FEAST OF OUR PRINCIPAL CHURCH

How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven!

Saturday 20th is the Feast of the Dedication of the Conventual Church of Saint John of Jerusalem in Valetta, the principal church of our Order, now the co-cathedral. It is also celebrated around the world as the feast of all those churches the date of the dedication of which is unknown, including our own lovely eponymous church in Saint John's Wood. Thus a little celebration before Lent gets going in earnest on Sunday is recommended.

Pray for the religious life of the Order as we enter this holy season, for the numerous benefactors of our churches, whose great generosity is everywhere self-evident, and for those buried in them; including of course our own founder, Sir George Bowyer, whose heart lies beneath the pavement before the high altar. Good men all, who served God first.

May their souls, and the souls of all the faithful departed, rest in peace.