Dowry Autumn 2025 Issue online

In this issue:

Editorial: O Lord, Grant Us Many Holy Priests!

Fr de Malleray shares good news about our vocations in the UK and Ireland, and encourages all to pray for more and advertise our next weekend of discernment.

FSSP Seminarians on Pilgrimage to Rome

Our Theology seminarians from our European and American seminaries met on pilgrimage to Rome and were greeted by Pope Leo XIV.

St Joan of Arc, A Prophetess For Our Times 

Fr Jacques Olivier, FSSP, served in London in the mid-2000s and published a doctoral thesis in theology on The Political and Ecclesial Prophetism of Joan of Arc, explaining why this saint is of particular relevance to English Catholics.

Teenagers Love Norman Shrines and Castles

Forty-eight children and their parents, mostly connected with the Bedford-based FSSP Gregorian Chaplaincy, spent the first week of September on holiday in Normandy. Dowry asked some of the teenagers to share their impressions.

Power, Responsibility, and the Common Good

A Thomistic reflection for our times given by Fr Miklos Homolya, FSSP at the annual Juventutem Summer Weekend in July 20205 at Ampleforth Abbey  

Two Events for Priests and Future Priests

A clergy Retreat on the theme This Sacred Victim will take place at Stonyhurst on 5-9 Oct 2026. A Vocation weekend of Discernment for men will take place at Buckden Towers on 13-15 March 2026.

Black Robe: Zeal for Souls in New France

Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP reviews a film about the heroic endeavours of seventeenth-century missionary Jesuits in Canada.

Scripture and Stone: Life in Jerusalem

Fr Gwilym Evans, FSSP studied Hebrew and Arabic at Cambridge before converting and joining the FSSP, and has spent the last eighteen months studying scriptures in Jerusalem, coinciding with the Gaza War.

by Fr AM