The Latin Mass Society Diocese of Middlesbrough: Majority of French Priests Celebrate the Older Form of the Mass.

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 Leo 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)

25 September 2026

Majority of French Priests Celebrate the Older Form of the Mass.

On the eve of the visit of Pope Leo to France, the French newspaper, Le Figero, has published the results of a poll probing into the practice of Catholicism in France.

One figure to emerge from the survey is that 55% of priests in France aged from 25 to 34 claim to celebrate Mass in Latin and/or the Extraordinary Form. This compares with only 2% of priests over 75 who claimed to do the same.