Ship of Fools: Another "Travellers' Directory": ECCLESIA

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Posted by ardmacha (# 16499) on :

Some time ago there was a thread abou Fr Blagdon-Gamlen's C.T.D., with wonderful memories of the "old Days".
Did anyone ever see or have a copy of Francis Bowen's (of ECCLESIA ) Traditional Mass Directory - I wish that I still had mine. It was a much smaller affair - sadly - and gave churches with: E.M., Series I, BCP ; I don't think that any other rites were included or allowed. Does anyone have memories of this and recollections of Ecclesia. They had a handsomely printed membership sheet.
Then there was The Pilgrimage of Grace Movement, which used to advertise in the Church Times traditional rite Masses, which ended with the exciting words: The Traditional Catholic Religion Triumphant And Unashamed, all a one man band under the late Fr Ronald Silk who was later ordained c.1976 by Archbishop Lefebvre.

Posted by Mamacita (# 3659) on :

I believe this may be the thread you are looking for, ardmacha.

It would be helpful if you could clarify what you would like to discuss. I'm not sure your opening post gives us much to work with.

Thank you.

Mamacita, Eccles Host

Posted by Oferyas (# 14031) on :

I do indeed remember Ecclesia and the Pilgrimage of Grace Movement, though I'm pretty sure I no longer have a copy of the former's directory. In the flatlands round Hull, Fr Bown's church was the highest thing for miles in those days. I recently came across a collection of St Charles Tracts published around that time For the Church of England (not that it ever seemed that grateful...) by the wonderfully misnamed League of Anglican Loyalists.

When I was an excitable teenager one could read about these wonderful organisations in the (short lived?) CATHOLIC STANDARD (huge print) 'for Anglicans'(smaller, fainter print), a thrilling monthly paper which must have expired around the early 1970's. (Sigh) Everything seemed so much more definite in those days...... [Frown]

Posted by ardmacha (# 16499) on :

Sorry Mamacita, I wasn't really being clear or asking for anything. I found the original thread about the Church Travellers' Directory which brough me back to my youth and then though about the Ecclesia directory. Now a post has once again struck a blow for nostalgia and mentioned the truly Full Faith and exciting Catholic Standard, for Anglicans.It was still going strong in 1974,but it must have vanished soon after.
It is always good to stroll down memory lane and it is a happy thing to think that there were other people thrilling to the same things.

Posted by Charles Read (# 3963) on :

Bit off topic but here is Francis Bown being of public service today:

The High Life

Posted by Angloid (# 159) on :

He's found his true vocation at last.

Posted by Enoch (# 14322) on :

I suspect I'm missing the point, but I'd have thought a directory last published 40 years ago may now be neither helpful nor reliable.

Posted by Angloid (# 159) on :

No, but a good laugh nevertheless.

Posted by dj_ordinaire (# 4643) on :

Very amusing and so forth, but now that we've all had a bit of chuckle I doubt there is much left to say.

Thread closed!

dj_ordinaire, Eccles host

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