REPORTS FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY
DIOCESAN DIGEST Mass of Ages quarterly round-up
ARUNDEL AND BRIGHTON Anne-Marie Mackie-Savage 01323 411370 amacsav@sky.com arundelbrightonlatinmasssociety.blogspot.co.uk Over the last few months Masses have continued to be, thankfully, regular and well attended. Pam Talbot has hosted two more days of recollection, Fr Gerard Hatton has been the celebrant, with thirty-five people attending the last one. Fr Bruno Witchalls has continued to travel and generously provide a Mass for us in Seaford, which is greatly appreciated. The transfer of feast days in the NO has also continued to be a blessing; it has been made possible for many of us to assist at the Latin Masses provided on the correct days. Selfishly, I hope the return of some days won't mean fewer Masses! The Sacred Heart, Caterham, Fr Sean Finnegan's parish, now has the regular 10am Wednesday Mass available online at https://www.churchservices.tv/caterham. Take a look, and invite your family and friends who shake their heads at why you travel miles on a Sunday to take a look. We still, unfortunately, face many of the same old problems in the Diocese, with scheduled Masses regularly being left off newsletters, the day or time being incorrect, and sudden cancellations by host parishes, which can be exceedingly frustrating. Add to this the resurgence of the back-to-the-70s climate, and it is even more important to support and pray for our priests. If you would like Latin Masses in your area, please contact me, and we can see what can be done to help. BIRMINGHAM (Black Country) Louis Maciel 07392 232225 louis.maciel@gmail.com birmingham-lms-rep.blogspot.co.uk There were High Masses at the Birmingham Oratory for the Feasts of the Assumption, the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, All Saints and All Souls Day, as well as one for the Feast of its founder, Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, on 9 October, the first time this has been celebrated in the EF. There will be a Pontifical High Mass with Bishop Robert Byrne Cong. Orat. on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in December. If memory serves, this is the third year running the patronal feast of the Oratory has been celebrated with Pontifical High Mass (last year with Archbishop Longley), so this seems to be becoming something of an annual tradition. The Maryvale Mass in August was, as usual, celebrated in the parish church of Our Lady of the Assumption rather than the Institute chapel due to the holidays, rather aptly given it was a few days before the feast. The monthly Mass usually on a first Friday at Solihull had to be delayed a couple of weeks in September due to the unavailability of the priest. We are hoping to have a Missa
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Cantata in December featuring a new chant group that has started in a neighbouring parish to support the able church choir. The weekly Friday Low Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Wolverhampton continues, with the occasional High Mass/ Missa Cantata, the last of which was in October. Please follow the blog for announcements of future High Masses here. BIRMINGHAM (North Staffordshire) Alan Frost 01270 768144 alan.jfrost@btinternet.com north-staffs-lms.blogspot.co.uk With the departure of Fr Dykes from Wolstanton to Lichfield, we effectively only have one priest offering the Traditional Rite Mass in North Staffs at present. Our continuing thanks to Fr Paul Chavasse of Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Swynnerton. Fr Stephen Goodman from Wolverhampton kindly stepped in, as he has in the past a number of times, to offer the EF Mass on 8 Oct. We would like to offer congratulations to Winefride Scorey, organist and singer at Swynnerton in recent years and sister of several altar servers, as she begins her studies in Medicine at Cambridge University. BIRMINGHAM (Oxford) Joseph Shaw 01993 812874 joseph.shaw@philosophy.ox.ac.uk lmschairman.org With the moving of priests in Birmingham Archdiocese, Fr Paul Lester has moved away from Holy Trinity, Hethe. We are extremely grateful to him for establishing the Traditional Mass in this beautiful church, with a regular Sunday time of 12 noon, sung on the 2nd and 4th Sundays. I am glad to say that, thanks to the solicitude of Archbishop Longley, this pattern will continue. Fr Anthony Talbot will be moving to Hethe to celebrate the Traditional Mass on Sundays and on other occasions as well. His arrival, however, is dependent on urgent repairs to the Presbytery, and in the meantime the Sunday Masses are being covered by a rota of priests. This situation may continue for much of this quarter, and readers should consult the local website for updates. At the time of writing we are looking forward to our big annual event in Oxford, the Pilgrimage in honour of Oxford's Catholic martyrs, on Saturday 21 October. Feast days in Oxford will be covered as usual by the Oratory and SS Gregory & Augustine's: please see the Mass listings. Of particular note is the celebration of the Ember Saturday of Advent, on Saturday 23 December, just over the diocesan boundary in Holy Rood, Abingdon Road (Portsmouth Diocese).
WINTER 2017
