D.O.M.
Of your charity,
please pray for the soul of
Michael Davies
author, teacher, lay theologian
President of Una Voce International
loyal son of Wales
husband and father
faithful son of Holy Church
and a great defender and champion of the Faith
who has just died.
Diego Velázquez. Christ Crucified. c. 1632.
Bonum certamen certavi cursum
consummavi fidem servavi; in reliquo reposita est mihi iustitiae
corona quam reddet mihi Dominus in illa die iustus iudex non solum
autem mihi sed et his qui diligunt adventum eius.
[2 Tim 4:7-8]
I have fought the good fight: I have finished my course: I have kept the faith. As to the rest, there is laid up for me a crown of justice which the Lord the just judge will render to me in that day: and not only to me, but to them also that look with love to His coming.
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"Farewell...and pray for me, and I
shall for you and all your friends, that we may merrily meet in
heaven."
[Last letter of St Thomas More to his daughter, 5 July 1535]
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"...ye see in what perril the
Christen State nowe standeth: We are beseeged on all sides, and can
hardly escape the daunger of our enemie: And seeing that iudgment is
begone at the howse of God, what hope is there lefte (if we fall)
that the rest shall stande! The fort is betrayed even of them that
should have defended it. And therfore seeing the matter is thus
begunne, and so faintly resisted on our parts, I feare we be not the
men that shall see the ende of the miserie. Wherfore seeing I am an
ould man and looke not longe to live, I minde not by the help of God
to trooble my conscience in pleasing... but rather here to spend out
the remnant of my old daies in prayinge to God."
[Reply of St John Fisher to Bishops
Stokesley, Gardiner and Tunstal, sent to the Tower by Thomas Cromwell
to persuade Fisher to submit]
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"I was born in such a time when
Holy Mass was in great reverence... In King Edward's time this
reverence was neglected and reproved by such as governed. In Queen
Mary's time it was restored with much applause, and now in this time
it pleaseth the State to question them... who continue in this
Catholic profession... I hold me still that wherein I was... and find
nothing taught in it but great virtue and sanctity, and so, by the
grace of God, I will live and die in it."
[Lady Cecily Stonor to the Justices at
Oxford when arraigned for adhering to the Catholic Faith]
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"Liberalism in religion is the
doctrine that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one
creed is as good as another, and this is the teaching which is
gaining substance and force daily. It is inconsistent with any
recognition of any religion as true... For 30, 40, 50 years, I have
resisted to the best of my powers the spirit of liberalism in
religion."
[John Henry, Cardinal Newman in his
biglietto speech when he was made a Cardinal by Leo XIII in 1879]
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"Be blithe at they meat, devout at
thy Mass"
[Blessed Adrian Fortescue, Knight of
Malta persecuted for the Faith]
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Domine dilexi decorem domus tuae, et
locum habitationis gloriae tuae
[From the Lavabo Psalm, Ps. 25 favourite prayer of Rev Dr Adrian
Fortescue, great scholar of the Roman rite and inspiration of Michael Davies.]
"O Lord, I have loved the beauty of Thy house and the place wherein Thy glory dwelleth"
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Introibo ad altare Dei, ad Deum qui
laetificat juventutem meam
[Psalm at the foot of the altar, Ps.
42, in the traditional Roman rite, said by Bl Noel Pinot as he
mounted the steps to the Guillotine condemned for his Faith by the
French revolutionaries, quoted in "For Altar and Throne: Rising
in the Vendee" by Michael Davies]
"I shall go in unto the altar of God, to the God who giveth joy to my youth"
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Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine.
Requiescat in pace.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord.
May he rest in peace.
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