SCT Summer School photos: liturgy

We have just concluded our annual Summer School, organised by the St Catherine's Trust: a small charity I set up for this purpose in 2004. It took place this year (for the first time) at the St Cassian's Retreat Centre, Kintbury. The Chaplain was Fr Andrew Southwell, a priest of Southwark Archdiocese. This was the first Summer School since 2019, due to Covid, and ran from 31st July to 6th August.

On the Wednesday of the week, we had a day-trip to Oxford, with Mass at the Oratory--thanks to the hospitality of the Fathers.

These are photos of our liturgies: Mass in St Cassian's, in a temporary chapel (the permanent one was too small for us); in the Oxford Oratory; Compline, Benediction, Stations of the Cross outside, and veneration of a relic of St Pius X which has been given to the Latin Mass Society.

LMS AGM Mass: photos

I didn't have time to post these photos until now, but here they are: from Saturday 30th July, in St Mary Moorfields. The celebrant was Canon Amaury Montjean ICKSP, the deacon Fr Michael Cullinan, and the subdeacon Fr John Scott.

My address to the Annual General Meeting, which followed this Mass, can be heard here.

Radio discussion with Fr Robert McTeigue SJ

You  can hear my latest chat with Fr McTeigue SJ on his Catholic Current radio show here.

It is always a pleasure to shoot the breeze with Fr McTeigue! This was my second visit to the show, and our theme was Pope Francis' Apostolic Letter Desiderio desideravi on liturgical formation.

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New video on the LMS Walsingham Pilgrimage

Here is a 6 1/2 minute promotional video for the Latin Mass Society's Walking Pilgrimage to Walsingham; it's a longer version of the one embedded in the LMS booking page.

For more information and to book a place on the pilgrimage, see here.

To sponsor a pilgrim, see here.

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Part-time Job opportunity at the Latin Mass Society

The current LMS Office, when it opened in 2009.

The Latin Mass Society is advertising for a part-time employee.

We have two full-time employees, plus this part-time role, two freelancers who work for us, and  many volunteers, in the Office and around the country. I believe the Latin Mass Society is the only national 'Una Voce' group around the world to have permanent staff of any kind.

This role is administrative: answering the phone, maintaining data-bases, fulfilling orders to our online shop, and so on. 

We will soon be in a new, larger, office, where our thriving shop can continue to expand. We last upgraded our office space in 2009, and were planning to do this again before Covid struck. 

The deadline for applications is 26th August.

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New podcasts: interview with Timothy Stanley

In this podcast with Tim Stanley I discuss his recent book Whatever Happened to Tradition?

You can find on various platforms; on Podbean it is here.

He also gave a talk in the Latin Mass Society's Iota Unum series in London; more about that series here.

Tim writes in the Telegraph and is on Twitter as @timothy_stanley

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Learn Latin this Summer! Residential and Online options

Mass at Park Place during the Guild of St Clare Sewing Retreat in the spring.

Not many of those reading this blog will be able to put their hands on their hearts and say that their Latin could not be improved. So why not do something about it?

Residential Latin Course, 8th - 13th August

The Latin Mass Society hasn't had a residential Latin course since before Covid, but this year we are back, better than ever: a better venue, and the option of beginners' New Testament Greek as well as beginners or intermediate Latin. The great Fr John Hunwicke will be with us to teach Latin.

The venue is Park Place Pastoral Centre in Hampshire (PO17 5HA), a quiet rural setting with en suite rooms and excellent food.

There are discounts for LMS members (yes, join us to get one, it's cheaper that way) and enormous discounts for clergy, seminarians, and religious.

All the details are here.

Online Courses, July–October 

Can't make it to Hampshire in August? From later this month the next round of online courses organised by Matthew Spencer, now with an assistant, Peter Day-Milne, starting late this month.

The courses accommodate Latinists of all levels, and include options to explore a wide range of Latin registers: liturgical Latin, the Latin of the Fathers, Classical Latin, the Latin of modern Church documents, and so on.

The courses are essentially ongoing through the year, and can be done from anywhere in the world.

The LMS' sponsorship for clergy and seminarians applies to these as well. In fact we will pay 80% of the cost for clergy etc. based in or from England and Wales.

All the details are here.

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