Advent I

My annual lament at how quickly the first Sunday of Advent seems to come round! The older I get the faster things seem to come round.
This Sunday we have three Sunday Masses:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford (This is a sung Mass)
4.00 p.m. St. Anthony's, Bradford Road, Clayton, Bradford

Advent is a season of repentance, "Do penance for the kingdom of God is at hand" and the Advent liturgical propers express this spirit of prayer and mortification - the Gloria is omitted, but the gloom of the penitential aspect is lightened by the joyful expectation of the Nativity of the Lord.

I have been asked about when Masses at Christmas are and so here is the list of Masses fulfilling the obligation in the EF:
Christmas Masses:
Christmas Eve - 11.30 p.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
Christmas Day - 11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
                           12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Cathedral Mass - report

Many thanks to Fr. Hall, Canons Moger and Wiley and the schola gregoriana who made the Mass at the Cathedral such an excellent occasion. Fr Hall spoke very movingly about the Dies Irae and compared it with another hymn of another ecclesial community - namely Rock of Ages and in developing the thrust of his sermon he referred to Bishop Wheeler as the bishop who never said no to requests for the Mass and Sacraments in the old Rite - the reason we remember him with such gratitude and affection.
Clearly a lot of hard work had gone into today's Mass by the clergy, singers, servers and Cathedral staff and I am sure that together we made a very worthy sacrifice to the Lord.

Picture shows the the Lady altar at the cathedral where the EF is offered on the third Sunday of the month at 8.00 a.m.

REMINDER

SUNG MASS OF REQUIEM FOR BISHOP WHEELER AT ST. ANNE'S CATHEDRAL, LEEDS ON SATURDAY 19th. NOVEMBER at 3.00 p.m. FOLLOWED BY ABSOLUTION AT THE CATAFALQUE

Remembrance Sunday

Remembrance Sunday falls this weekend when a Requiem Mass of anniversary may be offered for those who died in the world wars. It is also the sixth Sunday after the Epiphany for when a Requiem Mass is not offered.

Masses:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall.
12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford. Sung Requiem.

(Confessions at call.)




Please remember next week's annual requiem for Bishop Wheeler at the Cathedral at 3.00 p.m.

Annual Requiem Leeds Cathedral

+Annual Mass of Requiem  +

for Bishop Wheeler

St. Anne's Cathedral, Leeds

There will be a sung Mass of Requiem at the Cathedral on Saturday 19th. November at 3.00 p.m. this will be followed by absolution at the catafalque.  The schola gregoriana will sing the Mass. Celebrant Fr. Michael Hall.

Congratulations Canon Wiley

I have just been informed that Fr. Timothy Wiley, the co-ordinator for the EF Rite of Mass in our Diocese has been made a Canon of the Cathedral Chapter by His Lordship Bishop Stock. Congratulations to him.
The photo shows Fr. Wiley officiating at my youngest daughter's wedding earlier this year at St. John's in Bradford.