Masses this week:
Tuesday 27th - 6.00 p.m. St. Ignatius, Ossett
Wednesday 28th.- 6.30 p.m. St. Winefride's, Bradford
Thursday 29th. - 9.30 a.m. St. Anthony's, Clayton, Bradford
7.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Back Street, Pontefract
Friday 30th - 7.30 p.m. St. Austin's, Wakefield
Sunday 2nd October - 8.30 a.m. St. Ignatius, Ossett
1.00 p.m. St. Patrick's, Bradford
Masses this week:
Tuesday 13th. - St Ignatius, Ossett, 6.00 p.m.
Wednesday 14th. -St. Winefride's, Wibsey, 6.30 p.m.
Thursday 15th. - St. Anthony's, Clayton, 9.30 a.m.
St. Joseph's, Pontefract, 7.00 p.m.
Friday16th. - St. Austin's, Wakefield, 7.30 p.m.
Sunday 18th. - St. Ignatius, Ossett, 8.30 a.m.
- St. Patrick's, Bradford 1.00 p.m.
Confessions at call.
The Mass of requiem for the queen was a very dignified occasion and it was good to hear people singing Chesterton's O God of earth and altar at the end after the prayer for the king.
Masses this week:
Tuesday 13th. - St Ignatius, Ossett, 6.00 p.m.
Wednesday 14th. -St. Winefride's, Wibsey, 6.30 p.m. Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Thursday 15th. - St. Anthony's, Clayton, 9.30 a.m.
St. Joseph's, Pontefract, 7.00 p.m.
Friday16th. - St. Austin's, Wakefield, 7.30 p.m.
Sunday 18th. - St. Ignatius, Ossett, 8.30 a.m.
- St. Patrick's, Bradford 1.00 p.m.
Last night permission was sought from the bishop for Sunday's sung Mass at St. Patrick's to be Mass of Requiem for the late queen. The bishop has since allowed his priests to offer Mass for the repose of the queen's soul on Sunday.
The 1.00 p.m. Mass at St. Patrick's will therefore be a Mass of Requiem in similar fashion to how we celebrate and commemorate our War Dead in November.
The asperges will take place before Mass, but there is no recitation of the credo.
The recessional hymn will be Chesterton's God of Earth and Altar - which we have never sung before.
There will be the prayer for the King at the end of Mass for the first time in over seventy years. I have to root out a a Ritus Servandus from the reign of King George VI which had been printed during the war. The paper is of poor wartime quality and the ink is thin if I remember properly.
Details of next week's Masses to follow.
Almighty God,
You are the author and sustainer of all human life;
grant that your servant, Elizabeth our Queen,
whom you granted a long and happy reign as Monarch of these lands
may be forgiven her sins and rewarded with that eternal life
promised to all those born again
in the water of baptism and power of your Spirit.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit God, forever and ever,
Amen.
Eternal rest, grant to her O Lord,
And let Perpetual light shine upon her.
May she rest in peace.
Amen.
May her soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed,
Through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen
O Lord, save Elizabeth our Queen. And mercifully hear us when we call upon thee.
Masses this week are as follows:
Tuesday 6th - St. Ignatius Ossett - 6.00 p.m.
No Mass on Wednesday
Thursday 8th - Nativity of our Blessed Lady - 9.30 a,m, St. Anthony's, Clayton
-7.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pontefract
Friday 9th. - St. Austin's, Wakefield - 7.30 p.m.
Sunday 11th. - 8.30 a.m. St. Ignatius, Ossett
- 1.00 p.m. - St. Patrick's, Westgate, Bradford
Below is an extract from a post on the Rorate Caeli blogspot written by a former Muslim woman whose experience of the Old Mass is succinctly recalled here. Her devotion to the Mass has caused her to write a short guide to the Mass which is a handy thing.
Here is the extract:
Even years later, every time I step into the church to attend the usus antiquior, the sensation that I am stepping out of time to join countless saints who have gone before in a world where so much is temporary, and disposable makes the temporary worries of this life fade away. I can drop all my burdens and cares at the foot of the altar for the priest to carry to the Lord and know that St. Thomas and St. Theresa of Avila raised their souls up to the Lord during the same liturgy. An invisible golden thread runs through time and space and ties the faithful from heaven to earth and to purgatory as the priest utters the eucharistic prayer in utmost reverence and silence. The reverence, the silence, the beauty and the precision all come together to reorder the universe towards its Creator, whether the Mass is offered in a millennium-old cathedral or in the ghastliness of a battlefield. While the best must be offered to the Lord for the liturgy, the beauty of the Mass transcends what we can bring to the table, for liturgy is the work of God.
The entire article may be seen here: RORATE CÆLI: An Ex-Muslim on the Traditional Mass: “From the microcosm of the Mass, the entire world is reordered” (rorate-caeli.blogspot.com)