The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception (the Patronal Feast of the United States) falls on Sunday this year and is being transferred to Monday, December 9th. Father Bradford will offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass according to Divine Worship on that day at the Marian Altar at Saint Theresa of Avila church, 2078 Centre Street West Roxbury at 9:00 AM.

As the Feast has been transferred to a Monday it is not a Holy Day of Obligation, but Father Bradford encourages all the Faithful to assist at Mass somewhere on this day.

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This issue features an article by Fr. Bradford about our first chaplain (who was not him). This issue also contains articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors as well as our Christmas schedule and news and notes for our combined congregation and community.

This month’s contents include:

• “Our First Chaplain” by Fr Bradford
• “A Letter from Mexico” by parishioner, David Burt
• “Our Lady of Gaudeloupe” by Fr Bradford
• “Advent: The Beginning of the Church’s Year” and “Collect for Advent”
• St Thomas Becket from Magnificat magazine

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This issue features an article by and a chronology of newly-canonized St John Henry Newman. 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:

• “Coming into Port after a Rough Sea,” an excerpt from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by St John Henry Newman
• “Chronology of John Henry Newman” from The Catholic Response
• “All Souls Day” by Pope Benedict XVI
• “Possession of Our Selves,” a sermon preached by Father Bradford
• “Some Things Never Change,” a reading from 2 Peter
• “Preparation for Death” by Anthony Bloom
• “Open to the Love of God” by St Catherine of Genoa
• “What a Christian Believes about Death” by H. A. Wilson
• “Christ Came to Till the Soil” by Saint Macarius

Bishop Lopes has asked all communities of the Ordinariate to celebrate a special Jubilee Votive Mass of the Holy Spirit in Thanksgiving for the Tenth Anniversary of the Erection of the Ordinariate. Our Mass on that day will include a solemn Te Deum. A Plenary Indulgence (under the usual conditions) will be granted to all attending this Mass. Please spread the word and consider bringing friends!

The Daughters of St Paul are having their annual “He Is Born” Christmas Concert on Sunday, December 8th at Fontbonne Academy in Milton.

Doors open at 3 pm with showtime at 4 pm.  Tickets are $20 per person.

Please let Corrine (email) know by early November if you would like to attend. The concert sold out last year so there is no guarantee that there will be tickets available at the door.

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This issue features a very informative sermon by Fr Bradford about St Francis of Assisi and the writing of another Francis, St Francis of Paola. 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:

• “The Genuine Thing,” a sermon preached by Fr Bradford
• “A Redemptive Function To Perform,” an excerpt by C S Lewis
• “Reason for Worry,” and article by Star Parker, a nationally known black conservative activist, author, and columnist, and founder of CURE
• “British Martyrs, Saint Philip Howard” reprinted from Magnificat
• “Open Wide the Doors for Christ,” an excerpt from a sermon preached by Pope St John Paul II
• “Another St Francis” by St Francis of Paola

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In this issue parishioner Steven Hardy tells how faith sent him on his Camino de Santiago pilgrimage and the truly miraculous experiences that resulted.

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:

• “Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage” by parishioner Steven Hardy
• “Our Lady of Walsingham” (and the four feasts in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary in September)
• “A Coin Has Two Sides,” a sermon by Fr Bradford
• “Judaism Doesn’t Guarantee Pro-Choice” by Rabbi Avi Shafran
• “From a Commentary on the Prophet Joel” by Saint Jerome

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