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.
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.
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.
The Latin Masses at the York Oratory on All Souls Day will be as follows:
8.15am Low Mass
6pm Solemn Mass
The musical setting for the Solemn Mass will be Victoria'a Missa pro Defunctis for six parts.
There will also be a Sung Requiem Mass at 7.30pm at the Church of Our Lady and St Peter Chanel in Hull. This will be a Plainchant. Please support this Mass, as it is only occasionally that we have a Sung Mass in Hull.
There will be Latin Masses at the York Oratory on the Feast of All Saints as follows:
8.15am Low Mass
6pm High Mass
The musical setting of the evening Mass will be Victoria's O quam gloriosum est regnum, with motets by Lassus and Byrd.
There will be a meeting of the Guild of St Clare at St Wilfrid's Church (the York Oratory) on Saturday 21st October at 10am. Anyone with an interest in sewing is welcome.
You can bring your own work, or participate in the repair of vestments belonging to the Oratory. No experience is necessary, and tuition and advice will be on hand.
Participants are asked to bring a packed lunch, although some choose to visit a local cafe. Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided. The day usually ends around 3pm. For fcurther information email waddadux@gmail.com
The Feast of St Wilfrid will be celebrated at the York Oratory on Thursday 12th October with a Solemn Mass at 6pm. The Musical setting will be Missa Cantate by Sheppard. Interesting Missa Cantate means Sing the Mass, which implies that we are being encouraged to participate at least in our minds.
There will also be the motets, Beati Omnes (also by Sheppard) and O Sacrum Convivium (Tallis).
As is normal there will also be a Low Mass at 8.15am.
There will be a Solemn Mass at 6pm in the York Oratory to celebrate the Feast of St John Henry Newman on M onday 9th October. The musical setting will be the Mass of St Philip Neri by Sewell, and there will be the motets Ecce Sacerdos Magnus (Elgar) and Ave Verum Corpus (Elgar).
There will, of course, also be the usual Low Mass at 8.15 am.
The twelfth annual international pilgrimage, Populus Summorum Pontificum, is due to take place in Rome between 27th and 29th October. Since 2012 priests, religious and laity have been gathering in Rome each year for this pilgrimage, which has featured a Solemn Mass at the altar of the Chair of St Peter in the Vatican Basilica.
However, this year, the organisers have been informed by Cardinal Mauro Gambetti OFM Conv., Archpriest of St Peter's Basilica, that the celebration of the Holy Mass in the traditional form, that normally takes place on the Saturday of the pilgrimage, will not be authorised. In stead, it is being proposed that the Creed will be sung as pilgrims take part in a procession to the tomb of the Prince of the Apostles.
Last year, 1700 pilgrims took part in the Populus Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage. The organisers are hoping that there will be many more this year.
Thursday 29th June is the Feast of St Peter & St Paul, and is a Holyday of Obligation. There will be La\tin Masses at the York Oratory as follows:
8.15am Low Mass
6pm Solemn Mass
Please note that THERE WILL BE NO 7.30PM LATIN MASS AT OUR LADY AND ST PETER CHANEL IN HULL that day, as Fr Massie has to say a novus ordo Mass that evening.
