The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is on Monday 8th December. It will be celebrated in style at the York Oratory with the usual Low Mass at 8.15am and a Solemn Mass at 6pm.
Leading up to the feast, there will be a Novena of prayers. Details are in the poster below.
The Feast of All Saints (1st November) falls this year on a Saturday, although in the Novus Ordo, it will be celebrated on the Sunday, thus transferring the Day of Obligation to the Sunday. There will, nevertheless, be two Masses to celebrate the Feast on Saturday. at the York Oratory
Since the Feast of All Souls (2nd November) falls on a Sunday this year, the celebration of the Feast in the old rite is transferred to the Monday, and there will be a Solemn Requiem in the York Oratory at 6pm. Bishop Eleganti OSB, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Chur in Switzerland, will be preaching.
Details of the Masses, including the musical settings, are given in the poster below.
Fr David Smith has passed on to me some details of additional Masses at the Church of St Mary & St Romuald in Yarm. Please note the Rorate Mass an d the Christmas Day Mass.
Remembrance Sunday (9th November 2025)
The pilgrimage in homour of St Margaret Clitherow and the Martyrs of York took place in York on Bank Holiday Monday. It was a great success with around 350 people taking part. There is a short video of part of the procession on the facebook and twitter pages of the York Oratory.
https://x.com/i/status/1960257010940748042
It has been announced that Fr William Massie will be staying on at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes and St Peter Chanel in Hull. This will allow the Latin Mass at 7.30 on Thursday evenings to continue.
It had been expected that Fr Massie would move to York, but this transfer has been cancelled. It is very good news for supporters of the Latin Mass in Hull.
Friday 15th August is the Feast of the Assumption. There will be Latin Masses at the York Oratory as follows:
8.15am Low Mass
6pm Solemn High Mass
The musical setting of the Solemn High Mass will be Palistrina's Missa Assumpta est Maria. There will also be the motets, Ave maris stella by Grieg and Assumpta est Maria by Byrd.
Please note that there will be no Latin M ass at the Church of Our Lady and St Peter Chanel in Hull on Thursday 31st July.
The annual summer weekend organised by Juventutem at Ampleforth will take place over the weekend of 18th to 20th July. Details are in the poster below. The bookings are being handled by the Laztin Mass Society.
The Feast of corpus Christy occurs on Thursday 19th June.
There will be a Low Mass in the traditional rite at 8.15am at the York Oratory. There will be also be a Solemn Mass at the York Oratory at 6pm. This Mass will be followed by a procession of the Blessed Sacrament through the streets of York.
A reminder that Monday 6th January is the Feast of the Epiphany. There will be two Latin Masses at the York Oratory. The usual weekday Low Mass will take place at 8.15am and there will be a Solemn Mass at 6pm.
The campaign to promote the freedom of the Latin Mass has gained support from an unexpected source. Mr Jim Shannon, the Democratic Unionist Party the MP for Strangford in County Down in Northern Ireland has submitted a written question to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK government asking if there were any plans to intervene with the Holy See on the question of the rumoured ban on the Latin Mass during the forthcoming Chartres pilgrimage.
Mr Shannon is a Protestant, a prominent Orangeman and a member of the political party founded by the Rev Ian Paisley. He is also a campaigner for the freedom of religious beliefs, and clearly regards the restriction currently being imposed on the Latin Mass as a violations of such freedoms.
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