Books of Oratorian Interest

Following the favourable reception in 2009 of the publication of the translation of F. Agostino Manni’s Primordia Oratorii, we are pleased to announce that further titles of Oratorian interest are now available, through the same online publishing facility, either in printed form, or as downloads. The current list of titles, to which additions will be made as time permits, is as follows:

Little Daily Office of the Heart of Saint Philip
Print: £7.00
Download: £5.75
This volume contains a Little Daily Office, intended for private use only, of the Heart of Saint Philip. The texts are derived from the office composed in the nineteenth century by the Fathers of the English Oratories for the secondary feast of Saint Philip proposed by them, that of his heart, which sadly failed to gain papal approbation.

Officium Cordis Sancti Philippi Nerii
Print: £7.00
Download: £5.30
This volume contains the full texts of the draft office for a secondary feast of Saint Philip, composed in the nineteenth century by the Fathers of the English Oratories, who were endeavouring to foster more public devotion to the heart of Saint Philip, which was, as is well known, miraculously inflamed by the Holy Ghost while he was praying in the catacombs on the Vigil of Pentecost. The grant of the feast was not forthcoming, but this document is an important insight into nineteenth century English Oratorian spirituality and thought.

Devotions to St. Philip Neri
Print: £7.00
Download: £4.90
A collection of Prayers and Devotions to Saint Philip Neri, the founder of the Congregation of the Oratory. This is a small devotional work.

The School of Saint Philip Neri
Print: £16.00
Download: £6.75
This major work by Father Giuseppe Crispino, a Neapolitan secular priest of the 17th century, covering all aspects of Oratorian spirituality and life, was originally translated by Father Faber in 1850. This new edition, in which Father Faber's High Victorian prose has been somewhat tempered to render it more accessible to the modern reader, also includes translations of the Latin quotations, which Faber left untranslated in his text.

Primordia Oratorii - The Beginning of the Oratory
Print: £9.50
Download: £6.00
The author of this little work, Father Agostino Manni, was a friend and companion of Saint Philip. He wrote this account of the origin of the Oratory, and of its earliest practices, at the beginning of the 17th century, shortly before the Constitutions of the Congregation of the Oratory were approved. Unedited at the time of his death, it was recently translated from a later manuscript copy in the library of the London Oratory, and provides a valuable insight into the Oratorian ethos and way of life.

All these works may be obtained from LULU Books by following this link: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/Oratoriana

Serving List August 2011

Sunday 7th August
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
Timothy Ashurst & Anthony Jeffery
11.00a.m. High Mass:
Richard McCarthy; Pat Roberts; James Cross & Andrew Wilce
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:
James Cross; Richard McCarthy; Oliver McCarthy & Hans Coessens

Sunday 14th August
External Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
Richard McCarthy & James Godwin
11.00a.m. High Mass:
James Cooper & Parish boys
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:
James Cross; James Godwin; Philip Benzinski & Hans Coessens

Sunday 21st August
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
Oliver McCarthy & James Godwin
11.00a.m. High Mass:
James Cross; Richard McCarthy; Jean Leger & Andrew Wilce
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:
James Cross; Oliver McCarthy; Jean Leger & Hans Coessens

Sunday 28th August
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
Richard McCarthy & Timothy Ashurst
11.00a.m. High Mass:
Oliver McCarthy; Francis Carey; Bernard Diver & Philip Benzinski
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:
F. Rupert; Philip Benzinski; Richard McCarthy & Jean Leger

Tuesday 30th August
Blessed Juvenal Ancina
6.30p.m. Solemn Benediction:
F. Rupert; Philip Benzinski; Jean Leger & Andrew Wilce

Admission of a new Brother

Andrew Wilce will be admitted during the exercises this Sunday. Please remember him in your prayers and be present to support him as he takes this important step in his spiritual life.

Wedding

Congratulations to Thomas Hall, a Brother of several years, who was married on Saturday to Carolyn Yeung. Please pray for them as they begin their life together.

July devotions

In this month of July, Brothers, who are all members of the Confraternity of the Most Precious Blood, are strongly encouraged to say daily the Litany of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This Litany is said at the Exercises on Sundays in July.

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison.
Christe audi nos. Christe exaudi nos.
Peter de caelis, Deus, R. Miserere nobis.
Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, R.
Spiritus Sancte, Deus, R.
Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, R.
Sanguis Christi, Unigeniti Patris Aeterni, R. Salva nos.
Sanguis Christi, Verbi Dei Incarnati, R.
Sanguis Christi, Novi et Aeterni Testamenti, R.
Sanguis Christi, in agone decurrens in terram, R.
Sanguis Christi, in flagellatione profluens, R.
Sanguis Christi, in coronatione spinarum emanans, R.
Sanguis Christi, in Cruce effusus, R.
Sanguis Christi, pretium nostrae salutis, R.
Sanguis Christi, sine quo non fit remissio, R.
Sanguis Christi, in Eucharistia potus et lavacrum animarum, R.
Sanguis Christi, flumen misericordiae, R.
Sanguis Christi, victor daemonum, R.
Sanguis Christi, fortitudo martyrum, R.
Sanguis Christi, virtus confessorum, R.
Sanguis Christi, germinans virgines, R.
Sanguis Christi, robur periclitantium, R.
Sanguis Christi, levamen laborantium, R.
Sanguis Christi, in fletu solacium, R.
Sanguis Christi, spes poenitentium, R.
Sanguis Christi, solamen morientium, R.
Sanguis Christi, pax et dulcedo cordium, R.
Sanguis Christi, pignus vitae aeternae, R.
Sanguis Christi, animas liberans de lacu Purgatorii, R.
Sanguis Christi, omni gloria et honore dignissimus, R.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, parce nobis Domine.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, exaudi nos Domine.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
V. Redemisti nos, Domine, in Sanguine tuo.
R. Et fecisti nos Deo nostro regnum.
Oremus.

Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui unigenitum Filium tuum mundi Redemptorem constituisti, ac ejus sanguine placari voluisti: concede, quaesumus, salutis nostrae pretium ita venerari, atque a praesentis vitae malis ejus virtute defendi in terris, ut fructu perpetuo laetemur in caelis. Per eundem Cristum Dominum nostrum. Amen.

Serving List July 2011

Friday 1st July
The Sacred Heart
6.30p.m. Solemn Benediction:
F. Rupert; Richard McCarthy; Philip Benzinski & Jean Leger

Sunday 3rd July
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
James Cross & Richard McCarthy
11.00a.m. High Mass:
James Godwin; Philip Benzinski; Jean Leger & Anthony O'Connor
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:
James Cross; Oliver McCarthy; Dominic Bardill & Philip Benzinski

Sunday 10th July
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
Timothy Ashurst & Anthony Jeffery
11.00a.m. High Mass:
Parish boys
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:
James Cross; Richard McCarthy; James Godwin & Oliver McCarthy

Sunday 17th July
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
Oliver McCarthy & James Godwin
11.00a.m. High Mass:
Richard McCarthy; Philip Benzinski; James Cross & Anthony O'Connor
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:
James Cross; James Godwin; Jean Leger & Dominic Bardill

Sunday 24th July
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
Timothy Ashurst & Anthony Jeffery
11.00a.m. High Mass:
Oliver McCarthy; Philip Benzinski; Bernard Diver & Hans Coessens
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:
James Cross; Oliver McCarthy; Richard McCarthy & James Godwin

Sunday 31st July
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
James Cross & Richard McCarthy
11.00a.m. High Mass:
James Godwin; Philip Benzinski; Richard McCarthy & Hans Coessens
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:
James Cross; Oliver McCarthy; James Godwin & Philip Benzinski

Serving List June 2011

Sunday 5th June
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
James Cross & Timothy Ashurst
11.00a.m. High Mass:
James Godwin; Richard McCarthy; Oliver McCarthy & Bernard Diver
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:
James Cross; James Godwin; Philip Benzinski; Richard McCarthy & Dominic Bardill

Sunday 12th June
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
James Godwin & Richard McCarthy
11.00a.m. High Mass:
Oliver McCarthy; Pat Roberts; James Cross & Jean Leger
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction
James Cross; James Godwin; Oliver McCarthy; Dominic Bardill & Jean Leger

Sunday 19th June
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
Oliver McCarthy & James Cross
11.00a.m. High Mass:
Richard McCarthy; James Godwin; Dominic Bardill & Anthony O'Connor
3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction
James Cross; James Godwin; Richard McCarthy; Oliver McCarthy & Philip Benzinski

Tuesday 22nd June
Ss. John Fisher & Thomas More
6.30p.m. Solemn Benediction:
James Cross; Philip Benzinski; Jean Leger & Dominic Bardill

Friday 24th June
The Nativity of St John the Baptist
6.30p.m. Solemn Benediction:
James Cross; Richard McCarthy; Philip Benzinski & Jean Leger

Sunday 26th June
Corpus Christi (transferred)
9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:
Timothy Ashurst & James Godwin
11.00a.m. High Mass:
Anthony Jeffery & St Philip's Schoolboys
3.00p.m. Solemn Vespers, Procession & Benediction (N.B. Early Start):
F. Rupert & James Cross; Philip Benzinski & Richard McCarthy; Dominic Bardill & Jean Leger; Timothy Ashurst (Ombrellino)

Tuesday 28th June
Ss. Peter & Paul
5.30p.m. Solemn 1st Vespers:
James Cross; Philip Benzinski; Dominic Bardill & Jean Leger

Wednesday 29th June
Ss. Peter & Paul
6.30p.m. High Mass:
James Cross; Pat Roberts; Richard McCarthy & Jean Leger