CHRISTMAS GREETINGS AND APOLOGIES

On the last day of the Christmas Season, the Grand Priory of England, and this Blog in particular, extends to its estimable Readers all good wishes for Christmas, for the Epiphany, and for a New Year 2019.  Equally apologies for silence and lack of posts, for various reasons.

People repeatedly and tediously talk of New Year's resolutions. Silly egocentric ones in the newspapers, better ones from the pulpit. The Editors of this blog ask you for only one, and ask that, should you fail in all the others, this be the one you keep.  Please, in this critical year of 2019, pray  regularly for our Order of Saint John – for its charitable work among Our Lords the Poor and Sick, for its Religious Life, and for its future. None of these is certain.

The Grand Prior, Fra' Ian Scott, sends his good wishes from Rome, and extends greetings and prayers to you all.

OUR LADY OF PHILERMO, PRAY FOR US

SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST, PRAY FOR US

BLESSED GERARD, PRAY FOR US

(The painting shows the Nativity by Caravaggio, formerly in Palermo, possibly destroyed)