A New Priest

Ordination on Sat. 9 June, 11am at St Mary’s: no booking needed to attend this event.
Practical update: No parking for visitors on our church car park on Sat. 9 June; park at the Salvation Army Centre (opens by 10.30am until 5:30pm) on Academy Street, or across the road at Time Square Multi-storey Car Park.

Refreshments/buffet lunch for all after Ceremony. Please come and support our new priest and meet our seminarians. This is important.

Click here to open this Sunday bulletin as pdf.

This Week’s Mass Intentions:

 Ordination of Fr Phipps, FSSP      Our gratitude goes first to His Grace Archbishop McMahon who, like last year, is coming to St Mary’s thrice within the same month for liturgy practice, ordination and confirmation.

Many thanks to the family and friends of our new priest Fr Seth Phipps, for their affection and support to him along his years of formation. Many more of our priests and seminarians wished to attend, but were prevented from doing so by our forthcoming General Chapter in America.

Thank you to all our parishioners who helped in so many ways to make yesterday’s ordination and today’s First Mass so special: liturgy; church cleaning; refreshments and Sunday picnic; pictures; LiveMass installation and filming; flower arranging; Health & Safety planning; booklets; preparing the garden; car park attendants.

Thank you also to those who provided accommodation to our visiting clergy and drove them from the airport and to the church. Special thanks to Fr Ian Verrier, Kathy Jones and our singers who have managed superbly despite our Music Director M. Wynne being on sick leave.

Thank you to all you who travelled from some distance to express your support and give thanks to God for the grace of yet one new priest. We are also grateful for the prayer of all of you watching this momentous event on our online channel LiveMass.

Last but not least, thank you to our seminarians who worked very hard to prepares the ceremonies, in particular Matthew, the main master of ceremonies (a Warrington Catholic, baptised in our parish at St Oswald’s)

Fr Phipps will give First blessings after the Sunday Masses.

Please join us for our community picnic in the Priory garden after the First Mass of Fr Phipps.

Did you know? Every weekday, you can join in recitation of the Holy Rosary at St Mary’s, from 11.30am to 11.55am. We thank those who provide regularity for this essential Marian devotion. Please come 30mins before Mass this week and pray the Rosary for so many intentions!

Eucharistic Conferences 11-14 June

 ‘Ego Eimi – It is I’ (John 6:51)

A series of conferences on the Most Holy Eucharist by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, in preparation for the National Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool (7-9 Sept. 2018). Free for all. All welcome.

After an extra 6:00pm Mass each evening, each 40-min conference starts at 7:00pm GMT and will be broadcasted on LiveMass.net 

• Monday 11 June: Transubstantiation: how the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Christ occur under the externals of bread and wine
• Tuesday 12 June: Concomitance: how Christ’s Blood also is in the Host, and His Body also in the Chalice
• Wednesday 13 June: Fragments: why each of them is Christ, and how to treasure them
• Thursday 14 June: Gradation: how God’s presence is supreme in the Holy Eucharist

Legion of Mary? Dennis Croughan, President of the Warrington Curia of the Legion of Mary would be happy to pay a visit and answer any questions that you may have regarding the Legion and assist in any way you require if we wanted to start a group. Please email warrington@fssp.org.

Young Trekkers 18-35: Sat. 16 June

All welcome: bring your friends along

Meet at 11:00am at: Langollen Car Park, Market Street, Llangollen. About 3h walking. It’s only 6 miles so it’s shorter than the previous walk, but there will be plenty of stops: Castle Dinas Bran, Valle Crucis Abbey and the Horseshoe Falls. Bring packed lunch.

From Warrington: There will be a ‘Trekkers’ Mass’ at 9:00am at St Mary’s (WA1 2NS), with departure at 10:00am in various cars, to reach Llengollan Car Park before 11am. Let us know if you would like a lift, or can provide lifts.

Sunday 17 June ‘Day for Life’: Church intention Against human trafficking and modern slavery

Confirmations by Archbishop McMahon O.P. on Wednesday 20^th June, 7:00pm followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament  ending by 8pm. Refreshments. 

The Pro-life garden Summer Fete. Sunday June 24th 2018, feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist. Speaker: Robin Haig SPUC Chairman.

☞ Did you know?

St Mary’s Shrine costs £1,444 a week to run and maintain. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

See the great pictures of the ordination (soon) on our Flickr albums: www.flickr.com/photos/138056205@N08/albums

Watch Holy Mass at St Mary’s daily on www.livemass.org. The Mass of the day can be watched for 24hrs and that of the Sunday for the entire week.

Dowry Magazine now online: fssp.co.uk/warrington

Reminder: To receive Holy Communion: to be a Catholic, in state of grace, one-hour fasting.

In the EF liturgy, Holy Communion is received kneeling (unless unable to) and always on the tongue. Thank you in advance.

by Fr AM

Corpus Christi global

On Thursday, May 31st and Sunday, June 3rd (external feast), FSSP parishes across the District celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi, the ceremonies of which include a majestic outdoor procession with the Blessed Sacrament enthroned in the monstrance. This procession often involves halting for Benediction at several prepared altars, or “stations”, placed at intervals on the procession route. Sometimes the path is strewn with petals, and sometimes it is decorated with astounding artwork created with flowers or, as in the case of FSSP Dayton (see below), colorfully dyed wood chips. We took a virtual tour of the ceremonies, and we share with you below the beautiful things we found. Click on a picture in the gallery to see where it is from.

by Fr AM

National Eucharistic Congress Update

News and updates about Adoremus – Liverpool Archdiocese Mid-June updates – Thank you for your support of Adoremus! 1.   The new way to enroll parishioners and any others interested in attending Adoremus is by booking directly online. Please share this link in your parish newsletter. (It is active 11 June.) http://www.jumpdp.com/adoremus2018/ Tickets are available for the Saturday Echo Arena event with Bishop Barron and other speakers Delegate Commissioning Liturgy for parish delegates Parishes and Deans will receive lists of delegates booked through diocesan booking forms The Bishops Conference will send out tickets to your booked parish delegates directly in the summer 2.   The Adoremus Parallel programme for Friday-Sunday 7-9 Sept is official! Individuals/parish groups/coaches are welcome to these supporting events. Almost all events are free but some require advanced booking. Links to booking online are included in the Parallel Programme descriptions. 3.     Talks in preparation for the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage & Congress – free and open to the public. Liverpool Carmelite Monastery – last Sunday of the month through August – next talk on The Unexpected Gift: Spiritual Journey of a Deaf Person, Sunday, 24 June 3:30 – 5:30pm Widnes Pastoral Area – Thursdays in June 1-2:30pm and repeated 7:30 – 9pm at Widnes Pastoral Centre, Mayfield Ave, Hough Green WA8 8PR Series of Conferences on the Most Holy Eucharist, St Mary’s Shrine, Warrington WA1 2NS, 11-14 June 7pm with low Mass before at 6pm. 4.   Adoremus & Young People Programme for High Schools on Friday, 7 Sept. Adoremus Youth Congress for ages 13-20 at the Arena auditorium on Saturday, 8 Sept 5. More resources from the Liturgy Office – liturgical, group resources and spiritual reflections ‘Time Before the Blessed Sacrament’ are all available for use in the parish in preparation for Adoration and Adoremus. 6. Download Newsletter insert #6 – Eucharist is… Food for the Journey please feel free to use this as you wish in the parish newsletter. You will receive a newsletter insert monthly in preparation for the Eucharistic Pilgrimage & Congress. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact: e.lalley@rcaol.co.uk or formation@rcaol.co.uk. Eleanor Lalley 0151 522 1047

by Fr AM

Priestly Ordination this Saturday in Warrington

All are welcome to attend the ordination to the
sacred priesthood of Rev Mr Seth Phipps, FSSP
by the Archbishop of Liverpool Malcolm McMahon, OP 
11am on Saturday 9 June, Feast of the Most Pure Heart of Mary
at St Mary’s Shrine, Smith St, Warrington, WA1 2NS
(click here for more details)

Fr Phipps will be celebrating his first Mass at
11am on Sunday 10 June at St Mary’s Shrine, Warrington
and the following week will celebrate Mass at
11am on Sunday 17 June at St William of York Church, Reading
 bestowing first blessings after each Mass.

by Fr JM

Places for Girls on Summer Camp St Petronilla

We have spaces left for girls aged 10 – 17 years-old on Summer Camp St Petronilla this August 13-18. Among much else, we invoke Our Lady, St Louis Marie de Montfort and St John Bosco to improve the spiritual eyesight of all participants. If you would like to know more about the camp or to request a booking form, please email us here. FLICKR albums from previous years’ camps can be viewed here: Girls 2017;  Boys 2017; Girls 2016; Boys 2016.

 
Opening the Eyes of the Soul to See God

Believing that while Jesus walked in Israel He caused the blind to see by touching them, it is coherent to believe that He does the same now from Heaven through His new Body, that is the Church, specifically through His Saints in Heaven and on Earth. And if the scores of people who are physically healed at Lourdes is a sign of the countless thousands who are spiritually healed, so Don Bosco’s work with our Lady to restore the physical sight of a blind girl is surely a sign of their ongoing work to enable the spiritual sight (that is the Faith) of countless girls and boys today. If this were not possible, why would the Gospels recount to us Jesus having opened the eyes of the blind 2,000 years ago?

The passage below is taken from Saint John Bosco, Seeker of Souls by F.A.Forbes (1935), pages 93-93:

“The miracles of Don Bosco have remained famous. He was indignant when they were attributed to him. ‘I only tell people to invoke our Lady,’ he would say, ‘it is all her doing.’ When very hard pressed, and by obvious facts, he would sometimes admit: ‘Well, you see, we work together, she and I’…

Another day it was a blind girl who, led by two others, went to the church to pray, and afterwards asked to see Don Bosco. ‘How long have you been blind?’ he asked.

‘My eyes have been bad for some time, but a year ago I went completely blind,’ she answered, ‘the doctors say it is hopeless,’ and she begs to cry. Don Bosco led her to a window.

‘Do you not see the light?’ he asked.

‘Nothing at all.’

‘Do you wish to see?’

‘How can you ask such a question? I am a poor girl and my life depends on it.’

‘If you had your sight, would you use it for the good of your soul and for God’s service?’

‘Indeed I would!’

‘Trust in our Lady and she will help you.’

‘I know she will, but in the meantime I am blind.’

Don Bosco held a medal of our Lady before the sightless eyes. ‘What is this?’ he said.

‘I can see,’ cried the girl, ‘it is a medal.’

‘Whose medal?’

‘Our Lady’s.’

‘And on the other side, what do you see?’

‘An old man with a staff — oh, St Joseph!’

‘Holy Mother of God!’ cried the two women, ‘she can actually see!’

The girl dropped the medal which rolled into a dark corner of the room. One of them made a dash to recover it.

‘Let it alone,’ said Don Bosco, ‘let us see if our Lady has really given her back her sight.

The girl went straight to the corner and picked it up. She was beside herself with joy. Later on she became a nun in the religious Order founded by Don Bosco to do for girls what he himself was doing for boys…”

by Fr JM

Sunday Bulletin 3 June 2018

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3 June 2018    WEEKLY BULLETIN of ST MARY’S SHRINE

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

St Mary’s Shrine, 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

WELCOME TO ST MARY’S SHRINE!

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. Thank you for your awareness.

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

 This Week’s Mass Intentions:

Corpus Christi Procession this afternoon: Sunday 3^rd June, 3pm

Please do come and walk along with God.

Starting with our new parish patron Blessed James Bell, our martyrs died that we may be allowed to worship in the open, not in barns and attics anymore. Even now, in many countries, displaying the Catholic faith is punishable by death.

Let us honour our martyrs past and present! Let us offer our non Catholic fellow citizens the grace of encountering the Saviour along their very streets! Let us grow stronger in our faith through this public statement of Eucharistic love.

Plenary indulgence when attending.

Please arrive before 3pm to start on time. Bring flower petals in little baskets if you can, to spread before the Blessed Sacrament. The procession will last about 35 minutes, reaching St Albans at 3.45pm for Benediction; all ending at 4pm. It takes less than 10 minutes to walk back the shorter way to your car if left at St Mary’s.

!!  Ordination minus 6 days  !!

In but 6 days, Deacon Seth Phipps, FSSP will be ordained at St Mary’s, on Saturday 9^th June 2018 at 11am, by Archbishop Malcolm McMahon. Thank you for your fantastic support last year. You set a wonderful precedent. Let us build up on our past experience and make this year’s ordination another success, please God. Please pray for Deacon Phipps and our other seminarians.

FOOD FOR NEXT SUNDAY’S FIRST MASS:

Please volunteer to bring food for our community picnic in the priory garden after the 1st Mass of Fr Phipps next Sunday. Please take TODAY plastic trays for this. Many thanks! 

This week, help 3 poor souls out of Purgatory! You can gain a plenary indulgence this Sunday when taking part devotedly in the Corpus Christi procession; this Friday when reciting publicly the Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart; and next Sunday when attending Fr Seth Phipps’ First Mass.

The usual conditions apply: state of grace (and confession the week before or after); no attachment to sin even venial; some prayer to the intentions of the Holy Father; Holy Communion the very day.

Did you know? Every weekday, you can join in recitation of the Holy Rosary at St Mary’s, from 11.30am to 11.55am. We thank those who provide regularity for this essential Marian devotion. Please come 30mins before Mass this week and pray the Rosary for so many intentions!

Dowry Magazine printed version now available at the back of the church for you to take home. Also online: fssp.co.uk

First Communicants: Please pray for Pia Cotton and Grace King who will receive their 1^st Holy Communion at this Sunday’s Mass. 

Modesty reminder: despite warmer temperatures, let us cover our bodies out reverence for the sacred place and out of discretion for fellow worshippers.

Thank you.

Young Trekkers 18-35: Sat. 16 June

All welcome: bring your friends along

Meet at 11:00am at: Langollen Car Park, Market Street, Llangollen. About 3h walking. It’s only 6 miles so it’s shorter than the previous walk, but there will be plenty of stops: Castle Dinas Bran, Valle Crucis Abbey and the Horseshoe Falls. Bring packed lunch.

See here NEW ALBUM with pictures from last time: https://www.flickr.com/photos/138056205@N08/albums/72157669691757478

From Warrington: There will be a ‘Trekkers’ Mass’ at 9:00am at St Mary’s (WA1 2NS), with departure at 10:00am in various cars, to reach Llengollan Car Park before 11am. Let us know if you would like a lift, or can provide lifts.

Confirmations by Archbishop McMahon O.P. on Wednesday 20^th June, 7:00pm followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament  ending by 8pm. Refreshments.

☞ Did you know?

St Mary’s Shrine costs £1,444 a week to run and maintain. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Eucharistic Conferences 11-14 June

‘Ego Eimi – It is I’ (John 6:51)

A series of conferences on the Most Holy Eucharist by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, in preparation for the National Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool (7-9 Sept. 2018). Free for all. All welcome.

After an extra 6:00pm Mass, each 40-min conference starts at 7:00pm GMT and will be broadcasted on LiveMass.net

The Pro-life garden Summer Fete. Sunday June 24th 2018, feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist. Speaker: Robin Haig SPUC Chairman.

Watch Holy Mass at St Mary’s daily on www.livemass.org. The Mass of the day can be watched for 24hrs and that of the Sunday for the entire week.

Reminder: To receive Holy Communion: to be a Catholic, in state of grace, one-hour fasting.

In the EF liturgy, Holy Communion is received kneeling (unless unable to) and always on the tongue. Thank you in advance.

by Fr AM

Shamrock, or Moloch.

Shamrock, or Moloch.

Irish Referendum Homily on Trinity Sunday, St Mary’s Warrington.
https://vimeo.com/272778046

by Fr AM

Irish Referendum Homily: Who’s In, Who’s Out?

by Fr AM

27 May 2018  WEEKLY BULLETIN of ST MARY’S SHRINE

Open this bulletin as pdf here.

This Week’s Mass Intentions:

!!!!!! Ordination minus 1 week + 6 days  !!!!!!

In but 13 days, Deacon Seth Phipps, FSSP will be ordained at St Mary’s, on Saturday 9^th June 2018 at 11am, by  Archbishop Malcolm McMahon. Thank you for your fantastic support last year. You set a wonderful precedent. Let us build up on our past experience and make this year’s ordination another success, please God. Please pray for Deacon Phipps and our other seminarians.

Did you know? Every weekday, you can join in recitation of the Holy Rosary at St Mary’s, from 11.30am to 11.55am. We thank those who provide regularity for this essential Marian devotion. Please come 30mins before Mass this week and pray the Rosary for so many intentions!

Irish Referendum: 66.4% of Irish voters chose infanticide.

We did not.

Here at St Mary’s, there was a total of 8 hours of Eucharistic Adoration Thursday night in advance of the Irish referendum on whether or not repeal Ireland’s 8th Amendment currently preventing abortion on demand. Many gathered for the Masses that preceded and ended the Adoration at 9pm. We were struck by the numbers who adored Our Lord till midnight and the fact that there was a constant 13 people adoring for the entire 8 hours.

This is a war against principalities of evil that despise God’s creation. We need to adore Our Lord, fast, have Masses said and pray daily the Holy Rosary as Our Lady of Fatima asked us to if we are to counter this culture or death which is trying to destroy the world and those therein. No prayer, no sacrifice will have been offered in vain. Reckoning will take place on Judgment Day. May Our Lady obtain God’s mercy for us and the Western world.

Thank God for 10 new priests ordained at our US seminary in Nebraska yesterday Saturday 26 May, by Archbishop Sample of Portland. Please pray for many more!

Please pray for those to receive their 1st Holy Communion at next Sunday’s Mass.

Corpus Christi Procession Sunday 3^rd June 3pm-4pm: For the third year running, Fr Dave Heywood P.P. and St Mary’s clergy would like to invite the parishioners of the new Parish of Blessed James Bell (as well as anyone interested) to come together for a Corpus Christi Procession next Sunday 3 June at 3.00 pm. The procession will begin at 3.00 pm in St Mary’s Shrine, Buttermarket Street. It will then make its way through the town centre to St Alban’s, Bewsey Street, for Benediction at approximately 3.45 pm. We extend a special invitation to the children who have just celebrated First Communion to wear their special clothes and lead the procession.

Please bring flower petals in baskets, to throw before the Blessed Sacrament.

Confirmations by Archbishop McMahon O.P. on Wednesday 20^th June, 7:00pm followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament  ending by 8pm. Refreshments.

Like last year, candidates from further away are very welcome to come and be confirmed with our local group: please contact Fr Loewenstein, FSSP: padrek@libero.it

Eucharistic Conferences 11-14 June

‘Ego Eimi – It is I’ (John 6:51)

A series of conferences on the Most Holy Eucharist by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP, in preparation for the National Eucharistic Congress in Liverpool (7-9 Sept. 2018). Free for all. All welcome.

After an extra 6:00pm Mass, each 40-min conference starts at 7:00pm GMT and will be broadcasted on LiveMass.net

The Pro-life garden Summer Fete. Sunday June 24th 2018, feast of the Nativity of St John the Baptist. Speaker: Robin Haig SPUC Chairman.

☞ Did you know?

St Mary’s Shrine costs £1,444 a week to run and maintain. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Dowry Magazine now online: fssp.co.uk/warrington

Watch Holy Mass at St Mary’s daily on www.livemass.org. The Mass of the day can be watched for 24hrs and that of the Sunday for the entire week.

Reminder: To receive Holy Communion: to be a Catholic, in state of grace, one-hour fasting.

In the EF liturgy, Holy Communion is received kneeling (unless unable to) and always on the tongue. Thank you in advance.

by Fr AM

Walk with God next Sunday 3pm

Corpus Christi Procession Sunday 3^rd June 3pm-4pm:

For the third year running, Fr Dave Heywood P.P. and St Mary’s clergy would like to invite the parishioners of the new Parish of Blessed James Bell (as well as anyone interested) to come together for a Corpus Christi Procession next Sunday 3 June at 3.00 pm. The procession will begin at 3.00 pm in St Mary’s Shrine, Buttermarket Street. It will then make its way through the town centre to St Alban’s, Bewsey Street, for Benediction at approximately 3.45 pm. We extend a special invitation to the children who have just celebrated First Communion to wear their special clothes and lead the procession.

Please bring flower petals in baskets, to throw before the Blessed Sacrament.

by Fr AM