Please note that the Latin Mass that normally takes place at the Church of Our Lady and St Peter Chanel in Hull on Thursday evenings will NOT take place on Ascension Day. This is because Fr Massie has to say a Novus Ordo Mass at that time.
06 May 2024
30 April 2024
Feast of the Ascension
The Feast of the Ascension will be on Thursday, 9th May. As is usual on major feast days, there will be a Solemn Mass at the York Oratory at 6pm.
There will also be a Latin Mass for the Feast of the Ascension at the church of Our L:ady and St Peter Chanel at 7.30pm.
CORRECTION
There will be NO Latin Mass on Ascension Day in Hull
22 April 2024
Pilgrimage in Preston
Pilgrimage in honour of the Martyrs of England & Wales
Saturday 4th May
There will be a pilgrimage in honour of the English Martyrs in Preston on Saturday 4th May. The pilgrimage will begin with devotions in the Church of St Walburge at 10.30am before pilgrims process to the Church of the English Martyrs, which is a distance of about a mile. There will be a Solemn Mass offered by the Canons of the Institute of Christ the King at the English Martyrs Church beginning at around 11.30 and this will be followed by veneration of relics. Tea and coffee will be provided after Mass.
The postcode for St Walberge’s Church is PR2 2QE, and for English Martyrs Church is PR1 1NA.
Here is a picture of the procession leaving St Walburge’s taken in 2018.
28 February 2024
Triduum Cancelled in Diocese of Westminster
The Latin Mass Society has issued a press release (reproduced below) about the Archbishop of Wstminster refusing peremission for the celebration of the sacred services of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday in the Diocese of Westminster. This is despite these services having taken place in the diocese fcor almost 30 years.
26 January 2024
Candlemas
Friday 2nd February is the Feast of thbe Purification, or Candlemas. There will be a Sung Mass at the York Oratory at 6pm. See previous post for the music.
Music at the York Oratory
04 January 2024
Feast of the Epiphany
Saturday 6th January is the Feast of thr Epiphany and a Holyday of Obligation. There will be two Latin Masses at the York Oratory:
9.15am Low Mass asis usual on Saturdays
12.10pm High Mass with music by Mozart, Sheppard and Palistrina.
No doubt, having the 12.10pm Mass as a traditional Mass will introduce many new people to the Mass of Ages.
29 November 2023
Feast of the Immaculate Conception
The Feast of the Immaculate Conception occurs on 8th December, and will be celebrated at the York Oratory with due celebrity. There will be First Vespers on Thursday 7th Dev at 6pm: and on thre feast day itself there will a Low Mass at 8.15am and a SZolemn Mass at 6pm.
The Music is listed below.
11 November 2023
Dismissal of Bishop Strickland
The Vatican has announced that the Bishop of Tyler, Texas, Rt Rev Joseph Strickland, has been dismissed. The dismissal was made known in the following statement:
The Holy Father has removed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Tyler, United States of America, and has appointed Bishop Joe Vásquez of Austin as apostolic administrator of the same diocese, rendering it sede vacante.
The decision came after an apostolic visitation ordered by the Pope last June in the Diocese of Tyler, which was entrusted to two US bishops, Bishop Dennis Sullivan of Camden, and Bishop Emeritus Gerald Kicanas of Tucson.
No reason has been given for the dismissal, and no one has been able to point to any misdemenour on the part of the bishop, other than the accusation that Bishop Strickland was undermining the authority of the Pope. Bishop Strickloand has been a strong upholder of the Catholic Faith, and was well known as a defensor fidei.
31 October 2023
Friday 3rd November
There will be a Sung Requiem Mass at the York Oratory at 6pm for deceased members of the Oratory. It will be the Plainsong Missa pro Defuncta.
This is in addition to the regular Low Mass in Latin at 8.15am.