Quotes of Continuity

“I am very glad of having this opportunity of endorsing what Cardinal Lopez Trujillo says about Miles Jesu. From my experience of working with them here in England and on the Path to Rome International Convention, I would like to make two further points of appreciation. I am very impressed by the way, in which the members make evident the freedom that comes from living the traditional Catholic Faith and relating it to the situation in this country. Secondly, they have a great gift of being able to provide role models for older teenagers and those in their early twenties as they try to live as faithful Catholics in our present society. Both qualities give us much cause to thank God.” On the occasion of the Miles Jesu approval from the Vatican on 6 January 2002

Mgr. Graham Leonard
Member of Miles Jesu
Patron of Path to Rome
President of the Continuity Movement

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In his Confessions of a Convert, Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson (a convert to the Roman Catholic Church and a son of the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury) has penned a remarkable summary of Church history:

“I saw the mystical Bride of Christ, growing through the ages from the state of childhood to adolescence, increasing in wisdom and stature, not adding but developing her knowledge, strengthening her limbs, stretching out her hand; changing indeed her aspect and her language, using now this set of human terms, now that, to express better and better her mind; bringing out of her treasures things new and old, which yet had been hers since the beginning, indwelt by the Spirit of her Spouse, and even suffering as He had done. She, too, was betrayed and crucified; dying daily ‘like her great Lord; denied, mocked, and despised; a child of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; misrepresented, agonizing; stripped of her garments, yet, like the King’s daughter that she is, glorious within’; dead even it seemed at times, yet, like her natural Prototype, still united to the Godhead; laid in the sepulcher, fenced in by secular powers, yet ever rising again on Easter Days, spiritual and transcendent, passing through doors that men thought closed forever, spreading her mystical banquets in upper rooms and by sea shores; and, above all, ascending forever beyond the skies and dwelling in heavenly places with Him who is her Bridegroom and her God.”

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What shall bring me forward in the narrow way, as I live in the world, but the thought and patronage of Mary?  What shall seal my senses, shall tranquillise my heart, when sights and sounds of danger are around me but Mary?  What shall give me patience and endurance, when I am wearied out with the length of the conflict with evil, with the unceasing necessity of precautions, with the irksomeness of observing them, with the tediousness of their reception, with the strain upon my mind, with my forlorn and cheerless condition, but a loving communion with you!

You will comfort me in my discouragements, solace me in my fatigues, raise me after my falls, reward me for my successes.  You will show me your Son, my God and my all.  When my spirit within me is excited, or relaxed, or depressed, when it loses its balance, when it is restless and wayward, when it is sick of what it has, and hankers after what it has not, when my eye is solicited with evil and my mortal frame trembles under the shadow of the tempter, what will bring me to myself, to peace and health, but the cool breath of the Immaculate and the fragrance of the Rose of Sharon?

–Cardinal John Henry Newman (date) Anglican convert of the mid-1800’s

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When I had come by ill luck to Ireland-well, every day I used to look after sheep and I used to pray often during the day, the love of God and the fear of him increased more and more in me and my faith began to grow and my spirit to be stirred up, so that in one day I would say as many as a hundred prayers and I used to rise at dawn for prayer, in snow and frost and rain because the Spirit was glowing in me.

 For the sake of my God whom I love, I ask him that he may grant that I may spill my blood along with those of other exiles and prisoners even though I may lack burial itself or my corpse may be most squalidly torn limb from limb by dogs or wild beasts or the birds of the air may devour it.  I believe most confidently that if this were to happen to me I have gained my soul along with my body.

–St. Patrick of Ireland 385-471 Of an upper-class Romano-British family, Patrick was kidnapped at sixteen and spent years as a shepherd in the wilds of Ireland.  He eventually escaped, but would return to Ireland in 432 in response to his now famous dream.  By the time of his death, Patrick had overcome the Druids and Irish Chieftains, organised  the Catholic Church in Ireland and converted the island, making Ireland a beacon of the Faith and a source of missionaries to the present day