Mass was offered yesterday morning for the peaceful repose of the soul of Canon J. Beel (+), may he be forever blessed in the Lord. Mass was offered this morning for the people of our Parish. I am pleased to be seeing more of you all every day, as the school has opened a little further this past week and as the traffic on the pavements and on the road steadily increases.
Today is the feast day of Saint Norbert, and my mind flies across to county Essex, where his Norbertines have a small abbey outside Chelmsford town. You may find their website here, and the YouTube channel where they broadcast services from their chapel here. They have in the past kindly hosted me, once on retreat and another time, last summer, when I needed to make a quick pit-stop. Norbert was an twelfth-century bishop with a strong devotion to the most Blessed Sacrament, and a reformer of the morals of the clergy, which were in very bad repute in those times. Long before his consecration as bishop, he found support in the reforming popes of his time and eventually built his own Order of Augustinian canons at Prémontré, near Rheims in north France. They were therefore called Premonstratensians, and were known for their austerity and their great devotion to the Mass and the Blessed Sacrament. In AD 1126, Norbert became the archbishop of Magdeburg and joined the battle for the rights and liberty of the Church and the Holy See. Find out more about Saint Norbert here.
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