Mass for the 5th Sunday of Easter - Bishop Eton

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Fr Richard CSsR celebrating Mass - Sat 9th May 2020...

A prayer from Erdington Abbey

Thank you to the Abbey School in our Redemptorist parish (at Erdington Abbey) for your wonderful and thoughtful prayer service, especially for the children’s prayers and for highlighting V E day.

We also remember all our Redemptorist parishes and schools at this difficult time. Pope Francis asks that May 14 be a special day of prayer, let’s unite as a community on that day.

Fr Casper CSsR celebrating Mass 8th May 2020 CSsR Clapham London

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Pope Francis decrees two new CSsR Venerables in the Church...

Through God's grace, Pope Francis accepted the report on the heroicity of virtue by the Congregation for Saints Causes yesterday. Subsequently, he decreed two new venerables in the Church, including this father and daughter. Here is a brief biography of each:

Venerable FRANCISO BARRECHEGUREN MONTAGUT (1881-1957)
Redemptorist Missionary Francisco Barrecheguren Montagut was born in Lérida on August 21, 1881, into a wealthy family. Baptized ten days later in the cathedral parish, at just eleven months, his father died. After the death of his sisters, Carmen (1876) and Manolita (1883), and his mother (1885), and having no other family in Catalonia, he went to live in Granada with his paternal uncles, from whom they supplied his cultural and spiritual training. Francisco finished high school in 1897 at the Jesuit College in El Paso (Málaga), and he then began university courses. Having to leave Granada to continue university, he preferred, on the counsel of relatives, to abandon his studies and to commit to the fabric factory of his uncle Victoriano Montealegre, who was also his guardian. In the company he served as administrator.

On October 2, 1904, in the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene in Granada, Francisco married Concha García Bald. On November 27th of the following year, her only daughter, Maria Concepción, familiarly named "Conchita," was born. From this time on, Francisco's constant concern was Conchita's human and Christian formation, so he spared no sacrifices and energy. He was in fact the one who took care of school teaching and prepared her for the sacraments of confession, communion and confirmation. The same attentive and prompt love, Francisco also expressed it towards his wife, particularly after Conchita's death on May 13, 1927, when Concha manifested a decline in mental health.

Read more: Pope Francis decrees two new CSsR Venerables in the Church..

Celebration of Mass 7th May 2020 in CSsR Clapham, London...

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Thursday's Thought from Bishop Eton Monastery...

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Fr Casper CSsR 6th May 2020 Celebrating Mass...

Prayer of St Alphonsus M de'Liguori to Our Blessed Lady...

Most holy Virgin Immaculate,
my Mother Mary,
to you who are the Mother of my Lord,
the Queen of the Universe,
the Advocate,
the hope,
the refuge of sinners,
I who am the most miserable of all sinners,
have recourse this day.
I venerate you,
great queen,
and I thank you for the many graces
you have bestowed upon me
even unto this day;

I love you, my dearest Lady;
and because of that love,
I promise to serve you willingly for ever
and to do what I can
to make you loved by others also.

I place in you all my hopes for salvation;
accept me as your servant
and shelter me under your mantle,
you who are the Mother of Mercy.
And since you are so powerful with God,
deliver me from all temptations,
or at least obtain for me
the strength to overcome them until death.

From you I implore a true love for Jesus Christ.
Through you I hope to die a holy death.
My dear Mother,
by your love for Almighty God,
I pray you to assist me always,
but most of all at the last moment of my life.
Forsake me not then,
until you shall see me safe in heaven,
there to bless you
and sing of your mercies through all eternity.
Such is my hope.

AMEN

Feast of the English Martyrs - Fr Casper CSsR celebrates Mass 4th May 2020...