Sunday Bulletin 31st March 2019

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BULLETIN of ST MARY’S SHRINE

31^st March 2019   Fortnightly

www.fssp.co.uk/warrington • 01925 635664

Watch our Mass daily on http://livemass.net/

Reminder: 30 catechetical videos to watch any time anywhere on https://vimeo.com/livemass !

And more here: https://www.facebook.com/pg/londonjuventutem/videos/ !

Buttermarket Street, Warrington WA1 2NS

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter

by appointment of the RC Archdiocese of Liverpool

Rector: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Konrad Loewenstein, FSSP: padrek@libero.it

Assistant: Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP: iverrier@fssp.org

Holy Masses: Sunday 11am & 6pm; Mon-Sat 12:10pm daily.

Confessions 30mins before every Mass every day

– including from 5:30pm before 6pm Sunday Mass and on Saturdays 10am-11:45am during Eucharistic Adoration.

Daily Rosary 11:30am Mon-Fri, 11am Sat. Followed by the Angelus. SUPPORT—Bank details: Account name: FSSP Warrington. Account number: 30993368. Sort Code 30-80-27; Lloyds Bank, Palmerston Road Branch. Ask us for Gift Aid forms and envelopes: warrington@fssp.org. Registered Charity number 1129964

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.

Pro-life: Every last Saturday, 10:15am. Coordinator: Peter Boyle: p.boyle400@btinternet.com

Choir: Contact Fr Verrier for an audition if you would like to join our choir – including Junior choir.

☞To receive Holy Communion: one must be a Catholic, in state of grace, one-hour fasting at least. In the EF liturgy, Holy Communion is received kneeling (unless unable to) and always on the tongue. Thank you in advance.

☞ Did you know? St Mary’s Shrine costs £1,444/week to run and maintain. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

British Summer Time begins this Sunday!

Arrive an hour ‘earlier’.

New GIFT AID ENVELOPES:

If you are part of the Shrine’s Gift Aid scheme and have your own set of weekly Gift Aid envelopes, the new boxes are ready to collect from the narthex this weekend. They can be used from 7^th April.

If your tax status has changed or you no longer need envelopes, or, are a regular user of the white Gift Aid envelopes and would like your own numbered set, please contact Jane Wright in the office.

You will need to sign a declaration to join the scheme but no financial information is required. Remember, we can claim back 25p for every £1 given as gift aid donations.

Priory Campaign: We are pleased to announce that a purchase price and conditions have now been agreed for us to buy two units of Priory Court, subject to survey, while the third unit will remain available for us to buy within a year, once more funds are raised. We intend to convert part of the building into flats to let out, to generate an income necessary for the upkeep.

Full details will be advertised as soon as available.

We thank you for your past and continued prayers.

Banns of marriage: Mr Joshua Langley and Miss Samantha Fraser are to be united in Holy Matrimony at St Mary’s Shrine on Saturday 22^nd June. Please pray for the betrothed couple.

Adults curious to know more about Catholicism? Join our Saturday evening group of catechism for adults: most Saturdays 6pm-7pm, with Fr Loewenstein. Contact: padrek@libero.it

Addicts: To all concerned, or in any way associated with addictions to drugs, alcohol: help is available with a very high success rate. Free. We meet at St Mary’s Warrington WA1 2NS every month, last Saturday at 1pm. Confidential phone contact: 07916578902.

Due to Lenten Recollection, no pro-life meeting on Saturday 30^th March.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE (MANCHESTER) From 6^th March to 14^th April, you’re invited to join 40 Days for Life – 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion.  You’re also invited to stand and peacefully pray during a 40-day vigil on the pavement opposite Marie Stopes abortion clinic in Fallowfield, Manchester, and also to help spread the word about this important work.  If you’d like more information – and especially if you’d like to volunteer, please visit www.40daysforlife.com/local-campaigns/manchester-2/ or call 07810 791032 .

Picture below: some of our fantastic young adults at the SPUC Youth Weekend in Milton Keynes two weeks ago.

Young Adults Group next week: Sat 6^th April, meet at the Priory after the 12:10pm Mass, for pizza and talk by Fr de Malleray on ‘Islam, ally or challenge?’. Ending around 3:30pm.

Further meetings: 11 May [March For Life]; 1^st June; 6 July.

March for Life, London Sat. 11^th May 2019.

Clergy Retreat 13-17 May 2019, Douai Abbey, £333.00, with Fr de Malleray, FSSP.

Already 10 clergy booked in.

More spaces available.

Our quarterly magazine Dowry is available online and in print: https://fssp.co.uk/category/dowry/

Pentecost Pilgrimage to Chartres 7-11 June 2019. Your contact for St Mary’s and the North West: Conor Jones: conorjj79@gmail.com. Join our young (and less young) adults, with Fr Patrick O’Donohue, FSSP (based in Reading). Book early for LMS sponsorship. Contact: chartresuk.blogspot.com/

Summer Camps 2019 for children aged 10-13 & 14-17 in Macclesfield SK10 5RW: Boys 5-10 Aug; Girls 12-17 Aug. Contact priest: odonohue@fssp.org

Children acting: Come and see our children perform the play of Tobit: the Secret of a King in the narthex on Wednesday 24^th April at 6pm. All welcome!

St Mary’s young families group, usually takes place on the third Thursday of each month. All ages welcome! Meet in the presbytery after the 12:10 Mass with your picnic. The third Thursday in April being Maundy Thursday, there won’t be a family day that day!

Mass Intentions:

by Fr AM

St Mary’s Shrine’s Bi-Weekly Bulletin 17-31 March 2019

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BULLETIN of ST MARY’S SHRINE

17^th – 31^st March 2019   Fortnightly

www.fssp.co.uk/warrington • 01925 635664

Watch our Mass daily on http://livemass.net/

Buttermarket Street, Warrington WA1 2NS

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter

by appointment of the RC Archdiocese of Liverpool

Rector: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Konrad Loewenstein, FSSP: padrek@libero.it

Assistant: Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP: iverrier@fssp.org

Holy Masses: Sunday 11am & 6pm; Mon-Sat 12:10pm daily.

Confessions 30mins before every Mass every day

– including from 5:30pm before 6pm Sunday Mass and on Saturdays 10am-11:45am during Eucharistic Adoration.

Daily Rosary 11:30am Mon-Fri, 11am Sat. Followed by the Angelus. SUPPORT—Bank details: Account name: FSSP Warrington. Account number: 30993368. Sort Code 30-80-27; Lloyds Bank, Palmerston Road Branch. Ask us for Gift Aid forms and envelopes: warrington@fssp.org. Registered Charity number 1129964

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.

Pro-life: Every last Saturday, 10:15am. Coordinator: Peter Boyle: p.boyle400@btinternet.com

Choir: Contact Fr Verrier for an audition if you would like to join our choir – including Junior choir: iverrier@fssp.org

☞To receive Holy Communion: one must be a Catholic, in state of grace, one-hour fasting at least. In the EF liturgy, Holy Communion is received kneeling (unless unable to) and always on the tongue. Thank you in advance.

☞ Did you know? St Mary’s Shrine costs £1,444/week to run and maintain. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Our quarterly magazine Dowry is available online and soon in print: https://fssp.co.uk/category/dowry/

 Adults curious to know more about Catholicism? Join our Saturday evening group of catechism for adults: most Saturdays 6pm-7pm, with Fr Loewenstein. Contact: padrek@libero.it

Lenten Recollection Day for All: on Sat. 30^th  March

at St Mary’s Warrington, join us for Eucharistic Adoration & Confessions, Spiritual Conferences and picnic.

10.00-11.25 am: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament/Benediction and Confession in the Church.

11.30 -12 noon: Talk by Fr Loewenstein on: The Passion of the Lord

12.10 pm: Holy Mass

1.15 – 2.20 pm: Bring Your Own picnic lunch (nothing that needs heating)

2.30 – 3.00 pm: Talk by Fr de Malleray on: Turning Trials into Merits & Intercession

3.15 – 3.45pm: Stations of the Cross led by priest

Addicts: To all concerned, or in any way associated with addictions to drugs, alcohol: help is available with a very high success rate. Free. We meet at St Mary’s Warrington WA1 2NS every month, last Saturday at 1pm. Confidential phone contact: 07916578902.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE (MANCHESTER) From 6^th March to 14^th April, you’re invited to join 40 Days for Life – 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion.  You’re also invited to stand and peacefully pray during a 40-day vigil on the pavement opposite Marie Stopes abortion clinic in Fallowfield, Manchester, and also to help spread the word about this important work.  If you’d like more information – and especially if you’d like to volunteer, please visit www.40daysforlife.com/local-campaigns/manchester-2/ or call 07810 791032

Young Adults Group: Next dates: 6 April; 11 May [March For Life]; 1^st June; 6 July.

Great Pro-Life events with sponsorship from St Mary’s: p.boyle400@btinternet.com.

1. SPUC Youth Conference 15-17 March 2019 Milton Keynes. Booking/info: www.spuc.org.uk With Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP
2. March for Life, London Sat. 11^th May 2019.
   

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Clergy Retreat 13-17 May 2019, Douai Abbey, £333.00, with Fr de Malleray, FSSP.

Already 7 priests booked in. More spaces available.

Pentecost Pilgrimage to Chartres 7-11 June 2019. Your contact for St Mary’s and the North West: Conor Jones: conorjj79@gmail.com. Join our young (and less young) adults, with Fr Patrick O’Donohue, FSSP (based in Reading). Book early for LMS sponsorship. Contact: chartresuk.blogspot.com/

Summer Camps 2019 for children aged 10-13 & 14-17 in Macclesfield SK10 5RW: Boys 5-10 Aug; Girls 12-17 Aug. Contact priest: odonohue@fssp.org

St Mary’s young families group, usually takes place on the third Thursday of each month. All ages welcome! Meet in the presbytery after the 12:10 Mass with your picnic.

Mass Intentions:  Other Holy Masses are offered in private for: Catherine Preston RIP, Cheryl Swift, Rita Corcoran, Patricia Jones, Colin Jones, Emmanuel Keenan, Colette Hanna

by Fr AM

Sunday Bulletin 10 March 2019

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10^th March 2019      WEEKLY BULLETIN of ST MARY’S SHRINE

www.fssp.co.uk/warrington • 01925 635664

Watch our Mass daily on http://livemass.net/

Buttermarket Street, Warrington WA1 2NS

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter

by appointment of the RC Archdiocese of Liverpool

[Below: Ladyewell Shrine, where our young adults will meet this Saturday.]

Rector: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Konrad Loewenstein, FSSP: padrek@libero.it

Assistant: Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP: iverrier@fssp.org

Holy Masses: Sunday 11am & 6pm; Mon-Sat 12:10pm daily.

Confessions 30mins before every Mass every day

– including from 5:30pm before 6pm Sunday Mass

and on Saturdays 10am-11:45am during Eucharistic Adoration. Daily Rosary 11:30am Mon-Fri, 11am Sat. Followed by the Angelus.

SUPPORT—Bank details: Account name: FSSP Warrington. Account number: 30993368. Sort Code 30-80-27; Lloyds Bank, Palmerston Road Branch. Ask us for Gift Aid forms and envelopes: warrington@fssp.org. Registered Charity number 1129964

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.

Pro-life: Every last Saturday, 10:15am. Coordinator: Peter Boyle: p.boyle400@btinternet.com

 Choir: Contact Fr Verrier for an audition if you would like to join our choir – including Junior choir: iverrier@fssp.org

☞To receive Holy Communion: one must be a Catholic, in state of grace, one-hour fasting at least. In the EF liturgy, Holy Communion is received kneeling (unless unable to) and always on the tongue. Thank you in advance.

☞ Did you know? St Mary’s Shrine costs £1,444/week to run and maintain. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Mass Intentions:

Masses were also offered in private for the Holy Souls, Fr Oliver O’Connor, Paul Evans, Leigh Keenan, Julia Goodall.

Annunciation of Our Lady, Monday 25^th March: Two Holy Masses 12.10pm & 7pm.

Dowry online: the Spring issue of our quarterly magazine is released. Click here to open, or on picture below.

In this issue:

Editorial: The Great Thaw?

Former Muslims Give Thanks For Conversion

Muslim Invasion Stopped By Otranto Martyrs

A Paradigm of Unfolding

Waiting For My First Traditional Latin Mass

Finding One’s Predominant Fault

Forthcoming Events

Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus

Support Our Apostolate

Priory Campaign: the building we wish to buy stands at the rear of the car park, where the original St Mary’s school built by Pugin used to be. It comprises of three separate units, of which so far we can afford to buy only two. We urgently need benefactors (or investors) 1) to help us secure the third unit and 2) to endow us with a stable monthly income for the upkeep of the new building(s). Our charitable status exempts us from stamp duty. The purchase cost is £80k per floor (i.e. for 79.31 square meters, or 853 square feet) to use as office, or to convert into a flat (we are awaiting confirmation of cost all included).

We still have a great opportunity to create a dynamic Catholic hub around our beautiful Pugin church!

Wherever you live, please email Fr Rector if you can donate (or invest) money: malleray@fssp.org.

Please ask Our Lady for her urgent intervention in the Priory Campaign as a decision should be made soon. God bless you.

Lenten Recollection Day for All:

on Sat. 30^th  March at St Mary’s Warrington, join us for Eucharistic Adoration & Confessions, Spiritual Conferences and picnic.

10.00-11.25 am: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament/Benediction and Confession in the Church.

11.30 -12 noon: Talk by Fr Loewenstein

12.10 pm: Holy Mass

1.15 – 2.20 pm: Bring Your Own picnic lunch (nothing that needs heating)

2.30 – 3.00 pm: Talk by Fr de Malleray

3.15 – 3.45pm: Stations of the Cross led by priest

Addicts: To all concerned, or in any way associated with addictions to drugs, alcohol: help is available with a very high success rate. Free. We meet at St Mary’s Warrington WA1 2NS every month, last Saturday at 1pm. Confidential phone contact: 07916578902.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE (MANCHESTER) From 6^th March to 14^th April, you’re invited to join 40 Days for Life – 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion.  You’re also invited to stand and peacefully pray during a 40-day vigil on the pavement opposite Marie Stopes abortion clinic in Fallowfield, Manchester, and also to help spread the word about this important work.  If you’d like more information – and especially if you’d like to volunteer, please visit

www.40daysforlife.com/local-campaigns/manchester-2/ or call 07810 791032

Young Adults Group to Ladyewell Shrine on Saturday 9 March. Meet at 11:00 at The Anderton Arms, PR2 9PS. Walk from there to Shrine for devotions; walk on through countryside and lunch in pub.

Departure from St Mary’s Shrine Warrington at 10.00am. Email helena.waddelove@hotmail.co.uk if you need a lift or can offer one or for any further information. Next dates: 6 April; 11 May [March For Life]; 1^st June; 6 July.

Adults curious to know more about Catholicism? Join our Saturday evening group of catechism for adults: most Saturdays 6pm-7pm, with Fr Loewenstein. Contact: padrek@libero.it

Great Pro-Life events with sponsorship from St Mary’s: p.boyle400@btinternet.com.

1. SPUC Youth Conference 15-17 March 2019 Milton Keynes. Booking/info: www.spuc.org.uk With Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP
2. March for Life, London Sat. 11^th May 2019.

Clergy Retreat 13-17 May 2019, Douai Abbey, £333.00, with Fr de Malleray, FSSP. Already 7 priests booked in. More spaces available.

Pentecost Pilgrimage to Chartres 7-11 June 2019. Your contact for St Mary’s and the North West: Conor Jones: conorjj79@gmail.com. Join our young (and less young) adults, with Fr Patrick O’Donohue, FSSP (based in Reading). Book early for LMS sponsorship. Contact: chartresuk.blogspot.com/

Summer Camps 2019 for children aged 10-13 & 14-17 in Macclesfield SK10 5RW: Boys 5-10 Aug; Girls 12-17 Aug. Contact priest: odonohue@fssp.org

St Mary’s young families group, usually takes place on the third Thursday of each month. All ages welcome! Meet in the presbytery after the 12:10 Mass with your picnic.

by Fr AM

Dowry 41 Spring Issue now Online

Click here to open the latest issue of our magazine.

In this issue:

Editorial: The Great Thaw?

Former Muslims Give Thanks For Conversion

Muslim Invasion Stopped By Otranto Martyrs

A Paradigm of Unfolding

Waiting For My First Traditional Latin Mass

Finding One’s Predominant Fault

Forthcoming Events

Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus

Support Our Apostolate

by Fr AM

Sunday Bulletin 3rd March 2019

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WEEKLY BULLETIN of ST MARY’S SHRINE

3^rd March 2019

www.fssp.co.uk/warrington • 01925 635664

Watch our Mass daily on http://livemass.net/

Buttermarket Street, Warrington WA1 2NS

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter

by appointment of the RC Archdiocese of Liverpool

Rector: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Konrad Loewenstein, FSSP: padrek@libero.it

Assistant: Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP: iverrier@fssp.org

Holy Masses: Sunday 11am & 6pm; Mon-Sat 12:10pm daily.

Confessions 30mins before every Mass every day

– including from 5:30pm before 6pm Sunday Mass

and on Saturdays 10am-11:45am during Eucharistic Adoration. Daily Rosary 11:30am Mon-Fri, 11am Sat. Followed by the Angelus.

SUPPORT—Bank details: Account name: FSSP Warrington. Account number: 30993368. Sort Code 30-80-27; Lloyds Bank, Palmerston Road Branch. Ask us for Gift Aid forms and envelopes: warrington@fssp.org. Registered Charity number 1129964

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.

Pro-life: Every last Saturday, 10:15am. Coordinator: Peter Boyle: p.boyle400@btinternet.com

Choir: Contact Fr Verrier for an audition if you would like to join our choir – including Junior choir: iverrier@fssp.org

☞To receive Holy Communion: one must be a Catholic, in state of grace, one-hour fasting at least. In the EF liturgy, Holy Communion is received kneeling (unless unable to) and always on the tongue. Thank you in advance.

☞ Did you know? St Mary’s Shrine costs £1,444/week to run and maintain. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Mass Intentions:

40 DAYS FOR LIFE (MANCHESTER) From 6th March to 14th April, you’re invited to join 40 Days for Life – 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion.  You’re also invited to stand and peacefully pray during a 40-day vigil on the pavement opposite Marie Stopes abortion clinic in Fallowfield, Manchester, and also to help spread the word about this important work.  If you’d like more information – and especially if you’d like to volunteer, please visit www.40daysforlife.com/local-campaigns/manchester-2/ or call 07810 791032

Priory Campaign: our pre-planning applications for Community Use of the building(s) received a favourable response from Warrington Borough Council. Since then, the owner informed us that he was not selling the Buttermarket Street building(s) to us anymore. This may be God’s way to show us His Holy will, namely, to buy Priory Court instead.

This latter building stands at the rear of the car park, where the original St Mary’s school built by Pugin used to be. It comprises of three separate units, of which so far we can afford to buy only two. We urgently need benefactors (or investors) 1) to help us secure the third unit and 2) to endow us with a stable monthly income for the upkeep of the new building(s). Our charitable status exempts us from stamp duty. The purchase cost is £80k per floor (i.e. for 79.31 square meters, or 853 square feet) to use as office, or to convert into a flat (we are awaiting confirmation of cost all included).

We still have a great opportunity to create a dynamic Catholic hub around our beautiful Pugin church! Wherever you live, please email Fr Rector if you can donate (or invest) money: malleray@fssp.org.

Please ask Our Lady for her urgent intervention in the Priory Campaign as a decision should be made soon. God bless you.

Addicts: To all concerned, or in any way associated with addictions to drugs, alcohol: help is available with a very high success rate. Free.

We meet at Sr Mary’s Warrington WA1 2NS every month, last Saturday at 1pm.

Confidential phone contact: 07916578902.

Eucharistic Retreat at Douai Abbey: thank you for your prayer for spiritual fruit for the ca. 40 of us meditating on the Holy Sacrament last weekend in Berkshire

Catholic Mum makes mantillas big and small sizes for ladies (black) and girls (white) ranging from £5 to £12. Contact anjali_fletcher@yahoo.com or 07848397287.

Young Adults Group Next meetings: Saturdays 9 March (Ladyewell Shrine PR2 5RT); 6 April; 11 May [March For Life]; 1^st June; 6 July.

Family moving nearer to St Mary’s? 3-bed house to let in High Legh from April 2019, ca. £750 p/m. 20 mins / 8 miles from St Mary’s by car. Available to buy from Feb 2021. Contact Dominic Jones: dominic.jones@gmx.co.uk, 07875242761.

Adults curious to know more about Catholicism? Join our Saturday evening group of catechism for adults: most Saturdays 6pm-7pm, with Fr Loewenstein.

Great Pro-Life events with sponsorship from St Mary’s: p.boyle400@btinternet.com.

1. SPUC Youth Conference 15-17 March 2019 Milton Keynes. Booking/info: www.spuc.org.uk With Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP
2. March for Life, London Sat. 11^th May 2019.

Clergy Retreat 13-17 May 2019, Douai Abbey, £333.00, with Fr de Malleray, FSSP

Pentecost Pilgrimage to Chartres 7-11 June 2019. Your contact for St Mary’s and the North West: Conor Jones: conorjj79@gmail.com.

Join our young (and less young) adults, with

Fr Patrick O’Donohue, FSSP (based in Reading). Book early for LMS sponsorship.

Contact: chartresuk.blogspot.com/

Summer Camps 2019 for children aged 10-13 & 14-17 in Macclesfield SK10 5RW: Boys 5-10 Aug; Girls 12-17 Aug. Contact priest: odonohue@fssp.org

St Mary’s young families group, usually takes place on the third Thursday of each month. All ages welcome! Meet in the presbytery after the 12:10 Mass with your picnic. (St Mary’s school support group runs concurrently with this group, but meets weekly for catechesis/philosophy.)

by Fr AM

Sunday Bulletin 24 Feb 2019

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WEEKLY BULLETIN of ST MARY’S SHRINE

24 February 2019

www.fssp.co.uk/warrington • 01925 635664

Watch our Mass daily on http://livemass.net/

Buttermarket Street, Warrington WA1 2NS

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter

by appointment of the RC Archdiocese of Liverpool

(Picture: St Chad)

Rector: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Konrad Loewenstein, FSSP: padrek@libero.it

Assistant: Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP: iverrier@fssp.org

Holy Masses: Sunday 11am & 6pm; Mon-Sat 12:10pm daily.

Confessions 30mins before every Mass every day

– including from 5:30pm before 6pm Sunday Mass

and on Saturdays 10am-11:45am during Eucharistic Adoration. Daily Rosary 11:30am Mon-Fri, 11am Sat. Followed by the Angelus.

SUPPORT—Bank details: Account name: FSSP Warrington. Account number: 30993368. Sort Code 30-80-27; Lloyds Bank, Palmerston Road Branch. Ask us for Gift Aid forms and envelopes: warrington@fssp.org. Registered Charity number 1129964

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.

Pro-life: Every last Saturday, 10:15am. Coordinator: Peter Boyle: p.boyle400@btinternet.com

Choir: Contact Fr Verrier for an audition if you would like to join our choir – including Junior choir: iverrier@fssp.org

☞To receive Holy Communion: one must be a Catholic, in state of grace, one-hour fasting at least. In the EF liturgy, Holy Communion is received kneeling (unless unable to) and always on the tongue. Thank you in advance.

☞ Did you know? St Mary’s Shrine costs £1,444/week to run and maintain. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Mass Intentions:

Our Lady, Untier of Knots

The next service for the novena is at St. Paul of the Cross on Tuesday 19^th February. The theme is “Injustice”.

40 DAYS FOR LIFE (MANCHESTER)

From 6th March to 14th April, you’re invited to join 40 Days for Life – 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion.  You’re also invited to stand and peacefully pray during a 40-day vigil on the pavement opposite Marie Stopes abortion clinic in Fallowfield, Manchester, and also to help spread the word about this important work.  If you’d like more information – and especially if you’d like to volunteer, please visit www.40daysforlife.com/local-campaigns/manchester-2/ or call 07810 791032

Priory Campaign: our pre-planning applications for Community Use of the building(s) received a favourable response from Warrington Borough Council. Since then, the owner informed us that he was not selling the Buttermarket Street building(s) to us anymore. This may be God’s way to show us His Holy will, namely, to buy Priory Court instead.

This latter building stands at the rear of the car park, where the original St Mary’s school built by Pugin used to be. It comprises of three separate units, of which so far we can afford to buy only two. We urgently need benefactors (or investors) 1) to help us secure the third unit and 2) to endow us with a stable monthly income for the upkeep of the new building(s). Our charitable status exempts us from stamp duty. The purchase cost is £80k per floor (i.e. for 79.31 square meters, or 853 square feet) to use as office; or adding circa £20k as cost of conversion into residential (Warrington Borough Council has granted the change of use to the owner for the entire building). In total, it would seem that one could get an 80 square meter flat from £100k. This includes parking space.

We still have a great opportunity to create a dynamic Catholic hub around our beautiful Pugin church! Wherever you live, please email Fr Rector if you can donate (or invest) money: malleray@fssp.org.

Please ask Our Lady for her urgent intervention in the Priory Campaign as a decision should be made soon. God bless you.

St Mary’s young families group, usually takes place on the third Thursday of each month. Next:  28^th Feb. All ages welcome! Meet in the presbytery after the 12:10 Mass with your picnic. (St Mary’s school support group runs concurrently with this group, but meets weekly for catechesis/philosophy.)

Addicts: To all concerned, or in any way associated with addictions to drugs, alcohol: help is available with a very high success rate. Free.

We meet at Sr Mary’s Warrington WA1 2NS every month, last Saturday at 1pm. Confidential phone contact: 07916578902.

Eucharistic Retreat at Douai Abbey: thank you for your prayer for spiritual fruit for the ca. 50 of us meditating on the Holy Sacrament this weekend in Berkshire.

Catholic Mum makes mantillas big and small sizes for ladies (black) and girls (white) ranging from £5 to £12. Contact anjali_fletcher@yahoo.com or 07848397287.

Young Adults Group Next meetings: Saturday 9 March (Ladyewell Shrine PR2 5RT); 6 April; 11 May [March For Life]; 1^st June; 6 July.

Family moving nearer to St Mary’s? 3-bed house to let in High Legh from April 2019, ca. £750 p/m. 20 mins / 8 miles from St Mary’s by car. Available to buy from Feb 2021. Contact Dominic Jones: dominic.jones@gmx.co.uk, 07875242761.

Adults curious to know more about Catholicism? Join our Saturday evening group of catechism for adults: most Saturdays 6pm-7pm, with Fr Loewenstein.

Great Pro-Life events with sponsorship from St Mary’s: p.boyle400@btinternet.com.

1. SPUC Youth Conference 15-17 March 2019 Milton Keynes. Booking/info: www.spuc.org.uk With Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP
2. March for Life, London Sat. 11^th May 2019.

Clergy Retreat 13-17 May 2019, Douai Abbey, £333.00, with Fr de Malleray, FSSP

Pentecost Pilgrimage to Chartres 7-11 June 2019. Your contact for St Mary’s and the North West: Conor Jones: conorjj79@gmail.com.

Join our young (and less young) adults, with

Fr Patrick O’Donohue, FSSP (based in Reading). Book early for LMS sponsorship.

Contact: chartresuk.blogspot.com/

Summer Camps 2019 for children aged 10-13 & 14-17 in Macclesfield SK10 5RW: Boys 5-10 Aug; Girls 12-17 Aug. Contact priest: odonohue@fssp.org

by Fr AM

A PARADIGM OF UNFOLDING

A Paradigm of Unfolding

An Analogy between Christ’s Holy Shroud and Divine Revelation – by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP

Introduction

All along Church history, new doctrinal statements are issued as part of the Magisterium, in fulfilment of the Church’s teaching mission. In what sense are they new? Never can such pronouncements contradict earlier ones. They can only make more explicit what has always been part of Divine Revelation, consisting of Scripture and Tradition. The Hierarchy of the Church and Her theologians gradually unfold Revealed Truth, after the parable of Our Lord: ‘Every scribe instructed in the kingdom of heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old’ (Matthew 13:52). The data is not to be invented or imported, even less construed, but merely expounded under the guidance of the Holy Ghost: ‘The Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things, and bring all things to your mind, whatsoever I shall have said to you’ (John 14:26).

To explain the development of Catholic doctrine, we offer an analogy between unfolding Christ’s Holy Shroud and developing Christ’s Revelation. The purpose in each case is to display the full figure of Christ, either visually on the cloth, or doctrinally through magisterial promulgations. On Easter morning then, St Peter, St John and St Mary Magdalene found the empty linens wrapped together in the empty tomb. Some time on that day, they would have taken with them the precious relic. Back home in the Upper Room, with what emotion they would have slowly unfolded the linens, gradually displaying the Master’s silhouette: first His shoulder, then His elbow, now His foot and then His Head… Everywhere, their eyes would meet so many wounds, all endured for their redemption – and ours.

Please note that it is irrelevant to our analogy whether or not the Turin Shroud is indeed the one in which the Saviour lay buried. What is certain is that there was such a shroud, and that none more scientifically convincing than the Turin one has surfaced.

Upon Christ’s folded Shroud as within Christ’s Revelation, the entirety of the message is present from the start – albeit hidden. Consequently, the Church cannot add anything new to the data given. She can only unfold Christ’s silhouette and make explicit His Good News. She bears witness to growth, like a mother to the child in her womb, or like astronomer Father Georges Lemaître theorising universal expansion (later known as the Big Bang theory). In each case, a core is given and development follows. How long will the unfolding of Christ’s Revelation take? It will take until Christ’s return. The completion of this work of patience, love and humility will mark the end of time. Then Christ will appear before all eyes, as if His eyelids on the Shroud opened, radiating His Good News as a reward of glory for the just, and as retribution for those who will have shut their minds to His truth and their hearts to His mercy.

1- Considering the Holy Shroud

What does the Holy Shroud look like? It is a depiction of Our Lord’s tortured Body (both back and front), spread across the ‎14.5-feet-long by 1.4-foot-wide linen cloth, with such accuracy that this sacred relic has been termed ‘The Fifth Gospel’. The Holy Shroud – presently kept in Turin, Italy – is the most tested object in the world. The scientific findings, due to their number and complexity, now constitute a distinct branch of science called sindonology, after the word ‘sindon’, the Greek word for ‘shroud’.

Let us recall a few sindonological discoveries. It took nineteen centuries to realise that the Shroud is a photographic negative: inversing paler and darker areas reveals the actual picture. Further analysis established that the depiction results from irradiation, not from the application of pigments upon the linen material. Later on, the image was found to be three-dimensional, allowing the shaping of a resin model of Our Lord’s Body as when it was lying wrapped in the Shroud. Anomalies such as the absence of thumbs on either hand were explained, while microscopic examination found diverse pollens from the Middle-East stuck in the fibres of the cloth.

Thus, the Holy Shroud of Christ yields its secrets by stages, and yet, all information has been present on the material since Easter morning. Similarly, Christian doctrine develops across time, even though Christ’s Revelation was completed when Christ’s last apostle died. For example, in 451 the Council of Chalcedon defined that Christ had two natures, the human and the divine ones, under one single divine self. But these truths had been contained in Christ’s Revelation from the start. Another example: in 1215 the Council of Lateran defined the Eucharistic change as Transubstantiation, not inventing a new belief, but explaining an original truth. Hence, just as no genuine scientist would add to the Holy Shroud data from without, equally, no Catholic theologian can ever increase Christ’s Revelation. Scientists will apply to the Holy Shroud modern technology and the resources of their intellect to infer further evidence. Similarly, Catholic theologians rely on their skills and inspiration to draw new conclusions from pre-existing truths. In either case, new investigations can only build upon earlier findings.

The following episode in the Shroud examinations illustrates this principle a contrario. In 1989, Carbon 14 tests seemed to establish that the Holy Shroud dated from the middle ages. But leading researcher Raymond Rogers changed his mind on discovering that the samples tested were not part of the original material. They belonged instead to the repairs undergone by the Shroud after the 1532 fire in Chambery. In other words, medieval cotton threads had been expertly woven into the original linen fabric to mend fire damage. This applies analogically to the work of theologians probing Christ’s Revelation. Any theological statement one may proffer in contradiction with Christ’s Revelation rests upon unauthentic premises (and fosters a non-Catholic agenda). Like the Carbon 14 findings, such unorthodox statements may sound convincing when issued, but like them, they are flawed at some level, hence unscientific.

2- Why Holy Church takes Her time

Holy Mother Church tells us all truth about God. She does not tell it all at once though – for three reasons. First, God is infinite, whereas our human intelligence is limited of its nature, and obscured by sin, so that we need time to explore the truth. Second, unlike angels who understand by intuition or immediate grasp, we humans reach the truth gradually, from consequences to causes. Third, the Church reacts to historical circumstances: whether adverse ones such as heresies and wars, or favourable ones such as the deeds of saints or even the discoveries of scientists. By God’s Providence, the Church’s response to circumstances leads Her to focus on this or that specific aspect of the revealed truth, while further aspects will only be examined later on. For instance, the Church’s pro-life teaching was greatly developed in the past fifty years in response to institutionalised abortion.

These three factors help understand the development of doctrine. Development here expresses inner growth and precludes addition from without. This is the capital point to understand: whenever the Church makes a new pronouncement, it is never new in relation to God’s Revelation, but only in relation to contemporary believers. For example, when the Divine Motherhood of Our Lady was defined at the Council of Ephesus in 431, it was new inasmuch as the Church had not until then committed Her authority to affirm this fact dogmatically. But that truth was already contained in God’s Revelation, rather than added to it later on. Long before it was promulgated as a dogma, the divine Motherhood existed as a fact, from the instant when the Blessed Virgin Mary had answered ‘Yes’ to Archangel Gabriel at Her Annunciation. The dogmatic promulgation at Ephesus did not create the fact. It only provided formal assurance of orthodoxy. For this, the inhabitants of Ephesus in thanksgiving took to the streets, holding torches and singing hymns. Believers of all ages may react similarly when further aspects of God’s Revelation are displayed by Holy Mother Church through Her Magisterium.

3- God’s Love Letter

God’s Revelation is like His love letter to His immaculate Bride, the Church. For a letter to be safely transmitted, the sheet of paper requires folding into an envelope (or many sheets, because God has a lot to tell to His beloved). When a young woman receives a letter from her fiancé (ink on paper being more personal than emails on a screen or instant messages), she does not see the sentences and words, nor his handwriting and signature, until with her own fingers she delicately extracts the sheets from the envelope, and lovingly unfolds them for her eyes eventually to meet the written signs. Even then, although she can guess that he wrote gracious things about their shared love, she is not able to grasp in one glance the detail of his communication. It takes unfolding and reading time – until the beloved returns.

With this comparison in mind, we may ask ourselves: what are the fingers with which Holy Mother Church unfolds God’s message of love? They are the theologians and the Magisterium. The Church’s fingers are Catholic believers of either sex mandated by the Holy See to apply their sound philosophical and theological training to probing Holy Scripture and Tradition. These people examine the Deposit of Faith according to their individual temperaments, skills and interests, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost and in response to historical circumstances. In that sense, their inquiries entail novelty and subjectivity. But the object of their investigation can never be a product of their imagination, a fanciful innovation or an artificial addition, however clever or expedient it may sound. On the contrary, whatever they find has to be just that: found – not imagined. They can deduce, not invent.

Holy Mother Church, then, has loving fingers. Now, what is Her love letter? Upon what sheet and within what sealed envelope did Her Beloved Jesus imprint His message of passionate love? It is upon a burial sheet, sealed within a stone cavity. On Easter morning, the Risen Spouse let His angel break the seal from His tombstone; and His first pope found the empty shroud that covered the dead Lord’s Holy Face and Body: ‘the napkin that had been about his head, [was] not lying with the linen cloths, but apart, wrapped up into one place’ (John 20:7). Christ’s message was folded, so that even Simon Peter did not behold the full silhouette of the Saviour at the time. Later on that memorable day however, the Vicar of Christ would have taken away with him for safekeeping the folded shroud – the material witness of the Resurrection, which is the core of the Christian Revelation as St Paul affirms: ‘if Christ be not risen again, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain’ (1 Cor 15:14).

4- Truth knows no expiration date

Certain dogmatic pronouncements can be more important than others, but they cannot contradict past ones. Some well-meaning Catholics believe, more or less consciously, that referring to Councils earlier than the twenty-first one (also the latest: Vatican II, 1962-1965) is disloyal. They mistakenly assume that what was defined in centuries past loses its relevance with time; or worse, that truths of old become toxic after a number of years, like pharmaceutical drugs past expiration date. On 19^th November 2013, Pope Francis proved such assumptions erroneous when he commemorated the 450^th anniversary of the Council of Trent, writing to his extraordinary envoy Walter Cardinal Brandmüller:

‘It behoves the Church to recall with more prompt and attentive eagerness the most fruitful doctrine which came out of that Council convened in the Tyrolese region. Certainly not without cause, the Church has for a long time already accorded so much care to the Decrees and Canons of that Council that are to be recalled and observed… Graciously hearing the very same Holy Ghost, the Holy Church of our age, even now, continues to restore and meditate upon the most abundant doctrine of Trent… You will exhort all who shall participate in this event, that, souls joined together with the soul of the Most Holy Redeemer, they may be fully conscious of all the fruits derived from this Council, and that they may unite themselves in bringing these fruits to others and in propagating them in every way.’

Thus, five centuries after the Council of Trent, the successor of Peter affirms the perennial validity of the truths defined in its documents, and commands them to be ‘propagated in every way’, following Pope John Paul II’s similar praise of ‘the perennially valid teaching of the Council of Trent’ (Encyclical Ecclesia de Eucharistia §15, 17 April 2003).

Still, it cannot be denied that of late, disconcerting statements have been issued by the hierarchy of the Church at every level. Even though no formal heresy has been promulgated, traditional teaching on marriage for instance, or on death penalty, or on salvation through Christ only, is undermined. How are the laity and clergy to react in such situations? The Code of Canon Law (1983) states that: ‘They have the right, indeed at times the duty, in keeping with their knowledge, competence and position, to manifest to the sacred Pastors their views on matters which concern the good of the Church. They have the right also to make their views known to others of Christ’s faithful, but in doing so they must always respect the integrity of faith and morals, show due reverence to the Pastors and take into account both the common good and the dignity of individuals’ (Can. 212 §3).

5- The Sense of Faith equips us to discern

A document of particular relevance to this question, The Sense of Faith in the Life of the Church, was published under Pope Francis by the International Theological Commission of the Holy See on 10^th June 2014, explaining how the ‘sense of faith’ (in Latin sensus fidei) enables the baptised to assess doctrinal truth. We will now quote extensively six paragraphs from this document:

‘49. The sensus fidei fidelis is a sort of spiritual instinct that enables the believer to judge spontaneously whether a particular teaching or practice is or is not in conformity with the Gospel and with apostolic faith. It is intrinsically linked to the virtue of faith itself; it flows from, and is a property of, faith. It is compared to an instinct because it is not primarily the result of rational deliberation, but is rather a form of spontaneous and natural knowledge, a sort of perception (aisthesis).

53. The sensus fidei is the form that the instinct which accompanies every virtuetakes in the case of the virtue of faith. ‘Just as, by the habits of the other virtues, one sees what is becoming in respect of that habit, so, by the habit of faith, the human mind is directed to assent to such things as are becoming to a right faith, and not to assent to others.’ Faith, as a theological virtue, enables the believer to participate in the knowledge that God has of himself and of all things. In the believer, it takes the form of a ‘second nature’. By means of grace and the theological virtues, believers become ‘participants of the divine nature’ (2 Pet 1:4), and are in a way connaturalised to God. As a result, they react spontaneously on the basis of that participated divine nature, in the same way that living beings react instinctively to what does or does not suit their nature.
54. Three principal manifestations of the sensus fidei fidelisin the personal life of the believer can be highlighted. The sensus fidei fidelisenables individual believers: 1) to discern whether or not a particular teaching or practice that they actually encounter in the Church is coherent with the true faith by which they live in the communion of the Church (see below, §§61-63); 2) to distinguish in what is preached between the essential and the secondary (§64); and 3) to determine and put into practice the witness to Jesus Christ that they should give in the particular historical and cultural context in which they live (§65).
55. ‘Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God ; for many false prophets have gone out into the world’ (1Jn 4:1). The sensus fidei fidelis confers on the believer the capacity to discern whether or not a teaching or practice is coherent with the true faith by which he or she already lives. If individual believers perceive or ‘sense’ that coherence, they spontaneously give their interior adherence to those teachings or engage personally in the practices, whether it is a matter of truths already explicitly taught or of truths not yet explicitly taught.
56. The sensus fidei fidelisalso enables individual believers to perceive any disharmony, incoherence, or contradiction between a teaching or practice and the authentic Christian faith by which they live. They react as a music lover does to false notes in the performance of a piece of music. In such cases, believers interiorly resist the teachings or practices concerned and do not accept them or participate in them. ‘The habitusof faith possesses a capacity whereby, thanks to it, the believer is prevented from giving assent to what is contrary to the faith, just as chastity gives protection with regard to whatever is contrary to chastity.’
57. Alerted by their sensus fidei, individual believers may deny assent even to the teaching of legitimate pastors if they do not recognise in that teaching the voice of Christ, the Good Shepherd. ‘The sheep follow [the Good Shepherd] because they know his voice. They will not follow a stranger, but they will run away from him because they do not know the voice of strangers’ (Jn 10:4-5). For St Thomas, a believer, even without theological competence, can and even must resist, by virtue of the sensus fidei, his or her bishop if the latter preaches heterodoxy. In such a case, the believer does not treat himself or herself as the ultimate criterion of the truth of faith, but rather, faced with materially ‘authorised’ preaching which he or she finds troubling, without being able to explain exactly why, defers assent and appeals interiorly to the superior authority of the universal Church.’

6- Filial Concern

These authoritative quotes from a theological document published by the Holy See as recently as 2014 may surprise for their boldness. They stress clearly that the undiscriminating acceptance of any doctrine is not Catholic. On the contrary, genuine worship of Christ as Truth Incarnate leads every believer to assess what is presented as truth, even when uttered by those acting in Christ’s name. The touchstone of orthodoxy is continuity with what has always been professed and believed in the Church of Christ: ‘For the Holy Spirit was promised to the successors of Peter not so that they might, by his revelation, make known some new doctrine, but that, by his assistance, they might religiously guard and faithfully expound the revelation or deposit of faith transmitted by the apostles’ (Vatican I, Pastor Aeternus Chapter 4).

With this in mind, one understands how considering the hypothesis even of a heretical pope is not in itself imprudent or disrespectful. Eminent and saintly theologians have done so, for the sake of guiding souls in times of perplexity. Cardinal St Robert Bellarmine stated that: ‘A Pope who is a manifest heretic, ceases in himself to be Pope and head, just as   he ceases in himself to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.’ It is one thing for a sovereign pontiff to allow the spread of falsity by other prelates, or even to support it privately, or to be quoted as such – it is another for him to teach formal heresy with all the marks of authority required to bind the Church to his error. St Bellarmine believed that Christ would preserve His Church from the latter evil.

We should all filially pray for this, while making better use of the wealth of safe doctrinal resources provided on the Internet. At the tips of our fingers, we can gain access for free to the texts of the twenty-one Councils and numerous papal encyclicals, but also the Fathers of the Church and the works of sound theologians and spiritual authors. All such doctrinal riches are offered us as the gradual unfolding of Christ’s Revelation. Nothing can be changed or added to Christ’s Revelation, since it was completed at the death of His last apostle. But much can be deduced from the same Revelation, through the humble and loving process of explicating pre-existing truth, according to our analogy with the unfolding of Christ’s Holy Shroud.

As our reader may have noticed, bringing together Christ’s Revelation and Shroud rests upon a motive stronger than an analogy. The Shroud indeed bears witness to the Revelation in the most realistic manner. It is significant that Easter Saturday’s Gospel quoted above shows St John waiting outside the tomb for St Peter to enter first. Again, the respective positions of the linens are noticed as if through St Peter’s eyes. Who more than Christ’s Vicar has authority to guard, pass on and expound the treasure given by the Risen Lord? On that same Easter day, as we learn, the Lord ‘appeared to Simon’ (Lk 24:34). There were no witnesses. Or perhaps, the Shroud was the witness, as we now attempt to picture, offering this meditation to conclude our essay.

Conclusion

Alone at last in the Upper Room, Simon had unfolded the long strip of cloth, nowhere more fittingly than across the trestles of the Last Supper table. Three nights earlier, upon another cloth, the Lord had made Himself truly present under the Eucharistic species at the first Holy Mass. The Eleven and He had walked thence to Gethsemane. Before cockcrow, Simon had thrice denied his Lord. Since then Jesus had died and was risen.

Back in the Upper Room on Easter day, Simon was on his knees at the far end of the long linen rectangle. His eyes slightly higher than the level of the cloth swollen in successive waves upon the trestles, the fisherman would look at the maculated Shroud as a seaman at a vast archipelago spread across a limitless map. Wide or tiny, each bloodstain was an island, mystically bearing the name of each and every sinner, redeemed through the wounds of the Lamb.

Which stain bore Simon’s name? It could not be less than three, one for each denial – and so many more… In St Peter’s soul, contrition connected the reddish shapes of various sizes like the stars under which he was reborn, as in a new constellation named Absolution. It was probably no surprise to Simon then, when he became aware of Christ’s bodily presence, standing at the other end of His unfolded Shroud. The contrite Vicar had opened his soul to the Saviour already. Christ confirmed His pardon and left, until they met again by the Sea of Galilee.

His Vicar remained on his knees looking across the bloodied sheet, while on either side of the table of redemption hundreds of men materialised, imitating his posture: his successors. What were there names, their races and languages: Clement, Anaclet, Alexander, Fabian, John, Stephen, Pius, Leo, Gregory, Benedict… Francis? How many of them would the Fisherman have until Christ’s glorious return? The Lord would not fail to assist them, as He had done for him, that each might be faithful: ‘But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and thou, being once converted, confirm thy brethren’ (Luke 22:32).

Simon would pray for them, that they might ‘feed Christ’s sheep’ (John 21:17) in the pastures of truth unadulterated, whatever the cost. In order to save though, truth must not only be believed, but also implemented by all believers. Every genuine Pope to Christ’s flock would also have to ‘teach them to observe all things whatsoever the Lord had commanded His apostles’ (Matthew 28:20). The Mother of the Lord had ordered it so, at the wedding in Cana. She did not command merely to believe whatever Christ would say, but to do it: ‘His mother saith to the waiters: Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye’ (John 2:5).

Presently, Peter felt her hand gently resting on his shoulder. No nail had pierced that hand, but a sword had pierced the immaculate heart of the Mother who, standing behind him, silently assured forgiveness to the kneeling penitent, and promised assistance to Her Son’s first Pope, now rising. Within fifty days, She would be with Peter and the ten others in this very room, when the Holy Ghost would be sent upon them, turning every believer into an ‘epistle of Christ… written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in the fleshly tables of the heart.’ (2 Co 3:3).

How long would the unfolding of Christ’s Revelation take, until His return in might and glory? A few years; a few centuries; or millennia? One thing was certain: all that was ever to be proclaimed through dogmatic promulgations in the ages to come was already lying there, before Simon’s tearful eyes, spread across the linen cloth of the Risen One. His message was imprinted on His Shroud: apparently flat, but unfathomably deep if measured in mercy – transcendentally high if gauged with joy. □

Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP is the author of Ego Eimi – It is I, Falling in Eucharistic Love; and the editor of the magazine Dowry.

by Fr AM

Sunday Bulletin 17 Feb. 2019

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WEEKLY BULLETIN of ST MARY’S SHRINE  

17 February 2019

www.fssp.co.uk/warrington • 01925 635664

Watch our Mass daily on http://livemass.net/

Buttermarket Street, Warrington WA1 2NS

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter

by appointment of the RC Archdiocese of Liverpool

Rector: Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP: malleray@fssp.org

Assistant: Fr Konrad Loewenstein, FSSP: padrek@libero.it

Assistant: Fr Ian Verrier, FSSP: iverrier@fssp.org

Holy Masses: Sunday 11am & 6pm; Mon-Sat 12:10pm daily.

Confessions 30mins before every Mass every day

– including from 5:30pm before 6pm Sunday Mass

and on Saturdays 10am-11:45am during Eucharistic Adoration. Daily Rosary 11:30am Mon-Fri, 11am Sat. Followed by the Angelus.

SUPPORT—Bank details: Account name: FSSP Warrington. Account number: 30993368. Sort Code 30-80-27; Lloyds Bank, Palmerston Road Branch. Ask us for Gift Aid forms and envelopes: warrington@fssp.org. Registered Charity number 1129964

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.

Pro-life: Every last Saturday, 10:15am. Coordinator: Peter Boyle: p.boyle400@btinternet.com

Choir: Contact Fr Verrier for an audition if you would like to join our choir – including Junior choir: iverrier@fssp.org

☞To receive Holy Communion: one must be a Catholic, in state of grace, one-hour fasting at least. In the EF liturgy, Holy Communion is received kneeling (unless unable to) and always on the tongue. Thank you in advance.

☞ Did you know? St Mary’s Shrine costs £1,444/week to run and maintain. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Mass Intentions:

Holy Masses were also offered privately for Linda Kelly, Percy Burton, Holy Souls in Purgatory, Bernadette & Alan Conor, Holy Souls, Fr O’Connor, Holy Souls, Leigh Keenan, Rosemary Murphy, Aimée Blacker.

Park safely: the fence at the rear of our car park has been damaged by car users. Please do take extra care when parking. Thank you.

Welcome to 5 extra FSSP priests from Scotland, Reading and Switzerland. We will be 8 priests in total staying at St Mary’s Priory between 18^th and 20^th February for our third annual FSSP-UK clergy gathering. (Due to lack of room, a couple of us will sleep on the floor, which is very good for one’s back, they say.)

Priory Campaign: 8 days ago our pre-planning applications for Community Use of the building(s) received a favourable response from Warrington Borough Council. Since then, the owner informed us that he was not selling the Buttermarket Street building(s) to us anymore. This may be God’s way to show us His Holy will, namely, to buy Priory Court instead.

This latter building stands at the rear of the car park, where the original St Mary’s school built by Pugin used to be. It comprises of three separate units, of which so far we can afford to buy only two. We urgently need benefactors (or investors)

1) to help us secure the third unit and

2) to endow us with a stable monthly income for the upkeep of the new building(s).

Our charitable status exempts us from stamp duty. The purchase cost is £80k per floor (i.e. for 79.31 square meters, or 853 square feet) to use as office; or adding circa £20k as cost of conversion into residential (Warrington Borough Council has granted the change of use to the owner for the entire building). In total, it would seem that one could get an 80 square meter flat from £100k. This includes parking space.

We still have a great opportunity to create a dynamic Catholic hub around our beautiful Pugin church! Wherever you live, please email Fr Rector if you can donate (or invest) money: malleray@fssp.org.

Please ask Our Lady for her urgent intervention in the Priory Campaign as a decision should be made this week. God bless you.

Watch the drone video of the building here.

St Mary’s young families group, usually takes place on the third Thursday of each month. As Feb 21^st will be half term, this month’s meeting is postponed to the week afterwards 28^th Feb. All ages welcome! Meet in the presbytery after the 12:10 Mass with your picnic. (St Mary’s school support group runs concurrently with this group, but meets weekly for catechesis/philosophy.)

Addicts: To all concerned, or in any way associated with addictions to drugs, alcohol: help is available with a very high success rate. Free.

We meet at Sr Mary’s Warrington WA1 2NS every month, last Saturday at 1pm. Confidential phone contact: 07916578902.

February 16: ordination in Wigratzbad by His Exc. Vitus Huonder, Bishop of Chur, Switzerland of our Welsh seminarian Gwilym as Exorcist and Acolyte. Three members of our congregation will carry the prayers of St Mary’s Shrine when attending the ceremony in Bavaria. In total this month 22 seminarians will have been ordained to the Minors Orders and 15 to the first Major Order of Subdeaconate.

Eucharistic Retreat at Douai Abbey: oversubscribed! Please pray for spiritual fruit for the about 50 of us meditating on the Holy Sacrament next weekend in Berkshire.

Catholic Mum makes mantillas big and small sizes for ladies (black) and girls (white) ranging from £5 to £12. Contact anjali_fletcher@yahoo.com or 07848397287.

Young Adults Group: We had a very successful trek yesterday (Sat. 16 Feb) at Tatton Park, with a dozen of us taking part, some for the first time.

Next meetings: Saturdays 9 March; 6 April;

11 May [March For Life]; 1^st June; 6 July.

Family moving nearer to St Mary’s? 3-bed house to let in High Legh from April 2019, ca. £750 p/m. 20 mins / 8 miles from St Mary’s by car. Available to buy from Feb 2021. Contact Dominic Jones: dominic.jones@gmx.co.uk, 07875242761.

Plenary Indulgence for members of the Confraternity of St Peter on the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, 22^nd February – 12^th anniversary of the foundation of the Confraternity of St Peter. Learn more about our growing 6,446-member-strong international prayer network for priestly vocations: visit www.fssp.org/en/help-us/confraternity-of-saint-peter/.

Adults curious to know more about Catholicism? Join our Saturday evening group of catechism for adults: most Saturdays 6pm-7pm, with Fr Loewenstein.

by Fr AM

Regina Caeli Academy UK, launching September 2019 – Open Day

by Fr PD

Priory Campaign Update: pre-planning applications

At long last, our pre-planning applications for Community Use of the building(s) received a favourable response from Warrington Borough Council on Friday.

Although this approval is only in principle (subject to full planning application being granted once we decide which building we can afford), it will guide the purchase decision we must make imminently, based on various considerations, including the amount of money presently raised and the need for a stable income for the upkeep of the new building.

Please ask Our Lady of Lourdes (feast Monday) for more space for our activities, and for last-minute benefactors to support the Priory Campaign.

Click here for the updated Campaign webpage.

by Fr AM