If anyone would like to go to this, please get in touch as one of our congregation is attending.
2.30pm Old Rite Mass, at The Bridgettine Convent, Fulmer Common Road, Iver, SL0 0NR–with pilgrimage walk before and after for those who wish. Chesterton has influenced the conversion of many.
For details see www.CatholicGKChestertonSociety.co.uk
An update from the Regina Caeli UK Board, as reported on the Bedford Latin Mass blog:
In April, we had a very successful talk in Bedford from Regina Caeli, a hybrid academy in the Catholic tradition with thirteen centres in the U.S. More details of that talk are here: https://fssp.co.uk/rc-academies-combining-the-advantages-of-home-education-with-schools/
Since then we have secured a venue, formed a board of directors, and we are confident that, if it is God’s will, then we can open the doors during the month of the Holy Rosary, October 2018!
Key details:
The venue is Unity Hall, Barton Le Clay
Tutoring will occur on Mondays & Thursdays term time (32 week term, October to mid-June).
We intend to start with primary aged children (up to year 6, that is aged 10) – if families have children older than this and are ready to commit, please let us know and we will see whether we can accommodate them.
Fees will be as reasonable as possible, with significant sibling discounts for the third child onwards.
This fees will come down when more families enrol; the more families sign up, the lower the fees will be.
We are putting together the website and application forms as we speak!
Start Date
Our intention is to start in October 2018 — but this depends on the number of families we get!
Please let us know if you are in a interested in Regina Caeli from October 2018, by getting in touch here. If not, please let us know what is stopping you! We will arrange a Q&A over the coming weeks to provide further information.
Also if you have the relevant professional qualifications or experience in teaching and are interested in tutoring at the Academy, please let us know. There will be tuition discounts for staff members.
Whatever your involvement, please do keep Regina Caeli in your prayers! As you know, this is a ground breaking development in the UK designed to put parents back in charge of educating their children. The children will be given back the lost tools of learning so that they can understand the world which God created, debate our increasingly hostile culture and form their souls for Heaven!
There are ten places remaining for girls aged 10 – 17 years-old on Summer Camp St Petronilla this August 13-18. The venue is the Salesian Savio House in the Peak District. If you would like to know more about the camp or to request a booking form, please email us here. (The Boys’ Camp is full.) FLICKR albums from previous years’ camps can be viewed here: Girls 2017; Boys 2017; Girls 2016; Boys 2016.
The Source of Civilisation
From Jesus “all that remains good in the world–even a half pagan world–takes its rise. All that remains of good civilisation comes from the Cross, from the Heart and Blood of the Redeemer, and on this account it is still a Christian civilisation. The Redeemer Himself has told us what should be the fruit of all His work of Redemption–the continuation of that Redemption itself. Don Bosco says to you today: ‘Live the Christian life as we have lived it and taught it.’ Don Bosco’s love of the Redeemer became love of the souls which He has redeemed at the price His Precious Blood, and he points out to you the great and powerful help on which you must count to carry out that love of Christ which translates itself into love of souls. Mary, Help of Christians, is your inheritance. One of the most precious fruits of the Redemption is the Motherhood of Mary. It is the Divine Redeemer Who has given us Mary as our universal Mother. Here is a help which has no limitations to its power–Mary, our Mother, who desires nothing more than to lend her aid to the good works which we desire to do for the glory of God and the good of souls.” (Pope Pius XI at the canonisation of St John Bosco in 1934, quoted from Saint John Bosco, Seeker of Souls by F.A.Forbes (1935), page 160.)
For more from the patrons of this year’s Summer Camps, see here, here and here.
In April, we had a very successful talk in Bedford from Regina Caeli, a hybrid academy in the Catholic tradition with thirteen centres in the U.S. More details of that talk are here:
https://fssp.co.uk/rc-academies-combining-the-advantages-of-home-education-with-schools/
Since then we have secured a venue, formed a board of directors, and we are confident that, if it is God’s will, then we can open the doors during the month of the Holy Rosary, October 2018!
Key details:
The venue is Unity Hall, Barton Le Clay http://bartonunityhall.wixsite.com/home
Tutoring will occur on Mondays & Thursdays term time (32 week term, October to mid-June).
We intend to start with primary aged children (up to year 6) – if families have children older than this and are ready to commit, please let us know and we will see whether we can accommodate them.
Fees will be as reasonable as possible, with significant sibling discounts for the third child onwards.
This fees will come down when more families enrol; the more families sign up, the lower the fees will be.
We are putting together the website and application forms as we speak!
Start Date
Our intention is to start in October 2018 — but this depends on the number of families we get!
Please let us know if you are in a interested in Regina Caeli from October 2018, by getting in touch here. If not, please let us know what is stopping you! We will arrange a Q&A over the coming weeks to provide further information.
Also if you have the relevant professional qualifications or experience in teaching and are interested in tutoring at the Academy, please let us know. There will be tuition discounts for staff members.
Whatever your involvement, please do keep Regina Caeli in your prayers! As you know, this is a ground breaking development in the UK designed to put parents back in charge of educating their children. The children will be given back the lost tools of learning so that they can understand the world which God created, debate our increasingly hostile culture and form their souls for Heaven!
If you haven’t bought your ticket, no worries, you can get one on the door! It’a a lovely sunny evening, the dancing will be great fun and there is a prize for the best outfit, a bar and a raffle with fantastic prizes! It’s at Christ the King Church Hall tonight (Friday 6 July) at 7.30 pm. And a bonus – half the proceeds will go to support the FSSP! See you there!
The 8th Annual GK Chesterton Pilgrimage Saturday 28th July.
2.30pm Old Rite Mass, at The Bridgettine Convent, Fulmer Common Road, Iver, SL0 0NR–with pilgrimage walk before and after for those who wish.
For details see www.CatholicGKChestertonSociety.co.uk
At 8am this Sunday, Sebastian will be baptised in the Old Rite. The wording is quite dramatic – see here for more details – and all are very welcome. We will also have a celebration in the hall afterwards to which everyone is also welcome!
If you are able to get to London, you may like to go to this:
Sung EF Mass at Our Lady of theAssumption and S. Gregory , Warwick Street. London W1B 5LZ AT 7PM
Wednesday 4th July in reparation for the Irish vote. Warwick Street is in the care of the Ordinariate and there is a TLM twice weekly, said on Saturdays at 12 and sung on Wednesdays at 7pm. It is celebrated by the Parish Priest Fr Mark Elliot-Smith.
We are launching a survey to find out the interest in catechism classes in Bedford as from September. Here is the link if you would like to complete this survey on line:
https://fssp.co.uk/future-catechism-classes-in-bedford/
Alternatively, paper copies will be available in the church hall after Mass. Please take a few minutes to let the priests know what you would like to see in future.
Just a reminder that St Peter and St Paul is a Holyday of Obligation and that Holy Mass will be celebrated by Fr James Mawdsley, FSSP at Christ the King this Friday 29 June at 7.30 pm. Please support this Mass if you can.