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

If you signed up to receive Contra Mundum by mail, you should receive your issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

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

Click here to view the April 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:

• “Portal Comment” – Will Burton writes of his friend
• “LOGS and Shrovetide” – Joanna Bogle
• “Being old-fashioned” – Snapdragon
• “To be a pilgrim” – Julia Beacroft
• “New Australian Ordinary” (Father Carl Reid)
• “Here am I Lord” – Michael Batten JP
• “Conversion” – Fr Ashley Beck
• “Thoughts on Newman” – Revd Dr Stephen Morgan
• “History of St Agatha’s Church, Portsmouth” – Review byFr Simon Ellis
• “Visit to Chingford” – Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
• “News from the Ordinariate around the UK”
• “EMPT Pilgrimage” – Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
• “Aid to the Church in Need” – Josué Villalón
• “Around the Blogs” – Lucy Day
• “Living in the desert” – Fr Michael Halsall
• Letters to the Editor
• “Brexit – where do Catholics stand?” – Geoffrey Kirk

Monday, March 25, 2019 at 7:30 PM
Procession, Solemn Mass & Sermon

At St Lawrence church, Chestnut Hill (directions)

Stations of the Cross & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament
Fridays in Lent, starting March 15th

6:30 Supper
Bring your food and have supper together (for more info, email Corrine)

7:30 PM Stations of the Cross & Benediction
Schedule of preachers:
March 15 Bishop Arthur L Kennedy
March 22 Fr Romanus Cessario, OP
March 29 Fr Bradford
April 5 Fr Liias
April 12 Deacon Brian O’Hanlon

11:30 AM Litany in Procession
Solemn Mass & Sermon
Fourth Communion Service

5:00 PM Solemn Evensong & Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

40 Days for Life is a community-based campaign that takes a determined, peaceful approach to showing local communities the consequences of abortion in their own neighborhoods, for their own friends and families.

It puts into action a desire to cooperate with God in the carrying out of His plan for the end of abortion. It draws attention to the evil of abortion through the use of a three-point program:

• Prayer and fasting
• Constant vigil
• Community outreach

The mission of the campaign is to bring together the body of Christ in a spirit of unity during a focused 40-day campaign of prayer, fasting, and peaceful activism, with the purpose of repentance, to seek God’s favor to turn hearts and minds from a culture of death to a culture of life, thus bringing an end to abortion.

The 40-day campaign tracks Biblical history, where God used 40-day periods to transform individuals, communities … and the entire world. From Noah in the flood to Moses on the mountain to the disciples after Christ’s resurrection, it is clear that God sees the transformative value of His people accepting and meeting a 40-day challenge.

There is information about events, etc. on the website, with special pages for Boston, Beverly, and Attleboro.

You can use this poster to publicize the events.

Click here to view the March 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:

• Portal Comment: “Is the age of Catholic persecution over?,” a reflection by Will Burton
• “Why are there so few on the bridge?,” Joanna Bogle asks some uncomfortable questions 
• “Delaying Tactics” by Snapdragon
• “Mgr Edwin Ronald Barnes RIP” by Mgr Andrew Burnham
• “One priest’s story,” Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane  meet Fr Matthew Pittam
• “Catholics and Brexit” by Fr Ashley Beck
• Thoughts on Newman, “In gratitude” by Revd Dr Stephen Morgan
• Anglican News: “CofE February General Synod” by The Revd Paul Benfield
• “Our Lady of the Assumption and Saint Gregory, Warwick Street, London,” a visit by  Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
• News from the Ordinariate around the UK
• “Building up the Kingdom” by Julia Beacroft
• Aid to the Church in Need: “Education is of ‘prime importance’ for the Church in Pakistan” by Josué Villalón
• “The Free John Ryan Exhibition and Display” by Jackie Ottaway and Ronald Crane
• “Poems and Hymns by Brian Alvan Gill,” reviewed by Fr Simon Ellis
• “…seek thou this soul of mine” by Fr Michael Halsall
• “Ordinariate Clergy Retreat”

If you signed up to receive Contra Mundum by mail, you should receive your issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

This issue features “The Only-begotten Son of God,” a paper by The Revd Deacon Michael J. Connolly, Archdeacon in the Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in the United States and Canada and assistant professor of linguistics in Boston College. He often assists at our Mass.

The issue also contains a timely sermon by Fr Bradford, as well as articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors. It also has announcements of upcoming events and news and notes for our combined congregation and community.

This issue includes:

• “The Only-begotten Son of God” by The Revd Deacon Michael J. Connolly, Archdeacon in the Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Our Lady of Nareg in the United States and Canada and assistant professor of linguistics in Boston College. He often assists at our Mass.
• “To Keep a True Lent,” a poem by Robert Herrick, a 17th century English poet and clergyman.
• “Thinking of His Mother,” a sermon preached by Fr Bradford.
• “How Shall We Repay the Lord?” by St Basil the Great, bishop, theologian of distinction, monastic founder, and one of the Four Greek Doctors of the Church.
• “The True Vision of Things,” a sermon by Fr Joseph F Wilson, priest of he Diocese of Brooklyn and a long-time friend of our congregation.

Penitential Office
Blessing & Imposition of Ashes
Solemn Mass & Sermon