Sunday's 1.00 p.m. Mass at Saint Patrick's, Bradford for the Feast of the Blessed Trinity will be accompanied by Mr Watson who used to play the organ for us at Saint Joseph's and Saint Patrick's until he retired three years ago. Father Driver asked me to invite George back and he readily agreed. The Mass setting will be De Angelis (missa viii). Many thanks to George for so readily agreeing.
I have been in Cologne this week and it is always a pleasure to hear Mass at the FFSP Maria Hilf church in the city's Chlodwigplatz area. It is a few years since we last attended Mass there, but reassuring that the congregation was (as in Cracow at Easter) made up of mainly young people including the celebrant who was also under thirty years of age.
When I lived in Germany 36 years ago religious sisters were a common sight in the cities and on public transport. In the past week I didn't see one religious in the traditionally Catholic cities of Duesseldorf or Cologne. A sad indictment of the times in which we live.
We are hoping to visit Brussels later in the summer where the Traditional Mass is available daily in several churches.
Blessed be the Holy and Undivided Trinity, now and forever.
