Candlemas etc

This Sunday is the feast of Candlemas and we have two Masses:

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

1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Tomorrow (1st February) there is Mass in the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham Rite at 3.00 p.m. at St. Joseph's and there will be Evensong also at St. Joseph's on Monday at 7.00 p.m.

On Tuesday there will be a funeral at St. Winefride's so the Extraordinary Form Mass will be at the earlier time of 10.00 a.m.

Mass at St. Anthony's as usual at Clayton on Thursday at 9.30 a.m.

Epiphany III

The human and divine Christ are again manifested to us in the Gospel at this weekend's Mass as we are still in the Christmas season. Yet we will not see green vestments again for many weeks until a Sunday until June. 

A few days in Krakow this week gave me the Christmas tingle of late Advent which I experienced as a child. 

We attended three EF Masses at three different churches at convenient times. At each Mass the altar was decorated with Christmas trees. My wife and I were the oldest people at any of the Masses we went to except on Thursday when we heard Mass at the former Jesuit church of Ss Peter and Paul where Pope Saint John Paul II's parents were married early last century. Here the Polish/American priest was older than we are by about 20 years.  

The joy of Christ's birth and subsequent flight (and survival) of the Holy Family into Egypt are still redolent of the gold, frankincense and myrrh brought by the Magi. 

The Magi followed the light of the star but beyond that light rests the liturgical darkening of the season of Septuagesima which in Rome and the northern hemisphere coincides with the noticeable start of the lengthening of the days. After Candlemas we can more easily visualise the blending of the joyful into the sorrowful mysteries of the Rosary and moreover the Passion narrative. Light from light as we look to the glorious mysteries.

We have two Masses on Sunday:

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

1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford  missa cantata

This week in Bradford there are Masses at St. Winefride's, Wibsey at noon on Tuesday and at St. Anthony's, Clayton at 9.30 a.m. on Thursday.  

Confession at call.

Epiphany II

This Sunday is the second Sunday after Pentecost with its beautiful epistle and Gospel. We have three Masses:

8.00 a.m. Leeds Cathedral, Cookridge Street, Leeds

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

1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Confessions at call.

Reminder that there are Masses in Bradford at St. Winefride's at noon on Tuesday and at 9.30 a.m. at St. Anthony's, Clayton on Thursday. 

The first Mass at St. Winefride's earlier this week saw a decent turnout and Mgr Grogan's first public Mass was a moving experience. As far as I am aware this was the first ever public EF Mass in the "new" St. Winefride's church which opened in the mid 1970s but which has altar rails and lends itself well to ad orientem worship before the tabernacle. 

Feast of the Holy Family and another regular Mass

This Sunday is the feast of the Holy family and we have two Masses:

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

1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford - SUNG MASS

If you are wondering whether to have a look at what goes on at the EF Mass what better opportunity than this wonderful feast? Specially because the traditional family unit is so severely under attack these days not to mention the value of human life from conception to natural death.

Confessions at call.

Reminder that on Tuesday 14th January at noon we will be having the first regular EF Mass at St. Winefride's, St. Paul's Avenue at Wibsey.

Today I finalised details of another regular Mass with Canon Wiley. He will be offering Mass on the second Wednesdays of the month starting in February at 7.30 p.m. at St. Joseph's, Back Street, Pontefract.

This is the third new regular venue of 2020.

Epiphany

This Sunday we have 2 Masses for the feast of the Epiphany: 

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton - missa cantata

1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Confessions at call.

No first Friday Mass at Wakefield tomorrow (3rd January.)

PLEASE NOTE - the Mass according to the Rite of Our Lady of Walsingham will resume on Saturday 4th. January at 3.00 p.m. at St. Joseph's, Bradford. I hope Fr. Stafford is now fully recovered.

New venue - updated

I am very pleased to announce third and fourth regular venues for the EF Mass in Bradford. Mgr Grogan, the Parish Priest of Mary Mother of God Parish in South Bradford has been training to offer the Mass and from Tuesday January 14th he will be offering Mass each Tuesday at noon  at St. Winefride's, St. Paul's Avenue, Wibsey, Bradford. On First Fridays he will offer Mass at 6.00 p.m. at St. John the Evangelist, Cooper Lane. Many thanks to Mgr Grogan for this.

St. Thomas of Canterbury

Tomorrow in England and Wales we observe the feast of St. Thomas of Canterbury. We have two Masses:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Confessions at call.

Gloria in excelsis Deo

Et incarnatus est de Spiritu sancto ex Maria Virgine: Et homo factus est.

Merry Christmas and a peaceful new year!

During the coming Christmas season

grant Lord that may we be blessed

with the spirit of the season,

which is peace,

with the gladness of the season,

which is hope

and with the heart of the season, 

which is love.

Christmas Masses :

Christmas Eve: 11.30 p.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton

Christmas Day: 11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart Broughton Hall, Skipton

                           1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Advent IV

This weekend is the last Sunday of Advent and we have two Masses:

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

1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford (Sung Mass)

Confessions at call. 

This week: 

Tuesday 24th. December 8.00 a.m. St. Joseph's, Martin Street,  Brighouse

                                         11.30 p.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton

Wednesday 25th. December 11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton

                                              1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

No Mass at Clayton on Boxing Day.

Christmas Masses

Remember that we have our first ever Rorate Mass tomorrow (Tuesday 17th. December) at 6.00 a.m. at St. Joseph's, Martin Street, Brighouse.

Christmas Masses:

Christmas Eve: 11.30 p.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
Christmas Day: 11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton                              1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford 

Gaudete

This weekend marks the third Sunday of Advent or Gaudete Sunday. The rose vestments signify a lightening of the penitential mood as they do on the fourth Sunday of Lent.

We have three Masses:

8.00 a.m. Leeds Cathedral, Cookridge Street, Leeds
11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton  Hall, Skipton
1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

On Tuesday (17th December) we have our first ever Rorate Mass at 6.00 a.m. at St. Joseph's, Martin Street, Brighouse.
Masses Mon-Fri at 10.00 a.m. at Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton.
Thursday at 9.30 a.m.  at St. Anthony's, Bradford Road, Clayton, Bradford

Confessions at call.
I shall publish details of Christmas Masses later next week.

This weekend - the Immaculate Conception

On Friday evening at 7.30 p.m. we have the regular first Friday Mass at St. Austin's, Wentworth Terrace, Wakefield.
On Saturday the regular Mass at Broughton Hall is at the usual 10.30 a.m.

Although Sunday is the second Sunday of Advent the Feast of the Immaculate Conception overrides this in the Extraordinary Form. We have two Masses:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford - sung Mass

Confessions at call.

Election 2019

A message from Bishop Marcus Stock: 
In the next parliament, it is likely that there will be efforts to introduce changes to the law that would allow abortion on demand, for any reason, up to birth and that there will be further attempts to introduce assisted suicide.  Whatever political party you may be considering voting for, please reflect on the importance of human life.  Find out where your local political candidates stand on life issues – abortion and assisted suicide – by visiting www.righttolife.org.uk/bothlives.  If you use social media, please also consider sharing this campaign on your Facebook page or whatever social media platform you use.  Draft flyers are also available from: https://righttolife.org.uk/wpcontent/uploads/2019/11/RTL-flyer-print.pdf.

From Sunday's bulletin at St. Joseph's, Bradford

Advent

Fifty years ago this weekend the missal of Pope Paul VI was introduced and very strict restrictions were imposed on the celebration of the Mass in the form which had preceded it. Many good pastoral priests believed it was their duty to stamp out anything which had gone before.

Fifty years later that form of Mass which was all but supressed still continues to flourish in many parts of the world. Yesterday I added a new resource courtesy of the FFSP in Sydney, Australia - this is an extremely interesting and absorbing  page. https://maternalheart.org/resources/

The season of Advent begins on Sunday and I am in the process of finalising details of the Advent and Christmas Masses. I can say that there will be a first this year with a Rorate Mass in Brighouse.

We have two Masses on Sunday:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton, Skipton
1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Confessions at call.

Next week - the first week in Advent - we have Mass at 10.00 a.m. from Monday to Friday at Broughton: in addition there are Masses at 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday at Ossett; at 9.30 a.m. on Thursday at St. Anthony's, Bradford and at 7.30 p.m  on Friday at St. Austin's, Wakefield.

Please make an extra effort to attend at least one of our Masses in the beautiful season of Advent.

Quiz

On Monday night the Knights of St. Columba in Bradford organised an inter-parish quiz at Shipley Catholic Men's Society's club - the Avondale. For the first time we entered a team called St. Joseph's on Extraordinary Form. Fourteen teams entered and we came seventh. We were a team of three. The next quiz is on Monday 27th April - so if you would like to join us please let me know. There is a raffle and free supper.

Extra Mass

Tomorrow, Tuesday 26th, there will be Mass at St. Joseph's, Martin Street, Brighouse at 10.00 a.m.
Reminder also that there is Mass each Thursday at 9.30 a.m. at St. Anthony's, Bradford Rd, Clayton Bradford.

Confessions at call.

Pentecost XXIV

I have just returned from a few days in Cracow so I apologise for this later than usual update about Masses this weekend. This Sunday is the twenty-fourth and last Sunday after Pentecost. Next week Advent begins.

We have two Masses:

11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Confessions at call.

This weekend

On Saturday we have a solemn High Mass of Requiem at 3.00 p.m. at Leeds Cathedral for the repose of the soul of Bishop Wheeler. Mgr. Smith will be the celebrant assisted by Canon Wiley and Fr. Crawley.

On Sunday it is the twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost and we have three Masses:

8.00 a.m. Leeds Cathedral, Cookridge Street, Leeds
11.00 a.m. Sacred Heart, Broughton Hall, Skipton
1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford

Confessions at call.

Leeds Cathedral - Solemn High Mass of Requiem

Solemn High Mass of Requiem

for the repose of the soul of Bishop William Gordon Wheeler

Saturday 16th. November

3.00 p.m.

Leeds Cathedral

Cookridge Street, Leeds

With the Leeds Schola Gregoriana

led by Michael Murphy

Remembrance Sunday

This Sunday we remember the men and women who gave their lives in defence of our country against enemy forces which would have destroyed our way of life. 

We have two Masses:

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

1.00 p.m. St. Joseph's, Pakington Street, Bradford - This will be a sung Mass of Requiem for the war dead. Following Mass there will be remembrance at the parish cenotaph, which came from the nearby now defunct St. Ann's church.

This week there are the usual Masses each day at Broughton at 10.00 a.m. 

On Tuesday there will be an extra Mass at St. Joseph's, Martin Street, Brighouse at 10.00 a.m.

Also  a reminder that the Thursday Mass at Clayton's St. Anthony's, Bradford continues with increasing popularity at 9.30 a.m.

On Saturday:

Annual Requiem Mass for Bishop Wheeler 

Saturday 16th. November  

Leeds Cathedral 

3.00 p.m.

with the Schola Greg lead by Michael Murphy

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Bishop William Gordon Wheeler. A good and faithful servant.