On the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
on 2 February 2012,
five Catholics across England will be enrolled
into the Confraternity of St Peter.
Congratulation to them. Please pray for them.
Pictures from Midnight Mass.
English FSSP seminarian Rev. Ian Verrier’s article in the Catholic Herald this weekend HERE.
Dolls and vocations? http://www.saintlysisters.com/saintlysistershome.html
Our quarterly magazine Dowry N°12 (Autumn 2011) now online!
Click HERE to read.
Latest statistics on FSSP worldwide
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• Total: 392 • Average age of members: 36 years |
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Locations
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• Located in: 4 continents ; 17 countries • Canonically erected houses: 59 |
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Confraternity of Saint Peter
• Total members (January 2011): 3487
o French speakers : 548
o German speakers: 483
o English speakers: 2456
Increase
• Number of members
• Number of houses
Priestly ordinations in the FSSP over the last 11 years
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Year |
2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
Average |
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Total |
15 | 12 | 19 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 12 |
[Source: General House FSSP; www.fssp.org]
Last update: 31 X a.D. 2011.
New cd of chant and polyphony by the FSSP: watch and listen here. Order with us sending a £16 cheque made payable to FSSP ENGLAND, addressed to St John Fisher House, 17 Eastern Avenue, Reading RG1 5RU, England. Please include your full contact details. Shipping included (UK and Ireland only).
Videos of Fr McCarthy's ordination here!
FIRST MASS: Nearly 400 faithful and a dozen clergy attended Fr Matthew McCarthy's first Solemn High Mass in England at Spanish Place, London, on Saturday 28th June 2011. All the sacred ministers and altar servers were members of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. Our heartfelt thanks to Fr Colven, P.P., who once again welcomed us in his beautiful church for the first Mass of one of our newly ordained British priests. Thank you also to the ladies who generously prepared the refreshments for all of us after the Mass and first blessings. Thank you to all for your support in attending or praying for that event.
Pictures: Ordination Fr McCarthy; First Mass Fr McCarthy (Carmel USA); first parish Solemn High Mass (St William of York Church, Reading).
Easter Triduum 2011:
We had a very splendid Mass for Maundy Thursday at the Church of St William of York, Reading with the Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP). An FSSP seminarian, Rev. James Mawdsley, joined us, making High Mass possible. Father Armand de Malleray was Celebrant, Fr Simon Leworthy, Deacon, and the Rev James Mawdsley, Sub-deacon. The Mass was very well attended; numbers have clearly increased over the years. After processing the Blessed Sacrament to the Altar of Repose and the Stripping of the Altars, Compline was sung by the clergy. The numbers attending throughout the Sacred Triduum were good - between 70 and 90 each day, with a 130 peak on Good Friday. The schola was composed of local people with extra voices coming in from some way away – including Cdr Neville McNally RN, of the Schola Sancti Nicholae from Portsmouth. The schola was led by Martin Martinez. Tenebrae were sung on every day of the Triduum. The MC was Thomas O'Sullivan from Oxford. On Easter day, after solemn high Mass celebrated by Fr Leworthy, a second solemn high Mass was offered for the faithful in Flitwick, our second Sunday Mass centre, north of London. Resurrexit, sicut dixit, alleluia.
Slideshows: Septuagesima; Palm Sunday; Maundy Thursday; Good Friday; Good Friday (2nd); Paschal Vigil (pictures courtesy Dr Shaw & Dr Doyle).