FSSP
United Kingdom and Ireland

Warrington

February 26, 2024

St Mary’s Shrine Bulletin, 25 Feb – 9 Mar 2024

Read the latest fortnightly bulletin here.

A new family of Catholics!

Congratulations to Jonathan & Jennifer Winship, who were received into full communion with the Catholic Church and confirmed on Saturday 24 February, and to their children—James, Eva & Lara—who were baptized on the same day. Please do keep them in your prayers.

Liturgical Calendar: 25 February – 9 March 2024

December 31, 2023

St Mary’s Shrine Bulletin, 31 Dec 2023 – 13 Jan 2024

Read the latest fortnightly bulletin here.

Thank you…

…from all the clergy for all the cards, gifts and donations received at Christmas! A big thank-you too to everyone who worked so hard to make our Christmas celebrations here at St Mary’s so beautiful (cleaning/decorating the church; serving; singing; etc.). May God reward you all!

Liturgical Calendar: 31 December 2023 – 13 January 2024

Note that, in this country, the obligation to assist at Holy Mass on the Feast of the Epiphany this year is transferred to the following Sunday (7 January).

December 26, 2023

Vocation Weekend near Bedford 16-18 Feb 2024

At Buckden Towers, High Street, Buckden, St. Neots, Cambs PE19 5TA

Starts Fri 5:00pm; ends Sun 2:00pm

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

COME & SEE
If you are a single Catholic man between 18 and 30 years of age, come and discern with us near Bedford.
Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP will lead the weekend. There will be talks, prayers, Holy Mass and informal chatting with fellow-guests. Possibility of private meetings with a priest, and of confession. Feel welcome confidentially to call, email or write for any questions. Holy Mass each of the three days.

BOOKINGS & CONTACT: [not via Facebook] malleray@fssp.org (read by Fr de Malleray only).

ACCESS: Direct train from London St Pancras to St Neots, every half hour, duration 56 minutes.

The nearest towns are Huntingdon (5 miles NNE of Buckden) and St Neots (5 miles South of Buckden). Both Huntingdon and St Neots are served by the West Anglian Great Northern Railway line from King’s Cross London to Peterborough. Let us know if you would need a lift from the railway station. There also are bus and coach links to both Huntingdon and St Neots from many parts of the country.

VOCATION RESOURCES:

VOCATION NEWS: 15 new FSSP PRIESTS in 23 YEARS

We have currently six young men from the UK & Ireland in formation at our two international seminaries. Three of our deacons from England were ordained priests at St Mary’s Warrington 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!

We give thanks for 13 priests ordained from or to the UK over the past 23 years: Fr Armand de Malleray in 2001; 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 in 2018; Fr Gwilym Evans in 2022; Deacon Miklos Homolya in 2024 (planned) – plus Fr Patrick O’Donohue from Ireland (incardinated in 2023).

On the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, 11 February 2022, Pope Francis signed a decree confirming the liturgical charism of the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter.

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

O Lord, grant us many holy priests!

December 17, 2023

St Mary’s Shrine Bulletin, 17-30 Dec 2023

Read the latest fortnightly bulletin here.

Liturgical Calendar: 17-30 December 2023


FIRST HOLY COMMUNION / CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES FOR 2024
If you have a child who is approaching the age to receive these sacraments, please contact Fr Evans.


Frs Goddard, Verrier, Stewart, Evans and Jolly, along with seminarian Péter Uhel, wish you and your loved ones a very happy and blessed Christmas!

Please note that our Christmas Day collections do not go to the priests (as is the custom in some places), but rather to the FSSP apostolate. If you’d like to make personal gifts to the priests, please do so outside of the collections, making clear that it is for their personal use.


November 8, 2023

St Mary’s Shrine Bulletin, 5-18 Nov 2023

Read the latest fortnightly bulletin here.

THANK YOU!

Fr Goddard (the new Shrine Rector) and Fr Evans (Assistant Priest) would like to express their sincere thanks for the warm and generous welcome that they have received, since moving to Warrington a week last Wednesday. Thank you, in particular, for those who organized the (unexpected!) party after the 11am Sunday Mass last week. Frs Goddard and Evans are very much looking forward to ministering to this committed vibrant community and to meeting you all in due course. Please keep them both, and all our priests, in your prayers.

Liturgical Calendar: 5-18 November 2023