Photo of the Month - March 2017

Our photo(s) of the month for April is of the garden and rosary way at the National Shrine of Saint Jude. April is a lovely month at the Shrine gardens with many of its beautiful flowers showing themselves for the first time. Enjoy!

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Carmelite News - Spring 2017

We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Carmelite News is now available to all our on-line friends.

Carmelite News is available to view via a system called Page Tiger. You do not need special software for the online magazine and you will be able to print all, or part of it, if you wish to do so. Page Tiger will allow you to read the newsletter as if was printed.

Our spring issue can be accessed, via this link

The spring issue has all relevant web links enabled so you can click to go directly to any site mentioned. Each newsletter can be read either as a two-page spread or as a single spread. It is also possible to zoom into each page.

In this edition, the Prior Provincial, Fr Tony Lester, O.Carm writes his spring letter to the friends of Saint Jude, and discusses a collection of topics. The newsletter also includes the latest novena, details of our Summer Celebration, and information on our shop.

We hope you enjoy Carmelite News.

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Summer Celebration - 27 May 2017

Summer Celebration

27 May 2017

Full details of our 2017 Summer Celebration are now available.

The summer is always very beautiful at the Shrine, and it will be lovely to see visitors at the Summer Celebration. All welcome.

Timetable

11.00: Devotions with Anointing

12.00 – 13.00: Picnic on the grounds 

13.30: Open Air Mass 

14.30: Saint Jude procession

The summer is always very beautiful at the Shrine, and it will be lovely to see visitors at the Summer Celebration. All welcome.

Photos from our special day in 2016 here

Friends of Saint Jude who cannot attend, can purchase a pillar candle, which will be lit on the day for your intentions. A Saint Jude pillar candle or a St Thérèse of Lisieux pillar candle, can be purchased, here.

Please note that the Shrine is based at: 34 Tanners Street, Faversham, ME13 7JW

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Guild of Saint Jude - 2017

Would you like to be part of the Shrine every day through prayer, wherever you are? Would you like to become a messenger of Saint Jude and share in our mission of the National Shrine?

The new Guild has been created to:

• Promote the love of God by fostering devotion to his Apostle St Jude
• Support and share in the mission of the Carmelite Family by prayer and material resources
• Raise awareness and encourage pilgrimages to the National Shrine

What are the benefits?

The Spiritual Benefits

• Members share in the Daily Masses at the Shrine
• Members share in special Masses offered for them and their families each quarter
• Members join the Shrine in daily prayers throughout the year
• Handbook of devotions
• Deceased members are remembered each year

Other Important Benefits

• receive a Membership Certificate
• receive a Shrine of Saint Jude Guild badge
• receive our annual Guild magazine and quarterly Carmelite News
• invitation to talks and events at the Shrine

Our members are invited

• to say our recommended daily prayers
• to support and promote the Shrine
• to help spread devotion to Saint Jude
• to encourage people to join the Guild of Saint Jude
• to encourage people to receive the Carmelite News

How to join

Membership is open to all who have a devotion to Saint Jude. If you would like to join, please complete the application form which is linked below, or visit our on-line shop. 

If you have any queries, please contact the Shrine office on: 01795 539 214, or email Guild@stjudeshrine.org.uk. Or fill in the form, which can be found here. 

More information can be found here

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On-line shop highlights - 5

Prayer card to Saint Gerard - for Motherhood

Our new on-line shop includes not only a number of religious gifts and souvenirs connected with Saint Jude, but there is so much more on offer too.

For the next few weeks, we're going to show our blog and Facebook friends some special items you can purchase from our new shop.

This time we want to highlight the various prayer cards for many special saints. We have a massive range of prayer cards and booklets available at the shop. Most of our stock are exclusively designed by the Shrine to help raise money for the Shrine and the work of the Carmelites in Britain and worldwide.

Our shop can be found here and prayer cards like those pictured can be found, here.

Prayer booklet to Saint Joseph

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New Prior Provincial announced

The friars of the British Province of Carmelites held their three-yearly electoral assembly at The Friars, Aylesford Priory this week.

Father Kevin Alban, O.Carm., was elected Prior Provincial. He will be advised by a Council consisting of Fathers Brendan Grady, Joseph Chalmers, Patrick O'Keeffe, and Patrick Fitzgerald-Lombard.

The new Provincial and Council will be confirmed in office by the Prior General at the Provincial Chapter in May.

The Carmelite Family congratulates Father Kevin and his Council, and prays for God's blessing on their future ministry.

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Cheryl Tabrett

It is with sadness, but trusting in the loving mercy of God, that the National Shrine of Saint Jude announces the death yesterday of Mrs Cheryl Tabrett. Cheryl had worked at the Shrine for a number of years, and gave so much of her time and experience to our pilgrims. In 2015, Cheryl retired to Wales with her husband.

Cheryl was not the first and only member of her family to work for the Carmelites in Faversham either - her mum, auntie, husband and daughter have all had a part to play. We will always be grateful to Cheryl and her family for everything she and they have done. We express our condolences to Cheryl's husband, Trevor, and her family and friends. We thank God for the great work Cheryl did for the Shrine and our charity. We ask you to join with us in praying for Cheryl, who remains tied to us in Christ by baptism. May Cheryl, and all the souls of the faithful departed, rest in peace. We will miss you.

Cheryl (on the right) with Most Rev. Fr. Fernando Millán Romeral, O.Carm., Prior General and two pilgrims