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Congratulations to Michael Ibbotson, husband of Gwenyth, who was received into the Catholic Church last week. Please keep him in your prayers.
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In this issue,
Editorial: A Stir Is Being Felt
Despite bleak times, small signs of revival give hope, especially among young people undertaking pilgrimages, founding families, and entering consecrated life, comments Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP.
Traffic Island Becomes Treasure Island
A participant reflects on her day of vocational discernment spent in London last April among twenty-three young ladies, based at Tyburn Convent where the relics of many English martyrs are displayed.
Chaste Sleuths Win By Popular Acclaim
Seldom promiscuous, some popular fiction detectives are often single, when not in sacred vows: an unwitting homage paid by secular culture to the Christian religion, Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP observes.
Challenges to Married Life in Secular Society
In this spontaneous contribution, a Catholic married septuagenarian looks back at the challenges inherent to married life in our time of faith demise, and forward to eternity as the goal of matrimony.
How Abbot Suger Invented the Gothic Style
Art historian Leslie Anne Hamel tells about the royal Basilica of St-Denis in Paris where, long before A.W.N. Pugin revived it, the Gothic style was invented as an architectural manifesto of transcendent faith.
Vermeer’s Woman Holding a Balance
Painted c. 1664, Johannes Vermeer’s picture displays Catholic hints about Judgement, the Blessed Virgin Mary and clandestine holy Masses, finds the author of the novel Vermeer’s Angel Fr Armand de Malleray
Tolkien and the Green Knight
Tolkien scholar Prof. Robert Lazu Kmita explains how the Arthurian legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight honouring chastity influenced the author of Lord of the Rings.
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Fr Homolya has been appointed to be Assistant Priest at St Mary’s, replacing Fr Evans, who has been sent by our superiors to undertake further studies. Fr Homolya’s Solemn First Mass at St Mary’s will be on Sunday 4 August at 11am. The Apostolic Penitentiary, by mandate of Pope Francis, grants a plenary indulgence to those who faithfully assist at this Mass.
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Congratulations also to Beatrix Mackenzie (daughter of Alasdair & Virginia), baptized at St Mary’s on Sat 15 Jun.
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| PARISHES OF BLESSED JAMES BELL, AND SACRED HEART & ST ALBAN CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION through Warrington town centre Sun 2 Jun, beginning at 2pm at St Mary’s, ending with Benediction at St Alban’s (Bewsey Street) |
…to Bronagh, Cecily, David and Jessica, who will receive their First Holy Communion at the 11am Mass on Sun 2 Jun.
“If angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion.”
St Maximilian Maria Kolbe
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The Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord is a holy day of obligation in the UK, when all Catholics are obliged to assist at Holy Mass, as well as “to abstain from those works and affairs which hinder the worship to be rendered to God, the joy proper to the Lord’s day, or the suitable relaxation of mind and body”, unless “family needs or important social service” so require.
CIC (1983) c.1247; CCC (1997) §2185
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