From the Prior General, Monsignor Wach on the 24th July:
Dear friends,
We have the joy of bringing you good news from Canon Fragelli. As you can see, he is now standing, thank God.
Thanks again for your prayers!
Kevin Jones
IN THANKGIVING FOR TWENTY YEARS OF HOLY PRIESTHOOD
His Eminence Cardinal Silvano Piovanelli, Archbishop emeritus of Florence ordained Abbé Amaury Montjean and Abbé Jean Marc Rodié to the Sacred Priesthood on Wednesday 3rd July 2002, the feast of St. Irenaeus at Gricigliano.
Ad multos annos Canon Montjean!
ACCÉDANT, QUI ORDINÁNDI SUNT AD DIACONÁTUM!
Let those come forward who are to ordained to Deaconship!
We will especially pray for
Abbé Michael McCowen and Abbé Liam Dodd
who will each be ordained Deacon on Wednesday 29th June in Florence.
ST BENEDICTS ACADEMY – PREPARATION OF THE FUTURE CAMPUS
Thanks to Divine Providence, our generous benefactors and the work of our seminary candidates (under the steady supervision of Canon Ducret!), preparations are underway at the future facilities of Saint Benedict’s Academy, next to Saint Walburge’s Church. It is an exciting time for us! More spacious buildings and outside activity space provide great opportunities for growth and development.
We hope to be able to move the Academy this autumn. Let us entrust this intention to Saint Benedict and Saint Joseph!
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CANON FRAGELLI PROGRESS – UPDATE 28 MAY 2022
Having contracted Covid-19 at our mission in Gabon in the early part of the pandemic, Canon Fragelli has undergone intensive treatment since he became very poorly.
He was initially brought to Italy for treatment and has now joined his family in Brazil for further convalescence.
Please keep him in your prayers
ASH WEDNESDAY AT GRICIGLIANO
We are now reaching the conclusion of the penitential season of Lent and the ceremonies of Holy Week are before. Taking a step back to Ash Wednesday and the commencement of the Lenten period, we bring some photographs from the seminary Ash Wednesday Mass and distribution of Ashes.
NEWS ON CANON FRAGELLI
As Holy Week approaches, I take the liberty once again of commending to your prayers, which are certainly even more fervent in this holy time, Canon Fragelli.
His general condition is good, his life out of danger. However, rehabilitation is long, the progress very slow: Canon Fragelli still cannot stand on his own or walk.
He is tested by this. This is all the more so since the care centre in Florence does not allow visitors to come, which above all deprives him of the daily consolation of Holy Communion.
Let us therefore redouble our prayers for his recovery: walking would allow him to return to one of our homes!
In anticipation, accept my deep gratitude for your charity,
In Christo Rege,
Monsignor Gilles Wach
6th April 2022
PROGRESS IN PRESTON AT ST BENEDICT’S ACADEMY
Our Catholic Academy located in Preston, Lancashire has uploaded their latest newsletter which captures the good work and progress being made.
Read more in the newsletter which can be downloaded here.
Our work depends on your goodwill and support both in prayer and where you feel able by financial means.
We need:
£25,000 to repair our roof,
£35,000 to create a suitable playground,
£20,000 to completely restore the sanitary facilities,
£7,000 to fence off the playground and the car park, and
£10,000 for redecoration and electrical work.
The Academy has received £40,000 from a couple of generous benefactors and we are very grateful for this, we still need to find £57,000! Help us via this link. We are grateful for every penny!
CANON ALTIERE – UPDATE 22 FEBRUARY
Thank you for your continued prayers for Canon Altiere.
Canon Altiere was hospitalised on the 9th January and has had an unusually protracted hospitalisation as a result of a previous underlying lung condition in 2019.
Canon Altiere has reached a major milestone in his slow but steady course to regaining his health. He will be discharged from the hospital and will be moved to a pulmonary rehabilitation facility. Canon’s lungs are healing nicely and he now needs minimal oxygen support through his tracheostomy without any mechanical ventilation. He has already begun to speak again and to walk a few steps with help. Moreover, over the last few days, he has shown definitive signs of kidney recovery.
The medical team are optimistic that his tracheostomy will be reversed and that he will not need dialysis indefinitely.
Canon has expressed how deeply grateful he is for everyone’s prayers. saying that he almost has a sensible awareness of how much spiritual support he has been receiving from many of you from far and wide.
A prayer from ‘THE RACCOLTA’
MICHAEL, glorious Prince, chief and champion of the heavenly host, guardian of the souls of men, conqueror of the rebel angels, who art set over the palace of GOD, our worthy captain under JESUS CHRIST, endowed with superhuman excellence and virtue; vouchsafe to free us from every evil, who with full confidence have recourse to thee; and by thy powerful protection enable us to make progress every day in the faithful service of our GOD.
V. Pray for us, most blessed Michael, Prince of the Church of JESUS CHRIST.
R. That we may be made worthy of his promises.
Let us pray.
ALMIGHTY and eternal GOD, who in thy own marvellous goodness and pity didst, for the common salvation of man, choose the glorious Archangel Michael to be the Prince of thy Church; make us worthy, we pray Thee, to be delivered by his beneficent protection from all our enemies, that at the hour of our death no one of them may approach to harm us, and that by the same Archangel Michael we may be introduced into the presence of thy high and heavenly Majesty. Through the merits of JESUS CHRIST our LORD, Amen.
MEET OUR SEMINARIANS
Our seminarians currently at Gricigliano or in placement in apostolate.
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