Bedford
October 6, 2018
Matthew Schellhorn will be singing Mass for the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, set on October 7th in commemoration of the battle of Lepanto:
Scarlet running over on the silvers and the golds,
Breaking of the hatches up and bursting of the holds,
Thronging of the thousands up that labour under sea
White for bliss and blind for sun and stunned for liberty.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47917/lepanto
NB the Catechism day is next Sunday, 14th October, when Fr. O’Donohue is back.
by fsspuk
October 3, 2018
Some great news for the forthcoming Regina Caeli academy in Bedfordshire. Fr. Patrick O’Donohue of the FSSP will be joining the board of directors as we prepare for launch in September 2019. Please pray for the success of the academy!
From the FSSP’s site:
https://fssp.co.uk/update-on-academy-initiative-in-bedfordshire/
After another positive meeting with prospective parents, we are pleased to report that plans for the forthcoming Regina Caeli affiliate academy in Bedfordshire are moving forward expeditiously, for opening in September 2019. Fr. O’Donohue will be joining the Board of Directors of this exciting and much-needed educational initiative.
The FSSP will have a key pastoral role in the life of the academy and we look forward to this addition to our thriving Bedford apostolate.
by fsspuk
September 29, 2018
VIDEO on the Priory Campaign!
Click HERE or on the picture below to see what we have to say about Catholic education, ordinations, liturgical beauty, assistance to families and more!
A great thank you to Stefano Mazzeo who made the video!
Please forward the link to your friends and acquaintances: we have less than 3 weeks left to raise the remaining GBP1.2m…
by Fr AM
September 28, 2018
Matthew Schellhorn will be returning to Bedford this Sunday for a Missa Cantata. Look forward to seeing you there!
by fsspuk
September 24, 2018
After another positive meeting with prospective parents earlier this month, we are pleased to report that plans for the forthcoming Regina Caeli affiliate academy in Bedfordshire are moving forward expeditiously, for opening in September 2019. Fr. O’Donohue will be joining the Board of Directors of this exciting and much-needed educational initiative.
The FSSP will have a key pastoral role in the life of the academy and we look forward to this addition to our thriving Bedford apostolate.
by Fr PD
September 15, 2018
Just a reminder that Mass tomorrow will be a Missa Cantata, with Matthew Schellhorn providing the music. Come along and experience some beautiful liturgy!
by fsspuk
September 13, 2018
Dear Friends,
Greetings.
Thank you for your expressed interest for our Priory Campaign and/or for your generous pledge. I am delighted to announce that we have now nearly 1/3 of the amount pledged!
If you mean to send a donation, please find below the information for you now to order the transfer to our charity.
Please email our Shrine Secretary Jane Wright at warrington@fssp.org for any assistance.
To donate,
- please make the cheque or bank transfer payable to ‘FSSP ENGLAND’;
- write ‘Priory Campaign’ on the back of your cheque or in the bank transfer reference.
- Are you a tax payer? Help us maximise your donation through Gift Aid. Please download our Gift-Aid form. FSSP ENGLAND is a registered charity: number 1129964.
Bank Name: Lloyds Bank
Sort Code: 30-93-04
Account number: 02027225
Account name: FSSP England
For international transfers, you may also need:
Bank Branch: Palmerston Rd Southsea
Bank Address: Ariel House, 2138 Coventry Road, Sheldon, B26 3JW
IBAN: GB09LOYD30930402027225
SWIFT code: LOYDGB21361
Please continue to pray and speak to your friends and acquaintances about this project. I mean it. Look what just happened… I asked again people to pray last Sunday. Two days later, I got an email from someone who reads our magazine and had heard about our Campaign. He had spoken to someone who did not know us, and that person, hearing about it, decided to donate £200,000.00. Imagine the difference it makes to our Campaign, jumping from £327,475.00 to £527,475.00. See the power of prayer – and of sharing the information even with people you think might not be interested. To that end, please forward the link to our official page below, with all updates: https://fssp.co.uk/warrington/priory-campaign-18-july-18-oct-18/.
Also of interest: released for you first, our latest issue of Dowry with special Priory Campaign presentation: https://fssp.co.uk/2018-09-12-dowry-39-online/.
I will be on yearly retreat this coming week and will pray for your intentions. God bless you and all those dear to you.
Fr de Malleray, FSSP
by Fr AM
Special Priory Campaign issue and new Personal Parish!
Click here or on the picture to open the pdf:
In this issue:
Editorial: Happy Thirtieth Anniversary
One More Priest Ordained, And More To Follow
The PRIORY CAMPAIGN: 18 July – 18 Oct 18
First EF Personal Parish in the United Kingdom
Who is the Patron Saint of our New Parish?
Tu Es Sacerdos in Æternum: Since June 9, 2018
Alexander of Hales’ Theory of Matrimony
The Prayers of the Angel of Fatima
Seventy Youths Take Part in our Summer Camps
Book on the Holy Eucharist: Ego Eimi – It is I
Three Retreats for: Youths, All and Clergy
Support our apostolate
Forward it to your friends!
by Fr AM
September 9, 2018
It is our great joy to announce that on 8 September 2018, the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bishop Philip Egan, the Bishop of Portsmouth, established us as a Personal Parish, under the patronage of St John Fisher.
Our parish community will continue to be located at St William of York Church, Reading, until such time as a permanent home can be found.
To view the joint press statement from the Diocese and FSSP please click here.
For more information regarding the new Parish, please see the ‘Who we are’ and FAQ tabs on the Reading page found under ‘locations’.
by Fr Matthew Goddard
In these troubled times for the Church, let us uphold our priests with the following beautiful prayer:
O Almighty Eternal God, look upon the face of Thy Christ, and for the love of Him who is the Eternal High Priest, have pity on Thy priests. Remember, O most compassionate God, that they are but weak and frail human beings. Stir up in them the grace of their vocation which is in them by the imposition of the bishop’s hands. Keep them close to Thee, lest the Enemy prevail against them, so that they may never do anything in the slightest degree unworthy of their sublime vocation.
O Jesus, I pray Thee for Thy faithful and fervent priests; for Thy unfaithful and tepid priests; for Thy priests labouring at home or abroad in distant mission fields; for Thy tempted priests; for Thy lonely and desolate priests; for Thy young priests; for Thy aged priests; for Thy sick priests, for Thy dying priests; for the souls of Thy priests in Purgatory.
But above all I commend to Thee the priests dearest to me; the priest who baptized me; the priests who absolved me from my sins; the priests at whose Masses I assisted, and who gave me Thy Body and Blood in Holy Communion; the priests who taught and instructed me, or helped and encouraged me; all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way, particularly N. O Jesus, keep them all close to Thy Heart, and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen.
by fsspuk
