offer any other prayer to you in mine own behalf than this, to believe that I neither had dishonest end nor means. But for her whom I tender much more than my fortunes or life (else I would, I might neither joy in this life nor enjoy the next) I humbly beg of you that she may not, to her danger, feel the terror of your sudden anger."<span>1</span>  

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Sir George had Donne thrown in Fleet Prison for some weeks, along with his cohorts Samuel and Christopher Brooke who had aided the couple's clandestine affair. Donne was dismissed from his post, and for the next decade had to struggle near poverty to support his growing family. Donne later summed up the experience: "John Donne, Anne Donne, Undone." Anne's cousin offered the couple refuge in Pyrford, Surrey, and the couple was helped by friends like Lady Magdalen Herbert, George Herbert's mother, and Lucy, Countess of Bedford, women who also played a prominent role in Donne's literary life. Though Donne still had friends left, these were bitter years for a man who knew himself to be the intellectual superior of most, knew he could have risen to the highest posts, and yet found no preferment.  It was not until 1609 that a reconciliation was effected between Donne and his father-in-law, and Sir George More was finally induced to pay his daughter's dowry.

 

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/donnebio.htm

 

 

 

 

 

                        

God bless you!

Mother Eliora, 

M.S. OHR

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

http://www.myspace.com/akathistos

                    
        ORDER OF THE HOLY ROSE,

A Catholic order in the Angl.-Catholic tradition 

in affiliation with Bishop Ralph Napierski in union

with the RCC