Priestly Fraternity of St Peter - Southern Cross Region

Fraternity priests offer the traditional Latin Mass daily (Roman Missal of 1962), and provide wide-ranging pastoral care for the faithful centred upon the traditional prayers and sacramental forms loved by Saints and so highly prized by the Church.

The Fraternity is a Society of Apostolic Life of Pontifical right, founded in 1988 with the approval of His Holiness, Pope John Paul II. At present the Fraternity has two major seminaries, and our own Australian Ezechiel House Novitiate, housing more than 100 seminarians, with 180 priests working in a dozen countries.

The Fraternity came to Australia in March 2000 and has been invited by the bishops to work in their dioceses of Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra and Parramatta.

DONATIONS

We depend on the generosity of our supporters for the training of men for the priesthood, and for the running of our regional house, which oversees our works. We receive no financial assistance from any diocese, nor from other regions of the Fraternity. We are grateful to all of our benefactors and we remember you in our prayers daily.

Please contact Our Lady of the Southern Cross Regional House if you wish to support us in our work and receive our periodic newsletter Fraternitas.

Regular benefactors also receive our monthly update Communitas. At least two Holy Masses are offered each month (First Friday) for the intentions of our benefactors.

FSSP AUSTRALIA:
Fr William DEFINE FSSP, Regional Superior
PO Box 46

Pendle Hill NSW 2145
Ph (02) 9688 4287

Fax (02) 9896 6284
email: southerncross@unwired.com.au

Donations can be sent by cheque:
‘FSSP Australia’
PO Box 46
PENDLE HILL NSW 2145

Or direct debit:
Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) Australia
BSB: 083-347
Account: 49089-9150

And by bequest in your will:
To the Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) Australia ABN: 27 334 407 712

VOCATIONS

Ezechiel House is the Fraternity's Australian house of spiritual formation which provides training for first-year seminarians. Men who wish to discern a vocation to the Fraternity should contact Fr Duncan Wong FSSP, the director of Ezechiel House.

Introibo ad altare Dei...

• Would you like to be an apostle in the modern world?

• Living and praying in community

• Being formed in the tradition of St Thomas Aquinas and the Church Fathers

• Using the time-tested and traditional forms of piety

• Offering Holy Mass according to the Tridentine Rite which sanctified generations of Saints

For vocation information
please contact:

Fr Duncan WONG FSSP
PO Box 46
Pendle Hill NSW 2145
Ph (02) 9688 4287
Fax (02) 9896 6284

REGIONAL HOUSE

Fr William DEFINE FSSP Regional Superior • Fr Laurence GRESSER FSSP

Fr John RIZZO FSSP • Fr Michael McCaffrey FSSP
PO Box 46 • Pendle Hill NSW 2145
Ph (02) 9688 4287 • Fax (02) 9896 6284 • email: southerncross@unwired.com.au
Mobile Phones: Fr Gresser 0425 31 3331 • Fr McCaffrey 0420 374 744

MASS TIMES
The Entrance to house chapel is located at 159 Girraween Road. Please phone (02) 9688 4287 for Mass times Monday through Saturday.

PARRAMATTA St Peter the Apostle celebrates Mass

Fr John Rizzo FSSP • Fr Michael McCaffrey FSSP

Same contact details as Regional House

Latin Mass times etc. in the Sydney Archdiocese

MASS TIMES (Please phone (02) 9688 4287 for additional weekday Mass times & locations.)
Sundays:
8.00am - St Mark's Coptic Catholic Church, 533 Reservoir Rd (intersection of Prospect Hwy & Reservoir Rd), Prospect
5.00pm - Our Lady of the Nativity Church, Greatt Western Highway, Lawson (4.30pm Exposition & 4.55pm Benediction)

Weekdays:
Tuesday: 10.00am - St Finbar’s Church, Glenbrook
Friday: 10.00am (during school terms) - St Mark's Coptic Catholic Church, 533 Reservoir Rd (intersection of Prospect Hwy & Reservoir Rd), Prospect
1st Saturday of the month: 6.00am - Sacred Heart Church, South Mt Druitt

Confessions: 20 minutes before every Mass

SYDNEY

Fr Laurence Gresser FSSP, Chaplain • Fr Duncan WONG FSSP

Same contact details as Regional House

MATERNAL HEART CHAPEL, Thomas Street, Lewisham
FSSP priests serve the Maternal Heart of Mary Community. The community takes its name from the chapel, built by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, which the community is privileged to use. Maternal Heart Chapel is located at Thomas Street, Lewisham, about 5km from the Sydney CBD. Access is via a private road off Thomas St (near 'ISMA' building).

Latin Mass times etc. in the Parramatta Diocese

MASS TIMES
Sundays:
8.30am (Low Mass); 10.30am (Solemn Mass)

Weekdays:
Tuesdays: 7.00pm (Low Mass); Thursday 7.00pm (Sung Mass preceded by Exposition at 6.25pm & Benediction at 6.50pm); 1st Friday: 7.00pm (Sung Mass); 1st Saturday only: 10.00am (Low Mass); All other Saturdays: 10.30am (Low Mass)

Confessions: Sundays: 10.00 - 10.25am; Weekdays: Tuesdays: 6.30 - 6.55pm; Thursdays: 6.30 - 6.55pm; 1st Fridays: 6.30 - 6.55pm; Saturdays: 20 minutes before Mass

Divine Office: Sundays: Terce: 10.15am; Sext: 12.05pm; Solemn Vespers: as announced
Weekdays: Thursday: Compline following Holy Mass

CANBERRA
Latin Mass Communtiy of St Michael the Archangel
Fr Ken WEBB FSSP
P.O. Box 3507 • MANUKA ACT 2603
Phone (02) 6282 3185
Mobile: Fr Webb 0410 838 882

MASS TIMES (Please ring to confirm Mass times Mon - Sat in any given week.)
Sundays:
8.30am - John XXIII College Chapel, Daley Rd, AAustralian National University, Acton
11.30am - Ss Peter & Paul Church, Boake Pl, Garran

Weekdays:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 7.00am - Ss Peter & Paul Church, Boake Pl, Garran
Friday: 6.00pm - Ss Peter & Paul Church, Boake Pl, Garran
Saturday & Public Holidays: 9.00am - Ss Peter & Paul Church, Boake Pl, Garran
Most Canonical Holy Days: 7.00pm - Ss Peter & Paul Church, Boake Pl, Garran

Confessions: Sundays: 8.15 - 8.25am – John XXIII College Chapel, Daley Rd, Australian National University, Acton; 11.00 – 11.25am - Ss Peter & Paul Church, Boake Pl, Garran; Additionally - 15 minutes before every weekday Mass & following Mass on Fridays & Saturdays.

MELBOURNE
Fr Glen Tattersall FSSP • Fr John McDaniels FSSP
Office: 233 Balaclava Rd, Caulfield North, VIC 3161 (enter via red rear gate)
email: melbourne@fssp.net • Ph: (03) 9532-4154 • Fax: (03) 9532-7922

Postal and Residential Address:
Antioch, 21 Cromwell St, Caulfield North, VIC 3161
Mobile: 0425 725 318 • Ph: (03) 9532-4154

Mass Times: http://latinmassmelbourne.org/

Confraternity of St Peter Enrolment Form

Christ hands Peter the Keys The example of Our Lord.
“Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness. At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is abundant but the labourers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out labourers for his harvest.” (Mt 9, 35-38)

What is the Confraternity of St Peter?
It is a society which gathers those who feel close to the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter and who wish to support its charism through prayers and sacrifices.
Thus the Confraternity contributes to the service of the Church, through supporting numerous vocations, the sanctification of priests and their pastoral endeavours.

What does a member of the Confraternity of St Peter do?
Members commit themselves to
- every day: 1) pray one decade of the hholy rosary for the sanctification of our priests and for our priestly vocations, 2) and recite the Prayer of the Confraternity;
- every year: 3) have the Holy Sacrificee of the Mass offered once for these intentions.

What spiritual benefit do members receive from the Confraternity?
Their commitments place the members among our most faithful benefactors, and as such, among the particular recipients of our priests’ and seminarians’ daily prayers. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is offered each month for the members of the Confraternity in each area. Recollections and instructions in the faith are also foreseen.

How does one become a member?
1. Obtain an enrolment form from the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter and send the completed form back to us.
2. The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter will send to you in return the certificate of membership. The commitments take effect with the reception of the certificate.
3. Members must be at least 14 years old.
4. Membership is purely spiritual and does not confer any rights or duties other than the spiritual support in prayer and charity in accord with the commitments described above.
5. By themselves the commitments do not bind under penalty of sin.
6. Membership and the commitments which follow it are tacitly renewed each year on the feast of the Chair of St Peter (February 22), unless expressly determined otherwise.

How does one receive news about the Confraternity?
The bulletins and websites of the districts or of the local FSSP houses will provide news about the Confraternity.

PRAYER FOR PRIESTS

(To be said by members of the Confraternity of St Peter)

Following a decade of the Rosary:
V. Remember, O Lord, Thy congregation.
R. Which Thou hast possessed from the beginning.

Let us pray.

O Lord Jesus, born to give testimony to the Truth, Thou who lovest unto the end those whom Thou hadst chosen, kindly hear our prayers for our pastors.
Thou who knowest all things, knowest that they love Thee and can do all things in Thee who strengthen them.

Sanctify them in Truth. Pour into them, we beseech Thee, the Spirit whom Thou didst give to Thy apostles, who would make them, in all things, like unto Thee.

Receive the homage of love which they offer up to Thee, who hast graciously received the threefold confession of Peter.

And so that a pure oblation may everywhere be offered without ceasing unto the Most Holy Trinity, graciously enrich their number and keep them in Thy love, who art one with the Father and the Holy Ghost, to whom be glory and honour forever. Amen. [Nihil obstat: Vic. Gen. FSSP, 05.II.2007]

HOLY FAMILY EDUCATION CENTRE

In Term 4 of 2006, the Priestly Fraternity of St Peter was asked by the late Sr Maur Woodbury SM (+ 22.12.06 R.I.P.) to take over the Holy Family Education Centre which she founded and the four Holy Family Religion Schools which are it's primary work.

The Religion Schools at Riverwood, Naremburn, Merrylands and Lewisham have been in existence for sixteen years. These schools provide religious instruction to children after school hours once a week. The Holy Family Education Centre is blessed with many qualified and dedicated teachers. The work begun by Sr Maur aims to provide for the religious education of each successive generation.

Please phone the Fraternity of St Peter (02) 9688 4287 for more information.

HOLY FAMILY RELIGION SCHOOL RIVERWOOD:

Saint Joseph's Parish Centre, 26 Thurlow St. Riverwood. Near St. Joseph's Church and very close to Riverwood railway station. Tuesday afternoons (in term time) from 4.30pm to 5.30pm.

HOLY FAMILY RELIGION SCHOOL NAREMBURN:

Saint Leonard's School, Merrenburn Ave. Naremburn Next to St. Leonard's Church. Wednesday afternoons (in term time) from 4.00pm to 5.00pm.

HOLY FAMILY RELIGION SCHOOL MERRYLANDS:

Saint Margaret Mary's Parish Corner of Merryland's Road and Davies Street. Thursday afternoons (in term time) from 4.30pm to 5.30pm.

HOLY FAMILY RELIGION SCHOOL LEWISHAM:

In the Library of the former St. Thomas' High School, Thomas Street, Lewisham. Behind the Church - very close to Lewisham railway station. Friday afternoons (in term time) from 4.30pm to 5.30pm.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT ADULT EDUCATION

At the Berne Centre, Lewisham (the old High School next to Maternal Heart Church). Various Classes in Philosophy, Theology, Dogma, Spirituality (During normal school terms)

6- 7pm Ethics (Dr Don Boland)
6-7pm Spiritual Progress cont’d. (Fr Duncan Wong)
7:15-8:15pm Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma cont’d. (Fr Laurence Gresser)
7.15-8:15pm Topics in Thomistic Philosophy (Mr Andrew Nimmo)

HOME SCHOOLERS' FRIDAYS

St Mark’s Coptic Catholic Church, Prospect

10:00am: Holy Mass
10:45am: Morning tea
11:00am - Noon: Religion Classes
Noon - 1:00pm: Sport

YOUTH GROUP

The Fratpack youth group welcomes all teenagers (13-17yrs). The group meets monthly on the 4th Saturday.

Contact: James Moore 0430 216-269 or Damian Moore on 0425 259 500.

LINKS

Links to other FSSP sites may be found at: http://www.fssp.org/en/liens.htm

OTHER LINKS
Fr Chad Ripperger FSSP • Maternal Heart Church - Lewisham

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