ABOUT US

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.

REGIONAL HOUSE

Fr William DEFINE FSSP Regional Superior • 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

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

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

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 hhholly 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 Sacrificeee oof 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.