Ireland
May 8, 2018
Mass of SS Philip & James: All are welcome to assist at Holy Mass organised by Juventutem Corcaigh, 8pm this Friday 11th May at SS Peter & Paul’s, Cork City, followed by a social for those aged 18-35.
Theology on Tap: At 7:15pm on Monday 14th May, there will be a talk on the Blessed Trinity at Cork’s Dominican Centre, for members and friends of Juventutem Corcaigh. The points to be considered during the talk include:
– What is the Nature of the Most Holy Trinity? Why is this important?
– Old Testament traces of the MHT / New Testament revelation of the MHT
– Patristic theology: MHT worthy of martyrdom; St Augustine’s De trinitate
– Scholastic theology: St Thomas; Father & Son as active & passive in regard to generation
– Blessed Trinity and the person / marriage / life. Heaven = Communion of Communions
– Blessed Trinity contra divorce / abortion / contraception
– Blessed Trinity denied by Islam
– Our final purpose, the beatific vision, is beholding the Blessed Trinity, penetrating the mystery
by Fr JM
May 4, 2018
‘Ego Eimi – It is I’ (John 6:51)
A series of conferences on the Most Holy Eucharist
By Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, Rector of St Mary’s Shrine
Given live at St Mary’s Shrine Church, Buttermarket Street, Warrington WA1 2NS, England
In preparation for the National Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool (7-9 Sept. 2018)
Free for all. All welcome to St Mary’s.
Each 40-min conference starts at 7:00pm GMT and will be broadcasted on LiveMass.net
• Monday 11 June, 7:00pm: Transubstantiation: how the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ occur under the externals of bread and wine
• Tuesday 12 June, 7:00pm: Concomitance: how Christ’s Blood also is in the Host, and His Body also in the Chalice
• Wednesday 13 June, 7:00pm: Fragments: why each of them is Christ, and how to treasure them
• Thursday 14 June, 7:00pm: Gradation: how God’s presence is supreme in the Holy Eucharist
Low Mass will be offered each of the four evenings at 6:00pm, before each conference.
by Fr AM
April 25, 2018
by Fr JM
April 23, 2018
EF Confirmations, Wednesday 20th June 2018 at 7:00pm,
by Archbishop Malcolm McMahon, OP
at St Mary’s Shrine, Warrington,
followed by Exposition, Benediction and refreshments.
IMPORTANT: Any 13+ Catholics are welcome to apply, even from outside the Liverpool Archdiocese.
Email now Fr Loewenstein, FSSP: padrek@libero.it
by Fr AM
March 8, 2018
Plans are afoot for a delegation from the FSSP communities in Reading and Warrington to participate in the Chartres pilgrimage on Pentecost weekend. The theme of this year’s pilgrimage is “St Joseph, Pilgrim and Servant”.
We will be going with the Latin Mass Society. Departure is from London on Friday, 18 May 2018 at 7:30am. Arrival back in London about 8pm on the following Tuesday, 22 May 2018.
The pilgrimage consists of a walk from Notre-Dame Cathedral, Paris, to Notre-Dame Cathedral, Chartres, covering 70 miles in three days. This involves long hours of walking, early morning starts, arriving at the campsite late in the evenings and requires a reasonable level of fitness.
Payment in full by 25 March (Palm Sunday this year). Bursary may be available for young people to reduce costs.
Contact Fr O’Donohue for more information: fatherodonohue@gmail.com
by Fr PD
March 2, 2018
Dowry 37 now online!
Click here to open the 24-page pdf, or on the picture below.
(Dowry is the quarterly magazine of the FSSP in the UK & Ireland)
Forward the link to your acquaintances and post it on your own media.
This is a simple way to help us spread the Good News!
In this issue:
Editorial: Overlooked Migrants
Let This Not Be Your Last Dowry!
Should Priests Marry To Be Merry?
Thirsting for Truth
The Veil of Saint Veronica
Young Adults Fall for Old Rite
Filming God?
Prayers for a fruitful General Chapter
Forthcoming events
His + Hers = Heirs
Support our apostolate
by Fr AM
February 28, 2018
Juventutem Corcaigh’s meeting on Monday 12th March will involve a discussion on Humanae Vitae followed by relaxation at a nearby pub. The discussion will start around 7:15pm at the Dominican Centre, Popes Quay, Cork (map here).
Check Facebook Juventutem Corcaigh for further details:
https://www.facebook.com/juventutemcorcaigh/
Fr James Mawdsley, FSSP, will lead a discussion entitled “Contraception Kills Charity”. If this connection is not obvious, there are strong warnings in Revelation. God sent Jeremiah to warn Judah and ultimately the whole world that burning one’s sons and daughters to the demons would result in wretched desolation, that joy would evaporate from the city and the voices of the bridegroom and bride would no longer be heard (Jer 7:31-34). From this we may understand that if one rejects the fruit of sexual union then marriage loses its main purpose. That is to say if a society does not value children then men and women will not find union, joy will disappear, civilisation will be reduced to a desert. If we take the theological arguments seriously, then they give context to the social, psychological and biological objections to artificial birth control.
Contraception not only prevents new life, it poisons relationships, preventing the heart from learning to love. If those connections are clear or not, please consider joining us for the discussion on Monday 12th March. Anyone from 18 to 35 years of age is welcome.
Click on the image for a link to Human Life International
by Fr JM
February 20, 2018
By concession of the Holy See, the Chair of St Peter (22 Feb) is a Feast of the First Class in FSSP apostolates. And by decree of the Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, dated June 7, 2008, a plenary indulgence is granted under the usual conditions to the members of the Confraternity of St Peter on this feast (22 Feb). The conditions are:
– to have the intention of gaining the indulgence
– to make a Sacramental Confession (within several days before or after the feast)
– receive the Holy Eucharist (within several days before or after the feast)
– to pray for the intentions of the Holy Father, for example a Creed, Our Father, Hail Mary and Glory Be.
– to be free from all attachment to venial sin. This last is difficult, but if it can’t be fulfilled, a partial indulgence may be gained.
Members of the Confraternity can also gain plenary indulgences on the day of their admission into the CSP and on the Feast of SS Peter & Paul (29 June). To sign up, please visit the “Confraternity” tab above. And for information on indulgences click here.
by Fr JM
February 19, 2018
The chaplains for this year’s Summer Camps will be the by then newly ordained Fr Phipps, FSSP (Summer Camp St Peter) and Fr Verrier, FSSP (Summer Camp St Petronilla). The venue for the camps is a Salesian house, whose founder St John Bosco, shortly after his ordination in 1841, wrote of his convictions in rescuing street children:
“The young, who form the most cherished and attractive portion of human society, and in whom are centred all our hopes for a happy future, are by no means intrinsically perverse or inclined to wickedness. Once you have counteracted the carelessness of some parents, the effects of idleness and of evil companions, it becomes the easiest thing imaginable to instil into their young hearts the principles of order, of good behaviour, of respect towards others, and to accustom them to the practice of religion; and if you should meet any who are already spoiled at that tender age, it is the result of neglect rather than of downright wickedness. These are the ones who especially need a helping hand; the difficulty lies in finding the means of gathering them together in order to speak to them and control them. This was the mission the Son of God took upon Himself; this can be done by His Holy Religion alone, which is eternal and unchangeable in itself, which was and always will be the teacher of mankind, which contains a doctrine so perfect that it is suited to all times, and adapted to the different characters of all men.”
From where did the inspiration come to try and pull children of Victorian-era England out of the mire? Surely from Jesus through His Saints. St John Bosco, pray for us.
Details of the camps, and how to book places, can be found here.
by Fr JM
February 14, 2018
Deo gratias for a seventh priest joining the FSSP’s UK apostolate. Fr Konrad Loewenstein is returning to St Mary’s Warrington today. He was born in England in 1958, of Bavarian descent. After A-levels, he studied at Oxford (Christ Church) and later taught in the USA. Fr Loewenstein joined the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter in 1997, studying at our motherhouse in Wigratzbad. After his priestly ordination in 2002, he taught at our seminary and later on started our apostolate in Venice, Italy, where he served for a decade.
In November 2017, Fr Loewenstein came to St Mary’s Warrington temporarily, and is now assigned there for six months. His brother is also a priest, in the English Dominican province, and his late father was a well-known supporter of the traditional Latin Mass. Brief biographies of the FSSP’s seven priests in the UK can be found here.
by Fr JM
