Saturday 28 August 2021

Masses this week at St Catherine Labouré

Friday is the Feast of Pope St Gregory the Great


MASSES AT ST CATHERINE'S THIS WEEK


Sunday 29th August.  22nd week Year B

 Mass at 8.30am & 10am



Monday  Mass at 9.30am

Tuesday Traditional Latin Mass at 12 noon

Wednesday Mass at 9.30am

Thursday  Novena & Benediction at 7pm

Friday Mass at 9.30am

Saturday Traditional Latin Mass at 12 noon

Confessions before 11.30am - 11.50am



Sunday 5th September

23rd week Year B
Mass at 8.30am & 10am

Wednesday 25 August 2021

Stations of the Cross Appeal. 50% there!


Go past the hollyhocks... turn left... turn right... and there begin the Stations of the Cross!

Well, not yet. But that is where St Peter's International School in France is hoping to be able to set up a Way of the Cross. 

The great news is that our giving campaign has just reached the half way mark. So we have raised £1,250. If you would like to be part of this project to install these beautiful Della Robbia style stations, each 20" high, please click on the link below.

Thanks to our wonderful donors - the small and the large amounts all add up!





 

Saturday 21 August 2021

Stations of the Cross Appeal - Update


We've now received 40% of the total amount, which is really great in just in few days.

We hope to install them throughout the old orchard at St Peter's International College, pictured here with an air balloon going over last week. It is just beyond Sacré Coeur House, pictured below.

 

Many thanks to the donors.

You can donate using the QR code here
 or by going to the crowdfunding page 








Twenty First Sunday at St Catherine's parish

 
This week sees the celebration of two feasts with local connections not far from our little parish.

Monday is the Feast of St John Wall of Preston, sent to his death on the charges that he had said Mass, heard confessions, and received converts into the Church.

Thursday is the Feast of Blessed Dominic Barberi, "Apostle of the English" buried at the former Passionist church of Sutton Monastery in St Helen's.


MASSES AT ST CATHERINE'S THIS WEEK


Sunday 22nd August.  21st week Year B

 Mass at 8.30am & 10am


Monday  Mass at 9.30am

Requiem Mass for Margaret Brennan at 11am

Wednesday Mass at 9.30am

Thursday  Novena & Benediction at 7pm

Friday Mass at 9.30am

Saturday Traditional Latin Mass at 12 noon

Confessions before 11.30am - 11.50am


Sunday 22nd August

21st week Year B

 Mass at 8.30am & 10am


Wednesday 18 August 2021

Stations of the Cross

 
STATIONS OF THE CROSS 

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As many of you will know, the last months have seen me heavily involved as one of the co-founders, of this wonderful but challenging, new enterprise. The school grounds at St Peter's International College include a former orchard where we want to place a set of outdoor Stations of the Cross for formal use in Lent but for the boys to be able to use whenever they wish. This part of the campus is used for occasional outdoor activities but also a place where people can walk, talk or relax - and also pray. 

As well as adding a focus for the area, these beautiful Stations of the Cross in the Della Robbia style will help to Christianize the school environment and proudly proclaim our Catholic Faith. A set of outdoor Stations that is both large enough to be seen and will cope with the weather is not an easy thing to find but we hope these will be seen and used for many a year to come. Each one in this set is 20" high and the cost for the whole set is £2,500. This is quite a sum but we believe that the benefit is well worth it. 

When the site was bought just last year, the buildings were just an empty shell, so inside and out, everything has had to be sourced to help us build the school community and create a a suitable environment. Thank you for anything you might be able to give to assist us in this project. God bless you.

We are making an appeal through CrowdFunding. If you feel able to help in any way, large or small, then just click RIGHT HERE!





Saturday 14 August 2021

The grass is greener...

I've just returned from St Peter's International School in France, lending a helping hand as the college prepares for the new intake in September.  As the Covid problems become more manageable, the school is looking forward to welcoming more visitors to come and see the great work being done there. 


I'm posting these two before and after photos, taken exactly a year between one another on this day. In some ways, the front Quad doesn't look much different - though the grass is certainly greener!

Actually, in the first photo the buildings are still looking a little tatty and the place is awash with workers scrambling to get the place habitable. This year, there's a little more order and, like the avenue of miniature yew trees, a sense of order and incipient growth.

On this eve of the wonderful Feast of Our Lady's Assumption I will offer a prayer for her continuing protection for a project to provide a truly Catholic education in these days when it is needed more than ever. May I ask you to do the same for us?




Masses at St Catherine's this week

 

MASSES AT ST CATHERINE'S THIS WEEK


Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven.

 Mass at 8.30am & 10am


Monday  Mass at 9.30am


Tuesday Traditional Latin Mass at 12 noon


Wednesday Mass at 9.30am


Thursday  Novena & Benediction at 7pm


Friday Mass at 9.30am


Saturday Traditional Latin Mass at 12 noon

Confessions before 11.30am - 11.50am



Sunday 22nd August

21st week Year B

 Mass at 8.30am & 10am



Sunday 8 August 2021

Boarding School: the new and the old at St Peter's

 

I've ventured back to France to St Peter's College, in beautiful Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé, to help out with the ongoing renovations, as well as pupil and teacher recruitment. Most of which are well in hand but there are no slow days.

The boys rooms that underwent a total refurbishment last summer have been spruced up and the outside of the accommodation wing has now been repainted. All looking rather smart. 

Each room accommodates two boys who share an en-suite shower room. These open out onto a covered walkway and the front Quad (motel style, for those who live in the States!) All a long way the from old-fashioned dormitories of yesteryear!

As I explained in a previous post, the main building, Maison St André, is a bit of a building site at the moment, as it is further opened up, with much help from a generous donor, for whom we give thanks to the Lord. We have been blest with both benefactors and investors who have enabled so much good work to come to fruition. They are remembered each year at a special Mass.

We are still on a drive, right up to the last day of summer, for pupil recruitment to enable us to meet our target figures for this coming year. 

From the many inquiries that have come in, it's a certainty that Covid concerns are still at the forefront of people's minds and many parents are understandably leaving it until the last minute to make final decisions. 

If you are one of those parents and looking for help in making a decision, do contact the School via the Principal, easily contactable via the website: 

Saint Peter's International College, France (stpetersfr.com)

You can also learn more on our Facebook page


I've included the above photo as one of my wide angle views that didn't go according to plan!
Still, it would be an interesting architectural reworking
but I don't think we can afford it at the moment!

Friday 6 August 2021

Tradtiones Custodes and parish news


Following the publication of Traditionis custodes (Guardians of the tradition), the motu proprio by Pope Francis on 16 July 2021, giving diocesan bishops wider powers over the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, Archbishop Malcolm as granted permission for St Catherine's to continue with the same number and times of Masses we have had over the past several years.
In a normal week (not this week!) this has been 
Tuesdays and Saturdays at 12 noon and Sundays at 11.30am.


MASSES AT ST CATHERINE'S THIS WEEK

Sunday 8th August

Nineteenth Sunday. Mass at 8.30am & 10am


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Sunday 15th August

Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary into Heaven.

 Mass at 8.30am & 10am



Some sad news. One of our parishioners, daily Mass goer Margaret Brennan died this week.

Please pray for her family in their grief and for the repose of her soul.

Her Requiem will be at 11am on Tuesday 24th August.

Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon her.