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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Sunday 8th December is the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. There will be the usual Sung Latin Mass at noon in the York Oratory. The musical setting will be Victoria's Messe Ave Maris Stella. In the afternoon, there will be Vespers and Benediction featuring the Magnificat Primi Toni by Lassus.
Starting today, 29th November, and running up to the Feast, we are asked to pray a Novena that the proposal to legalise assisted suicide being debated in Parliament be rejected.
Below is the Music List for November at the York Oratory.
Friday 1st November is the Feast of All Saints and a Holiday of Obligation. There will be two Latin Masses at the York Oratory:
8.15am Low Mass
6pm Solemn Mass
Saturday 2nd November is the Feast of All Souls. There will be two Latin Masses at the York Oratory:
9.15am Low Mass
12.10pm Sung Requiem Mass
The music for the Sung Masses is listed in a separate post.
There are several additional Latin Masses coming up at the York Oratory.
Wednesday 9th October, Feast of St John Henry Newman
Solemn Mass at 6pm
Saturday 12thy October, Feast of St Wilfrid
Solemn Mass at 12.10pm
Friday 1st November, All Saints Day
Solemn Mass at 6pm
Saturday 2nd November, All Souls Day
Sung Requiem Mass at 12.10pm
Sunday 4th November
Requiem for deceased Fathers and Brothers of the the Oratory at 6pm.
Brendan Kavanagh is a musician with a very large following on Youtube. He usually plays public pianos in location s ,like St Pancras Station, and specialises in Boogie Woogie music. However, he has an interest in the Latin Mass, and has released a video of the beginning of a Missa Cantata that took part in a barn that he has converted into a chapel. Here is the link.
https://youtu.be/ZG0clp1NPQY?si=5xG157Jr_gy26MPE
I expect that more will be available soon.
This is how to advertise a Latin Mass if it is not permitted to be included in the parish bulletin.
Here is a better picture of the pilgrimage passing the Margaret Clitherow Shrine in the Shambles in York.
