General

Thank you all very sincerely for your very kind and generous participation in the preparations and celebration of the important feast of Christ the King last Sunday. Many of you had helped tidying up the parish grounds one week before and all of you have contributed to the joyful and very beautiful celebration on the feast itself. I thank you wholeheartedly for your kindness you are showing toward me and for your generous gifts you gave me on the titular feast of our Institute.

I understand that by showing your affection toward your local pastor you also wish to demonstrate your love for our dear Institute which is the spiritual family of us all. Your support of our seminary in Gricigliano in Tuscany will be very helpful: the second collection on the feast of Christ the King this year brought £644.74. Also in the name of my superiors and all seminarians, I thank you for this most generous contribution and support of the priestly formation at our motherhouse.

May God bless you and your families always and especially in this very difficult time for the Church and the world.

With my prayers and my blessing for you and your families,

Canon Michael K. Wiener

Starting on 21st September 2022, the Wedneday celebration of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will take place at 7.00am rather than the previous 10.00am commencement.

This applies only to each Wednesday and does not affect any other day.

The schedule from the 21st September:

Sunday: 12:30 pm
Monday: 10:00 am
Tuesday: 6:30 pm (Adoration/Benediction 5:30 pm)
Wednesday: 7:00 am
Thursday: 6:30 pm (Adoration/Benediction 5:30 pm)
Friday: 10:00 am
Saturday: 10:00 am

Please make a note of the new time.

Canon Wiener will be away in the second half of August, part of this time includes attendance at the General Chapter of the ICKSP at Gricigliano.

During his absence, Sunday Masses will be offered as usual at 12.30pm on August 21st and 28th.

Weekday Masses will be offered at 10.00am on 24th, 26th and 31st August and 2nd September. All other weekday Masses are cancelled.

During the time of his absence (August 15th-September 3rd incl.), Canon Wiener will continue to celebrate daily holy Mass in the intentions that are listed in the weekly Mass schedule.

Date: Monday, August 15th, 2022
Feast: The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Please note

Mass Time: 12:00 pm (Noon)

If you downloaded or picked up copy of the Newsletter before Easter Sunday evening, which is quite likely, please note, some times have been amended and you ought to refer to this new version: Revised Version

Canon Wiener will be leaving Shrewsbury between August 8th and August 28th to visit Germany and to attend the chapter in Gricigliano. Please pray for the superiors of the Institute and all canons attending this year’s chapter as also for Canon Wiener’s safe return to Shrewsbury.

During Canon’s absence Father Anselm Gribbin will return to Shrewsbury to celebrate all weekday Masses between Wednesday, August 11th, and Sunday, August 22nd (incl.). The Masses on August 9th and 10th had to be cancelled.

During the chapter meeting, Father Gerard McGuiness most generously agreed on coming to St. Winefriede’s to celebrate the daily Masses between Monday, August 23rd and Saturday, August 28th (incl.). The usual Mass schedule applies. However, the Adoration and Benediction on Tuesday, August 24th and August 26th has had to be cancelled.

On Sunday, August 29th, Father Stephen Goodman of the Archdiocese of Birmingham (Wolverhampton) will come to us to celebrate the Mass at 12:30pm. We are most grateful for Father’s generous offer to assist Canon Wiener who, due to COVID travel restrictions, will not be able to celebrate publicly for several days after his return. Father Gribbin will celebrate the weekday Masses of August 30th to September 4th.

In the year 1251 Our Lady appeared to St. Simon Stock, an Englishman and Prior of Carmelite Order. She handed him a brown woolen scapular and said, “This shall be a privilege for you and all Carmelites, that anyone dying in this habit shall not suffer eternal fire.” In time, the Church extended this magnificent privilege to all the laity who are willing to be invested in the Brown Scapular of the Carmelites and who perpetually wear it.

The Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel has promised to save those who wear the scapular from the fires of hell and to shorten their stay in purgatory if they should pass from this world still owing some debt of punishment.This promise is found in a Bull of Pope John XXII. The Blessed Virgin appeared to him and, speaking of those who wear the Brown Scapular, said, “I, the Mother of Grace, shall descend on the Saturday after their death and whomsoever I shall find in purgatory I shall free so that I may lead them to the holy mountain of life everlasting.”

Unlike typical sacramentals, scapulars are not merely blessed, but need to be invested/imposed by a priest to enroll the faithful.Any Catholic priest may invest a baptized Catholic with the Brown Scapular. Lay people are unable to bless a Scapular

On Sunday, July 18th 2021 after the 12:30pm Sung Mass at St Winefride’s there will be an enrolment for those wishing to avail of this powerful sacramental. Scapulars will be available on the date.