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Services of Holy Week and Easter 2025 (1962 Missal)
Please note the following Mass and service times for Holy Week, the Sacred Triduum and Eastertide in Edinburgh, said using the 1962 Missal:
Palm Sunday (13 April): Blessing of palms, procession and sung Mass at 12.00 in the church. (No sung Vespers.)
Monday in Holy Week (14 April): low Mass at 6 p.m. in the house chapel, followed by sung Compline.
Tuesday in Holy Week (15 April): low Mass at 6 p.m. in the house chapel.
Spy Wednesday (16 April): low Mass at 6 p.m. in the house chapel, followed by Stations of the Cross.
Holy Thursday (17 April): Mass of the Lord’s Supper at 7.30 p.m. in the church.
Good Friday (18 April): sung liturgy of the Passion at 5.00 p.m. in the church. Confessions afterwards.
Holy Saturday (19 April): Easter Vigil and sung Vigil Mass at 8.00 p.m. in the church.
Easter Sunday (20 April): sung Mass at 12.00 in the church, followed by Benediction. Sung Vespers at 2.20 in the house chapel.
Easter Octave: usual weekday schedule.
Sunday in albis or low Sunday (27 April): sung Mass at 12.00 in the church. Confessions afterwards. (No Benediction, no sung Vespers. Reading group meets in the house at 2.30 p.m.)
Juventutem
Juventutem Edinburgh, for young people aged 18 to 35+, has resumed its regular activities in the Fraternity’s chapel at 6 Belford Park (monthly adoration, with confessions, Mass and social). For details visit https://facebook.com/juventutemedinburgh
Children’s Chant Class
Children’s chant class in the house chapel before Sunday Mass: 11.15 to 11.45. If attending for the first time, please speak to Sam U Ho (our organist) in advance.
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Mass Schedule
Archdiocese of St. Andrews & Edinburgh
With the gracious permission of His Grace Archbishop Leo Cushley.
St. Andrew's Church, Ravelston
Address:
77 Belford Rd., Edinburgh EH4 3DS
Sunday: 12 noon (Sung Mass)
Benediction follows Mass on the final Sunday of each month.
Holy Days of Obligation: 12.15
St. Cuthbert's House Chapel, Belford Park
Address:
6 Belford Park, Edinburgh EH4 3DP
Monday through Friday: 18.00
Saturday: 9.00
NB Please call 0131 332 3750 before making a special journey.
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About the Fraternity
The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter is a society of apostolic life of pontifical right: a priestly institute, dependent on the Holy See, whose members do not take religious vows but work together for a common mission in the Catholic Church. The Fraternity's mission is first the formation and sanctification of priests, then the pastoral ministry, using the liturgical books in force in 1962, as specified in its decree of erection in 1988, confirmed by a decree of Pope Francis (February 11, 2022).
The Fraternity was founded on at the Abbey of Hauterive, Switzerland, by a dozen priests and a score of seminarians. Following a request by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Bishop of Augsburg (Josef Stimpfle) soon allowed the Fraternity to come to Wigratzbad, a Marian place of pilgrimage in Bavaria. Wigratzbad remains the home of the Fraternity's European seminary and of its German-speaking District House. The General House is in Fribourg, Switzerland. At present, around 340 priests and 185 seminarians are incorporated in the Fraternity.
Visit our Statistics page for a few up-to-date figures, or if you have any queries about Vocations.
The Fraternity of Saint Peter in Great Britain now has an association for interested people, both clerical and lay. There is no fee for membership, although your charity might help cover the necessary working expenses of the Confraternity (in which case cheques should be made payable to “FSSP England”). To learn more about the Confraternity, visit the Confraternity page for more information.
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The Confraternity
The Fraternity of Saint Peter in Great Britain now has an association for interested people, both clerical and lay. There is no fee for membership, although your charity might help cover the necessary working expenses of the Confraternity (in which case cheques should be made payable to “FSSP England”).
About the Confraternity
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 t he 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 Saint Peter?
It is a society which gathers those who feel close to the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter and who wish to support its charism through prayers and sacrifices. Single or married people, as well as priests and religious are all equally welcome.
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 Saint Peter do?
Members commit themselves to pray one decade of the Holy Rosary daily for the sanctification of our priests and for our priestly vocations, and to recite the Prayer of the Confraternity daily. Members also commit to having the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for these intentions at least once a year.
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?
Fill in the enrollment form and send it back to us when filled out. The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter will send to you in return the certificate of membership. The commitments take effect with the reception of the certificate.
Members must be at least 14 years old. 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. By themselves the commitments do not bind under penalty of sin. Membership and the commitments which follow it are tacitly renewed each year on the feast of the Chair of Saint 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 houses will provide news about the Confraternity.
Prayer
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
Imprimatur: Vic. Gen. Diœc. Laus. Gen. Frib., 28.II.2007
The Fraternity was founded on July 18, 1988 at the Abbey of Hauterive (Switzerland) by a dozen priests and a score of seminarians. Shortly after the Fraternity ’s foundation and following upon a request by Cardinal Ratzinger, Bishop Joseph Stimpfle of Augsburg, Germany granted the Fraternity a home in Wigratzbad, a Marian shrine in Bavaria that now lodges the Fraternity ’s European seminary. In the same month of October there arrived a handful of priests and some thirty seminarians ready to start “from scratch ”. There are currently over 260 priests and 145 seminarians in the Fraternity.
Total members
Definitively incorporated priests
Seminarians (incl. deacons)
Priestly ordinations in the FSSP over the last 12 years
Please scroll the table to view all the counts.
YEAR
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
AVERAGE
TOTAL
11
11
12
15
16
19
16
12
14
11
15
15
14
Number of seminarians (excluding deacons and including postulants)
Number of seminarians (excluding deacons and including postulants) between 1988 and today
Confraternity of Saint Peter
Total members: 9546
French speakers: 1262
German speakers: 1231
English speakers: 6957
Others: 96
Locations
Dioceses served: 146
Mass centers: 249 locations
Personal parishes: 48
Number of houses: 138
Number of erected houses: 95
Dioceses served by countries
Dioceses served by districts and regions
Mass centers by districts and regions
Number of houses (as of Jan. 1 each year)
Nb. of houses
Nb. of erected houses
Vocations
The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter operates two seminaries: that of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Denton, Nebraska, USA, and the International Seminary of Saint Peter in Wigratzbad, Bavaria, Germany.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
Denton, Nebraska,
United States of America
The Fraternity operates Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary for the formation of English-speaking candidates for the priesthood. Men who believe that they may have a vocation are strongly encouraged to make a vocational retreat at the seminary. These retreats are offered two or three times a year. For futher information, please contact:
Director of Vocations
Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
P.O. Box 147
Denton, NE 68339
Tel.: (402) 797-7700 Email: vocations[at]fssp.com
International Seminary of St. Peter
Wigratzbad, Bavaria,
Federal Republic of Germany
The International Seminary of St. Peter in Wigratzbad was the first seminary founded by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter and also its first house canonically established. It is situated on the ancient frontier of Bavaria and Swabia, a short distance from Germany ’s borders with Austria and Switzerland. For further information, please contact:
Email: seminar[at]petrusbruderchaft.de
Vocations
French section: vocations[at]petrusbruderschaft.de German section: berufungen[at]petrusbruderschaft.de
The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in Scotland is a registered charity (no. 1083419; no. SC038552). Any and all donations to the FSSP in Scotland should be sent to:
The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
6 Belford Park
EDINBURGH EH4 3DP
Cheques which are donations to the Charity should be made out to “The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter ”(written out in full please –not simply “FSSP ”) rather than to an individual priest. Cheques for Masses on the other hand should be made out to the priest for whom the stipend is intended. Please only send Mass stipends once you have agreed this with the celebrant.
Those who wish to make a bank transfer or regular donations through a Standing Order for our work in Scotland should use the following information:
Bank Name: Hampden &Co., Bankers (Edinburgh)
Sort Code: 83-91-55
Account Number: 11012475
Account Name: The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter
Gift Aid Forms can be obtained by writing to the address given above.
