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16 St John's Bulletin December 2008 December 2008 St John's Bulletin 1 The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X in Ireland Saint Pius X House 12 Tivoli Terrace South St John’s Bulletin Dún Laoghaire , County Dublin Telephone: (01) 284 2206 Very Rev. Ramón Anglés, Superior The Society of St Pius X in Ireland Rev. Régis Babinet Saint John’s Presbytery Corpus Christi Church 1 Upper Mounttown Road Connaught Gardens Dún Laoghaire , Co. Dublin Athlone , Co. Roscommon Telephone: (01) 280 9407 Telephone: (090) 649 2439 Rev. Paul Biérer Rev. Fabrice Loschi, Prior Rev. David Nichols Rev. Br. Gerard CONTACT Saint Pius V Chapel 78 Andersonstown Road Dún Laoghaire or Belfast , Co. Antrim Mr. McKeown (028) 9445 3654 Our Lady of the Rosary Church Shanakiel Road Dún Laoghaire or Sunday’s Well, Co. Cork Mr. O’Connor (021) 437 1196 Our Lady of Knock and St Patrick Chapel Unit 5 Richbrook Business Park, Dún Laoghaire or Mill Rd, Bessbrook, Newry , Co. Down Mr. McArdle (028) 3082 5730 Saint Joseph’s Mass Centre Dún Laoghaire or Tralee , Co. Kerry Mrs. Dennehy (068) 43123 In This Issue: Cashel Mass Centre Dún Laoghaire or Co. Tipperary Mr. Walsh (062) 61028 - Letter from Fr Anglés - Sermon from Archbishop Lefebvre December 2008 - All Saints of Ireland Month of - Plus all the activities and devotions the Holy Child Jesus in our priories and churches Website : www.ireland.sspx.net 2 St John's Bulletin December 2008 December 2008 St John's Bulletin 15 Devotions & Activities at St John’s every substantial Missal as the verse for built Churches and established monas- Rosary daily at 6 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 10.30 am the Introit of the common Mass for the teries with adjoining schools. Further, Every Sunday : Exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 10.30 am Blessed Virgin, Salve Sancta parens , even though St Kieran was probably the Every Thursday : Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and Miraculous Medal put forth by Pope St Pius X in 1912, oldest, yet St Ailbhe was their agreed Novena after the 6.30 pm Mass (except First Thursday) comes from his pen. Apart from the unofficial Primate amongst themselves. First Thursday: Apostolate of Prayer for Priests. Exposition of the Blessed Gospels, the Carmen was the work most After St Patrick came there was a diffi- Sacrament after 11 am Mass, adoration until 6.30 pm Mass. copied in monasteries during all the culty regarding authority, the native First Friday: Benediction after the 6.30 pm Mass Middle Ages, editions were printed Bishops first thoughts being that a for- First Saturday: Monthly day of Recollection (April to November) every few years all over Europe and eigner should not be the overall Pri- Confessions : 10.30 am on Saturdays and Sundays (After 11am Sunday Mass on request) ancient Manuscript copies are found in mate. However, St Patrick’s mandate Missa Cantata : Fourth Sunday of the month nearly all the great Libraries of Europe, from the Pope indicated he should have Doctrinal Conference for Adults: First and Third Tuesdays at 7.30 pm ncluding the Vatican. overall authority and first St Declan, Catechism for children : Every Sunday between Masses followed by St Ailbhe and St Kieran Catechism for teenagers : Second Saturday of each month at 11.45 am Some writers also mention 2 other very soon bowed to St Patrick. St Ibar had St John’s Schola and Choir: Wednesdays at 7.30 pm early Saints, namely, St Eliph and St the greatest difficulty in the matter and Grimonia . However, St Eliph’s Life withdrew to his monastery on the island has striking similarities with, or appears of Beg-Eri in Wexford harbour. The Devotions & Activities in Athlone to be parts of, that of St Mansuy (above) native Bishops henceforth cooperated Rosary daily at 6.30 pm as has St Grimonia with that of St with St Patrick and he reconfirmed First Friday: Holy Hour at 6.30 pm Dympna of Gheel. This may be a matter them in their various Sees and monas- First Saturday: Benediction and Rosary at 10.25 am of 2 examples of different names for teries and appointed St Ailbhe Confessions : 10.30 am on Saturdays and Sundays each of two different Saints. They were Archbishop of Munster, which at one Missa Cantata : First and Third Sundays of the month very early times and many details are stage could have meant all the Southern shrouded in uncertainty. half of Ireland. St Patrick later estab- The other 4 Saints mentioned previ- lished Armagh as the All-Ireland au- Devotions & Activities in Cork ously, St Ailbhe of Emly(12 th Septem- thority. Thus there were only these 2 Fourth Sunday : Exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass ber, and known as Hildebert in Ger- Metropolitans for centuries and this Confessions : Half an hour before every Mass many), St Kieran of Saighir(5 th March) , closely reflected the basic North-South Missa Cantata : Third Sunday St Ibar of Beg-Eri, Wexford (23 rd lay divisions of the country at the time. April) and St Declan of Ardmore, Co Even though these 4 Bishops were es- th SSPX Groups and Pious Associations in Ireland Waterford (24 July) , had fairly parallel tablished and preaching in Ireland be- and almost contemporaneous careers. fore St Patrick came, most of them are Eucharistic Crusade: Contact Fr. Biérer Details of their Lives are given in vari- thought to have outlived him. This Archconfraternity of St Stephen for Altar Boys: Contact Fr. Angles ous Bulletins for months in which their should not be surprising as St Patrick is St John’s Circle: Contact Fr. Anglés feastdays occur. All were born some- thought to have been about 59 years old Youth Group: Contact Fr. Loschi time late in the 2 nd half of the 4 th cen- when he came and that the others were Third Order of the SSPX: Contact Fr. Anglés tury. They were first educated in Ireland younger. Of course, it is most likely that St Philomena’s Rosary Association: Contact Kay Cronin and then went abroad for further train- there were many others, particularly ing. They all would appear to have gone priests, active in Ireland before St Pat- Sunday 2nd Collection to Rome and most were ordained priests rick’s mission. Indeed, prior to St Pat- 1st : For the Seminaries of the SSPX Mass Stipends and consecrated Bishops there. Some of rick’s arrival, a St Palladius had been 2nd : For Insurances (buildings, car, health) 1 Mass intention: 16 € / £ 13 3rd : For Utilities (heating, electricity, petrol, phone) them are said to have met St Patrick on sent as a missioner to Ireland in 431 but Novena of Masses: 160 € / £ 130 the Continent, either in Rome or in after about a year without much suc- 4th : Building Fund (renovations of churches & priories) Gregorian: 640 € / £ 520 5th : For the Missions of the SSPX France. By the time St Patrick had ar- cess, he left early in 432 and continued rived on his mission in Ireland, all had his missionary work in Scotland. 14 St John's Bulletin December 2008 December 2008 St John's Bulletin 3 who gave him extra disciples to help in some say of the tribe of Tuatha Dé his work. He became Bishop/Abbot of Danann, and members were noted as ANNOUNCEMENTS Cloncurry, Co Kildare and later went to being sages in many fields; learning, Scotland where he founded the famous science, medicine and, latterly, religion. ♦ ROSARY CRUSADE : Bishop Fellay in Lourdes : “ Given the success of our monastery of Candida Casa at Whithern The first St Sedulius, born around the first Rosary Crusade to obtain the return of the Tridentine Mass, we would now in Galloway. He also got stone masons middle of the 4 th century, probably like to offer to Our Lady a new bouquet of a million rosaries (5 decades) to from St Martin to help build his church made the greatest mark in history. He obtain the withdrawal of the decree of excommunication through her and monastery. In Scotland he was was brought up and educated in Ireland, intercession. » known as Nennius or Ninnian. This is and, when adult he proceeded to France The Rosaries are to be said between November 1 st and December 25 th 2008 obtained by dropping the first syllable where he taught as a professor, then Please send you pledge to Father Anglés in Dun Laoghaire of Monenna as it was a common prac- went to Italy where he is said to have or give it to one of your priests. tice for the Irish to prefix the names of been Baptised and became a professor specially endeared Saints with the word of Philosophy. Later, he went to Greece ♦ EUCHARISTIC CRUSADE MEETING : in Athlone on Satuday 13 December . Holy ‘mo’ meaning ‘my’. This convention where he taught poetry. Somewhere Mass at 11 am, Lunch, Christmas Carols at the local nursing home, Benediction. was not used in Scotland and so he be- along the line he was ordained priest came Nennius there and became known and many think he was also consecrated ♦ CONFERENCE OF FATHER SUMMERS in Athlone on Sunday 14 December as the ‘Apostle of the Picts’. He died Bishop or Abbot, even though no See is after 11 am Mass in Parish Hall, on St Michael’s School in England. and was buried at Whithern and is ven- known for him but then that was com- ♦ CHRISTMAS DUES enveloppes available in all the churches and chapels. erated there and in Ireland. For centu- mon enough in those days.