This Sunday is Remembrance Sunday and the 1.00 p.m. Mass at Saint Patrick's will be a Requiem Mass for those who sacrificed their lives in the two World Wars. There will be absolution at the catafalque and incensing of the war memorial outside the friary following Mass.
Confessions available before Mass.
As it is the first Sunday of the month the 1.00 p.m. Mass at Saint Patrick's will be livestreamed.
The last Sunday of October Is the Feast of Christ the King. This is a relatively new addition to the calendar and was added in 1925 by Pope Pius XI in response to the rise of Communism (the October Revolution) and is meant to emphasise the fact the Christ is the King of all creation.
The 1.00 p.m. Mass on Sunday will be a Low Mass at Saint Patrick's.
Confessions at call.
The 1.00 p.m. Mass for the twenty-first Sunday of Pentecost will be a Low Mass.
Fr. Driver will be available for confessions before Mass.
Please remember the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, in your prayers, who is recovering from an operation to remove a cancerous tumour from his lung.
Our Lady, Health of the Sick, Pray for him!
This Sunday's 1.00 p.m. Mass at Saint Patrick's, Bradford for the twentieth Sunday of Pentecost will be a Low Mass.
Confession at call.
Mass for the eighteenth Sunday of Pentecost at 1.00 p.m. at Saint Patrick's will be a Low Mass. Monsignor Grogan is usually available for confession after Mass.
After the feat of the Assumption it always amazes me how quickly the time begins to fly towards Christ the King at the end of October and then Advent a month later when the Church year starts anew.