All Saints and All Souls

This weekend and Monday see the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls. Masses are as follows:

Saturday           (Vigil Mass)  St. Mary’s, Gibbet Street, Halifax.            6.00 p.m.

Sunday              (Sung) Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton.              11.00 a.m.

                          St. Joseph’s, Pontefract Road, Castleford.                      3.00 p.m.

Monday              Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton. 9.00 a.m.  10.00 a.m and 11.00 a.m.

Please also remember our forthcoming Mass on November 14th at 4.00 p.m. at the cathedral in Leeds in presence of Bishop Stock. It will be a Solemn High Mass of Requiem for Bishop Wheeler.

Mass at Pateley Bridge

We have a sung Mass again at Bewerley Grange chapel near Pateley Bridge in Upper Nidderdale tomorrow (Tuesday 27th October) at 11.30 a.m.
This Mass will be offered for our beleaguered fellow Christians in the Middle East and will be in honour of Our Lady help of Christians. Many thanks to Fr. Parfitt for this.

Christ the King and a reminder

This weekend is the Feast of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest.

Masses are as follows:

Saturday           (Vigil Mass) St. Mary’s, Gibbet Street, Halifax.                       6.00 p.m.

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

                         St. Joseph’s, Pontefract Road, Castleford.                                3.00 p.m.

                         St. Anthony’s, Bradford Road, Clayton, Bradford. BD14 6HW        4.00 p.m.                           

Apologies for the slightly late post but I have just returned from a few days in Paris and Lille. In the shadow of Notre Dame de Paris on Thursday I picked up a pristine copy of the 1962 Pontificale Romanum for a few pounds at a second hand bookstall. I felt like a dog with two tails for the rest of the day! I would love to know its history. 

If you are in or around Bradford tomorrow please remember that we are having our first Mass for very many years at St. Anthony's, Clayton. Many thanks to Fr. Abberton for this. Mass is at 4.00 p.m. and will be a regular fourth Sunday Mass. Sadly the order of sisters (Franciscans of Littlehampton) who taught at two of the schools I attended recently left the parish.  

Thanks also to Fr. Driver for agreeing to sing Mass again for us at St. Peter's, Bradford next month. St Peter's church in Bradford was bombed during the second world war but the bomb didn't actually explode. The unexploded bomb went through the roof and landed in the body of the church. The church also has the papal coat of arms of Pope John Paul I painted above the sanctuary which is extremely rare in this country. Fr. Driver is also the celebrant tomorrow at Castleford.

Pentecost XXI and news

Please remember that there is no Mass at Halifax on Saturday. Sunday's Masses are as follows:

Sunday              St. Anne’s Cathedral, Great George Street, Leeds         8.00 a.m.

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

                          St. Joseph’s, Pontefract Road, Castleford.                    3.00 p.m.

Our third Sunday Masses continue at the Cathedral and our next event there will be on Saturday November 14th at 4.00 p.m. in the presence of His Lordship Bishop Stock who said earlier this year when we met him that he would be willing to attend our functions. It is not often that I have had the pleasure of requesting that the Bishop attend a Solemn High Mass in his own cathedral church! The Mass will be a solemn high Mass of Requiem for Bishop Wheeler followed by absolution at the catafalque. Details to follow.

Please also note that next we have our first Mass at St. Anthony's, Clayton, Bradford at 4.00 p.m. Thanks to Fr. Abberton for this. I also hope to have news of Mass in another deanery shortly.  

As the synod in Rome enters its third week please remember to pray for the Church at this unusual point in the Church's history.

Pentecost XX

Masses for this weekend the twentieth Sunday of Pentecost are as follows:

Saturday           (Vigil Mass) St. Mary’s, Gibbet Street, Halifax.                          6.00 p.m.

                           (Vigil Mass) Our Lady of Lourdes, Cardigan Road, Leeds.         5.30 p.m.          

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

                           (Sung)  St. Peter’s, Leeds Road, Laisterdyke, Bradford.             3.00 p.m.

                           St. Joseph’s, Pontefract Road, Castleford.                                  3.00 p.m.

PLEASE NOTE there will be no Mass at Halifax next week.

Pentecost XIX

Masses for this weekend

Saturday           (Vigil Mass)  St. Mary’s, Gibbet Street, Halifax.                    6.00 p.m.

Sunday              (Sung) Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton.                      11.00 a.m.

                          St. Joseph’s, Pontefract Road, Castleford.                              3.00 p.m.