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January 28, 2022

What’s on this week: Chant, Ancestors and Sacraments

MASS INTENTIONSSunday 30th January 8.30 am For a shrine to be established atAmpleforth Abbey in honour of St Philomena12.30 pm Private intentionSunday 6th February 8.30 am FSSP Seminarians12.30 pm Private intention CONFESSIONSSaturdays 3 pm—5 pm. SUNG MASS AND GREGORIAN CHANT TRAININGThere will be a Sung Mass next Sunday, 8.30 am with a practice from 3 pm—5 pm onSaturday 5th February. We are delighted to welcome to the practice Dominic Bevan, aprofessional musician, who is being sponsored by the Latin Mass […]

January 14, 2022

What’s on this week – Confessions, Mass, RCA!

MASS INTENTIONS Sunday 16th January 8.30 am Sheila Henson RIP 12.30 pm Private intention  Sunday 23rd January 8.30 am Terry McAuliffe RIP 12.30 pm Private intention  CONFESSIONS Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm. REGINA CAELI INFORMATION SESSION Find out more about the hybrid homeschooling academy on Saturday 29th January—please book through this link and tell your family and friends!  

January 7, 2022

What’s on this week – 9th-16th January 2022

9th January 2022—Holy Family VISITOR OR NEWCOMER?A very warm welcome to Christ the King. If you are new or visiting, please take a copy of our Visitors andNewcomers leaflet available at the entrance. Please join us in the hall for refreshments after the 8.30 amMass. These are provided free of charge, but any donations are greatly appreciated and go directly to theFSSP. MASS INTENTIONSSunday 9th January 8.30 am Carole Wardell RIP12.30 pm FSSP and the Traditional Mass Sunday 16th January 8.30 […]

December 17, 2021

Why Young People Choose Consecrated Celibacy

Scroll down to two videos on this topic by Fr de Malleray By Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, Chaplain to the Juventutem London Youth Group (this article first appearead in Dowry Mag No51, Autumn 2021) Who is left? Looking at the group picture of about twenty young Catholics, my finger points at one face after another while next to me a young friend comments: “Gone. She’s also gone. He’s gone as well. They’re gone too.” The picture was taken on […]

November 28, 2021

Upcoming Events in Reading

Saturday 4 December Solemn candlelit Rorate Mass – 7am Advent Recollection, 10.15am-1pm, led by Deacon Gwilym Evans, FSSP. Tuesday 7 December Solemn First Vespers for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception – 6pm

November 27, 2021

DOWRY Mag No51 online

Autumn 2021 In this issue, Editorial: The Heenan Indult Turns Fifty Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP looks back at the petition in favour of the traditional Latin Mass by scores of British men and women of the world of culture and the arts, some non Catholic and some non Christian. Pope Paul VI was convinced to grant permission for the traditional Latin missal to be used further in England, and asked Mgr Bugnini to express his permission to Cardinal Heenan […]

October 23, 2021

All Saints and All Souls Masses

All Saints’ Day (1 Nov: Holy Day of Obligation) St William of York, Reading: 10am (Low Mass) & 7pm (Sung Mass) Our Lady’s, Chesham Bois: 11am (Low Mass) Christ the King, Bedford: 7.30pm (Low Mass) All Souls’ Day (2 Nov) St William of York, Reading: two consecutive Low Masses, starting 10am; Sung Mass with Absolutions at the Catafalque, 7pm Christ the King, Bedford: three consecutive Low Masses (Communion only at the first two), starting at 10am.

October 8, 2021

FSSP Vocation News

Pray for our Second Year seminarian David, from Warrington, who will receive First Tonsure and the cassock on 23rd October, together with 32 more fellow seminarians (16 in Bavaria and 17 in Nebraska). Please also pray for our 49 First Year seminarians who started formation last month, including Federico from Wales. Watch our short video Called to become a priest… Re-read earlier articles and homilies on Vocations: Light the Beacons! (2015) Are You the Fiftieth? (2010) Vocation Discernment Weekend in […]