We regret to inform you that Thursday’s Mass for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, scheduled for 7:30 in the evening, has been CANCELLED. Although requested and approved, a misunderstanding led to Saint Lawrence’s community scheduling their own Mass at the same time; this has never happened in twenty years, and Fathers Bradford and Gaspar are investigating the matter to ensure it does not happen again. We regret the inevitable inconvenience, particularly as the discovery was made so close to the occasion.

The Assumption is a Holy Day of Obligation. Father Ojo of Saint Mary of the Assumption will be offering Mass in the Ordinary Form at Saint Lawrence church at 7:30 in the evening on August 15th.

Father Bradford will be saying a Vigil Mass in the Ordinary Form at Saint Theresa’s church, 2078 Centre Street, West Roxbury 02132 on August 14th at 4:30 in the afternoon.

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The feature article by Deacon Connolly states, “Our traditional English version reverses the order of heaven and earth, making ‘on earth’ the principal modifier of ‘thy will be done’ and adds an ‘it is’ which does not appear in the Greek or Latin.

This issue also contains articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors as well as announcements of upcoming events and news and notes for our combined congregation and community.

This month’s contents include:

• “Heaven on Earth” by The Reverend Deacon Michael J. Connolly
• “The Growth of the Ordinariate,” remarks by Jacob Rees-Mogg, MP, well-known Catholic and Conservative Member of Parliament
• “Seventy Times Seven,” sermon preached by Father Bradford
• “The Pilgrims Blessing of Roncevalles” for Steven Hardy prior to his pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella
• “To Pray for All Men” from a treatise on the Lord’s Prayer by St Cyprian
• “Remembrances of Saint Jean Vianney” by Abbé Francois Trochu
• “Consistent with Our Nation’s Traditions” from a concurring opinion by Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch in the American Legion v. American Humanist Association case

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This issue has a timely article on the persecution of Christians in China. It also contains articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors as well as announcements of upcoming events and news and notes for our combined congregation and community.

This month’s contents include:

• “The Elixir” by The Revd Deacon Michael J. Connolly, an Archdeacon in the Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg, who also teaches linguistics in Boston College and assists frequently at our Masses
• “Inside China’s War on Christians,” an article from The Wall Street Journal by Nina Shea, a fellow at the Hudson Institute and Bob Fu, a pastor and founder of ChinaAid.
• “The Act of Forgiveness,” an article by the Provost from The Oratory Parish Magazine, a publication of the Brompton (London) Oratory.
• “Using the Name of the Lord,” a sermon by Father Bradford
• “American Values,” an article by Joe Fitzgerald in the Boston Herald

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This issue begins with a timely article on the Sacred Heart of Jesus. It also contains articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors as well as announcements of upcoming events and news and notes for our combined congregation and community.

This month’s contents include:

• “June is the Month of the Sacred Heart,” an extract from The Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by the Revd H. Noldin, S.J. in 1883 and published in the June, 2016 issue of The Oratory Parish Magazine, the parish paper of the Brompton (London) Oratory
• “The Ratzinger Diagnosis,” an article by George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. and published in the April 26, 2019 edition of The Pilot
• “The Preciousness of the Sacrifice,” a sermon preached by Father Bradford in St Theresa of Ávila Church on May 9, 2019
• “Whom the Gods Would Destroy They First Make Mad,” an article by Fr Bradford reflecting on an editorial by Abigail Shrier in the May 3, 2019 edition of the Wall Street Journal
• “The Fear of the Lord,” an extract from his expositions of the Psalms by Saint Hilary (c.310-c.367), Bishop of Poitiers; Hilary is a Doctor of the Church and sometimes called the “Athanasius of the West”

Click here to view the June 2019 issue of The Portal on our sister community’s website. Members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the United Kingdom publish The Portal monthly.

It features news and comment, events, personalities, Catholic teaching, letters, features, Catholic and Anglican history as well as news from Ordinariate missions around the UK.

This edition includes:

• “Over 100 years of the Catholic League” – Will Burton reflects
• “A Mary Garden and its Message ” by Joanna Bogle
• “Peace in our Time?” –Snapdragon looks at peace since the end of WW2
• “A Pilgrim’s Search for God – Cardinal Basil Hume” by Gertrude Feick, a book review by The Revd D N J-M Bayliss
• “Trapped in a Foreign Country” – Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane meet Sarah Teather
• “Catholics and the Nuclear Deterrent “– Fr Ashley Beck
• “Thoughts on Newman: Global Reach”– Revd Dr Stephen Morgan
• Anglican News” “Westminster Abbey; OLW Walsingham and Bishop Philip North” – The Revd Paul Benfield
• “Visit to Cambridge: St Edmund’s College “– Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
• News from the Ordinariate around the UK
• “Anglican Patrimony Celebrated in Moscow” Dr Ivan Fadeyev reports from Moscow
• “Church aid ‘revives our faith and hope’: Christian widows in Syria”  – Josué Villalón
• “Apples and Pears – The Holy Stairs” – Donato Tallo
• “The Brown Scapular and the Ordinariates – Simon Dennerly
• “Extremist or Moderate?” – Geoffrey Kirk

This edition includes:

Thursday, May 2nd at 7:30 PM
Solemn Mass on the feast day of our patron saint, one of four Greek Doctors of the Church

A reception will follow

Click here to view the May 2019 issue of The Portal on our sister community’s website. Members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in the United Kingdom publish The Portal monthly.

It features news and comment, events, personalities, Catholic teaching, letters, features, Catholic and Anglican history as well as news from Ordinariate missions around the UK.

This edition includes:

• • “Leaving and joining – the journey of converts” — Will Burton
  • “Male and female” – Joanna Bogle reflects on gender and freedom
  • “A personal journey” – Snapdragon
  • “Chrism Mass 2019” – Lucy Day reports from Warwick Street
  • “The Papal Nuncio – HE Archbishop Edward Adams”
  • “Solidarity and Paris” – Fr Ashley Beck
  • “Newman and the Chinese scholar, Ma Xiangbo”– Revd Dr Stephen Morgan
  • “Church & State” – how it works – The Revd Paul Benfield
  • “Down Your Way” – Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane visit the Bristol Ordinariate Group
  • “News from the Ordinariate around the UK”
  • “The Shrines of Britain” – Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane visit Fernyhalgh in Lancashire
  • “Helping heal children’s trauma in Syria” – Irmina Nockiewicz reports
  • “OLW visits Warwick Street”
  • Fr Michael Halsall writes “With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation”
  • “Do you need ID? Science and Christianity in conflict?” – Not according to Fr Simon Heans
  • “What is it with Francis and kissing?” – Geoffrey Kirk wants to know

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This issue starts with a timely sermon by Fr Bradford.on the apostles. It also contains articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors as well as announcements of upcoming events and news and notes for our combined congregation and community.

This month’s contents include:

• “Through Their Word,” a sermon preached by Fr Bradford
• “What Path Are We To Take,” an excerpt from an Easter sermon by St Athanasius
• “Mary’s Month”
• “The Visible Invisible,” an excerpt from Letters to a Young Catholic by George Weigel
• “Blessed Mary the Poet” by Anthony Esolen
• “Keeping the Joyful Festival” from a sermon on Good Shepherd Sunday by St Gregory the Great
• “The Opportunity to Repent,” an excerpt from Pope Saint Clement’s Epistle to the Corinthians
• “Saint Philip Saw the Father” from Origen”s Against Celsus
• “Posture in Prayer,” an excerpt by Saint Bernardino

Palm Sunday, April 14th, 11:30 AM
Blessing & Distribution of Palms
Solemn Procession
The Reading of the Passion
Solemn Mass & Sermon

Please assemble in the left hand sacristy before the start of Mass

Maundy Thursday, April 18th, 7:30 PM
Commemoration of the Last Supper
Solemn Mass & Sermon
Watch at Altar of Repose until 10:00 PM

Good Friday, April 19th, 3:00 PM
The Good Friday Liturgy
The Reading of the Passion
The Solemn Collects
Veneration of the Cross
Mass of the Pre-Sanctified

Holy Saturday, April 20th
9:00 AM The Altar Service
8:00 PM The Great Easter Vigil
Blessing of the Paschal Candle
The Prophecies
Renewal of Baptismal Vows
Solemn Mass & Sermon

Easter Day, April 21st, 11:30 AM
Solemn Procession
Solemn Mass & Sermon

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This issue starts with a timely sermon by Fr Bradford with insight into the raising of Lazarus. It also contains articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors as well as announcements of upcoming events and news and notes for our combined congregation and community.

This month’s contents include:

• “We Know Him Who Teaches It,” a sermon Father Bradford preached on Passion Sunday
• “The Night He Was Betrayed” by Father Romanus Cessario, O.P.
• “The Third Height of Perfection” by St Catherine of Siena
• “The Rotten Fruit of Secularization,”by Gerhard Cardinal Müeller
• “Nationhood as a Gift from God” by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• “Priestly Vocation” by Pope Benedict XVI
• “No Salvation Except in the Cross” by Saint Francis de Sales
• “Protecting the Right of Free Speech” from the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly