After the Feastday Mass of St Thomas the Apostle, Fr Stehlin gave the faithful an update on the status of the Knights of the Immaculata in the SSPX Asia District. The Philippines has over 2000 enrollments, India has about 600, while Thailand, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia and China  account for about 400. The grand total for this district stands at about 3000.

I received this in an email which I would like to share:

Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Benedict Baur, O.S.B.

"Blessed art thou, O Mary!"

1. "The Lord possessed me in the beginning of His ways, before He made anything, from the beginning" (Epistle). Mary is likewise contained in the eternal Wisdom, who is to become man in time, who adorns her with His person, His purity, and His glory,…

The city of Chennai in south eastern India was severely affected by floods recently with some areas several feet under water.

IHM Crusader Bosco lives in that city but I have not heard from him and I hope that he is OK. The SSPX has a Mass center there and I just heard from the co-ordinator that he was spared the worst but slipped in the muck and fractured his right-hand wrist. He is a widower in his seventies and is living alone.

The Resistance has its priory in an apartment…

This was too big to paste on Cathleen's wall...

Some of you may have already seen this version of the Novena to Our Lady of Guadalupe:

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This Novena is taken from a leaflet published by the Marian fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. and printed by the Marian Press, Stockbridge, MA…