Next Thursday 28thJune at 7pm
in St John Fisher House, 17 Eastern Avenue, Reading, RG1 5RU
Starting with Holy Mass, followed by pizza and brief spiritual talk.
Juventutem is an international movement of young Catholic (ages 18 to 36) who are devoted to the Extraordinary Form of the Mass. Its aim is to foster and strengthen relationships between young people at a national and international level, and to encourage and assist them in developing their faith.
If you would like the Family Catechism Days to resume after the July-August summer break, or if you would like to let us know your preferences for a new format as regards days / times / subjects etc, please take 3 minutes to complete the online survey here:
Click for BEDFORD CATECHISM SURVEY (Please note this is only for Bedford. A different survey has been posted for Chesham Bois.)
Alternatively, you can download the form by clicking on the image below, or ask one of the FSSP priests when they come to offer Mass at Christ the King Church in the coming days.
Click to download (1 sheet)
Congratulations and best wishes to Justin and Grace Bozzino, whose fourth son, Sebastian, was born last Saturday, 16 June. We look forward to meeting the newest member of our congregation in due course!
Matthew Schellhorn is with us for the second Sunday running, this time to sing the Mass for the Nativity of St John the Baptist. We had a large congregation last Sunday and hope for even more people on the 24th.
Matthew encourages us to sing the congregational parts of the Mass and you can obtain copies of the music from the table at the back of church. Also there you will find a sheet giving the congregation’s postures for Sung Mass, which are slightly different from a Low Mass.
At a Sung Mass, time does not allow for the translation of the readings; here is a link where they can be found, along with much other useful information, kindly given to us by one of our congregation: http://www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl
LiveMass video of the ordination to the Sacred Priesthood of Seth Phipps, FSSP at St Mary’s Shrine in Warrington, England by Archbishop Malcolm McMahon, Archbishop of Liverpool, England 9 June 2018.
Venue
Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church
30 Amersham Road
Chesham Bois
HP6 5PE
Dates (on 4th Saturdays)
24 Feb, 24 March, 28 April, 26 May, 23 June 2018
| Activities | |
| 2 – 4pm: | Catechism for Children* |
| followed by Altar Server Practice | |
| 4 – 4.30pm: | Rosary & Benediction |
| 7pm: | Talk for Adults (at the home of a local family–contact us for address). |
* Approximate schedule for catechism sessions: fiirst the children under 7 years-old (for about 10 minutes); then children aged about 7 to 12 years-old (for about 20 minutes); then teenagers 13 to 18 years-old (for about 40 minutes); then altar server training until 4pm, followed by the Holy Rosary and Benediction.
Families are invited to stay for as much of the programme as they wish. Tea and coffee will be available in an adjacent room.
The themes for the five Saturdays will be as follows:
| Date | Theme for Catechism (from 2pm) | Theme for Evening Talk for Adults (from 7pm) |
| 24 Feb | The Holy Trinity | Holy Mass–the greatest treasure on Earth |
| 24 March | The Incarnation | “Salvation is from the Jews”–Jn 4:22 |
| 28 April | The BVM, the Apostles, the Angels | Denying supernatural Revelation–the 1st beast of the Apocalypse? |
| 26 May | The Sacraments & the Church | Denying natural Revelation–the 2nd beast of the Apocalypse? |
| 23 June | Sacred Scripture & Prayer | Love Defeats the anti-Christ |
If you have a moment in advance, please practice this version of Ave Verum Corpus which we will sing during exposition:
…with audio…
1) Transubstantiation;
2) Concomitance;
3) Fragments;
4) Presence.
on https://vimeo.com/livemass.
Thank you for your interest for this important topic of our faith.
This series of conferences (each of them about 45 minutes) was offered by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP at St Mary’s Shrine Church in Warrington on 11-14 June 2018, and was advertised by the Liverpool Archdiocese in June 2018, in preparation for Adoremus, the National Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool (7-9 Sept. 2018).
The texts of the conferences were approved for publication on 5 June 2018 by Fr John Berg, Superior General FSSP.
Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP preached on the Holy Eucharist at the International Eucharistic Congresses in Quebec (2008) and Dublin (2012) and wrote several articles on the same topic in Dowry, the quarterly magazine of the FSSP in the UK & Ireland (https://fssp.co.uk/category/dowry/). He preaches retreats every year to the laity and to clergy as part of his ministry in the UK and as General Chaplain to the Juventutem International Federation (juventutem.org) and to the Confraternity of St Peter (https://www.fssp.org/…/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/).
If you plan to attend the Altar Server Training this Saturday 16 June (2:30 – 5pm) or the Young Adults Group following on from this (5pm onwards), please email us here. We may be in need of a thurifer for Sunday’s Sung Mass, so please do consider coming to the training is you have some experience and are available. Location: Christ the King Church, MK42 0SP.
Fourth and last live Eucharistic conference this evening at 7pm
Eucharistic Conferences 11-14 June ‘Ego Eimi – It is I’ (John 6:51)
A series of conferences on the Most Holy Eucharist by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, at St Mary’s Shrine Church in Warrington, England, in preparation for the National Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool (7-9 Sept. 2018).
Each 40-min conference starts at 7:00pm GMT (after extra 6:00mm Mass) and will be broadcasted live on LiveMass.net, and on demand on https://vimeo.com/livemass.
• Monday 11 June: Transubstantiation: how the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ occur under the externals of bread and wine. Watch it here https://vimeo.com/274553225
• Tuesday 12 June: Concomitance: how Christ’s Blood also is in the Host, and His Body also in the Chalice. Watch it here: https://vimeo.com/274752427
• Wednesday 13 June: Fragments: why each of them is Christ, and how to treasure them. Watch it here: https://vimeo.com/livemass
• Thursday 14 June: Presence: how God’s presence is supreme in the Holy Eucharist. Watch it here https://vimeo.com/livemass
A last minute reminder that there will be a talk for all ladies at the Shrine of Our Lady, Church of Holy Child and St Joseph, Midland Road, Bedford, at 11.30 am today. It will include an Angelus in Latin, a talk and a chance to write a petition and to venerate the Miraculous Relic Image. Ladies, do join us! English Mass is celebrated before the talk at 10.45 am.