Saturday, May 01, 2010

St Joseph the Workman

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Fr Armand de Malleray came to Oxford to celebrate a Missa Cantata in St Anthony of Padua, Headington, for this important feast. The Mass was accompanied by the Schola Abelis, with Byrd's 3-Part Mass.

Some more photos here.

3 comments:

Hestor said...

San Giuseppe Comunista!

Joseph Shaw said...

I think you mean 'San Giuseppe Anti-Communista!

The point of this feast is to counter the Communist festival of May Day, just as a number of ancient feasts were celebrated on the same day as pagan festivals.

Hestor said...

My comment was tongue in check but it is sad to see how many of the ancient feast days were done away with by Pius XII:

http://ordorecitandi.blogspot.com/2010/05/ss-philip-and-james-apostles.html