What happened at Farnborough with regard to Divine Service yesterday?
Are Abbot Cuthbert and his retinue Benedictine monks, vowed or preparing to be avowed to stability? Or does he / they regard this vow as casually as he / they do other vows?
Fearing, as others do, that Abbot Cuthbert is using The Churches tradition in an attempt to swell his once again depleted ranks and being led to believe that Cardiff's Archbishop takes particularly seriously F'bro brand hypocrisy (You'd think they all would, wouldn't you?) I flung off an 11th hour email to +Stack and a selection of diocesan curia as well as Cardiff Oratory itself thus:
My Lord,
Forgive
me if this email is one similar, also by my hand, sent via CBCEW
website but this matter is of such grave concern to me and, I am
informed by a source I trust, a matter of grave concern to you, that is,
the good standing of the Abbot. It is my opinion, shared by others and
maybe by you too, that he is not in good standing and should not, having
once again reigned over a wholesale collapse of his community with
leavers citing the experiences of many before, that he must not be able
to replace these monks with yet another generation of Catholic young men
who inspired by The Churches Tradition rightfully expect that the
person of the Abbot is an adept in perfecting the monastic life.
He is not!
Therefore
his failings are not just his before God but are the responsibility of
The Church which facilitates by it's inaction, his predation upon the
innocent souls who entrust themselves to his and Her care.
Are
you aware that, from information I have received that appears to be
confirmed in material on the Oratory's facebook page, Abbot Cuthbert is
to celebrate a Pontifical Mass for the Solemnity Of St Alban and loan
the community F'bro Abbey's relic of the Saint?
This
is just such an occasion where vocations may be inspired and their
fruition must not be jeopardized because a wolf has found it's way into a
shepherds cloak.
I commend this matter of grave import to you before
God that, as local Ordinary, you may be able to prevent him
pontificating outside of his Abbey and that in your wider discourse, The
Church may find a lasting answer to this issue in particular and where
it exists similarly elsewhere.
Sincerely,
Tom Wood.
Please follow this link to the blog of mine and others experiences of said Abbot:
Whether this had any bearing on the half hour delay to the start of Mass, I do not know. If it did or not, in typical fashion, nobody has yet replied. Early days perhaps? But an acknowledgement and assurance that the matter would be looked into would be a start!
Some might say that knowing it may well end up on this blog, why would they?
To which I would say, "Deeds of light, do not fear the light!"
We'll leave the last word for now with this photograph again from yesterday and appearing as Dom Augustines thought bubble.
