Reading Mass Times 24 Nov – 7 Dec

by Fr PD

5 hours left to save babies

Dear friends,

If you haven’t done so already please respond to the consultation by 5pm today. You may wish to do so using the link below as it only takes a few clicks! We need as many responses from  the pro-life side as possible, particularly in the Manchester area. Please share the link!!

Thank you all very much for your gallant efforts.

Manchester City Council has opened a consultation on a proposed censorship zone (PSPO) at Wynnstay Grove. If implemented the censorship zone would among other things criminalise:

• Free speech
• Signage
• Prayer
• Counselling
• The offer of leaflets

You can respond to the consultation below! Please use this tool and share with like-minded people. The consultation closes on Friday 15th November!

by Fr AM

Reading Mass Times: 10 – 23 November

by Fr PD

FSSP Statistics 2019

Figures

Statistics as of November 1st, 2019

Members today

• Total: 482 (incl. 317 incardinated)
• Priests: 320
  o   300 incardinated
  o   8 incorporated ad annum
  o   7 associated
  o   5 postulants
• Deacons: 17
• Non-deacons seminarians (including postulants): 145
• Average age of members: 38 years
• Deceased members: 10

♦ Priests   ♦ Deacons   ♦ Seminarians

Nationalities

All members

Incardinated members

Seminarians

Increase and ordinations

• Number of members (as of Jan. 1 each year)

♦ Total members   ♦ Definitively incorporated priests   ♦ Seminarians (incl. deacons)

• Priestly ordinations in the FSSP over the last 12 years

• Number of seminarians (excluding deacons and including postulants)

Confraternity of Saint Peter

• Total members: 6996
  o French speakers: 1011
  o German speakers: 967
  o English speakers: 5018

Locations

• Dioceses served: 142
• Mass centers: 255 locations
• Personal parishes: 44

Dioceses served by countries

Dioceses served
by districts and regions

Mass centers
by districts and regions

• Number of houses: 131
• Number of erected houses: 93

• Number of houses (as of Jan. 1 each year)

♦ Nb. of houses   ♦ Nb. of erected houses

by Fr AM

Vocation Discernment Weekend

24 Jan 2020 at 17:00 – 26 Jan 2020 at 14:00

St Mary’s Priory, Smith Street, Warrington WA1 2NS, England

Is God calling ME?
Matrimony, celibacy, monastery, seminary, Fraternity?

If you are a single Catholic man between 18 and 29 years of age, come and discern with us at St Mary’s Priory & Church.
Shrine Rector Fr de Malleray, FSSP will lead the Weekend, assisted by Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP and Deacon Roger Gilbride, FSSP.
There will be talks, prayers (Divine Office in our beautiful church), Holy Mass and informal chatting with fellow guests. Possibility of private meetings with a priest, and of confession.

[No sign up sheet for the FSSP at the end of the Weekend!]
Feel welcome confidentially to call, email or write for any questions.
Residential, at St Mary’s Priory: 2 nights and 2 days.
FREE for unwaged and students. Others: £60 per person in total.

COME & SEE.
Please share the information with your friends!

BOOKINGS & CONTACT: [not via Facebook] malleray@fssp.org (read by Fr de Malleray only); 01925 635664 (Priory’s Landline).

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VOCATION RESOURCES:

General page: https://fssp.co.uk/vocations-to-the-priesthood/

Audio conferences on the priest 1) and Our Lady; 2) and Martyrdom : http://www.radioimmaculata.org/audio-on-demands/various-audio-on-demand/various-homilies/father-armand-de-malleray

New book on the Holy Eucharist here: https://www.lumenfidei.ie/product/ego-eimi-it-is-i/

Seminary blog: http://fsspwigratzbad.blogspot.com/

Know us better through browsing online our quarterly magazine Dowry here: https://fssp.co.uk/category/dowry/

International Vocation Prayer Network: www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/

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VOCATION NEWS: 11 FSSP UK PRIESTS IN 16 YEARS

We have currently six young men from England & Wales in formation at our two international seminaries. Three of our deacons from England were ordained priests at St Mary’s Warrington in the past two years by Archbishop McMahon, OP of Liverpool. Those were the first EF priestly ordinations by a diocesan bishop in England in fifty years.

Please pray for them (www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/) and for many more to enter the lists!

In total, 45 young men were admitted into our two seminaries this autumn including 3 from England and Ireland.

We give thanks for 1 new priest from the UK ordained every year over the past 4 years, and more generally for 11 of them ordained over the past 16 years: Fr Konrad Loewenstein in 2002; Fr Brendan Gerard in 2006; Frs Matthew Goddard and William Barker in 2009; Fr Simon Harkins in 2010; Fr Matthew McCarthy in 2011; Fr Ian Verrier in 2015; Fr James Mawdsley in 2016; Frs Alex Stewart and Krzysztof Sanetra in 2017; Fr Seth Phipps last year.

Please pray for us. We assure you of our prayer.

O Lord, grant us many holy priests!

by Fr AM

Bedford: Mass of Reparation for Abortion

By kind invitation of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Bedford, on Saturday, 23rd November at 12 noon, there will be a High Mass offered in reparation for abortion.

2 Brereton Road
Bedford, MK40 1HU
United Kingdom

Contact
Phone: 020 7404 7284
Email: info@lms.org.uk

by Fr PD

Reading Mass Times 27th Oct – 9th Nov

by Fr PD

Dowry Mag No43 Online

Click here to open the magazine as pdf.

In this issue:

Editorial: God is at work

My First Christendom Pilgrimage To Chartres

The Fraternity in the Czech Republic

Reviving Religious Life in Britain

Catholic Film Production

Heroic Priest in the Trenches

Fostering Extra-liturgical Devotions

FSSP England Charity Bursar’s Report

Mental Prayer as Union with Christ

For Your Diaries

Support Our Apostolate

by Fr AM

Reading Mass Times 13-26 October

by Fr PD

Men’s Recollection, Stonyhurst 29 Nov – 1 Dec 2019

“Restoring Manhood: Man as son of God, husband and father”

Led by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, the weekend is intended for any man aged 18 years or older, single or married.

The retreat will consist of conferences preached by Fr Armand, within a framework of prayer.

Holy Mass will be celebrated each day in the Extraordinary Form.
The day’s structure will include Eucharistic adoration, rosary and Latin compline and Confession.

Make use of the Theodore House Oratory or St Peter’s church for private prayer.

Enjoy the beautiful surrounding countryside with its network of footpaths.

Comfortable en-suite accommodation make Theodore House a fantastic retreat setting!

Timings
Arrivals: from 3pm, Friday 29th November. Retreat commences with Mass at 6pm, followed by dinner at 7pm.
Departures: after lunch, Sunday 1st December

Cost
Full board and single room: £160 p.p.
Full board and twin room: £110 p.p.
A £50 deposit will be required upon booking.

For booking, please visit: https://christianheritagecentre.com/event/mens-weekend/

by Fr AM