A Mass! A Mass! my kingdom for a Mass!

King Richard III disposing of a modernist 

    at the Battle of Bosworth Field

Today it has been announced that the human remains found beneath a Leicester car park are none other than the Catholic King Richard III, last of the Plantagenets and the last English King to die in battle (Bosworth Field 1485).

Forget about what happened to the two young Princes, forget about the limp and the deformed back, Richard was a Catholic, good or bad - and, as with most of us, in all probability a sinner but one worthy of God's forgiveness.

It would seem just too banal for this man to have ended up buried in a disabled parking bay in the local council's car park (I trust he possesses a blue badge).

But that, as they say, is how the maccarone crumbles.

It has also been announced that the mortal remains are to be buried in some style by some bod or other in the Protestant Church of England.

No, no, no! That will not do!

Richard III was a Catholic and he died a Catholic some 40 or so years before the Protestant heresy came to England, so he can't be buried according to the Protestant rite, it just ain't rite (sorry).

In fact, he can't even be buried with the Catholic Ordinary Form of Requiem Mass (Ordinary Form? For a King? Pshaw!) because he lived and breathed in a time when the Extraordinary Form of the Tridentine Latin Mass Old Rite, Mass of all Time, was in place and no other.

Please voice your disapproval of this travesty, not by storming Whitehall with lances and trebuchets but by storming Heaven with some fervent prayers.

And, thanks to A Reluctant Sinner for his post and guidance to the petitions site where you may also voice your disapproval by signing HERE

State funeral for Richard III?......

They'll have to make it a full Tridentine Latin Mass!

The Member of Parliament for Leicester South, Jon Ashworth, in reference to the skeletal remains found in a city supermarket car park, believed to be those of King Richard III, has stated that:

 "I think he should have a state funeral because he is the last English monarch to have died on a battlefield.
But there are some questions we have to confront.
He would have been a Catholic, whereas today's monarch is head of the Church of England, so I would anticipate some sort of service which involves both a Catholic priest and Church of England clergy."

"some sort of  a service" is not good enough

Uh-oh! Richard was a Catholic therefore, forget all that monarch being the head of the C of E rubbish, that has nothing to do with it.

As a Catholic he deserves a Catholic funeral.
I think that, were he able to comment on the prospect of a couple of vicars or vicarettes sharing the sanctuary, he would really take the hump (ugh!).

And not only a Catholic funeral but, as a card carrying Extraordinary Form of Catholic King, he would command an Extraordinary Form Requiem Mass, sung with hordes of tonsured monks in attendance - and not in a Protestant Cathedral.

It would be inconceivable to do less.
Can you imagine Mass in the vernacular? With C of E ministers joining in?
There would be echoes of: "Off with their heads".

But, with a TLM one might hear a whisper of : "Now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer by this sun of York"