As you will be aware, today the Government turned down a petition from Cardinal Vincent Nichols on behalf of the Catholic Church in England to allow public worship during the November 2020 lockdown.
Read here the full response released this afternoon by Cardinal Nichols and Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP, including the following encouragement: “At this difficult moment, we ask that, as a Catholic community, we make full use of our churches as places of individual prayer and sources of solace and help. We must sustain each other in our patterns of prayer “.
Please sign this petition and write to your local MP to challenge the unnecessary violation of liberty by the Government. You will be pleased to note that the Bishops Conference has challenged the Government on this point, as have several bishops. Please pray that these restrictions are lifted quickly.
During the lockdown, we will strive to keep the founts of sacramental grace flowing. Please note that, commencing Friday 6th November, St Mary’s Shrine will be open for private prayer at times soon to be announced.
Our daily Holy Mass will continue to be offered at its usual times (Sun 11:00am; Mo-Sat 12:110pm) but will be available only via LiveMass.net.
We will do our utmost to support your spiritual needs within the provision of the law. Please visit this website for updates as we will post them as soon as available.
Assistant: Fr Ian Verrier,
FSSP (also Choir & Organ)
Assistant: Fr Alex
Stewart, FSSP
Visiting Priest: Fr Andrew
Jolly
Shrine Secretary: Mrs Jane Wright
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.
Church Opening Times (with stewarding)
Weekdays: 11:00am – 1:30pm
Saturdays: 10:00am-1:30pm
Sundays: 10:00am– 1:00pm& 5:00pm-7:00pm
Daily Mass open to all present on site, and
accessible online for free daily viaLiveMass.net.
Holy Mass times:
Mon-Sat: 12:10pm Mass
Sundays: 11:00am Sung
Mass; 6:00pm Low Mass.
Confessions: ½ hr daily before
every Holy Mass:
Sun: 10:30am-11:00am, and
5:30pm-6:00pm;
Mon-Fri: 11:40am-12:05pm;
Sat: 10:00am-12noon
No booking is required to attend Mass at St
Mary’s.
Devotions:
Vespers
and Benediction Sunday 5:00pm-6:00pm
Eucharistic
Adoration Saturday 10:00am-12noon
Daily
Rosary 11:30am
Stations
of the Cross Mon & Fri 1:00pm
Mothers’
Prayer Group Wed 1:00pm
Divine
Mercy Prayer second Tuesday 1:00pm
First
Friday (7pm Mass and Eucharistic adoration) and First Saturday devotions (10am
Eucharistic Adoration and Marian prayer)
Access: Make sure to park
in our TWO car parks, both of them adjacent to the church.
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.
Thank you
on behalf of all to all our stewards whose kind vigilance allows us all to use St
Mary’s safely for everybody’s benefit.
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.
Modesty in church: please cover your
bodies at least down to elbows and below knees; no tight or see-through
garments. ‘Sunday best’ on Sundays and feast.
Sanctify the Day of the Lord! How best? Further to devoutly attending Holy Mass, there is no more Catholic way than to attend Sung Vespers (cf Baronius pp. 103-111), the official prayer of the Church, that is, the Mystical Bride of Christ, followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, thus adoring the Eucharistic Bridegroom. This takes place every Sunday at St Mary’s, from 5:00pm to 6:00pm. Confessions are heard as usual from 5:30pm to 6:00pm, with Holy Mass following at 6:00pm.
Shrine
Directory: Email Fr Stewart
(astewart@olgseminary.org) your profession, trade or skills with the contact
details you would like to be included on a printed booklet to be shared with
parishioners. A good opportunity to support fellow Catholics in these difficult
times.
OFFERTORY COLLECTION at the END of EVERY
Mass,
daily: a steward will be holding the collection basket by the Porch door as you
exit, for you kindly to put your offering. You can send your donation to St
Mary’s Shrine via our Donate page: https://fssp.co.uk/donate/.
Ask us for a Gift Aid form to increase your
donation by 20% at no extra cost to you. Gift Aid envelopes can be obtained
from our Secretariat. Standing
orders are easier and quicker for us to process than cash:
Lloyds Bank ; Sort Code: 30-80-27 ;
Account number: 30993368 ;
Account name: FSSP Warrington
All Saints educational event for (a limited number of) young children and parents
after 11am Mass on Sunday 1st
Nov. Register with A. Kahn penketh.kahns@gmail.com.
On
All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2nd ) a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor
Souls in Purgatory, is granted to those who visit a Catholic church and there
recite one Our Father and one Creed. On all the days from November 1st
through November 8th inclusive, a plenary indulgence, applicable
only to the Poor Souls in Purgatory, is granted to those who visit a
cemetery and pray even if only mentally for the departed. There must be one
visit for each day one seeks to gain the indulgence; one visit will not apply
for several days. Any public cemetery with Christian tombs will do. The nearest
one is 5 minutes walk from St Mary’s: St Elphin’s, Church Street, WA1 2TL.
Conditions for both
indulgences: 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.
Children Education Meeting at St Mary’s. As
you know, families meet every Wednesday afternoon at Priory Court for
educational activities. The purchase of the new building and the growing needs
of families lead us to envisage more.
Covid
restrictions prevent us from rescheduling soon the wide information gathering
focused on the Regina Caeli Academy model, cancelled
last 26th April, but we will hold a smaller consultation for the purposes of education on Sunday 22nd November 2020, 1:00pm.
Priestly Vocations: 38 Second Year FSSP seminarians tonsured
on Sat. 17 October in Bavaria and on Sat. 24 October in America, including Tom,
Henry and Conan from the UK and Ireland: pray for them.
LMS booklets for sale: £3.00 per copy or £5 for two
copies. Subject to Covid regulations, you can visit after the 11am Sunday Mass
Unit 2 of Priory Court to purchase this booklet and other Catholic books.
Church Cleaning Team: The winning team! Thank
you to all of you who kindly came forward join this discreet but so necessary
team, coordinated by Maria Haynes.
Our quarterly
magazine Dowryis now available in print , and online at https://fssp.co.uk/category/dowry/.
Browse now through 32 pages of in-depth and lighter articles on saints, the
Holy Eucharist, Columbus, former-Satanist priest convert, news, poetry and the
Priory Campaign. Send the link to your friends: a simple way of spreading the
Good News at no cost.
Catechumens
& Recent Converts:
Most Saturdays 6:30pm-7:30pm. Contact: malleray@fssp.org.
Children,
sacramental preparation:
most Saturdays 1:00pm. Contact: iverrier@fssp.org.
Save babies: peaceful prayer presence 6am to 9pm
outside Liverpool BPAS abortuary for 40 days from 23rd Sept. to
1st Nov. Can
you give one hour? Contact Gabrielle Stanley:
Liverpool40daysforlife@gmail.com; 07895128073. Website: www.40daysforlife.com.
Pro-Life Chain on
Sat. 24th October,
2:00pm-4:00pm, Mersey Street. Signs to hold will be available.
Prayer intentions for our sick: John
Marechal, Hilda Creagan, John Sunderland, Steve Humphrey.
All activities subject to Covid-19 regulations:
Ladies’ Group: monthly meeting on Saturday
21st November, 1pm, at Priory Court. Bring packed lunch. Talk on ‘Death,
Judgment, Heaven & Hell’ at 2:00pm.
Weekly Mothers’ (and
Grandmothers’) Prayer
Group : every Wed. 1:00pm. Contact: Myriam.
Men’s Group every Wednesday
evening: 6:30pm Confessions, 7pm Holy Mass, 8pm Talk, 9pm Prayers
Youth Group facebook.com/juventutem.warrington/
Weekly family educational afternoon: every Wed 1pm.
Contact: Alison Kahn.
HOLY MASS INTENTIONS:
Sun 25
Christ the King (British Summer time ends)5pm Vespers & Benediction
11:00am 6:00pm
Polkey Family Thanksgiving
Lawson Family Deceased
Mon 26
Votive Mass in Times of
Pestilence (Baronius p. 1664)
12:10pm
Patricia Durkan
Tue 27
Votive Mass for Ecclesiastical
Vocations
12:10pm
F.S.S.P.
Wed 28
Ss. Simon & Jude, Apostles
Mothers’ Group 1pm; Men’s Group
7:00pm-9:15pm
12:10pm
7:00pm
Wendy Moss’ intentions
Ester Pinto
Thu 29
Votive Mass for the Sick
(Baronius p. 1670)
12:10pm
David De Sanctis (sick)
Fri 30
Votive Mass for the Defence of
the Church (Baron. p. 1653)
Juventutem London resumed its monthly Mass and Social in September after the lockdowns of the summer. In this video recording, Fr Armand de Malleray offers a homily to the faithful on the theme of betrothal to Christ. Fr reflects that “betrothal […] is to give ourselves completely body and soul to somebody else. For human couples in holy matrimony, this is being married and starting a family. For the individual soul, it is to surrender all that we are to the Lord, in trust that He will make use of what we are, who we are, better than if we were making the decisions.”
Our conveyancer emailed us today: “I am pleased to confirm that completion has taken place today.” The purchase of Priory Court Unit 1, 2 and 3 is now completed and our charity legally owns the entire building.
Our heartfelt thanks go to God and all our benefactors for the success of the Priory Campaign. The Trustees of FSSP England are delighted to announce that the remaining funds needed to complete the purchase of Priory Court (Unit 1) and to undertake the necessary conversion work have now been raised and we have ceased fundraising.
Fr Goddard, our charity’s Bursar, has written as follows: “This much needed addition to St Mary’s Shrine facilities involves significant funding, and it would not have been possible without your financial support. At the time of writing, with a few final administrative checks still to be undertaken, we are fairly certain that the Priory Campaign final total stands at £957,917.48. This includes a legacy of £139,800.00 which the executor was happy to put towards Campaign funds. When we add the expected Gift Aid rebates on some of your donations, along with other funds received towards hall facilities, this raises the total to about £1,019,300.00. With last year’s purchase of Units 2 and 3, and some remedial works completed in recent months, roughly half of this figure has been spent. However, the remaining funds will allow us to comfortably buy Unit 1 and make all the necessary conversion work and adaptions for Shrine use.”ur heartfelt thanks go to God and all our benefactors for the success of the Priory Campaign. The Trustees of FSSP England are delighted to announce that the remaining funds needed to complete the purchase of Priory Court (Unit 1) and to undertake the necessary conversion work have now been raised and we have ceased fundraising.
It seemed very fitting for us to try to buy back the old Priory and convent, both on Buttermarket Street, because they were part of St Mary’s Parish – originally owned and run by the Benedictine monks of Ampleforth Abbey. Similarly, Priory Court stands on the site of the old parish school of St Mary’s. But we started this Campaign two years ago in adverse circumstances. The owner – a large company letting office and industrial space nationwide – granted us three months, between 18th July and 18th October 2018 to raise the £1.5 million needed to make the purchases. However, with everyone going on holiday, including benefactors, this was the worst time in the year to launch a fundraising campaign. And yet, money started being sent to us.
Articles in national media such as The Catholic Herald and some international blogs draw attention to the project. The Priory Campaign received official support from TheLatin Mass Society, pro-life organisations such as SPUC, 40 Days for Life, Good Counsel Network, and other prominent Catholics such as Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Viscountess Ashbrook.
The October 2018 deadline was extended over time and our scope had to be limited to the amount raised and to administrative constraints. After one year, in October 2019, we managed to buy two units of Priory Court, while allocating funds for the necessary conversion costs from office to our use. One year later, we are now completing the purchase of the final unit and can allocate space within the entire building for various needs.
Work should start shortly to make Priory Court a versatile venue for Catholic activities and events. We wish this venue to support Catholicism not only in Warrington but further afield through family activities and through liturgical, doctrinal, pro-life and artistic events. We thank wholeheartedly our benefactors, including those who offered sacrifices and prayers rather than or in addition to money, according to their means. From the start the Priory Campaign was entrusted to Our Blessed Lady. St Joseph was also regularly invoked, as well as the Servant of God Elizabeth Prout. The success of the Campaign demonstrates their blessing through the generosity of our benefactors and supporters. In happy contrast with the sad departure of the Benedictine monks from Downside Abbey in the news recently, the success of the Priory Campaign speaks of the reclamation of part of Warrington’s Benedictine patrimony. The Abbey of Ampleforth in Yorkshire used to run four parishes in Warrington. St Mary’s was the last one they had to relinquish, due to lack of vocations. There is something symbolic in the saving of St Mary’s Church from likely closure in 2015, followed by the reclaiming of the site of the old parish school next door. To English Catholics and to anyone in love with our Catholic heritage and faith, it speaks of hope, of ardour and of trust in the Lord and His saints, helping us rebuild Our Lady’s Dowry.
Special intercessor:
Born in Shrewsbury, the Servant of God Elizabeth Prout (1820-1864) founded the female branch of the Passionists with Bl. Dominic Barberi. Her congregation served deserving families in the North West. The Sisters of the Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ arrived in Warrington on 3 January 1899. Their convent, 80 Buttermarket Street, was beside St Mary’s Benedictine Priory. They came to teach, to visit sick and needy parishioners, to instruct converts and to help the poor. The Sisters taught in St Mary’s girls’ and infants’ schools from 1899 to 1967. Her congregation now asks to be informed of any favour granted specifically through her intercession. This could lead to her beatification. In anticipation of the 200th anniversary of her birth this September, less than a month before the fundraising deadline for our Campaign, the following petition was suggested: “Servant of God Elizabeth Prout, to further your work of Catholic education and assistance to Catholic families in our country so much in need of it, please obtain from God’s Providence the successful completion of the Priory Campaign in Warrington, on the very location where your Sisters served for seven decades.”
Dear benefactors, while the Priory Campaign is satisfactorily ended, please continue to pray and support us in our ongoing expenses. To give you a recent example, the cost of a necessary Visual Condition survey (N.B. not including yet any repair) of St Mary’s church roof, tower and external areas amounts to £12,447.30 incl. VAT. The body of Elizabeth Prout lies at the Sutton St Helens Passionist Shrine, fifteen minutes from St Mary’s, along the bodies of Bl. Dominic Barberi and Ven. Ignatius Spencer. What a grace if this saintly woman could be beatified soon and intercede even more powerfully for our service to souls at Priory Court and St Mary’s. God bless you! □
Dear visitors, this is to thank you for your vigilance against the spread of the Covid-19. As you know, Warrington is under special measures of containment. As visitors to St Mary’s Shrine, please continue to abide by the guidelines for the sake of the common good.
For further information, please visit https://www.warrington.gov.uk/coronavirus-covid-19-warrington.
You can download the Prayer against Pestilencehere.
The Stabat Mater
describes the gradual acknowledging of guilt through the establishing of a
filial relationship between the penitent onlooker and the Mournful Mother,
leading to a brotherly relationship with Christ recognised as the Brother we slew
and as the Messiah who saves. This will be manifested through the awakening of
the moral conscience. Let us present more in detail each of the three parts.
Part One: The Stabat Mater teaches us to say ‘I’. What ‘I’ will speak, though? Not our inflated ego, inherited from the sinful pride of Adam and Eve. Not the rebellious ‘I’, setting itself against the divine Father and trampling underfoot God’s law of life in hellish brag: “I shall not serve!” Instead, the humble and filial ‘I’ will speak: that ‘I’ healed through contrition confessed and through filiation restored, as illustrated by the parable of the Prodigal Son: “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee” (Lk 15:18). In that perspective, the anonymity of the narrator in Part One is loaded with deep meaning. No one says ‘I’ in Part One. No one dares or is able to take ownership for the words spoken. The vacant identity of the narrator indicates that sin has nearly killed the moral conscience. It is too weak to act. This stage could be called purgative. The selfish ego is incapacitated by the display of the Mother’s sorrow. That sinful ego is silenced by the detailed description of what the innocent Lady endures. And yet, already it benefits from absorbing the bitter depiction of the Sorrowful Mother. These stanzas correct the selfish use of emotions. They turn sentimentality into sensitivity, mere consciousness into conscience and mind into soul.
Part Two: Following this purgation, an essential improvement occurs in the healing process with Part Two. One could name this stage illuminative. A relationship is established. It connects the onlooker and the contemplated Mother, as he now comes to realise. No longer anonymous, he discovers his identity as her son, bearing responsibility for her sufferings since her Crucified One endures them for his sake. The gradual admitting of his personal guilt is painful. But to the soul’s surprise, this realisation does not crush it but liberates it. Where he expected to find a harsh or exacting judge, the penitent can only contemplate a beautiful Woman in tears. He dreaded having his pride humiliated, and instead he only finds his conscience pricked. If this revelation hurts, as he experiences, it also heals. This new filiation instils in the soul a peace subtle but all-powerful, a joy discreet but unmistakable. Those consign to oblivion the coarse pleasures of sin, held up to then as the measure of human fulfilment. The unidentified self of Part One grows into the self-confessed penitent son of the Mother in Part Two. This leads him to addressing her divine Son in Part Three.
Part Three: The Sorrowful Mother acted as a protective lens between the dying ego and Christ, Splendour of the Father. Now is the unitive stage, between the soul and Christ. Like the Blue Madonna on the Great Window of the Chartres Cathedral, the Mater Dolorosa spread as a merciful prism, granting time for the eyes of the muddy pilgrim to open wider and to welcome the blazing beams of the Sun of Justice, Jesus the Saviour. Thus is the personal and direct encounter between the penitent soul and Christ made possible in the last two stanzas of the Stabat Mater. We should not take for granted our relationship with Christ. While He (and his Mother) always will it for our good, we sinners need all their care to understand and accept it. If the penitent is emboldened to address Christ directly in Part Three, such improvement is necessarily owed to the Mother’s intercession in Part One and Two. Without it, the soul would proudly deny its guilt or collapse in dire shame at the mere thought of a direct contact with her Son, now undeniably identified as the God pierced by our sins. And yet, out of necessity for salvation, the guilty soul must relate to Christ, the only Saviour of men. Becoming child of Mary was the only way. Marian filiation is the mode allowing personal encounter with Christ. Since the crucified Saviour is also and supremely Son of the Virgin, kinship gives the penitent assurance of mercy. Brotherhood bodes well of pardon.
Assistant: Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP, (also Organist & Choir Master)
Assistant: Fr Alex Stewart, FSSP
Visiting Priest: Fr Andrew Jolly
Shrine Secretary: Mrs Jane Wright
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.
Church Opening Times (with
stewarding):
Weekdays: 11:00am – 1:30pm
Saturdays: 10:00am-1:30pm
Sundays: 10:00am– 1:00pm& 5:00pm-7:00pm
Daily Mass open to all present on site, and accessible online for free
daily viaLiveMass.net.
Holy Mass times:
Mon-Sat: 12:10pm Mass
Sundays: 11:00am Sung Mass; 6:00pm Low Mass.
Confessions: ½ hr
daily before every Holy Mass:
Sun: 10:30am-11:00am, and 5:30pm-6:00pm;
Mon-Fri: 11:40am-12:05pm;
Sat: 10:00am-12noon
No booking is required to attend Mass at St Mary’s Shrine Church.
Devotions:
Vespers and Benediction Sunday 5:00pm-6:00pm
Eucharistic Adoration Saturday 10:00am-12noon
Daily Rosary 11:30am
Stations of the Cross Mon & Fri 1:00pm
Mothers’ Prayer Group Wed 1:00pm
Divine Mercy Prayer second Tuesday 1:00pm
First Friday (7pm Mass and Eucharistic adoration) and First Saturday devotions (10am Eucharistic Adoration and Marian prayer)
Access: Make
sure to park in our TWO car parks, both of them adjacent to the church.
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.
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.
Modesty in church: please cover your bodies at least down to elbows
and below knees; no tight or see-through garments. ‘Sunday best’ on Sundays and
feast.
Welcome back, Fr Alex Stewart, FSSP! We are delighted to have Fr Stewart with us again after his several months away on sick leave. He now resumes his function as Assistant Priest at St Mary’s. We will continue to pray for his full recovery. For the interest of our more recent parishioners, Fr Stewart grew up in the Shrewsbury diocese, trained at our American seminary and was ordained a priest here at St Mary’s by Archbishop McMahon OP of Liverpool in 2017.
Priory Campaign successfully ended. When we add the expected Gift Aid rebates on some of your donations, along with other funds received towards hall facilities, this raises the total to about £1,019,300.00. An architect is currently drawing plans for the conversion work to begin as soon as approved.
Sanctify the Day of the Lord! How best?
Further to devoutly attending Holy Mass, there is no more Catholic way than to attend Sung Vespers, the official prayer of the Church, that is, the Mystical Bride of Christ, followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, thus adoring the Eucharistic Bridegroom. This takes place every Sunday at St Mary’s, from 5:00pm to 6:00pm.
Confessions are heard as usual from 5:30pm to 6:00pm, with Holy Mass following at 6:00pm.
Mass readings: If you are new to St Mary’s Latin Mass
community, please note that we normally have printed sheets with English
translations and booklets to help you follow Holy Mass. Those are currently not
available due to anti-virus regulations. But you can find on our website a link to the readings for
the Mass of each day. You can also subscribe for free to our weekly circular emails with
all news and interactive links.
110 confessions heard two weeks ago! Breaking St Mary’s weekly record. Thank God for His mercy!
OFFERTORY COLLECTION at the END of EVERY Mass, daily:
a steward will be holding the collection basket by the Porch door as you exit,
for you kindly to put your offering.
New ‘Donate’ buttons were added on that page, directing you straight to the local apostolate you wish to support, e.g. ‘Warrington / LiveMass’.
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:
38 Second Year FSSP seminarians tonsured on Sat. 17 October in Bavaria and on Sat. 24 October in America, including Tom, Henry and Conan from the UK and Ireland: pray for them.
Local Warrington altar server David was admitted to begin formation at our Seminary in Bavaria last week. Please pray for him. He is our third seminarian from the UK currently studying in Wigratzbad.
Watch the video of the priestly ordination of now Fr Roger Gilbride FSSP in New Zealand last 3rd October; see pictures of the ceremony.
Sunday, October 18th, 2020: Public recitation of the Prayer of the Confraternity of St. Peter(CSP) for priestly vocations and ministry. Right after the 11am and 6pm Holy Masses, CSP members new and old recite kneeling at the Communion Rail; non members recite from their pews:
O Lord Jesus, born to give testimony to the Truth, Thou who lovest unto the end those whom Thou hast chosen, kindly hear our prayers for our pastors. Thou who knowest all things, knowest that they love Thee and can do all things in Thee who strengthenest them. Sanctify them in Truth. Pour into them, we beseech Thee, the Spirit whom Thou didst give to Thy apostles, who would make them, in all things, like unto Thee. Receive the homage of love which they offer up to Thee, who hast graciously received the threefold confession of Peter. And so that a pure oblation may everywhere be offered without ceasing unto the Most Holy Trinity, graciously enrich their number and keep them in Thy love, who art one with the Father and the Holy Ghost, to whom be glory and honour forever. Amen.
LMS booklets for sale: £3.00 per copy or £5 for two copies. 72 pages. A useful companion to follow Holy Mass, Eucharistic Benediction and more, with English and Latin translations. Does not contain the daily readings of Mass. Write your name in your purchased copy to avoid having someone else mistaking yours for his.
Subject to Covid regulations, you can visit after the 11am Sunday Mass Unit 2, Ground Floor (middle unit of Priory Court) to purchase this booklet and other Catholic books.
Church Cleaning Team: The winning team! Thank you to all of you who kindly came forward join this discreet but so necessary team, coordinated by Maria Haynes.
Holy Water in Church: Is not allowed in the Entrance fonts due to Covid restrictions, but you can bring an empty bottle to fill and keep with you. Please note: Holy Water at St Mary’s is not merely blessed as in the Ordinary Form Ritual, but exorcised and mingled with exorcised salt as per the traditional Ritual.
Our quarterly magazine Dowryis now available online at https://fssp.co.uk/category/dowry/. Browse now through 32 pages of in-depth and lighter articles on saints, the Holy Eucharist, Columbus, former-Satanist priest convert, news, poetry and the Priory Campaign. Send the link to your friends: a simple way of spreading the Good News at no cost.
Children Education upgrade at St Mary’s: As you know, families meet every Wednesday afternoon at Priory Court for educational activities. The purchase of the new building and the growing needs of families lead us to envisage more. Covid restrictions prevent us from rescheduling soon the wide information gathering focused on the Regina Caeli Academy model, cancelled last 26th April. But we could still hold a smaller consultation indoors for the purposes of education. Email malleray@fssp.org if interested.
Save babies: peaceful prayer presence 6am to 9pm outside Liverpool BPAS abortuary for 40 days from 23rd Sept. to 1st Nov. Can you give one hour? Contact Gabrielle Stanley: Liverpool40daysforlife@gmail.com; 07895128073. Website: www.40daysforlife.com
Illegal to pray for babies, but legal to prey on them! This is happening in Manchester, England. From Friday 9th October 2020 we are unable to pray, offer help or express peaceful opposition to abortion outside the abortuary (Wynnstay Grove and parts of Wilmslow Road). Thank you to all the generous souls who spent hundreds of hours in silence witness over the past years outside this abortuary. Not one minute of your time was wasted. Read in Dowry No46 an account of one such witness.
SPUC Appeal on Sunday 18th October at St Mary’s after 11am and 6pm Holy Masses, with Christmas Cards for sale.
Pro-Life Chain on Sat. 24th October, 2:00pm-4:00pm, Mersey Street. Signs to hold will be available.
Prayer intentions for our sick: John Marechal, Hilda Creagan, John Sunderland (cancer).
All
activities subject to Covid-19 regulations:
Ladies’ Group: monthly meeting on Saturday 17th October, 1pm, at Priory Court. Bring packed lunch. Talk on ‘The Holy Angels’ by Fr de Malleray at 2:00pm.
Weekly Mothers’ (and Grandmothers’) Prayer Group resumes: every Wed. 1:00pm
Men’s Group every Wednesday evening: 6:30pm Confessions, 7pm Holy Mass, 8pm Talk, 9pm Prayers
Youth Group
facebook.com/juventutem.warrington/
Weekly family educational
afternoon: every Wed 1pm. Contact: Alison Kahn.
Fr Henry Whisenant, who returned to his diocese of East Anglia after one year at St Mary’s, has moved into a presbytery next to the church where he ministers: The Presbytery, Chapel Lane, Suffolk, CO6 4TA.
HOLY MASS INTENTIONS:
Sun
11
19th
Sunday after Pentecost5pm
Vespers & Benediction
11:00am 6:00pm
Jim
Aherne’s intentions
Madeleine
Dunne RIP
Mon
12
S.
Wilfrid B C
12:10pm
Riley
Michael Jones
Tue
13
S.
Edward, King, Confessor, 2nd cl.
12:10pm
Greenan
Family deceased
Wed
14
St.
Callistus I, Pope & Martyr
Mothers’
Group 1pm; Men’s Group 7:00pm-9:15pm
12:10pm
7:00pm
June
Bent RIP
Thanksgiving
to St joseph
Thu
15
Teresa
of Avila
12:10pm
Josephine
Taylor
Fri
16
S.
Hedwig
12:10pm
Houghton
Family Deceased
Sat
17
Adoration
& Confessions 10:00am-12noon
S.
Margaret Mary Alacoque (Tonsures
Wigratzbad)
12:10pm
Wendy
Moss’ relatives
Sun
18
20th
Sunday after Pentecost (32nd anniv. FSSP)5pm
Vespers & Benediction
11:00am 6:00pm
F.S.S.P.
Paul
Martin RIP
Mon
19
S.
Peter of Alcantara
12:10pm
Conversion
of drug dealers
Tue
20
St.
John Cantius C
12:10pm
Jim
Aherne’s intentions
Wed
21
Com.
of Ss Ursula & Companions, Virgin & Martyrs
Mothers’
Group 1pm; Men’s Group 7:00pm-9:15pm
12:10pm
7:00pm
Doherty
Family Deceased
Annie
O’Connor RIP
Thu
22
Votive
Mass of St Luke, Evangelist (from past
Sunday)
12:10pm
Anthony
& Catherine Sibert
Fri
23
St.
Anthony Mary Claret, B C
12:10pm
S,
J, A & Pinto Family Deceased
Sat
24
Adoration
& Confessions 10:00am-12noon
S.
Raphael Archangel (Tonsures OLGS
Nebraska)
12:10pm
Henry
Walker
Sun
25
Christ
the King (British Summer time ends)5pm
Vespers & Benediction
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Assistant: Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP, (also Organist
& Choir Master)
Visiting Priest: Fr Andrew Jolly
Shrine Secretary: Mrs Jane Wright
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.
Church Opening Times (with
stewarding):
Weekdays: 11:00am – 1:30pm
Saturdays: 10:00am-1:30pm
Sundays: 10:00am– 1:00pm&
5:00pm-7:00pm
Daily Mass open to all present on site, and accessible online for free
daily viaLiveMass.net.
Holy Mass times:
Mon-Sat:
12:10pm Mass
Sundays:
11:00am Sung Mass; 6:00pm Low Mass.
Confessions: ½ hr
daily before every Holy Mass:
Sun:
10:30am-11:00am, and 5:30pm-6:00pm;
Mon-Fri:
11:40am-12:05pm;
Sat:
10:00am-12noon
No booking is required to attend Mass at St Mary’s Shrine Church.
Access: Make
sure to park in our TWO car parks, both of them adjacent to the church.
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.
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.
Modesty in church: please
cover your bodies at least down to elbows and below knees; no tight or
see-through garments.
New Logo for St Mary’s Shrine: the centre of the great Lady rose window is the feature of our church best identifiable. It will provide a visual identity for the Shrine. We plan to have it displayed on banners, stickers, mugs etc.
Priory Campaign successfully ended:
Our heartfelt thanks go to all our generous benefactors who have made the purchase and conversion of Priory Court possible. This much needed addition to St Mary’s Shrine facilities involves significant funding, and it would not have been possible without your financial support. At the time of writing, with a few final administrative checks still to be undertaken, we are fairly certain that the Priory Campaign final total stands at £957,917.48. When we add the expected Gift Aid rebates on some of your donations, along with other funds received towards hall facilities, this raises the total to about £1,019,300.00.
With last year’s purchase of Units 2 and 3, and some remedial works
completed in recent months, roughly half of this figure has been spent.
However, the remaining funds will allow us to comfortably buy Unit 1 and make
the necessary conversion work and adaptions for Shrine use. Thanks be to God
and Our Lady, and to you!
Mass readings: If you are new to St Mary’s Latin Mass
community, please note that we normally have printed sheets with English
translations and booklets to help you follow Holy Mass. Those are currently not
available due to anti-virus regulations. But you can find on our website a link to the readings for
the Mass of each day. You can also subscribe for free to our weekly circular emails with
all news and interactive links.
100 confessions heard two
weeks ago! Breaking St Mary’s weekly record. Thank God for His mercy!
OFFERTORY COLLECTION at the END of EVERY Mass, daily:
a steward will be holding the collection basket by the Porch door as you exit,
for you kindly to put your offering.
You can send your donation to St Mary’s Shrine via our Donate page: https://fssp.co.uk/donate/.
Ask us for a Gift Aid form to increase your donation by 20% at no extra cost to
you. Gift Aid envelopes can be
obtained from our Secretariat. Standing
orders are easier and quicker for us to process than cash:
Bank Name: Lloyds Bank
Sort Code: 30-80-27
Account number: 30993368
Account name: FSSP Warrington
HOLY MASS INTENTIONS:
Sun 27
17th
Sunday after Pentecost5pm
Vespers & Benediction
11:00am 6:00pm
David
Harris Jr RIP
St Mary’s
Clergy
Mon 28
S.
Wenceslaus, Duke
12:10pm
David
& Frances Harris RIP
Tue 29
Dedication
of St. Michael the Archangel, 1st cl.
12:10pm
Terence
Keenan
Wed 30
St.
Jerome, Doctor of the Church
Mothers’
Group 1pm; Men’s Group 7:00pm-9:15pm
12:10pm
7:00pm
Jim
Aherne’s intentions
Holy
Souls in Purgatory
Thu 1
Votive Mass
for the Sick
12:10pm
Recovery
of drug addicts
Fri 2
Holy
Guardian Angels
Vot. Mass
of Sacred Heart & Devotions
12:10pm
7:00pm
Ethan
Jones
Patrick
Cahill RIP
Sat 3
Adoration
& Confessions 10:00am-12noon
Vot. Mass
Immaculate Heart (St. Th. of the Child Jesus)
12:10pm
Fr Roger
Gilbride, FSSP
Sun 4
18th
Sunday after Pentecost5pm
Vespers & Benediction
11:00am 6:00pm
Riley Michael Jones
Julia Goodall RIP
Mon 5
Votive
Requiem
12:10pm
Edw.
& Cath. Parker RIP
Tue 6
St. Bruno
12:10pm
Michael
Healy RIP
Wed 7
Bl.
Virgin Mary of the Holy Rosary, 2nd cl.
Mothers’
Group 1pm; Men’s Group 7:00pm-9:15pm
12:10pm
7:00pm
Philomena
Murphy RIP
Patrick
Cahill RIP
Thu 8
St.
Bridget
12:10pm
Ken
Houghton RIP
Fri 9
St. John
Leonardi
12:10pm
Jim
Aherne’s intentions
Sat 10
Adoration
& Confessions 10:00am-12noon
St.
Paulinus, B.C. (Comm. of St. Fr. Borgia)
12:10pm
Christy
& Rose Lawson RIP
Sun 11
19th
Sunday after Pentecost5pm
Vespers & Benediction
11:00am 6:00pm
Jim
Aherne’s intentions
Madeleine
Dunne RIP
Save babies: peaceful prayer
presence 6am to 9pm outside Liverpool BPAS abortuary for 40 days from 23rd
Sept. to 1st Nov. Can you give one hour? Contact Gabrielle
Stanley:
Liverpool40daysforlife@gmail.com; 07895128073. Website:
www.40daysforlife.com
Prayer intentions for our sick: John
Marechal, Hilda Creagan, John Sunderland (cancer), Wendy Moss
All
activities subject to Covid-19 regulations:
Weekly
Mothers’ (and Grandmothers’) Prayer Group resumes: every Wed. 1:00pm
Weekly family educational
afternoon: every Wed 1pm. Contact: Alison Kahn.
Priestly
Ordination of Deacon Roger Gilbride, FSSP (back
in New Zealand before Easter 2020 after his pastoral stage here at St Mary’s): Sat. 3rd October, Auckland,
New Zealand, by Bishop Denis Browne, Bishop emeritus of the Hamilton diocese.
A live-video link should be available via
www.fssp.nz. The times are: 10:30am NZT for the ordination and 12.30pm for the
First Mass. We hope then-Fr Gilbride will offer a First Mass here this year. Thank
you for having contributed to the spiritual bouquet to be sent to Deacon
Gilbride this week.
Volunteering: Can you help with cleaning the church, car parks,
Priory Court rooms/toilets? More specialised assistance is also envisaged for:
cooking for clergy, cleaning Presbytery, management of buildings, fundraising,
maintenance, light admin work etc. As St Mary’s Community increases, so do our
needs for help. Thank you for getting involved. Let us do more for God and
souls.
Maundy Thursday Homily on the Sacred Priesthood was our
peak live audience on LiveMass with 1,754 households connected. Listen to the
nine-minute homily by Fr Alex Stewart, FSSP, freshly uploaded here:
vimeo.com/455615905
The summer
issue of our quarterly magazine Dowry
will be released online later this week.
The (virtual) gathering is also so volunteers can be made aware of all the practical aspects of being at the vigil, including the Statement of Peace which everyone must abide by if they want to be at the vigil. Even if you only pray outside the abortion centre you are doing much more than you think, and great good can only come out of such witness. The very important thing to do is to be motivated by charity and love.
