Sunday within the Octave of Christmas

This Sunday's Mass within the Octave of Christmas at St Patrick's, Bradford at 1.00 p.m.  is a Low Mass. 

As 1st January is not a Holy Day of Obligation in England,  there will be no TLM  at St. Patrick's on Wednesday.  

The Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany will be celebrated next Sunday on 5th January in accordance with the Bishops of  E&W 's directives. 

 

 

Masses for Christmas Day at St. Patrick's, Bradford

7.30 a.m. Dawn Mass

1.00 p.m. Third Mass of Christmas 

Confession at call.

May you all enjoy a very merry Christmas and new year free from anxiety.

Advent IV

Mass for the fourth Sunday of Advent at St. Patrick's, Westgate, Bradford, will be at the usual time of 1.00 p.m.

Confessions at call.

Mass on Christmas day at 1.00p.m.

Gaudete

 

Many thanks again to all who were involved in last week's missa solemnis which was a truly splendid occasion. Plans are already underway for another solemn Mass early in the new year.

This Sunday's Mass for Gaudete Sunday at St. Patrick's, Bradford at 1.00 p.m. will be followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Thanks to Fr. Driver for this. 

Confessions at call.

After Mass there will be the first of our chant lessons offered by our cantatrice, Madeleine. This should last between between 50 minutes and an hour.

The Immaculate Conception

This year the second Sunday of Advent is overridden by the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in the 1962 liturgical calendar. The feast was inaugurated in 1854 when Pope Pius IX finally promulgated the feast and declared our Lady's Immaculate Conception to be dogma, which we are bound to believe.  To celebrate this wonderful feast we will be celebrating with another missa solemnis.  

Music: Mass is "Missa Cum Jubilo" IX. The Credo is IV (one which I have never knowingly heard before at Mass). The Communion Motet is 'Ave Maria en Sol Mineur' by Cesar Franck. The recessional hymn will be O Purest of Creatures. 

It has been wonderful to see such increased numbers at Mass over recent months, please help to continue this trend and thanks as always to our clergy Revv Hall, Frantisek and Wiley.