MASS INTENTIONS
Sunday 16th January 8.30 am Sheila Henson RIP
12.30 pm Private intention
Sunday 23rd January 8.30 am Terry McAuliffe RIP
12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS
Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm.
REGINA CAELI INFORMATION SESSION
Find out more about the hybrid homeschooling academy on Saturday 29th January—please book through this link and tell your family and friends!
9th January 2022—Holy Family
VISITOR OR NEWCOMER?
A very warm welcome to Christ the King. If you are new or visiting, please take a copy of our Visitors and
Newcomers leaflet available at the entrance. Please join us in the hall for refreshments after the 8.30 am
Mass. These are provided free of charge, but any donations are greatly appreciated and go directly to the
FSSP.
MASS INTENTIONS
Sunday 9th January 8.30 am Carole Wardell RIP
12.30 pm FSSP and the Traditional Mass
Sunday 16th January 8.30 am Sheila Henson RIP
12.30 pm Private intention
CONFESSIONS
Confessions Saturdays 3 pm—5 pm.
EPIPHANY HOUSE BLESSINGS
Unfortunately the priests are unable to do the Epiphany blessings in person. Epiphany
water, blessed chalk and leaflets for your own use are available, please see Rita Carroll.
REGINA CAELI INFORMATION SESSION
Find out more about our hybrid homeschooling academy on Saturday 29th January—please book through this
link: https://www.rcahybrid.org.uk/info and tell your friends!
PRAYER PARTNERS FOR PARISH FIRST HOLY COMMUNION CHILDREN
We still need a few more Prayer Partners for our parish First Holy Communion children, please contact Barbara
Kay on mbky3@outlook.com if you would like to be one, or would be willing to pray for a second child. Thank
you to those who have already agreed to help.
PARKING
Please be aware that parking on the verges may result in a parking ticket. If the car park is full, please use the
layby opposite the church or the nearby Bunyan Centre in Mile Road.
ACCESS TO THE SACRAMENTS
If there is the need for sacraments— baptism, confirmation, sick calls etc— please contact Fr Goddard as the
priest in charge of the Chaplaincy Masses at Christ the King on telephone number 0118 966 5284 or by email:
goddard@fssp.org.
(fortnightly)
Smith Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 2NS, England
Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Archdiocese of Liverpool. 01925 635664 – warrington@fssp.org
fssp.co.uk/warrington/ – facebook.com/fssp.england
Opening Times:
Sundays: 10:00am-1:00pm & 5:00pm-7:00pm (Holy Masses 11:00am & 6:00pm; Sung Vespers 5:00pm; Confessions 10:30am-11:00am & 5:30pm-6:00pm)
Weekdays: 11:00am-1:30pm (Confessions 11:40am-12:05pm; Holy Mass 12:10pm)
Saturdays: 10:00am-1:30pm (Eucharistic Adoration 10:00am-12noon, with ongoing Confessions; Holy Mass 12:10pm)
Daily Holy Mass online with homily: on LiveMass.net > Warrington: Sun 11:00am; Mon-Sat 12:10pm, and the same on demand 24hrs after 3pm upload for weekday Masses, and over 7days for Sunday Mass.
Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the Archdiocesan Safeguarding Department on 0151 522 1043 or e-mail safeguarding@rcaol.co.uk, or speak with Clare Fraser, St Mary’s Safeguarding Officer. Thank you for your awareness.
Support St Mary’s Shrine: send your donation via our Donate page: https://fssp.co.uk/donate/.
Ask us for a Gift Aid form to increase your donation by 20% at no extra cost to you. Gift Aid envelopes can be obtained from our Secretariat. Standing orders are easier and quicker for us to process than cash: Lloyds Bank ; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ; Account number: 30993368 ; Account name: FSSP Warrington
COVID: Please observe social distancing, sanitizing and one-way system as signed, and kindly cover your face with a mantilla, scarf or mask unless exempt.
We thank our stewards who generously give their time to secure a safe environment for all visitors to St Mary’s. Please make sure to follow their instructions and abide by the regulations (unless exempt from some), including social distancing and one-way system.
Use Priory Court Car Park through automated gates. Do ask the clergy for the access code on your next visit. Please park on any spaces to the FRONT & RIGHT of the pedestrian gate into the Presbytery garden and church, as the spaces on the LEFT of that gate are for office users.
Holy Mass booklets, rosaries for sale. Ask us after Holy Mass. Cash only.
| WELCOME TO OUR VISITORS THIS CHRISTMAS! Frs de Malleray, Verrier, Stewart and Jolly wish you a blessed feast of the Nativity of the Lord and assure you of their prayer at the altar. They thank you for your dedication and support to the liturgical, devotional and material life at St Mary’s Shrine. EXTRA CONFESSIONS: 24 Dec: 11pm-11:50pm; 25 Dec: 10:30am-10:55am Three reminders: ☞While the Nativity of the Lord is not a holiday of obligation this year due Covid, every able Catholic should attend Holy Mass that day: either Midnight Mass (even before midnight), or the Dawn Mass, or the Mass of the Day (Holy Communion can be received at the Midnight Mass and also at one of the two others if one wishes). ☞To receive Holy Communion: one must be a Catholic, in state of grace, one-hour fasting at least. In the EF liturgy, Holy Communion is received kneeling (unless unable to) and always on the tongue. Thank you in advance. ☞FSSP clergy do not retain Christmas and Easter collections for personal use. All Christmas collections will be used for the day-to-day running of St Mary’s Shrine (which includes the food, lodgings, pension allowance and salary of your priests). |
Heartfelt congratulations to and prayers for: Martin and Georgie Turner on the birth of their first child Tamara last 13th November; Matthew and Gemma Stankiewicz on the Holy Baptism of their first child Theresa Agnes last 12th December; Lewis & Arran Hartley, Nicholas Tang on their Holy Baptism last 11th December; and lastly John Sunderland on his Reception into the Church and Confirmation on 18th December last. We include in our prayer a further three young adults under instruction to become Catholics, and any converts received at St Mary’s over the past few years.
Well done St Mary’s children who sang carols at nearby elderly home, with all Covid protections in place.
St Mary’s logo freshly printed on mugs and coasters: £10 for 1 mug + 1 coaster altogether (or £7/mug and £3/coaster). Buy yours before Christmas after Sunday 11am Mass in the Narthex (cash only).
Thank you to the families at St Mary’s Wednesday Educational Meeting for their very generous support to our Advent Charity Fund raising ‘soup kitchen’ amounting to £111.71 for the upkeep of Priory Court.
To date, Covid-19 vaccination is optional civilly and morally. No one should be forced to take it. Furthermore, even though the production of one such vaccine be proven to have no connection with the “abominable crime of abortion” (Vatican Council II, Gaudium et Spes, 51), the UK death rate so far doesn’t justify more stringent precautions against Covid than against flu. In addition, the Government and vaccine producers have warned against negative side-effects including serious risks to pregnant women and persons with severe disabilities. Classical moral theology teaches that remote material cooperation in evil (in this case, for vaccination with abortion-connected vaccines) could be justified if: 1) There must be no realistic alternative; 2) One must make known the moral objections; 3) There must be a sufficiently grave, proportionate reason.
UK Death Rate (Source www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=uk&v=26)
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| 9.36 | 9.38 | 9.41 | 9.43 | 9.47 |
Since the UK death rate has not exploded so far compared with past years, and since a vaccine totally free from connection with abortion is to be hoped for, conditions 1) and 3) are not met in the present UK situation. Currently, one might choose to take a vaccine free from any connection with abortion if the threat of Covid contamination were felt greater than the known and unknown side-effects of Covid vaccines.
Launching St Mary’s YouTube channel to make LiveMass recordings available permanently. Visit: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_NVY7jpDIhANiwjng1gN0w.
Homilies for Sundays and major feasts will be uploaded regularly. Thank you to our LiveMass/YouTube operators.
Annual Vocation Weekend: Fri 29 Jan 2021 at 17:00 – Sun 31 Jan 2021 at 14:00. For single Catholic men 18+. St Mary’s Priory, Smith Street, Warrington WA1 2NS, England. Contact malleray@fssp.org. [Obviously subject to Covid regulations in late January: check our website for updates.]
Prayer intentions for our sick: Frances Fawcett, John Marechal, Hilda Creagan, John Sunderland, Steve Humphrey.
HOLY MASS INTENTIONS
No bookings for our Masses, including Christmas. However, if you travel from a distance, we recommend that you arrive by 11:30pm on Christmas Eve for our carols service and confessions. This way you will be absolutely sure to have a seat. Late comers who could not have fitted in at Midnight will have the option to attend right after Midnight Mass a Low Mass (starting at about 1:30am, ending around 2:00am). Midnight Mass will start at midnight. Further Christmas Masses are 9:00am Low Mass and 11:00am High Mass.
| Sun 20 | IV Sunday of Advent, I Class 5pm Vespers | 11:00am 6:00pm | All St Mary’s Faithful Holy Osman recovery |
| Mon 21 | St. Thomas, Apostle, II Class | 12:10pm | Fr Donnelly |
| Tue 22 | Feria, II Class | 12:10pm | Peter Mulihern |
| Wed 23 | Feria, II Class (No Men’s Group) | 12:10pm | Teresa Jeffs |
| Thu 24 | Vigil of the Nativity, Carols 11:30pm | 12:10pm | All St. Mary’s penitents of the week |
| Fri 25 | Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ | 00:00am 9:00am 11:00am | All St Mary’s Faithful Thanksgiving St. Joseph Thanksgiving for St. Marys’ Priests |
| Sat 26 | St. Stephen, Protomartyr, II Class Adoration & Confessions 10:00am-12noon | 12:10pm | Ethan Jones |
| Sun 27 | Sunday in the Octave of the Nativity, II Class | 11:00am 6:00pm | All St Mary’s Faithful Rev Fr Peter O’Neil (R.I.P) |
| Mon 28 | Holy Innocents, II Class | 12:10pm | Fr Gilbride FSSP |
| Tue 29 | 5th Day in Oct. of Nativity, (St. Thomas, B. Martyr, I Cl) | 12:10pm | Ronald Hannah |
| Wed 30 | 6th Day in the Octave of the Nativity, II Class | 12:10pm | Fr Joseph Bibby |
| Thu 31 | 7th Day in the Octave of the Nativity, II Class | 12:10pm | Kevin King |
| Fri 1 | Octave of the Nativity of the Lord, I Class | 12:10pm | All St. Mary’s penitents of the week |
| Sat 2 | Saturday of Our Lady, IV Class Adoration & Confessions 10:00am-12noon | 12:10pm | Catholic Creationism |
| Sun 3 | Most Holy Name of Jesus, II Class 5pm Vespers | 11:00am 6:00pm | All St Mary’s Faithful Rocco Robinson |
Great news! The High Mass of Reparation for Abortion scheduled for next Saturday 14 November at 12 noon is going ahead. Because of current circumstances, it has to be held behind closed doors and will be live-streamed: see the Latin Mass Society website events section: https://lms.org.uk/events.
The celebrant will be Fr Seth Phipps FSSP, with Fr Gabriel Diaz as Deacon and Fr Michael Cullinan as Subdeacon. Matthew Schellhorn will be playing and singing.
Please join us via live-streaming and pray for an end to abortion and the loss of those millions of innocent lives whose deaths do not reach the news headlines.
The beginning of November sees two important days in the life of the Church.
All Saints Day, 1st November, falls on a Sunday this year and so we have our usual two Masses at 8.30 am and at the earlier time of 12.30 pm. If you would like to come to either of these Masses, please contact bedfordlatinmass@gmail.com as soon as posssible.
All Souls Day, 2nd November, falls on a Monday this year and we will be having trinated (back-to-back) Masses at 10.00 am, 10.35 am and 11.10 am. Many people come at the beginning and stay for all three Masses. The Church allows us on this day to receive Holy Communion at two of the Masses. There is no need to book.
Looking forward to seeing you on these special days!
Don’t forget that the clocks go back by one hour this coming weekend, so you will get an extra hour in bed!
More importantly, as from 1 November, the 1 pm Mass will be brought forward to 12.30 pm. This is the Feast of All Saints – come and celebrate with us.
Pictured above on the day of his ordination to the priesthood, we were very pleased to welcome Fr Seth Phipps, FSSP, to Bedford for the first time last weekend. He has succeded Fr O’Donohue as the priest who will usually say Mass at Christ the King.
Father heard Confessions on Saturday afternoon whilst the Blessed Sacrament was exposed on the altar, and concluded the afternoon with Benediction. On Sunday he said two Masses for the External Solemnity of the Rosary. His homily was on the theme of the Rosary and we received some very practical advice on how we can overcome distractions and pray the Rosary with greater devotion.
We look forward to getting to know Father better in the coming days.
The following message appears in the Reading newsletter this week. Fr O’Donohue writes:
“I would like to express my gratitude to the faithful in Reading, Bedford, and Chesham Bois for their prayers as well as thoughtful messages and gifts before my leaving the UK for a new assignment. I have thoroughly enjoyed ministering at these apostolates of Our Lady’s Dowry over the past three years and will always be grateful to have had this opportunity. I have offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for your intentions”.
Don’t forget that we have Adoration and Confessions this coming Saturday 3 October at the slightly earlier time of 2.30 pm – 5.30 pm. Two priests will be hearing Confessions, one of them Fr Seth Phipps, FSSP, whom we welcome to Christ the King as he begins his ministry with us this weekend.
For the last time, our Parish Priest, Fr Patrick Hutton will be in the other confessional, as he takes a well-earned retirement as from Monday 5 October. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Father for his kind support of the Latin Mass over the last five years and to wish him and his wife Rita every blessing as they begin this new chapter of their lives.
We also said goodbye to Fr Patrick O’Donohue on 27 September as he returned to Ireland to become the first FSSP priest in a permanent apostolate there. We thank him for his three years with us and assure him of our prayers for his new work.