Great news! Father O’Donohue will be coming to Christ the King on Saturday 27th June to offer Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from 2 pm – 6 pm. This is our first opportunity for adoration since the middle of March and we hope that many people will take the opportunity of spending time with Our Lord.
Naturally we need to observe all the necessary conditions regarding hygiene and social distancing. If anyone can volunteer to be a steward for part of this time, this help would be gratefully received. Please contact Rita Carroll on margueritacarroll@gmail.com or telephone her on 07984 867837. You will need a short session of training; if you see this article before 1 pm on Saturday 20th June and can get to Christ the King for a training session at that time, please do so. Otherwise separate arrangements can be made.
This is a major step towards public Masses being celebrated again – Deo Gratias! – and many thanks to Fr O’Donohue for coming over to be with us.
I regret to inform you that the FSSP England summer camps scheduled for this coming August in the Peak District have had to be cancelled. This is due to the restrictions imposed by the government, which made it unrealistic for Savio House to host us this time.
Here’s hoping and praying that the 2021 camps will be even better to compensate!
[More Masses are offered daily using the intentions booked on your behalf. Ask Fr Whisenant for further information if needded.]
Sun 7
Feast of the Most Holy Trinity Vespers & Benediction
11:00am
5:00pm
Ethan and Riley Jones
Mon 8
St William of York
12:10pm
FSSP Confraternity
Tue 9
Votive Mass for a
Happy Death
12:10pm
Dorothy Newell RIP
Wed 10
St Margaret Men’s Group Talk & Sung Compline
12:10pm
8:00pm
Holy Souls
Thu 11
Corpus
Christi
12:10pm
Lucy & Adrian Porter
Fri 12
St John of San Facondo
12:10pm
Anna Theresa Joyce RIP
Sat 13
St Anthony of Padua
12:10pm
Our Lady of Mercy Group
Sun 14
II Sunday after PentecostVespers & Benediction
11:00am
5:00pm
Bernadette Devlin
Mon 15
Votive Mass Against
Pestilence
12:10pm
Theresa Reynard
Tue 16
Votive Mass of the Blessed Sacrament
12:10pm
Our Lady’s Holy Souls
Wed 17
St Gregory Barbarigo Men’s Group Talk & Sung Compline
12.10pm
8:00pm
Lucy & Adrian Porter
Thu 18
St Ephrem the Syrian
12:10pm
Tony Murphy
Fri 19
Most
Sacred Heart of Jesus
12:10pm
FSSP
Sat 20
Most Pure Heart of Mary Baronius missals p. 1755 (canonical title of St Mary’s Presbytery)
12:10pm
Our Lady’s Holy Souls
Sun 21
III Sunday after Pentecost Vespers & Benediction
11:00am
5:00pm
Winnie Davies
Updating Mass times
While during lockdown LiveMass allows us to reach out to many souls far away from Warrington, the following enquiry is meant for those actually present in the pews under normal circumstances.
It will have been over three months without our congregation in the pews when Holy Masses resume, please God next month. Now is a good time to assess the needs and expectations of those among you who normally attend our Holy Masses.
While we kept the pre-existing 12:10pm weekday Mass since we took over St Mary’s in November 2015, we must recognise that this midday slot failed to attract those working in the town centre, who could have attended during their lunch break. On the other hand, nearly all of those who attend regularly could come at a more convenient time. Changing long-established Mass times must only occur if real improvement is expected. Thus, please email us your preferred Mass times, if applicable:
Monday-Saturday: 8am, or 9am, or 10am, or 11am.
Sundays: 8am and 11am; or (current schedule) 11am and 6pm.
Would you attend Sunday Vespers & Benediction at 5pm if continued after lockdown?
Any other suggestions regarding our regular activities?
Thank you for your support to St Mary’s Shrine during this lockdonw and after. You can send your donation here, mentioning ‘Warrington’ is relevant: https://fssp.co.uk/donate/
Priory Campaign:
Dear
friends, supporters and benefactors, thank you wholeheartedly for your
continued interest for our Priory Campaign. While we already own
Units Two & Three (bought last October for £480k, i.e. £240k each),
we need to raise the remaining £125,000.00 (out
of £240k) before 16th October 2020
to complete the purchase of Unit One, currently leased to us.
As
you are aware, our aspiration is to buy the remaining part of Priory Court
(Unit 1) as part of the Campaign, but should we not have sufficient funds to
convert and reconfigure the whole Priory Court building to better suit the
needs of St Mary’s Shrine, then Unit One will be handed back to its owner in
October 2020 and Campaign funds would then be used for the purposes of
conversion and reconfiguration of the parts of Priory Court that we do own
(namely, Units 2 and 3).
Each unit is 2,561 Sq ft on three floors. We will thus own
5,122 Sq ft, plus 18 parking spaces.
Please
get in touch with us if you would like further clarification or wish to discuss
a donation that you have made. Kindly email any inquiries to malleray@fssp.org.
God
bless you.
Despite
the lockdown, we haven’t been idle:
Like
the entire country, our Priory Campaign has suffered from the Covid-19
lockdown. Work, social activities and fundraising were de facto
suspended. But we were able to transfer all the music archives on new shelves
into Unit One where our new Music Room is now located. This allowed us to move
our liturgical items into the original church Sacristy, until then used as
Music Room. With frequent solemn high Masses, Lauds, Vespers and Compline
prayed daily, and many altar servers, the need for a dedicated sacristy was
becoming critical. Playing musical chairs – no pun intended – our lay servers
moved into the former Sacristy, originally the Servers’ Vesting Room. This in
turn freed up the side Confessional they were using to hang their cassocks and
cottas, now available again as a Confessional when the church re-opens. The last
stage will be to move the free-standing confessional out of the Memorial Chapel
where confessions have been heard for five years, and to have the chapel used
for smaller groups, devotions etc. In addition, our only Meeting Room so far
was in the Presbytery. Moving it out into Unit 1 allowed us to turn that room
into a much needed sitting-room for our resident clergy and occasional guests
(until then we only had the dining-room and kitchen as common rooms at the
Presbytery). Last but not least, assessment has taken place to move all our
administration into Unit Three. We need to create offices for the four priests,
since so far all but one have only their bedroom for work. Our Secretariat,
Archives and storage will also move there.
None
of this would have been possible without the purchase of Units Two and Three
last October. If God grants us to complete the purchase of Unit One, it will
allow us to plan more activities beyond the immediate needs of Warrington, with
your support.
Special
intercessoress: the Servant of God Elizabeth Prout (1820-1864) founded the
female branch of the Passionists with Bl. Dominic Barberi. Her congregation
served deserving families in the North West. The Sisters of the Cross and
Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ arrived in Warrington on 3 January 1899.
Their convent, 80 Buttermarket Street, was beside St Mary’s Benedictine Priory.
They came to teach, to visit sick and needy parishioners, to instruct
converts and to help the poor. The Sisters taught in St Mary’s girls’ and
infants’ schools from 9 January 1899 to 1967. Her congregation now ask to
be informed of any favour granted specifically through her intercession. This
could lead to her beatification. With the 200th anniversary of her
birth occurring this September, less than a month before the fundraising
deadline for our Campaign, I now request you confidently to make daily
if you can the following prayer: “Servant of God Elizabeth Prout, to further
your work of Catholic education and assistance to Catholic families in our country
so much in need of it, please obtain from God’s Providence the successful
completion of the Priory Campaign in Warrington, on the very location
where your Sisters served for decades.”
To Robert Jenrick, Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government,
All of the signers of this petition have experienced, like everyone else, the separation from our loved ones… but also the separation from places of worship as part of the COVID lockdown imposed on our country.
On 11th May the government published a 50 page roadmap outlining the steps which will be taken in order to alleviate some of the restrictions placed on the population. We respectfully ask you to also pay attention to the needs of Christians, the UK’s largest aggregate community and to consider our need to celebrate our faith. In particular, we ask you to prioritise the immediate reopening of churches as places of private prayer along with the swift resumption of weekly worship services, Masses, wedding ceremonies, funerals and baptisms.
Places of worship will know how to organize adequate instruments of social distancing within their facilities, and you should trust people of faith to be smart about protecting themselves and others. Please take a step forward to protect the right to believers to freely profess one’s religious faith and practice its worship, as recognized by the European Convention on Human Rights.
The Men’s Talk this evening (Wed 6th May 2020 8pm) on LiveMass.net (Warrington live) will be given by Fr Armand de Malleray FSSP.
In response to interest expressed after a Lenten sermon on this topic, Fr de Malleray will offer a two-part commentary on the celebrated Marian hymn.
While the Stabat Mater fits with Lent rather than Eastertide, its spirituality can benefit Catholic souls at all times, especially in the present sacramental dearth.
This is part of St Mary’s weekly Men’s Group (but surely Our Lady won’t object to women attending remotely). Litany of St Joseph and Sung Compline will follow as usual.
We recommend this sober and evocative renddition of the sung Stabat Mater with subtitles.
Stabat Mater dolorosa Iuxta crucem lacrimosa Dum pendebat Filius.
The grieving Mother stood weeping beside the cross where her Son was hanging.
Cuius animam gementem Contristatam et dolentem Pertransivit gladius.
O quam tristis et afflicta Fuit illa benedicta Mater unigeniti!
Through her weeping soul, compassionate and grieving, a sword passed.
O how sad and afflicted was that blessed Mother of the only-begotten,
Quae moerebat et dolebat, Pia Mater, dum videbat Nati poenas incliti.
who mourned and grieved, seeing and bearing the torment of her glorious child.
Quis est homo qui non fleret, Matrem Christi si videret In tanto supplicio?
Quis non posset contristari, Christi Matrem contemplari Dolentem cum Filio?
Who is it that would not weep, seeing Christ’s Mother in such agony?
Who could not feel compassion on beholding the Holy Mother suffering with her Son?
Pro peccatis suae gentis Vidit Iesum in tormentis, Et flagellis subditum.
Vidit suum dulcem natum Moriendo desolatum Dum emisit spiritum.
For the sake of his peoples’ sins, she saw Jesus tormented, and subjected to whips.
She saw her sweet child die desolate, as he gave up His spirit.
Eja Mater, fons amoris Me sentire vim doloris Fac, ut tecum lugeam.
Fac, ut ardeat cor meum In amando Christum Deum Ut sibi complaceam.
Sancta Mater, istud agas, Crucifixi fige plagas Cordi meo valide.
O Mother, fountain of love, make me feel the power of sorrow, that I may grieve with you.
Grant that my heart may burn in the love of Christ my God, that I may greatly please Him.
Holy Mother, make the wounds of the Crucifixion in my own heart.
Tui nati vulnerati, Tam dignati pro me pati, Poenas mecum divide.
Let me share the pain of your own wounded Son who chose to suffer so much for me.
Fac me tecum, pie, flere, Crucifixo condolere, Donec ego vixero.
Let me weep with you, O pious one, and show compassion for the crucified as long as I live.
Juxta crucem tecum stare, Et me tibi sociare In planctu desidero.
I wish to stand with you next to the Cross and to be your companion in lamentation.
Virgo virginum praeclara, Mihi jam non sis amara Fac me tecum plangere.
Most illustrious virgin of virgins, Do not be harsh with me, allow me to weep with you.
Fac, ut portem Christi mortem Passionis fac consortem, Et plagas recolere.
Grant that I might bear the suffering and death of Christ, and receive his wounds.
Fac me plagis vulnerari, Fac me cruce inebriari, Et cruore Filii. Flammis ne urar succensus, per te virgo sim defensus, in die judicii.
Wound me with his wounds, make me drunk with the Cross and the blood of your son. Burning and on fire, let me be defended by you, O Virgin, on the Day of Judgment. May I be guarded by the cross, protected by Christ’s death, nurtured by grace.
Quando corpus morietur, Fac, ut animae donetur Paradisi gloria. Amen.
When my body dies, let my soul be given the glory of paradise. Amen.
The Men’s Talk this evening (Wed 29 April 2020 8pm) on LiveMass.net (Warrington live) will be given by Fr Armand de Malleray FSSP.
In response to interest expressed after a Lenten sermon on this topic, Fr de Malleray will offer a two-part commentary on the celebrated Marian hymn.
While the Stabat Mater fits with Lent rather than Eastertide, its spirituality can benefit Catholic souls at all times, especially in the present sacramental dearth.
This is part of St Mary’s weekly Men’s Group (but surely Our Lady won’t object to women attending remotely). Litany of St Joseph and Sung Compline will follow as usual.
We recommend this sober and evocative renddition of the sung Stabat Mater with subtitles.
Stabat Mater dolorosa Iuxta crucem lacrimosa Dum pendebat Filius.
The grieving Mother stood weeping beside the cross where her Son was hanging.
Cuius animam gementem Contristatam et dolentem Pertransivit gladius.
O quam tristis et afflicta Fuit illa benedicta Mater unigeniti!
Through her weeping soul, compassionate and grieving, a sword passed.
O how sad and afflicted was that blessed Mother of the only-begotten,
Quae moerebat et dolebat, Pia Mater, dum videbat Nati poenas incliti.
who mourned and grieved, seeing and bearing the torment of her glorious child.
Quis est homo qui non fleret, Matrem Christi si videret In tanto supplicio?
Quis non posset contristari, Christi Matrem contemplari Dolentem cum Filio?
Who is it that would not weep, seeing Christ’s Mother in such agony?
Who could not feel compassion on beholding the Holy Mother suffering with her Son?
Pro peccatis suae gentis Vidit Iesum in tormentis, Et flagellis subditum.
Vidit suum dulcem natum Moriendo desolatum Dum emisit spiritum.
For the sake of his peoples’ sins, she saw Jesus tormented, and subjected to whips.
She saw her sweet child die desolate, as he gave up His spirit.
Eja Mater, fons amoris Me sentire vim doloris Fac, ut tecum lugeam.
Fac, ut ardeat cor meum In amando Christum Deum Ut sibi complaceam.
Sancta Mater, istud agas, Crucifixi fige plagas Cordi meo valide.
O Mother, fountain of love, make me feel the power of sorrow, that I may grieve with you.
Grant that my heart may burn in the love of Christ my God, that I may greatly please Him.
Holy Mother, make the wounds of the Crucifixion in my own heart.
Tui nati vulnerati, Tam dignati pro me pati, Poenas mecum divide.
Let me share the pain of your own wounded Son who chose to suffer so much for me.
Fac me tecum, pie, flere, Crucifixo condolere, Donec ego vixero.
Let me weep with you, O pious one, and show compassion for the crucified as long as I live.
Juxta crucem tecum stare, Et me tibi sociare In planctu desidero.
I wish to stand with you next to the Cross and to be your companion in lamentation.
Virgo virginum praeclara, Mihi jam non sis amara Fac me tecum plangere.
Most illustrious virgin of virgins, Do not be harsh with me, allow me to weep with you.
Fac, ut portem Christi mortem Passionis fac consortem, Et plagas recolere.
Grant that I might bear the suffering and death of Christ, and receive his wounds.
Fac me plagis vulnerari, Fac me cruce inebriari, Et cruore Filii. Flammis ne urar succensus, per te virgo sim defensus, in die judicii.
Wound me with his wounds, make me drunk with the Cross and the blood of your son. Burning and on fire, let me be defended by you, O Virgin, on the Day of Judgment. May I be guarded by the cross, protected by Christ’s death, nurtured by grace.
Quando corpus morietur, Fac, ut animae donetur Paradisi gloria. Amen.
When my body dies, let my soul be given the glory of paradise. Amen.
