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!
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 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:
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.
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:
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.
