Piddingworth Greg Benton |
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| 'Piddingworth...where St. George's Cross is not yet banned.' --Mark Steyn |
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| Honour all men. Love the Brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the King. (1Peter 2) |
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| Trust in the Lord and He will give you the strength & courage to do your Duty... Rose West Leonard |
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| CANADA'S DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER |
| 'This noble and elegant site
is both a tribute to a family's history, and to a national heritage.' --Daniel J. Cassidy Sunlit Uplands |
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| COMMENTARY |
| There is a new book titled The Strange Demise of British Canada (The Liberals and Canadian Nationalism, 1961-1968) by C.P. Champion, Ph.D. and after reading it I have come away being sadly reminded of that rare psychiatric diagonsis of 'Dissociative Identity Disorder' where the patient, in this case 'Canada', experiences at least two identities or personality states that are very different in nature. Each of these 'personalities' have distinctly different ways of looking at, thinking about and relating to themselves or the world around them and in a distinct pattern, assume control over the whole of one's identity. In medicine, this disease used to be called 'Multiple Personality Disorder' (like the infamous Sybil) or 'Split Personality Disorder'. Continue |
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| SHARE THE INHERITANCE From our friends at 'Brits At Their Best', David Abbott and Catherine Glass, this wonderful book brilliantly sets out the richness of our British inheritance and the foundation of our civilisation. I especially recommend this for young people in Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. It belongs to us all. It really is quite superb. G.B. |
| Swifter far than summer's flight --
Swifter far than youth's delight -- Swifter far than happy night, Art thou come and gone -- As the earth when leaves are dead, As the night when sleep is sped, As the heart when joy is fled, I am left lone, alone. Percy Bysshe Shelley |
| 'The Last Walk' by Greg Benton, 2010 |
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| The English must not take their future for granted
by Robert Henderson England has a truly remarkable history. It was here that Parliamentary government evolved; here that the Industrial Revolution began, here that the only world empire ever worthy of the name was acquired and ruled. In the arts and sciences the English can point to the likes of Shakespeare, Newton and Darwin; in martial matters Cromwell, Marlborough, Wellington and Nelson; in goverment the Pitts, Disraeli, Glasdstone and Churchill. The country has remained unconquered for the better part of a thousand years and her domestic history is one of remarkable peacefulness when put in the context of the wider world. The English are one of the rare peoples who do not need to exaggerate their history because the reality is sufficient for pride. MORE |
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| "We are two nations, but under one Queen and united by one set of values" PM David Cameron, Address to the Canadian Parliament, 22 September 2011 |
| Let us then move forward together in discharge of our mission and our duty, fearing God and nothing else. Sir Winston Churchill |
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| THE STATE FUNERAL OF SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL (movie approx. 28 min.) |
| ‘Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them’ Sir Winston Churchill |
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| THE VICAR OF PIDDINGWORTH 1996 - 2010 |
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| LONG TO REIGN OVER US |
| The Queen came to the throne on 6 February 1952 and her coronation took place on 2 June 1953.Coronation Oath, 2 June 1953 . In the Coronation ceremony of 2 June 1953, one of the highlights was when The Queen made her Coronation Oath (taken from the Order of Service for the Coronation). The Queen having returned to her Chair, (her Majesty having already on Tuesday, the 4th day of November, 1952, in the presence of the two Houses of Parliament, made and signed the Declaration prescribed by Act of Parliament), the Archbishop standing before her shall administer the Coronation Oath, first asking the Queen, Madam, is your Majesty willing to take the Oath? And the Queen answering, I am willing. The Archbishop shall minister these questions; and The Queen, having a book in her hands, shall answer each question severally as follows: Archbishop. Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, Pakistan, and Ceylon, and of your Possessions and the other Territories to any of them belonging or pertaining, according to their respective laws and customs? Queen. I solemnly promise so to do. Archbishop. Will you to your power cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be executed in all your judgements? Queen. I will. Archbishop. Will you to the utmost of your power maintain the Laws of God and the true profession of the Gospel? Will you to the utmost of your power maintain in the United Kingdom the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law? Will you maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England? And will you preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and to the Churches there committed to their charge, all such rights and privileges, as by law do or shall appertain to them or any of them? Queen. All this I promise to do. Then the Queen arising out of her Chair, supported as before, the Sword of State being carried before her, shall go to the Altar, and make her solemn Oath in the sight of all the people to observe the premisses: laying her right hand upon the Holy Gospel in the great Bible (which was before carried in the procession and is now brought from the Altar by the Arch-bishop, and tendered to her as she kneels upon the steps), and saying these words: The things which I have here before promised, I will perform and keep. So help me God. Then the Queen shall kiss the Book and sign the Oath. The Queen having thus taken her Oath shall return again to her Chair, and the Bible shall be delivered to the Dean of Westminster. |
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| THE LOVE OF A MARTYR |
| Valentine, along with Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and Jack O'Lantern, has been designated in popular, secular culture, as another excuse for the vulgar and common habit of self-indulgence. Indeed, the rather messy reality of the Saint(s) Valentine is all but lost these days where romantic love has been reduced to 'hooking up' and the love of a martyr who has given his life for his faith in Jesus Christ, regarded as 'extreme' at best and at worst 'irrelevant' in a hyper-narcissistic culture. At least three different Saint Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under date of 14 February. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as bishop of Interamna (modern Terni in Italy), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the third century and to have been buried on the Flaminian Way, but at different distances from the city. In William of Malmesbury's time what was known to the ancients as the Flaminian Gate of Rome and is now the Porta del Popolo, was called the Gate of St. Valentine. The name seems to have been taken from a small church dedicated to the saint which was in the immediate neighbourhood. Of both these St. Valentines some sort of Acta (ancient texts) are preserved but they are of relatively late date and of no historical value. Of the third Saint Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing further is known. Nevertheless, the one attribute that is given to each of these Valentines is that they, along with so many other Christian martyrs, witnessed their faith in Christ supremely through suffering and death. You can read more about the early Christian martyrs here. It's incredible, especially because you never heard it on the evening news, that there have been more Christian martyrs in the 20th and 21st centuries than in all of the previous centuries combined; including those remembered from the early days of the Church. The persecution of Christians around the world and even in a neighbourhood not far from you has become so commonplace and acceptable that a massive blind eye has been turned towards them. Indeed, in the 'civilised' western world, the mocking, isolating and oppression of Christians and the Church is not only permitted but even encouraged. The recent effort by Barack Obama to run roughshod over the authority of the Catholic Church to govern itself and the Christian conscience in general is but one example and, for the Church in America, a serious one. In the scriptures we find the comfort of the words of our Lord and of St. James: You will always have your trials, but when they come, try to treat them as a happy privilege; you understand that your faith is only put to the test to make you patient but patience too is to have its practical results so that you will become more fully developed, complete, with nothing missing. Happy the man who stands firm when trials come. He has proved himself and will win the prize of life, the crown that the Lord has promised to those who love him. (James 1:2-4, 12) As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete. This is my commandment: love one another as I have loved you. A man can have no greater love than to lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends, if you do what I command you. I shall not call you servants anymore, because a servant does not know his master’s business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learned from my Father. You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; and then the Father will give you anything you ask him in my name. What I command you, is to love one another. (John 12:24-26) The popular customs associated with Saint Valentine's Day undoubtedly had their origin in a conventional belief generally received in England and France during the Middle Ages, that on 14th February, i.e. half way through the second month of the year, the birds began to pair. Thus in Chaucer's Parliament of Foules we read: For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne's day Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate. For this reason the day was looked upon as specially consecrated to lovers and as a proper occasion for writing love letters and sending lovers' tokens. Both the French and English literatures of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries contain allusions to the practice. Perhaps the earliest to be found is in the 34th and 35th Ballades of the bilingual poet, John Gower, written in French; but Lydgate and Clauvowe supply other examples. Those who chose each other under these circumstances seem to have been called by each other their Valentines. In the Paston Letters, Dame Elizabeth Brews writes thus about a match she hopes to make for her daughter (we modernise the spelling), addressing the favoured suitor: And, cousin mine, upon Monday is Saint Valentine's Day and every bird chooses himself a mate, and if it like you to come on Thursday night, and make provision that you may abide till then, I trust to God that ye shall speak to my husband and I shall pray that we may bring the matter to a conclusion. Shortly after the young lady herself wrote a letter to the same man addressing it "Unto my rightwell beloved Valentine, John Paston Esquire". The custom of choosing and sending valentines has of late years fallen into comparative disuse. It is good to embrace the happiness for lovers and even to indulge in some chocolate, but it is even more important to remember the source and meaning of all love. G.B. February, 2012 (with portions from New Advent, The Catholic Encycopedia) |