SHIPWRECKS AND ORDINATIONS

 

Saturday 13th February, is, on the Island of Malta, the feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck, a celebration not observed in our Order since our departure thence in 1798. In the Universal Calendar it is a Saturday of Our Lady. The picture above shows this event on the vault of the eponymous Church in Valetta. Not of course Saint Paul's only shipwreck, as we know from his Epistles.

This year, tomorrow, 13th February 2021, is also the Ordination to the Subdiaconate of Gwilym Evans FSSP, former Director of Music of the Grand Priory of England, whom many of our gentle readers will remember fondly from London and Lourdes. The Ordinations will take place in the house chapel at the Seminary of Saint Peter at Wigratzbad, Bavaria. Please pray to the Princes of the Apostles for him, and for the other young men to be ordained. Pray also for their families and friends who, due to Covid restrictions, cannot join them on this joyful day.

Veni Sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium

et tui amoris in eis ignem accende!

Sancta Maria de Phileremo, ora pro illis.

Sancte Petre, ora pro illis.

Sancte Paule, ora pro illis.