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LMS Year Planner – Notable events
At the time of going to press the following events are planned. Should another lockdown force churches to close, they might not take place.
Mass of Reparation for Abortion Saturday, 14 November,
12 noon. By kind invitation of the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Bedford there will be a Mass offered in reparation for all the abortion carried out. Due to current restrictions, the church has a capacity of 80 people. If you wish to attend, it is important that you contact Barbara Kay, the LMS Representative for Bedford, by email in advance informing her of your name and the number of people from your household attending. The Shrine of the Miraculous Relic Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe is housed in the church of Holy Child and St Joseph, 2 Brereton Road, Bedford MK40 1HU.
Catholic Medical Association Annual Requiem,
Saturday, 14th November at 11:30 am. The CMA will celebrate their Annual Requiem Mass in the Traditional Dominican Rite for the repose of the Souls of deceased CMA members at The Rosary Shrine, St Dominic’s Catholic Church, London NW5 4LB.
Spanish Place, Saturday, 21 November 11.30am. Bishop John Sherrington (Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster) will confer the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Traditional Rite. This will be followed by Pontifical Benediction.
The Mater Dolorosa Blog
By Alan Frost
High Mass for Christmas, Tuesday, 24 December. High Mass of Midnight will be celebrated in St Margaret’s Convent Chapel, Bethell Avenue, Canning Town, London E16 4JU on Christmas Eve at 6pm. Music, by Cantus Magnus, will include the winning piece of the 2020 Schellhorn Prize for Sacred Music Composition. Please note the change of venue this year. The Convent chapel has double the capacity of St Mary Moorfields when social distancing is observed.
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A traditionalist, anti-modernist blog, ‘Mater Dolorosa’, has recently been launched by a young man well-known to the LMS for his service on the altar at Solemn High Masses at Holywell, New Brighton and Warrington since his teenage years. In his teens he also attended the LMS Summer Schools, very much supported by his family. Michael Haynes is a traditional Catholic, author and writer, living in the North-West of England. He received his school education using the Seton home-schooling programme from the U.S.A, as well as studying in a boarding school in Pennsylvania run by the American TFP. Growing up serving the Latin Mass, he developed a love for the traditional liturgy and teachings of the Church. For the past five years he has studied philosophy and theology in Ireland, America and back home in England. With an initial focus on Mariology, he self-published a book entitled Mary, the Motherly Co- Redemptrix, with a forward by Bishop Schneider (available on 6
lulu.com). Michael has had a long interest in the subject of Mary as CoRedemptrix and was able to develop his academic thesis into the work. A larger work on spirituality is due in the upcoming months as well as future anti-modernist writings. The purpose of the Mater Dolorosa blog is to present the traditional teaching of the Church, as found in the magisterium and in the writings of the saints and mystics and in the Doctors of the Church. Michael argues that “in a time where confusion and error are all too easily found, there is a need for spiritual reflections which are drawn from Tradition, rather than from modernism.” As such the articles seek to present reflections on the texts of the Mass for Sundays and principle feasts. There are and will be also essays that are more apologetic and anti-modernist than spiritual, which highlight and comment on particular crises in the Church and the world at large. Go to
