We’re having a cookout after Mass from 1:00 to 3:00 PM and we hope you’ll be able to join us for a different way to enjoy our after-Mass fellowship.

Bring whatever you’d like to grill; paper goods, plastic ware, condiments, salads, soft drinks, and dessert will be provided. If you are able to bring a grill, please do so! We will grill and eat outside, weather permitting.

Corrine Paige is coordinating this event for us (thank you Corrine!). If you can bring a salad or other dish for everyone to enjoy or have any questions, email or call her at 781 879-2583.

If you would like to come, letting Corrine know will help with the planning for purchasing/providing supplies and side dishes. If you would like to attend but are unable to bring a dish to share, a donation towards the purchase of items provided for everyone’s use would be appreciated.

There is no rain date—we will eat inside if necessary.

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 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

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.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

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)