Thank you for spreading the word today. Launching Regina Caeli Hybrid Academy in Warrington will help children get a better Catholic education.
By Regina Caeli Academy UK
In 2019, a few families in Bedfordshire took the initiative to bring a successful U.S. model of Classical Catholic education to the U.K. and founded Regina Caeli Academy UK, with pastoral support from the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. In its second year, the number of families using the Academy has already doubled, with more families joining and moving to the area this year in anticipation of September 2021. Full details about Regina Caeli Academy, including an introductory video, fees, timetables and curriculum, are available at www.rcahybrid.org.uk.
Given the growing community in Warrington, and answering demand from local parents, we would very much like to start a centre at St Mary’s Warrington, with God’s help, from September 2021. The Academy offers a full Classical Curriculum, completely grounded on the magisterium of the Catholic Church, and a community of Catholic families. Trained, paid teachers provide two days per week of on-site tuition. For the other days of the week, comprehensive study plans are provided for parents to follow with their children. Parents benefit from structure, accountability and community, and their children gain Catholic friends for life.
Over the past 18 years, thousands of children have been educated with this curriculum in the U.S., so parents can be confident that it is a tried and tested system of Catholic education which results in robust qualifications, a lifelong love of learning and, most importantly, a deep-rooted faith.
If you are a parent who is interested in the Warrington RCA for your own children, please email Michael and Aileen Seymour, the Warrington coordinators of Regina Caeli Academy: TheAcademyStMarys@gmail.com giving your contact details and your children’s ages/current school years. Alternatively, if you would like to apply for the Warrington RCA, please fill out the application form at: https://www.rcahybrid.org.uk/application-form.
If you are a teacher who wants to work in such a Catholic environment, or have administrative skills that could help shape the Academy, please also contact us as above. We don’t need financial assistance to start up, but you could certainly also help us with prayer, in particular to the now Venerable Mother Elizabeth Prout, foundress of the female branch of the Passionists who used to run St Mary’s School in Warrington. Any financial support will be gratefully received by Regina Caeli Academy: please contact in advance Regina Caeli Academy UK: https://www.rcahybrid.org.uk/contact (please note that the FSSP does not presently collect donations in connection with this project).
To allow us to plan the expected opening, we need to know by 1st May 2021 how many children will start with us in September.
Please be sure to contact us long before that deadline. Lastly, please share this information far and wide now. Thank you on behalf of many children – and their parents!
*UPDATE 1. Please note: Tenebræ is no longer able to happen, due to unforeseen circumstances outside our control.
**UPDATE 2. We are now fully booked for ALL the services of the Sacred Triduum. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee seats for anyone without a booking. For those with reservations, please be in your spaces in plenty of time.
In 2019, a few families in Bedfordshire took the initiative to bring a successful U.S. model of Classical Catholic education to the U.K. with pastoral support from the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. In its second year, the number of families using the Academy has already doubled, with more families joining and moving to the area this year in anticipation of September 2021.
Given the growing community in Warrington, and answering demand from local parents, we have started a centre at St Mary’s Warrington, with God’s help, from September 2023. The Academy offers a full Classical Curriculum, completely grounded on the magisterium of the Catholic Church, and a community of Catholic families. Trained, paid teachers provide two days per week of on-site tuition. For the other days of the week, comprehensive study plans are provided for parents to follow with their children. Parents benefit from structure, accountability and community, and their children gain Catholic friends for life.
Over the past 18 years, thousands of children have been educated with this curriculum in the U.S., so parents can be confident that it is a tried and tested system of Catholic education which results in robust qualifications, a lifelong love of learning and, most importantly, a deep-rooted faith.
If you are a parent who is interested in St Mary’s for your own children, please email Dominic Jones or Raymond Cilia, the Warrington coordinators of St Mary’s Academy: stmarysacademy.warrington@gmail.com giving your contact details and your children’s ages/current school years. Alternatively, if you would like to apply for the Warrington RCA, please fill out the application form at https://www.stmarysacademywarrington.co.uk/about/admissions
If you are a teacher who wants to work in such a Catholic environment, or have administrative skills that could help shape the Academy, please also contact us as above. We don’t need financial assistance to start up, but you could certainly also help us with prayer, in particular to the now Venerable Mother Elizabeth Prout, foundress of the female branch of the Passionists who used to run St Mary’s School in Warrington. Any financial support will be gratefully received by St Mary’s Academy: please contact in advance St Mary’s Academy on the same email: stmarysacademy.warrington@gmail.com or see website for details on how to give: https://www.stmarysacademywarrington.co.uk/donations
To allow us to plan the expected opening, we need to know by 1st August 2023 how many children will start with us in September.
Please be sure to contact us long before that deadline. Lastly, please share this information far and wide now. Thank you on behalf of many children – and their parents!
St Joseph: God’s foster-father. In the context of the Year of St Joseph, we will meditate on glorious St Joseph, the man who lived for thirty years in close intimacy with the Lord Jesus and Our Lady. St Joseph is a model for obedience to the divine will, for manly courage and strength as well as for purity. He is invoked as Terror of devils and Patron of the Happy Death.
Organised by Juventutem London. Preacher and Mass celebrant: Group chaplain Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP
Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP of Liverpool has requested that the following message be sent out:
The Venerable Ignatius Spencer CP
It was with great happiness that I heard the news on 20 February 2021 that Fr Ignatius Spencer CP was declared by the catholic Church as having lived a life of heroic virtue and may now be called ‘venerable’. To get this news so soon after the very recent declaration of Sr Elizabeth Prout CP as ‘venerable’ is a remarkable grace to the Passionist Order and to the archdiocese. These two Victorian Catholics are as relevant to the mission of the church today as they were in their lifetimes. They show us how to reach out beyond ourselves and respond to suffering due to poverty and deprivation. My prayer is that the shrine at St. Anne’s, Sutton [NB: 18 minutes from St Mary’s Warrington] which harbours the mortal remains of three great Passionists, Blessed Dominic Barberi, Venerable Elizabeth Prout and the now Venerable Ignatius Spencer, will increase as a centre of devotion and prayer in the archdiocese. All three of these great disciples loved the poor and worked tirelessly for their bodily and spiritual wellbeing.
Venerable Ignatius, who had left behind a life of privilege, devoted himself tirelessly to visiting the poor, giving food and all his personal possessions to those in need. His preaching and writings showed him to be a true disciple of Jesus and in his daily life he lived out the passion of our Lord in heroic fashion. His life of service is a true example to his living relatives, Prince William and Prince Harry, and is to be emulated by us all.
7:50pm-8:20pm: Spiritual Talk by Group Chaplain Fr de Malleray, FSSP on “Remaining in the presence of God: the best kept secret that saints would die to share with us. Avoiding grave sins and dangerous occasions is a prerequisite to sanctity; then to become regular in saying our prayers, confessing our sins and receiving Holy Communion. But all along, nothing will help us like cultivating the presence of God lovingly watching us day and night. This is how so many sinners became saints.”
Please pray for the repose of the soul of Fr. Calvin Peter Goodwin, FSSP, who passed away yesterday around 9:30 am EST in Lewiston, ME, USA.
Born in America of a British mother, Fr Goodwin had lived for a short time in Wimbledon near London, and always treasured his British heritage, including a dry sense of humour. At our American seminary, he would often pray the Prayer for the Queen after his Low Mass. He had come to England in August 2009 to assist as tutor with Fr de Malleray at the Priests’ training session organised by the Latin Mass Socitety in London Colney, the then-pastoral centre of the Westminster Archdiocese. A highly cultured man and an expert in opera music, he was a frequent guest on a national radio to comment on opera performances. Fr Goodwin was the first Jesuit to join our Fraternity.
He had been actively involved in the professional tutorial DVD made in partnership between the FSSP and EWTN. You can watch his 21min presentation of the Traditional Mass for clergy here (where he quotes Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple!): https://youtu.be/JVVXPhcV9_4 .
Fr Goodwin teaches priests the traditional liturgical calendar at London Colney, England, 2009.
Fr. Calvin Goodwin, born October 24, 1948, was originally from Norwalk, Connecticut. He was a graduate of Fairfield University in Connecticut and received advanced degrees in philosophy from the University of Toronto and Theology from Weston School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1974, Father Goodwin entered the Society of Jesus. During his formation years, he spent four years at Cheverus High School in Portland, where he taught Latin and Greek. Fr. Goodwin was ordained a priest on June 9, 1979 and returned to Cheverus to teach the classics for 20 years. A gifted teacher, he was loved by his students and greatly admired by his colleagues.
Fr Goodwin as Deacon at a Solemn High Mass incenses the clergy in London Colney, England, 2009. Cf https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/albums/72157622169807794/with/3868295328/
In 1999, moved by his great
love for the Traditional Latin Mass, Fr. Goodwin applied to the Fraternity of
St. Peter. From August 1999 to June 2000 he was Assistant Chaplain at our
apostolate in Pequannock NJ. Then from 2000 to 2013 he taught at the seminary
of the Fraternity in Denton, NE. He was definitively incorporated into the FSSP
on October 18, 2004. In addition to his teaching duties, Fr. Goodwin was the
spiritual director to many of our seminarians at OLGS. He later became
the Director of Priest Training for those priests wishing to learn the
Traditional Latin Mass. Throughout his priesthood, Father Goodwin showed
a special dedication to contemplative orders of sisters most notably, the
Sisters of the Precious Blood in Portland and the Carmelites in Danvers,
Massachusetts and later Valparaiso, Nebraska, serving as the Confessor for the
community and offering spiritual direction. In 2013, Fr Goodwin asked to
retire in order to assist his mother to Lewiston, while continuing to
collaborate with Latin Mass Magazine and to serve as a retreat preacher, among
other things.
In October 2016 Fr Goodwin
suffered a serious hemorrhagic stroke from which he came out quite diminished.
Unable to celebrate Mass again, he spent his last years in a nursing home,
surrounded by his mother and comforted by the visits of several confreres. He wanted
to offer his sufferings for the Fraternity.
