Receive Extreme-Unction today.

We urge all our parishioners of 70 years of age and beyond (and anyone with a serious medical condition) to present themselves to the priests at St Mary’s after the 12:10pm Mass of St Joseph today (19 March, or latest tomorrow 20 March) to receive the sacrament of Extreme-Unction in its shorter form.

We have sought canonical advice and certify that the unprecedented circumstances make it not only licit but highly advisable for you to receive this sacrament today because:

1)Medical experts assure that your chances of critical reaction to the virus are much higher than younger people, even though you may be in good health;

2) It is to be feared that priests will be prevented by public authorities from accessing your premises for the Last Rites later on (e.g. no priest chaplain allowed in many French hospitals even for dying people);

3) Priests may become infected and contagious, precluding visits to the sick.

Pleae share this information.

SUSPENSION OF PUBLIC MASSES:

As mandated by the Bishops of England and Wales, as an attempt to diminish exposure to the virus, public Holy Masses at St Mary’s Shrine and other liturgical activities and gatherings will cease as from Saturday 21st March included, until further notice. As recommended by our bishops, St Mary’s Church will remain open as usual for anyone to come and pray, except during the daily 12:10pm Mass which be offered behind closed doors while you may watch it on LiveMass (live or on demand) and make a spiritual Communion. Priests will offer their daily Masses privately and will be available for Confessions.

In this time of dire uncertainty, while discomfort and suffering are looming ahead for all, and death for some, let us more than ever remember that:

nothing escapes God’s Providence;

“the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us” (Romans 8:18);

trials can be turned into graces if embraced in a spirit of expiation for sins, of intercession for others and of reparation for the many crimes of our times;

this ordeal is occurring during Lent, the universal time of expiation;

and during the countdown to the re-dedication of England as Our Lady’s Dowry on 29th March.

Thus dear friends, let us courageously and trustfully face any distress, walking as carried by God and under Our Lady’s protection, begging for salvation not only for us but for all men.

by Fr AM

Sunday Bulletin 15 March 2020

Click here to open this bulletin as pdf.

Corona virus:

Precautions: If you consider yourself at risk, we recommend you attend our 6pm Sunday Mass, with fewer people and a lesser risk of contagion. At any Mass, please clean your hands with sanitizers before you come and after. So do the priests giving Holy Communion. In the traditional Latin Mass, the thumbs and forefingers of the priest touch absolutely nothing else than the sacred host, not even the tongue of the communicant if the mouth is correctly opened.

Prayers: Until further notice, after every Mass, the Prayer in Times of Epidemics will be prayed.

Short procession right after 11am Mass on Sunday 15^th March with litany of the saints (p.71 in Baronius missal).

Stations of the Cross lead by clergy every Lenten Friday 1pm.

Gift Aid: if you are a regular user of the white FSSP Gift Aid envelopes, we need to change the way these are used. Letters explaining the different options can be found on the bench ledges. Please take one if this applies to you. Thank you.

Text of letter below:

Are you a regular Gift Aid donor?

If you are a regular user of the FSSP’s white Gift Aid envelopes, whilst we are sincerely grateful for your continued support and generosity, we need to change the way these envelopes are used due to the disproportionate amount of admin work they generate, both for the counters and in the processing of each donation. For regular giving, we are asking that you consider a different way to gift aid your donations.

If you still wish to use envelopes on a weekly basis, we can issue you with your own numbered box set for the coming tax year, subject to us receiving a Gift Aid Declaration form, available from the back of church. This means your details only need to be entered once onto our system and there is no need for you to write on the envelopes each time as the number identifies you. There is no commitment to giving a set amount; they can be used to fit with your circumstances. The white ‘occasional’ GA envelopes will still be available but please reserve these for occasional visitors or times when you might give an extra donation during any particular week.

Alternatively, and administratively the simplest option for us, please consider setting up a standing order to support the Warrington apostolate, which can still be Gift Aided with a completed form – the details of our bank account are on the bulletin or there are bank mandate forms for Warrington available in church.

Thank you once again for your generous support.

Jane Wright, Shrine Secretary

Kneeling at Consecration: Unless you had knee surgery of late or are prevented by old age, please do kneel at least during Consecration, and normally for the entire Canon of the Mass (from after the Sanctus until before the Our Father). Thank you.

Preparation Courses for First Holy Communion (to be conferred on Corpus Christi Sunday, 14^th June, 11am) and for Confirmation (to be conferred on Sat. 18^th July, 3pm by Archbishop McMahon of Liverpool). Both courses will begin on 15^th March and every following Sunday 9:45am-10:45am.

Our Lenten Shrine community alms this year will go to Cenacolo, in support of people with addictions (https://cenacolouk.org/). Please note: FSSP Warrington is exclusively responsible for this initiative and will personally transfer the amount collected to the Cenacolo Community as a Lenten offering from our Shrine community to Cenacolo UK.

25 women attended our first Women’s Group Meeting on Sat. 7^th March. After (optional) 10am-12noon adoration and 12:10pm Holy Mass, a packed lunch was taken in common in the Shrine Hall, followed by talk by Fr Henry Whisenant on sacred art. Suggest names for the group: current contenders St Anne and St Margaret Clitherow. Next meeting: Sat. 25^th April, 1pm-3pm.

Any women from 18 to 118 welcome!

Brand new Baronius hand missals for only £35.00 each! St Mary’s Shrine being such a good customer, Baronius Press granted us a major discount on their public price of £53.95 + shipping.

St Patrick’s Party, Tuesday 17^th March: 6pm shared Irish dishes followed by 7pm film. Please bring some Irish cheeses, soda breads, drinks/wines (email roger.gilbride@fssp.org to find out where you can buy those). At 7pm, showing of the EWTN Film ‘Bravery Under Fire’ about the life of Irish Fr William Doyle, SJ (90 mins). Fr Doyle is considered a ‘Martyr of Charity’ as he died on the battlefield of Ypres in WWI rescuing wounded soldiers (www.fatherdoyle.com).

Diocesan Safeguarding Training session at St Benedict’s Catholic Primary School, near St Benedict’s Church: at the end of Quebec Road, WA2 7SB, Thursday 19^th March, 7pm.

Mass of Thanksgiving for Converts: Sat 21^st March, 12:10pm. Any converts and their families and friends, especially those received or baptised at St Mary’s in the past four years, are heartily invited to attend this Mass and join our wider community in giving thanks to God for the gift of faith and of belonging to the Church. It will be an opportunity to meet with other converts.

Dowry Magazine: https://fssp.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2020-02-03-Dowry-44-FINAL-online.pdf

Feast of the Annunciation, Wed 25^th March: Low Mass at 8:00am, Solemn Mass at 12:10pm; Low Mass at 7:00pm

The re-dedication of England by our bishops as Our Lady’s dowry will take place at 12noon on Sunday, 29^th March, 2020. St Mary’s will host special events on that day.

SCHEDULE:
10.30am Confessions
11.00am Solemn High Mass (1st Sunday in Passiontide) for the Re-Dedication of England
12noon The actual moment for the Re-dedication will coincide with Eucharistic Consecration
12.30pm Thanksgiving and packed lunch in new Parish Room (please bring your own)
2.00pm Holy Rosary and Act of Consecration to Our Lady (with Confessions)
2.30pm Eucharistic Adoration in intercession for England
3.00pm Sung Vespers

The following is part of the Shrine’s normal Sunday schedule:
5.30pm Confessions
6.00pm Low Mass (1st Sunday in Passiontide)
7.15pm Sung Compline

Please do not bring and display devotional literature, magazines or flyers for any events at St Mary’s without the clergy’s permission. Thank you.

St Mary’s Library: On the contrary, you are welcome to show the priests sound Catholics books on lives of the saints, Catholic history and spirituality for them to check if they would fit in our soon-to-be opened St Mary’s Library. Please do not drop bags of books for this purpose, but kindly take back what the priests cannot retain.

EDUCATION MEETING WARRINGTON
Sunday 26 April 2020, 12:30pm-3:30pm
St Mary’s Church, Buttermarket Street, Warrington WA1 2NS
FREE church car parks accessed via Smith Street and Buttermarket Street

WHAT:
A number of families meet weekly at St Mary’s Shrine in Warrington for half a day of educational activities (about 25 children). In addition to this, we have been observing with interest the formation of the Regina Caeli Academy (RCA) in Bedfordshire over the past 18 months and have invited them to present their educational model in Warrington. With a spacious building just acquired next to our church, we now actively welcome educational initiatives and we pray God that we may answer them very soon.

WHO:
Anyone with interest in education is welcome to attend. This includes not only parents wishing to support such an academy in Warrington, but also home educators eager to compare their methods with the RCA ones, parents whose children are in full time school education and are curious to hear what RCA can bring, as well as benefactors open to funding reliable Catholic education.

AHEAD:
The innocence of our children is in danger. Next autumn, even Catholic schools will have young children subjected to lessons on sexuality delivered in a way which is very likely to harm their innocent souls and twist their understanding of natural law, while depriving their parents of their inalienable rights as their primary educators.
Even if this concern did not exist, the fact that most teenagers educated in Catholic schools lapse demonstrates enough that more must be done to teach and form the next generations of Catholics.

BUT:
Many parents agree with this assessment, but feel they can’t home educate, though. They don’t have the training, the time, the resources. They fear that home education might hinder socialising their children. They doubt whether home education would enable their children to enter the universities and get good jobs.

ASK:
Regina Caeli [https://www.rcahybrid.org.uk/] is a private, independent tutoring centre operating in the Catholic tradition. It offers two full days of taught lessons in school (Mondays and Thursdays) and lesson plans for three days of lessons taught at home, for boys and girls aged 4-18. The two taught days comprise the majority of academic work and there is significant support for the homeschooling element. The organisation has grown rapidly since its launch in 2003, now operating in 16 locations in the United States (with 8 more in planning) and, of course, now also in Bedfordshire in the UK.

Regina Caeli is a response to the need for affordable, authentic, classical education taught in light of the Catholic tradition. Its primary goal is to aid the students in knowing, loving, and serving God by providing them with a “classical style” of education so they learn how to think critically and become life-long learners. The mission is both educational and apostolic combining high educational standards with faithful adherence to the Magisterium of the Church.

Leaders of Regina Caeli UK will give a presentation about the hybrid academy and answer any questions families may have.

TIMETABLE:
12:30pm Teas and coffees / lunch (please bring your own packed lunches)
1:30pm Brief introduction, followed by a talk by Regina Caeli Academy UK representative
2:30pm Coffee and cake
2:45pm Talk by the Trustees of the Bedfordshire RCA on how it works in practice
3:00pm Q&A’s, and next steps for interested parents

If you can, arrive earlier and attend our 11:00am Solemn High Mass (confessions from 10:30am). There is an other 6:00pm Sunday Mass.

There is a separate room to occupy the children. We’re aiming to get some help to entertain the children (tbc).

Free for all parents and children

Video on Regina Caeli: https://www.facebook.com/reginacaeliuk/videos/203633894156383/

INTERCESSORESS: The Servant of God Elizabeth Prout, Foundress of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion (the female branch of Bl. Dominic Barberi’s Passionists in England), chose and founded St Mary’s school in Warrington. Our current building stands on the very footprint of the one she knew and where her order taught children from 1899 until 1967. Her order asks us to inform them of any favour received through her intercession. Let us ardently ask her for success for this initiative as we prepare for the bicentenary of her birth on 2nd September 2020.

CONCLUSION: The great step of the re-dedication of England to Our Lady of Walshingham on 29th March calls for renewed creativeness in Catholic education. Now is the time; 26 April is the date and St Mary’s the place. Please come, tell your friends, and pray. We look forward to meeting you soon.

CONTACT Shrine Rector: malleray@fssp.org

Next trek with Juventutem Young Adults (18-35): 18^th April; 16^th May. Contact helena.waddelove@hotmail.co.uk. Also, Juventutem Summer Weekend near London 3-5 July 2020. Also, CHARTRES Pilgrimage: 30^th May-1^st June 2020 with Frs de Malleray and Whisenant. Contact Pippa: pippajcurran97@gmail.com.

40 Days for Life, MANCHESTER: Help save lives this Lent by praying for an end to abortion in our community. Web www.40daysforlife.com/local-campaigns/manchester-2/ Tel 07810 791032.

Mass Intentions:

(Other intentions were applied over the past 2 weeks at

private Masses. Please ask Fr Whisenant for details.)

by Fr AM

Education Meeting Warrington

EDUCATION MEETING WARRINGTON
Sunday 26 April 2020, 12:30pm-3:30pm
St Mary’s Church, Buttermarket Street, Warrington WA1 2NS
FREE church car parks accessed via Smith Street and Buttermarket Street

WHAT:
A number of families meet weekly at St Mary’s Shrine in Warrington for half a day of educational activities (about 25 children). In addition to this, we have been observing with interest the formation of the Regina Caeli Academy (RCA) in Bedfordshire over the past 18 months and have invited them to present their educational model in Warrington. With a spacious building just acquired next to our church, we now actively welcome educational initiatives and we pray God that we may answer them very soon.

WHO:
Anyone with interest in education is welcome to attend. This includes not only parents wishing to support such an academy in Warrington, but also home educators eager to compare their methods with the RCA ones, parents whose children are in full time school education and are curious to hear what RCA can bring, as well as benefactors open to funding reliable Catholic education.

AHEAD:
The innocence of our children is in danger. Next autumn, even Catholic schools will have young children subjected to lessons on sexuality delivered in a way which is very likely to harm their innocent souls and twist their understanding of natural law, while depriving their parents of their inalienable rights as their primary educators.
Even if this concern did not exist, the fact that most teenagers educated in Catholic schools lapse demonstrates enough that more must be done to teach and form the next generations of Catholics.

BUT:
Many parents agree with this assessment, but feel they can’t home educate, though. They don’t have the training, the time, the resources. They fear that home education might hinder socialising their children. They doubt whether home education would enable their children to enter the universities and get good jobs.

ASK:
Regina Caeli [https://www.rcahybrid.org.uk/] is a private, independent tutoring centre operating in the Catholic tradition. It offers two full days of taught lessons in school (Mondays and Thursdays) and lesson plans for three days of lessons taught at home, for boys and girls aged 4-18. The two taught days comprise the majority of academic work and there is significant support for the homeschooling element. The organisation has grown rapidly since its launch in 2003, now operating in 16 locations in the United States (with 8 more in planning) and, of course, now also in Bedfordshire in the UK.

Regina Caeli is a response to the need for affordable, authentic, classical education taught in light of the Catholic tradition. Its primary goal is to aid the students in knowing, loving, and serving God by providing them with a “classical style” of education so they learn how to think critically and become life-long learners. The mission is both educational and apostolic combining high educational standards with faithful adherence to the Magisterium of the Church.

Leaders of Regina Caeli UK will give a presentation about the hybrid academy and answer any questions families may have.

TIMETABLE:
12:30pm Teas and coffees / lunch (please bring your own packed lunches)
1:30pm Brief introduction, followed by a talk by Regina Caeli Academy UK representative
2:30pm Coffee and cake
2:45pm Talk by the Trustees of the Bedfordshire RCA on how it works in practice
3:00pm Q&A’s, and next steps for interested parents

If you can, arrive earlier and attend our 11:00am Solemn High Mass (confessions from 10:30am). There is an other 6:00pm Sunday Mass.

There is a separate room to occupy the children. We’re aiming to get some help to entertain the children (tbc).

Free for all parents and children

Video on Regina Caeli: https://www.facebook.com/reginacaeliuk/videos/203633894156383/

INTERCESSORESS: The Servant of God Elizabeth Prout, Foundress of the Sisters of the Cross and Passion (the female branch of Bl. Dominic Barberi’s Passionists in England), chose and founded St Mary’s school in Warrington. Our current building stands on the very footprint of the one she knew and where her order taught children from 1899 until 1967. Her order asks us to inform them of any favour received through her intercession. Let us ardently ask her for success for this initiative as we prepare for the bicentenary of her birth on 2nd September 2020.

CONCLUSION: The great step of the re-dedication of England to Our Lady of Walshingham on 29th March calls for renewed creativeness in Catholic education. Now is the time; 26 April is the date and St Mary’s the place. Please come, tell your friends, and pray. We look forward to meeting you soon.

CONTACT Shrine Rector: malleray@fssp.org

by Fr AM

Parents and Heroes and Saints

New Video on ‘Parents as Heroes and Saints’ by Fr de Malleray:

[Summary by Juventutem London:] On the feast of St. Anthony the Abbot, Fr De Malleray, FSSP, begins his homily by reflecting on the family. To be a parent and spouse in contemporary culture is heroic. It is a historic time for antagonism against the family and yet God loves families. He created the first family. Reflecting on the Holy Family inspires us of this truth. God decided to belong to a family. The second person of the Trinity, became the son of a woman, Our Lady, and the foster son of St. Joseph. From the beginning of our race, God expressed His will that humanity should be propagated through family. The first end of marriage is procreation and education of children. The second end of marriage is mutual support of the spouses. Parents have the glorious task of assisting God with populating heaven with new worshippers of the most Holy Trinity. This means not only to beget children but also to raise children to love God. The proof of a successful Christian education is the good example of virtue and the assistance lent by children to their parents and neighbours in need. So families are our heroes; because God wants families. But the world hates families. The world wants to take control of the family, of parents, of children. Why? Because the family as willed by God is the best school of sanctification for children and adults in the world. The world, being inimical to God, wants to control every man and every woman as if God did not exist. Family is the core cell of society. Christian families are domestic churches. Families are where children learn to lead life in common, to share, to listen, to obey, to trust, to serve, to love. Nowhere better than in the family can virtue be acquired. This in turn benefits society at large. Happy and stable families bring balanced and helpful itizens into the world. On the contrary, when families are weak or broken, then addiction, suicide, violence and crime increase. Fr then affirms a truth that soon, could be criminalised: parents are the primary educators of their children. They have this responsibility by natural right since they begot them. The state or any other institution, may assist the parents in the education of the children – but it must be the parent who decides if so. The state has no right to force “eduction” upon children against the parents’ will, especially sexual perversion classes. The state and other institutions may step in to provide for the children’ education if the parents cannot, yet always respecting natural law and divine law. Parental rights: the confiscation of the parental right by the state is the necessary bent of godless societies. This confiscation has been tried and implemented by every tyranny, but most successfully in recent times. Communism, Nazism, and now Hedonist Relativism. On the contrary, healthy families make prosperous countries.

Some examples of what a state worthy of the name should do: Firstly, in its duty to families, the state must provide adequate housing; every family is entitled to own a house. Second: the state must facilitate the transition of the family home from one generation to the next, by not claiming inheritance tax. Thirdly, society must accept that women cannot be replaced in nurturing life and in making the home a place of peace, order, and happiness. This is essential to ordering a society towards salvation. We are bound for eternity, but family life is our best preparation for a happy eternity with God. The supreme service women in the world can give to humanity is fostering life. It has been a great success of cultural communism to persuade the Western world that housewives are a waste. To achieve this lie, the godless have used cinema, literature, sociology, and the parliaments, to powerful effect. The truth is that mothers in the homes are queens. Women raising their children are heroines. Wives investing all they energies and skills into shaping new children of God are among the greatest benefactresses of mankind. Fourth: the authority of the husband and father must be upheld and praised, as described by St. Paul. “He must love his wife as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for her.” Fr then mentions a recently released film A Hidden Life, which depicts an authentically-lived Catholic manhood. Fifth: marriage must be protected by law as a permanent and exclusive bond of fidelity between a man and woman in order to raise children. Sixth: pornography, contraception, abortion, surrogacy, IVF, must be curbed and ultimately disappear as contrary to the dignity of men and women, of parents, and of society. Fr then quotes from Pope Francis on the family, highlighting its place in the Christian life.

Fr concludes points out that he has been addressing these issues from the perspective of civil society – but ultimately it is about grace and eternity. Securing a natural order benefits the supernatural order. Strong families make strong countries – and strong countries, inspired by the Catholic faith, prepare a blessed eternity with God. This is what we must all have in mind when praying before the crib and while praying for families. Indeed, individual families are cherished units of the larger family of God, that is, His Holy Church. In the “Hanc Igitur” prayer, the celebrant refers to the Church as the family of God. Fr finishes the sermon by inviting those who might be called to family to beg the Holy Family to inspire, to guide, to heal, and sanctify a;l families. This way parents will not only be heroes, but with their children, they will be saints.

by Fr AM

Sunday 1st March 2020 Bulletin

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Preparation Courses for First Holy Communion (to be conferred on Corpus Christi Sunday, 14^th June, 11am) and for Confirmation (to be conferred on Sat. 18^th July, 3pm by Archbishop McMahon of Liverpool). Both courses will begin on 15^th March and every following Sunday 9:45am-10:45am.

1) For First Holy Communion course, please contact roger.gilbride@fssp.org as soon as possible if you want (or your child) to be included.

2) For Confirmation course, please contact henrywhiz@hotmail.com as soon as possible. Confirmation candidates from outside the Liverpool Archdiocese are welcome with a statement of due preparation from their pastor. Please note: we reserve the right to postpone admission to either sacrament if a candidate has missed sessions and is not ready to receive.

[Updated on 4th March 2020:] Our Lenten Shrine community alms this year will go to Cenacolo, a community helping people suffering from addictions. Pray for the work of the Cenacolo Community and the individuals and their families that need help to ‘walk from the darkness of addiction’ to healing through God’s Love and Grace.

Please donate cash in envelopes clearly labelled ‘Cenacolo’. Please note: FSSP Warrington is exclusively responsible for this initiative and will personally transfer the amount collected to the Cenacolo Community as a Lenten offering from our Shrine community to Cenacolo UK. The only valid contact details for Cenacolo UK are available on their website: https://cenacolouk.org/.

First Women’s Group Meeting, Sat. 7^th March, 1pm: After (optional) 10am-12noon adoration and 12:10pm Holy Mass, bring and share packed lunch to Shrine Hall, followed by talk by Fr Henry Whisenant.

Any women from 18 to 118 welcome!

Brand new Baronius hand missals for only £35.00 each! St Mary’s Shrine being such a good customer, Baronius Press granted us a major discount on their public price of £53.95 + shipping (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daily-Missal-1962-Baronius-Press/dp/0954563123). Hand your £35 in cash to a priest and he will give you your precious new hand missal. Make sure to stick a large label with your name on the outside cover of the missal (and inside as well), as about 100 other copies are used at St Mary’s.

St Patrick’s Party, Tuesday 17^th March: 6pm shared Irish dishes followed by 7pm film. Please bring some IRISH CHEESES, SODA BREADS, DRINKS/WINES (email roger.gilbride@fssp.org to find out where you can buy those). At 7pm, showing of the EWTN Film ‘Bravery Under Fire’ about the life of Irish Fr William Doyle, SJ (90 mins). Fr Doyle is considered a ‘Martyr of Charity’ as he died on the battlefield of Ypres in WWI rescuing wounded soldiers (www.fatherdoyle.com).

New Video on ‘Parents as Heroes and Saints’ by Fr de Malleray:

Diocesan Safeguarding Training session at St Benedict’s Catholic Primary School, near St Benedict’s Church: at the end of Quebec Road, WA2 7SB, Thursday 19^th March, 7pm. Free. With the participation of Frs Dave Heywood and Armand de Malleray FSSP.

Mass of Thanksgiving for Converts: Sat 21^st March, 12:10pm.

Any converts and their families and friends, especially those received or baptised at St Mary’s in the past four years, are heartily invited to attend this Mass and join our wider community in giving thanks to God for the gift of faith and of belonging to the Church. It will be an opportunity to meet with other converts. Adults under instruction to become Catholics or simply with interest in Catholicism are very welcome to attend as well. Please bring and share lunch in Shrine Hall at 1pm. Arrive earlier if you can for a time of Eucharistic Adoration in thanksgiving for the same intention, from 10am (with confessions).

Dowry Magazine: https://fssp.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2020-02-03-Dowry-44-FINAL-online.pdf.

Feast of the Annunciation, Wed 25^th March: Low Mass at 8:00am, Solemn Mass at 12:10pm; Low Mass at 7:00pm (exceptionally open to ALL, before the usual 8pm Men’s Group talk).

The re-dedication of England by our bishops as Our Lady’s dowry will take place at 12noon on Sunday, 29^th March, 2020. St Mary’s will host special events on that day.

Congratulations to our parishioner Martin Turner and his fiancée Georgie Burrows, who were united in Holy Matrimony by Archbishop Malcolm McMahon in Liverpool Cathedral on 28^th February. We assure them of our prayer.

Educational Initiative Regina Caeli Academy – coming soon to the North of England!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/regina-caeli-uk-29170853539

Our new Priory buildings give hope for increased educational opportunities at St Mary’s. A meeting here will be announced soon for all those interested, most likely on a Sunday afternoon.

Next trek with Juventutem Young Adults (18-35): 14^th March: to Macclesfield. Meet us at St Mary’s at 10:30am (after optional 9:30am Trekkers’ Mass) or meet us traight at St Albans Catholic church, SK11 8DJ at 11:30am, bringing waterproof clothing and appropriate footwear. We will also have a pub lunch.  (Further dates: 18^th April; 16^th May). Contact helena.waddelove@hotmail.co.uk.

Also, Juventutem Summer Weekend near London 3-5 July 2020.

Also, CHARTRES Pilgrimage: 30^th May-1^st June 2020 with Frs de Malleray and Whisenant. Contact Pippa: pippajcurran97@gmail.com.

40 Days for Life, MANCHESTER: Help save lives this Lent by praying for an end to abortion in our community. Web www.40daysforlife.com/local-campaigns/manchester-2/ Tel 07810 791032.

Mass Intentions:

(Other intentions were applied over the past 2 weeks at private Masses. Please ask Fr Whisenant for details.)

by Fr AM

Dowry Mag Winter 2020 now online

Click here to open it as pdf.

Special issue on Anti-Christian persecution

 In this issue:       

Editorial: Persecution and Resurrection

For Your Diaries

England is Our Lady’s Dowry

Our ¼ Billion Persecuted Fellow Christians

They Did Nothing But Pray

Our Lady’s Reconquista

Taking Oaths to Ungodly Leaders

Meditative Film ‘A Hidden Life’

On Pilgrimage to Italy

Concerning Art, Music and Man (Part 1)

Support Our Apostolate

by Fr AM

Sunday Bulletin 2 Feb 2020

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 (Lumen ad revelationem gentium!)

Annual FSSP Clergy Gathering at St Mary’s 3-5 Feb. Join us for Monday 3^rd Feb Holy Hour followed by 6pm Vespers; Tue. 6pm Vespers; + 16 Low Masses on Tues. and Wed. at 6:30am and 7:15am before 8am Lauds.

Pray for Fr Loewenstein: after a period of reflection, our confrere sought permission to try religious life in a traditional community. The Superiors of our Fraternity have granted it to him. We will miss Fr Loewenstein’s pastoral dedication, his clear teaching and his friendly humour. He is grateful for our prayers and no doubt will keep us in his. His new address is not known yet.

Dowry Magazine, Winter edition, will be available on line this week. Read soon this special issue on Anti-Christian persecutions.

The re-dedication of England by our bishops as Our Lady’s dowry will take place at 12noon on Sunday, 29th March, 2020. St Mary’s will host special events on that day.

Thanksgiving Mass for converts on Sat 21^st March, 12:10pm. We invite all adults received into the Church or baptised at St Mary’s over the past 4 years to join us with their families and friends on this occasion. Refreshments will follow.

Servers training afternoon Sat 8^th Feb, 1pm. Contact Deacon Gilbride: roger.gilbride@fssp.org

2 vacancies at Charles Forbes Court on Mersey Street, over the fence from St Mary’s. Contact Donna Cowell 07799438993

Educational Initiative Regina Caeli Academy – coming soon to the North of England!

www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/regina-caeli-uk-29170853539

Our new Priory buildings give hope for increased educational opportunities at St Mary’s. A meeting here will be announced soon for all those interested (please suggest dates.)

The Men’s group weekly is going strong with about 20 attending every Wednesday evening (7pm Low Mass; 8pm Talk; 9pm prayers). Any men 18+ welcome, including non Catholics.

Thank you to the ladies and clergy who worked hard to prepare accommodation on 24-26 Jan last for 11 young men staying at St Mary’s for vocational discernment.

SPUC Youth conference, Friday 28^th Feb – Sun 1^st March 2020. Willows Training Centre, Great North Road, Wyboston Bedfordshire MK44 3AL. £115 by 31/12 or £135, with one of the FSSP UK priests offering holy Mass each day. Contact us urgently for sponsorship.

Next Young Adults Group event 15^th Feb: Trek in Delamere Forest.  Let us know if you require a lift from St Mary’s (after the 9am Trekkers Mass). Alternatively, meet us at 11am at the free Barnsbridge Car Park (WA6 6NB). Please do RSVP and let us know if you require a lift/will be meeting us there so we know who to wait for! Further event: 14^th March; 18^th April; 16^th May.

Also, Juventutem Summer Weekend near London 3-5 July 2020.

Also, CHARTRES Pilgrimage: 30^th May-1^st June 2020. Contact Conor: conorjj79@gmail.com

40 Days for Life, Manchester: Wednesday, 26^th Feb – Sunday 5^th April (subject to possible PSPO).

Clergy Retreat 27 April-1^st May 2020, Stonyhurst: The priests and Holy Church: her sons and defenders – by Fr A. de Malleray. COST: £320 in total (4 days full board, modern single room with ensuite).

Ordinations: Pray for 8 to be ordained Subdeacons on 8^th Feb in America; and 22 to be ordained to Minors orders including Miklos from London + 2 to Subdeaconate in Bavaria, where Fr de Malleray will be from 7 to 16 Feb to give the semestrial retreat.

Sacrament of Confirmation on Saturday 18^th July 2020, 3:00pm, administered by His Grace Malcolm McMahon, O.P., Archbishop of Liverpool, at St Mary’s Shrine in Warrington, Buttermarket Street WA1 2NS. Followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and refreshments. Candidates from within and without the Liverpool Archdiocese should contact Fr Whisenant henrywhiz@hotmail.com.

Mass Intentions:

(Other intentions were applied over the past 2 weeks at private Masses. Please ask Fr Whisenant for details.)

by Fr AM

Re-dedication of England to Our Lady

THE ACT OF ENTRUSTMENT OF ENGLAND TO MARY

Let us prepare with our bishops for this major spiritual event scheduled for Sunday 29th March 2020, 12noon.

Official website: https://www.behold2020.com/

[Full Marian schedule at St Mary’s Shrine Warrington WA1 2NS]

Based on Prayer of Erasmus 1532, Dedication of England to the Mother of God 1893, Prayer for England, Cardinal Griffin’s Act of Consecration 1948, Act of Consecration St John Paul 1982

PRAYER
O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon England thy “Dowry” and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in thee.

Response

We your faithful people assembled here offer you this country in which we live. Once it was yours, all its children were your children and you were honoured throughout England as its Protectress and its Queen. Again do we consecrate it as your Dowry, and entrust it to your maternal care.

Prayer

By thee it was that Jesus our Saviour and our hope was given unto the world; and He has given thee to us that we might hope still more.

Response

To you we entrust the Church, which invokes you as Mother. On earth you preceded her in the pilgrimage of faith. Comfort her in her difficulties and trials. Make her always the sign and instrument of intimate union with God and of the unity of the whole human race. To you, Mother of the human family, and of the nations, we confidently entrust the whole of humanity with its hopes and fears. Let it not lack the light of true wisdom. Guide it to seek freedom and justice for all. Direct its steps in the ways of peace. Enable all to meet Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life.

Prayer

Plead for us thy children, whom thou didst receive and accept at the foot of the Cross, O sorrowful Mother.

Response

Pray, O Holy Mother of God, for the conversion of heart of the people of England, restoration of the sick, consolation for the troubled, repentance of sinners, peace to the departed. Queen of Peace, pray for us and give to the world the peace for which all peoples are longing, peace in the truth, justice and charity of Christ. Give peace to the nations and to the souls of all, that in peace, the Kingdom of God may prevail.

Prayer

Intercede for our separated brethren, that with us in the one true fold they may be united to the supreme Shepherd, the Vicar of thy Son.
ResponseMay your prayers bring back this country to the fullness of its ancient faith. May your intercession lead us to a closer union with your divine Son. We offer you all the people of this land, especially those who know you so little or not at all. May all in our country know Christ, the light of the world and its only Saviour.

Prayer

Pray for us all, dear Mother, that by faith fruitful in good works we may all deserve to see and praise God, together with thee, in our heavenly home.

Response

May we who follow your Son, be fruitful in the good work of building a culture of life in our world, where all human life is treasured and the gift of God’s creation is respected and cared for, so that all may share the fruits of God’s generous love.

V: Pray for us O Holy Mother of God.R: That we may be made worthy of the Promises of Christ.

Let us pray:

O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, and our most gentle Queen and Mother, look down in mercy upon England, thy Dowry, and upon us all who greatly hope and trust in thee.
By thee it was that Jesus, our Saviour and our hope, was given unto the world; and he has given thee to us that we might hope still more. Plead for us thy children, whom thou didst receive and accept at the foot of the cross, O sorrowful Mother.
Intercede for our separated brethren, that with us in the one true fold, they may be united to the Chief Shepherd, the Vicar of thy Son.
Pray for us all, dear Mother, that by faith, fruitful in good works, we may all deserve to see and praise God, together with thee in our heavenly home. Amen.

by Fr AM

FSSP Summer Camp for boys

Dates: 10th to 15th August.

Residential summer camp for boys aged 10 to 17. Based at Savio House, Ingersley Road, Bollington, Macclesfield

The Camp will involve scheduled activities including Holy Mass, prayer and catechetical talks, sports / hiking /games, quizzes, preparing and acting in a drama production and excursions by bus to local places of interest.

Full price £220. Subsidised: £100.

For more information and booking forms contact Fr Phipps: sphipps@fssp.org

by Fr PD

FSSP Summer Camp for girls

Dates: 3rd-8th August 2020

Residential summer camp for girls aged 10 to 17. Based at Savio House, Ingersley Road, Bollington, Macclesfield

The Camp will involve scheduled activities including Holy Mass, prayer and catechetical talks, sports / hiking /games, quizzes, preparing and acting in a drama production and excursions by bus to local places of interest.

Full price £220. Subsidised: £100.

For more information and booking forms contact Fr Phipps: sphipps@fssp.org

by Fr PD