The Feast of Candlemas, or the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary is on Wednesday 2nd February. There will be a Sung Latin Mass with blessing of candles and procession at 6pm in St Wilfrid's Church, York.
CANCELLED MASS
Please note that the Latin Mass that usually takes place at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes and St Peter Channel at 7.30pm on Thursdays will NOT take place on Thursday 13th January. The Mass will resume the following week.
Although I do not subscribe to The Tablet, I am always interested to see what it has to say on matters concerning the Latin Mass. I discovered that last week's edition included three letters (including one from myself) on the subject, all of which were highly critical of the policy coming from the Pope Francis and the Vatican of attempting to extinguish the Mass that so many of us love. The letters are reproduced below.
The following are extracts from the sermon given in St Peter's Basilica by Pope Francis on the Feast of the Epiphany:
"Have we been stuck all too long, nestled inside a conventional, external and formal religiosity that no longer warms our hearts and changes our lives?"
"Do our words and our liturgies ignite in people's hearts a desire to move towards God, or are they a 'dead language' that speaks only of itself and to itself?"
It seems that Pope Francis is continuing to deride the Latin Mass, and is now doing so in his sermons.
Thursday 6th January is the Feast of the Epiphany and a Holyday of Obligation. In the Middlesbrough Diocese, there will be a Sung Mass at 6pm at St Wilfrid's, York; and a Low Mass at the Church of Our Lady and St Peter Chanel in Hull The Mass in Hull will be offered for the repose of the soul of Peter Miles, a long time member of the Latin Mass Society, who died before Christmas.
