Saint George  Roman Catholic Church and Parish
Proclaiming Christ Along the Delaware 
P.O. Box 324
1370 River Road  Titusville N.J.  08560 
   (609) 737-2015
February 12, 2012
Today is the Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time


Thank you Father Steve
Schuler for 9 years service to our Parish
We have been Truly Blessed.

Today's Saints are Blessed John Nutter, James Fenn, and John Munden, 
Martyrs for the Faith in Elizabethan England


Saint George in the Winter

Monsignor Innocenzi, welcomes you to Saint George Parish

We are located about 10 miles north of Trenton New Jersey, on the Delaware River and mark the place that George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware on Christmas Night, 1776.

Our parish consists of 700 families on 'both sides of the river'. 

We of the Parish and Monsignor James Innocenzi welcome you to our website. 

At the request of our parishioners please pray for the following members of the Saint George Community.

            Debbie Ryan
           
Flossie Endreson
            Robert O'Boyle  

            Laurie Smith
            Jake Solomon
            Jerry Siano
            Norman Pietras                 
            Frank Krzyston 
           
Laura Balogh
            Joseph Sabol

            Andrew Daily 
         
   Mary Damico
            William Lynch
            George Chalifoux
           
Theresa Patricella
            Marie Oberle
            Mary Gillespie
            Helen Santucci
           
Richard Bigelow
            Donna Green
           
Michelle Bonnaci Marks
            Chris Stoudt,
            Rachel Ann Leffler

           
Grady Cox 
           
Helen Schuler
            Bob Rushnak,
            Joshua McDonald,

            Marilyn Webster
            David Yano
            Bette Yano 
            Edmund
Finnegan
            William Raughley
            Frances Fitzgerald
            Barbara Wyatt
            Carol Chebra
            Doris Tarquinio

            Ben Gioe
            Frances Marasco
            Mary Beebe
            Marie Witzman
            Natasha Marder
            Kathryn Besheer
           
Jerry Heneghan,
            Madeline Robison,
            Jack Allen
            Lillian Chirichella
            Michael Murawski
            Ashley Toler
            Rose Lauricella
            A Special Intention
            Gary Delsera
            Sonia Delgado
            Brenda Watty
            and Maddie Citera

God, Be with our troops this day and they selflessly protect our country and our right to worship as we please, especially for Capt. Patrick M.  Kerins, Lt. Jared C. Long, Lt. Daniel S. Quinlan, Lt. Col David Weir and Sgt. Brett Williams. 

Today's Saints are Blessed John Nutter, James Fenn, and John Munden, 
Martyrs for the Faith in Elizabethan England

Saint Margaret Clitherow

From CatholicTradition.org

 

    In Elizabethan England, it was a crime to be Catholic.  This was a reflection on the struggle that was taking place between Spain and that country.  Spain wanted to return England to the Church, while Queen Elizabeth wanted it to remain Protestant.  Queen Mary is stated in the secular history books, such as Fox's History of Martyrs, as being "Bloody Mary", a title she did not deserve.   No such mention is made of the same atrocities being committed by Elizabeth.  

   The martyrdom of John Nutter, James Fenn and John Munden give testimony of a revengeful Protestant with the aim to  eliminate 'popery' and the threat of Rome.   Elizabeth made the Church of England the religion of state.  Merely being a Catholic became a capital crime.   Priests were hunted down, and a Mass was an illegal activity.  It is no small wonder that the Church was all but eliminated during the reign of Elizabeth.  It was a time of severe religious persecution, not only of Catholics but anyone who defied the Church of the State.  It is in this spirit that the First Amendment of our Constitution guaranteed the right to worship free of a state imposed religion.   It is unfortunate that that document was so interpreted so as to eliminate God from our public domain and even strike the ten commandments from our courthouse walls.

    The narration of the execution of these fine men is presented on the web page of the Catholic Encyclopedia.  They were truly martyrs to our faith.  

    James Fenn was educated at Corpus Christi College and Oxford University.  He was a schoolmaster and after the death of his wife was ordained in 1580 after studying at Reims.

    Blessed John Nutter was the brother of Blessed Robert Nutter.   John was a fellow at Saint John's College, Cambridge.  He also studied for the priesthood at Reims, France.  He returned to England but didn't recon with the power of the 'priest-chasers'.  He was arrested for the crime of Catholicism after he arrived in England in 1581.  

     Blessed John Munden studied at New College, Oxford.  He was a teacher and schoolmaster, and like the others prepared for the priesthood at Reims, and Rome.  He was ordained in 1582, and like the others was arrested and imprisoned for the crime of Priesthood.

     Blessed Thomas Hemerford was a native of Dorsetshire.  He was educated at Oxford and then studied for the priesthood at English College, Rome. He was ordained in Rome in 1583, and returned to England, where he was swiftly arrested and condemned for being a priest.

     All four were hung, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on February 12, 1583.  They were  was beatified in 1929 and their cause for sainthood is pending.

      An objective discussion of this horrible time in English history is presented on the St. John Seminary web page, in a short paper by Richard Mark Ssajjabbi on the Martyrs of Elizabethan England

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