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ABOUT US
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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PARRAMATTA
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
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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
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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.
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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/
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Confraternity
of St Peter
Enrolment
Form
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.
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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]
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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.
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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)
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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
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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.
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sit Deus. Copyright © 2008 The Priestly Fraternity
of St Peter in Australia.
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