(No 8am Mass on this day.)

Mass will be at the earlier time of 11am on Friday 25th September.

As September begins, our monthly spiritual recollections resume at St John’s Church. Consecrated Time is an opportunity to set aside an hour simply to be with Our Lord, deepen our spiritual life and grow in holiness.

Confessions will be available from 6pm before 6:30pm Mass, followed by a spiritual conference with Fr Coelho. The evening will conclude with refreshments in the parish hall. All are welcome.

Starting this month, Fr Coelho will begin a new series of talks, ‘The Sacraments and the Life of Grace’, exploring the nature and purpose of the Sacraments in the light of the Church’s teaching, and their essential role in our sanctification and salvation.

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In this issue:

     Editorial: Jubilee of St Francis of Assisi

Fr de Malleray tells why celebrating the happy death of the Poverello with the Church universal on 3rd October 2026 is relevant and beneficial.

     My Chartres Pilgrimage Experience 2026

Bridget Nisiima recalls her very first Christendom pilgrimage last Pentecost weekend among 20,000 young pilgrims

     On the Loss of Our Unborn Child

A young wife shares her experience of miscarrying and how as a couple she and her husband dealt with their child’s remains with dignity, despite challenges inherent in the UK health system

     The Latin Mass Revival Inspires Lady Novelists

That novelists from different continents should feel inspired to describe the same phenomenon, albeit from various angles, confirms the vitality and relevance of their shared topic of interest, Fr Armand de Malleray explains     

     A Monk Muses Over a Painting by Bellini

An English Benedictine monk share his reflexions on Bellini’s Madonna and Child and Two Female Saints painted around the year 1490

     The Girl and the Priest on the Train

Good Counsel Network co-founder Stuart McCullough has recourse to fiction to help readers realise the impact of peaceful pro-life witness, with prayer

     Modesty and Chastity for Modern Women

A talk given by Sarah Haire to young ladies at the Juventutem Summer Weekend attended by 60 in July 2026

     On the SSPX Episcopal Consecrations

What are disorientated laity and clergy to think of the event last 1st July in Switzerland: guiding principles on what Catholic tradition entails and excludes, even in critical times, in charity and truth 

     An Englishman in French-speaking Bavaria?

Englishman Deacon David Kahn, FSSP, feels at home in the multilingual motherhouse of the FSSP, where Latin is a unifying factor

     Support & Events

Clergy retreat for any priests, deacons, religious, and seminarians, led by Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP at Stonyhurst 5-9 Oct 2026 on the theme This Sacred Victim – The priest at the altar as sacrificer. Visit the event page https://christianheritagecentre.com/events/this-sacred-victim/ and join already ten priests booked in

Save the date: Annual weekend of vocational discernment on 5-7 March 2027, led by FSSP clergy at Buckden Towers, PE19 5TA. For unmarried men 18-35. Contact & inquiries:malleray@fssp.org.

Please note that Mass on the Vigil of the Assumption, Friday 14th August, will be at the earlier time of 11am (no evening Mass).