Back from holidays

After a week on the continent and a week of doing barely anything I am now feeling refreshed enough to start being sociable again and doing some work - as well as lots more holiday reading.
This weekend is the first of the month and Masses for Pentecost XI are as follows:

Saturday - 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.
                Holy Spirit, Bath Road, Heckmondwike, 4.00 p.m.

Pentecost IX

Mass at Halifax on Saturday resumes tomorrow as Mgr Smith has now returned from Rome and Lourdes.

Masses this weekend:

Saturday
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.
Holy Spirit, Bath Road, Heckmondwike- 4.00 p.m.

I see that one of the worst kept secrets ever has now become official news and that the Oratorians are to take over the parish of St. Wilfrid's in York. The Oratory at Oxford is much too small for the community there and I understand that some of the community are unable to reside in the presbytery (where I have served Mass several times).

It will be interesting to see how this develops and if the York Oratory enjoys the same success as those in Birmingham, Oxford, Manchester and London.

Masses this weekend

At Masses this weekend please remember two of our celebrants who are celebrating 25 years of priestly ministry this week. Fr. Richard Aladics and Fr. Tim Wiley are both good friends to the LMS and on behalf of the Society I should like to extend our very good wishes and prayers to them. Ad multos annos Fathers!

Masses on Sunday:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton.
3.00 p.m. St. Peter's, Leeds Rd. Laisterdyke, Bradford. (Sung Mass)
3.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pontefract Rd. Castleford.

Summer cancellations and Masses this weekend

Due to other parish commitments/events there will be no Mass at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Moortown this Friday (first in July). ALSO there will be no Masses for the next two Saturdays in Halifax. It has been impossible to find substitute priests this year.

First Friday Mass at Broughton Hall at 9.30 a.m.
Masses for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost this Sunday are as follows:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton (Missa cantata)
3.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pontefract Road, Castleford.
4.00 p.m. Holy Spirit, Bath Road, Heckmondwike.

Saints Peter and Paul

This weekend marks the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. This is a truly Roman feast.
Masses are as follows:

Saturday - 9.30 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall,  Skipton
                4.00 p.m. Notre Dame, Leeds University Chaplaincy, St. Mark's Avenue, Leeds
                6.00 p.m. St. Mary's, Gibbet Street, Halifax
Sunday    -11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
                   3.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pontefract Road, Castleford

   

Pentecost V

Masses this weekend for the 5th Sunday after Pentecost (22 and 23 June):

Saturday 6.00 p.m. St Mary's, Gibbet Street, Halifax
Sunday 11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton.
              3.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pontefract Road, Castleford.
              4.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Skipton Road, Bilton, Harrogate - Missa Cantata.

Pentecost IV

Masses this weekend for the fourth Sunday after Pentecost:

Saturday 15th. June St. Mary's, Gibbet Street, Halifax, 6.00 p.m.
Sunday 16th. June Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, 11.00 a.m.
                             St. Joseph's, Pontefract Road, Castleford, 3.00 p.m.
                             Holy Spirit, Bath Road, Heckmondwike, 4.00 p.m.

Reminder that next week (23rd. June) we have a Missa Cantata at St. Joseph's, Bilton, Harrogate at 4.00 p.m. A faithful parishioner has been doing all the spade work to organise our Masses over recent months there and I am very grateful to him. It has been of some concern to me that some priests in the Harrogate deanery have refused to advertise these Masses, as if there has been no Summorum Pontificum. Alas some clergy are still locked in a 1970s time warp. I have no desire to invite controversy but such pastors really do need to take a reality check and realise that orthodoxy didn't end with Vatican II and that the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms of the Mass can co-exist in harmony. We still profess the same Creed and follow the same Catechism - or do we?

An evening of Sacraments

Just over two dozen people attended Mass for the Sacred Heart at the church of the Immaculate Heart in Leeds this evening - and a very pleasant festal Mass it was - thanks to Fr. Wiley, the Dean of North Leeds for this and also for having conferred the Rite of Confirmation on two young lads beforehand.  The lads are regular servers at our Masses around the diocese. Mgr. Wilson, the Vicar Capitular (or Diocesan Administrator in newspeak) had sent special permission for this Sacrament to be conferred this day by Fr. Wiley and in accordance with the books of 1962 in the absence of an Ordinary. The boys had their confessions heard before the ceremonies, as did others.
We sang Come Holy Ghost before the Confirmation and Sweet Heart of Jesus at the conclusion of Mass, with a Salve Regina and the Tantum ergo in and amongst.
The boys took the names Benedict and Dominic.
Deo gratias!
 

Good news

I have just been greatly cheered with news from Fr. Abberton in Heckmondwike. The scaffolding is down and Masses will resume there on June 16th. at 4.00 p.m. Reminder nearer the time.

PLEASE NOTE

Due to crossing of wires there will be NO MASS at St. Peter's, Bradford, next Sunday (9th. June)  due to the annual parish procession of the Blessed Sacrament. Please pray for good weather for them. Normal schedule for us to be resumed in July.
There will however be a sung Mass at St. Joseph's, Bilton on Sunday 23rd. June at 4.00 p.m.

This week

Mass every day this week at Broughton Hall at 9.30 a.m. (Sundays 11.00 a.m.)

Friday is the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and there will be a Mass at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Moortown, Leeds at 7.30 p.m. preceded by Confirmations at 7.00 p.m. Opportunity for confession.

Corpus Christi Sunday

Come to the banquet!

It has been half term and a long week. My father in law's requiem Mass went ahead faultlessly followed by burial at Bradford's historic Undercliffe Cemetery. We are all grateful for the kind wishes and Masses.

This weekend we observe the external solemnity of Corpus Christi.

Masses - Saturday - 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.

(Holy Spirit - Heckmondwike is still out of use but Fr. Abberton assures me that the normal schedule will be resumed as soon as possible after removal of the scaffolding.)

Trinity

Masses this weekend

Saturday 

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.

Reminder - next week

TUESDAY 28 MAY - Bewerley Grange Chapel, Pateley Bridge, 11.30 a.m. (St. Augustine)

THURSDAY - 30 MAY - Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, 11.00 a.m. (Corpus Christi)

Confirmations

The First Friday of June will see Confirmations administered according to the 1962 Rite, by the Dean of North Leeds and Vicar Forane  in the absence of an Ordinary and with the permission of the Vicar Capitular. These will take place at Immaculate Heart, Moortown, Leeds on Friday June 7th. at 7.00 p.m. - the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

A little treat

Mr. Forbester of York who is a regular singer at many LMS events and founder of the Rudgate Singers has put a video recording of the Mass at York a few weeks ago on Youtube. You will hear the quality of the singing, the preaching and the ceremony. Thanks to Mike for this.
http://youtu.be/varAxW6HuQk

Of your charity

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Of your charity please say a prayer for the repose of the soul of my father in law who died peacefully this afternoon after much suffering patiently borne.
May he rest in peace.

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Pentecost

Sunday is the birthday of the Church.

Masses this weekend:

Saturday at St. Mary's, Halifax at 6.00 p.m.

Sunday at Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton at 11.00 a.m.
                St. Joseph's, Pontefract Road, Castleford at 3.00 p.m.

Another busy week ahead

This week sees the feast of the Ascension and although it is no longer a holy day in this country there will be Mass on Thursday at Sacred Heart, Broughton at the later time of 11.00 a.m.

On Saturday there will be Masses at Notre Dame chapel, St. Mark's Avenue, Leeds at 4.00 p.m. (sung) and at St. Mary's Halifax at 6.00 p.m.

On Sunday Masses at Broughton at 11.00 a.m., at St. Peter's,  Bradford at 3.00 p.m. (sung), St. Joseph's, Castleford at 3.00 p.m. and at St. Joseph's, Skipton Road, Bilton, Harrogate at 4.00 p.m.

This means we have access to 6 Sunday Masses offered by six different priests - please do all you can to attend one of them. 

An occasion to remember

The Mass at St. Wilfrid's in York today was by any standard an excellent occasion. The setting, the music, the ceremony and the sermon were as good as any I have yet seen and heard. Revv Montjean, Hall and Cahill carried out their duties confidently under the hawk-eyed MC. At Benediction it was again a pleasure to see Fr. Brown of the University of Bradford give Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Another Leeds Priest was also in the congregation and a good number of Leeds members were able to join us and serve and be involved in the procession. 

A lady and her daughter to whom I spoke at Immaculate Heart last year when Bishop Rifan visited us were present at the Mass in their native York and the lady was very complimentary about this blog - I now know who my reader is!

The picture above is by way of Leo Darroch, President of Una Voce who was the Armstrong Jones of Ushaw a few years ago at our conferences there.

Thanks be to Almighty God for such an inspiring day.

This weekend

This weekend is going to be very busy and so there will be no First Friday Mass at Immaculate Heart, Leeds but Mass will be offered as usual at Sacred Heart, Broughton at 9.30 a.m.

Mass at Broughton again on Saturday morning at 9.30 a.m.
In York on Saturday there will be the annual pilgrimage to York beginning with Mass at St. Wilfrid's next to the Minster at 1.30 p.m. followed by a procession to English Martyrs via the Shambles and the home of St. Margaret Clitherow, in whose honour the occasion takes place. It is very moving to pass the spot on the Ouse Bridge which marks the spot of her disgraceful and heroic death. Benediction at English Martyrs with veneration of the relic of St. Margaret.
Mass at Halifax at 6.00 p.m.

On Sunday the Mass at Broughton Hall will be a Missa Cantata at 11.00 a.m.
Low Mass at Castleford, St. Joseph's at 3.00 p.m. but due to ongoing building works no Mass at Heckmondwike.

May

May is the month of our Blessed Lady

Let us try to offer at least a decade of the Rosary each day for the liberation and exaltation of the Church, the Holy Father and the Propagation of the Faith.

We have a busy weekend ahead and I'll post on this tomorrow.