Reading Mass Times, 17th February – 2nd March
Reading
Regina Caeli Academy UK, launching September 2019 – Open Day
Please join us for an Open Day for the forthcoming Regina Caeli Academy, launching in September 2019.
This is a chance to experience RCA UK first hand – you can meet the RCA UK Tutors and Board, hear from two Directors from RCA in the US and a priest from our chaplaincy, the Fraternity of St. Peter, and see the layout, books and uniform.
There will also be a Q&A session and the chance to sign up for RCA in September 2019!
1:15 Welcome and Introductions.
1:30 Meet the tutors and directors, and see how RCA UK will operate.
2:30 pm Mrs. Kari Beckman and Mrs. Collette Balmer: Regina Caeli in the U.S. – Classical Education in a Hybrid Academy.
3:15pm Fr. Patrick O’Donohue, FSSP: RCA and the mission of Catholic Education in the U.K.
3:30pm Questions and Answers.
4:15pm Close, Next Steps and Enrollment Options
Priory Campaign Update: pre-planning applications
At long last, our pre-planning applications for Community Use of the building(s) received a favourable response from Warrington Borough Council on Friday.
Although this approval is only in principle (subject to full planning application being granted once we decide which building we can afford), it will guide the purchase decision we must make imminently, based on various considerations, including the amount of money presently raised and the need for a stable income for the upkeep of the new building.
Please ask Our Lady of Lourdes (feast Monday) for more space for our activities, and for last-minute benefactors to support the Priory Campaign.
Click here for the updated Campaign webpage.
St Bruno’s Men’s Group in Reading
Thursday, 7th February at 7:15pm
in St John Fisher House, 17 Eastern Avenue, Reading, RG1 5RU
– (preceded by optional Mass at 6:30pm)
– Time for prayer before the Blessed Sacrament
– Rosary & opportunity for Confession
– Short spiritual talk on the role of Catholic men
– Refreshments and finish at 8:45pm
Reading Mass Times – 3rd to 16th February
Candlemas and Ladies’ Group
This Saturday, February 2, is the Feast of the Presentation (Candlemas). In Reading there is a special schedule:
9am Rosary in defence of the unborn outside BPAS on Southampton Row
10am Sung Mass at St William of York, with blessing of candles and procession
c. 11:15 St Margaret Clitherow Ladies Group, meeting in the Annex of St William of York – convivial breakfast followed by a talk by Fr Phipps on the capital vices (this week, avarice and gluttony).
Reading Mass Times 20th January to 2nd February
St Bruno’s Men’s Group in Reading
Thursday, 3rd January at 7:15pm
in St John Fisher House, 17 Eastern Avenue, Reading, RG1 5RU
– (preceded by optional Mass at 6:30pm)
– Time for prayer before the Blessed Sacrament
– Rosary & opportunity for Confession
– Short spiritual talk on the role of Catholic men
– Refreshments and finish at 8:45pm
Reading & Chesham Bois Mass Times
16th December to 5th January
Visit to Tyburn Convent on 19th January
On Saturday 19th January the Reading branch of Juventutem (for ages 18 to 35) will visit Tyburn in London, the famous site of martyrdom from the Reformation era.
The timetable is as follows:
10am – Meet outside Marble Arch Tube Station & walk to site of Tyburn Tree
10.40am – Arrive at Tyburn Convent
11am – Holy Mass at Tyburn Convent
12pm – Historical talk on the Martyrs
1pm – Pizza Lunch nearby
2pm – Finish