A remarkable vocation story. Fr. James Mawdsley, FSSP.
For years I’ve written about how learning and celebrating the traditional form of Mass forms a priest. This priest touches on this transformative experience.
(He mentions that blogs played a role. I found an old email from him. This blog was one of them.)
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on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Thanks Father Z, cosmology lesson as only you can impart.”
on ROME 24/4– Day 35 (-6): adventures in symmetry: “Hmmm. Those kind of tassels have always reminded me of fancy curtain tiebacks so I have avoided making them but…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Fr.Z sez: …The Voyagers are destined—perhaps eternally—to wander the Milky Way and then become characters in Star Trek…. V’ger!! https://youtu.be/gxAaVqdz_Vk?t=96”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Being from Florida, I remember when both Voyagers launched – you could see them from our house. At that time,…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Too bad the Curia has drifted too far from its power source…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Voyager 2 launched on 20 August 1977, from Cape Canaveral. Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977.…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “I guess Voyager I gives new meaning to the poem High Flight. Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Now this is very interesting. Not just looking up at some small dots of light overhead!”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “The final resting place of Plato puts me in mind of a memorable excerpt I once read about Aristotle in…”
on ROME 24/4– Day 34 (-7): The burial place of… PLATO?!?: “Someone pointed out the St. George’s Day Google Doodle with its background account to me – with one of the…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: ““George Farmer, aka Candace Owen’s husband. He is a revert” If I’m reading the interview correctly, first a convert, then…”
on Three items of interest: a conversion, a connection, and a con job: “Not to detract from anything Imrahill said, but well, the papally-attested infallible ordinary magisterium about a catholic truth, not the…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Understatement of the year: they don’t make them like that anymore!” on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “What happened to Voyager 2? And what sort of “science” data will Voyager 1 soon be able to resume transmitting?…”
on So very cool that it needs its own post! VOYAGER 1 is TALKING AGAIN!: “Not too shabby for a 77’ model.”
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That’s exactly how God works – when you least expect it. I thought about January 25, the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul. Saint Paul was a terrible man until the moment of his conversion, which was swift. As Father Mawdsley says in the video, the power of God is so evident in His ability to turn someone who was a mess into a priest.
Praise God for you, Father Z, for your blog and other holy ones, and for the FSSP!
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I met Fr Mawdsley several times on the Chartres Pilgrimage whilst he was still a seminarian. A remarkable man who will be a wonderful priest.
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My eldest daughter (when not much more than a baby) and I had the honour of attending one of Fr Mawdsley’s first masses and we both received a blessing from him. The mass was celebrated at “Immaculate Heart of Mary” parish, in Glasgow, at the invitation of Una Voce Scotland. Another FSSP priest, Fr John Emerson – an American, formerly of the SSPX – was also in attendance. A great day. I am sure the good Fr Mawdsley will produce much fruit in his vocation.
Thank you for putting that video up, Father. It was absolutely beautiful. FSSP are such wonderful priests. Every single one we’ve encountered is a reflection of Christ. I love the holy example they provide my young boys.
When he said the best he could do for Burma was to say the Mass everyday and do all that he’s called to by the Church, he nailed it on the head. That is really the crux of it. Through prayer good is manifested in a way that it cannot be accomplished through our own physical actions alone…because it is God accomplishing it, not us. Just beautiful.
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