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Members of the Society of St. Justin Martyr are reclaiming England’s Catholic history through prayer.
The Society of St. Justin Martyr has a simple yet profound three-fold spiritual purpose: to pray in pre-Reformation former places of Catholic worship as an act of reparation for past wrongs, to pray for the souls of those who worshipped there, and to pray for the unity of the Church.
Founded in 2005 as a confraternity of English Catholics, the Society’s apostolate focuses on these spiritual works of mercy aimed at honoring the memories of those who worshipped in cathedrals, churches and monasteries of the United Kingdom prior to, and during, the Reformation. When entering these sacred places, members of the Society are asked simply to recite, in Latin, a Pater Noster, Ave Maria and Gloria Patri with these intentions.
In this Jan. 30 email interview with the Register, founders Graeme Jolly, Master of the Society, and Antony Pinchin, the Society Chamberlain, explain more about their apostolate, which has grown over the past two decades and now has members internationally, especially in places where their own sense of Catholic history resonates with the Society’s purpose.
Their overriding goal, they stress, is to help bring “the intercessory power of the entire Church to the particular place and the particular situation” and simply to pray, “Thy will be done.”
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The Society of St. Justin Martyr has a simple yet profound three-fold spiritual purpose: to pray in pre-Reformation former places of Catholic worship as an act of reparation for past wrongs, to pray for the souls of those who worshipped there, and to pray for the unity of the Church.
Founded in 2005 as a confraternity of English Catholics, the Society’s apostolate focuses on these spiritual works of mercy aimed at honoring the memories of those who worshipped in cathedrals, churches and monasteries of the United Kingdom prior to, and during, the Reformation. When entering these sacred places, members of the Society are asked simply to recite, in Latin, a Pater Noster, Ave Maria and Gloria Patri with these intentions.
In this Jan. 30 email interview with the Register, founders Graeme Jolly, Master of the Society, and Antony Pinchin, the Society Chamberlain, explain more about their apostolate, which has grown over the past two decades and now has members internationally, especially in places where their own sense of Catholic history resonates with the Society’s purpose.
Their overriding goal, they stress, is to help bring “the intercessory power of the entire Church to the particular place and the particular situation” and simply to pray, “Thy will be done.”
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Making Reparation in England’s Lost Catholic Churches
Members of the Society of St. Justin Martyr are reclaiming England’s Catholic history through prayer.
