This weekend marks the second Sunday of Advent and on Saturday we celebrate the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
Reminder that on Friday we have an anticipated solemn high Mass for the feast of the Immaculate Conception at St. Austin's, Wakefield at 7.30 p.m.
On Saturday there will be Mass on the day at Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton at 10.30 a.m.
On Sunday we have two Masses:
11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford
On Tuesday there is the Requiem and burial of Jim Carroll at St. Edward's, Clifford at 11.00 a.m. and in the evening there is the third of this cycle's Cathedral Lectures at Wheeler Hall, St. Anne's Street, Leeds at 7.00 p.m.
Dr. Brian Sudlow
Brian Sudlow is a lecturer in French at Aston
University. His doctorate consisted of a comparative study of G. K. Chesterton
and the French writer Alphonse Retté. He is the author of Catholic
Literature and Secularisation in France and England: 1880-1914 (2011) and
of a forthcoming monograph on criticism of technology in France from 1920 to
1958.
“Human Life and Sacred Men: Abortion and Exclusion in Paris and London”
(Abortion has been legal in the U.K. for over fifty years but the
medicalisation of this procedure now increasingly erases the ethical discussion
of unborn life from public debate. France has walked the same path as the U.K.
and stands this year on the brink of passing new bioethical laws that will
extend the dispensability of human life from conception to death. The lecture
will revisit recent literary, philosophical and theatrical contributions to
these debates to examine how treating human life as dispensable is leading us
unwittingly towards catastrophe).
