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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.)
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’
