Please pray for the repose of the soul of Fr. Calvin Peter Goodwin, FSSP, who passed away yesterday around 9:30 am EST in Lewiston, ME, USA.
Born in America of a British mother, Fr Goodwin had lived for a short time in Wimbledon near London, and always treasured his British heritage, including a dry sense of humour. At our American seminary, he would often pray the Prayer for the Queen after his Low Mass. He had come to England in August 2009 to assist as tutor with Fr de Malleray at the Priests’ training session organised by the Latin Mass Socitety in London Colney, the then-pastoral centre of the Westminster Archdiocese. A highly cultured man and an expert in opera music, he was a frequent guest on a national radio to comment on opera performances. Fr Goodwin was the first Jesuit to join our Fraternity.
He had been actively involved in the professional tutorial DVD made in partnership between the FSSP and EWTN. You can watch his 21min presentation of the Traditional Mass for clergy here (where he quotes Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple!): https://youtu.be/JVVXPhcV9_4 .
Fr Goodwin teaches priests the traditional liturgical calendar at London Colney, England, 2009.
Fr. Calvin Goodwin, born October 24, 1948, was originally from Norwalk, Connecticut. He was a graduate of Fairfield University in Connecticut and received advanced degrees in philosophy from the University of Toronto and Theology from Weston School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1974, Father Goodwin entered the Society of Jesus. During his formation years, he spent four years at Cheverus High School in Portland, where he taught Latin and Greek. Fr. Goodwin was ordained a priest on June 9, 1979 and returned to Cheverus to teach the classics for 20 years. A gifted teacher, he was loved by his students and greatly admired by his colleagues.
Fr Goodwin as Deacon at a Solemn High Mass incenses the clergy in London Colney, England, 2009. Cf https://www.flickr.com/photos/josephshaw/albums/72157622169807794/with/3868295328/
In 1999, moved by his great
love for the Traditional Latin Mass, Fr. Goodwin applied to the Fraternity of
St. Peter. From August 1999 to June 2000 he was Assistant Chaplain at our
apostolate in Pequannock NJ. Then from 2000 to 2013 he taught at the seminary
of the Fraternity in Denton, NE. He was definitively incorporated into the FSSP
on October 18, 2004. In addition to his teaching duties, Fr. Goodwin was the
spiritual director to many of our seminarians at OLGS. He later became
the Director of Priest Training for those priests wishing to learn the
Traditional Latin Mass. Throughout his priesthood, Father Goodwin showed
a special dedication to contemplative orders of sisters most notably, the
Sisters of the Precious Blood in Portland and the Carmelites in Danvers,
Massachusetts and later Valparaiso, Nebraska, serving as the Confessor for the
community and offering spiritual direction. In 2013, Fr Goodwin asked to
retire in order to assist his mother to Lewiston, while continuing to
collaborate with Latin Mass Magazine and to serve as a retreat preacher, among
other things.
In October 2016 Fr Goodwin
suffered a serious hemorrhagic stroke from which he came out quite diminished.
Unable to celebrate Mass again, he spent his last years in a nursing home,
surrounded by his mother and comforted by the visits of several confreres. He wanted
to offer his sufferings for the Fraternity.
Thanks be to God for a new Venerable. Given that her congregation ran St Mary’s School, Warrington – now Priory Court – for decades, no doubt all of us at St Mary’s Warrington and further away will renew our prayers to God that she might soon be beatified and might intercede in particular for our children and our families.
The Archbishop of Liverpool has requested the following message be sent out:
Yesterday the Holy See declared Mother Elizabeth Prout, foundress of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion, to be Venerable. The Holy Father in an audience with the Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints authorised the same Congregation to promulgate a decree recognising the heroic virtues of this Servant of God. Mother Elizabeth Prout is buried in the archdiocese and it was in the archdiocese that her sainthood cause was opened in 1994.
I am delighted that the Holy See has further recognised the holiness of Mother Elizabeth Prout. She made a significant contribution to the Church and the people of England and further afield in education and healthcare, and the Sisters of the Congregation that she founded continue to show the care of the Catholic Church for those in need.
This will be joyful news for the Cross and Passion family, and I am sure that our prayers as an archdiocese are with them as Mother Elizabeth Prout is recognised in this way. Let’s pray also that the Shrine at Sutton will be a place of prayer for her eventual canonisation. +Malcolm
Elizabeth Prout – Mother Mary Joseph Foundress of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion A short history from the website of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion
Elizabeth Prout was born in Shrewsbury, England, in 1820. Her parents baptised her in the Anglican Church. In her early twenties she became a Catholic.
Elizabeth moved to Manchester in 1849. There, touched by the misery and deprivation of the poor, she and a few companions came together to form a community to help the voiceless, downtrodden workers in the large industrial towns of nineteenth-century England.
The community was directed and helped by two Passionists, Father Gaudentius Rossi and Father Ignatius Spencer. The rule was based on that of St Paul of the Cross, founder of the Passionists. Elizabeth recognised that the Passion of Jesus is the great sign of God’s love reaching out to those in pain.
Now known as Mother Mary Joseph, Elizabeth continued to meet the challenges presented to her in her life of suffering, and to grow in solidarity with the crucified of the world. She died on 11th January 1864 at Sutton, St Helens, Lancashire.
Her body, together with that of Blessed Dominic Barberi C.P. and Father Ignatius Spencer C.P., lies in the shrine of St Anne’s Church, Sutton. People gather around the shrine annually to commemorate their lives.
✅Are you among the 99% of Catholic parents currently homeschooling during the lockdown? 🧐Would you be interested in a Classical Hybrid academy? 😍Have you seen our latest video? 💻Are you free for an hour on 22nd January?
Then register your interest in our Virtual Open Day!
As well as the centre in Bedfordshire, there’s been interest to open an RCA in:
– Warrington – South East (Sevenoaks area) – South East London
Today, 150th anniversary of Our Lady’s Apparition at Pontmain. In our times of gloom and doom at home and abroad, let our hope be kindled again through the wondrous account of the Pontmain Apparition. It was winter like now, the national situation was desperate like now, adults and children prayed, led by their priests, and Our Lady gave the message: “But pray, my children. God will hear you in time. My Son allows Himself to be touched. “
Our Lady of Pontmain, also known as Our Lady of Hope, is the title given to the Virgin Mary on her apparition at Pontmain, France on 17 January 1871.
The Apparition
The Franco-Prussian War (War of 1870) was the culmination of years of tension between the two nations, which finally came to a head on 19 July 1870, when Emperor Napoleon III of the second Empire declared war against Prussia. From the first days of the war, defeat followed defeat. By January 1871, Paris was under siege, two-thirds of the country was in the power of the Prussians, and they were advancing.
The apparition is said to have occurred at the height of the Franco-Prussian War. Pontmain, a hamlet of about 500 inhabitants, lay between the oncoming Prussian army and the city of Laval. The Barbedette family consisted of father César, his wife, Victoire, with their two sons Joseph and Eugène, aged ten and twelve, and another older boy who was away in the army. On the evening of 17 January 1871, the two boys were helping their father in the barn when the elder, Eugène, walked over towards the door to look out. As he gazed at the star studded sky he suddenly saw an apparition of a beautiful woman smiling at him; she was wearing a blue gown covered with golden stars, and a black veil under a golden crown.[3]
Norte-Dame d’Esperance de Pontmain
His father, brother, and a neighbour came out to look and Joseph immediately said he too could see the apparition although the adults saw nothing. The mother, Victoire, came out but she too could see nothing.[3] The boys’ parents could not see what their children were seeing that night and called for Sister Vitaline, the local school teacher. She, like the boys’ parents, could also not see the apparition, and called for two girls, Françoise Richer and Jeanne-Marie Lebosse, aged nine and eleven. Sister Vitaline suggested that perhaps Our Lady was visible only to the children. Without any knowledge of the apparition, these two girls looked into the night sky and began describing Our Lady in the same exact detail as the Barbedette boys had described.[4]
A crowd gathered to pray as word quickly spread among the anxious villagers. Children saw the beautiful Lady, and gleefully pointed up to her. Adults, however, only saw three stars forming a triangle. As they prayed the Rosary, the children saw the garment’s stars multiply until it was almost entirely gold. Next, the children saw a banner unfurl beneath the Lady. Slowly, a message appeared: But pray, my children. God will hear you in time. My Son allows Himself to be touched. Upon hearing the message read aloud, the crowd spontaneously began the hymn “Mother of Hope”. As they sang, Our Lady laughed and joined in the singing.[5]
The children squealed with delight as her hands kept time with the music. When the crowd began “My Sweet Jesus,” her expression changed to profound sadness and a red crucifix appeared in her hands, with the words “Jesus Christ” above it. Her eyes mournfully contemplated the cross during the hymn. As the people sang the “Ave Maris Stella,” the cross vanished and her smile returned, though with a touch of melancholy. Two small white crosses then appeared on her shoulders before Our Lady disappeared behind a cloud.[5] As the night prayers came to a close, the apparition ended. It was about nine o’clock. The Apparition had lasted about three hours.
The Description of the Lady
Years later, Joseph Barbedette, who later afterwards became a priest of the Congregation of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, recounted:
She was young and tall of stature, clad in a garment of deep blue, … Her dress was covered with brilliant gold stars. The sleeves were ample and long. She wore slippers of the same blue as the dress, ornamented with gold bows. On the head was a black veil half covering the forehead, concealing the hair and ears, and falling over the shoulders. Above this was a crown resembling a diadem, higher in front than elsewhere, and widening out at the sides. A red line encircled the crown at the middle. Her hands were small and extended toward us as in the ‘miraculous medal.’ Her face had the most exquisite delicacy and a smile of ineffable sweetness. The eyes, of unutterable tenderness, were fixed on us. Like a true mother, she seemed happier in looking at us than we in contemplating.[5]
After the Apparition
That same evening the Prussian forces inexplicably abandoned their advance.[6] General von Schmidt of the Prussian Army who was about to move on the city of Laval towards Pontmain, received orders from his Commander not to take the city.
On the evening of 17 January 1871, the Commander of the Prussian forces, having taken up his quarters at the archiepiscopal palace of Le Mans, told Msgr. Fillion, Bishop of that diocese: “By this time my troops are at Laval”. On the same evening, the Prussian troops in sight of Laval stopped at half-past five o’clock, about the time when the Apparition first appeared above Pontmain, a few miles off. General Schmidt is reported to have said on the morning of the 18th: “We cannot go farther. Yonder, in the direction of Brittany, there is an invisible ‘Madonna‘ barring the way.”
The sudden stopping of the Prussian forces in sight of Laval, and their retirement the following morning, meant, together with the saving of Brittany, the turning back of the tide of conquering soldiery from that part of France. The war was practically at an end. On 23 January 1871, the long-hoped for Armistice was signed. Soon all the thirty-eight conscripted men and boys returned home unscathed.
Authorization of Our Lady of Hope
After that the devotion to the Blessed Virgin under the title of that of Notre Dame d’Esperance de Pontmain, Our Lady of Hope of Pontmain, was authorized by the ecclesiastical authorities, and the confraternity of that name has been extended all over the world.
After the apparition of Our Lady of Hope on 17 January 1871, pilgrims made up of both the clergy and the laity came to Pontmain. At the same time, inquiries and investigations were made about the apparition; the visionary children were submitted to various intense interrogations. Finally, on the Feast of the Purification, 2 February 1872, Msgr. Wicart, Bishop of Laval, issued a pastoral letter giving a canonical judgment on the apparition. Thus, the veneration of Our Lady of Hope of Pontmain was given official Church recognition and approval.
Joseph Barbadette became a priest of the Congregation of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate; his brother Eùgene became a secular priest. He was assisted by one of the girls who had seen Mary as his housekeeper, and the other, Jeanne-Marie Lebossé, became a nun.[3]
Veneration
In May 1872, Bishop Wicart authorized the construction of a sanctuary, which was consecrated in October 1900. In 1905 Pope Pius X elevated the Sanctuary to the status of a basilica.[7]
Pope Pius XI gave a final decision regarding the mass and office in honor of Our Lady of Hope of Pontmain. A final papal honor was given to Our Lady of Hope on 16 July 1932 by Cardinal Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII, by passing a decree from the Chapter of St. Peter’s Basilica that the statue of the Blessed Lady, Mother of Hope, be solemnly honored with the crown of gold. The Lady then was crowned in the presence of archbishop, bishops, priests and the laity by Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris. The coronation took place on 24 July 1934.[7]
At Pontmain, it was a matter of a message of prayer, very simple in the dramatic circumstances of war and invasion. At Pontmain, Mary is a sign of hope in the midst of war. A place of pilgrimage, it attracts annually around 200,000 drawn from among the people of the region, with some international pilgrimages, especially from Germany.[8]
Welcome to our First-Time Visitors! We are glad to share with you the beauty and depth of the traditional Latin Mass. Feel welcome to ask us about silence, Holy Communion on the tongue, the use of Latin, etc. Most people here came across this form of the Mass within the past few years or months. Like you they were perplexed at first. Now they treasure it. Find out more on lms.org.uk/faqs
St Mary’s Shrine Church Bulletin
17 Jan 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.
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.
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 phonebefore
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.
Our seminarians: Bon voyage Henry, Tom and Conan, Miklos,
Gwilym, David starting their second semester in America and Bavaria this week.
We assure them of our prayer.
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. NEW: additional keypad for pedestrians to exit: same code as Entrance + letter A. Do ask the clergy for the access code on your next visit. Do NOT share the codes with anyone (unless they are personally known to you as regular Massgoers at St Mary’s). Please park on any spaces to the FRONT & RIGHT of the pedestrian wooden gate into the Presbytery garden and church, as the spaces on the LEFT of that gate are for office users.
50 new Baronius hand missals and Holy Bibles for sale. Public price $64.95/copy. St Mary’s hugely discounted price: £35.00/copy! Pay by cash only, and have your item handed to you by us immediately.
Holy Mass
booklets, rosaries for sale. Ask us after Holy Mass. St Mary’s logo on mugs and coasters: £7/mug
& £3/coaster. Profit goes to support St Mary’s Shrine.
Recent survey
of who attends the Traditional Latin Mass: https://www.hprweb.com/2021/01/the-demographics-of-the-extraordinary-form/
Prayer intentions for our sick: Aurora Sim, Frances
Houghton, Michael Meadows, M. Hawley, Theresa Reynard, Hilda Creagan, John
Sunderland, Steve Humphrey. R.I.P. Mrs Frances Fawcett.
HOLY MASS
INTENTIONS
Masses
are offered this month in private for Kevin Mcluskey; Kate O’Donoghue (RIP); Luciano
Deluca; FSSP; Theresa Raynard; Thomas Parkinson; Paul Allen’s Family; Special
Intention; Francine Hanna; Rosa: Thanksgiving; Bernadette Keenan; Reparation
for sac. act; Malarchy Cardiff (RIP); Margaret Parkinson (RIP); Holy Souls;
Miguel Casado; Mary Doyle (RIP); Reconversions of France/all French; Intentions
of Knights of Our Lady in
France, England, German, world; Luciana Robinson; Josh Langley; Leigh Keenan;
Harry Leach; David Harris; Healing for Kilsby family; Winnie Davis; Repose of
souls Covid victims; Joyce Drury; Holy Soul; Leonard Keenan; Patrick Keenan
(RIP); Fr Robert; Holy Souls; Mary Ashley (RIP); Dr Gordon Bowden (RIP); Edmund Whithall (RIP); Des Delamere (RIP);
Andrew Robinson; Bridie Ford (RIP); Deceased Mcnally/white families
Sun 17
II Sunday after the Epiphany, II
Class
5pm Sung Vespers
11:00am6:00pm
All St Mary’s Faithful
Moughton family
Mon 18
Feria, IV Class
12:10pm
Isabella Robinson
Tue 19
St. Benet Biscop, Abbot, III Class
12:10pm
Fr Joseph T
Wed 20
Sts. Fabian and Sebastian Martyrs,
III Class
12:10pm
7:00 pm
Bernadette Devlin (RIP)
All men of St. Mary’s
Thu 21
St. Agnes, Virgin Martyr, III Class
12:10pm
Dominic Hall
Fri 22
Sts. Vincent and Anastasius,
Martyrs, III Class
12:10pm
All St. Mary’s penitents of the
week
Sat 23
St.
Raymond of Pennafort, Confessor III Class
Adoration & Confessions
10:00am-12noon
12:10pm
Bridie
Ford (RIP)
Sun 24
III
Sunday after Epiphany, II Class
5pm Sung Vespers
11:00am6:00pm
All St Mary’s Faithful
Anne Drury
Mon 25
Conversion of St. Paul, III
Class
12:10pm
Intentions of Shelia Parkinson
Tue 26
St. Polycarp, Bishop and
Martyr, III Class
12:10pm
Mhaol Mhuire Coughlan (RIP)
Wed 27
St.
John Chrysostom, Bish. Conf., Doctor,
III Class
12:10pm
7:00pm
Audrey and Gavin Haig
All men of St. Mary’s
Thu 28
St. Peter Nolasco, Confessor, III
Class
12:10pm
Leila Wills (RIP)
Fri 29
St Francis de Sales, Bish. Conf., Doctor, III Class
12:10pm
All St. Mary’s penitents of the
week
Sat 30
St. Martina, Virgin Martyr, III Class Adoration & Confessions 10:00am-12noon (Last Alleluia until Easter!)
✅Are you among the 99% of Catholic parents currently homeschooling during the lockdown? 🧐Would you be interested in a Classical Hybrid academy? 😍Have you seen our latest video? 💻Are you free for an hour on 22nd January?
Then register your interest in our Virtual Open Day!
As well as the centre in Bedfordshire, there’s been interest to open an RCA in:
– Warrington – South East (Sevenoaks area) – South East London
As per the guidelines issued by the Archdiocee of Liverpool, we are pleased that St Mary’s Shrine remains open for public worship, at the usual times advertised in our latest newsletter:
Places of worship You can attend places of worship for a service. However, you must not mingle with anyone outside of your household or support bubble. You should maintain strict social distancing at all times.
Thank you to all for this past CHRISTMAS! Frs de Malleray, Verrier, Stewart and Jolly thank you for your many cards, gifts, bottles, cooked dishes, and prayers at Christmas. It was uplifting to see so many at Midnight Mass and on the following days. Let us keep up this good attendance and tell our friends about the grace of daily Mass.
St Mary’s Shrine Church Bulletin 3 Jan 21 (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
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.
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 phonebefore
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.
Our
Warrington Vocations: Welcome back to our Second Year seminarian
Henry. We pray that he might spend a
restful time in his family. We also pray for our First Year seminarian David, who was prevented from travelling
home this time. We keep our two seminaries in America and Europe in our prayer.
Sister Mari Caritas sent her Christmas
greetings from America. Let us keep her and her community in our prayer. Lastly,
we pray for our young people currently discerning God’s Holy Will for them.
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. NEW: additional keypad
for pedestrians to exit: same
code as Entrance + letter A. Do ask the clergy for the access
code on your next visit. Do NOT share
the codes with anyone (unless they are personally known to you as regular Massgoers
at St Mary’s). Please park on any spaces to the FRONT & RIGHT of the
pedestrian wooden 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. Baronius hand missals: we await the publisher’s confirmation for our
latest order.
St Mary’s logo
on mugs and coasters: £7/mug & £3/coaster. Profit goes to support St
Mary’s Shrine.
Tues 5th Jan 1pm-2pm: Blessing of
Epiphany Water. Please
bring containers filled with water and preferably labelled to your name. Before
12:10pm Mass, leave them for blessing on the bench near the Little Organ. This
blessing of water is the most powerful after the Ester Vigil one. Bring your
container(s) back home for private devotional use all year long.
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), UK mortality 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. Since the UK mortality rate
has not exploded so far compared with past years, and since a vaccine totally
free from connection with abortion is to be hoped, 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.
Annual Vocation Weekend:
Fri 29 Jan 2021 at 17:00 – Sun 31 Jan 2021 at 14:00. For single Catholic men 18-30.
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:
Hilda Creagan, John Sunderland, Steve Humphrey. R.I.P. Mrs Frances Fawcett, mother of our Shrine Secretary Mrs Jane
Wright, who passed away last week. We assure all her family of our prayer.
HOLY MASS
INTENTIONS
Masses will be offered this month in private for Kevin Mcluskey; Kate O’Donoghue (RIP); Luciano Deluca; FSSP; Theresa Raynard; Thomas Parkinson; Paul Allen’s Family; Special Intention; Francine Hanna; Rosa: Thanksgiving; Bernadette Keenan; Reparation for sac. act; Malarchy Cardiff (RIP); Margaret Parkinson (RIP); Holy Souls; Miguel Casado; Mary Doyle (RIP); Reconversions of France/all French; Intentions of Knights of Our Lady in France, England, German, world; Luciana Robinson; Josh Langley; Leigh Keenan; Harry Leach; David Harris; Healing for Kilsby family; Winnie Davis; Repose of souls Covid victims; Joyce Drury; Holy Soul; Leonard Keenan; Patrick Keenan (RIP); Fr Robert; Holy Souls; Mary Ashley (RIP); Dr Gordon Bowden (RIP); Edmund Whithall (RIP); Des Delamere (RIP); Andrew Robinson; Bridie Ford (RIP); Deceased Mcnally/white families
Sun 3
Most Holy Name of Jesus, II
Class
5pm Sung Vespers
11:00am6:00pm
All St Mary’s Faithful
Rocco Robinson
Mon 4
Feria, IV Class
12:10pm
Romeo Robinson
Tue 5
Feria, IV Class – Blessing of Epiphany Water 1pm
12:10pm
Fr Doyle (RIP)
Wed 6
Epiphany
of the Lord, I Class
12:10pm
Hilda O’brien
Thu 7
Feria, IV Class
12:10pm
Nikki Heywood
Fri 8
Feria, IV Class
12:10pm
All St. Mary’s penitents of the
week
Sat 9
Saturday
of Our Lady, IV Class
Adoration & Confessions
10:00am-12noon
12:10pm
James
McLuskey
Sun 10
Feast
of the Holy Family (1st Sunday after Epiphany)5pm
Sung Vespers
11:00am6:00pm
All St Mary’s Faithful
Rafael Rozo (RIP)
Mon 11
Feria, IV Class
12:10pm
Bridger McLuskey
Tue 12
Feria, IV Class
12:10pm
Liam O’neill
Wed 13
Commemoration of the Baptism of Our Lord, II Class
12:10pm
7:00pm
Poor Sinners
All men of St. Mary’s
Thu 14
St. Kentigern, Bishop, III
Class
12:10pm
Priestly souls in need
Fri 15
St. Paul the Hermit, Confessor,
III Class
12:10pm
All St. Mary’s penitents of the
week
Sat 16
St. Marcellus,
Pope, Martyr, III Class
Adoration & Confessions
10:00am-12noon
12:10pm
For FSSP
Sun 17
II Sunday after the Epiphany, II Class
5pm Sung Vespers
St Mary’s Shrine Church in Warrington remains open as a place of public worship under the new Tier 4 regulations. No changes to our opening times and Holy Mass times.
(Icy/slippery grounds: please take extra care on the car parks and around the church.)
_Basilique_Vitrail_04.jpg)
_Statue_de_la_Vierge_sur_le_parvis_de_la_basilique.jpg){kind=link}