These Last Days News - April 16, 2012

Catholic Chaplain Goes Down with the Titanic...

"My child, make it known to Our priests in My Son’s houses upon earth, churches, that We want Our priests to shine forth as pure examples of chastity and holiness.... "The example that must be shown and given to the children of earth by Our priests must set them apart as representatives of My Son. They do not have any equal upon earth, for their vocation is a special gift of God." - Our Lady, June 18, 1974

Titanic Confessor...

The Hermeneutic of Continuity reported on April 13, 2012:

Being mercifully free of live television, I do not always pick up on what the latest craze is, but I think that this weekend we are in the grip of a feverish concentration on the Titanic so it might be worth trying to work Fr Byles into this Sunday's sermon. He was a parish priest from Essex who was travelling to conduct the wedding of his brother in Brooklyn. He paid £13 for his ticket. The website Measuring Worth calculates the value of that today as £1,000 using the retail price index, or £4,240 using average earnings. Either way, Fr Byles obviously valued the trip highly.

When the ship struck the iceberg, Fr Byles was on deck saying his office. During the panic, he helped steerage passengers up to the boat deck, helped women and children get into the lifeboats, refused a place on the lifeboat himself, went among the passengers hearing confessions, prayed the rosary with those left on board, and went down with the ship, still saying the rosary with them

As well as providing a heroic Catholic reference for people who are hearing a lot about the Titanic on television, it might also be worth pointing out that the popular film caricatures him by having him recite verses from the Apocalypse. It is always worth waking people up to the subtle prejudice that they normally don't notice in the mainstream media.

Reader's Comment: Another Titanic priest of note was Fr Browne SJ, the famous photographer. With the approval of his superiors he made the first leg of the maiden voyage, from Belfast to Queenstown (modern Cobh), and took several fascinating pictures. Some wealthy folk offered to pay his passage to America, and he promptly sent a telegram from the ship to his superior to request permission. The response swiftly came back: Get off that ship now! And he did. And he lived to tell the tale of his obedience.

The Martyr of the Titanic...

Alive Publishing reported on April 13, 2012:

Among the unsung heros of the Titanic, which sank 100 years ago this month, was a parish priest from Essex. Joanna Moorhead finds out more.

There’s a moment in the movie Titanic, as Kate Winslet and Leonardo di Caprio are desperately struggling across the deck in the final moments before the ship sinks, when the camera pans to a priest who is standing with a group of passengers reciting the Hail Mary. A few minutes later we see him again: this time, he’s quoting from the Book of the Apocalypse.

Which, according to historian Fr Stewart Foster, is ridiculous. ‘There’s no way a Catholic priest would be quoting from the Book of the Apocalypse as a ship was sinking, he says. ‘He’d be ministering to his flock, hearing confessions and giving a general absolution.’

And that, he says, is exactly what the Catholic priest the character is based on – Father Thomas Byles – was doing on the night of April 14-15 2012. ‘As the Titanic sank, Father Byles was seen consoling the steerage class passengers, talking to them and praying the Rosary with them,’ says Fr Foster. ‘Most of them were Italian or Irish, and since he’d studied in Rome, he spoke Italian.

‘Several eyewitness accounts mention, too, that Fr Byles refused a place in a lifeboat – and not just once, but on two separate occasions.’

All of which explains, says Fr Foster, why Pope Pius X later told William Byles that his brother had been ‘a martyr for the Church’. ‘The Pope gave him that accolade because he could have had his life saved but he refused – he wanted to remain with the people until the end,’ says Fr Foster.

At the time the Titanic struck the iceberg Fr Byles was reciting his office on the upper deck.

Fr Byles wasn’t the only Catholic priest on board the Titanic – there were two others, a Lithuanian and an Austrian, as well as an Irish seminarian called Fr Francis Browne who disembarked in Ireland (see box) – but Fr Byles is the one who emerged as the religious hero of the hour. According to Fr Foster, the diocesan archivist for Brentwood diocese, by an eerie coincidence Fr Byles preached, at his final Mass on the morning before the ship sank, about ‘spiritual shipwreck’.

‘He was definitely an inspirational character,’ says Fr Foster. ‘His story is moving, and it shows what a brave and devout man he was.’

Fr Byles’s body was never found; but the place where he is best-remembered is in his parish, St Helen’s in Ongar, Essex. ‘We’ve never forgotten him here,’ says Lesley Boyall, the pastoral assistant. ‘People come from all over the world to hear more about his story.’

The church’s main memorial to Fr Byles is a stained glass window featuring St Patrick, Christ the Good Shepherd, and St Thomas Aquinas. Words inscribed into one of the panes recall his ‘heroic death in the disaster of SS Titanic earnestly devoting his last moments to the religious consolation of his fellow passengers’.

Fr Byles was born in Staffordshire in 1870, the eldest of seven children, and christened with the name Roussel in honour of his family’s French connections. His father, the Rev Alfred Holden Byles, was a well-known Congregationalist minister at the time, but during his undergraduate years at Oxford University Roussel began to break away from the religion of his youth and was received into the Church of England. Some time afterwards his brother, William, was received into the Catholic Church – and around that time, it seems that Roussel also began to feel drawn to Catholicism.

In 1894 he became a Catholic and took a new name, Thomas, after St Thomas Aquinas, and after a few years spent teaching (including a spell as tutor to a German prince) he went to Rome to study for the priesthood. He was ordained in 1902 and became one of the founding members of the Catholic Missionary Society, a group dedicated to the conversion of English Protestants to the Catholic Church. The following year he was appointed parish priest of St Helen’s, and moved to Essex.

It was the engagement of Fr Byles’s brother William that led him to board the ill-fated Titanic. William had gone to live in New York to run a business, and had fallen in love with a woman from Brooklyn. When the couple decided to marry, they asked Fr Byles over to the US to conduct the ceremony.

On April 10, 1912 Fr Byles said farewell to his parishioners and got the train from Essex to London, and then journeyed on from there to Southampton. He had bought a second-class ticket, priced £13, for his cabin aboard the Titanic, and he took with him a portable altar and accessories so that he could say Mass during the trip, an arrangement the ship’s captain had approved.

Twice he was offered a seat in a lifeboat and twice he refused; and after the final lifeboat had left he led a recitation of the rosary for those who had not been able to board any of the boats.

According to eyewitness accounts, at the time the Titanic struck the iceberg Fr Byles was reciting his office on the upper deck. When the seriousness of what had happened became clear, he went below decks to help load the third class passengers into the lifeboats; later, as the situation became ever more acute, he heard confessions and gave a general absolution. Twice he was offered a seat in a lifeboat and twice he refused; and after the final lifeboat had left he led a recitation of the rosary for those who had not been able to board any of the boats.

Several passengers later testified to Fr Byles’s bravery. One, Helen Mary Mocklare, who had been a third class passenger, described how ‘a few...became very excited and then the priest again raised his hand and instantly they were calm once more. The passengers were immediately impressed by the absolute self-control of the priest.’ Another woman who got off the ship, Bertha Moran, said later that Fr Byles had ‘whispered words of comfort and encouragement’ to women and children while helping them climb into the lifeboats.

In New York a few days later, William Byles and his fiancée Isabelle, who like the other relatives had heard of the ship’s sinking, anxiously awaited the arrival of the SS Carparthia, which had picked up the survivors, hoping against hope that Thomas would be among them. When it was clear that he was not, they decided to go ahead with their wedding as planned – but as soon as the service was over they changed out of their bridal clothes and put on mourning clothes instead, and a requiem Mass was said for Fr Byles.

Meanwhile a few days later in Ongar, parishioners packed St Helen’s for a funeral Mass. And this month, a century on, the people of his one-time parish will gather again to honour his memory, and to pray for his soul.

"I have asked you once, I have asked you again, My children, not to abandon your parish churches. It is the plan of satan to shut the doors. Remember, My children, and I repeat again, that My Son is with you in the Eucharist. He is present with you in Body and Spirit. He will be brought to you by a legally-ordained priest, a man of God. Do not judge My Son's Church or its structure by the ways of man. The Spirit will work miracles over the corruption of the man. A legally-ordained priest is a priest for life.
"Please, My children, pray for your priests. Many are being led astray. Discipline and the rule must be followed in the priesthood. This brings great sorrow to the Eternal Father and My Son to see the manner in which the priesthood has cast aside the rule in the name of modernism and humanism." - Our Lady of the Roses, March 25, 1978

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ETERNITY
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INSTRUMENT
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"DO NOT GO SEEKING ELSEWHERE"
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