King Oswald's Heirs
A new book by Fr. Thomas Plant
"King Oswald's Heirs" is a new book by friend of OMSA, Father Thomas Plant, in which he weaves tales of Britain's saints and martyrs with his own reflections to rekindle a fire and a faith that that started long ago.
The book is available on Amazon.
Many of you will have met Fr. Plant at our services, and he was kind enough to write this introduction for us:
"King Oswald’s Heirs highlights the continuity of the post-Reformation Church of England with the English Catholicism of old and the apostolic patrimony, not only in doctrine, but in spirituality, liturgy and biblical typology.
"The book’s forty chapters are structured on the questions and answers given in the Catechism of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, which were designed to prepare Confirmation candidates. But my meditations on those questions goes further than rote repetition of doctrine. We get to the deeper roots of English Christianity, drawing on the lives of the saints of the British isles, and further still, on the apostolic seeds from which they flowered.
"Whatever the present troubles and infidelities Anglicans face in our churches today, we have inherited a great Christian tradition of our own, with our own saints, martyrs, mystics, musicians, theologians, priests and poets. This book will reawaken you to the glories of England’s Christian patrimony."