Rorate Masses St Mary’s

Special Advent ‘Rorate’ Masses at St Mary’s Warrington:
Thursday 5 Dec at 6:30am;
Monday 9 Dec at 6:30am;
Tuesday 10 Dec at 6:30am;
Sat 14 Dec at 6.30am.
(This is in addition to our normal Mass schedule, not instead.)
The Rorate Mass is a Votive Mass in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the season of Advent. It has a long tradition in the Catholic Church, especially in German-speaking areas. The Masses begin early in the morning when it was still dark due to winter-time and are said by candlelight. Bring a torch in you need to read from your missal.

by Fr AM

St Mary’s Bulletin 24 Nov 2019

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Priory Court: The temporary ramp to the new car park will be improved soon: handrail, gate, paving. You may already park in the new car park on the 18 spaces RIGHT from the new access to our back garden, i.e. the rear half of the car park, further away from the Buttermarket street entrance. In due course, the ground paint for parking spaces will be upgraded.

Send us any pictures taken on the day of the ‘inauguration’ when one of our young girls cut the ribbon to the main staircase.

Pray for our men on weekend of recollection in Stonyhurst 29^th Nov – 1^st Dec 2019: Theme: ‘Restoring manhood: Man as son of God, husband and father.’

Frs de Malleray and Verrier prayed for you on annual private retreat last week (18-22 Nov.)

Dowry Mag No43 online (https://fssp.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-10-11-Dowry-43-WEB.pdf ) and now in print.

Religious call: 40 young adults & professionals attended the day conference on religious life and vocation, given by Fr de Malleray in London on Nov 9^th last. Pray that many of them will answer the call. Forward to your friends the link to the article on Reviving Religious Life in Britain : https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2019/11/reviving-religious-life-in-britain-and.html .

Fascinating talk by Fr Alex Stewart, FSSP to the Men’s Group on Wed 13 Nov last on the influence of good and bad musics on civilisation and souls. More on this topic on the forthcoming Wednesdays.

Minor Orders conferred to 20 at our US seminary on Sat 23 Nov by Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, Bishop Emeritus of Lincoln.

Please pray for the ordinands to Porters and Lectors: Samuel, Jeremy, Joseph, Christopher, Benjamin, Anthony, Samuel, Matthew, Jacob, Brian, Charles, Stephen. To Exorcists and Acolytes: Savio, Adrian,  Quinn, Isaac, Andrew, Nathan, Evan, Edgar.

Altar serving workshop on Sat 23, 1pm-3pm with Deacon Gilbride, FSSP: roger.gilbride@fssp.org.

On November 5^th we celebrated a Requiem Mass with catafalque for all the deceased members of the Fraternity and of the Confraternity. We also recited together Lauds of the Office of the Dead.

St Mary’s Christmas Bake-off! Bring cakes for a Christmas cake competition on Sunday 15^th December, in the Priory Court new Coffee Room. Men’s, women’s and children’s categories. Buy a vote and take a taste! Many of the cakes will be available for sale afterwards. 

Immaculate Conception Sunday: Festivities to honour our Blessed Mother next 8^th Dec: 11am Solemn high Mass; 1pm Lunch; 2pm Talk & Musical Rosary; 3.45pm Sung Vespers & Benediction (ends before 5pm). Sun 6pm Low Mass and 7.15pm Compline as usual.

Vocation Weekend 24-26 Jan. 2020, Warrington, for single Catholic men 18-30. Contact: malleray@fssp.org

Advent Recollection for the laity: last spaces: at Douai Abbey, Berks.: 20-22 December 2019. FromFri. 20 Dec.with EF Holy Mass at 6PM, followed by 7PM Supper (arrival from 4PM). Ends Sun 22 Dec 3PM. Led by Frs A. de Malleray, FSSP & P. O’Donohue, FSSP on the theme: “Our Holy Mother the Church”.

Costs: £141.60 for single room with en-suite full board; £108.00 for shared room.

Booking: ATTENTION: Please DO NOT book directly with Douai Abbey. Instead, please send any booking correspondence and fees to us at: ‘Advent Retreat 2019, St John Fisher House, 17 Eastern Avenue, Reading RG1 2NS, Berkshire, England’. Info: ukretreat@fssp.org

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).

Mass Intentions:

by Fr AM

Christmas cards sale & St Faustina Film

Christmas card sale (SPUC) after 11am Sunday Mass on 17 Nov. in the Narthex.

St Faustina film Love and Mercy: Faustina, is showing on this Monday evening 18th Nov, 20.30pm for one night only, currently the 60 seat theatre is only just over half full, so we need to fill the place (Warrington Odeon). We could arrange lifts for people.

by Fr AM

5 hours left to save babies

Dear friends,

If you haven’t done so already please respond to the consultation by 5pm today. You may wish to do so using the link below as it only takes a few clicks! We need as many responses from  the pro-life side as possible, particularly in the Manchester area. Please share the link!!

Thank you all very much for your gallant efforts.

Manchester City Council has opened a consultation on a proposed censorship zone (PSPO) at Wynnstay Grove. If implemented the censorship zone would among other things criminalise:

• Free speech
• Signage
• Prayer
• Counselling
• The offer of leaflets

You can respond to the consultation below! Please use this tool and share with like-minded people. The consultation closes on Friday 15th November!

by Fr AM

St Mary’s Sunday Bulletin 10th Nov 2019

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Priory Court: Last week we informally inaugurated Priory Court. Parishioners appreciated the size and good condition of the building. From now on the coffee after Mass will take place over there. The temporary ramp to the new car park will be improved soon. You may already park in the new car park on the 18 spaces RIGHT from the new access to our back garden, i.e. the rear half of the car park, further away from the Buttermarket street entrance. In due course, the floor paint for parking spaces will be upgraded.

LAST CHANCE: Men’s recollection weekend 29^th Nov – 1^st Dec 2019: Theme: ‘Restoring manhood: Man as son of God, husband and father.’ Location: The Christian Heritage Centre, Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe, BB7 9PT. Bookings: bookings@christianheritagecentre.com & 01254 827329. £50 deposit upon booking. Cost: £160 for full weekend (single room), or £110 p.p. (twin).

Dowry Mag No43 online (https://fssp.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-10-11-Dowry-43-WEB.pdf ) and now in print.

St Mary’s Christmas Bake-off! Bring cakes for a Christmas cake competition on Sunday 15^th December, in the Priory Court new Coffee Room. Men’s, women’s and children’s categories. Buy a vote and take a taste! Many of the cakes will be available for sale afterwards. 

Save Babies: Manchester City Council are consulting on a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) in the area surrounding the abortion facility in Fallowfield, Manchester. This would ban peaceful prayer vigils and the offering of help in the vicinity of the facility. We have seen over 100 women change their minds and choose life for their unborn children as a result of these vigils in Manchester. If you have been to a vigil please respond to the consultation online at http://www.manchester.gov.uk/consultations or if you haven’t you can email: asb.action.team@manchester.gov.uk to express your opposition to the PSPO.

More Christmas cards to buy: Sunday 17^th November after both Holy Masses – sold by SPUC. Terry Gorman of ACN thanks you all for having purchased last Sunday £495 worth of Christmas cards – almost 70% more than last year (£293.10) and by far and away a new record!

Immaculate Conception Sunday: Festivities to honour our Blessed Mother next 8^th Dec: 11am Solemn high Mass; 1pm Lunch; 2pm Talk & Musical Rosary; 3.45pm Sung Vespers & Benediction (ends before 5pm). Sun 6pm Low Mass and 7.15pm Compline as usual.

Vocation Weekend 24-26 Jan. 2020, Warrington, for single Catholic men 18-30. Contact: malleray@ssp.org

Advent Recollection for the laity: last 6 spaces: at Douai Abbey, Berks.: 20-22 December 2019. FromFri. 20 Dec.with EF Holy Mass at 6PM, followed by 7PM Supper (arrival from 4PM). Ends Sun 22 Dec 3PM. Led by Frs A. de Malleray, FSSP & P. O’Donohue, FSSP on the theme: “Our Holy Mother the Church”. Costs: £141.60 for single room with en-suite full board; £108.00 for shared room.

Booking: ATTENTION: Please DO NOT book directly with Douai Abbey. Instead, please send any booking correspondence and fees to us at: ‘Advent Retreat 2019, St John Fisher House, 17 Eastern Avenue, Reading RG1 2NS, Berkshire, England’. Info: ukretreat@fssp.org

CLERGY RETREAT 27 APRIL -1 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).

Mass Intentions:

by Fr AM

FSSP Statistics 2019

Figures

Statistics as of November 1st, 2019

Members today

• Total: 482 (incl. 317 incardinated)
• Priests: 320
  o   300 incardinated
  o   8 incorporated ad annum
  o   7 associated
  o   5 postulants
• Deacons: 17
• Non-deacons seminarians (including postulants): 145
• Average age of members: 38 years
• Deceased members: 10

♦ Priests   ♦ Deacons   ♦ Seminarians

Nationalities

All members

Incardinated members

Seminarians

Increase and ordinations

• Number of members (as of Jan. 1 each year)

♦ Total members   ♦ Definitively incorporated priests   ♦ Seminarians (incl. deacons)

• Priestly ordinations in the FSSP over the last 12 years

• Number of seminarians (excluding deacons and including postulants)

Confraternity of Saint Peter

• Total members: 6996
  o French speakers: 1011
  o German speakers: 967
  o English speakers: 5018

Locations

• Dioceses served: 142
• Mass centers: 255 locations
• Personal parishes: 44

Dioceses served by countries

Dioceses served
by districts and regions

Mass centers
by districts and regions

• Number of houses: 131
• Number of erected houses: 93

• Number of houses (as of Jan. 1 each year)

♦ Nb. of houses   ♦ Nb. of erected houses

by Fr AM

Vocation Discernment Weekend

24 Jan 2020 at 17:00 – 26 Jan 2020 at 14:00

St Mary’s Priory, Smith Street, Warrington WA1 2NS, England

Is God calling ME?
Matrimony, celibacy, monastery, seminary, Fraternity?

If you are a single Catholic man between 18 and 29 years of age, come and discern with us at St Mary’s Priory & Church.
Shrine Rector Fr de Malleray, FSSP will lead the Weekend, assisted by Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP and Deacon Roger Gilbride, FSSP.
There will be talks, prayers (Divine Office in our beautiful church), Holy Mass and informal chatting with fellow guests. Possibility of private meetings with a priest, and of confession.

[No sign up sheet for the FSSP at the end of the Weekend!]
Feel welcome confidentially to call, email or write for any questions.
Residential, at St Mary’s Priory: 2 nights and 2 days.
FREE for unwaged and students. Others: £60 per person in total.

COME & SEE.
Please share the information with your friends!

BOOKINGS & CONTACT: [not via Facebook] malleray@fssp.org (read by Fr de Malleray only); 01925 635664 (Priory’s Landline).

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VOCATION RESOURCES:

General page: https://fssp.co.uk/vocations-to-the-priesthood/

Audio conferences on the priest 1) and Our Lady; 2) and Martyrdom : http://www.radioimmaculata.org/audio-on-demands/various-audio-on-demand/various-homilies/father-armand-de-malleray

New book on the Holy Eucharist here: https://www.lumenfidei.ie/product/ego-eimi-it-is-i/

Seminary blog: http://fsspwigratzbad.blogspot.com/

Know us better through browsing online our quarterly magazine Dowry here: https://fssp.co.uk/category/dowry/

International Vocation Prayer Network: www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/

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VOCATION NEWS: 11 FSSP UK PRIESTS IN 16 YEARS

We have currently six young men from England & Wales in formation at our two international seminaries. Three of our deacons from England were ordained priests at St Mary’s Warrington in the past two years by Archbishop McMahon, OP of Liverpool. Those were the first EF priestly ordinations by a diocesan bishop in England in fifty years.

Please pray for them (www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/) and for many more to enter the lists!

In total, 45 young men were admitted into our two seminaries this autumn including 3 from England and Ireland.

We give thanks for 1 new priest from the UK ordained every year over the past 4 years, and more generally for 11 of them ordained over the past 16 years: Fr Konrad Loewenstein in 2002; Fr Brendan Gerard in 2006; Frs Matthew Goddard and William Barker in 2009; Fr Simon Harkins in 2010; Fr Matthew McCarthy in 2011; Fr Ian Verrier in 2015; Fr James Mawdsley in 2016; Frs Alex Stewart and Krzysztof Sanetra in 2017; Fr Seth Phipps last year.

Please pray for us. We assure you of our prayer.

O Lord, grant us many holy priests!

by Fr AM

Last chance for pro-life witness

Manchester City Council are consulting on a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) in the area surrounding the abortion facility in Fallowfield, Manchester. This would ban peaceful prayer vigils and the offering of help in the vicinity of the facility. We have seen over 100 women change their minds and choose life for their unborn children as a result of these vigils in Manchester,if you have been to a vigil please respond to the consultation online at http://www.manchester.gov.uk/consultations   or if you haven’t you can email: asb.action.team@manchester.gov.uk  to express your opposition to the PSPO.

by Fr AM

Sunday 27th Oct Bulletin

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Winter time: clock move backwards. Arrive 1 hour LATER this Sunday(27^th Oct).

Priory Campaign: Thank you for your support all along this campaign. An Open Doors event on Sunday 3^rd November after the 11:00am Mass (buy ACN Christmas cards in the Narthex on your way out). Make your way to Priory Court and meet us there.

Juventutem Youth Group Sat 26^th Oct: plain 5-mile walk along the Sandstone Trail. Start at Beacon Hill car park (WA6 6HG) at 11am – or from St Mary’s Warrington at 10am after the 9am ‘trekkers’’ Mass. Bring appropriate footwear, packed lunch and a raincoat. Contact helena.waddelove@hotmail.co.uk if you need or can offer a lift. facebook.com/juventutem.warrington/

Men’s recollection weekend 29^th Nov – 1^st Dec 2019:

Theme: ‘Restoring manhood: Man as son of God, husband and father.’ Location: The Christian Heritage Centre, Stonyhurst College, Clitheroe, BB7 9PT. Bookings: bookings@christianheritagecentre.com & 01254 827329. £50 deposit upon booking. Cost: £160 for full weekend (single room), or £110 p.p. (twin).

Dowry Mag No43 online (https://fssp.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019-10-11-Dowry-43-WEB.pdf ) and now in print.

Dowry Mag No43 Online

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In this issue:

Editorial: God is at work

My First Christendom Pilgrimage To Chartres

The Fraternity in the Czech Republic

Reviving Religious Life in Britain

Catholic Film Production

Heroic Priest in the Trenches

Fostering Extra-liturgical Devotions

FSSP England Charity Bursar’s Report

Mental Prayer as Union with Christ

For Your Diaries

Support Our Apostolate

Thursday October 31: the date when the UK is due to leave the EU: Eucharistic adoration 6:00pm to midnight to ask God and Our Lady to protect our country and inspire our leaders.

All Saints Party, after 12:10 Mass, Friday 1^st November- All welcome! Come along dressed as a saint, or bring a symbol for us to guess who you are.

Christmas Cards Sales by Aid to the Church in Need on Sunday 3^rd November after both Holy Masses.

Vocation Weekend 24-26 Jan. 2020, Warrington, for single Catholic men 18-30. Contact: malleray@ssp.org

Pray for them as they answer God’s call: 45 young men were admitted to our 2 seminaries last month – and 23 received First Tonsure last 19 October. Prayer for Vocations, prayed daily by over 6,600 members of our international prayer network for Vocations, the Confraternity of St Peter (C.S.P.). Learn more about the prayer for vocations here: fssp.org/en/confraternite.htm.

Youth Conference on: ‘Rebuild my Church: the unexpected bounce of religious Britain’ by Fr de Malleray FSSP. Sat 9^th Nov. 11am-5pm, London, for 18-35 year. Facebook page here.

Reminder on All Saints: “On Sundays and other holy days of obligation the faithful are bound to participate in the Mass.” (cf Catholic Code of Canon Law, 1247). A grave cause is needed to excuse from the obligation. In case of doubt, consult your priest in advance. Missing Holy Mass on those days without a grave cause is a mortal sin.

On All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2^nd ) a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls in Purgatory, is granted to those who visit a Catholic church and there recite one Our Father and one Creed.                 

On all the days from November 1^st through November 8^th inclusive, a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls in Purgatory, is granted to those who visit a cemetery and pray even if only mentally for the departed. There must be one visit for each day one seeks to gain the indulgence; one visit will not apply for several days. Any public cemetery with Christian tombs will do. The nearest one is 5 minutes walk from St Mary’s: St Elphin’s, Church Street, WA1 2TL. 

Conditions for both indulgences:

1. Only one plenary indulgence can be granted per day.

2. It is necessary to be in the state of grace, at least by completion of the work.

3. Freedom from attachment to sin, even venial sin, is necessary; otherwise the indulgence is only partial. (By this is meant attachment to a particular sin, not sin in general.)

4. Holy Communion must be received each time the indulgence is sought.

5. Prayers must be recited for the traditional intentions of the Holy Father on each day the indulgence is sought. No particular prayers are prescribed. One Our Father and one Hail Mary suffice, or other suitable prayers.

6. One must be absolved in confession the fortnight before or following.

Autumn Count:

1) Average number of Confessions heard per week: 2015: 14; 2016: 32; 2017: 30; 2018: 45; 2019: 48.5.

2) Average Sunday attendance: 2017: 148; 2018: 159.5; 2019: 168.

3) Average Mass attendance per week: 2017: 316; 2018: 340, 2019: 348.

Mass Intentions:

by Fr AM

Dowry Mag No43 Online

Click here to open the magazine as pdf.

In this issue:

Editorial: God is at work

My First Christendom Pilgrimage To Chartres

The Fraternity in the Czech Republic

Reviving Religious Life in Britain

Catholic Film Production

Heroic Priest in the Trenches

Fostering Extra-liturgical Devotions

FSSP England Charity Bursar’s Report

Mental Prayer as Union with Christ

For Your Diaries

Support Our Apostolate

by Fr AM