tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79882229969544451742024-03-15T22:34:50.255+00:00Latin Mass LeedsThe Latin Mass Leeds blog is here to raise awareness of the activity related to the Extraordinary Form of Mass (also known as the Traditional Latin or Tridentine Mass) in the Diocese of Leeds and to promote and publicize other issues of interest to traditionally minded Catholics. This blog has no official links with any other organisations.Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comBlogger1232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-34434717217511406352024-03-15T22:33:00.001+00:002024-03-15T22:33:58.633+00:00Passion Sunday<p>From Sunday we notice two differences. First, the Mass is pruned of the Judica me, psalm 42 and the recital of the Gloria Patris which punctuate the Mass and second, the crucifix and statues are covered in purple veils. The Church is preparing us for the week which marks the passion and death of our Lord.</p><p>Mass at St. Patrick's, Bradford at 1.00 p.m.</p><p>Confession at call.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-38410830253263888502024-03-10T00:01:00.004+00:002024-03-10T00:01:27.929+00:00Laetare Sunday<p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhr43h5kVpZoclEexPv0ZRlo99VJ4BIP05odh1B4pITUJ9LCSLEyknHH8-qGehwfy8zYBOK9SvuGrgukx-tNlyCuueSiHHhbDqmFPsRou-myZS-cNjk_EJTKmA8xaRMUn_IUIUng92A2To70W8sjaJtRNPQLH3PZwakTFyGBoRQ0dW7A2KOSoIyQQ_Jeg0" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="283" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhr43h5kVpZoclEexPv0ZRlo99VJ4BIP05odh1B4pITUJ9LCSLEyknHH8-qGehwfy8zYBOK9SvuGrgukx-tNlyCuueSiHHhbDqmFPsRou-myZS-cNjk_EJTKmA8xaRMUn_IUIUng92A2To70W8sjaJtRNPQLH3PZwakTFyGBoRQ0dW7A2KOSoIyQQ_Jeg0" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Tomorrow is the fourth Sunday of Lent and (like the third Sunday of Advent) the vestments are rose, and so permit us a little lightening of the mood before we commemorate the passion and death of our Lord.</p><p>The 1.00 p.m. Mass at St. Patrick's will be a missa cantata. Confessions available before Mass.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-43193245190681068292024-03-03T02:02:00.001+00:002024-03-03T02:02:35.459+00:00Lent III<p> Mass for the third Sunday of Lent. 1.00p.m. at St. Patrick's, Westgate, Bradford. </p><p>I was dismayed to hear about the events surrounding the celebration of the Triduum this year in Westminster.</p><p>In years gone by, it was usually the case that, thanks to Bishop Wheeler and his legacy, that Leeds was one of the very few places in the country where the fist Masses of Christmas and Easter were regularly offered.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-20390961764979329042024-02-25T22:52:00.001+00:002024-02-25T22:52:31.534+00:00The Sacred Triduum & "Let's get this straight"; Extract 3 of Bishop Wheeler's pamphlet<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">I now have details of the timings for this year's Paschal Triduum at St Patrick's, Westgate, Bradford. </span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Maundy Thursday - Mass of the Last Supper - 6.00 p.m.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Good Friday - 3.00 p.m.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Easter Vigil - 7.00 p.m.</b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks again to the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal for permitting us to use the church and moreover for permitting Fr. Frantisek to be the celebrant.</p><p class="MsoNormal">These details have also been posted on the Leeds Diocesan Website under the Mass in Latin section.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Continuation of extracts from Bishop Wheeler's 1969 pamphlet "Let's get this straight".</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Catholics and Non-Catholics<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This Church will
attain her full perfection only in the glory of Heaven. But already she
possesses a ‘fullness’ surpassing that of any other body. And so the greatest
grace in this life is to be a member of the Catholic Church. Once a man sees
this, he must in consciousness become a Catholic. Members of other Christian
bodies, believing that Christ is God and baptised in his name, are brought into
a certain the imperfect communion with the Catholic Church. It is our privilege
to accept them as brothers with respect and affection. They possess insights
from which we may learn. They stand with us, proclaiming Christ in the face of
a pagan world. The differences between us are far less than the agreements. It
is Christ's will that we should all be one. This does not mean the glossing
over of differences or the watering down of Faith. We can only grow together
through truth and love: these two together, for truth without love is
intolerance and love without truth is often just sentimentality.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>True unity<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We can only help true unity by being better Catholics; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>by showing changes of heart by becoming more holy;
by pursuing the truth; by avoiding the scoring of points; by expressing
ourselves humbly and lucidly, and by sharing together in good works; praying
together all the time that we may be one. Let us be clear: it will hinder and
not help unity if we act rashly and independently, or if we try to explain away
our Faith. Unity does not mean finding an LCM but an HCF. And the factor is
Christ. The more we study him the more we shall see the full dimension of his Body
which is the Church. Our Faith needs no apology; it is the greatest gift of the
love of God to man. It possesses already the mark of unity given by Christ
himself, who placed Saint Peter over the other Apostles: a permanent and
visible source of unity, of Faith.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The Pope<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You would be wrong if you thought that the Council
diminished the role of the Pope in the life of the church. On the contrary it
made clearer his true primacy and infallible teaching authority in the
scriptural context of his relationship with the rest of the Apostles, the Bishops
of the universal Church. The Church in her Councils is always preserving a
balance. In the early days she stressed the Godhead and now the humanity of
Christ. In Vatican II (in clear and scriptural terms), she shows the
collegiality of the Bishops, never without Peter, and always with and under him.
Thank God that you have the Pope and always pray for him.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Next time: the Mass and the Priesthood.<o:p></o:p></p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-13116610587366523672024-02-21T21:54:00.004+00:002024-02-21T21:54:55.380+00:00Lent II<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZ0U16Ll8oE8GYLZTaD7Ae4CGy7Xwvl9klNpJI1twRHFRh96LdAG3r3CyjpeFdtoqJ0s9Vpd4BOr_8-9k5K6kN-wuDtwf8m1xwJoQuJNEZE5QPFFlrjAvJPCRCFrePqYuM0HDgKk3Qy53xz-tBPk-eHn3SODd5jrI3sWRfVzS4f_SMtAwrxOZ9l_XzUvA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZ0U16Ll8oE8GYLZTaD7Ae4CGy7Xwvl9klNpJI1twRHFRh96LdAG3r3CyjpeFdtoqJ0s9Vpd4BOr_8-9k5K6kN-wuDtwf8m1xwJoQuJNEZE5QPFFlrjAvJPCRCFrePqYuM0HDgKk3Qy53xz-tBPk-eHn3SODd5jrI3sWRfVzS4f_SMtAwrxOZ9l_XzUvA" width="198" /></a></div><br />The Transfiguration account is the Gospel for the second Sunday of Lent<p></p><p>Mass for the second Sunday of Lent will be at St. Patrick's, Westgate, Bradford at 1.00 p.m.</p><p><b>New Pilgrimage</b></p><p><b>I have copied this from the Diocesan Website. I have decided to have a go at this as part of my own Lenten Penance.</b></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The new, short pilgrimage is for the intention of ‘Vocations to the Priesthood’. It will take place almost exactly 120 years after Fr John O’Connor (1870-1952), a Diocese of Leeds priest, became the inspiration for GK Chesterton’s famous ‘Father Brown’ stories which, even on today’s BBC TV adaptations, still illustrate the priest’s humane wisdom, understanding and compassion as well as his spiritual and sacramental role.</p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The two men first met in March 1904 in Keighley, where Fr O’Connor was a curate at St Anne’s Catholic Church. GK had just delivered a lecture in the town and was on his way to visit a German Jewish friend in Ilkley, whom O’Connor also knew. It was in a walk together along the Roman road which crosses Ilkley Moor that Fr John O’Connor first set Gilbert Chesterton on the ‘Path to Rome’ – <a href="https://www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/gk-chesterton-centenary-the-real-father-brown/" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7d0000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">and would eventually receive one of the world’s most renowned literary figures into the Catholic Church in the summer of 1922.</a></p><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The new Pilgrimage Walk for Vocations will take place on Saturday 16 March 2024. In keeping with our journey towards sustainability, public transport is recommended as there is a railway station and other good public transport links in both Keighley and Ilkley. After 9am Mass at St Anne’s Church, walkers will set off following in ‘Father Brown’s Footsteps’, up Keighley Gate, over Ilkley Moor, and upon reaching the Ilkley Parish of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, will walk up to the Myddelton Grange Calvary for Stations of the Cross. The total distance will be around seven miles, which includes two steep uphills – so walking all the way will not be suitable for those with serious health or fitness issues, although the Keighley/Ilkley Road is metalled for a short distance at each end. This Lenten pilgrimage walk for Vocations is not yet an official diocesan event, so please contact <a href="mailto:communications@dioceseofleeds.org.uk" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #7d0000; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">communications@dioceseofleeds.org.uk</a> for more details.</span></p><p><b>Bishop Wheeler 2 extracts from his booklet: Let's get this straight.</b></p><p><b>God's people</b></p><p>Remember, however, that we are a people on the move. Don't be a stick-in-the mud, and, on the other hand, don't allow yourself to slip. To reassure you: you are perfectly safe if you follow the Council's decrees. Sometimes they may seem advanced but they are always carefully measured. Christianity is a revolution but it also leads to peace. Men will only realize this when it has been truly applied. If you see the restlessness and anarchy you are on the wrong path. These are <i>not</i> the prints of the Spirit. Where charity and love is, God is.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The Living God</b></p><p>When people speak of the death of God, or the death of the Church, they are trying perhaps to convey the idea that the old thoughts about God held by some individual Christians were very wide of the mark and gave fiercely wrong impression. God is not a despot, gaoler or cajoler, After all, he gave us our free will. Christians have sometimes forgotten that Christ said to Philip: "He who has seen me has seen the Father." A study of Christ in the Gospels gives us the true image of God. A death to wrong images is therefore good. And from this death (as from the Death on the Cross) proceeds , new understanding. new life. Of course a lot of 'new' thought is as old as the hills. But sometimes the kaleidoscope of the Spirit brings a new pattern,, that may be more helpful than what has gone before and anyhow, men tend to forget the lessons and message of history, and need the old again in a form that is new. The encounters of men with Christ are ever new. Being men of faith, whose learning is of the Kingdom, we must wait patiently. Time will show how wisely the Spirit draws from the treasury of the Church truths old and new.</p><p><b>The Church (2)</b></p><p>The Council describes the Church in New Testament terms as the People of God: a Chosen Race, a Royal Priesthood, a Holy Nation, a Purchased People.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next time; True Unity and The Pope. </p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-68458728741352905032024-02-16T08:48:00.000+00:002024-02-16T08:48:20.255+00:00Bishop Wheeler Continued 1<p> <b>The Council</b></p><p>The Council, only the 21st in the Church's life, is the Spirit of God speaking to us: God in dialogue with our time. It is the cause of interest and uncertainty, but the answer, God's answer, to the present troubles. We should listen, then, to all the Council tells us. We should read and study its decrees if we want to know what the Holy Spirit is saying to the world in our time. Not that the Council has all the answers (it is never good for men to have all the answers: sometimes God wants him to work them out for himself), but if we listen to the Council it points the path that we should tread. In most ways the path is well-worn, sometimes the track is new. Christ brings forth the old and new together. We can never afford to despise the old nor should we fear to follow the new when God's spirit shows the way.</p><p><b>Opportunities</b></p><p>As we tread this path there will be many new vistas. Some will be mirages, and we must take care of the traps and precipices . The Devil will make his ambushes no less, perhaps more easily, than he did before. But the spirit of adventure is a God-given the thing, and if we are seekers of the Way, Christ is with us. We must not cling intransigently to the past., but neither must we take new paths until our footing is sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Next time; God's people and the Living God.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-50737009667043010532024-02-15T00:51:00.001+00:002024-02-15T00:51:18.148+00:00Lent I<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnOtL7wB6n6PBhWuAUNrg9KT8cpQ_BRINB1vWlgV_gGpn6WkbRuj-Xc3f9biK03lGVvZ32ttafbOV2W_dybNPZeZo9IN_plcuYqV7jJv-IWeAmHBTzz8Kn8gFo8VwT2oftjZlU4pTj1U61TSS6n9NouEtrw-cgdqPYly1y3irkFSci2cbBGWrbD-8PeLc" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="646" data-original-width="474" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgnOtL7wB6n6PBhWuAUNrg9KT8cpQ_BRINB1vWlgV_gGpn6WkbRuj-Xc3f9biK03lGVvZ32ttafbOV2W_dybNPZeZo9IN_plcuYqV7jJv-IWeAmHBTzz8Kn8gFo8VwT2oftjZlU4pTj1U61TSS6n9NouEtrw-cgdqPYly1y3irkFSci2cbBGWrbD-8PeLc" width="176" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">+William Gordon Wheeler (5.V. 1910- 21.II. 1998)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It was good to see a healthy number of people at Mass for Ash Wednesday this evening. I think this new later time will work better than the earlier teatime slot. Lent has got off to a good start. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">My grandchildren were parading round the supermarket after Mass apparently proud of their ash crossed foreheads. The cashier asked them if they had been to church.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Mass for the first Sunday of Lent will be offered at St. Patrick's, Bradford at 1.00 p.m. and confessions will be available for those wishing to perform part of their Easter duties.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Many letters, pamphlets, books and papers of various types are always on my desk demanding my attention and I usually have two or three projects on the go at once to keep me occupied when I am not teaching.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">At the moment I am preparing lectures on the use of English Idioms and another on the history of the Berlin Wall with one about the Bradford Beck's contribution to the the life of the city is in the pipeline.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Recently somebody sent me an old CTS pamphlet which I had never seen. It is called "Let's Get This Straight. The Church after Vatican II". It is by Bishop William Gordon Wheeler who was the Bishop of Leeds from 1966 to 1985. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I remember him with great fondness. not only because he confirmed me, but because in my possession I have a lot of his personal correspondence with Mrs Agnes Rutherford, who was the rep for the Latin Mass Society during Bishop Wheeler's time and beyond. It is clear to me that if every bishop in the Church had been like Bishop Wheeler we wouldn't have been in the situation in which we find ourselves today, where it is almost as if the Church itself has become a scourge in the hand of God and we have to make more sacrifices to fulfil our baptismal promises. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">To illustrate what I mean, I am going to produce excerpts from the bishop's pamphlet throughout Lent.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Bishop Wheeler's optimism and belief, when he produced the pamphlet in 1969, that there was a thirst for growth and development and that the implementation of the Council could feed these needs seem incredibly naïve today for those of us staring through the lens of hindsight. But Wheeler only knew how to look at things through the lens of the hermeneutic of continuity in the light of Tradition. This is something about which Pope Benedict frequently spoke. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The pamphlet is made up of nearly forty paragraphs. Each one addresses an issue about which we need "to get straight". Remember the pamphlet was written in 1969 before the introduction of the Pauline Mass and after Humanae Vitae. Abortion in England had already been legalised.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The World Today</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Many people are saying, 'We are living in times of great uncertainty, and we don't know where we stand. Before the Council, our feet were on a rock. Now, we are moving on shifting sand. Nothing seems to be sure, nothing safe. Men say that God is dead; let us put back the clock before we lose everything.' You can not put back the clock and you shouldn't want to, for the new chaos, the doubt and uncertainty, come not from the Council but from the world of our time: from the affluent and 'all-sufficient' state, from the misuse of nuclear fission, from the failure to share the world's resources, from the pride and arrogance of twentieth century man.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Church</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Church is the Good Samaritan who does not pass by on the other side, but by her loving encounter with the wounded world of our time pours out the oil and the wine, but also has to pay the price of the convalescence as in the Gospel. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is almost 26 years to the day since Bishop Wheeler died. (21st February 1998). RIP.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Next time - the Council and Opportunities.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-78763799874843561972024-02-08T21:57:00.004+00:002024-02-08T21:57:38.748+00:00Quinquagesima<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibslK6E90-0_cLbEVPYHn8Wx2JvnzFnWTFYX7-rEUJpUkrN0CRiEifHEnfNxMYBMJGEaugvpqpZAyN3TT9-z8BgEwx00uJE-qJb1O23q723SmA6ySmNm6xUGGIiVWgbgT4qOXqYF21X0OnGcFrtprZJOapSWIF9s52xxoMNo6c_XHdfsQOioNQJf1RfXo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="617" data-original-width="1000" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibslK6E90-0_cLbEVPYHn8Wx2JvnzFnWTFYX7-rEUJpUkrN0CRiEifHEnfNxMYBMJGEaugvpqpZAyN3TT9-z8BgEwx00uJE-qJb1O23q723SmA6ySmNm6xUGGIiVWgbgT4qOXqYF21X0OnGcFrtprZJOapSWIF9s52xxoMNo6c_XHdfsQOioNQJf1RfXo" width="320" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;">Mass for Qinquagesima Sunday will be at St. Patrick's, Westgate, Bradford at 1.00 p.m. This is the last of the Gesima Sundays meaning that next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mass for Ash Wednesday will be at St. Patrick's, Bradford at <b>7.00 p.m.</b> We are no longer having Masses for high days and holy days at 5.00 p.m. to enable people to avoid the teatime traffic and rushing to pick up children from school etc. Ashes will be imposed at this Mass as we enter the season of Lent.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Confessions will be available before Masses on Sunday and Wednesday. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Also, I am delighted to announce that we will be having the Sacred Triduum again this year at St. Patrick's and details of the times will be announced in due course.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I wish everybody a productive and truly penitential season of Lent as we await the ringing of the bells at the Gloria on Holy Saturday.</div> <p></p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-26985884662522380142024-01-25T23:24:00.002+00:002024-01-25T23:24:29.641+00:00Septuagesima<p>Already the pre Lent season is upon us, starting this Sunday with Septuagesima. The first Sunday of Lent is in three weeks and before we know it, it will be Easter.</p><p>Mass this Sunday at 1.00 p.m. at St. Patrick's, Westgate, Bradford.</p><p>Confessions available.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-34434357300283238532024-01-11T21:42:00.005+00:002024-01-11T21:42:47.002+00:00Epiphany II<p>This week we are back to green vestments but only for a couple of weeks. Easter falls early this year and the feast of Septuagesima falls on January 28th this year when we will be back to purple vestments in this short season of preparation for Lent.</p><p>Mass on Sunday at St. Patrick's, Westgate, Bradford at 1.00 p.m.</p><p>Confessions available before Mass.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-9674546746667432412024-01-04T22:11:00.005+00:002024-01-04T22:11:57.503+00:00Epiphany<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQSH2NIAvVfxTbmEqyYw7U_CLRURVJ4hJz2-3Jm-kDp7apy4_Wvx1Yu9ad41pawNU78rDh8wNk2APnXbC1qyXEPaaASKGVgcPm_YmqGq0YViVDLaOJnZI3VaFVixbCKfcj6XqGqS5ezJVVG16p_ciPS-7_Pjcl1w_So-93HhSP6NdGr49jKBoLh2nY4Gk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="660" data-original-width="1274" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQSH2NIAvVfxTbmEqyYw7U_CLRURVJ4hJz2-3Jm-kDp7apy4_Wvx1Yu9ad41pawNU78rDh8wNk2APnXbC1qyXEPaaASKGVgcPm_YmqGq0YViVDLaOJnZI3VaFVixbCKfcj6XqGqS5ezJVVG16p_ciPS-7_Pjcl1w_So-93HhSP6NdGr49jKBoLh2nY4Gk" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>This year the Epiphany the Epiphany is transferred to the Sunday in line with the Church in England and Wales. The Mass will be on Sunday 7th. January at St. Patrick's, Westgate, Bradford at 1.00 p.m. It will be a low Mass</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-73817226355260425102023-12-24T22:17:00.000+00:002023-12-24T22:17:01.869+00:00Wishing you peace and joy this Christmas<p>In these somewhat depressing days in the Church it is sometimes difficult to find things about which to rejoice. I mentioned this in confession a while ago and was told that the Lord never gives us a cross which is too hard to carry. We don't always see this, but as another priest told me in confession - every Lent has its Easter, just as every Advent has its Christmas. And here we are on this holy night of Christmas 2023.</p><p>May I take this opportunity to wish everybody a very peaceful and joyful Christmas. Those who should know better seem hell bent on destroying the Church from within but we have our Lord's divine assurance that the gates of hell will not prevail against that Church founded by Him. We should be people of hope.</p><p>Mass on Christmas Day is at 1.00 p.m. at St. Patrick's, Westgate Bradford. And on every Sunday at the same time and place.</p><p>Confessions available before Mass.</p><p>Holydays of Obligation and High days which do not fall on Sundays will now be offered at <b>7.00 p.m</b>. at St. Patrick's instead of 5.00 p.m. (which is a legacy time from our time at St. Joseph's over two years ago.) Our first such Mass will be the Feast of Ash Wednesday on 14th. February 2024.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-84068404954268962392023-11-11T13:19:00.001+00:002023-11-11T13:19:19.829+00:00Remembrance Sunday<p> Tomorrow’s 1.00 p.m. Mass at St. Patrick’s, Bradford will be a Low Mass of Requiem for the war dead. </p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-63819494606558641932023-11-04T20:05:00.002+00:002023-11-04T20:05:15.534+00:00Pentecost XXIII<p> Sunday's 1.00 p.m. Mass at St. Patrick's, Bradford, marks the twenty-third Sunday of Pentecost and will be a Low Mass. Next week is the annual requiem Mass for the war dead.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-52189701924592259822023-10-27T01:08:00.002+01:002023-10-27T01:13:36.399+01:00Christ the King. All Saints and All Souls.<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3laPGSWq2tLk2ANxwrDZEv8oTF3rkn9CTCOmGjDG7HE5zw1PYD31ENfs18-B_z52FgfVq46dWZwN51vyYNt36GyWfBpMK9cPX5obPXVwRoiZwdwE6T7w-oRN5p4UfdmZTS4zMW90bIpV2owlTgde_QoX1xIONGXO0srsYbou0VvBp4x9QvmMoy62QTZA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3laPGSWq2tLk2ANxwrDZEv8oTF3rkn9CTCOmGjDG7HE5zw1PYD31ENfs18-B_z52FgfVq46dWZwN51vyYNt36GyWfBpMK9cPX5obPXVwRoiZwdwE6T7w-oRN5p4UfdmZTS4zMW90bIpV2owlTgde_QoX1xIONGXO0srsYbou0VvBp4x9QvmMoy62QTZA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><b>God is King of all the earth.</b></p><p>Time and time again, men of violence have risen up, like Goliath of old, and have challenged the People of God. The Israelites were paralysed with fear. But David knew: 'The Lord will deliver me from the hand of the Philistine.' How often has the Church seen Goliath advancing upon her with sword and armour and overwhelming supremacy! Today too there is no shortage of tyrants, filled with proud confidence in their armoured divisions and atomic weapons. Today too those who challenge God fill us with terror. But God is King of all nations. He created them across the face of the earth.</p><p>Has anyone ever challenged God in the manner of a Goliath as Hitler did? How impressive it was to see him drawing up his plans, high up in his 'Eagle's Nest' with a view of the Alpine scenery as wide and splendid as that shown by Satan to Christ from the top of a great mountain. Did the Devil stand beside him there and whisper: 'All of this will I give you if you fall down and worship me?' But the visitor, wandering among the ruins of the Thousand-Year Reich a few years later, would wonder what had gone wrong with Hitler's plans. And the only answer he would find would be that of the Magnificat: 'He has shown might in his arm; He has scattered the proud in the conceit of their hearts; He has put down the mighty from their thrones and exalted the humble.' How often mankind has experienced this! Therefore we must not be discouraged by any danger, any threat of war, any onslaught against God's Kingdom on earth.</p><p>Once the immeasurable might of the Roman Empire confronted the the young Church. Blood flowed in streams. Murderers, henchmen and traitors were at work among the tiny flock. But it grew in spite of all tribulation. And all that remains of Imperial Rome is ruins. Since then the powers of darkness have joined forces against the Church time and time again. But she is invincible.</p><p><b>Fr. Werenfried van Straaten.</b> (Feasts and Seasons, ACN, 1999)</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBuFCqlofRpYyvPI1lofDFIXEko7yJnPf7ORYojVs7NQu4xB0IWAlFceudkPLN2RQ7Cm7jsov4pBlHZ_hfifbY-No70Q3BBVJymbiUZ8mUBNzW3IFULzfFcHFk5GN69oL-9T9cjSouU3w9HNZT2T4rShA9s7SWc1LTe1vddIlp2BlxKSCXlOMwt5MwKdM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBuFCqlofRpYyvPI1lofDFIXEko7yJnPf7ORYojVs7NQu4xB0IWAlFceudkPLN2RQ7Cm7jsov4pBlHZ_hfifbY-No70Q3BBVJymbiUZ8mUBNzW3IFULzfFcHFk5GN69oL-9T9cjSouU3w9HNZT2T4rShA9s7SWc1LTe1vddIlp2BlxKSCXlOMwt5MwKdM" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>This final Sunday of October is the Feast of Christ the King. Fr. Driver will offer a Low Mass at the usual time of 1.00 p.m. at St. Patrick's, Bradford. <b>Confessions before Mass.</b></p><p>There will also be Masses for the feasts of <b>All Saints and All Souls </b>on Wednesday and Thursday at St. Patrick's.</p><p><b>Wednesday November 1st. All Saints 5.00 p.m.</b></p><p><b>Thursday November 2nd. All Souls 5.00 p.m.</b></p><p>Please don't forget that we return to GMT on Sunday Morning and that the clocks go back an hour as British Summer Time comes to an end. They will go forward again on Easter Sunday 2024. Advent will soon be upon us.</p><p>Ecce Lux Mundi! Ecce Christus Rex!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-40037258688182477222023-10-14T14:09:00.001+01:002023-10-14T14:09:03.963+01:00Pentecost XX<p>Father Driver will be the celebrant at tomorrow's Mass at St. Patrick's for the twentieth Sunday of Pentecost at 1.00 p.m.</p><p>Confessions available.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-21858763410777877822023-10-07T21:37:00.002+01:002023-10-07T21:37:33.819+01:00Pentecost XIX<p>Tomorrow's Mass at St. Patrick's, Westgate, Bradford at <b>1.00p.m.</b> for the nineteenth Sunday of Pentecost will be a missa cantata.</p><p>Confessions available before Mass.</p><p><br /></p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-71376512922699607912023-10-01T08:51:00.000+01:002023-10-01T08:51:06.957+01:00Pentecost XVIII<p> Today’s Mass for the 18th. Sunday of Pentecost at 1.30 p.m. at St. Patrick’s, Bradford is a Low Mass.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-66192823721545371752023-09-16T16:13:00.002+01:002023-09-16T16:14:11.871+01:00Pentecost XVI<p> Mass at 1.00 p.m. at St Patrick’s, Bradford for the sixteenth Sunday of Pentecost will be a Low Mass.</p><p>Confession at call.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-53269374513429497462023-09-09T11:34:00.001+01:002023-09-09T11:34:09.008+01:00Pentecost XV<p>Mass for the fifteenth Sunday of Pentecost at St.Patrick’s will be a Missa Cantata. Usual time of 1.00 p.m.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-56627068181759453032023-09-02T18:37:00.006+01:002023-09-02T18:37:43.097+01:00Pentecost XIV<p> Mass for the fourteenth Sunday of Pentecost at St. Patrick’s. Westgate, Bradford at 1.00 p.m. Low Mass.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-13736515023098970112023-08-24T00:01:00.000+01:002023-08-24T00:01:51.230+01:00Pentecost XIII<p>Thank you to those people who said they were encouraged to see that our albeit weekly Mass was being advertised here again and I have one or two ideas about supplementing these bulletins.</p><p>Mass this Sunday - 1.00 p.m. at St. Patrick’s, Westgate, Bradford - is a Low Mass and the final hymn will be O Mother blest, as we near the end of August. </p><p>On Tuesday 29th there will be Mass in the Ordinary Form at noon to mark the departure of Fr. Columba CFR who is rector at St. Patrick’s and who is taking up a new position in Limerick in his native Ireland. Fr Columba has been amazing in all the time we have been having Mass there each Sunday and Holyday. His patience at my initial incompetence with the digital lights and other domestic matters was as instructive as it was enviable. I shall miss him and wish him every joy in his new post. Some of you will remember that Fr. joined us for the Good Friday liturgy when Fr. Frantisek was the celebrant. Fr Frantisek will replace Fr. Columba as the rector. I am looking forward to working with Fr. Frantisek as much as I did Fr. Columba.</p><p>Confessions generally available at call before or after Mass.</p><p> </p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-87611583057513708212023-08-12T22:57:00.000+01:002023-08-12T22:57:57.114+01:00Pentecost XI<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSEL3ZIpPI_ZfAvzNpNUv_dMKRxtZNfkqS0xcG9tdJN-nPWsvTPDTXDFghy1Oe2_M4cRC64-0q-tHQ6df6C9Q9tspKJNznFbSBMQE0NC0nreDapVCrNtbuQbOL2dJVhXWZAM9rBQ0fIMuT8zkL1CfGhZufGCfIYBkaGgeK23l28SPmGFDWw-ekGghdqfs" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="800" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiSEL3ZIpPI_ZfAvzNpNUv_dMKRxtZNfkqS0xcG9tdJN-nPWsvTPDTXDFghy1Oe2_M4cRC64-0q-tHQ6df6C9Q9tspKJNznFbSBMQE0NC0nreDapVCrNtbuQbOL2dJVhXWZAM9rBQ0fIMuT8zkL1CfGhZufGCfIYBkaGgeK23l28SPmGFDWw-ekGghdqfs=w462-h260" width="462" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Apologies for the late post, we have just returned from Brussels, where the old Mass is available every weekday evening in at least two churches. It was interesting that in both churches the epistle and Gospel were read in the vernacular from the altar and both churches had the dialogue Mass. The churches were under the control of the FSSP and the SSPX. Definitely worth a visit. The SSPX church (St. Joseph/Sint Josef) dates back to the 1840s and is a magnificent edifice. </p><p>Mass tomorrow for the eleventh Sunday of Pentecost at St. Patrick's, Bradford (1.00 p.m.) will be a missa cantata.</p><p>Tuesday is the feast of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady and there will be Mass at St. Patrick's at 5.00 p.m. </p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-17767230983264537222023-08-04T18:33:00.004+01:002023-08-04T18:33:43.257+01:00The Transfiguration<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipLuTKLUHXxuPCggarHzJ5pO17MrT0O-2BoU03dozapRZRb7gfkNatyASd0VUsRUXfAaPL5z_O-4qwndJEMHFnwOnQd3Zgzx0HeqV0Cv-O0Hf4QYs-JebrPRjOas1GNPeutAvkqa8MRJqeY-ArepFOdSdp_qgS6FR6z5le53Wbu4kIE2vgEdan8jAwS4k" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipLuTKLUHXxuPCggarHzJ5pO17MrT0O-2BoU03dozapRZRb7gfkNatyASd0VUsRUXfAaPL5z_O-4qwndJEMHFnwOnQd3Zgzx0HeqV0Cv-O0Hf4QYs-JebrPRjOas1GNPeutAvkqa8MRJqeY-ArepFOdSdp_qgS6FR6z5le53Wbu4kIE2vgEdan8jAwS4k" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Sunday is the feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord and as usual there will be Mass on Sunday at 1.00 p.m. at St. Patrick's, Westgate, Bradford.</p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7988222996954445174.post-91513654131919884262023-07-07T08:18:00.000+01:002023-07-07T08:18:19.759+01:00Mass at Wakefield chantry chapel.<p> Friday 7th July 7.00p.m. Traditional Latin Mass sung by the choir with Monsignor Smith celebrating. Mass to commemorate William Byrd who died 400 years ago this week. Music will be a mixture of plainchant and from William Byrd. <img src="blob:https://www.blogger.com/49cb5a52-aeb7-445a-9c61-5b228a7f5ae7" /></p>Latin Mass contacthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409073256116967557noreply@blogger.com