Advent 1

This weekend marks the start of Advent.

We have just two Masses on Sunday. THERE IS NO MASS AT HALIFAX.

Sunday 11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
               3.00 p.m. St Joseph's, Pontefract Road, Castleford

From the Cathedral

By courtesy of John Roberts of Wakefield I am reproducing some of his great photos of Saturday's Mass at Leeds Cathedral where we had a Solemn Requiem Mass for Bishop Wheeler. The present Bishop, Marcus Stock was in attendance and presided. This solemn Mass was the first such since the changes of the late 1960s in the cathedral. In the morning the Bishop had raised a man to the diaconate in the same place.

Mgr Moger and his staff could not have been any more helpful on the day and in the weeks leading up to it. Our schola members gave freely of their time and as ever did us proud. Servers were plentiful and able to enjoy concentrating on the Mass with the deacon and subdeacon doing most of the work. Similarly the clergy - Celebrant Fr. Abberton, Deacon Fr. Kravos, Subdeacon Fr. Wiley, Clergy's M.C. Fr. M. Hall, Bishop's Assistant Priest Fr. Crawley and Mr Cortes the deacon to the Bishop, please may I put on the record my sincere thanks to you and of course to Bishop Stock who despite the novelty of the occasion to him (and the rest of us) was able to soon relax into the occasion with grace and humility. I'm certainly not used to ordering the local ordinary around, but after clergy and servers were blessed by him following the Mass in the sacristy I couldn't resist saying to him it was "a piece of cake".   Joking apart the bishop did add to the calmness of the occasion. 

The Bishop has told me before that he is willing to preside or preach at  EF Masses and Sacraments and I was spurred on when he repeated this to me on Saturday and indicated his desire for continued and further involvement in the the extraordinary form.

SOLEMN HIGH MASS WITH BISHOP STOCK

SOLEMN HIGH MASS OF

REQUIEM

in the presence of

Bishop Stock 

LEEDS CATHEDRAL

SATURDAY 14. NOVEMBER

4.00 P.M.

For the repose of the soul of Bishop Wheeler 

Bishop Wheeler became Bishop of Leeds in 1966 until his retirement in 1985. He was Bishop during the Council and  in its hectic aftermath. Ours was a diocese where sanity and saintliness ruled. Bishop Wheeler was grounded in the Blessed Sacrament and our Lady. He was uniquely generous in his provision of the older form of Mass and as such we owe him a debt of thanksgiving and prayerful remembrance.

Remembrance day

Masses this weekend, which is also the fifth remaining after the Epiphany are as follows:

Saturday           (Vigil Mass) St. Mary’s, Gibbet Street, Halifax.                             6.00 p.m.

                          

Sunday              Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton.                                        11.00 a.m.

                           (Sung)  St. Peter’s, Leeds Road, Laisterdyke, Bradford.                3.00 p.m.

                           St. Joseph’s, Pontefract Road, Castleford.                                     3.00 p.m.