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Read the March issue of our parish paper

03 Friday Mar 2023

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If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your March 2023 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

  • “Ecumenism and Ordinariates 2012” by The Provost of the Brompton (London) Oratory
  • “Walk in His Ways” by Saint John the Serene
  • “No One Told Joseph How to be a Father” by Father Bradford
  • “Saint Frances of Rome” by Pope Benedict XVI
  • “The Gentle Irony of the Theology of the Body” by Jason M. Morgan

Read the February issue of our parish paper

01 Wednesday Feb 2023

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If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your February 2023 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

  • “Self-love Coming at Us” by Father Bradford
  • “Bilge Water and Small Sins” by Saint Augustine
  • “Thoughts on Prayer” by Tito Colliander
  • “Fasting and Almsgiving” by Pope Saint Leo the Great
  • “Re-establishing Friendship with God” by Saint John Paul II
  • “Wedge in a Thought Concerning God’s Goodness” by Edward Bouverie Pusey
  • “Saint Claude La Colombiere” from Magnificat magazine
  • “Truth of an Ontological Character” from Dignitas Personae

Read the January issue of our parish paper

01 Sunday Jan 2023

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If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your January 2023 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

  • “Imitate the Piety of the Magi” by the Provost of the Brompton Oratory
  • “The Holy Name of Jesus” by Richard Rolle
  • “Shifting the Language” by Charles C. Camosy
  • “Fire Immersed in Water” by Saint Proclus of Constantinople
  • “The Great Christian Revelation” by Father Louis Bouyer
  • “Development of the Faith Not Alteration” by Saint Vincent of Lerins
  • “The Marriage Feast at Cana” by Pierre-Marie Dumont

Read the December issue of our parish paper

01 Thursday Dec 2022

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If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your December 2022 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

  • “Advent in the Tangled Trials of Life” by William Edmund Fahey
  • “He Will be Great”by Dom Anscar Vonier, O.S.B.
  • “Ember Days” by Father Bradford
  • “For the Sake of Doing Good” by Father Bradford
  • “The Curative Regimen of Jesus” by Anthony Esolen
  • “This Kind of Birth” by Saint Leo the Great
  • “Continue Unwaveringly in Hope,” an excerpt from Gaudium et spes

Read the November issue of our parish paper

01 Tuesday Nov 2022

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If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your November 2022 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

  • “A Very Simple and True Thing,” a letter from Ann E. R. Stitt 
  • “Purgatory Will Not Last Forever” by Fr Richard Phelps, S.S.C.
  • “What a Christian Believes About Death” by Fr Herbert Arthur Wilson
  • “Blessed James Thompson” from Magnificat magazine 
  • “English Martyrs” from Magnificat magazine 
  • “Within the Gentleness of Grace” by Pope Leo the Great
  • “Thanksgiving” by President Rutherford B. Hayes
  • “Personally Attractive to Sinners,” a sermon preached by Fr Bradford
  • “The One Reigning King” by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Read the October issue of our parish paper

01 Saturday Oct 2022

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If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your October 2022 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

  • “The Worst Type of Poverty” by the Provost of the Brompton (London) Oratory
  • “The Beloved Physician,” a sermon preached by Father Richard Bradford
  • “The Response of Your Freedom,” a sermon preached by Saint John Paul II
  • “A Need of His Heart” by Father Jean C. J. d’Elbee
  • “The Greatness of Our Lady” by Saint Teresa of Calcutta
  • “The First Condition for Holiness” by Sister Wendy Beckett
  • “Whatever God Allows” by Caryll Houselander
  • “The Perfect Prayer” by Saint John XXIII
  • “How Did You Do That?” by Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle

Read the September issue of our parish paper

31 Wednesday Aug 2022

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If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your September 2022 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

  • “Struggles Without, Fears Within” by St Gregory the Great”
  • “In time of War” by Pope Pius XII
  • “Religious Liberty Is Worth Special Protection” by Samuel Alito
  • “Making Gods Love Visible Through His Son” by Madeleine Delbrel
  • “The Winning Ticket is Christ,” a sermon by Father Bradford
  • “Why It Is Called Catholic” by St Cyril of Jerusalem
  • “Upon This Tree” by Saint Ephrem

Read the August issue of our parish paper

31 Wednesday Aug 2022

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If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should have received your August 2022 issue. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

  • “A Firm Obedience to the Truth” by John Janaro
  • “Voluntary Expiatory Suffering” by Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
  • “The Final Test of Faith,” a sermon by Father Bradford
  • “The Greatest Joy in the Kingdom of Heaven” by Saint Theresa of Ávila
  • “The Prayer Given by Christ” by Saint Cyprian
  • “Lord Anything of Lasting Worth Is Yours” by John M. Hull

Read the July issue of our parish paper

01 Friday Jul 2022

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If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your July 2022 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

  • “The Father of Lies Hides His Victims,” from an address by Dr. Peter Kreeft
  • “For Our Country” by The Revd George Lyman Locke
  • “Underlying Good Intention,” sermon by Fr Richard Bradford
  • “The Peoples Republic of Cambridge” by Fr Richard Bradford
  • “Without Forgetting You are a Christian” by Sydney Smith
  • “Problems” by Fr Andrew, S.D.C.
  • “Hope Only in the Mercy of God” by Saint John of Ávila
  • “Through Charity” by Robert Cardinal Sarah

Read the June issue of our parish paper

31 Tuesday May 2022

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If you signed up to receive Contra mundum by mail, you should receive your June 2022 issue soon. You can also read it here on our website as well as all of the back issues.

Our parish paper provides religious instruction, news, and upcoming events for our our combined congregation and community. It also contains sermons and articles by Father Bradford, and articles and writings by contemporary and classic authors.

This month’s issue includes:

  • “Sin Against the Holy Ghost,” a sermon by Father Bradford
  • “For Life in the Spirit” by Father Donald Allchin 
  • “How the Incarnate God Keeps His Promise” by Father David Vincent Meconi, S.J.
  • “Jesus and His Earthly Father” from the Catholic Eye
  • “A Supreme Visible Head” by Father John Goter
  • “Jesus Is Ready to Give What He Asks of You” by Saint John Paul II
  • “Blessed Ralph Milner” from Magnificat magazine
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