FSSP
United Kingdom and Ireland

Chesham Bois

June 26, 2018

Juventutem Meeting in Reading

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.

Chesham Bois — Catechism Days this Autumn

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 CHESHAM BOIS CATECHISM SURVEY  (Please note this is only for Chesham Bois. A different survey has been posted for Bedford.)

Alternatively, you can download the form by clicking on the image below, or ask an FSSP priest when they come to offer Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church following in the coming days.

thumbnail of CHESHAM survey summer 2018

Click to download (1 sheet)

June 18, 2018

Chesham: Family Catechism Day–Saturday 23 June

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…

 

 

Children Nourished with Bread of Heaven

Deo gratias for two recent First Holy Communions at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Chesham Bois.

 

The biggest day of their lives… so far. (With growth, may every day we receive Holy Communion be our biggest day so far!)

June 16, 2018

FOUR EUCHARISTIC CONFERENCES

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/).

June 15, 2018

Bedford: Altar Server Training & Young Adults Group

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.

 

June 14, 2018

Last Eucharistic Conference of Four

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. W
atch 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

 

VIMEO.COM
This series of conferences was advertised by the Liverpool Archdiocese in preparation for Adoremus, the national Eucharistic Congress.
The texts of the conferences were approved for publication by Fr John Berg, Superior General FSSP.