Frs de Malleray, Verrier, Stewart and Deacon Evans, with Fr Jolly, thank you for your many cards, gifts and prayers for us over the past Christmas. We wish you a blessed new civil year.
Following the further restrictions announced by the Holy See last week, let us pray with deep faith, hope and charity for the traditional Roman liturgy to be preserved as a providential means of sanctification of souls.
The Holy Father exhorts them, according to their own charism, to take an active part in the mission of the Church in the world of today, through the testimony of a holy life, a firm faith and an inventive and generous charity.
We will offer Holy Mass monthly to this intention, starting on 9th January.
May the special patrons of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter intercede for us as they have done in the past: the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Peter the Apostle and St Thomas Aquinas.
Picture: An FSSP priest offers the traditional Latin Mass at the Tomb of St Peter in Rome on our 30th anniversary.
St Mary’s Shrine Church Bulletin
2-16 Jan 2022 (fortnightly)
Smith Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 2NS, England
Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Archdiocese of Liverpool.
Weekdays: 9:00am-7:00pm (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); Sung Vespers 6:00pm
Holy Rosary Mon-Fri 11:30am; Sat 11am; Sun 4:30pm
Stations of the Cross Mon & Fri, 1:00pm
Mothers’ Prayer Group: Wed 1:00pm
Priory Court Car Park reserved for Academy every Mondays and Thursdays; available ALL other days. Church car park available 7/7: please now use ALL empty spaces, including outside Presbytery & Garage.
Free 2hrs parking at ASDA across the street.
Organ practice Thu, Fri 2pm-4pm
Bookshop Unit 3 Open Sun 12:25pm-1:00pm.
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.
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 ladies. Men keep their heads uncovered within church; women are encouraged to wear a scarf, hat or mantilla. Kindly switch OFF your mobile phonebefore you enter our church.
To receive Holy Communion: one must be a Catholic, in the state of grace, one-hour fasting at least. In the traditional liturgy, Holy Communion is received kneeling (unless unable to) and always on the tongue. Thank you in advance.
Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the Archdiocesan Safeguarding Department: m.robson@rcaol.org.uk or 0151 522 1013, or speak with Clare Fraser, St Mary’s Safeguarding Officer. Thank you for your awareness.
500 weekly visits to St Mary’s Shrine Church: half on weekdays and half on Sundays.
Roof leaking: pray for dry weather to fix it! A raffle hamper is organised to raise funds to cover costs.
Thank you for helping us through the Offertory collection and standing orders. While the overall income is still far from covering the actual expenses of the Shrine, it is comforting to see how generously you respond. God bless you all.
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
Congratulations to John and FionaWestcombe onthe Baptism of their firstbornchild Alice last 21st December. John and Fiona moved near Warrington a few months ago to be part of St Mary’s Shrine.
New Year: two separate Plenary Indulgences applicable to oneself or to a holy soul in Purgatory can be gained by praying or singing in church: 1)The hymn Te Deum (Baronius p. 96) on 31st December in thanksgiving for the year past; 2) The hymn Veni Creator (Baronius p. 712) asking graces for the year starting.
In addition to performing the work (praying one of the two hymns above), the three usual conditions apply: 1) to be in the state of grace with no attachment to sin even venial, 2) reception of Holy Communion the same day, 3) to pray for the intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff. Please note that what is meant here is not the periodical intentions of the reigning pope published by the Holy See which one is welcome to pray at any time. For an indulgence, “intentions of the Sovereign Pontiff” means: the spiritual good of the whole Church, encompassing: the liberty and exaltation of the Catholic Church and the Apostolic See, the extirpation of heresies and the conversion of all who are in error, the concord of Christian Princes and the peace and unity of all the faithful.
Blessing of Epiphany Water on Wed 5th Jan: bring and drop by little organ before the 12:10pm Mass plastic containers filled with water and labelled to your name (to take home after) for the Blessing to begin right after 12:10pm Mass: lasting about from 1pm to 2pm.
English Conversation Classes: in a relaxed setting for an hour over a cup of tea, coffee and snack. Individuals, couples and families, all welcome. Introductory session on Tuesday 18th January after the 12:10pm Mass in Priory Court Unit 1.
FSSP Christmas CD now at bookshop: Sancta Nox.
Dowry Mag No51 printed copies arrived. Help your selves and share with friends. (Also online:fssp.org.uk/category/dowry/, Autumn 2021.)
Now 483 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.
Have you saved this date? Shrine Pilgrimage to York on Sat 5th February 2022. Mass at the Oratory, visit to St Margaret Clitherow’s Shrine at the Shambles, Minster visit and more. Detailed schedule and cost to be announced. Info: iverrier@fssp.org.
Prayer list: Wendy Moss, Bill Conder, Luke Petherbridge, Greta Doyle, Dorothea Wallace, Deryck Sankey, Michael Meadows, Jean Scott, M. Hawley, Theresa Reynard, Hilda Creagan.
Sun
2
Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus
I
9:00am
Newly weds R&S
5pm Solemn Vespers and Benediction of the
11:00am
All St. Mary’s Faithful
Blessed Sacrament
6:00pm
Pamela Bautista RIP
Mon
3
Feria, Votive Mass of the Holy Trinity
IV
12:10pm
Audrey and Family
Tue
4
Feria, Daily Mass of the Dead
IV
12:10pm
Holy Souls
Wed
5
Feria, Votive Mass of Sts. Peter and Paul
IV
12:10pm
Alan O’Connor
Men’s Group 7:45pm
7:00 pm
All St. Mary’s Penitents
Thur
6
Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord
I
12:10pm
FSSP Seminarians
Fri
7
Feria, Votive Mass of the Holy Ghost
IV
12:10pm
Renata
Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart
7:00pm
Men of St Mary’s
Sat
8
Saturday of Our Lady Adoration & Confessions 10:00am-12noon Solemn Vespers 6:00pm
IV
12:00pm
Greta Doyle
Sun
9
Feast of the Holy Family
II
9:00am
Mr & Mrs O’Leary
5pm Solemn Vespers and Benediction of the
11:00am
Preservation Latin Mass/FSSP
Blessed Sacrament
6:00pm
Carmen Palmer
Mon
10
Feria, Daily Mass of the Dead
IV
12:10pm
Olber Bautista RIP
Tue
11
Feria, Votive Mass of Thanksgiving (n.29)
IV
12:10pm
Mass of Thanksgiving
Wed
12
Feria, Daily Mass of the Dead Men’s Group 7:45pm
IV
12:10pm 7:00pm
Joyce Washby RIP Celebrant’s intention
Thur
13
Commemoration of Baptism of Our Lord
II
12:10pm
Molyneux Family members
Fri
14
St. Kentigern, Bishop, Confessor
II
12:10pm
Colin Jones
Sat
15
St. Paul the Hermit Adoration & Confessions 10:00am-12noon Solemn Vespers 6:00pm
Following the further restrictions announced by the Holy See last week, let us pray with deep faith, hope and charity for the traditional Roman liturgy to be preserved as a providential means of sanctification of souls.
The Holy Father exhorts them, according to their own charism, to take an active part in the mission of the Church in the world of today, through the testimony of a holy life, a firm faith and an inventive and generous charity.
We will offer Holy Mass monthly to this intention, starting on 9th January.
May the special patrons of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter intercede for us as they have done in the past: the Blessed Virgin Mary, St Peter the Apostle and St Thomas Aquinas.
Picture: An FSSP priest offers the traditional Latin Mass at the Tomb of St Peter in Rome on our 30th anniversary.
So as to share our LiveMass.net channel with other FSSP churches across the world, in Warrington our Christmas Solemn Midnight Mass will not be livestreamed, but will be uploaded later on for watching. See LiveMass.net for full schedule in other locations.
Our Christmas Solemn High Mass of the Day (11:00am) will be livestreamed and also available for watching later on.
See the schedule for further Masses on our online parish bulletin.
WELCOME TO OUR VISITORS THIS CHRISTMAS! Frs de Malleray, Verrier, Stewart and Deacon Evans, with Fr 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.
Kindly consider: ☞Although the obligation to attend Holy Mass on Sundays and holidays has not been reinstated to date, only a very grave reason would excuse in conscience able Catholics from attending at least one of the three Masses of the Nativity of the Lord: 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 the state of grace, one-hour fasting at least. In the traditional 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). Should you wish to donate money to the clergy, kindly specify it on your envelope. ☞ What else to give our clergy? Thank you for your gifts in kind. As it happens, we haven’t quite finished yet the bottles of liquors and digestives gratefully received last Christmas (2020). Bottles of red or white wine go more quickly though because they can be shared at meals on Sundays and feasts. Thank you! ☞ Most clergy will be on vacation from 25th Dec afternoon. Kindly postpone all non-essential requests until Sunday 2nd Jan. Daily Mass and confessions continue as normal.
St Mary’s Shrine Church Bulletin
19 Dec 21-2 Jan 2022 (fortnightly)
Smith Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 2NS, England
Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter by appointment from the RC Archdiocese of Liverpool.
Weekdays: 9:00am-7:00pm (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); Sung Vespers 6:00pm
Holy Rosary Mon-Fri 11:30am; Sat 11am; Sun 4:30pm
Stations of the Cross Mon & Fri, 1:00pm
Mothers’ Prayer Group: Wed 1:00pm
Priory Court Car Park reserved for Academy every Mondays and Thursdays; available ALL other days. Church car park available 7/7: please now use ALL empty spaces, including outside Presbytery & Garage.
Free 2hrs parking at ASDA across the street.
Organ practice Thu, Fri 2pm-4pm
Bookshop Unit 3 Open Sun 12:25pm-1:00pm.
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.
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 ladies. Men keep their heads uncovered within church; women are encouraged to wear a scarf, hat or mantilla. Kindly switch OFF your mobile phonebefore you enter our church.
Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the Archdiocesan Safeguarding Department: m.robson@rcaol.org.uk or 0151 522 1013, or speak with Clare Fraser, St Mary’s Safeguarding Officer. Thank you for your awareness.
500 weekly visits to St Mary’s Shrine Church: half on weekdays and half on Sundays.
Roof leaking: pray for dry weather to fix it! A raffle hamper is organised to raise funds to cover costs.
Thank you for helping us through the Offertory collection and standing orders. While the overall income is still far from covering the actual expenses of the Shrine, it is comforting to see how generously you respond. God bless you all.
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
Congratulations to Marcel Pearce who was baptised at St Mary’s on Sunday 12th December, after one year of preparation.
FSSP Christmas CD now at bookshop: Sancta Nox: Christmas Matins from Bavaria, sung by FSSP seminarians from Wigratzbad and directed by Deacon Evans, are now available in the bookshop (Priory Court, Unit 3) for £12.50 each (cash only — please bring exact change, if possible).
Watch two videos on Why Young People Choose Consecrated lifehere: https://fb.watch/9Y9zamdFzA/
Volunteering Forms: they are being processed and will be put to good use in the New Year. Thank you.
Thank you to the DeMontfort Fathers who donated 35 good chairs, much needed at our parish room.
Well done St Mary’s children: from the Home Ed group who sang carols at the local Old Folks’ Home; and from the Regina Caeli Academy who performed a moving Christmas play. RC Academy happily completed their first term and will resume on 10th January.
A new British priest at St Mary’s: Fr de Malleray is grateful to have been granted British citizenship on 8th December last. In priestly ministry in England since 2001, the new Britton is glad of this formal bond with his country of adoption and its wonderful people, cathedrals and saints.
Well done all you who spent time in adoration during the night for the protection of unborn children last Gaudete Sunday, feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
More on vaccines: lumenfidei.ie/conscience-vaccines.
Now 471 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.
Have you saved this date? Shrine Pilgrimage to York on Sat 5th February 2022. Mass at the Oratory, visit to St Margaret’s Clitherow Shrine at the Shambles, Minster visit and more. Detailed schedule and cost to be announced. Info: iverrier@fssp.org.
Prayer list: Wendy Moss, Bill Conder, Luke Petherbridge, Greta Doyle, 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.
Reminder: St Margaret Clitherow Ladies Group on Saturday 18th December, 1:00pm with 2:00pm Talk by Deacon Evans, FSSP
Sun
19
IV Sunday of Advent
I
9:00am
Tremaine Newman-Brown
5pm Vespers and Benediction of the
11:00am
All St. Mary’s Faithful
Blessed Sacrament
6:00pm
Anne Feely
Mon
20
Feria in Advent, Mass of IV Sunday of Advent
II
12:10pm
Jackie Bibby
Tue
21
St. Thomas, Apostle
II
12:10pm
John Henderson RIP
Wed
22
Feria in Advent, Mass of IV Sunday of Advent
II
12:10pm
Audrey Jones
7:45pm Men’s Group with talk by Deacon Evans
7:00 pm
All St. Mary’s Penitents
Thur
23
Feria in Advent, Mass of IV Sunday of Advent
II
12:10pm
Michael Mullins
Fri
24
Vigil of the Nativity
I
12:10pm
Andrew Madden RIP
Solemn Vespers 6:00pm, Carols 11:30pm
Sat
25
Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
I
12:00am
FSSP clergy
9:00am
John & Anne Norris RIP
Solemn vespers 6:00pm (No6:00pm Mass)
11:00am
Confraternity of St. Peter
Sun
26
Sunday in the Octave of the Nativity
II
9:00am
Holy Souls
5pm Vespers and Benediction of the
11:00am
All St. Mary’s Faithful
Blessed Sacrament
6:00pm
Annie Mullin
Mon
27
St. John, Apostle & Evangelist
II
12:10pm
Daniel Graver
Tue
28
Holy Innocents, Martyrs
II
12:10pm
Pro Life intentions
Wed
29
St. Thomas of Canterbury, Bishop, Martyr (No 7:00pm Mass; no Men’s Group)
Scroll down to two videos on this topic by Fr de Malleray
By Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, Chaplain to the Juventutem London Youth Group (this article first appearead in Dowry Mag No51, Autumn 2021)
Who is left? Looking at the group picture of about twenty young Catholics, my finger points at one face after another while next to me a young friend comments: “Gone. She’s also gone. He’s gone as well. They’re gone too.” The picture was taken on retreat in Berkshire in July 2019, the summer before Covid began. Since then, a dozen of them have disappeared… Where did all these young people go? Are they sick with a virus in some hospital ward? Are they in gaol? Are they dead?
(Juventutem UK annual weekend, Douai Abbey, July 2019)
Under arch-tyrant Joseph Stalin, official group pictures underwent regular updating as more and more collaborators in the entourage of the suspicious Communist leader were executed. Long before digital graphic design, technicians in Soviet communication had learnt to delete faces and replace them by credible clouds or trees. The young adults on our group picture were spared such a fate. Their youthful features can still be identified on that photo among their friends still in the world, whether married or single. Meeting them in the flesh, though, has become impossible. Why? Because they have left the world.
Twelve of them have embraced the state of consecrated life. They are now scattered in convents, monasteries, and seminaries. How extraordinary! Could there have been less favourable a time to make such an absolute decision? Remember, the whole world was gripped by a virus seemingly lethal. No one could travel anywhere, least of all to visit some abbey overseas. One could not even enter a church to pray and ask God for the grace of discernment, as all places of worship were locked up. Spiritual directors and confessors were little able to provide adequate guidance, confined as they were in their presbyteries and chaplaincies. If anything, they might have suggested to postpone the choice of consecrated celibacy until the end of Covid, whenever it may come. And yet, against formidable odds, a dozen young adults in London and across Britain heard a call, assessed it, and bravely answered it. They had little more in common, it seemed, than being in their twenties and having come across the traditional Latin Mass. They attended it wherever permitted and met at the monthly Juventutem London gathering.
They all joined communities where the same traditional liturgy is offered in full communion with the Church. P. is a Redemptorist in Papa Stronsay, Scotland. R. is a parish nun in Minneapolis, America. V. is a Eucharistic Adorer in Naples, Italy. X. is a novice at the Marian Franciscans’ in Gosport, England. D. and L. are seminarians in Tuscany; while D. and H. from Cheshire, C. from Ulster, T. and M. from London and F. from South Wales study for the priesthood in Bavaria and in America. G, from Wales is on pastoral stage in England. E. is a Carmelite in Birkenhead, England. Y. from Wales, and S. are Benedictine nuns in Gower, America. F. is a Franciscan Nun of the Immaculate in San Giovanni Rotundo, Italy. In addition, S. just announced that he will begin with the Gosport Franciscans by Easter. S. is actively discerning with the Naples Adorer Sisters. F. started at the Lanherne Carmel and T. will begin with the Redemptorists in Scotland around Easter.
More have joined some communities a few years before Covid, like at Silverstream Priory in Ireland, or without previous involvement with Juventutem, like T. who is trying his vocation with a Thomistic clerical community in America. A few more, at least among those known to me, are in communities where the traditional Latin Mass is offered regularly, if not exclusively, like the various Oratories in England and Wales, the Norbertines in Chelmsford and the Order of Malta in which an erstwhile parishioner of mine just became a solemnly professed religious. Young people once connected with Juventutem or with traditional Mass centres have also joined Novus Ordo communities with use of Latin, like H. from Edinburgh at St Cecilia’s on the Isle of Wight, and T. from Basingstoke now at Douai Abbey in Berkshire. I had indication of more, not personally known to me, who have joined other communities.
If focusing on those whose vocation lead them to traditional communities, one will find that the proportion is very high, since these young people are much fewer than those attending Novus Ordo parishes across the dioceses. In addition, their chances to proceed with discernment are thin, as spiritual directors actively supportive of the traditional Latin Mass are not many. Even when benefitting from sympathetic direction, these young people have very few places they might join in Great Britain, and not many more abroad, should Covid regulations allow them to travel. Finally, all the traditional communities listed above are young. The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, by far the largest (with 530 members on four continents) and the oldest, was founded only thirty three years ago. Most others are between one and fifteen years old (like the Benedictines Nuns of the Immaculate in Northern Italy), or if older, have adopted the traditional liturgy in the past year or so.
So many uncertainties combined could have deterred our young people. And yet, by the grace of God, they did not. How and why so many, proportionately, have answered the call in the past few years, is a mystery to me. Since my first appointment in England twenty years ago, time and again through retreats, articles and spiritual direction I have urged the importance and beauty of consecrated life. While the response has been rewarding as regards priestly vocations, it had remained practically null for religious life, especially for religious nuns. What a blessing that divine Providence choses to reach out to so many precisely now, when circumstances are most adverse. No doubt this is an answer to the prayers and sacrifices of many, lay and consecrated alike, alive and dead. I know of families who offer up their evening rosary for such a crucial intention. I am sure that religious in dwindling communities also intercede for the torch to be passed on. Nor should our British saints and martyrs in heaven be forgotten: so many died for the Faith in gruesome torments. Even better than we, they must see how urgently England and the world need a revival of religious life. They must be praying hard to the Master of Harvest to send many, many generous and sacrificial souls to reclaim the land.
Admittedly, these numbers are still small, since what are twenty or even forty young religious compared with the large and well-established monasteries, convents and friaries which have closed over the past fifty years? In addition, the new communities they join are just this: new, with all the risks inherent to a recent beginning, such as little experience, limited resources and very few powerful friends either in the Church hierarchy or in secular society. And yet, it would not be the first time that the Holy Ghost selected instruments left out of the most professionally designed pastoral plans.This November fifty young men and women attended a day of conferences and prayer on the vocation to consecrated life organised by Juventutem London. Later this same month, fourteen men between 18 and 29 years of age attended a weekend of vocational discernment at St Mary’s Shrine in Warrington. In addition, not a few of these young people are converts or reverts who found their way to Holy Church together with their parents and siblings. This shows that God’s invitation reaches every generation, not only the young, as evidenced in the increased attendance at traditional Mass centres across the country.
We, English Catholics in our bleak or anxious 2020s, are given the grace of witnessing what could be a crucially promising revival. Can there be any doubt that our Isles, across which monasticism grew of old and bore such glorious fruit, from Rievaulx and Jarrow to Glastonbury, and from Iona, Fountains and Bury to Westminster, await a new wave of gentle conquerors, armed not with arrows and chains, but with crosses and beads?
How can one help foster such a timely revival, you may wonder? The Catechism of the Catholic Church (#2233) teaches that, “Parents should welcome and respect with joy and thanksgiving the Lord’s call to one of their children to follow him in virginity for the sake of the Kingdom in the consecrated life or in priestly ministry.” Our readers already settled in a state of life may pray for consecrated vocations to be granted among their own children, nephews and nieces, godsons and goddaughters and young friends. They can also join this 8,000-strong international prayer network for vocations: fssp.org.uk/about-the-confraternity/. Last autumn (2021), a record number of 49 seminarians were admitted in the First Year with the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (more had applied but we lacked space). As to you, dear young readers, please see whether this balanced portrait of would-be religious offered us by the meek and gentle St Francis de Sales might perhaps strike a chord in your heart:
(FSSP Vocation Discernment Weekend, Warrington, UK, Nov 2021)
“…religious orders have been called hospitals in every age and religious are known by a Greek word which means healers because they are in a hospital to heal one another like the lepers of Saint Bridget (n19) (v36). We need not expect that those who enter religious life will be immediately perfect; it is enough for them to tend to perfection, and to embrace the means for growing in perfection. Our community, no more than any other religious community, is not a group of perfect women but rather a group of women who are aiming at and tending toward perfection. It is a school where we come to learn about the means that we must use to become perfect. And in order to do this, it is necessary to have this firm and constant will such as I spoke of, to embrace all the means of growing in perfection that are proper to the vocation in which one is called.
Therefore, it is not the tearful, sorrowfilled and sighing person who is the best one called; nor those who are consumed mostly with the cross, nor those who will not move from the chapel, nor those who are always in the hospital [i.e. to tend sick patients], nor even those who begin with a burst of fervour. We must not pay any attention to the tears of the weepers, nor listen to the sighs of the sighers, nor look for bearing and deportment to find those who are truly called. But we should look for those who have a good, strong and constant resolve to be healed and who because of that resolve work faithfully to recover their spiritual health.” □
(Above quote cf Conference Seventh, in www.oblates.org/spiritual-conferences/.)
Why young people choose consecrated celibacy:
Despite Covid travel restrictions and churches locked up, more young adults have entered traditional convents, seminaries and monasteries over the past few years. Fr de Malleray explains what consecrated celibacy entails and why such a demanding ideal appeals to the younger generation. Juventutem London (UK), 13 November 2021.
Weekdays: 9:00am-7:00pm (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); Sung Vespers 6:00pm
Holy Rosary Mon-Fri 11:30am; Sat 11am; Sun 4:30pm
Stations of the Cross Mon & Fri, 1:00pm
Mothers’ Prayer Group: Wed 1:00pm
Priory Court Car Park reserved for Academy every Mondays and Thursdays; available ALL other days. Church car park available 7/7: please now use ALL empty spaces, including outside Presbytery & Garage.
Free 2hrs parking at ASDA across the street.
Organ practice Thu, Fri 2pm-4pm
Bookshop Unit 3 Open Sun 12:25pm-1:00pm.
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 ladies. Men keep their heads uncovered within church; women are encouraged to wear a scarf, hat or mantilla. Thank you. Switch OFF your mobile phonebefore you enter our church.
Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the Archdiocesan Safeguarding Department: m.robson@rcaol.org.uk or 0151 522 1013, or speak with Clare Fraser, St Mary’s Safeguarding Officer. Thank you for your awareness.
500 weekly visits to St Mary’s Shrine Church: half on weekdays and half on Sundays.
Church boiler now mended: it’s almost too hot!
Now roof leaking into Choir Loft down into Narthex… Pray for dry weather to fix it!
Thank you for helping us through the Offertory collection and standing orders. While the overall income is still far from covering the actual expenses of the Shrine, it is comforting to see how generously you respond. Some of our worshippers are also involved in other parish communities (Polish, Syro-Malabarese or Ordinariate): we thank them for supporting St Mary’s Shrine as well, where they benefit from daily Mass, Confession and other spiritual goods. Lastly we thank our benefactors who pray with us remotely via LiveMass.net. Some of them live far away and yet, they have chosen to donate online to St Mary’s Shrine according to our needs and to their means. God bless you all.
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
Congratulations to John and Fiona Westcombe on the happy birth of their first child Alice on 2nd Dec. The Westcombes are another family who moved near Warrington of late. We assure them of our prayer for their baby daughter.
Listen to the 6 Holy Matrimony conferences given by Fr de Malleray at Stonyhurst last summer here:
Autumn 2021. In this issue: The Heenan Indult Turns Fifty; Your Young, Loyal, and Traditional Catholics; Chant for the Nativity; The God Rush; Year of St Joseph: A Carpenter’s Son & A Carpenter Today?
Editorial: The Heenan Indult Turns Fifty
Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP looks back at the petition in favour of the traditional Latin Mass by scores of British men and women of the world of culture and the arts, some non Catholic and some non Christian. Pope Paul VI was convinced to grant permission for the traditional Latin missal to be used further in England, and asked Mgr Bugnini to express his permission to Cardinal Heenan of Westminster.
Your Young, Loyal, and Traditional Catholics
The bureau of the Juventutem federation issued a communiqué following Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis Custodes. Juventutem has worked for 17 years to make use of the Roman traditions of the Church for the sanctification of young people, with the blessing of the Holy See and the active support of many cardinals and bishops.
Chant for the Nativity
Chant expert Deacon Gwilym Evans, FSSP, on pastoral placement in England, presents the CD on Christmas chant made with his confreres at the international seminary of St Peter in Wigratzbad, Bavaria. For six consecutive weeks, Sancta Nox: Christmas Matins from Bavaria, on the De Montfort Music label, has been Number 1 on the US Billboard charts for classical music.
The God Rush
Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP shares his happy surprise at the number of young people in the UK who became nuns, friars or seminarians over the past couple of years. Could there have been a worse moment than the Covid outburst? And yet, a dozen of them heard God’s call and are now answering it. A new spring?
Year of St Joseph: A Carpenter’s Son & A Carpenter Today?
Young and mature people alike in our modern world are trapped into virtual reality. In these two articles Richard Kornicki presents woodwork as a welcome antidote for all, even if only by way of meditation in this Year of St Joseph. The profession chosen by Jesus Christ (first article) can safely be embraced by modern apprentices (second article).
Click on the Cover below to open the magazine.
Dowry is the quarterly magazine of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter in the UK & Ireland. Since its inception in 2008, the magazine has published dozens of articles on topics as diverse as theology, family life, education, the sacraments, Church Magisterium, art, politics, literature, cinema, spirituality, liturgy and more.
We welcome submissions of articles, poetry, pictures and drawings if deemed compatible with our traditional Catholic scope. Any submission must be by email to malleray@fssp.org with (small) attachments in digital format. We cannot guarantee to answer, let alone publish, each and all submission. Thank you for your interest. Contact us to be sent bulk quantities of Dowry for dispatching among your friends and acquaintances, especially if you are part of a parish, or a community or some other institution.
Marian & Pro-life Gaudete Sunday on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 12th December 2021. We will not be able to have the Mass of Our Lady of Guadalupe this year because Gaudete Sunday takes precedence. But we invite you to pray for the unborn on that day and night, Sunday 12th December evening from 8:00pm at St Mary’s, ending with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 6:45am and Rorate Mass of Our Lady (candlelit) at 7:00am.
Email Gabrielle to book your (1hr+) slot on the adoration rota: liverpool40daysforlife@gmail.com.
More on vaccines: lumenfidei.ie/conscience-vaccines.
Now 464 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.
Save the date! Shrine Pilgrimage to York on Sat 5th February 2022. Mass at the Oratory, visit to St Margaret’s Clitherow Shrine at the Shambles, Minster visit and more. Detailed schedule and cost to be announced. Info: iverrier@fssp.org.
Prayer list: Wendy Moss, Bill Conder, Luke Petherbridge, Greta Doyle, 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.
Sun 5
II Sunday of Advent
9:00am
Joanna Jablonska RIP
11:00am
All St. Mary’s Faithful
5pm Vespers and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
6:00pm
Greta Doyle
Mon 6
St. Nicholas, Bishop, Confessor
12:10pm
Patrick Barry
Tue 7
Rorate Mass
6:40am
Celebrant’s intention
St. Ambrose, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor
12:10pm
Joseph Gibbons RIP
Wed 8
Immaculate Conception of the BVM
6:40am
Celebrant’s intention
12:10pm
Frank Doyle
St Joseph’s Men’s Group 6:30pm-9:00pm
7:00pm
All St. Mary’s Penitents
Thur 9
Feria, Votive Mass of Holy Ghost
12:10pm
Alan Connor
Fri 10
Holy House of Loreto p.1896
12:10pm
Greta & Sonny Doyle
Sat 11
St. Damasus, Pope, Confessor
12:10pm
Lucy Doherty
Adoration & Confessions 10:00am-12:00noon
Sun 12
III Sunday of Advent (Gaudete Sunday)
9:00am
Joanne King
5pm Vespers & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
11:00am
All St. Mary’s Faithful
8:00pm Exposition & All-night Adoration for the Unborn
6:00pm
Lynne Burgess
Mon 13
Rorate Mass
7:00am
Warrington Pro Life
St. Lucy, Virgin,
12:10pm
William & Theresa Stewart
Tue 14
Feria, Votive Mass of the Holy Angels
12:10pm
Mary Frampton
Wed 15
Ember Wednesday
12:10pm
Phil Clarkson
St Joseph’s Men’s Group 6:30pm-9:00pm
7:00pm
All St. Mary’s Penitents
Thur 16
St. Eusebius, Bishop, Martyr
12:10pm
Jim Nicholson
Fri 17
Ember Friday
12:10pm
Philip Chirgwin RIP
Sat 18
Ember Saturday Adoration & Confessions 10:00am-12:00noon
12:10pm
Louis Anderson RIP
St Margaret Clitherow Ladies’ Group: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Sun 19
IV Sunday of Advent
9:00am
Tremaine Newman-Brown
11:00am
All St. Mary’s Faithful
5pm Vespers and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
6:00pm
Anne Freely
Christmas Masses: Midnightafter 11:30pm carols; 9:00am Dawn Mass; 11:00am Day Mass. N.B. NO 6:00pm Mass.
Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP looks back at the petition in favour of the traditional Latin Mass by scores of British men and women of the world of culture and the arts, some non Catholic and some non Christian. Pope Paul VI was convinced to grant permission for the traditional Latin missal to be used further in England, and asked Mgr Bugnini to express his permission to Cardinal Heenan of Westminster.
Your Young, Loyal, and Traditional Catholics
The bureau of the Juventutem federation issued a communiqué following Pope Francis’ motu proprio Traditionis Custodes. Juventutem has worked for 17 years to make use of the Roman traditions of the Church for the sanctification of young people, with the blessing of the Holy See and the active support of many cardinals and bishops.
Chant for the Nativity
Chant expert Deacon Gwilym Evans, FSSP, on pastoral placement in England, presents the CD on Christmas chant made with his confreres at the international seminary of St Peter in Wigratzbad, Bavaria. For six consecutive weeks, Sancta Nox: Christmas Matins from Bavaria, on the De Montfort Music label, has been Number 1 on the US Billboard charts for classical music.
The God Rush
Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP shares his happy surprise at the number of young people in the UK who became nuns, friars or seminarians over the past couple of years. Could there have been a worse moment than the Covid outburst? And yet, a dozen of them heard God’s call and are now answering it. A new spring?
Year of St Joseph: A Carpenter’s Son & A Carpenter Today?
Young and mature people alike in our modern world are trapped into virtual reality. In these two articles Richard Kornicki presents woodwork as a welcome antidote for all, even if only by way of meditation in this Year of St Joseph. The profession chosen by Jesus Christ (first article) can safely be embraced by modern apprentices (second article).
Click on the Cover below to open the magazine.
Dowry is the quarterly magazine of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter in the UK & Ireland. Since its inception in 2008, the magazine has published dozens of articles on topics as diverse as theology, family life, education, the sacraments, Church Magisterium, art, politics, literature, cinema, spirituality, liturgy and more.
We welcome submissions of articles, poetry, pictures and drawings if deemed compatible with our traditional Catholic scope. Any submission must be by email to malleray@fssp.org with (small) attachments in digital format. We cannot guarantee to answer, let alone publish, each and all submission. Thank you for your interest. Contact us to be sent bulk quantities of Dowry for dispatching among your friends and acquaintances, especially if you are part of a parish, or a community or some other institution.
Dowry belongs to FSSP England, a registered charity no.1129964 (Fraternitas Sacerdotalis Sancti Petri Ltd).
Weekdays: 9:00am-7:00pm (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); Sung Vespers 6:00pm
Holy Rosary Mon-Fri 11:30am; Sat 11am; Sun 4:30pm
Stations of the Cross Mon & Fri, 1:00pm
Mothers’ Prayer Group: Wed 1:00pm
Priory Court Car Park reserved for Academy every Mondays and Thursdays; available ALL other days. Church car park available 7/7: please now use ALL empty spaces, including outside Presbytery & Garage.
Free 2hrs parking at ASDA across the street.
Organ practice Thu, Fri 2pm-4pm
Bookshop Unit 3 Open Sun 12:25pm-1:00pm.
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 ladies. Men keep their heads uncovered within church; women are encouraged to wear a scarf, hat or mantilla. Thank you. Switch OFF your mobile phonebefore you enter our church.
Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the Archdiocesan Safeguarding Department: m.robson@rcaol.org.uk or 0151 522 1013, or speak with Clare Fraser, St Mary’s Safeguarding Officer. Thank you for your awareness.
500 weekly visits to St Mary’s Shrine Church: half on weekdays and half on Sundays.
Welcome to Deacon Gwilym Evans, FSSP: Ordained a deacon in May, Deacon Evans studied Arabic and Hebrew at Cambridge, during which time he converted from Anglicanism to the Catholic Faith. He then worked for five years in the classical music industry, before joining our seminary in Bavaria. He is a Companion of the Order of Malta and has been very active with them in helping the poor and the sick. He was assigned to St Mary’s on pastoral placement until Easter. We assure him of our prayers during this last stage of his seven-year formation to the Sacred Priesthood.
Church boiler soon mended: new parts are on their way. Seat below the wall-mounted heaters if feeling cold. Thank you for your patience (and penance!).
Thank you for helping us through the Offertory collection and standing orders. While the overall income is still far from covering the actual expenses of the Shrine, it is comforting to see how generously you respond. Some of our worshippers are also involved in other parish communities (Polish, Syro-Malabarese or Ordinariate): we thank them for supporting St Mary’s Shrine as well, where they benefit from daily Mass, Confession and other spiritual goods. Lastly we thank our benefactors who pray with us remotely via LiveMass.net. Some of them live far away and yet, they have chosen to donate online to St Mary’s Shrine according to our needs and to their means. God bless you all.
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
Helping poor Souls out of Purgatory: last 10 days.
Gain Plenary Indulgence for Holy Souls any eight days this month – which need not be consecutive – by visiting a cemetery and praying for those who have died.
Conditions for plenary indulgence: 1. Only one plenary indulgence can be granted per day. 2. It is necessary to be in the state of grace, at least by completion of the work. 3. Freedom from attachment to sin, even venial sin, is necessary; otherwise the indulgence is only partial. (By this is meant attachment to a particular sin, not sin in general.) 4. Holy Communion must be received each time the indulgence is sought. 5. Prayers must be recited for the traditional intentions of the Holy Father on each day the indulgence is sought. No particular prayers are prescribed. One Our Father and one Hail Mary suffice, or other suitable prayers. 6. One must be absolved in confession the fortnight before or following.
Congratulations to our Third Year seminarians Henry, from Warrington, Conan from Ulster and Tom from London who were ordained Porters and Lectors at our American seminary on Sat 20th November.
50 young men and women attended a Vocation Day in London on Sat 13th Nov, preached by Fr de Malleray; a Juventutem London event.
14 men are booked in for Vocation Weekend in Warrington 26-28 Nov2021: for single Catholic men 18-29. Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/1MFdTHT7I. Info & Contact: malleray@fssp.org. Please pray for them.
Beaver or eagle? Watch this video on the difference between meditation and contemplation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdrLW5zRJic.
Marian & Pro-life Gaudete Sunday on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 12th December 2021.
Now 456 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.
Shrine Pilgrimage to York on Sat 5th February 2022. Mass at the Oratory, visit to St Margaret’s Clitherow Shrine at the Shambles, Minster visit and more. Detailed schedule and cost to be announced soon. Save the date!
Prayer list: Luke Petherbridge, Greta Doyle, 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.
Weekdays: 9:00am-7:00pm (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); Sung Vespers 6:00pm
Holy Rosary Mon-Fri 11:30am; Sat 11am; Sun 4:30pm
Stations of the Cross Mon & Fri, 1:00pm
Mothers’ Prayer Group: Wed 1:00pm
Priory Court Car Park reserved for Academy every Mondays and Thursdays; available ALL other days. Church car park available 7/7: please now use ALL empty spaces, including outside Presbytery & Garage.
Free 2hrs parking at ASDA across the street.
Organ practice Thu, Fri 2pm-4pm
Bookshop Unit 3 Open Sun 12:25pm-1:00pm.
Daily Holy Mass online with homily: onLiveMass.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 ladies. Men keep their heads uncovered within church; women are encouraged to wear a scarf, hat or mantilla. Thank you. Switch OFF your mobile phonebefore you enter our church.
Safeguarding: If you have concerns about children or vulnerable adults, please contact the Archdiocesan Safeguarding Department: m.robson@rcaol.org.uk or 0151 522 1013, or speak with Clare Fraser, St Mary’s Safeguarding Officer. Thank you for your awareness.
500 weekly visits to St Mary’s Shrine Church: half on weekdays and half on Sundays.
Welcome to Deacon Gwilym Evans, FSSP: Ordained a deacon in May, Deacon Evans studied Arabic and Hebrew at Cambridge, during which time he converted from Anglicanism to the Catholic Faith. He then worked for five years in the classical music industry, before joining our seminary in Bavaria. He is a Companion of the Order of Malta and has been very active with them in helping the poor and the sick. He was assigned to St Mary’s on pastoral placement until Easter. We assure him of our prayers during this last stage of his seven-year formation to the Sacred Priesthood.
Watch below Deacon Evans conducting the Choir in Wigratzbad for the recording of their Christmas CD. (Copies of the CD will be available for purchase at our English apostolates.)
Congratulations to Paul and Lucy Said, and to Gary and Katarina O’Neil on the Baptism of their respective baby boys Joseph and Gerard on Sat 6th Nov. Like baby Joseph Cilia baptised last month and another child next month, they belong to families who chose to relocate near Warrington over the past months to be part of St Mary’s Shrine Community. We assure them of our prayer.
Church boiler soon mended: new parts are on their way. Seat below the wall-mounted heaters if feeling cold. Thank you for your patience (and penance!).
The Heenan Indult on 5th November 1971: just 50 years ago, Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Bugnini gave official permission for the Traditional Latin Mass to carry on across England. Visit https://lms.org.uk/heenan-indult.
Thank you! The Offertory collection went up last week after 5 weeks dramatically low. Thank you also for having set up standing orders. While the overall income is still far from covering the actual expenses of the Shrine, it is comforting to see how generously you respond.
Some of our worshippers are also involved in other parish communities (Polish, Syro-Malabarese or Ordinariate): we thank them for supporting St Mary’s Shrine as well, where they benefit from daily Mass, Confession and other spiritual goods.
Lastly we thank our benefactors who pray with us remotely via LiveMass.net. Some of them live far away and yet, they have chosen to donate online to St Mary’s Shrine according to our needs and to their means. God bless you all.
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
Extended: Gain Plenary Indulgence for Holy Souls any eight days this month – which need not be consecutive – by visiting a cemetery and praying for those who have died.
Conditions for plenary indulgence:
1. Only one plenary indulgence can be granted per day.
2. It is necessary to be in the state of grace, at least by completion of the work.
3. Freedom from attachment to sin, even venial sin, is necessary; otherwise the indulgence is only partial. (By this is meant attachment to a particular sin, not sin in general.)
4. Holy Communion must be received each time the indulgence is sought.
5. Prayers must be recited for the traditional intentions of the Holy Father on each day the indulgence is sought. No particular prayers are prescribed. One Our Father and one Hail Mary suffice, or other suitable prayers.
6. One must be absolved in confession the fortnight before or following.
Congratulations to our Second Year seminarian David, from Warrington tonsured on 23rd October together with 32 fellow seminarians (16 in Bavaria and 17 in Nebraska). Please also pray for our 49 First Year seminarians who started formation last month, including Federico from Wales.
Well done, saving babies: no fewer than 20 people spent the entire nightin Eucharistic adoration at St Mary’s Shrine last 31st Oct., from 10:00pm to 7:00am ending with Holy Mass of All Saints.
Vocation Day in London Sat 13th Nov 2021, St Mary Magdalen Church, 96 North Side Wandsworth Common, London SW18 2QU: organised by Juventutem. Preacher Fr de Malleray. For men and women 18-35.
Already 10 men booked in for Vocation Weekend in Warrington 26-28 Nov2021: for single Catholic men 18-29. Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/1MFdTHT7I. Info & Contact: malleray@fssp.org.
Marian & Pro-life Gaudete Sunday on the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, 12th December 2021.
Now 441 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.
HOLY MASS INTENTIONS Other Mass intentions are applied at Private Masses. Kindly ask Fr Stewart for details.
Prayer list: Luke Petherbridge, Greta Doyle, Dorothea Wallace, Deryck Sankey, Michael Meadows, Jean Scott, M. Hawley, Theresa Reynard, Hilda Creagan.
