Our peak live audience on LiveMass was on Maundy Thursday 2020 with 1,754 households connected.
Listen to the nine-minute homily by Fr Alex Stewart, FSSP, freshly uploaded here: https://vimeo.com/455615905
Maundy Thursday 2020 from LiveMass on Vimeo.
St Mary’s Shrine Church Bulletin
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
https://fssp.co.uk/warrington/ – facebook.com/fssp.england
Safeguarding: Children, teenagers and vulnerable adults must be accompanied or supervised at all times within the Shrine. If you have concerns, 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 via LiveMass.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.
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.
Access: Make sure to park in our TWO car parks, both of them adjacent to the church.
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 drop your offering.
Your financial support is greatly appreciated, since St Mary’s Shrine and community do not receive any money from the Liverpool Archdiocese where we serve. The cost of running St Mary’s is an estimated £1,700.00 per WEEK (including priests’ allowance and healthcare, car allowance and building maintenance).
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
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.
We give thanks for a pleasant celebration of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Saturday 22nd August in the Priory garden.
Holy Mass times 1-13 September 2020
Holy Rosary prayed at 11:30am every weekday.
| Tue 1 | St Giles (feria) | 12:10pm | Rawsthorne Family |
| Wed 2 | St. Stephen of Hungary | 12:10pm | Mary Lawton |
| Thu 3 | St. Pius X | 12:10pm | Holy Father & Bishops |
| Fri 4 | Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart | 12:10pm | Patrick Cahill RIP |
| Sat 5 | Adoration & Confessions 10:00am-12noon Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (St. Lawrence Justinian) | 12:10pm | Conor Jones |
| Sun 6 | 14th Sunday after Pentecost 5pm Vespers & Benediction | 11:00am 6:00pm | Ronald Hannah Doreen Houghton |
| Mon 7 | Mass Against Pestilence (feria) | 12:10pm | St Benedict’s Academy |
| Tue 8 | Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary | 12:10pm | Eileen Corcoran RIP |
| Wed 9 | Votive Mass of St Joseph (feria) Men’s Group 7:00pm | 12:10pm | Thanksgiving to St Joseph |
| Thu 10 | St. Nicholas of Tolentino | 12:10pm | Craig & Kayleigh Sartland |
| Fri 11 | Votive Mass for priestly Vocations | 12:10pm | FSSP Confraternity |
| Sat 12 | Adoration & Confessions 10:00am-12noon Most Holy Name of Mary | 12:10pm | Thanksgiving (Seymour Family) |
| Sun 13 | 15th Sunday after Pentecost 5pm Vespers & Benediction | 11:00am 6:00pm | Our Lady’s intentions Thanksgiving to St Joseph |
All activities subject to social distancing:
Men’s Group resumes on Wednesday 9th September, 7:00pm (talk & prayers, no Mass).
Youth Group Juventutem Warrington: Sat. 26th September, 10:00am – facebook.com/juventutem.warrington/.
Women’s Group: Sat 19th Sept, 1:00pm
Weekly Family educational afternoon: to be confirmed shortly
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. We hope then-Fr Gilbride will offer a First Mass here this year.
A spiritual bouquet will be offered to Deacon Gilbride by us at St Mary’s. Put in the basket in St Mary’s Porch an anonymous note with the prayers you pledge to offer for his intentions, for example: five decades of the Holy Rosary; or Litany of Loreto; or one hour of Eucharistic adoration; or attending one weekday Holy Mass, etc.
Deadline for bringing your prayer note: Sunday 20th September 7:00pm.
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.
New logo for St Mary’s: After consultation it was found that the depiction of Our Lady overleaf, from the great Lady Window above the altar, is the most recognisable feature of our church. It will be included in the official logo of St Mary’s Shrine, soon to be released.
Priory Campaign: With the summer recess behind us, we are now going to be able to update our fundraising figure. A rough estimate seems to indicate that your prayers and generosity might soon allow us to complete the purchase of Priory Court (Unit 1) before the mid-October deadline. We will soon communicate on this and on the plans and costs for the conversion work of the three units.
Thank you for celebrating the Immaculate Heart of Mary after Holy Mass last month in the Priory garden: it was a good opportunity to meet with our newer parishioners.
Unlike Communion on the hand which took place for some time in Christian antiquity, digital Communion never existed in the Catholic Church until modern times.
Find out more in this homily: https://vimeo.com/448629307 .
St Mary’s Priory, Smith Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 2NS, England 01925 635664 – warrington@fssp.org – https://fssp.co.uk/warrington/ – facebook.com/fssp.england
Confessions are heard in the confessional from 10.30am and during most of the 11.00am Mass, and again at 5.30pm before the 6.00pm Mass.
No booking is required to attend Mass at St Mary’s Shrine Church.
Please observe social distancing as signed, and kindly bring your face covering unless you are exempt as per Government guidelines (see last Sunday’s post on this page below).
Make sure to park in our TWO car parks, both of them adjacent to the church.
The better known one is accessed via Smith Street, a cul-de-sac off Mersey Street immediately on your left before The Borough Arms pub, and to the end of Smith Street through the gates and into the car park.
Our lesser known car park is easier to access and to exit: when driving along St Mary’s Church (on your left) on Buttermarket Street, turn left immediately before the Porter’s Ales House pub, into Priory Court car park, and walk through the pedestrian gate on your left into the back garden of the presbytery towards St Mary’s church.
Church Opening Times:
Weekdays 11:00am – 1:30pm & 5:00pm – 6:30pm
includes 12:10pm Holy Mass, following Confessions 11:40am-12:05pm and Holy Rosary 11:30am-11:55am
Saturdays: 10:00am-1:30pm (no opening in the afternoon)
With Confessions & Adoration 10am-12noon before 12:10pm Holy Mass
Sundays 10:00am– 1:00pm & 5:00pm-7:00pm
(no Sunday Vespers & Benediction in August)
Daily Mass open to all present on site, and accessible online for free daily via LiveMass.net)
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 drop your offering. Thank you for your vital support to St Mary’s.
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.
Celebrate the Immaculate Heart of Mary next Saturday: 22nd August after the 12:10pm Mass, meet in Priory Gardens for refreshments. For the sake of anti-virus regulations, would each household bring their own food and drinks?
Summer Recess in August:
There will be one priest at St Mary’s rather than 2 or 3 for most of August. He will be responsible for our usual schedule:
Mon-Sat: daily 12:10pm Mass and 11:40am Confessions (Sat: 10am-12noon Eucharistic adoration and Confessions)
Sundays: 10:30am Confessions; 11:00am Sung Mass; 5:30pm Confessions; 6:00pm Low Mass.
We look forward to resuming our Sunday Vespers & Benediction, Men’s Group, Women’s Group, Youth Group, Educational Activities and sacramental preparation in September, pandemic allowing.
Please bear with the priest in charge in August, remembering that our part-time Shrine Secretary Mrs Jane Wright is also away on a well-deserved summer break. For these reasons, please do not expect speedy responses from St Mary’s this month outside of cases of emergency.
Fr Henry Whisenant in East Anglia: Please do not write to him at St Mary’s, but contact him directly via his email address: henrywhiz@hotmail.com.
Looking Ahead in the UK:
From New Zealand Deacon Gilbride is asking for prayers as his priestly ordination now re-scheduled on October 3 in New Zealand. More on this later.
We are delighted that Fr Neil Brett, a diocesan priest, was given permission by his Bishop of Brentwood to join the FSSP as Postulant. He is to begin at our personal parish in Reading next month (with Frs Goddard and Phipps), succeeding Fr Patrick O’Donohue who is to launch our permanent apostolate in his home country of Ireland.
Fr Emerson remains in charge in Edinburgh.
At St Mary’s: There are no changes planned as regards Fr de Malleray and Fr Verrier. Fr Whisenant is now gone and Fr Stewart still unwell, not residing at St Mary’s. This leaves us at St Mary’s with fewer clergy than we were used to (unless some priest wishes to learn our ways here, succeeding Fr Whisenant). Two (youngish) priests is still twice more than during our first year (2015-2016). We are also grateful to Fr Andrew Jolly, a retired diocesan priest from Wigan, who generously assists us at St Mary’s for Holy Mass and Confessions.
But over the past 4 1/2 years, our congregation has grown and our activities have multiplied. The acquisition of 2/3 of Priory Court and the maintenance of St Mary’s Church and Priory, plus two car parks, manifest this dynamic expansion of St Mary’s Community against difficult odds. However, this also means a heavier load of administrative work. Without entering into details, and while thanks to the assistance of several competent persons we have done well so far, we will have of a necessity to muscle up our organisation for the care of the St Mary’s Shrine site. Unless additional competent and reactive collaborators are found, we might need to hire someone so that the two priests can meet the growing pastoral demands in accordance with their priestly calling, while shifting to lay persons more of the administrative tasks. We ask for your prayer for this important need.
Dear Newcomers:
With great joy, we have noticed many new faces in our pews since the reopening last month. We welcome you all wholeheartedly. Please note that like all other churches, we are prevented by the COVID restrictions from functioning as we would normally wish.
For instance, we are not allowed to provide as before a printed sheet with the epistles and gospels for the entire week. You can find them in your recent Traditional hand missal.
No more Baronius missals for now:
We also would normally give conferences to help everyone become more familiar with the traditional Latin Mass. This is more difficult because of the retrictions. But you can find explanations here https://lms.org.uk/resources .
Similarly, our parish hall is not yet re-opened. It is obviously an essential feature of our community life.
Do feel very welcome to chat with our parishioners after Holy Mass and ask any question about the traditional liturgy and spirituality. They made the same journey as you, since there was only the new Mass in English at St Mary’s until our Fraternity was invited to take over in November 2015. Naturally, priests are also happy to answer your queries and, after the Summer recess, to offer various options to support you and your family in your faith. Already, make use of the many articles in our online magazine Dowry: https://fssp.co.uk/category/dowry/
Your financial support is greatly appreciated, since St Mary’s Shrine and community do not receive any money from the Liverpool Archdiocese in which we serve. The cost of running St Mary’s (including priests’ allowance and healthcare, car allowance and building maintenance) is an estimated £1,700.00 per WEEK. 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.
Some of you many not know that St Mary’s Shrine is run by an international priestly society, the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP). The FSSP is the largest traditional priestly community in full communion with the Holy See: https://www.fssp.org/en/ . St Mary’s was owned and run by the Benedictines of the Abbey of Ampleforth. For want of priests, they had to withdraw and after two years the Archdiocese of Liverpool was about to shut down this magnificent church. Our Fraternity took it over. Our registered charity legally owns the church, presbytery and entire site. Archbishop McMahon of Liverpool entrusted us with the canonical mission of making the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite available to all in the Liverpool Archdiocese. Needless to say, anyone is welcome also from other dioceses. The Confirmation of 19 candidates from several dioceses last month illustrated this point. We are grateful for the active support of our Archbishop McMahon, who came twice to ordain our priests at St Mary’s and every year to confirm our candidates, always in the Traditional liturgy. He also granted the Imprimatur for the last two books by Fr de Malleray, X-ray of the Priest in A Field Hospital and Ego Eimi – It is I – Falling in Eucharistic Love.
Vocations:
Our three First Year seminarians from the UK & Ireland are to resume formation in Nebraska later this month after spending a fortnight on apostolate in Warrington and Reading. Please pray for them, as well as for our three other seminarians from the UK; and for possibly two new seminarians to begin formation in October. Pray also for two young ladies from our youth groups in England taking their first steps as religious sisters in America, and for three more actively discerning.
Face masks:
[The masks displayed here can be purchased on https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?iaCode=all-masks&query=virgin%20mary&ref=search_box]
The Government announced mandatory face masks in churches from 8th August. Until then, wearing a mask was only recommended. We at St Mary’s take every proportionate precaution to ensure the safety of our congregation. Our safety settings were checked and approved by the Archdiocesan authority.
For believers, such measures include spiritual welfare. We prayed and still recite after every Mass the Latin Prayer Against Pestilence from the Roman Ritual [click HERE to open this prayer in Latin and English as pdf to download or print].
We also had the Votive Mass Against Pestilence offered. Twice we had outdoor processions to ask God for protection, right before the lockdown and during (then with only the clergy and resident servers). Just before lockdown, we preventively administered the sacrament of Extreme Unction with Plenary Indulgence to 1/3 of our congregation.
Over the past 5 months, no member of our congregation has died from Coronavirus, and to our knowledge none has contracted the virus. Thanks be to God.
While wearing a facemasks is presented as a proportionate precaution (the pictures in this post show that it can also be a way of evangelising), the British Government recognises that not everyone is able to wear one. Anyone will agree that the mask makes breathing difficult, especially in this summer month; it also obscures one’s spectacles with moisture, causing trip hazard; some wearers can feel claustrophobic and others might feel distressed by the lack of facial communication. Should you fall into any such categories, the Government has provided a badge to print and wear so as to indicate that your not wearing a mask entails no neglect or carelessness. The Government writes (see below) that displaying or wearing such an exemption sign “is not necessary in law“. Click here to access the Government badges. Obviously no mask can be worn to receive Holy Communion.
We copy below the official Government guidelines on face covering exemptions as accessed on 8th August 2020.
In settings where face coverings are required in England, there are some circumstances, for health, age or equality reasons, where people are not expected to wear face coverings. Please be mindful and respectful of such circumstances, noting that some people are less able to wear face coverings, and that the reasons for this may not be visible to others.
It is not compulsory for employees of indoor settings or transport workers to wear face coverings (see section 6), although employers may consider their use where appropriate and where other mitigations are not in place. Employers should continue to follow COVID-19 Secure guidelines to reduce the proximity and duration of contact between employees.
You do not need to wear a face covering if you have a legitimate reason not to. This includes (but is not limited to):
There are also scenarios when you are permitted to remove a face covering when asked:
Exemption Cards
Those who have an age, health or disability reason for not wearing a face covering should not be routinely asked to give any written evidence of this, this includes exemption cards. No person needs to seek advice or request a letter from a medical professional about their reason for not wearing a face covering.
Some people may feel more comfortable showing something that says they do not have to wear a face covering.This could be in the form of an exemption card, badge or even a home-made sign.
This is a personal choice and is not necessary in law.
Access exemption card templates
For exemptions in different parts of the UK please refer to the specific guidance for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.”
[End of quote from the official Government guidelines on face covering exemptions as accessed on 1st August 2020 at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own#when-you-do-not-need-to-wear-a-face-covering.]
MASS INTENTIONS
| Sun 16 | 11th Sunday after Pentecost | 11:00am | Anne Bernadette Hall |
| 6:00pm | John Orm | ||
| Mon 17 | St. Hyacinth | 12:10pm | Rita Corcoran |
| Tue 18 | St. Helen, Empress | 12:10pm | Anne & John Norris R.I.P |
| Wed 19 | St. John Eudes | 12:10pm | Joseph Waitap |
| Thu 20 | St. Bernard of Clairvaux | 12:10pm | Patrick Evans |
| Fri 21 | St. Jane Frances de Chantal | 12:10pm | The Parkinson Family |
| Sat 22 | Immaculate Heart of Mary 10:00am-12noon Eucharistic Adoration & Confessions Refreshments in Priory Garden after Mass | 12:10pm | William Gately |
| Sun 23 | 12th Sunday after Pentecost | 11:00am | Paddy & Kirsty Parkinson |
| 6:00pm | FSSP | ||
| Mon 24 | St. Bartholomew | 12:10pm | Theresa Hall RIP |
| Tue 25 | St. Louis IX | 12:10pm | St Mary’s Clergy |
| Wed 26 | Votive Mass against Pestilence | 12:10pm | Jack & Agnes Weaver RIP |
| Thu 27 | St. Joseph Calasanz | 12:10pm | Patricia Crompton |
| Fri 28 | St. Augustine | 12:10pm | Swarbrick Family |
| Sat 29 | Beheading of St. John the Baptist 10:00am-12noon Eucharistic Adoration & Confessions | 12:10pm | Audrey & Colin Jones |
| Sun 30 | 13th Sunday after Pentecost | 11:00am | Alfie Joseph Turner |
| 6:00pm | Lucy Porter | ||
| Mon 31 | St. Aidan | 12:10pm | Frank Hall RIP |
And many more homilies and talks here: https://www.facebook.com/londonjuventutem/videos
Last month (July 2020) a generous benefactress bequeathed £50,000.00 from the estate of her late husband (R.I.P.) to the Priory Campaign. This is the fourth largest donation received since the beginning of our Campaign two years ago. It was totally unexpected and came as special blessing, since the benefactress was not in regular contact with us and does not live near Warrington. It confirms that our goal to secure a traditional stronghold in England appeals to Catholics nationwide, not only in the North West.
This providential donation brings completion within reach, leaving what we currently estimate to be only about £77,000 (this figure is still to be updated with more recent donations).
While we already own Units Two & Three (bought last October for £480k, i.e. £240k each), we need to raise the remaining funds before 16th October 2020 in order not only to complete the purchase of Unit One, currently leased to us, but also to carry out the necessary work to convert the property for our use.
As you are aware, our aspiration is to buy the remaining part of Priory Court (Unit 1) as part of the Campaign, but should we not have sufficient funds to convert and reconfigure the whole Priory Court building to better suit the needs of St Mary’s Shrine, then Unit One will be handed back to its owner in October 2020 and Campaign funds would then be used for the purposes of conversion and reconfiguration of the parts of Priory Court that we do own (namely, Units 2 and 3).
Each unit is 2,561 Sq ft on three floors. We will thus own 5,122 Sq ft, plus 18 parking spaces.
Please get in touch with us if you would like further clarification or wish to discuss a donation that you have made. Kindly email any inquiries to malleray@fssp.org.
God bless you.
Moving here? They are building the trad Village for us!
St Mary’s Shrine is the Catholic church building in the centre of Warrington. Warrington Borough Council is promoting the construction of many residential buildings within a few minutes walk from our Shrine. You could move here. Further below, we explained two years ago our vision for a strong traditional hub of families and individuals living geographically close to each other around our Shrine. The ongoing lockdown, with the extreme difficulty of accessing the sacraments and of finding support from among one’s peers, is leading Catholics to consider very seriously this option.
Right outside Priory Court, dozens of flats are currently being built. Fancy this: from your kitchen you could see the procession start and arrive in church before the Asperges begins, without having to cross any street! (Admittedly, better arrive earlier for Holy Mass.) Take a look for instance at: https://www.laneend.org/academy-street-warrington.
A few minutes walk south of St Mary’s Shrine, Howley is a quiet residential area with bungalows and small houses, with pedestrian access to Victoria Park through the lovely Howley suspension bridge across the Mersey River.
St Mary’s Priory, Smith Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 2NS, England 01925 635664 – warrington@fssp.org – https://fssp.co.uk/warrington/ – facebook.com/fssp.england
Extra Holy Mass today!
In addition to our usual 11.00am Sung Mass
and to our 6.00pm Low Mass (Celebrant & Homilist Fr Philomeno of the Marian Franciscans),
we will offer an extra Low Mass at 12:30pm.
Confessions are heard in the confessional from 10.30am and during most of the 11.00am Mass, and again at 5.30pm before the 6.00pm Mass.
No booking is required to attend Mass at St Mary’s Shrine Church.
Please observe social distancing as signed, and kindly bring your face covering unless you are exempt as per Government guidelines (see last Sunday’s post on this page below).
Make sure to park in our TWO car parks, both of them adjacent to the church.
The better known one is accessed via Smith Street, a cul-de-sac off Mersey Street immediately on your left before The Borough Arms pub, and to the end of Smith Street through the gates and into the car park.
Our lesser known car park is easier to access and to exit: when driving along St Mary’s Church (on your left) on Buttermarket Street, turn left immediately before the Crossed Keys pub, into Priory Court car park, and walk through the pedestrian gate on your left into the back garden of the presbytery towards St Mary’s church.
Church Opening Times:
Weekdays 11:00am – 1:30pm & 5:00pm – 6:30pm
includes 12:10pm Holy Mass, following Confessions 11:40am-12:05pm and Holy Rosary 11:30am-11:55am
Saturdays: 10:00am-1:30pm (no opening in the afternoon)
With Confessions & Adoration 10am-12noon before 12:10pm Holy Mass
Sundays 10:am– 1:00pm & 5:00pm-7:00pm
(no Sunday Vespers & Benediction in August)
Daily Mass open to all present on site, and accessible online for free daily via LiveMass.net)
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 drop your offering. Thank you for your vital support to St Mary’s.
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.
Summer Recess in August:
There will be one priest at St Mary’s rather than 2 or 3 for most of August. He will be responsible for our usual schedule:
Mon-Sat: daily 12:10pm Mass and 11:40am Confessions (Sat: 10am-12noon Eucharistic adoration and Confessions)
Sundays: 10:30am Confessions; 11:00am Sung Mass; 5:30pm Confessions; 6:00pm Low Mass.
We look forward to resuming our Sunday Vespers & Benediction, Men’s Group, Women’s Group, Youth Group, Educational Activities and sacramental preparation in September, pandemic allowing.
Please bear with the priest in charge in August, remembering that our part-time Shrine Secretary Mrs Jane Wright is also away on a well-deserved summer break. For these reasons, please do not expect speedy responses from St Mary’s this month outside of cases of emergency.
Good Bye Fr Whisenant!
Thank you to all for your very generous collection as a farewell gift to Fr Henry Whisenant last Sunday. He is now back in his home diocese of East Anglia after spending a year with us a priest-in-residence to learn the traditional ways. He asks for prayers, that his attempt to launch a traditional apostolate in his part of the country might be successful. Please do not write to him at St Mary’s, but contact him directly: henrywhiz@hotmail.com.
Looking Ahead in the UK:
From New Zealand Deacon Gilbride is asking for prayers as his priestly ordination scheduled on 8th August in Sydney’s cathedral was postponed again due to virus restrictions in Australia.
We are delighted that Fr Neil Brett, a diocesan priest, was given permission by his Bishop of Brentwood to join the FSSP as Postulant. He is to begin at our personal parish in Reading next month (with Frs Goddard and Phipps), succeeding Fr Patrick O’Donohue who is to launch our permanent apostolate in his home country of Ireland.
Fr Emerson remains in charge in Edinburgh.
At St Mary’s: There are no changes planned as regards Fr de Malleray and Fr Verrier. Fr Whisenant is now gone and Fr Stewart still unwell, not residing at St Mary’s. This leaves us at St Mary’s with fewer clergy than we were used to (unless some priest wishes to learn our ways here, succeeding Fr Whisenant). Two (youngish) priests is still twice more than during our first year (2015-2016). We are also grateful to Fr Andrew Jolly, a retired diocesan priest from Wigan, who generously assists us at St Mary’s for Holy Mass and Confessions.
But over the past 4 1/2 years, our congregation has grown and our activities have multiplied. The acquisition of 2/3 of Priory Court and the maintenance of St Mary’s Church and Priory, plus two car parks, manifest this dynamic expansion of St Mary’s Community against difficult odds. However, this also means a heavier load of administrative work. Without entering into details, and while thanks to the assistance of several competent persons we have done well so far, we will have of a necessity to muscle up our organisation for the care of the St Mary’s Shrine site. Unless additional competent and reactive collaborators are found, we might need to hire someone so that the two priests can meet the growing pastoral demands in accordance with their priestly calling, while shifting to lay persons more of the administrative tasks. We ask for your prayer for this important need.
Dear Newcomers:
With great joy, we have noticed many new faces in our pews since the reopening last month. We welcome you all wholeheartedly. Please note that like all other churches, we are prevented by the COVID restrictions from functioning as we would normally wish.
For instance, we are not allowed to provide as before a printed sheet with the epistles and gospels for the entire week. You can find them in your recent Traditional hand missal, or ask for a new copy of the Baronius one, available from us for £37 (cash only). You can also find the readings on our website via the link below on our website: http://divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl#
We also would normally give conferences to help everyone become more familiar with the traditional Latin Mass. This is more difficult because of the retrictions. But you can find explanations here https://lms.org.uk/resources .
Similarly, our parish hall is not yet re-opened. It is obviously an essential feature of our community life.
Do feel very welcome to chat with our parishioners after Holy Mass and ask any question about the traditional liturgy and spirituality. They made the same journey as you, since there was only the new Mass in English at St Mary’s until our Fraternity was invited to take over in November 2015. Naturally, priests are also happy to answer your queries and, after the Summer recess, to offer various options to support you and your family in your faith. Already, make use of the many articles in our online magazine Dowry: https://fssp.co.uk/category/dowry/
Your financial support is greatly appreciated, since St Mary’s Shrine and community do not receive any money from the Liverpool Archdiocese in which we serve. The cost of running St Mary’s (including priests’ allowance and healthcare, car allowance and building maintenance) is an estimated £1,700.00 per WEEK. 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.
Some of you many not know that St Mary’s Shrine is run by an international priestly society, the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP). The FSSP is the largest traditional priestly community in full communion with the Holy See: https://www.fssp.org/en/ . St Mary’s was owned and run by the Benedictines of the Abbey of Ampleforth. For want of priests, they had to withdraw and after two years the Archdiocese of Liverpool was about to shut down this magnificent church. Our Fraternity took it over. Our registered charity legally owns the church, presbytery and entire site. Archbishop McMahon of Liverpool entrusted us with the canonical mission of making the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite available to all in the Liverpool Archdiocese. Needless to say, anyone is welcome also from other dioceses. The Confirmation of 19 candidates from several dioceses last month illustrated this point. We are grateful for the active support of our Archbishop McMahon, who came twice to ordain our priests at St Mary’s and every year to confirm our candidates, always in the Traditional liturgy. He also granted the Imprimatur for the last two books by Fr de Malleray, X-ray of the Priest in A Field Hospital and Ego Eimi – It is I – Falling in Eucharistic Love.
Vocations:
Our three First Year seminarians from the UK & Ireland are to resume formation in Nebraska later this month after spending a fortnight on apostolate in Warrington and Reading. Please pray for them, as well as for our three other seminarians from the UK; and for possibly two new seminarians to begin formation in October. Pray also for two young ladies from our youth groups in England taking their first steps as religious sisters in America, and for three more actively discerning.
Face masks:
[The masks displayed here can be purchased on https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?iaCode=all-masks&query=virgin%20mary&ref=search_box]
The Government announced mandatory face masks in churches from 8th August. Until then, wearing a mask was only recommended. We at St Mary’s take every proportionate precaution to ensure the safety of our congregation. Our safety settings were checked and approved by the Archdiocesan authority.
For believers, such measures include spiritual welfare. We prayed and still recite after every Mass the Latin Prayer Against Pestilence from the Roman Ritual [click HERE to open this prayer in Latin and English as pdf to download or print].
We also had the Votive Mass Against Pestilence offered. Twice we had outdoor processions to ask God for protection, right before the lockdown and during (then with only the clergy and resident servers). Just before lockdown, we preventively administered the sacrament of Extreme Unction with Plenary Indulgence to 1/3 of our congregation.
Over the past 5 months, no member of our congregation has died from Coronavirus, and to our knowledge none has contracted the virus. Thanks be to God.
While wearing a facemasks is presented as a proportionate precaution (the pictures in this post show that it can also be a way of evangelising), the British Government recognises that not everyone is able to wear one. Anyone will agree that the mask makes breathing difficult, especially in this summer month; it also obscures one’s spectacles with moisture, causing trip hazard; some wearers can feel claustrophobic and others might feel distressed by the lack of facial communication. Should you fall into any such categories, the Government has provided a badge to print and wear so as to indicate that your not wearing a mask entails no neglect or carelessness. The Government writes (see below) that displaying or wearing such an exemption sign “is not necessary in law“. Click here to access the Government badges. Obviously no mask can be worn to receive Holy Communion.
We copy below the official Government guidelines on face covering exemptions as accessed on 8th August 2020.
In settings where face coverings are required in England, there are some circumstances, for health, age or equality reasons, where people are not expected to wear face coverings. Please be mindful and respectful of such circumstances, noting that some people are less able to wear face coverings, and that the reasons for this may not be visible to others.
It is not compulsory for employees of indoor settings or transport workers to wear face coverings (see section 6), although employers may consider their use where appropriate and where other mitigations are not in place. Employers should continue to follow COVID-19 Secure guidelines to reduce the proximity and duration of contact between employees.
You do not need to wear a face covering if you have a legitimate reason not to. This includes (but is not limited to):
There are also scenarios when you are permitted to remove a face covering when asked:
Exemption Cards
Those who have an age, health or disability reason for not wearing a face covering should not be routinely asked to give any written evidence of this, this includes exemption cards. No person needs to seek advice or request a letter from a medical professional about their reason for not wearing a face covering.
Some people may feel more comfortable showing something that says they do not have to wear a face covering.This could be in the form of an exemption card, badge or even a home-made sign.
This is a personal choice and is not necessary in law.
Access exemption card templates
For exemptions in different parts of the UK please refer to the specific guidance for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.”
[End of quote from the official Government guidelines on face covering exemptions as accessed on 1st August 2020 at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own#when-you-do-not-need-to-wear-a-face-covering.]
MASS INTENTIONS
| 9 | 10th Sunday after Pentecost | 11:00am | Sam Kennedy |
| EXTRA THIRD SUNDAY MASS today | 12:30pm | Celebrant’s intention | |
| (No Vespers & Benediction) | 6:00pm | Thanksgiving (Polkey Family) | |
| 10 | St. Lawrence | 12:10pm | FSSP Confraternity |
| 11 | Votive Mass to support priestly vocations (Feria) | 12:10pm | Josephine Swift |
| 12 | St. Clare | 12:10pm | Joyce Lyons |
| 13 | Sts. Hippolytus & Cassian (Comm.) | 12:10pm | Joseph King |
| 14 | Vigil of the Assumption | 12:10pm | Colette Hanna |
| 15 | Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (probably not of obligation this year) | 12:10pm | Joanne King |
| 16 | 11th Sunday after Pentecost | 11:00am | Anne Bernadette Hall |
| (No Vespers & Benediction) | 6:00pm | John Orm |
And many more homilies and talks here: https://www.facebook.com/londonjuventutem/videos
St Mary’s Priory, Smith Street, Warrington, Cheshire, WA1 2NS, England 01925 635664 – warrington@fssp.org – https://fssp.co.uk/warrington/ facebook.com/fssp.engl
Church Opening Times:
Weekdays 11:00am – 1:30pm & 5:00pm – 6:30pm
includes 12:10pm Holy Mass, following Confessions 11:40am-12:05pm and Holy Rosary 11:30am-11:55am
Saturdays: 10:00am-1:30pm (no opening in the afternoon)
With Confessions & Adoration 10am-12noon before 12:10pm Holy Mass
Sundays 10:am– 1:00pm & 5:00pm-7:00pm
(no Sunday Vespers & Benediction in August)
Daily Mass open to all present on site, and accessible online for free daily via LiveMass.net)
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 drop your offering. Thank you for your vital support to St Mary’s.
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.
Summer Recess in August:
There will be one priest at St Mary’s rather than 2 or 3 for most of August. He will be responsible for our usual schedule:
Mon-Sat: daily 12:10pm Mass and 11:40am Confessions (Sat: 10am-12noon Eucharistic adoration and Confessions)
Sundays: 10:30am Confessions; 11:00am Sung Mass; 5:30pm Confessions; 6:00pm Low Mass.
We look forward to resuming our Sunday Vespers & Benediction, Men’s Group, Women’s Group, Youth Group, Educational Activities and sacramental preparation in September, pandemic allowing.
Please bear with the priest in charge in August, remembering that our part-time Shrine Secretary Mrs Jane Wright is also away on a well-deserved summer break. For these reasons, please do not expect speedy responses from St Mary’s this month outside of cases of emergency.
Good Bye Fr Whisenant!
Thank you to all for your very generous collection as a farewell gift to Fr Henry Whisenant last Sunday. He is now back in his home diocese of East Anglia after spending a year with us a priest-in-residence to learn the traditional ways. He asks for prayers, that his attempt to launch a traditional apostolate in his part of the country might be successful. Please do not write to him at St Mary’s, but contact him directly: henrywhiz@hotmail.com.
Looking Ahead in the UK:
From New Zealand Deacon Gilbride is asking for prayers as his priestly ordination scheduled on 8th August in Sydney’s cathedral was postponed again due to virus restrictions in Australia.
We are delighted that Fr Neil Brett, a diocesan priest, was given permission by his Bishop of Brentwood to join the FSSP as Postulant. He is to begin at our personal parish in Reading next month (with Frs Goddard and Phipps), succeeding Fr Patrick O’Donohue who is to launch our permanent apostolate in his home country of Ireland.
Fr Emerson remains in charge in Edinburgh.
At St Mary’s: There are no changes planned as regards Fr de Malleray and Fr Verrier. Fr Whisenant is now gone and Fr Stewart still unwell, not residing at St Mary’s. This leaves us at St Mary’s with fewer clergy than we were used to (unless some priest wishes to learn our ways here, succeeding Fr Whisenant). Two (youngish) priests is still twice more than during our first year (2015-2016). We are also grateful to Fr Andrew Jolly, a retired diocesan priest from Wigan, who generously assists us at St Mary’s for Holy Mass and Confessions.
But over the past 4 1/2 years, our congregation has grown and our activities have multiplied. The acquisition of 2/3 of Priory Court and the maintenance of St Mary’s Church and Priory, plus two car parks, manifest this dynamic expansion of St Mary’s Community against difficult odds. However, this also means a heavier load of administrative work. Without entering into details, and while thanks to the assistance of several competent persons we have done well so far, we will have of a necessity to muscle up our organisation for the care of the St Mary’s Shrine site. Unless additional competent and reactive collaborators are found, we might need to hire someone so that the two priests can meet the growing pastoral demands in accordance with their priestly calling, while shifting to lay persons more of the administrative tasks. We ask for your prayer for this important need.
Dear Newcomers:
With great joy, we have noticed many new faces in our pews since the reopening last month. We welcome you all wholeheartedly. Please note that like all other churches, we are prevented by the COVID restrictions from functioning as we would normally wish.
For instance, we are not allowed to provide as before a printed sheet with the epistles and gospels for the entire week. You can find them in your recent Traditional hand missal, or ask for a new copy of the Baronius one, available from us for £37 (cash only). You can also find the readings on our website via the link below on our website: http://divinumofficium.com/cgi-bin/missa/missa.pl#
We also would normally give conferences to help everyone become more familiar with the traditional Latin Mass. This is more difficult because of the retrictions. But you can find explanations here https://lms.org.uk/resources .
Similarly, our parish hall is not yet re-opened. It is obviously an essential feature of our community life.
Do feel very welcome to chat with our parishioners after Holy Mass and ask any question about the traditional liturgy and spirituality. They made the same journey as you, since there was only the new Mass in English at St Mary’s until our Fraternity was invited to take over in November 2015. Naturally, priests are also happy to answer your queries and, after the Summer recess, to offer various options to support you and your family in your faith. Already, make use of the many articles in our online magazine Dowry: https://fssp.co.uk/category/dowry/
Your financial support is greatly appreciated, since St Mary’s Shrine and community do not receive any money from the Liverpool Archdiocese in which we serve. The cost of running St Mary’s (including priests’ allowance and healthcare, car allowance and building maintenance) is an estimated £1,700.00 per WEEK. 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.
Some of you many not know that St Mary’s Shrine is run by an international priestly society, the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP). The FSSP is the largest traditional priestly community in full communion with the Holy See: https://www.fssp.org/en/ . St Mary’s was owned and run by the Benedictines of the Abbey of Ampleforth. For want of priests, they had to withdraw and after two years the Archdiocese of Liverpool was about to shut down this magnificent church. Our Fraternity took it over. Our registered charity legally owns the church, presbytery and entire site. Archbishop McMahon of Liverpool entrusted us with the canonical mission of making the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite available to all in the Liverpool Archdiocese. Needless to say, anyone is welcome also from other dioceses. The Confirmation of 19 candidates from several dioceses last month illustrated this point. We are grateful for the active support of our Archbishop McMahon, who came twice to ordain our priests at St Mary’s and every year to confirm our candidates, always in the Traditional liturgy. He also granted the Imprimatur for the last two books by Fr de Malleray, X-ray of the Priest in A Field Hospital and Ego Eimi – It is I – Falling in Eucharistic Love.
Vocations:
Our three First Year seminarians from the UK & Ireland are to resume formation in Nebraska later this month after spending a fortnight on apostolate in Warrington and Reading. Please pray for them, as well as for our three other seminarians from the UK; and for possibly two new seminarians to begin formation in October. Pray also for two young ladies from our youth groups in England taking their first steps as religious sisters in America, and for three more actively discerning.
Face masks:
[The masks displayed here can be purchased on https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?iaCode=all-masks&query=virgin%20mary&ref=search_box]
The Government announced on 31st July 2020 mandatory face masks in churches from 8th August. Until then, wearing a mask is only recommended. We at St Mary’s take every proportionate precaution to ensure the safety of our congregation. Our safety settings were checked and approved by the Archdiocesan authority.
For believers, such measures include spiritual welfare. We prayed and still recite after every Mass the Latin Prayer Against Pestilence from the Roman Ritual. We also had the Votive Mass Against Pestilence offered. Twice we had outdoor processions to ask God for protection, right before the lockdown and during (then with only the clergy and resident servers). Just before lockdown, we preventively administered the sacrament of Extreme Unction with Plenary Indulgence to 1/3 of our congregation. Over the past 5 months, no member of our congregation has died from Coronavirus, and to our knowledge none has contracted the virus. Thanks be to God.
While wearing a facemasks is presented as a proportionate precaution (the pictures in this post show that it can also be a way of evangelising), the British Government recognises that not everyone is able to wear one. Anyone will agree that the mask makes breathing difficult, especially in this summer month; it also obscures one’s spectacles with moisture, causing trip hazard; some wearers can feel claustrophobic and others might feel distressed by the lack of facial communication. Should you fall into any such categories, the Government has provided a badge to print and wear so as to indicate that your not wearing a mask entails no neglect or carelessness. The Government writes (see below) that displaying or wearing such an exemption sign “is not necessary in law“. Click here to access the Government badges. Obviously no mask can be worn to receive Holy Communion.
We copy below the official Government guidelines on face covering exemptions as accessed on 1st August 2020.
In settings where face coverings are required in England, there are some circumstances, for health, age or equality reasons, where people are not expected to wear face coverings. Please be mindful and respectful of such circumstances, noting that some people are less able to wear face coverings, and that the reasons for this may not be visible to others.
It is not compulsory for employees of indoor settings or transport workers to wear face coverings (see section 6), although employers may consider their use where appropriate and where other mitigations are not in place. Employers should continue to follow COVID-19 Secure guidelines to reduce the proximity and duration of contact between employees.
You do not need to wear a face covering if you have a legitimate reason not to. This includes (but is not limited to):
There are also scenarios when you are permitted to remove a face covering when asked:
Exemption Cards
Those who have an age, health or disability reason for not wearing a face covering should not be routinely asked to give any written evidence of this, this includes exemption cards. No person needs to seek advice or request a letter from a medical professional about their reason for not wearing a face covering.
Some people may feel more comfortable showing something that says they do not have to wear a face covering.This could be in the form of an exemption card, badge or even a home-made sign.
This is a personal choice and is not necessary in law.
Access exemption card templates
For exemptions in different parts of the UK please refer to the specific guidance for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.”
[End of quote from the official Government guidelines on face covering exemptions as accessed on 1st August 2020 at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own/face-coverings-when-to-wear-one-and-how-to-make-your-own#when-you-do-not-need-to-wear-a-face-covering.]
MASS INTENTIONS
| 2 | 9th Sunday after Pentecost | 11:00am | Margaret Lawless |
| No Vespers & Benediction | 6:00pm | Joseph Freeman | |
| 3 | Votive Mass against Pestilence (Feria) | 12:10pm | Robinson Family |
| 4 | St. Dominic | 12:10pm | Harold Pitts |
| 5 | Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major | 12:10pm | Anthony Crutch |
| 6 | Transfiguration of Our Lord | 12:10pm | Sr Maria Michaela |
| 7 | Votive Mass of the Sacred Heart (St. Cajetan) | 12:10pm | Peggy Latham |
| 8 | St. John Mary Vianney | 12:10pm | Conversion of Sinners |
| 9 | 10th Sunday after Pentecost | 11:00am | Sam Kennedy |
| No Vespers & Benediction | 6:00pm | Thanksgiving (Polkey Family) | |
| 10 | St. Lawrence | 12:10pm | FSSP Confraternity |
| 11 | Votive Mass to support priestly vocations (Feria) | 12:10pm | Josephine Swift |
| 12 | St. Clare | 12:10pm | Joyce Lyons |
| 13 | Sts. Hippolytus & Cassian (Comm.) | 12:10pm | Joseph King |
| 14 | Vigil of the Assumption | 12:10pm | Colette Hanna |
| 15 | Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (not of obligation this year) | 12:10pm | Joanne King |
| 16 | 11th Sunday after Pentecost | 11:00am | Anne Bernadette Hall |
| No Vespers & Benediction | 6:00pm | John Orm |
And many more homilies and talks here: https://www.facebook.com/londonjuventutem/videos
Congratulations to our five adult converts who were received into the Church last Friday and made their First Holy communion last weekend, and to our 19 candidates who received the Sacrament of Confirmation from Archbishop McMahon last Saturday. So many graces! Thank you to all those who helped make this possible: His Grace who came from Liverpool again this year; Fr Whisenant for the very hard work put in preparing the many candidates; Fr Verrier who drove back a long way to do the music; Fr Andrew Jolly who attended in choir after hearing confessions; our flower artist; our stewards; our LiveMass operator; our lay servers and so many more. Please pray for our new Catholics and newly confirmed ones.
Juventutem youth group (18+) on Saturday 25 August: contact Juventutem Warrington on Facebook.
Mass intentions 19 July – 2 August 2020
| Sun 19 | VII Sunday after Pentecost 5pm Vespers & Benediction | 11:00am 6:00pm | Patrick Parkinson Celebrant’s intention |
| Mon 20 | St Jerome Emiliani | 12:10pm | Joe de Luca |
| Tue 21 | St Lawrence of Brindisi | 12:10pm | Gavin Gogley |
| Wed 22 | St Mary Magdalene; Men’s Group 8pm | 12:10pm | Parkinson Family |
| Thu 23 | St Apollinaris | 12:10pm | Romeo |
| Fri 24 | Votive Requiem | 12:10pm | Christopher Connor RIP |
| Sat 25 | St James, Apostle | 12:10pm | Karen McKay |
| Sun 26 | VIII Sunday after Pentecost 5pm Vespers & Benediction | 11:00am 6:00pm | Eileen Corcoran RIP Celebrant’s intention |
| Mon 27 | Votive Mass of St John Fisher | 12:10pm | FSSP Reading |
| Tue 28 | Ss Nazarius & Celsus, & Victor & Innocent | 12:10pm | Daniel & Ethan Jones |
| Wed 29 | St Martha; Men’s Group 8pm | 12.10pm | Holy Souls & FOSS members |
| Thu 30 | Votive Mass for Vocations | 12:10pm | Daniel Jones |
| Fri 31 | St Ignatius Loyola | 12:10 | Conor Jones |
| Sat 1 | St Peter in Chains, 3rd class FSSP | 12:10 | Francine Hannah |
| Sun 2 | IX Sunday after Pentecost 5pm Vespers & Benediction | 11:00am 6:00pm | Margaret Lawless Celebrant’s intention |
Opening Times:
Weekdays 11:00am – 1:30pm & 5:00pm – 6:30pm
includes 12:10pm Holy Mass after Confessions 11:40am-12:05pm
(and most evenings Sung Vespers at 6pm)
Saturdays: 10:00am-1:30pm (no opening in the afternoon)
With Confessions & Adoration 10am-12noon before 12:10pm Holy Mass
Sundays 10:am– 1:00pm & 5:00pm-7:00pm
(includes Sung Vespers & Benediction 5pm-6pm open to all present in church, and via LiveMass.net)
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.
A word by Fr Henry Whisenant who is going back to his diocese:
“Following on from Fr de Malleray’s announcement and his gracious words at Sunday Mass about my return to East Anglia to take up an appointment there, I would like to publicly thank him for his generosity in making me so welcome this whole last year as I lived in this community and discerned what was the next step for me in the priestly apostolate. I will always remember with fondness and gratitude my time with the clergy of this house (also Fr Verrier with whom I have so happily spent the year, Fr Stuart and Deacon Gilbride for the time that they have been here, and Fr Loewenstein at the very beginning), and although I have much yet to learn in terms of the Church’s rich tradition, what I am familiar with is thanks to them, and is therefore very much a fruit of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter. I am also more grateful than words can tell to you, the faithful of this parish, who have shown me such natural and unstinting kindness. Please pray for my first steps in this new venture and know that you will remain in my prayers.”
Father Whisenant spent the past year as priest in residence at St Mary’s to learn better the traditional ways. Recently he chose to accept an offer from his bishop of East Anglia to launch a traditional ministry in rural Suffolk. In the name of all, let Father Whisenant be thanked for his great dedication here over the past year. Through fine homilies and talks, through one-to-one instructions to converts, through visits to those in need and through his cheerful involvement in the life of us clergy, Fr Whisenant has so naturally become part of our lives that we assumed he had been here for years. We assure him of our prayer for his new apostolate, knowing that our loss will be a long-awaited gain for families in the diocese of East Anglia. Father will leave on 29th July.
Homily on the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel: https://vimeo.com/439105701.
Sermon on the Feast of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel from LiveMass on Vimeo.
SAFETY: Thank you for paying attention to the various signs displayed throughout the church for your safety as approved by the Liverpool Archdiocese. This includes the one way system, the social distancing in the aisles and in the pews. Would members of the same household kindly keep together and leave a gap between them and other people? Thank you. Individuals and smaller households are invited to sit in the side pews.
The Holy Water fonts are left empty. If you bring an empty plastic bottle, we can fill it in for you to take home.
The Offertory Collection will take place at the end of Mass as you walk out. At the back of the church a steward will hold a basket before you, for you to drop your offering in it without touching the basket. Thank you in advance for your generosity.
Holy Communion will not take place during Holy Mass until further notice. But any Catholic in state of grace and fasting for an hour may receive Holy Communion right at the end of Mass. This will take place kneeling (unless crippled) all along the Communion Rail, and on the tongue, according to the traditional form in force at St Mary’s Shrine. Stand at least one meter behind the first line of communicants. Then kneel down all along the rail, with one meter gap between households. The priests will sanitise their fingers right before Holy Communion and will stand about one meter from each communicant. The priests’ fingers do not touch the communicant’s lips, chin or tongue if the mouth is normally open. If you have any concerns, we invite you to make a spiritual Communion instead.
Please pray for Fr Alex Stewart, FSSP, still sick at home.
We thank Fr Andrew Jolly, acting as sacred minister at the Solemn High Mass on the FSSP’s 32nd anniversary of foundation last Saturday.
Wednesday Men’s group at 8pm as usual.
HOW WE CAN IMPROVE OUR VISITS TO CHURCH:
Did we ask ourselves how we could improve our behaviour while in the House of God, lest after four months some habits were lost? Allow us the following reminders, or encouragements:
Why all this dear friends? Because a Catholic church building is the House of the true God. Here is where the Saviour of all men truly dwells.
O God, the world is YOURS, but the Host is YOU.
FOURTEEN PRIESTS ORDAINED
Deo gratias for the ordination of
3 priests in the cathedral of Laon, France. See the great pictures of the ordinations: http://fsspwigratzbad.blogspot.com/2020/06/2020-ordination-de-trois-pretres.html
Pray for more priests via the Confraternity of St Peter: https://www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/
Now available to purchase online – or with 1/3 discount at St Mary’s £10.00 (cash only) instead of £15.00 :
X-RAY OF THE PRIEST in a field hospital
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Since no priest wishes to be mediocre, why do many think priestly holiness too ambitious a goal? This book identifies sinful hindrances and spiritual resources for a fruitful and rewarding priestly life in the twenty-first century. These reflections are drawn from the author’s traditional priestly formation and from his twenty years of experience as retreat master for clergy and laity, and as vocations promoter.
Praise for the book:
This call ‘back to basics’ for the Latin clergy, set within a clear doctrinal framework, is written with both imagination and rigour, and merits a wide readership, including bishops and religious superiors. – Fr Aidan Nichols, O.P., author of Holy Order: The Apostolic Ministry from the New Testament to the Second Vatican Council, (Veritas Publications)
No priest doing his duty, trying to love God and neighbor, and trying to pick up his daily cross will suddenly decide, “I think I’ll have a go at some adultery.” He might wind up in grave treason to Our Lord, but the winding will not be sudden. He will slide into it. Conversely, he will not be able to jump up to the heights of sanctity; he’ll have to climb. This book will be of great value to anyone who would like to know how to avoid the slide, and what to do in order to climb. Fr. de Malleray’s timely yet classic approach to the priesthood in our times is a jewel. I thank God he wrote it. – Fr James Jackson, FSSP, author of Nothing Superfluous (Redbrush)
This book presents a convincing and compelling account of the stamp and character of the priest. It is at once profoundly practical and sublimely spiritual. We have over forty men in our Faculty preparing for lives as priests across China, Latin America, East and South East Asia. I am convinced that every single one of them will profit greatly and be strengthened in their vocations by reading and re-reading carefully, attentively and prayerfully Fr de Malleray’s advice. – Revd Prof Stephen Morgan, Rector of the University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China
Written from an unapologetically traditionalist position, this book is in no way the less spiritually challenging and thought provoking. One does not have to agree with everything in it to come away with much material to help one discern how to be a better priest in the contemporary Church. There is also a good section on vocations. – Revd Dr Michael Cullinan, M.A.(Oxon.), M.A.St.(Cantab.), Ph.D. (Cantab.), S.T.D. (Alfonsianum), Director of Maryvale Higher Institute of Religious Sciences
Fr de Malleray’s reflections on the nature of the priesthood are fascinating and perceptive, and will edify both clerical and lay readers. – Dr Joseph Shaw, PhD, Oxf, Chairman of The Latin Mass Society
Father de Malleray has once more strengthened the sensus fidei, refining the themes introduced in Ego Eimi to focus more particularly on the gift of the Sacred Priesthood. We are grateful to Father for having penned these reflections, covering a wide scope of aspects of the greatest dignity conferred on man. His words gain particular resonance among our Sisters, who are dedicated to prayer, sacrifice and hospitality toward priests, as well as the making of sacred vestments. May Father’s meditations spur on an even deeper urgency in spiritual support of our priests, that they may ever remain faithful to their own vocations, and in handing down the traditions and fullness of our holy faith. This is wonderful book that I heartily recommend. – Mother Abbess Cecilia, osb, Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus (Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, Gower, MO)
Full of instruction yet easy to read; an inspiring vademecum for priests, seminarians and those considering a priestly vocation. – Fr Thomas Crean, O.P., author of The Mass and the Saints (Family Publications)
Also available on Amazon and other online retailers.
176 pages; Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Purchase: from the Publisher’s website: https://aroucapress.com/x-ray-of-the-priest
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Newly released book by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP
https://aroucapress.com/x-ray-of-the-priest
Since no priest wishes to be mediocre, why do many think priestly holiness too ambitious a goal? This book identifies sinful hindrances and spiritual resources for a fruitful and rewarding priestly life in the twenty-first century. These reflections are drawn from the author’s traditional priestly formation and from his twenty years of experience as retreat master for clergy and laity, and as vocations promoter.
Praise for the book:
This call ‘back to basics’ for the Latin clergy, set within a clear doctrinal framework, is written with both imagination and rigour, and merits a wide readership, including bishops and religious superiors. – Fr Aidan Nichols, O.P., author of Holy Order: The Apostolic Ministry from the New Testament to the Second Vatican Council, (Veritas Publications)
No priest doing his duty, trying to love God and neighbor, and trying to pick up his daily cross will suddenly decide, “I think I’ll have a go at some adultery.” He might wind up in grave treason to Our Lord, but the winding will not be sudden. He will slide into it. Conversely, he will not be able to jump up to the heights of sanctity; he’ll have to climb. This book will be of great value to anyone who would like to know how to avoid the slide, and what to do in order to climb. Fr. de Malleray’s timely yet classic approach to the priesthood in our times is a jewel. I thank God he wrote it. – Fr James Jackson, FSSP, author of Nothing Superfluous (Redbrush)
This book presents a convincing and compelling account of the stamp and character of the priest. It is at once profoundly practical and sublimely spiritual. We have over forty men in our Faculty preparing for lives as priests across China, Latin America, East and South East Asia. I am convinced that every single one of them will profit greatly and be strengthened in their vocations by reading and re-reading carefully, attentively and prayerfully Fr de Malleray’s advice. – Revd Prof Stephen Morgan, Rector of the University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China
Written from an unapologetically traditionalist position, this book is in no way the less spiritually challenging and thought provoking. One does not have to agree with everything in it to come away with much material to help one discern how to be a better priest in the contemporary Church. There is also a good section on vocations. – Revd Dr Michael Cullinan, M.A.(Oxon.), M.A.St.(Cantab.), Ph.D. (Cantab.), S.T.D. (Alfonsianum), Director of Maryvale Higher Institute of Religious Sciences
Fr de Malleray’s reflections on the nature of the priesthood are fascinating and perceptive, and will edify both clerical and lay readers. – Dr Joseph Shaw, PhD, Oxf, Chairman of The Latin Mass Society
Father de Malleray has once more strengthened the sensus fidei, refining the themes introduced in Ego Eimi to focus more particularly on the gift of the Sacred Priesthood. We are grateful to Father for having penned these reflections, covering a wide scope of aspects of the greatest dignity conferred on man. His words gain particular resonance among our Sisters, who are dedicated to prayer, sacrifice and hospitality toward priests, as well as the making of sacred vestments. May Father’s meditations spur on an even deeper urgency in spiritual support of our priests, that they may ever remain faithful to their own vocations, and in handing down the traditions and fullness of our holy faith. This is wonderful book that I heartily recommend. – Mother Abbess Cecilia, osb, Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus (Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, Gower, MO)
Full of instruction yet easy to read; an inspiring vademecum for priests, seminarians and those considering a priestly vocation. – Fr Thomas Crean, O.P., author of The Mass and the Saints (Family Publications)
As one who had the privilege of reading the manuscript before its publication, I am happy to recommend this robust set of meditations.” – Dr Peter Kwasniewski, author of Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass (Angelico, 2020)
ISBN: 978-1-989905-01-2 (pbk) | $14.95 USD
ISBN: 978-1-989905-02-9 (hardcover) | $19.95 USD
ISBN: 978-1-989905-14-2 (e-book; Amazon) | $9.95 USD (link will be available soon)
Also available on Amazon and other online retailers.
176 pages
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Today, an on-line conference for all.
Details here: https://voiceofthefamily.com/events/love-and-reverence-to-our-lord-lets-always-receive-holy-communion-on-the-tongue/
An online conference “Love and reverence due to Our Lord: Let’s always receive Holy Communion on the tongue” will be held on Thursday, 16 July 2020 from 12:00pm EST until 2:30pm.
This event is being held online for free and can be viewed on LifeSite’s YouTube channel and on the LifeSiteNews Catholic Facebook page. To bookmark the LifeSite YouTube channel, click here.
The event will feature the following guests:
No registration is necessary. Please tune in Thursday, 16 July 2020 beginning at 12:00pm EST!
All presentations will be readily available to watch immediately afterwards if you cannot attend.
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About the theme of this conference
Voice of the Family in union with the pro-life movement worldwide advocates for the inviolability and value of human life and proudly so. Indeed, we consider it a privilege and honour to defend the most vulnerable human lives. Many in the pro-life movement are prepared to lay down their own lives for the lives of those they seek to protect. This is the strength of our commitment.
And yet there is something even more precious than the sanctity of human life, and this is the divine life truly present in the Holy Eucharist in His Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. Our greatest treasure on earth is the Blessed Sacrament. There is no other nation so great, the Divine Office of Corpus Christi sings, “as to have its gods so near as our God is present to us”. The Eucharist is our dearest treasure and the thought of having it so near to us in our Catholic churches fills us with gratitude and awe.
We rejoice as churches around the world re-open. Our Lord in the Holy Eucharist can be received again. But whilst the life of a Catholic might be characterised as discerning how we can best offer the love and reverence due to Our Lord, Catholics in many places in the world are now faced with a new and terrible challenge of how are we allowed to worship Our Lord. New regulations, issued by some of the world’s bishops, recommend that the faithful receive Holy Communion in the hand and, in the most radical cases, including in Britain, bishops attempt to ban Holy Communion on the tongue. These recommendations contradict divine and Church law, they obscure the reality of the Real Presence, and they lead the faithful, albeit, please God, in most cases unintentionally, to engage in practices lacking in reverence towards the divine life.
What are we, the laity, to do in such a situation? How can we defend the Eucharist and offer Our Lord the love and reverence due to Him?
First, we must know that by insisting on receiving Holy Communion on the tongue, we are standing on solid ground, prepared by the Tradition of the Church and made fertile with the blood of her martyrs. Tradition demands the greatest possible reverence towards the Holy Eucharist. In fact, serious punishments used to be reserved for practices which are being recommended by some bishops today. The faithful are being misled into believing that the responsible option is to receive Our Lord in the hand despite the very real danger of losing and desecrating fragments of our Eucharistic Lord. And following the instructions issued in the current crisis, Catholics are being schooled to remember in future that this is the so-called “safer option” when similar problems arrive.
But generations of Catholics before us have kept their devotion to our Eucharistic Lord unchanged throughout wars, epidemics, and other disasters that have struck the world – not because they did not know the danger they were in, but because they knew Who is in the Eucharist they approached.
St. Thomas taught: “Out of reverence towards this Sacrament, nothing touches it, but what is consecrated; hence the corporal and the chalice are consecrated, and likewise the priest’s hands, for touching this Sacrament. Hence, it is not lawful for anyone else to touch it except from necessity, for instance, if it were to fall upon the ground, or else in some other case of urgency.” (16 ST, III, Q. 82, Art. 13)
The Real Presence does not change. It is not possible that what the Church has always taught about the Holy Eucharist does not apply following the coronavirus.
Secondly, receiving Holy Communion on the tongue remained the norm even after the practice of Communion in the hand was introduced in 1969 under certain conditions despite the opposition of the overwhelming majority of the bishops at the time. Thus, it is a practice that the Church in modern times, tragically, tolerates.
However, the universal law of the Church states that the faithful have the right to receive Communion on the tongue and that this right cannot be denied to them. This is the universal norm that no bishop or a bishops’ conference can overrule. As lay faithful, we must insist upon our right to receive Holy Communion on the tongue. But above all, we must insist that Our Lord has the right to be received in the most reverent manner possible. This is not a matter of our personal piety but justice due to Him.
The ultimate target of Satan’s attacks is the Holy Eucharist, in which Jesus Christ is really present. The devil will do everything in his power to obscure the sacred reality of the Eucharist in order to diminish reverence due to Him. Today his scheme aims to lead large groups of faithful to desecration of the Eucharistic Body of Christ on an unprecedented scale. He wants the Body of Christ to be trampled on by the feet of clergy and laity in Catholic churches around the world. For a vast number of Catholics in the past fifty years, the practice of receiving Communion in the hand has weakened faith in the Real Presence, in transubstantiation and in the divine character of the Sacrament. The devil would use anything to advance his wicked plots, even our longing to be united with Our Lord again in the Holy Eucharist after being deprived of assisting at Holy Mass for months.
We must join in making acts of reparation for sins committed against the Holy Eucharist in our churches. The Eucharistic fragments falling down and crushed by the feet of God’s own people has to be for us a tragedy that demands action.
And this brings us to the role of the pro-life movement. We could take the view that this painful development troubles us as Catholics, but does not relate to our noble work of saving babies. However, this is not the case.
On the contrary, to be fully pro-life means being fully Catholic: offering everyone the gift of eternal life, which comes only through Jesus Christ and the saving truth He has confided to the Catholic Church. How can we say we care deeply about an unborn child, his mother, or anyone, and not offer them the possibility of eternal life, which only comes through the Catholic Church?
We in the pro-life movement defend the reality of hidden life. We are accustomed to defending human life hidden in the womb and now we are being called upon to defend the divine life hidden in the tabernacle, Who is being abused by many of those who should be the first to love Him. Catholics in the pro-life movement are uniquely well prepared to counter these offences.
Also, we may wonder, is it merely a co-incidence, that Communion in the hand that obscures the dignity of divine life was introduced about fifty years ago, just as abortion in many western countries that denies the dignity of human life was introduced about fifty years ago? Today we reap the bitter fruits: human life has lost its value in human society and the Body of Christ has become abused in His churches.
And just as it is impossible to calculate the countless desecrations of the Body of Christ in the sacrilegious treatment of the Holy Eucharist brought about by the practice of Communion in the hand, it is also impossible to number the unborn children – made in the image and likeness of God – killed worldwide not only under permissive abortion legislation, but also those killed as a result of abortifacient contraceptive drugs and devices, and through IVF procedures.
The truth about the sanctity of human life before birth cannot triumph without the recognition of the truth about Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
This is why we have organised this online conference, as Voice of the Family, uniting pro-life and pro-family groups from all around the world. With this conference we wish to mobilise our fellow lay Catholics to offer the love and reverence due to Our Lord truly present in the Holy Eucharist. We are very pleased to bring you some moving personal witnesses, as well as interviews and presentations by some of the outstanding Catholic thinkers and activists today.
Please join us on 16 July 2020!