Sunday Bulletin 15 March 2020

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Corona virus:

Precautions: If you consider yourself at risk, we recommend you attend our 6pm Sunday Mass, with fewer people and a lesser risk of contagion. At any Mass, please clean your hands with sanitizers before you come and after. So do the priests giving Holy Communion. In the traditional Latin Mass, the thumbs and forefingers of the priest touch absolutely nothing else than the sacred host, not even the tongue of the communicant if the mouth is correctly opened.

Prayers: Until further notice, after every Mass, the Prayer in Times of Epidemics will be prayed.

Short procession right after 11am Mass on Sunday 15^th March with litany of the saints (p.71 in Baronius missal).

Stations of the Cross lead by clergy every Lenten Friday 1pm.

Gift Aid: if you are a regular user of the white FSSP Gift Aid envelopes, we need to change the way these are used. Letters explaining the different options can be found on the bench ledges. Please take one if this applies to you. Thank you.

Text of letter below:

Are you a regular Gift Aid donor?

If you are a regular user of the FSSP’s white Gift Aid envelopes, whilst we are sincerely grateful for your continued support and generosity, we need to change the way these envelopes are used due to the disproportionate amount of admin work they generate, both for the counters and in the processing of each donation. For regular giving, we are asking that you consider a different way to gift aid your donations.

If you still wish to use envelopes on a weekly basis, we can issue you with your own numbered box set for the coming tax year, subject to us receiving a Gift Aid Declaration form, available from the back of church. This means your details only need to be entered once onto our system and there is no need for you to write on the envelopes each time as the number identifies you. There is no commitment to giving a set amount; they can be used to fit with your circumstances. The white ‘occasional’ GA envelopes will still be available but please reserve these for occasional visitors or times when you might give an extra donation during any particular week.

Alternatively, and administratively the simplest option for us, please consider setting up a standing order to support the Warrington apostolate, which can still be Gift Aided with a completed form – the details of our bank account are on the bulletin or there are bank mandate forms for Warrington available in church.

Thank you once again for your generous support.

Jane Wright, Shrine Secretary

Kneeling at Consecration: Unless you had knee surgery of late or are prevented by old age, please do kneel at least during Consecration, and normally for the entire Canon of the Mass (from after the Sanctus until before the Our Father). Thank you.

Preparation Courses for First Holy Communion (to be conferred on Corpus Christi Sunday, 14^th June, 11am) and for Confirmation (to be conferred on Sat. 18^th July, 3pm by Archbishop McMahon of Liverpool). Both courses will begin on 15^th March and every following Sunday 9:45am-10:45am.

Our Lenten Shrine community alms this year will go to Cenacolo, in support of people with addictions (https://cenacolouk.org/). Please note: FSSP Warrington is exclusively responsible for this initiative and will personally transfer the amount collected to the Cenacolo Community as a Lenten offering from our Shrine community to Cenacolo UK.

25 women attended our first Women’s Group Meeting on Sat. 7^th March. After (optional) 10am-12noon adoration and 12:10pm Holy Mass, a packed lunch was taken in common in the Shrine Hall, followed by talk by Fr Henry Whisenant on sacred art. Suggest names for the group: current contenders St Anne and St Margaret Clitherow. Next meeting: Sat. 25^th April, 1pm-3pm.

Any women from 18 to 118 welcome!

Brand new Baronius hand missals for only £35.00 each! St Mary’s Shrine being such a good customer, Baronius Press granted us a major discount on their public price of £53.95 + shipping.

St Patrick’s Party, Tuesday 17^th March: 6pm shared Irish dishes followed by 7pm film. Please bring some Irish cheeses, soda breads, drinks/wines (email roger.gilbride@fssp.org to find out where you can buy those). At 7pm, showing of the EWTN Film ‘Bravery Under Fire’ about the life of Irish Fr William Doyle, SJ (90 mins). Fr Doyle is considered a ‘Martyr of Charity’ as he died on the battlefield of Ypres in WWI rescuing wounded soldiers (www.fatherdoyle.com).

Diocesan Safeguarding Training session at St Benedict’s Catholic Primary School, near St Benedict’s Church: at the end of Quebec Road, WA2 7SB, Thursday 19^th March, 7pm.

Mass of Thanksgiving for Converts: Sat 21^st March, 12:10pm. Any converts and their families and friends, especially those received or baptised at St Mary’s in the past four years, are heartily invited to attend this Mass and join our wider community in giving thanks to God for the gift of faith and of belonging to the Church. It will be an opportunity to meet with other converts.

Dowry Magazine: https://fssp.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-02-03-Dowry-44-FINAL-online.pdf

Feast of the Annunciation, Wed 25^th March: Low Mass at 8:00am, Solemn Mass at 12:10pm; Low Mass at 7:00pm

The re-dedication of England by our bishops as Our Lady’s dowry will take place at 12noon on Sunday, 29^th March, 2020. St Mary’s will host special events on that day.

SCHEDULE:
10.30am Confessions
11.00am Solemn High Mass (1st Sunday in Passiontide) for the Re-Dedication of England
12noon The actual moment for the Re-dedication will coincide with Eucharistic Consecration
12.30pm Thanksgiving and packed lunch in new Parish Room (please bring your own)
2.00pm Holy Rosary and Act of Consecration to Our Lady (with Confessions)
2.30pm Eucharistic Adoration in intercession for England
3.00pm Sung Vespers

The following is part of the Shrine’s normal Sunday schedule:
5.30pm Confessions
6.00pm Low Mass (1st Sunday in Passiontide)
7.15pm Sung Compline

Please do not bring and display devotional literature, magazines or flyers for any events at St Mary’s without the clergy’s permission. Thank you.

St Mary’s Library: On the contrary, you are welcome to show the priests sound Catholics books on lives of the saints, Catholic history and spirituality for them to check if they would fit in our soon-to-be opened St Mary’s Library. Please do not drop bags of books for this purpose, but kindly take back what the priests cannot retain.

EDUCATION MEETING WARRINGTON
Sunday 26 April 2020, 12:30pm-3:30pm
St Mary’s Church, Buttermarket Street, Warrington WA1 2NS
FREE church car parks accessed via Smith Street and Buttermarket Street

WHAT:
A number of families meet weekly at St Mary’s Shrine in Warrington for half a day of educational activities (about 25 children). In addition to this, we have been observing with interest the formation of the Regina Caeli Academy (RCA) in Bedfordshire over the past 18 months and have invited them to present their educational model in Warrington. With a spacious building just acquired next to our church, we now actively welcome educational initiatives and we pray God that we may answer them very soon.

WHO:
Anyone with interest in education is welcome to attend. This includes not only parents wishing to support such an academy in Warrington, but also home educators eager to compare their methods with the RCA ones, parents whose children are in full time school education and are curious to hear what RCA can bring, as well as benefactors open to funding reliable Catholic education.

AHEAD:
The innocence of our children is in danger. Next autumn, even Catholic schools will have young children subjected to lessons on sexuality delivered in a way which is very likely to harm their innocent souls and twist their understanding of natural law, while depriving their parents of their inalienable rights as their primary educators.
Even if this concern did not exist, the fact that most teenagers educated in Catholic schools lapse demonstrates enough that more must be done to teach and form the next generations of Catholics.

BUT:
Many parents agree with this assessment, but feel they can’t home educate, though. They don’t have the training, the time, the resources. They fear that home education might hinder socialising their children. They doubt whether home education would enable their children to enter the universities and get good jobs.

ASK:
Regina Caeli [https://www.rcahybrid.org.uk/] is a private, independent tutoring centre operating in the Catholic tradition. It offers two full days of taught lessons in school (Mondays and Thursdays) and lesson plans for three days of lessons taught at home, for boys and girls aged 4-18. The two taught days comprise the majority of academic work and there is significant support for the homeschooling element. The organisation has grown rapidly since its launch in 2003, now operating in 16 locations in the United States (with 8 more in planning) and, of course, now also in Bedfordshire in the UK.

Regina Caeli is a response to the need for affordable, authentic, classical education taught in light of the Catholic tradition. Its primary goal is to aid the students in knowing, loving, and serving God by providing them with a “classical style” of education so they learn how to think critically and become life-long learners. The mission is both educational and apostolic combining high educational standards with faithful adherence to the Magisterium of the Church.

Leaders of Regina Caeli UK will give a presentation about the hybrid academy and answer any questions families may have.

TIMETABLE:
12:30pm Teas and coffees / lunch (please bring your own packed lunches)
1:30pm Brief introduction, followed by a talk by Regina Caeli Academy UK representative
2:30pm Coffee and cake
2:45pm Talk by the Trustees of the Bedfordshire RCA on how it works in practice
3:00pm Q&A’s, and next steps for interested parents

If you can, arrive earlier and attend our 11:00am Solemn High Mass (confessions from 10:30am). There is an other 6:00pm Sunday Mass.

There is a separate room to occupy the children. We’re aiming to get some help to entertain the children (tbc).

Free for all parents and children

Video on Regina Caeli: https://www.facebook.com/reginacaeliuk/videos/203633894156383/

INTERCESSORESS: The Servant of God Elizabeth Prout, Foundress of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion (the female branch of Bl. Dominic Barberi’s Passionists in England), chose and founded St Mary’s school in Warrington. Our current building stands on the very footprint of the one she knew and where her order taught children from 1899 until 1967. Her order asks us to inform them of any favour received through her intercession. Let us ardently ask her for success for this initiative as we prepare for the bicentenary of her birth on 2nd September 2020.

CONCLUSION: The great step of the re-dedication of England to Our Lady of Walshingham on 29th March calls for renewed creativeness in Catholic education. Now is the time; 26 April is the date and St Mary’s the place. Please come, tell your friends, and pray. We look forward to meeting you soon.

CONTACT Shrine Rector: malleray@fssp.org

Next trek with Juventutem Young Adults (18-35): 18^th April; 16^th May. Contact helena.waddelove@hotmail.co.uk. Also, Juventutem Summer Weekend near London 3-5 July 2020. Also, CHARTRES Pilgrimage: 30^th May-1^st June 2020 with Frs de Malleray and Whisenant. Contact Pippa: pippajcurran97@gmail.com.

40 Days for Life, MANCHESTER: Help save lives this Lent by praying for an end to abortion in our community. Web www.40daysforlife.com/local-campaigns/manchester-2/ Tel 07810 791032.

Mass Intentions:

(Other intentions were applied over the past 2 weeks at

private Masses. Please ask Fr Whisenant for details.)

by Fr AM