Saturday within the Octave of the Sacred Heart was marked in the rite of our Order as the feast of the ‘Triumph of St. Norbert’. This feast recalls the zeal exercised by Our Holy Father Norbert in defending and strengthening the doctrine of the Real Presence, which was strenuously tested in the north of Belgium about the year 1124. [...]
Archive for May, 2008
The Triumph of St. Norbert
Posted in Norbertine History, O.Praem Saints and Beati, St. Norbert on May 30, 2008 | Comments Off
The Sacred Heart
Posted in O.Praem Saints and Beati on May 29, 2008 | Comments Off
The Solemnity of the Sacred Heart invites us to make reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus for all the manifold sins which cause that Heart such pain. St. Hermann Joseph, whose feast we celebrated last week was the first to write a devotional hymn to the Sacred Heart. May he and all the saints of the Order [...]
Martyrs of Nová Riše
Posted in O.Praem Saints and Beati on May 29, 2008 | Comments Off
On 29th May we remember the martyrs of the abbey of Nová Riše, Abbot Paulus Soucek, Prior Laurentius Novotny, Fr. Norbert Hrachovsky, Fr. Sigismund Zabehlicky and Fr. Siard Nevrkla who were put to death for their faith by the Nazis at Auschwitz.
Corpus Christi & St. Juliana of Liège
Posted in Norbertine History, O.Praem Saints and Beati on May 25, 2008 | Comments Off
Corpus Christi is the titular feast of our canonry. We marked this occasion on with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament at St. Chad’s which began with Mass of the Solemnity in the Premonstratensian Rite and was followed by all day Exposition. One of the patrons of our canonry Saint Juliana of Liège, a Premonstratensian nun [...]
Emilia Podoska
Posted in O.Praem Saints and Beati on May 22, 2008 | Comments Off
Emily Podoska (1845-1889) entered the Norbertine convent of Krakow at age 25; after three years of teaching, she directed the Zwierzniec Cloister school for five years. Beginning in 1886 she became the novicemistress. In day-to-day life she distinguished herself through conscientiousness and diligence, and in her religious life through a deep love for the Eucharist [...]
The Translation of St. Norbert
Posted in Norbertine History, O.Praem Saints and Beati, St. Norbert on May 7, 2008 | Comments Off
Saint Norbert was originally buried at Magdeburg, the church he had governed as archbishop. At the time of the so-called Reformation the cathedral fell into the hands of the followers of Martin Luther. The pain felt by the Order at this usurpation of the tomb of their revered founder is well recorded by the chronicler Du [...]
Norbertine Canonesses
Posted in Norbertine History, Vocation on May 1, 2008 | Comments Off
Sadly there has been no community of Norbertine nuns or sisters in the British Isles since the so-called Reformation. Before that sorry episode communities of canonesses existed at Irford and Stixwold and Broadholm. Irford was founded in the reign of Henry II and dedicated to the Blessed Virgin in 1156. The last prioress, Dame Joanna [...]
May
Posted in St. Norbert on May 1, 2008 | Comments Off
May is the month of Mary
“He is no true son of the ever Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, who is not with his whole heart devoted to her.
The intention of this Mother of fair love in adorning us with the white habit - a symbol of purity - was no other than to teach [...]
