Bishop Williamson Preaches at His 80th Birthday.
Bishop Williamson Preaches at His 80th Birthday
On March 8, Bishop Richard Williamson celebrated his 80th birthday with a Pontifical High Mass in a hotel in England under emergency conditions. In the beginning of his excellent 40-minute-homily, he recalled his first step as a Protestant unbeliever toward the Church. At some point, he visited Ireland stopping at a monastery where he met a Benedictine monk who told him: “The help of God is closer than the door.”
Williamson’s First Contact with the Catholic Church
When he was 24-years-old, in 1964, he was teaching in Africa at a secondary school. While playing golf on a Sunday morning, a thought crossed his mind, which he believes came from God: “What are we going to hold our children to?” Williamson explains that he understood that there was an order lacking. Back in London, it became clear to him that the chaos of modern apostasy started with Protestantism. So, he began turning toward the …More