Friday, January 28, 2011

A very productive meeting

Last night I attended a co-ordination meeting with our diocesan EF co-ordinator, Fr. Wiley.

We made a great deal of progress in less than two hours over coffee and cake at the presbytery.

Forthcoming events include;

An afternoon retreat with traditional Catholic devotion, including Mass, Rosary, Benediction, talks on the Rosary and the spirituality of the Mass and opportunity for confession. Planned for October.

Server training session in late August.

Clergy training in singing at a mutually convenient time.

Solemn High Mass and Procession of the Blessed Sacrament for Corpus Christi in June.

Mass at the Cathedral in November and other occasions.


We both now have a lot of letters/e-mails to compose and send as well as receiving training in the 1962 rubrics for the Solemn Mass with Fr. Parfitt and checking things by telephone.
Fr. Michael O'Reilly who used to offer Mass for us at Killingbeck Cemetery chapel called this sort of activity in one of his very practical sermons as celebrating the sacrament of the moment which I equated (and still do) with the little way of St. Therese and the desire to sanctify laborious daily activity as a work of God as prescribed by many orders and especially Opus Dei.

The word training appears a lot in this post. I do think this augurs well for the future and thank God daily for our opportunity to attend the traditional Mass so frequently in different places in the diocese.

God bless our Pope!
Mary, Help of Christians pray for us!
Blessed John Henry Newman, pray for us!




Epiphany IV


FOURTH SUNDAY after EPIPHANY II Cl G
Gl Cr Pr of the Holy Trinity

Saturday Masses
NEW VENUE ; Notre Dame, Leeds University RC Chaplaincy. St. Mark's Avenue Leeds. 4.00p.m.
St. Mary's, Gibbet Street, Halifax. 6.00p.m.

Sunday Mass
St. Joseph's, Pontefract Road, Castleford. 3.00p.m. THIS WILL BE A SUNG MASS.


Friday, January 21, 2011

Epiphany III


THIRD SUNDAY after EPIPHANY II Cl G
Gl Cr Pr of the Holy Trinity

Mass tomorrow (Saturday)
St. Mary of the Angels, Crossbank Road, Batley. Missa Cantata 3.00p.m.
St. Mary's Gibbet Street, Halifax, Low Mass 6.00p.m.

Sunday
St. Joseph's, Pontefract Rd. Castleford. Low Mass 3.00p.m.


Friday, January 14, 2011

Masses this weekend


Sun 16 SECOND SUNDAY after EPIPHANY II Cl G
Gl Cr Pr of the Holy Trinity

Saturday Vigil Mass, St. Mary's, Gibbet Street, Halifax. 6.00p.m.

Sunday, St. Joseph's, Pontefract Road, Castleford. 3.00p.m.
Sunday, St. Augustine's, Harehills Road, Leeds. 5.00p.m.

Bishop Tom Williams auxiliary Bishop of Liverpool will attend the 9.00a.m. Mass at St. Mary Magdalen, Penwortham near Preston on Sunday. This follows hot on the heels of his visit to Farrington near Wigan where he attended a Missa cantata in December.
Bishop McMahon of Nottingham offered a Pontifical Mass in Leicester at the Priory of the Holy Cross Dominican Church on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and earlier in November one of the London Auxiliary Bishops administered the Sacrament of Confirmation at Spanish Place in London, where our own three daughters were confirmed several years ago by the late Bishop James O'Brien.
If you are near Preston on Sunday, please consider showing up and demonstrating the demand for the EF Mass if you are able.


Monday, January 10, 2011

NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE IN YORK


NATIONAL PILGRIMAGE IN HONOUR OF

ST. MARGARET CLITHEROW (Patroness of the LMS)

SATURDAY 26TH. MARCH

MISSA CANTATA YORK MINSTER 1.30P.M.

TO BE FOLLOWED BY PROCESSION AND BENEDICTION AT 4.00P.M.

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UPDATE; Benediction and veneration of the relic of St. Margaret Clitherow will take place at the Bar Convent



Saturday, January 8, 2011

Server training

Before Christmas I mentioned that there would be a training day for men and boys wishing to learn how to serve the Low Mass and Missa cantata. This will take place at English Martyrs Dalton Terrace, York on Saturday 12th. February. There has been a good amount of interest shown in this by several people from Leeds, Middlesbrough and Hexham & Newcastle Dioceses.
If you are interested please contact me to get further details or to register at infolmleeds AT gmail DOT com.

Feast of the Holy Family


Masses on Sunday for the Feast of the Holy Family:

Missa cantata - St. Peter's, Leeds Road, Laisterdyke, Bradford at 3.00p.m.
Low Mass - St. Joseph's, Pontefract Road, Castleford at 3.00p.m.

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Epiphany




Mass on the traditional day of January 6th. for the Feast of the Epiphany will be on Thursday at 6.45a.m. at St. Mary of the Angels, Crossbank Road, Batley.