The purpose of this blog is to provide an open forum for discussion of the aims of the society; news from the wider Church and details of Masses and events of interest in the diocese. The Latin Mass Society in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough expresses its full filial devotion and loyalty to Holy Mother Church, Pope Francis and Bishop Drainey.



REGULAR TRADITIONAL MASSES IN THE DIOCESE OF MIDDLESBROUGH

12 Noon. Every Sunday Missa Cantata
York Oratory (
Church of St Wilfrid)
Duncombe Place, York. YO1 7EF

8:15am Monday-Friday
9:15am Saturday

Feast Days (as advertised) usually at 6pm.

Church of St Mary & St Romuald, High Street, Yarm. TS15 9AA

2pm Sunday.

Church of Our Lady of Lourdes and St Peter Chanel
119 Cottingham Road, Hull. HU5 2DH
7.30pm Every Thursday. Low Mass.

VESPERS AND BENEDICTION

4pm. Every Sunday
York Oratory (
Church of St Wilfrid)
Duncombe Place, York. YO1 7EF

Compline and Vespers (as advertised)
(see link to the Rudgate Singers Calendar below)


26 June 2019

Fest of the Most Precious Blood. Monday July 1st.

Feasts of the Sacred Heart and saints Peter and Paul


The Feast of the Sacred Heart is celebrated on the last Friday of June, which this year is 28th June.  The following day, Saturday 29th June is the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.  So this year, these two great feasts follow one another.  As you can see from the poster below, St Wilfrid's Church in York will be linking these two great feasts with All Night Adoration.


















17 June 2019

Feast of St Peter and St Paul


Saturday 29th June is the Feast of St Peter and St Paul.  There will be a Sung Mass at 12 noon at the Church of St Wilfrid in York.

Fr Mark Drew and Masses at Hedon



Later this year, Fr Mark Drew will be leaving Hedon, and returning to his native Liverpool.  This means that, unless another priest can be found, Latin Masses at the Church of St Mary and St Joseph in Hedon will be coming to an end before long.  Fr Drew's exact departure date is not known, but we do know the following:

   14th July           No Mass

   11th August      Mass at 5pm

   Thereafter         Uncerain.

We must thank Fr Drew for all the Latin Masses he has offered at Hull, Marton and Hedon in the last few Years.

Corpus Christi


On the Feast of Corpus Christi, Thursday 20th June, there will be a High Mass in the Extraordinary Form at St Wilfrid's Church York.  It will be at 6pm.

11 June 2019

John Konstantin Tee


I will be travelling to London on Saturday to attend the priestly ordination of John Tee.  He is to become a priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

John Te served as a Military Chaplain for the Church of England before his conversion to Catholicism.  He has also been a regular attender of the Latin Mass in York in recent years.

The soon to be Fr Tee started an Ordinariate Group in York a couple of years ago, and he expects to develop this following his ordination.

No July Mass at Hedon


Due to Fr Drew being away from the parish, there will be NO Latin Mass at Hedon on Sunday 14th July.

Three more Seminarians for the Priestly Society of St Peter


The Priestly Society of St Peter has announced that three young men from England have been admitted to the FSSP seminary in the USA.   They will be starting their studies there later in the year.  They will join several other English seminarians.  This is evidence of the continuing popularity of the traditional priestly orders amongst young men considering a priestly vocation.

As the number of diocesan priests continues to decline, a stream of traditionally trained priests will play an increasingly important role throughout the country.  May the FSSP continue to attract many vocations.

08 June 2019

Cardinal Pujats


The following is copied from the blogsite, The Eponymous Flower.  It is a transcript from a interview given on Gloria TV by the Latvian Cardinal Pujats.

"I'm a traditionalist and I informed the Pope of this in a letter I sent to him through the Nunciature," Latvian Cardinal Janis Pujats told Polonia Christiana on 4 June. Pujats added that the discipline of the sacraments should be observed in the Church, especially regarding the Sacrament of Matrimony. He pointed out that the Church must not imitate the sins of the world and, for example, bless homosexual couples. Pujats also explained that sexual atheism is more dangerous than Communist atheism.

Pujats criticized that in many churches very few stand in line for confession, but all go to communion. Quote: "I never allowed that in my church." The communion queues introduced after the Council produce a group pressure so that the people feel obliged to go to communion in order not to stand out, the Cardinal explains. Pujats warned that the priests will be held responsible before God for this abuse.

Pujats is critical of the transition from Latin to the national languages because many things have been lost in the process. Many teachings regarding the liturgy, dogmatics or morality were formulated very precisely in Latin over the centuries. These pearls were only translated to a limited extent. After the Council, the professors in the seminars did not take these things very serious and their seminarians cared even less about them.

The Cardinal explained that discipline and order have to prevail in a seminary. The environment in the seminary must be different from that in the world. Otherwise, the candidates for the priesthood enter the seminary as laymen and also leave it as such. Pujats wishes a monastic discipline in the seminary where the best spiritual fathers are educated. Future priests should be holy. Only then we will see positive effects.

06 June 2019

James Baxter

I read on Fr Brown's blog, Gateshead Revisited, about James Baxter, who is seeking funding for his seminary training at Gricigliano.  James is (or was) a student at Newcastle University studying linguistics. He was introduced to the Latin Mass a couple of years ago when Fr Dominic White OP took a group of students to St Joseph's church in Gateshead so that they could experience the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.  James was so impressed that he started to attend St Joseph's every Sunday.

As part of his course, he spent some time in Spain, where he encountered the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.  The experience prompted him to consider joining the order. During the past year, he has been spending time at the Institute's House of Discernment in Preston, and is due to start his studies at their seminary in September.

Since all Institute students are expected (wherever possible) to pay their own tuition fees, James is seeking funding with go fund me.  The link is below

https://www.gofundme.com/help-another-english-icksp-seminarian?fbclid=IwAR1CGy18sP2XsXy5FRf_TQ-zNwAkFmauuW_VpxPK_X0trWBzgD3q6CLMj7g

Alternatively, read all about it on Fr Brown's blog, Gateshead Revisited.  Here is the link;

https://www.gofundme.com/help-another-english-icksp-seminarian?fbclid=IwAR1CGy18sP2XsXy5FRf_TQ-zNwAkFmauuW_VpxPK_X0trWBzgD3q6CLMj7g

Mass at Hedon


On Sunday 9th June, being the second Sunday of the month, there will be a Low Mass in the traditional Rite at 5pm at the Church of St Mary & St Joseph in Hedon, which five miles to the east of Hull.  Fr Mark Drew will be the celebrant.