Dowry #50

Summer 2021

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London Rosary Crusade Sat 9th Oct

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by Fr AM

Prevent suicide

Forthcoming Assisted Dying Bill – Bishop John Sherrington, Lead Bishop for Life Issues for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has written an open letter inviting Catholics to pray for the defeat of the Assisted Dying Bill to be debated in the House of Lords in October.

It encourages them to write to peers at the House of Lords stating the reasons why they oppose this legislation and particularly explain from personal experience the reasons why this change in the law should be opposed. It urges discussion and communication about this important matter.

Bishop John’s Letter

In the next weeks, we face an unprecedented attack on the sanctity of life with Baroness Meacher’s ‘Assisted Dying Bill 2021’ is due its 2nd Reading in the House of Lords with full debate on Friday, 22 October.

The term ‘Assisted Dying’ is euphemistic, the truth is that this bill seeks to introduce Assisted Suicide. If legalised, this Bill would allow a terminally ill adult with less than 6 months to live to be assisted in committing suicide. Catholic teaching opposes assisting suicide, since life is a gift to be cared for and preserved until its natural death. The Church is clear that we cannot directly choose to take the life of another, even if they request it. The solidarity of praying and caring for the most vulnerable at this fragile time of their lives is a profoundly Christian act which imitates Our Lady’s prayer at the cross and Christ’s service to the weakest.

Those in favour of the bill are making good use of language to confuse the issue and call it a compassionate and caring approach to redefine the question and obscure the actual reality and consequences of such legislation. As Pope Francis has said, “Physician-assisted suicide is part of a ‘throwaway culture’ that offers a ‘false compassion’ and treats a human person as a problem… True compassion does not marginalise anyone, nor does it humiliate and exclude – much less considers the disappearance of a person as a good thing.” He criticised “those who hide behind an alleged compassion to justify and approve the death of a patient.”

Dangers of the introduction of Assisted Suicide

Importantly, at this stage we need to argue the dangers of the introduction of Assisted Suicide, which include the safety of people who are vulnerable due to external pressures, and the later liberalisation of the law which is evidenced by other countries which have introduced Assisted Suicide. Many voices from the world of disability-rights and other allies are also very fearful and fighting this bill. Whilst there are clear arguments to support Catholic teachings, it is important to remember that this position is not only a matter of faith but also human reason.

Later this month, the BMA will be debating whether to change their stance to support or neutrality on this matter. I hope that healthcare professionals will enter this debate and highlight the dangers of this Bill to change and skew the meaning of medicine.

Take action

There are three important actions in the next weeks: praying, writing and sharing.

First, I ask you to pray that the Bill will be defeated.

Second, I ask you to write to the Peers from your personal experience and share stories which will argue the reasons for opposing the Bill as well as narrate the importance of precious time during the final stages of life.

The testimony of healthcare and legal professionals will also be important. This needs to be done before the Second Reading on 22 October.

Third, I ask you to engage and share stories and reasons against the Bill on social media.

Briefing papers will be available on the bishops’ conference website to assist you as this work develops.

Be assured of my prayers,

+John

Bishop John Sherrington
Lead Bishop for Life Issues
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales

by Fr AM

Parking Restrictions

Dear St Mary’s Shrine Parishioners,

Greetings. Please do not park on our Priory Court car park any longer on Mondays and Thursdays, as our now-beginning Regina Caeli Academy will use the space on those days.

MON & THUR

On those two days you can still use the normal church car park: please make sure to use ALL spaces, including the four clergy spaces left empty for you outside the Presbytery and Garage.

The free-of-charge shopping centre car park across the street is also available. Thank you.

by Fr AM

Sunday Bulletin 12 September 2021

St Mary’s Shrine Church Bulletin

12–26 Sept 2021 (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

fssp.org.uk/warrington

facebook.com/fssp.england

• Rector: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP  malleray@fssp.org
• Assistant: Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP (also Choir & Organ)  iverrier@fssp.org
• Assistant: Fr Alex Stewart, FSSP (any Mass bookings) astewart@olgseminary.org
• Visiting Priest: Fr Andrew Jolly
• Shrine Secretary: Mrs Jane Wright: warrington@fssp.org

Receive this newsletter by email https://fssp.org.uk/manageprofile/index.php

Daily Holy Mass readings: www.divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl

Opening Times:

Sundays: 8:30am to 7:00pm 

3 Sunday Holy Masses 9:00am, 11:00am & 6:00pm;

Sung Vespers & Benediction 5:00pm; Confessions 8:30am-8:55am, 10:30am-11:00am & 5:30pm-6:00pm

Weekdays: 9:00am-7pm (Confessions 11:40am-12:05pm; Holy Mass 12:10pm)

Saturdays: 9:00am-7pm (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 latest Sunday Mass.

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.

All must dress modestly in church out of reverence for God and of respect for fellow-worshippers. Chest and limbs must be covered down to elbows and knees at least. No sportswear. Sunday best should be worn by all on Sundays and feasts: suit and tie for men and boys, dresses for women and girls. Men keep their heads uncovered within church; women are encouraged to wear a scarf, hat or mantilla. Thank you.

Switch OFF your mobile phone before you enter our church. Letting it ring inside the church gravely disturbs the quiet of the sacred place. Thank you for your consideration.

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.

Can you give 1 hour of your time to St Mary’s Shrine? With about 100 penitents and 500 visitors per week (250 on Sunday and about the same during the week), St Mary’s Shrine is becoming busy. Please take and fill printed form when next at church. Thank you.

You can also open form here as Word document.

Your Shrine clergy is grateful to you for your involvement, which helps us give more time to our specifically priestly tasks such as prayer, preparing and offering the liturgy; study and preparing homilies, articles and talks; hearing confessions and giving spiritual direction (not only in Warrington by every other weekend in Bedford). Also, for information, the list above does not include ongoing services and ministries by lay people and clergy such as Shrine administration e.g. collection counting, Mass intentions; and Shrine communication (website, Facebook, Mailchimp, newsletter); other commitments such as Juventutem London, Vocations, occasional retreats, FSSP matters, Dowry Magazine etc.

Feel welcome to add comments, suggestions and further offers below.

Kindly put this form into Collection basket or through mail slot in Front Door of Presbytery.

Our Archbishop publicly supported St Mary’s Warrington in the latest issue of the archdiocesan magazine: “In Warrington we are fortunate to have the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter which was founded by Pope St John Paul II. They conduct their liturgy according to the pre-conciliar rites and offer pastoral care to those who choose that way of worship.” Archbishop McMahon knows well our community whom he visits yearly. However, prayer is very much needed for many other Catholic faithful attracted to the usus antiquior and currently without access to it.

Continuous Rosary Project for the FSSP’s ministry and its members: Go to www.fssp.de/rosarium and register, and sign up for a slot by clicking (please note: times are Central European – calculate accordingly).

We pray for our Holy Father and for all the bishops, as well as all those in authority in the Church who will have to make significant decisions regarding the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter in the near future. We pray for all the priests and seminarians of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter, that they may continue to carry out their ministry in the Church with fidelity, reverence and obedience, giving guidance to the faithful through a clear ecclesial and humble attitude. We pray for all the faithful in our apostolates and for all the people attached to the traditional Mass, that they will not lose heart, but will be able to accept this time of trial and, with the help of God’s grace, come out of it stronger.

Dowry No50 Special Issue

The Summer 2021 edition of our quarterly magazine Dowry is its fiftieth issue since its beginning in Advent 2008.

To mark the occasion with something a bit different, we are glad to offer you a pamphlet under a smaller ‘book’ format instead of our usual A4 size magazine. Click here to open the document.

The printed version should reach our subscribers within a fortnight.

A small part of this booklet is available to watch as video here.

40 Days for Life at St Mary’s on Sat 18^th September, with Fr Philomeno of the Marian Franciscans.

Schedule: 4.00pm Holy Hour; 5.00pm Holy Mass; 6.00pm Benediction; 7.00pm Conference Talk etc for Launch and social gathering.

Info: liverpool40daysforlife@gmail.com.

Regina Caeli Academy will open on 16^th September in Warrington. FINANCIAL SUPPORT NEEDED: kindly donate to St Mary’s Warrington Educational Trust as several families are unable to meet the costs. Email theacademystmarys@gmail.com.

Pro-life jobs on offer at www.righttolife.org.uk/jobs/: media, public affairs, digital and operations. Highly-skilled, hard-working, professional individuals wanted.

Successful London March for Life on 4^th Sept. Well done to our pilgrims with Fr Stewart, sponsored by St Mary’s pro-life fund. See report on www.facebook.com/MarchForLifeUK/.

Juventutem Young Adults Group Saturday 18^th September: facebook.com/juventutem.warrington/

St Margaret Clitherow Ladies Group: Sat. 25^th Sept, 1pm-3pm.

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 25% 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

Penny Catechism: £3 each or £5 for two.

Latin Mass booklets Latin/English with pictures: visit our repository after 11am Sunday Mass.

Join 395 subscribers to St Mary’s YouTube channel: Homilies for Sundays and major feasts are uploaded regularly. Visit youtube.com/channel/UC_NVY7jpDIhANiwjng1gN0w. Thank you to our LiveMass/YouTube operators.

Pray for seminarians back in America and Germany: including Warringtonians Federico and David, plus Gwilym, Henry, Conan, Tom and Miklos.

Pray for our Sick & housebound: Dorothea Wallace, Deryck Sankey, Michael Meadows, Jean Scott, M. Hawley, Theresa Reynard, Hilda Creagan.

HOLY MASS INTENTIONS

Other Mass intentions are applied at Private Masses. Kindly ask Fr Stewart for details.

COMMUNAL SHRINE INTENTIONS: Consider offering your usual stipend for the following weekly Mass intentions, otherwise offered without a stipend: All St Mary’s Faithful; All St Mary’s penitents; FSSP seminarians or Clergy. Please write one of these intentions on the Mass envelope, insert your stipend and put it in the collection basket. Thank you.

HOW MUCH DOES A MASS COST: Holy Mass stipends do not pay for the infinite merits of the Sacrifice of the Mass, but for the sustenance of the clergy offering it. While our priests might offer Holy Mass without a stipend or with a smaller one, ten pounds (£10.00) is considered customary. Each priest retains the full amount of the stipend allocated for the Mass he offers on a given day; however no priest may retain more than one stipend per day, even if offering more than one Mass that day. Thank you.

by Fr AM

Dowry No50 Special Issue

Dear Friends,

The Summer 2021 edition of our quarterly magazine Dowry is its fiftieth issue since its beginning in Advent 2008.

To mark the occasion with something a bit different, we are glad to offer you a pamphlet under a smaller ‘book’ format instead of our usual A4 size magazine. Click here to open the document.

The printed version should reach our subscribers within a fortnight.

A small part of this booklet is available to watch as video here. We assure you of our prayer as we entrust ourselves and our ministry to yours.

by Fr AM

Fri 10 Sept Mass 11:30am

Friday 10th September 2021 is the Sung Mass of funeral of our late parishioner John Sunderland. To accommodate the cemetery schedule, we must begin Holy Mass at 11:30am instead of the usual 12:10pm time.

The ceremony will end shortly after 1:00pm before the body is taken to Fox Covert Cemetery for burial. (https://www.warrington.gov.uk/fox-covert-cemetery)

R.I.P.

by Fr AM

Pro-Life job offers

We were sent this:

Apply to work for Right To Life UK

Are you looking to leave a corporate career and instead use your skills and energy to make a significant positive difference to this world?

Right To Life UK are currently hiring for a number of positions across media, public affairs, digital and operations. 

In particular, they are looking to urgently fill positions in their Public Affairs team, to ensure that they have the right team in place ahead of their opposition making further attempts to introduce radical changes to abortion and assisted suicide legislation.

They are looking for highly-skilled, hard-working, professional individuals to join them.

If this is of interest to you or if you know of anyone that would be suitable for one of the positions, please visit the link below to view the roles they are looking to hire for and learn how to apply.

www.righttolife.org.uk/jobs/

by Fr AM

The Secret Garden of the Holy Liturgy

On a rather hot month of July, prayerful souls gathered like birds in the shade of the liturgical garden…

[Juventutem London lecture Friday 23rd July 2021.]

Click on link to launch video: https://fb.watch/7NKE3KSJ9C/

by Fr AM

COMMUNIQUÉ of the Superiors-General of the “Ecclesia Dei” Communities [on Traditionis Custodes]

“The mercy of the Lord is upon all flesh.”

(Sirach 18, 13)

The signatory Institutes want, above all, to reiterate their love for the Church and their fidelity to the Holy Father. This filial love is tinged with great suffering today. We feel suspected, marginalized, banished. However, we do not recognize ourselves in the description given in the accompanying letter of the Motu Proprio Traditionis custodes, of July 16, 2021.

“If we say we have no sin …” (I John 1, 8)

We do not see ourselves as the “true Church” in any way. On the contrary, we see in the Catholic Church our Mother in whom we find salvation and faith. We are loyally subject to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Pontiff and that of the diocesan bishops, as demonstrated by the good relations in the dioceses (and the functions of Presbyteral Councillor, Archivist, Chancellor, or Official which have been entrusted to our members), and the result of canonical or apostolic visits of recent years. We reaffirm our adherence to the magisterium (including that of Vatican II and what follows), according to the Catholic doctrine of the assent due to it (cf. in particular Lumen Gentium, n ° 25, and Catechism of the Catholic Church , n ° 891 and 892), as evidenced by the numerous studies and doctoral theses carried out by several of us over the past 33 years.

Have any mistakes been made? We are ready, as every Christian is, to ask forgiveness if some excess of language or mistrust of authority may have crept into any of our members. We are ready to convert if party spirit or pride has polluted our hearts.

“Fulfill your vows unto the Most High” (Psalm 49:14)

We beg for a humane, personal, trusting dialogue, far from ideologies or the coldness of administrative decrees. We would like to be able to meet a person who will be for us the face of the Motherhood of the Church. We would like to be able to tell him about the suffering, the tragedies, the sadness of so many lay faithful around the world, but also of priests, men and women religious who gave their lives trusting on the word of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

They were promised that “all measures would be taken to guarantee the identity of their Institutes in the full communion of the Catholic Church”[1]. The first Institutes accepted with gratitude the canonical recognition offered by the Holy See in full attachment to the traditional pedagogies of the faith, particularly in the liturgical field (based on the Memorandum of Understanding of May 5, 1988, between Cardinal Ratzinger and Archbishop Lefebvre). This solemn commitment was expressed in the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei of July 2, 1988; then in a diversified manner for each Institute, in their decrees of erection and in their constitutions definitively approved. The men and women religious and priests involved in our Institutes have made vows or made commitments according to this specification.

It is in this way that, trusting in the word of the Supreme Pontiff, they gave their lives to Christ to serve the Church. These priests and men and women religious served the Church with dedication and abnegation. Can we deprive them today of what they are committed to? Can we deprive them of what the Church had promised them through the mouth of the Popes?

“Have patience with me!” (Mt 18:29)

Pope Francis, “encourage[s] the Church’s pastors to listen to them with sensitivity and serenity, with a sincere desire to understand their plight and their point of view, in order to help them live better lives and to recognize their proper place in the Church.”(Amoris Laetitia, 312). We are eager to entrust the tragedies we are living to a father’s heart. We need listening and goodwill, not condemnation without prior dialogue.

The harsh judgment creates a feeling of injustice and produces resentment. Patience softens hearts. We need time.

Today we hear of disciplinary apostolic visits to our Institutes. We ask for fraternal meetings where we can explain who we are and the reasons for our attachment to certain liturgical forms. Above all, we want a truly human and merciful dialogue: “Have patience with me!”

“Circumdata varietate” (Ps 44:10)

On August 13, the Holy Father affirmed that in liturgical matters, “unity is not uniformity but the multifaceted harmony created by the Holy Spirit”[2]. We are eager to make our modest contribution to this harmonious and diverse unity, aware that, as Sacrosanctum Concilium teaches, “the liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows” (SC, n ° 10).

With confidence, we turn first to the bishops of France so that a true dialogue be opened and that a mediator be appointed who will be for us the human face of this dialogue. We must, “avoid judgements which do not take into account the complexity of various situations … It is a matter of reaching out to everyone, of needing to help each person find his or her proper way of participating in the ecclesial community and thus to experience being touched by an ‘unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous’ mercy.” (Amoris Laetitia, n ° 296-297).

Done at Courtalain (France), August 31, 2021.

• Fr. Andrzej Komorowski, Superior-General of the Fraternity of Saint Peter
• Msgr. Gilles Wach, Prior General of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest
• Fr. Luis Gabriel Barrero Zabaleta, Superior-General of the Institute of the Good Shepherd
• Fr. Louis-Marie de Blignières, Superior-General of the Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer
• Fr. Gerald Goesche, General Provost of the Institute of Saint Philip Neri
• Fr. Antonius Maria Mamsery, Superior-General of the Missionaries of the Holy Cross
• Dom Louis-Marie de Geyer d’Orth, Abbot of the Abbey of Saint Magdalen of Le Barroux
• Fr.  Emmanuel-Marie Le Fébure du Bus,  Abbot of the Canons of the Abbey of Lagrasse
• Dom Marc Guillot, Abbot of the Abbey of Saint Mary of  la Garde
• Mother Placide Devillers, Abbess of the Abbey of Our Lady of the Annunciation of Le Barroux
• Mother Faustine Bouchard, Prioress of the Canonesses of Azille
• Mother Madeleine-Marie, Superior of the Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus Sovereign Priest

(Source: https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2021/09/communique-of-superiors-general-of.html#more)

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[1] Informative Note of June 16, 1988, in Documentation Catholique, n° 1966, p. 739. 

[2] Video Message of Pope Francis to the participants of the Congress on Religious Life. 

dell’America Latina e dei Caraibi, convocato dalla CELA, 13-15 agosto 2021.[Source, in French: Notre-Dame de Chrétienté/ Paris-Chartres Pilgrimage. Emphases added by Rorate]

by Fr AM