Our 1.00 p.m. Low Mass for the eighth Sunday of Pentecost on Sunday at Saint Patrick's will be livestreamed. Thanks again to the team who make this possible.
I'm pleased to say that the sound issues were obviously resolved last month.
Here is the link for the Mass:
https://www.youtube.com/@LMSLeeds
Mass this week at St. Patrick's at 1.00 p.m. for the sixth Sunday of Pentecost will be a Low Mass celebrated by Fr. Driver who is now sufficiently recovered from his recent surgery.
Confessions before Mass.
This Sunday's Mass at 1.00 p.m., at St. Patrick's will be a sung Mass and as I posted last week, the preacher will be Deacon James Baxter of the Institute of Christ the King, where he was ordained last week to the diaconate.
Confessions before Mass.
July 7th marks the 18th anniversary of the publication of Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum.
Please pray for its resurrection and for the sweet repose of the soul of its author.
This Sunday's 1.00 p.m. Mass at St. Patrick's, Bradford marks the fourth Sunday of Pentecost. It will be livestreamed.
Apologies for the late post; we have just returned from a scorching week in Berlin.
Once again I visited the newly reordered Cathedral of St. Hedwig in Berlin, on which no expense has been spared.
In the crypt of the cathedral there are fourteen side chapels representing the Stations of the Cross (no images). There are no Stations in the main body of the cathedral. I was concerned to see that whilst twelve of the stations are the same as in most other churches, the fourth and sixth stations had been replaced with some scriptural verse which I couldn't photograph because my phone was dead. Normally these stations refer to Our Lord meeting his afflicted mother and having his face wiped by St. Veronica respectively.
The entire building which was the first Catholic church to have been built in Germany since the Reformation (but razed at the end of the Second World War) has the sterility of an operating theatre.
Little wonder that there are more seminarians in the two traditional seminaries in Germany, FFSP at Wigratzbad and SSPX at Zaitzkofen than in all the diocesan seminaries in the Federal Republic put together. Little wonder that people are still asking where the fruits of the promised New Pentecost are. Cries of "We are the Easter People and Alleluia is our song", have withered and died and are as dated as the clay chalices and tawdry vestments beloved of so many of the clergy when I was growing up in the seventies and eighties.
Only this week documents leaked by Rome journalist Diana Montagna seem to suggest that contrary to what we were told in the document Traditiones Custodes, many of the world's bishops were in fact content with the liturgical peace which Pope Benedict's Summorum Pontificum had brought about. This explains why relatively few of the bishops used Tradititiones Custodes to extirpate the Extraordinary Form in their dioceses following its publication. It seems that because many bishops chose to ignore or sideline Traditiones Custodes, a more stringent application of it was introduced by Rome and as we know these saw further petty and vindictive restrictions such as forbidding the EF Mass being advertised on parish bulletins.
These leaked documents raise questions not only about the honesty of TC but also of justice.
Sunday's Mass can by seen here:
https://www.youtube.com/@LMSLeeds
If you have not already done so, please can you subscribe to this site (it is free) and even add a like. I am hoping that problems with the sound will now be overcome with the use of a microphone attached to the priest's chasuble.
This last Wednesday James Baxter from this diocese was ordained to the diaconate at the Institute of Christ the King's seminary in Gricigliano in Italy. Deacon Baxter will preach at the sung Mass at St. Patrick's next Sunday.
We wish Deacon Baxter every joy as he prepares for ordination to the priesthood next year and wish him a long and fruitful ministry in the vineyard of the Lord.
St Francis of Sales, pray for us.
St John Vianney, pray for us.
Our Lady Queen of Saints, pray for us.
