I Was MALEFICENT!

 "I Was MAGNIFICENT!"

Former community members recall Abbot Cuthbert's recollections of a days events.

Some, amid rolling eyes, may have thought they misheard!

 

 

Actually, and including all the well rounded nuances that have been applied to this character, a freudian slip it may well be.

 

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:

https://anotherabbotextraordinary.blogspot.com/2017/01/

 

 

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.

And for these!