The First solemn Mass of Fr Yousef Marie, F.SS.R.

Fr Yousef Marie, F.SS.R. celebrated his first Solemn High Mass on Sunday 23rd June in the Church of the Fraternity of St Peter, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome.  We are most grateful to them for the use of their Church.  Fr Magdala Maria, F.SS.R. was deacon and Br Jean Marie, F.SS.R. was subdeacon.  Fr Anthony Mary, F.SS.R. was assistant priest.

 

Vesting in the sacristy.

 

Father in his cope just before the start of Holy Mass.

 

The Asperges.

 

After the Asperges Father removes the cope and puts on the chasuble and the maniple.

 

The incensation.

 

During the Gloria.

 

Dominus vobiscum.

 

The deacon kneels to receive the blessing to chant the Gospel.

 

During the Gospel a beautiful shaft of light shone through the smoke of incense.

 

Offering the bread.

 

Hoc est enim corpus meum.

Fr Yousef Marie consecrates for the first time, changing the host into the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ!

 

Hic est enim calix sanguinis mei...

The consecration of the wine.

 

O Sacrament Most Holy,

O Sacrament Divine;

All praise and all thanksgiving,

Be every moment Thine!

 

Father consumes the Precious Blood.

 

Ecce Agnus Dei, ecce qui tollit peccata mundi...

Behold the Lamb of God, behold Him who taketh away the sin of the world...

 

Father Yousef Marie gives Holy Communion to his mother...

 

...and to two of his brothers who were able to be present.

 

The last blessing.

 

Thanks be to God for the ordination of a new priest.  May he be God's instrument for the conversion and salvation of many souls!

 

In the sacristy after Mass.

Ordination to the Sacred Priesthood

Thanks be to God, on Saturday 22nd June, Archbishop Pozzo ordained Fr Yousef Marie, F.SS.R. and Fr. Magdala Maria, F.SS.R. to the sacred priesthood in the Church of the Fraternity of St Peter, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome.  It was a wonderful day and we are truly thankful to God and His Holy Mother, and to all of our friends and benefactors as well as to the Fraternity of St Peter.

 Our deacons had the privilege of joining Massimo Botta, F.S.S.P. for ordination.

 The deacons lie prostrate during the singing of the Litany of the Saints.

 The imposition of hands.

 Once the ordaining bishop has imposed hands upon those to be ordained, all the priests who are present do so also.

 Receiving the chasuble which, for the moment, remains folded at the back.

 The anointing of the hands.

 The hands of the priests, once anointed, are bound together.  The manutergium (Linen band) is kept by the priest, and used to join the hands of his mother after death when she is buried.

 The tradition of the instruments.

The chasuble is unfolded fully.

 After the ceremony. Left to Right the priests are: Fr Yousef Marie, F.SS.R., Fr Massimo Botta, F.S.S.P., Fr Magdala Maria, F.SS.R.

 Fr Magdala Maria, F.SS.R. gives his first blessing to his mother and Father who came all the way from Australia to be here for this great occasion.

 Father here gives his first blessing to Fr. Anthony Mary, F.SS.R.

The new priests of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer give each other their first blessing.

The newly ordained priests with members of their families.

First Mass photos to come.

Gloria Patri!

Dear friends and families
This morning in Rome we are preparing to leave for the ordination to the holy priesthood of the soon to be Father Yousef Marie and Father Magdala Maria. What a wonderful grace for our Congregation to receive these two brothers as priests. It is also a grace for this "most small institute" to have its first two priests ordained by the Pope's Almoner, Archbishop Pozzo whom we knew so well when he was Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei. I invite you to join us in thanking the Blessed Trinity for these graces by offering, in the custom of St Alphonsus, three Glory be's...

GLORIA PATRI, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto.
Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost.
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Devotedly
Fr. Michael Mary, F.SS.R.

Come to Reign over us!

Today is the Feast of the Queenship of Our Blessed Lady

- before that it was the Feast of Our Lady Mediatrix of All Graces - 

and the Processional Copy of Our Lady of Christchurch

 was enthroned before the holy altar in 

St Teresa's Church, Riccarton, Christchurch

 during the traditional sung Holy Mass. 

 

 Afterwards roses

 (which one can see arranged before Our Lady)

 were blessed and distributed in honour of

 Our Blessed Lady's Queenship

 of this City and the Universe.

 Providentially a faithful soul

 had also brought a single snapdragon flower to Mass

 - it is winter in Christchurch

 and the flowers are not common now - 

recalling that the medieval name for this flower was

 "Our Lady's Slipper".

 Most appropriately for today

 she showed us how they as children

 had been taught to open the flower

 and behold inside "Our Lady's Sceptre". 

May her sweet reign never cease!