Video on the devil
Watch here about the devil: not something, but someone.
[homily starts at 2:00, after Gospel translation]
Bedford
New Edition of Book on the Holy Eucharist
Ego Eimi – It Is I
Falling in Eucharistic Love
by Fr. Armand de Malleray, FSSP
On this Maundy Thursday when we celebrate the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar, we are delighted to announce that this book is now available again in a brand new edition by Sophia Institute Press.
Tip: Safe and easy purchase from the publisher’s website is much more advantageous to the Catholic publisher and author (than on Amazon who retains nearly every profit and pays publisher and author a tiny fraction).
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Belief in the Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist has declined drastically over the past fifty years. For the love of the Lord and the good of souls, how can we help reverse this trend?
Whether you are a believer or struggling, this book will help you develop a personal relationship with Jesus in the Most Blessed Sacrament. In these pages, Fr. Armand de Malleray looks afresh at traditional Church teaching on the Holy Eucharist. He demonstrates that it is implemented with precision, strength, and beauty in the time-tested Traditional Latin Mass missal.
In his engaging and accessible style, Fr. de Malleray explains the significance of each precious detail of the traditional Eucharistic liturgy, from the opening words of the Preparatory Prayers, “Judge me, O God,” to the importance of punctuating the words of Consecration, to the meaning of the celebrant’s genuflections before and after the elevation.
Fr. de Malleray explains essential doctrines such as transubstantiation, the concomitant presence of Christ’s Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, and the nature of the Eucharistic fragments. He also describes in moving detail Our Lady’s role in drawing us closer to her Eucharistic Son.
Replete with real-life stories, modern-day references, and cultural and historical reflections, Ego Eimi will inspire you to worship the Real Presence as an ardent believer, orient you to the invisible realities occurring, and foster a greater love for our Eucharistic Lord in your heart. You will learn to treasure the Holy Eucharist more deeply through Scripture, Church teachings, and philosophical reasoning. Experience the Eucharistic Fire: embrace the Real Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and adore God’s gratuitous love.
Guided by the Church in which our Eucharistic Savior dwells, you will also learn how belief in the Real Presence:
- Surpasses other forms of God’s presence
- Is the central mystery and core tenet of our Faith
- Manifests God’s divine mercy as reflected in the prayers of the traditional Mass
- Trains us in contrition and prepares us for a favorable eternal judgment
- Deepens our love so that each time we worship will feel like our first, last, and only Mass
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Sacred Triduum in Reading
What’s on this week – St. Anthony Communications, Easter Collections and Standing Orders
3rd April 2022—Passion Sunday
MASS INTENTIONS
Sunday 3rd April 8.30 am Katarzyna Onisk RIP
12.30 pm Private intention
Sunday 10th April 8.30 am Sheila Yowell RIP
12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS
Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm. There will be two FSSP priests hearing Confessions on 9th April, but no Confessions on Holy Saturday.
EASTER COLLECTIONS
By Fr Nicholas’s kind agreement, the collection money from the Latin Masses at 8.30 am and 12.30 pm on
Easter Sunday will go to support the work of the FSSP Bedford Apostolate. If you want to make a personal gift to the FSSP priests, then please do so outside of the collections, making it clear that it is for their personal use. Thank you!
STANDING ORDERS
The FSSP is reliant on regular supplementary financial giving in order to maintain their
apostolate in Bedford. Please consider setting up a standing order to them. These need to be set up by you
through your own bank using the following details: account name: FSSP England (Reading); sort code 30-93-
04; account number 02027330. Gift Aid forms are also available by request. Thank you.
ST ANTHONY COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE
Saturday 4th June 9.45 am—5 pm, St Mary’s Church, West Croydon. Speakers include Rev Marcus Holden.
More information and required advance booking on www.saintant.com.
ACCESS TO THE SACRAMENTS
If there is the need for sacraments — baptism, confirmation, sick calls etc — please contact Fr Goddard on 0118 966 5284 or goddard AT fssp.org.
Is the Church One?
In the Creed we profess our faith in the Church as ONE.
And yet later in Holy Mass we ask God to make her ONE.
What does unity actually entail then?
Click here to watch: https://www.facebook.com/fssp.england/posts/2694376134041570.
Crises in Church History
Looking back at three crises in Church history can help us overcome the current one: 1) The Arian crisis, when many bishops said Christ is not God; 2) The Clergy immorality crisis, when St Peter Damian had to tell the pope about widespread homosexuality; 3) The Rival Popes crisis, when good Catholics were made to choose between two or even three popes at a time.
Talk given by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP for Juventutem London at St Mary Magdalene, Wandsworth, on 12th February 2022.
What’s on this week: Sung Mass / Ukraine / FSSP Camps
MASS INTENTIONS
Sunday 6th March
8.30 am Kennedy family intentions
12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS
Tomorrow 3 pm—5 pm.
SUNG MASS
Sunday 6th March at 8.30 am is a sung Mass, with a practice tomorrow from 3 pm—5 pm. Please contact Katherine if interested: 07985 214854 / katie DOT peddie AT gmail.com.
FSSP SUMMER CAMPS
After two years of absence, these will take place at Savio House, in Bollington (near Macclesfield, Cheshire). St Peter’s Summer Camp for Boys runs 1-6 August; St Petronilla Summer Camp for Girls runs 8-13 August. Booking forms will be made available very soon. Please contact Fr Phipps for more information.
UKRAINE
There’s an event on 19th/20th March at which people will be collecting various items to send in a lorry down to Ukraine. If anyone would like to donate clothes / toiletries / baby products etc and hasn’t had a chance to drop something off at a local pickup point, do please feel free to bring them to Mass and someone can take them
Pope Francis confirms the liturgical identity of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
Dear Friends,
His Holiness Pope Francis has confirmed the liturgical identity of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (see below). Deo gratias for such a response from heaven to your prayers!
We note that:
- The meeting of the FSSP superiors with the Holy Father took place during our Novena of Preparation of Worldwide Solemn Consecration of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
- Further, the Decree confirming our liturgical identity is dated 11th February, the Feast of the Apparitions of Our Lady in Lourdes, and the day of the Worldwide Solemn Consecration of the FSSP. Therefore, after God almighty our gratitude goes to the Immaculate Mother of God, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- The news was released on 21st February when First Vespers of the Feast of the Chair of Peter occur, it being a First Class Feast in our Fraternity. Thus we also must express our gratitude to our Patron St Peter the Apostle, and must pray further for his successor Pope Francis.
In thanksgiving therefore, we invite you to attend Holy Mass tomorrow, especially if you live near an FSSP Mass centre. At St Mary’s Warrington Holy Mass will be sung tomorrow on Tuesday 22nd February at 12:10pm, followed by a sung Te Deum. We invite all who live at a distance to pray with us via LiveMass.net.
Reminder for members of the Confraternity of Saint Peter: plenary indulgence tomorrow at the usual conditions.
Although we all must pray further for any clergy and laity to benefit from the riches of the Roman traditions of the Church, the communiqué below must strengthen the hopes of all loyal Catholics.
Official communiqué of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
Fribourg, February 21, 2022
On Friday, February 4, 2022, two members of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, Fr. Benoît Paul-Joseph, Superior of the District of France, and Fr. Vincent Ribeton, Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary in Wigratzbad, were received in private audience by the Holy Father, Pope Francis, for nearly an hour.
During the very cordial meeting, they recalled the origins of the Fraternity in 1988, the Pope expressed that he was very impressed by the approach taken by its founders, their desire to remain faithful to the Roman Pontiff and their trust in the Church. He said that this gesture should be “preserved, protected and encouraged”.
In the course of the audience, the Pope made it clear that institutes such as the Fraternity of St. Peter are not affected by the general provisions of the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes, since the use of the ancient liturgical books was at the origin of their existence and is provided for in their constitutions.
The Holy Father subsequently sent a decree signed by him and dated February 11, the day the Fraternity was solemnly consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, confirming for the members of the Fraternity the right to use the liturgical books in force in 1962, namely: the Missal, the Ritual, the Pontifical and the Roman Breviary.
Grateful to the Holy Father, the members of the Fraternity of St. Peter are in thanksgiving for this confirmation of their mission. They invite all the faithful who feel close to them as a spiritual family to attend or join them in prayer at the Mass tomorrow, on the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, and to pray for the Supreme Pontiff.
Source : www.fssp.org
Photo: Fr. Paul-Joseph (left) and Fr. Vincent Ribeton (right) with Pope Francis – © Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
Decree of Pope Francis confirming the use of the 1962 liturgical books
The Holy Father Francis, grants to each and every member of the Society of Apostolic Life “Fraternity of Saint Peter”, founded on July 18, 1988 and declared of “Pontifical Right” by the Holy See, the faculty to celebrate the sacrifice of the Mass, and to carry out the sacraments and other sacred rites, as well as to fulfill the Divine Office, according to the typical editions of the liturgical books, namely the Missal, the Ritual, the Pontifical and the Roman Breviary, in force in the year 1962.
They may use this faculty in their own churches or oratories; otherwise it may only be used with the consent of the Ordinary of the place, except for the celebration of private Masses.
Without prejudice to what has been said above, the Holy Father suggests that, as far as possible, the provisions of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes be taken into account as well.
Given in Rome, near St. Peter’s, on February 11, the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, in the year 2022, the ninth year of my Pontificate.
Francis
What’s on this week: Sexagesima, Singers, and Ashes
20th February 2022—Sexagesima
MASS INTENTIONS
Sunday 20th February 8.30 am Nicholas and Ruth Dyson 20th Wedding Anniversary
12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS
Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm.
ASH WEDNESDAY
There will be a Low Mass and imposition of ashes on Wednesday 2nd March at 7.30 pm.
NEXT SUNG MASS
Sunday 6th March at 8.30 am with a practice on Saturday 5th March 3 pm—5 pm led by Dominic Bevan, who is a professional singer and choir trainer sponsored by the Latin Mass Society. Please contact Katherine Smith if interested: 07985 214854/katie.peddie AT gmail.com. New singers welcome, experience not required!
MASS OF AGES
The Spring edition is available free of charge on the table by the door as you leave today.
Launch of New Catholic, Classical Academy in Warrington at St Mary’s Shrine: Spread the word, September 2023.
St Mary’s Academy Warrington
http://www.stmarysacademywarrington.co.uk/
A very warm welcome to St Mary’s Shrine and Academy. How did this all start…
St Mary’s Academy is very much a grass roots academy inspired by an article written in the Dowry called ‘The Villiage Option’. Click here to read the whole article. A few Homeschooling families from the Parish got together once a week on Wednesday to learn, pray and socialise. We decided that we would like more of the same thing and therefore wanted to increase it to two, then three days a week. We also realised that it needed to be more structured, so we created a curriculum and a number of resources. So essentially it has become a Catholic classical homeschooling-hybrid academy. We are a growing academy and are currently have reached year 5. We intend to grow up to GCSE and maybe beyond.
Background
At Saint Mary’s Academy we are not trying to do something new or innovative with the Curriculum. In fact quite the opposite we are doing something old, or to put it another way something Classical. Every young person has a desire to be great, and often this is either subdued or misdirected in the modern world towards vice. However, what would this desire look like if it where nurtured into the greatness that God has planned for us. Well we have to look no further than the Saints to see what true greatness looks like. So by classical education we mean an education fitting for saints in the making. In doing so we are standing on the shoulders of giants like Aristotle, St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas.
I have taught in OFSED judged ‘Good’ or ‘outstanding’ state schools for over 20 years and could honestly say that good or outstanding are certainly not words that I would use to describe them, despite some of their good exam results.
Soon into my teaching career I began to notice something was fundamentally wrong with modern schools. I am not saying the teachers were not good, in fact some of them were outstanding, virtuous and inspirational. It was not for lack of effort, often we would work 70 hour weeks and still take work home. In my opinion the reason modern schools have lost their way is because they have lost sight of what education is for. So it has become for whatever the most dominant force decides it is for, and today that is Modernism in its many guises ie; cultural marxism, moral relativism, and materialism. It is as if the value of the child is only recognised through what they achieve. This is not what the Classical thinkers taught us.
According to Aristotle the aim of all education is Eudaimonia which is human happiness or human flourishing through mastering of the virtues. As the Angelic doctor, St Thomas Aquinas reminds us, True education not only works towards what we must know and do in this life, but always keeps in view man’s ultimate end in God…
To read more please visit https://www.stmarysacademywarrington.co.uk/curriculum/our-philosophy
What are they up to? To find out more,
Please visit http://www.stmarysacademywarrington.co.uk/ for up to date information on the academy.