Ascension Sunday

This Sunday when the Church in England and Wales celebrates the glorious Ascension into Heaven of Our Lord we have three Masses.


11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford
4.00 p.m. St. Anthony's, Bradford Road, Clayton, Bradford

Easter V





This weekend is the fifth Sunday of Easter and we have three Masses in the Extraordinary Form:


8.00 a.m. Leeds Cathedral. Cookridge Street. Leeds
11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Easter IV

The Requiem Mass for Henry Tempest of Broughton took place last evening and was a very solemn and dignified occasion.
Fr. Parfitt offered the Mass and the Parish Priest, Mgr.Andrew Summersgill, preached a very prayerful and most apt sermon about death and our responses to it in the knowledge of our Lord's promises and eventually the Resurrection.
A friend of the Tempest family, a Benedictine of Ampleforth, speaking before the prayers of absolution quoted from St. John of the Cross's meditation about when we die in Jesus we simultaneously die into pure love. I always try to find something spiritually satisfying at a requiem. I had nothing to try hard about here.
The serving team did a first class job and the cantor and schola sang the requiem Mass, Praise to the Holiest and Soul of my Saviour beautifully. It was so good to see many regular Broughton attendees who wished to pay their respects to Mr. Tempest for his kindness over the many years that the old Mass has been offered at Broughton Hall.
Last Sunday I was speaking to a lady who attended the very first Masses back in the 1970s with her late father and mother.

I was very pleased to receive my copy of the latest issue of Mass of Ages today but sorry to see that my own report for this edition about Leeds Diocese appears to have been omitted. This must be a technical problem because the editor assured me had received my report about the Sacred Triduum in time to go to press and to report that His Lordship, Marcus Stock, the Bishop of Leeds will be the celebrant for the annual Mass of Requiem in November in the Cathedral. This year the Mass will be offered for all departed Bishops, Archbishops and Cardinals who are predecessors of Bishop Stock in this diocese.

Masses for the fourth Sunday of Easter this weekend are as follows:

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

Please remember to pray for the Holy Father today in Fatima on the 100th anniversary of the apparitions there.

Our Lady, Queen of the Holy Rosary, Pray for us and for our Holy Father.

Of your charity

Of your charity please pray for the repose of the soul of Captain Henry Tempest of Broughton Hall, Skipton who departed this life on Saturday May 6th.

Mr. Tempest was always extremely generous in allowing the chapel to be used for the traditional Rite of Mass back in the hard days following the introduction of the new Rite of Mass when there existed a strong desire by many to rid the Church of the vetus ordo. Mr. Tempest had requested his requiem be held in the Extraordinary Form in his chapel and the funeral will be on Friday 12th. May at 5.00 p.m.  Requiescat in pace. 

Easter II

Apologies for this late posting for Masses on Sunday. Our daughter gave birth to a lovely little boy on Friday and so our routine has been less than routine.
The Tour de Yorkshire cycling fest has significantly affected our activities and the 12.30 p.m. Mass at St. Joseph's is likely to start a few minutes late.

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
12.30 p.m. (but see note above) St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

York Pilgrimage this Saturday

Divine Mercy Sunday

Missa in albis, Low Sunday. and Divine Mercy Sunday - the Sunday after Easter Sunday is our next main feast.
As Fr. Abberton is holding his traditional Divine Mercy Sunday celebrations there will be no Mass at St. Anthony's in Bradford on Sunday.

Masses in the EF for this Sunday are:
11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Confessions at call.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter!

Many thanks to everybody who made it to any part of the Triduum and for the continued support of of Frs Hall, Parfitt and Kravos.

Masses today:

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

Gaudia Paschalia!

THE SACRED TRIDUUM

Maundy Thursday: 

5.30 p.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton

7.30 p.m. Notre Dame Chapel, St. Mark's Avenue, Leeds, with watching at the altar of repose until 9.00 p.m.

Good Friday:

3.00 p.m. Notre Dame Chapel, St. Mark's Avenue, Leeds

Holy Saturday:

3.00 p.m. Notre Dame Chapel, St. Mark's Avenue, Leeds

Reminder that confessions are at call at all of our Masses, but please not 10 seconds before Mass is due to start or during the last Gospel.

Easter Sunday:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton

12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

NB - NO MASS AT THE CATHEDRAL

Palm Sunday and Holy Week

Hosanna to the Son of David, Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord.

Masses on Palm Sunday marking the start of Holy Week:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall,
12.30 a.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford, (sung)

And for the rest of the week:

*9.30 a.m. Monday of Holy Week, Sacred Heart, Broughton, Skipton,

*9.30 a.m. Tuesday of Holy Week, Sacred Heart, Broughton, Skipton,

*9.30 a.m. Spy Wednesday, Sacred Heart, Broughton, Skipton,

*5.30 p.m. Holy Thursday, Sacred Heart, Broughton, Skipton,

7.30 p.m. Holy Thursday  Mass of the Lord's Supper, adoration at the altar of repose until 9.00 p.m. Notre Dame, St. Mark's Avenue, Leeds,

3.00 p.m.Good Friday, Liturgy of the Passion and death of our Lord,  Notre Dame, St. Mark's Avenue, Leeds,

3.00 p.m. Holy Saturday, Easter Vigil, cantata.  Notre DameSt. Mark's Avenue, Leeds 

   NB No Cathedral Mass on Easter Sunday

Passion Sunday

... but Jesus hid Himself, and went out of the temple.

From this Sunday until Easter Sunday there are no prayers at the foot of the altar as the Church continues to prune the liturgy, with veiled statues until the great feast itself. The Gloria Patri is also omitted after the Introit and lavabo until Easter.

As Passiontide begins there are two Masses in the EF on Sunday:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton. Sung.

12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford. 

Next Sunday is the start of Holy Week when again we shall be having the Sacred Triduum. I am so grateful that Fr. Kravos has put the Notre Dame chapel at our disposal again for this purpose. The Holy Week schedule (subject to additions marked with asterisks) is as follows: 

VENUE    Notre Dame Chapel, Leeds University Catholic Chaplaincy, St. Mark's Avenue, Leeds.  

Holy Thursday  Mass of the Lord's Supper,  7.30 p.m. with adoration at the altar of repose until 9.00p.m.

Good Friday  Liturgy of the Passion and death of our Lord,   3.00 p.m. 

Holy Saturday  Easter Vigil  3.00 p.m. Missa Cantata.

Annunciation

Verum bonum et suave 

Personemus, illud Ave

Per quod Christi fit conclave

Virgo, mater, filia

Per quod Ave salutata

Mox concepit fecundata

Virgo, David stirpe nata,

Inter spines lilia.

Ave, veri Salomonis

Mater, vellus Gedionis,

Cujus magi tribus donis.

Laudant puerperium.

Ave, solem genuisti

Ave, prolem protulisti,

Mundo lapso contulisti,

Vitam et imperium.

Ave, mater verbi summi,

Maris portus, signum dumi,

Aromatum virga fumi,

Angelorum domina.

Supplicamus, nos emenda, 

Emendatos nos commenda

Tuo nato ad habenda

Sempiterna gaudia.

Laetare



Rejoice is the message of this Sunday's Mass which is the mid Sunday of Lent and means that there are only three weeks left before Easter Sunday. The Gospel looks forward to the establishment of the Holy Eucharist - Fr Pius Parsch in his "The Church's Year of Grace" calls it another Corpus Christi. We shall have a hymn devoted to the Blessed Sacrament at St. Joseph's to mark this on Sunday. There are three Masses in the EF:

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





Saturday is the feast of the Annunciation - or the Incarnation and there is Mass at Sacred Heart Broughton at 9.30 a.m.

Lent III

There are three EF Masses this weekend for the third Sunday in Lent.
The Gospel again involves an encounter with the devil. Our Lord makes it clear that we must choose between good and evil - because the truly blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. Sounds like Faith and more good works.

Sunday is also the feast of St. Joseph but this year his feast is observed on Monday because the Lenten Sunday naturally takes precedence.
Mass in honour of this great saint will be offered twice in the EF.

Sunday

St. Anne's Cathedral , Cookridge Street, Leeds. 8.00 a.m.
Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton. 11.00 a.m.
St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford. 12.30 p.m.

Monday

Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton. 9.30 a.m.
St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford. 5.00 p.m.

* From the litany of St. Joseph.

Lent II

The Gospel for the Mass today is the Transfiguration, an occasion which has its own Feast in August and forty days before the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Last week's Gospel saw the tempting of Jesus the Man - this week's recalls Him as the uber-radiant transfigured God revealed to the Apostles and so to us.
Confessions before and after Mass at call.
We have two Masses this Sunday:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford (sung)

Please remember that this year the Feast of St. Joseph is transferred to Monday 20th. March. There will be an EF Mass at St. Joseph's, Bradford at 5.00 p.m. which is of course the parish's patronal feast and in the month devoted to him on this day.
I am pleased to hear that Fr. Whitwell, the assistant priest at St. Joseph's is doing well in his training with a view to offering his first public Mass in the Extraordinary Form soon.

On a sadder note please pray for the repose of the soul of Fr. Geoffrey Hilton of St. Osmund's, Bolton in the diocese of Salford who was found dead in his presbytery a couple of days ago aged 59.
Father Hilton enjoyed the support of his parishioners in some very difficult times.
As a family we were able to attend our first ever midnight Mass at midnight in the EF several years ago when Fr. Hilton broke the mould offering this Mass publicly anywhere in the north of England for some years. May he rest in peace.

Lent I

There was a pleasing turnout for Mass on Ash Wednesday and one gentleman had travelled from Rochdale and braved the teatime traffic of the M62 to be there with forty odd other souls at St. Joseph's in Bradford.

This Sunday, the first of Lent, sees two EF Masses in the Diocese of Leeds and by this I do not mean the C of E diocese with the same name as ours on the internet and which recently sprang up.
In the meantime there are a couple of changes to weekday provision which I shall also soon bring to the sidebar:
Tuesday Masses at St. Ignatius in Ossett are now at the later time of 9.30 a.m. and Monsignor Smith has established a first Friday Mass at St. Austin's, Wakefield at 7.30 p.m.

Sunday's Mass has the incredibly powerful Gospel about the temptations of Christ by the devil. Our Lord knew temptation until his last dying breath on the cross, the Lord who told us to pray to the Father saying, "...and lead us not in to temptation but deliver us from evil".
It is a vivid Gospel by which I set my spiritual watch each year, having last renewed my baptismal promises publicly nearly a year ago at the Easter Vigil.
The now redundant 2017 septuagesimal season has served its purpose in preparation for the spiritual battle the Church gives us in Lent.
Like any good parent knows the medicine may not be nice but its benefits far outweigh the bitter and even painful taste where their child's life is involved. This is our Church and Mother.

Mass on Sunday:
11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton (sung)
12.30 a.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Ash Wednesday

Reminder that we have two Masses tomorrow for the Feast of Ash Wednesday:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
5.00 p.m. St Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

ALSO there is Mass at St Austin's, Wentworth Terrace, Wakefield on Friday March 3rd at 7.30 p.m.

Quinquagesima

This Sunday is Quinquagesima Sunday and as such this Wednesday is Ash Wednesday and marks the start of Lent or the great build up to the feast of Easter .
We have three Masses on Sunday:
11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton

12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's. Pakington Street, Bradford  (sung)
4.00 p.m. St. Anthony's, Bradford Road, Clayton, Bradford.

I am very pleased to be able to say that this year there are two public EF Masses in the diocese on Ash Wednesday:
11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
5.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Sexagesima

This Sunday is Sexagesima - the second pre-Lenten Sunday of the season of Septuagesima and soon it will be Ash Wednesday.

We have three Masses this Sunday:

8.00 a.m. Leeds Cathedral, Cookridge Street, Leeds

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton

12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Again at St. Joseph's last week there was a good congregation and again lots of new faces and Fr. Crawley sang the Mass with great dignity. We are grateful to him - the youngest priest in the diocese for having agreed so readily to offer the Mass for us.

This week is half term for me and I hope to be able to continue my little project on the history of the Mass pre-1570. I hope to look at the Rite of York as well as undertaking a detailed reading of Mediator Dei, Pope Pius XII's famous encyclical on the liturgy promulgated just after the Second World War.

I have received two requests from young men wishing to learn to serve at St. Joseph's, so please let me know if you would like to join them.

Septuagesima

This weekend marks the start of the Easter cycle in the 1962 calendar and so until Easter no Sunday Masses in the EF include the Gloria or Alleluia verse.

Masses this weekend for the feast and start of the season of Septuagesima:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
12.30 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford (Missa cantata*).

*This will be Father Crawley's first sung EF missa cantata in this diocese and following the excellent attendance at Mass last week I hope that even more people will be able to join us this week.

Once again after the prayer for the queen we shall offer prayers for the Church and conclude with the hymn Immaculate Mary on account of Saturday's feast of our Lady of Lourdes .