Dom Bede Frost

[Innocent]

I found this book on mental prayer in the Internet Archive.


[url="http://www.archive.org/details/MN40282ucmf_1"]The Art Of Mental Prayer[/url]


The author is one Dom Bede Frost. The book deals with the writings of several Catholic saints on Mental Prayer. However, the author frequently speaks of "Anglo-Catholics" and I can't find any Imprimatur in the front of the book.

Does anyone know if Dom Bede Frost was Anglican or Roman Catholic? If he was Anglican, was he "dependable?" (i.e., like C.S. Lewis or even like George McDonald or Charles Williams)

[Innocent]

[b]CORRECTION:[/b] The author's name in this book is printed as "[b]THE REV.[/b] BEDE FROST of Nashdom Abbey, Burnham, Bucks" and not as [b]Dom[/b] Bede Frost. I'm not sure if Rev. Bede Frost was a Benedictine or Carthusian monk (for whom, I understand, the title Dom is usually used) I suppose I typed the name wrong because I had come across a few references to "Dom Bede Frost" ([url="http://www.mun.ca/rels/restmov/texts/gchapman/SPIRDEV.HTM"]e.g.[/url]) while doing Google searches for "Rev. Bede Frost" and that name stuck to my mind when I made this post. But I don't know if they are the same person.

Edited October 15, 2009 by Innocent

[StColette]

The abbreviations after his name on Amazon and Barnes & Nobles is OSB which stands for Oblate of the Order of Saint Benedict.

[journeyman]

"Bede Frost was an oblate, and his son became a monk of Belmont and eventually prior."

http://www.douaiabbey.org.uk/obnews6.htm
DOUAI OBLATE
VOLUME 1.6 - FEBRUARY 1999
The Newsletter for the Oblates of Douai Abbey

[journeyman]

That name is also associated with an Australian Anglo-Catholic (Anglican) priest:

Meanwhile, as new and more exotic forms of Anglo-Catholicism filtered into Australia, bishops came under pressure to suppress ‘extreme opinions’ beyond the tolerant limits of the Church of England. In 1915 Father Bede Frost of Broken Hill in western New South Wales was charged with heresy by Bishop Anderson of Riverina—allegedly the only Anglican heresy trial ever held in Australia—for having taught his confirmation candidates from a book of own composition which advocated confession to a priest before communion, invocation of the Virgin Mary and the Saints, and other Romish practices.49

49 Laurel Clyde, In a Strange Land: A History of the Anglican Diocese of Riverina (Melbourne, 1979), pp. 206-9

found: http://anglicanhistory.org/essays/hilliard1993.pdf




1933 led a pilgrimage to our Lady of Walsingham
http://www.walsinghamanglicanarchives.org.uk/catholicleaguepilgrimages.htm