Monthly Album 18

The International Mass

The Sunday Mass marking the World Day for Migrants and Refugees was celebrated by Bishop McAleenan, with many of the diocese’s Ethnic Chaplaincies represented. There was great diversity of flags and costumes on display, as well as a spectrum of

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A Congregation of Servers

Servers from across the diocese came together in the Cathedral on a dismal and wet first Saturday in October for a Mass celebrated by Bishop Nicholas Hudson. Serving is one of those volunteer activities particularly badly affected by the pandemic; certainly in the Cathedral, it is really only the Sunday Solemn Mass that has its full (and adult) complement on parade. The spread of the virus amongst those of school age means that it is not yet advisable to bring back the younger servers, a number of whom have been asking for many months now when they might return. languages in use throughout the liturgy. Fr Ljubomir Simunovic OFM, who is our good friend and looks after the Croatian Chaplaincy at its Sunday Mass in Sacred Heart church in Horseferry Road, had moved his Mass to an earlier time, so as to be able to be present with some of his people (pictured), whilst the apse, which had heard Mozart and plainsong at the lunchtime Solemn Mass resounded to the new tones of the Nigerian choir.

May he rest in peace

We thank Philip Smyth of J H Kenyon for this picture of the stone which marks the grave of Canon Christopher Tuckwell’s parents in North Norfolk and now records also the burial of his own ashes there. Reasons always seem to crop up – pandemic or not – as to why these things take time, so it is good to see a fitting end to a long wait.