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.)
Fri 29 Jan 2021 at 17:00 – Sun 31 Jan 2021 at 14:00
St Mary’s Priory, Smith Street, Warrington WA1 2NS, England
[Obviously subject to Covid regulations in January: check our website for updates.]
Is God calling ME? Matrimony, celibacy, monastery, seminary, Fraternity?
If you are a single Catholic man between 18 and 29 years of age, come and discern with us at St Mary’s Priory & Church. Shrine Rector Fr de Malleray, FSSP will lead the Weekend, assisted by Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP and Fr Alex Stewart, FSSP. There will be talks, prayers (Divine Office in our beautiful church), Holy Mass and informal chatting with fellow guests. Possibility of private meetings with a priest, and of confession.
[No sign up sheet for the FSSP at the end of the Weekend!] Feel welcome confidentially to call, email or write for any questions. Residential, at St Mary’s Priory: 2 nights and 2 days. FREE for unwaged and students. Others: £60 per person in total.
COME & SEE. Please share the information with your friends!
BOOKINGS & CONTACT: [not via Facebook] malleray@fssp.org (read by Fr de Malleray only); 01925 635664 (Priory’s Landline).
—————————- VOCATION NEWS: 12 FSSP UK (& Ireland) PRIESTS IN 18 YEARS
We have currently six young men from England & Wales in formation at our two international seminaries. Three of our deacons from England were ordained priests at St Mary’s Warrington in the past few years by Archbishop McMahon, OP of Liverpool. Those were the first EF priestly ordinations by a diocesan bishop in England in fifty years.
In total, 43 young men were admitted into our two seminaries this past autumn including 1 from England.
We give thanks for 12 priests from the UK & Ireland over the past 18 years: Fr Konrad Loewenstein in 2002; Fr Brendan Gerard in 2006; Frs Matthew Goddard and William Barker in 2009; Fr Simon Harkins in 2010; Fr Matthew McCarthy in 2011; Fr Ian Verrier in 2015; Fr James Mawdsley in 2016; Frs Alex Stewart and Krzysztof Sanetra in 2017; Fr Seth Phipps and Fr Patrick O’Donohue (incorporated) in 2018.
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.
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.
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
Second hand clothes donated: ask
Mary Jones.
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.
The New liturgical
Year started last Sat 28th Nov with the First Vespers of Advent.
Let us prepare for the coming of the Saviour Child! O come, o come Emmanuel!
Contact us for material and financial support
if you struggle during
lockdown.
Speak confidentially to
any of the priests on
your next visit to our
church and we will help.
Use Priory Court Car Park: Now accessed through automated gates. Do ask the clergy for the access code on your next visit here, and kindly use that car park in priority, freeing the Church car park for occasional visitors unaware of the access code. Thank you.
A good opportunity to support fellow
Catholics in these difficult times: join our 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. This document
will not be shared electronically.
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. Please look at the successful Regina Caeli Academy model as an
option.
Our Lady of Guadalupe on Sat 12th Dec: pro-life devotions, veneration of the holy Image of Our Lady.
Second-hand handmissals for sale £15 each. + LMS booklets for sale: £3.00 per copy or
£5 for two copies. And more books. Ask us after Holy Mass. Cash only.
Having Holy Masses offered at St Mary’s: an excellent act of devotion and faith.
For the benefit of our congregation, we have decided to offer every week a Holy Mass for the following intentions:
Sunday 11am: All St Mary’s Faithful;
Wed evening: All Men at St Mary’s;
Fri: All St Mary’s penitents of the week.
We invite you to choose one from these three new intentions when you next hand to us an envelope with the usual Holy Mass stipend (circa £10.00 per Mass). In addition, you are of course welcome to continue to offer Holy Mass stipends with your own specific intentions.
St Mary’s clergy attended an online
Safeguarding session with about 40
fellow priests from the Liverpool Archdiocese on Fri 4th Dec.
Our quarterly magazine Dowry, Autumnissue, with many suggestions of
good books to read, is
available online hereand shortly in print.
Educational support group for ladies on
Sat 19th Dec, 1.30pm: limited numbers: booking required.
Christmas cards, Advent Calendars, etc available from Aid to the Church in Need website www.acnuk.org or by ringing 0345 241 6068 and
asking for a Catalogue.
Liverpool City Region (includes Wirral), Warrington and Cheshire will be in Covid Tier 2 from Wednesday 2nd December.
Churches will be able to reopen. The Government website says:
‘places of worship remain
open but you must not socialise with people from outside of your household or
support bubble while you are indoors there, unless a legal exemption applies’
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.
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.
Happy New liturgical Year! Starting on Saturday 28th Nov with First Vespers of Advent. Let us prepare for the coming of the Saviour Child! O come, o come Emmanuel!
Nov 2020 Lockdown: All are
welcome to watch Holy Mass with homily live on LiveMass.net at the usual
times: 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.
Opening Times
for Private Prayer:
Sunday: Church
OPENS 9:00am – Church CLOSES 10:30am – Church
OPENS 5:30pm – Church CLOSES 7:00pm
Mon-Fri: Church
OPENS 11:00am – Church CLOSES 12noon
Sat: Church
OPENS 10:00am (the Blessed Sacrament is exposed for private
adoration from 11am) – Church CLOSES 11:45am
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.
A priest is available at those times for
Confession and for private distribution of Holy Communion on request.
As during the
previous lockdown, St Mary’s clergy remains available for pastoral support.
Please do make
good use of the provision granted you to visit St Mary’s, in accordance with
our own Archbishop’s encouragements: “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.” Read here the
full response released by Cardinal Nichols and Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP,
and here the
Bishops Conference’s statement.
Contact us for material and financial support if you struggle during
lockdown. Speak confidentially to any of the priests on your visit at our church and we
will help.
End of lockdown on Wed 2nd
December?
Most of our usual activities are suspended due to Covid regulations. Check our website for updates around 2nd Dec.: https://fssp.co.uk/warrington/ .
No access: The gates currently standing
at the entrance of the Priory Court car park on Buttermarket Street will be
automated for safety and privacy. Please note that there will be no access to
Priory Court car park on 25th and 26th Nov. while the
work is taking place. Our other car park remains accessible via Smith Street.
A good opportunity to support fellow
Catholics in these difficult times: join our 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. This document
will not be shared electronically.
No more OFFERTORY COLLECTION. Kindly bring your collection in an
envelope and put it through the letter slot on the front door of St Mary’s
Presbytery (where we clergy live). It is even better for us if 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
PRINTING OUR NEW ST MARY’S LOGO!
Feel welcome to email us if you can recommend a firm that would print the logo on suitable surfaces such as mugs, tea towels, postcards, t-shirts, stickers, etc. Ideally, the same firm would also take online orders and send directly the items to customers on our behalf. In additions, some items could be purchased directly at St Mary’s. It is a good way of promoting St Mary’s Shrine while raising money for the ongoing needs of this beautiful church.
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. Please look at the successful Regina Caeli Academy model as an
option.
Reminder: many videos of homilies and conferences on permanent access on our https://vimeo.com/livemass channel.
Due to the latest Covid restrictions, the conference for all originally planned for Sunday 22nd Nov to discuss education at St Mary’s is cancelled. Anyone interested in making alternative arrangements, please contact Alison Kahn on 01925 727759 before then, to agree details.
LMS booklets for
sale: £3.00 per copy or
£5 for two copies.
HOLY MASS INTENTIONS:
Sun 22
XXIV and Last Sunday after Pentecost5pm Vespers & Benediction
11:00am[Private]
Kath Benson (RIP)
Keith Scott (RIP)
Mon 23
St Clement, Pope and Martyr
[Private]
12:10pm
Fr M
Katherine Benson
Tue 24
St. John of the Cross, Confessor
[Private]
12:10pm
Thanksgiving for exam success
Conor Jones
Wed 25
St. Catherine, Virgin
[Private]
12:10pm
[Private]
Leslie Ord
Mass of Thanksgiving
All men of St Mary’s
Thu 26
St. Silvester, Abbot
[Private]
12:10pm
Intentions of donor
Ronald Hannah
Fri 27
Feria
Votive Mass for the Forgiveness
of Sins
[Private]
12:10pm
Michelle Bradburn
All Penitents of the week
Sat 28
Adoration & Confessions 10:00am-12noon
Saturday of the Blessed Virgin
[Private]
12:10pm
Joseph King
Richard Doherty
Sun 29
I Sunday of Advent
11:00am
[Private]
All St Mary’s Faithful
Donor’s intention
Mon 30
St. Andrew, Apostle
Immaculate Conception Novena begins: 1-8 Dec.
[Private]
12:10pm
Holy Souls/Stephen Parkinson
Andrew and Colin Jones
Tue 1
Feria
Votive Mass for Vocations
[Private ]
12:10pm
Olwen Silvester Haig
For Vocations
Wed 2
St. Bibiana, Virgin
Martyr
[Private ]
12:10pm
[Private]
Holy Souls/Samuel Parkinson
Eileen Pattillau
All men of St Mary’s
Thu 3
St. Francis Xavier, Confessor
[Private ]
12:10pm
Holy Souls/Enda Cribbon
Colin Jones
Fri 4
St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor
Mass of the Sacred Heart
[Private ]
12:10pm
Ryan Fraser
All Penitents of the week
Sat 5
Adoration & Confessions 10:00am-12noon
Feria Immaculate
Heart of Mary
[Private ]
12:10pm
Fr Gilbride
Donald Trump
Sun 6
II
Sunday of Advent5pm Vespers & Benediction
11:00am
[Private]
All St Mary’s Faithful
Grace King
Church Cleaning Team: Thank you to all of you who kindly came
forward join this discreet but so necessary team, coordinated by Maria Haynes.
St Mary’s clergy attended an online
Safeguarding session with over 50 fellow priests from the Liverpool
Archdiocese, on Wed 18th Nov.
Our
quarterly magazine Dowry,
Autumnissue, with many suggestions of good books to read, will be released
online this week,
and soon in print.The current issueis available in print
and online here.
Christmas cards, Advent Calendars, etc available from Aid to the Church in Need website www.acnuk.org or by ringing 0345 241 6068 and
asking for a Catalogue.
Prayer
intentions for
our sick: Frances Fawcett, John Marechal, Hilda Creagan, John Sunderland, Steve
Humphrey.
The Archdiocese of Liverpool of which our beautiful Shrine Church is part invites you to answer a couple of simple questions to improve the liturgy in our part of the country. Please click on this link:
It will take you five minutes to support the good proposals by the Archdiocesan Synod, such as:
greater availability of the Extraordinary Form within the Archdiocese;
restricting the use of Extraordinary [lay] Ministers of Holy Communion;
Services of the Word and Communion to be reserved for Sunday in the absence of a priest;
on weekdays, when Mass is not celebrated, a variety of services should be provided, e.g. Divine Office, Rosary and novenas.
While most proposals don’t apply to the EF liturgy celebrated at St Mary’s, we must support the proposed improvements in Ordinary Form churches. Please make sure to type which parish you belong to, i.e. St Mary’s Shrine (within Blessed James Bell Parish), Warrington.
The liturgy is only one of the various aspects in the life of the Church about which the Synod welcomes your input. Feel welcome to express further ideas to the Synod team, in addition to this specific questionnaire.