Bishop Eleganti in New Brighton: photos

On Sunday Bishop Eleganti continued his tour, organised by the Latin Mass Society, going to SS Peter & Paul and St Philomena in New Brighton, the first church to be taken on by the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. It is a splendid, spacious church, and really well suited to the ceremonies -- and, I should add, to photography!

We would like to thank the many Institute clergy who helped at this Mass, not only those based in New Brighton but their confreres in Preston, and the Sister Adorers who came from Preston to sing for the Mass. The parishioners put on an enormous lunch for all comers after Mass.

Bishop Eleganti in Bedford: photos

The Latin Mass Society's annual Pilgrimage and Mass of Reparation for abortion at the church of the Holy Child and St Joseph was this year celebrated by Bishop Marian Eleganti. 

He was assisted by Fr Armand de Malleray FSSP (AP),  Fr Albert Robinson (Deacon), Fr Gregory Pearson (Subdeacon), and Rev. Mr Niall Ó hAimheirgin, FSSP (Clerical MC).

Requiem for Fr Patrick Hayward: photos

Mass was celebrated by Fr Alan Robinson and accompanied by the Southwell Consort.

His funeral and burial will take place on Wednesday 12:30 pm Christchurch Priory Eltham.

Bishop Marian Eleganti to visit England: tour events

In June Bishop Athanasius Schneider did a tour at our invitation, including
St Augstine's, Ramsgate (pictured)

As part of the Latin Mass Society's 60th anniversary celebrations, we have invited the retired Swish bishop Marian Eleganti to visit us. 

A summary of this tour.

Monday 1st November, All Saints’ Day

Church of the Holy Child and St Joseph, Bedford MK40 1HU (Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe)

12 noon, Solemn Pontifical Mass with polyphony & period instruments

Buffet lunch afterwards: no need to book

Sunday 2nd November, Mass of the Sunday

SS Peter & Paul and St Philomena, 7 Atherton Street, New Brighton CH45 9LT

10:30am Solemn Pontifical Mass

Reception afterwards

Monday 3rd All Souls

St Wilfrid's, York (York Oratory) Duncombe Place, YO1 7EF

6pm Sung Mass of All Souls: Bishop Eleganti to preach.

Wedneday 5th November, Feast of the Holy Relics

SS Gregory & Augustine’s, 322 Woodstock Rd, Oxford, OX2 7NS

6pm Pontifical Low Mass with Polyphony

Friday 8th November, LMS Annual Requiem,

11am Blackfriars, St Giles, Oxford OX1 3LY, UK

Pontifical High Mass

Buffet lunch afterwards for £2! Please book here.

A High Mass of Requiem in the Oxford Blackfriars in 2010

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Oxford Pilgrimage: photos

Some photos from the LMS Oxford Pilgrimage that took place on Saturday 11th October. Mass was celebrated in the Dominican Rite by Fr Lawrence Lew OP and accompanied by the Southwell Consort.

On the Ember Days

High Mass for the Ember Saturday of Advent in Holy Rood, Oxford, 2017

I wrote this for the Catholic Herald in 2017, but it is no longer available on their website, so I thought I'll post it here. I'm a keen supporter of celebrating the Ember Days with solemnity, and look forward to a sung Ember Saturday Mass in London which is currently in the works for Advent.

Since the earliest centuries, the Church in Rome has celebrated special days of fasting spread over the year, the ‘Ember Days’. They are today a feature of the calendar of the Extraordinary Form, although they are not found in the Universal Calendar of the Ordinary Form.

They are also found in the Calendar of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, having been preserved in Anglican usage over the centuries.

The origin of the term English term ‘ember’ is unclear; it may derive from the Old English ‘ymbren’, meaning a circuit or revolution. Other European languages use some version of the Latin term, ‘Quatuor tempora’, ‘four times’. These celebrations may have been brought to England by St Augustine of Canterbury, and seem to have become established here before they spread from Rome to France and elsewhere.

The days consist of Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday of a particular week. The weeks are the last full week of Advent (associated with St Lucy’s feastday, 13^th December), the first full week of Lent (that is, after Ash Wednesday), the week following Pentecost, and a week after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross (14^th September). (This was adjusted to fall slightly later in 1960: since then the Ember Wednesday falls between 18^th to 24^th September.)

Discussion about Walsingham on Radio Immaculata

I had a pleasant discussion on Radio Immaculata, the platform of the Marian Franciscans, about the history of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham.

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