Kevin Jones

Shrewsbury, Shropshire, Sunday 10th February 2019

In the presence of Monsignor Gilles Wach, Prior General of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, and by the providence of God, the Right Reverend Mark Davies, Bishop of Shrewsbury celebrated a High Mass with full pontificals in his Cathedral Church on Sunday afternoon.

This marks a new dawn for the Institute as we now continue our mission with a fourth Church in England. St Winefride’s at Shrewsbury compliments the other churches at New Brighton and two in Preston.

St Winefride’s was built in 1956 and is located in Monkmoor. Designed by F. X. Velarde it is typical of a post war design. More information on the church can be found here.

Additionally, we are pleased to have been asked by the Bishop to become an integral part of the Cathedral Clergy Team.

In the very near future an additional series of webpages specifically for Shrewsbury will appear via this website. In the meantime, please enjoy some photography taken by Mr John Aron of this remarkable occasion.

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Additional photographs can be seen at the Latin Mass Society in Wrexham website here.

On the 29th January, the Feast of St Francis de Sales, patron of the Insitute of Christ the King, His Eminence Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke will ordain two new deacons, a subdeacon and confer minor orders on a seminarian and tonsure one other.

On the Feast of the Presentation, Bishop Bacqué will bless the habit of five new sisters of the Sisters Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus.

Please we commend these to your prayers.

A Pontifical High Mass will mark the official launch of the Institute’s latest Mission in England and Wales.

Mass will be celebrated by the Rt. Rev. Mark Davies, Bishop of Shrewsbury at Shrewsbury Cathedral in the presence of the Very Rev. Msgr Gilles Wach, Prior General of the ICKSP on Sunday 10th February 2019 at 1pm

His Grace, R. Mvé, the Archbishop of Libreville, His Lordship R. Mgr. Madega, Bishop of Mouila, and Mgr. Mackrikas, Chargé d’affaires at the Nunciature, came to visit our Mission Sainte-Thérèse-de-l’Enfant-Jésus, in Mouila (Gabon) recently. It was in Gabon that the Institute was founded.

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Solemn Mass celebrated by Monsignor Wach in the presence of the Bishop of Mauritius, His Eminence Maurice Cardinal Piat during his visit to the seminary on 4 December 2018.

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Did You Know? The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest just released their newest Gregorian chant recording, Gaudeamus Omnes, featuring the Mass of All Saints and the Office of Compline (the Church’s official night prayer). Even better, for the first time, the music is now available to download on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Apple Music, CD Baby and more. You can download now here.

Pontifical Mass for the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed on Friday 2nd November 2018, celebrated by His Lordship, Bishop  Bacqué, Apostolic Nuncio to Netherlands until 2011, in the Institute church in Florence.

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The Titular Feast of the Institute, this being Our Lord Jesus Christ, Universal King, was celebrated at the International Seminary and the Church of St Michael and Cajetan.

9 candidates submitted  as postulants for the Sisters Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus after which took place first solemn Vespers of the Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ King at the Seminary:

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Solemn Mass celebrated by Msgr. Gilles Wach, Prior General took place at the Church of St Michael and Cajetan in Florence City:

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Immediately after Mass, Superiors and seminaries took dinner locally:

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Second Vespers followed Mass:

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