THE CARDIFF ORATORY PARISH CHURCH OF ST ALBAN ON THE MOORS A Parish of the Archdiocese of Cardiff (a Registered Charity 1177272)
Website: www.cardifforatory.co.uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/CardiffOratory Contact: [email protected] Parish Priest: Fr. Sebastian M Jones Hospital Chaplain (Fr. Davies) 029 2074 3230; St Alban's Oratory House: 029 2046 3219.
Daily Masses / Rosary and Benediction / go to St Alban's Parish Facebook site or to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/cardifforatory THE MASS LINE: 029 2267 0924. (Mass Line is the cost of a local call) Sat 6th 8.00 Mass: Holy Souls Our Lady's Saturday 4.00 Rosary & Benediction 16.00 "Mass Line": Stephen Murray, RIP 17.00: Oratory Vespers 18.00 Mass: Terry O'Brien, RIP Sun 7th SOLEMNITY OF 10:00 Mass: Tony Maunder, RIP THE MOST HOLY TRINITY, 11:15 Mass: Holy Souls / Catherine Nevin, RIP FATHER, SON AND 16.00 Vespers & Benediction of the Most Blessed HOLY SPIRIT Sacrament Mon 8th 7.30 Mass: Holy Souls 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 9.30am Mass: For Priests 17.00 Rosary and Benediction Tues 9th 7.30 Mass: Holy Souls St. Ephraem, Deacon & Doctor of 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament the Church. 9.30 Mass: Phyllis Clarke, RIP (Reece) 17.00 Rosary and Benediction Wed 10th 7.30 Mass: Holy Souls 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 9.30 Mass: Cassidy Family, Int. 17.00 Rosary and Benediction Thurs 11th 7.30 Mass: Holy Souls St. Barnabas, Apostle. 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 9.30 Mass: Mother Damian's Int. 17.00 Rosary and Benediction 19.00 Missa Cantata Pro Populo Fri 12th 7.30 Mass: Holy Souls 9.00 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 9.30 Mass: JC's. Int. 17.00 Vespers & Benediction Sat 13th St. Anthony of Padua, Priest and 8.00 Mass: Holy Souls Doctor of the Church 17.00 Oratory Vespers 18.00 Mass: Cyril & Bridget George, RIP Sun 14th 10:00 Mass: Johanna & Fred Collins, RIP SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS 11:15 Mass: Holy Souls CHRISTI 16.00 Vespers & Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament THIS WEEK'S SAINT St. Ephraem, Deacon & Doctor of the Church. St. Ephrem is celebrated this day. He first exercised his office of preaching and handing over sacred doctrine in his native Nisibis in ancient Syria, and then, when the Persians had invaded, fled with his disciples to Edessa, also in Syria, where he laid the foundations of a theological school, fulfilling his ministry in word and writing. He was so outstanding for his teaching and austerity of life, that he merited to be called, on account of the exquisite hymns he composed, the “Harp of the Holy Spirit.” He died in A.D. 373 at Edesssa.
Sts. Primus and Felician, Martyrs. These two saints, killed in the persecutions of the Roman Emperors, are buried on the Via Nomentana, at the fifteenth mile from the city of Rome, ad Arcas.
St. Margaret of Scotland. In the Calendar of St. John XXIII, St. Margaret is celebrated today. She was an English princess born in exile in Hungary and eventually married Malcom III, King of Scotland. She bore eight children and was greatly solicitous for her kingdom and for the good of the Church. She combined a generosity to the poor with prayer and fasting, and so offered the example of outstanding wife, mother, and queen. She died in A.D. 1093. She is celebrated on November 16 in the Calendar of St. Paul VI.
St. Barnabas, Apostle. Commemorated in the New Testament, St. Barnabas was a good man filled with the Holy Spirit and faith, who was first numbered among the faithful of Jerusalem, preached the Gospel at Antioch, and introduced to the number of the brethren the newly converted Saul of Tarsus, whom he then accompanied in his first missionary journey in Asai. Further, he took part in the Council of Jerusalem, and then, returning to the island of Cyprus, his homeland, spread the Gospel there.
St. Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of the Church. St. Anthony first became a canon regular, and then introduced the newly established Orders of Friars Minor (the Franciscans) into his native Portugal, so that he might, so that he might undertake the spread of the faith among the peoples of Africa. Instead, applying himself with great fruit to the task of preaching Italy and France, he drew many to the true doctrine. He wrote sermons that were filled with learning and eloquence, and he taught theology to his brothers at the behest of St. Francis of Assisi. He passed to the Lord at Padua in A.D. 1231 at age 35.
St. Basil the Great, Bishop and Doctor of the Church. In the Calendar of St. John XXIII, today commemorates St. Basil. He was consecrated Bishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia in A.D. 370. He was called great for his teaching and wisdom, and he taught meditation of the Scriptures and labor in obedience and fraternal charity to monks, for whom he ordered a way of life and drew up a rule. He instructed the faithful with his extraordinary writings and he shone forth in his pastoral care of the poor and the weak. He died on the first day of January in A.D. 379. He is commemorated with his best friend, and a fellow Doctor of the Church, St. Gregory of Nazianzus, on January 2, in the Calendar of St. Paul VI. Fr Sebastian writes... Thank you once again for the expressions of kindness we have received this week in food, meals and a wonderful hamper. Thank you as always for your prayers and stewardship of the Parish. Be assured of my continual prayers. Please remember them when praying the Rosary; in personal prayer:
Mark, Lynette Houlston, Martin, Sr. Nora, Fr. Delaney, Sally Botto, Geoff, Edna Murray, Agnes, Michael Coffeey, Billy Page, Alison, Kit Lewis, Sheila Donovan, Eileen, Phoebe Paul, Ruth Pinder, Audrey Bodenham, Dennis Caine, Christian Babu, Olive Bowen, Paul Burns, David Burns, Julie Cale, Irene Casey, Ethan Chichester, John Cowley, Justin Domenico, Alun Edwards, Elle Fine, Mary Healy, Nell Horan, James Hogg, Barbara Hurley, Don & Dorothy James, Anthony Jeremy, Jennifer King, Colin, Shirley & Michael Kingston, Alexandra Micallef, Michael McCauliffe, Betty Murphy, Beatrice Rajanayagam, Fay Simpson, Beatrice O'Brien, Elizabeth Sitole, Shelagh O’Donaghue, Gareth & Ethan Woodberry, Pat Xuereb.
The Fathers and Brothers pray for these intentions every morning. . VIGIL LAMPS ST ALBAN'S PARISH FINANCE MATTERS: The Most Blessed Sacrament: GIVING SINCE LAST SUNDAY Peter McKendrick, Int.
Novena to the Sacred Heart: Gift Aid: £ 770.00 Geoff Bodenham, Jackson Family, Burns Loose: £ 105.00 Family, Hathaway Family, Benedito Restoration Fund £ 260.00 Family, John Harris, Thomas Daley, Direct Debit/Bank Transfer £ 192.00 Malcolm Greenwood, Xiberras & Mullane Total £ 1,327.00 Families Thank you so much, and thank you for
organising this with your bank by using Our Lady's Altar: + Icon of Our Lady Hathaway family Intention the details given at the bottom of this Our Lady of Pity: notice. I can assure you that we continue Betty Millar to live as simply as possible. You are prayed for daily at the Live Streamed St Joseph's altar: Masses and Holy Rosary and Benediction Tom & Donna Cadogan which you can follow on Youtube or via the Parish website. St Alban's shrine: Patron of Travellers & Guardian of ~+~ Priests: St Alban's Parish Bank Details: McAvoy Family Name: Archdiocese of Cardiff Account: 23099962 If you would like to organise a votive candle for Sort Code: 20 18 23 May or for your own intentions or an Address: Barclays Bank PLC., City of anniversary, you can do so by dropping the details through the Oratory House front door Cardiff Branch on Cameron Street or by going to the new link God bless and protect you all! on the Parish website. Fr Sebastian M
LIFE OF ST DAVID LEWIS (continued) Another was John Pugh alias Phillips, of Caernarfanshire, who shortly after was ordained to the Sacred Priesthood, but died in the College in July 1645. Another fellow student was John Wall alias Marsh, the future Franciscan martyr, who was hanged at Worcester a few days before St. David Lewis. These were some of the friends of his days as a student at the Venerable English and Welsh College, Rome. Following the example of his uncle, his mother`s brother Fr John Pritchard, the newly ordained Fr. Lewis decided to join the Society of Jesus which founded by the priest St Ignatius of Loyola with the approval of Pope Paul III in 1540. He entered the Jesuit novitiate at Sant’ Andrea in Rome on 19 April, 1645. After making his religious profession his superiors immediately sent him to Wales. However it was not long before he was recalled to Rome to take up the role of Spiritual Director of his old College. This lasted one year, as the Mission in South Wales which had been founded in 1620, petitioned for his immediate return to his homeland. This being granted by his superiors, he was sent back to Wales to the Jesuit Mission of St. Francis Xavier at a place called “The Cwm” in 1648, where he was to work for the next thirty one years until his martyrdom at Usk. The Cwm, sometimes written "Combe", in the parish of Llanrothal which is near Welsh Newton, Monmouth was purchased in 1625 by the Jesuit Provincial, Fr. Richard Blount. It consisted of two farmhouses, one with a walled courtyard, and had within it a chapel and a library. There were other houses too for the missionaries, one at Raglan, which was pillaged by the Parliamentarians. The priests lived also as chaplains attached to large houses, and this enabled them to preach and celebrate the Sacraments for the Catholics nearby. The number of missionaries in Wales at the time was about twenty. They subsisted on a fund, invested principally in property, which yielded about 800 scudi, less than £200 per annum. Twenty five of them lived with great difficulty on about £250 per annum at the time that Fr. Lewis joined the missionaries of South Wales. North Wales was cut off and in that year there were only six Fathers in each of the Welsh Districts. The severity of the times, the heavy losses of revenue due to the fines and exactions levied against Catholics under the Puritan regime somewhat crippled the missionaries, and prevented a great increase in their effective work. About 1666, Fr. Lewis took over the Rectorship of the newly established South Wales District and he held it for six years. Again after an interim of two years, he assumed office in 1674 and held it up until his martyrdom. When the young Fr. Lewis returned to Wales in 1648 it was a very changed place. The Civil War was over, Charles I was in prison, and the Catholic gentry who had fought for him had lost their lands. In Gwent where the gentry were strongly Catholic in sympathy, the loss had been especially heavy. Raglan Castle which had sheltered so many priests and held the vast Somerset estates loyal to the Faith was now a ruin. The Marquis of Worcester, its owner, who was described as “a wise man and a person of great and sincere religion” had died two years previously in prison. So great was the devastation among the Catholic gentry that to some historians the Civil War marks the end of Welsh Catholicism. “The Great Rebellion” says Llewellyn William in his Making of Modern Wales (p 257) “left few living witnesses to the ancient religion of Wales.”