Wednesday 28 January 2015

King Charles...


The commemoration of bl. King Charles þe Martyr outside the Banqueting House at Whitehall will take place on Friday 30th January at 11:40am followed by high Mass and veneration of the relics. I shall be in attendance.

See the Society of King Charles þe Martyr website for more details.
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10 comments:

  1. Itinérante28 January 2015 at 10:20

    Patrick, is he commemorated by the Roman Catholic Church too? or only the Church of England?

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    1. Patrick Sheridan28 January 2015 at 12:16

      Individual Roman Catholics remember King Charles and his martyrdom but I expect the demographic is mostly ex-Anglicans and a few "eccentrics," here and there. As such, Charles King and Martyr has no official status within the Roman Catholic church.

      I know someone who is a traditionalist Roman Catholic who writes articles for SKCM. But most traditionalists I have met despise Charles I. They do so for two reasons; 1, he was an Anglican ("Patrimony" and the Ordinariates notwithstanding) and died in schism with Rome (sanctity cannot exist outside the periphery of Rome's communion, can it?); and 2, he allegedly carried out persecutions of Papist priests in the realm.

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    2. Itinérante28 January 2015 at 16:10

      I feel such an inculte! I did search and the wiki page for Saint Charles gave me a king Charles the first under "Saints from the catholique Church".
      Maybe I should try to search in English...

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    3. Matthew Celestine28 January 2015 at 18:42

      I'm a Catholic convert and I honour King Charles the Martyr. I pray to him every Sunday evening.

      I'm probably not much of a traditionalist Catholic.

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  2. Pete28 January 2015 at 10:30

    Don't advertise it! You'll get riff-raff there

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  3. Rubricarius28 January 2015 at 15:07

    I think we can be fairly certain Libby will not be making an appearance.

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  4. Little Black Sambo28 January 2015 at 18:53

    Charles is not allowed by the management to be considered Anglican patrimony and is therefore especially not commemorated in the Ordinariate. The patrimony is not allowed to include the Authorized Version either.

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    1. Matthew Celestine28 January 2015 at 19:16

      Sad. All those lovely things. Still, the Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham at least maintains much of what is great in the Prayer Book tradition. Just a shame they didn't use the Douay-Rheims if the KJV was so unacceptable for whatever reason.

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    2. Ecclesial Vigilante28 January 2015 at 23:36

      In my opinion, the Douay translation is inferior to Ronald Knox's (which benefits from rigorous consultation of Hebrew and Greek texts).

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    3. Patrick Sheridan29 January 2015 at 00:22

      The Challoner revision is awful but the original Rheimish bible is supposed to be good. I've never read it, though.

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