Masses at St Catherine's this week
I'm reaching out to see if anyone might be able to offer supply for me here one Sunday in the summer. All the usual candidates whom I rely on are not available when I will accompany some of our parishioners on a parish trip to France. I thought I wouldn't have a problem this far in advance but have had no luck. Perhaps someone might know someone who could help our in what is deemed to be our quirky parish but always friendly and welcoming.
The Masses are at 8.30am
and
10am
on
Sunday 24th July.
You can contact me privately at
simonphenry@hotmail.co.uk
St Peter's International College is a school for boys that wants to be truly Catholic and create a truly faithful environment for boys to learn and grow in a healthy way.
"I came that they might have life and have it to the full!"
We are recruiting for this September and are looking for faithful Catholic families to join our small school family. Opening during the Covid pandemic has turned what was always going to be a challenging adventure into a real test of our belief that the the Lord is calling us to create this school in a time when a properly Catholic education is often not always easy to find. We are proud to have come so far in such a short time in turning an abandoned ancient convent into a modern and functioning home for education and formation for Catholic young men from all over Europe. We've a strong motivation to create an academically excellent environment with a family atmosphere where the Lord is part of everyday life.
This post is part of our recruiting drive for new families this year but reflects particularly on that family atmosphere and all the good and ordinary things our boys have enjoyed. The Faith never limits our lives but always enhances them. Catholic boys must grow up in the modern world and be an active part of it - the real vocation of the laity. But that doesn't mean they live some strange monastic life of bygone times. Far from it!
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Saint Peter's International College, France (stpetersfr.com)
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Chaplin and boys at one of the many village socail activities.
We are fortunate in having access to a local 9 hole golf course, which the older boys always enjoy.
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GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY
WHEN WE PRAY FOR VOCATIONS
TO THE PRIESTHOOD
AND TO THE RELIGIOUS LIFE.
What could be more important?
Masses at St Catherine's this week
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Masses at St Catherine's this week
Masses at St Catherine's this week
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Looking forward to Palm Sunday
and some lovely music with our Schola.
Mass at 8.30am.
Procession and main Mass at 10am.
Come and join us to start the Great Week!
As we move nearer to Holy Week, the statues and crucifixes in church are veiled from today.
Next week is Palm Sunday, we will have a Schola for the 10am Mass, providing some wonderful music. It would be lovely for us to have a full church to appreciate it!
Masses at St Catherine's this week
Masses at St Catherine's this week
Sunday 27th March. Fourth Sunday of Lent Laetare (Year C)
Children bring flowers for Our Lady at the 10am Mass
Mass at 8.30am & 10am
Masses at St Catherine's this week
Having been involved in starting a school from scratch, I know just what an immense task it is to take on such a project. St Peter's International School in France is now in it's second year and actively seeking boys to start in September of this year. You can go to our website to ask for a prospectus:
Enquiry Form — Saint Peter's International College, France (stpetersfr.com)
Closer to home in the UK the Fathers of the FSSP have also also been taking up the challenge of a fully Catholic education. This time for the juniors - both boys and girls.
What a great and hopeful endeavor in these days. Please read below for more details.
Caeli Academy St Mary’s Warrington
Visit www.rcahybrid.org.uk
Whether or not you have children to send now, we would be very glad to meet you at our RCA Warrington Open Day on Saturday 5th March next. We welcome new children, parents, staff and benefactors. Come and meet our staff, parents, children and chaplain.
Please register at www.rcahybrid.org.uk/info.
Even though you might not be present here on 5th March, please sponsor Academy children, making a donation to our St Mary’s Warrington Education Fund – email st.m.ed.trust@gmail.com.
Presentation
The Academy is an essential part of our educational mission. Some of our families have children in ordinary schools. Others are home educators.
Our new picture album is here. (All pictures belong to St Mary’s Warrington Regina Caeli Academy.)
A growing number of parents nationwide are realising that the Catholic faith is not successfully passed on to their children at school. In no few cases, relativism and even immorality are inculcated to the little ones. Unsurprisingly, only a tiny minority of children still practice their Catholic faith in teenage and after.
How then can parents better fulfil their duties as primary educators of their children, they wonder? In conscience, most find that they should no longer send their children in such schools. For various reasons however, many parents rule out homeschooling as beyond their capabilities.
The Academy offers a viable solution: two full days taught by qualified teachers in the classroom, and another two days taught by parents at home following the RCA curriculum and material all laid out for them in advance. This leaves time to the mother for work or other activities, while children benefit from learning as part of a social group two days a week (Mondays and Thursdays). Extracurricular activities are being envisaged at St Mary’s if we have enough children interested, such as dance and football. In addition, parents who so wish can attend our Wednesday Home Education Group. The latter includes shared lunch after our daily 12:10pm Holy Mass, classes taught by a priest and by parents, junior Choir, recreations and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Some mums also enjoy our Monday morning Toddlers’ Group.
Educating the Saints of Tomorrow
Justin Bozzino, trustee of Regina Caeli Academy UK, presents the Regina Caeli Academies
Solution for Catholic education?
Regina Caeli UK is a centre for home educators enjoying pastoral support from the Fraternity of St. Peter. We meet on Mondays and Thursdays to offer a Classical curriculum to children, delivered by professional teachers in a classroom setting. On the other days of the week, parents receive lesson plans, supply lists and help from the tutors so all the children complete the same curriculum. In that way, we offer a hybrid solution to parents who are attracted to the flexibility of homeschooling but appreciate the community, support and accountability that comes from the academy days.
Regina Caeli UK is an affiliate of Regina Caeli in the USA, which has grown rapidly since its launch in the United States in 2003, and is now operating in 23 locations across the country, with thousands of children educated. The management of Regina Caeli have been extremely generous with their time and resources, and we are able to draw on a great deal of experience, which continues to prove invaluable. In particular, their curriculum, which is designed for the hybrid model, is excellent, and covers not just arts but the sciences too. Thanks to local expertise, we have been able to make the relevant parts more UK focused (think Thomas More rather than Thomas Jefferson).
RCA in the U.K.
A group of parents opened a centre in Bedfordshire in September 2019 and, thanks to the efforts of local laypeople and the FSSP, we opened another in Warrington in September 2021. By the grace of God, both centres are growing and thriving, attracting interest from potential families and tutors alike. In addition many families have moved to both Warrington and Bedfordshire because of the communities building up there, often basing themselves around the FSSP chaplaincies. That provides an ideal “ecosystem” for children, and also their parents, to grow and develop in the Faith.
Catholic chaplaincy
The FSSP provide chaplaincy to both the Bedford and Warrington centres. In Bedford, that means parent formation days, and monthly centre Mass, with altar server training and confessions for children and parents. In Warrington, being located at St. Mary’s shrine, the opportunity for daily prayer is open to RCA pupils, staff and prayer as well as daily Mass once the children are old enough. More generally, the Catholic ethos of the curriculum and all staff mean that children are given an ideal environment in which to flourish.
