DIARY
2020
St Patrick, Apostle of Ireland (Feast day 17 March) has left two writings which are accepted as genuine, although much doubt has to remain about the exact details of his life. He is thought to have lived in the later part of the 5th century, having been born in England and enslaved by Irish pirates for a period of six years when in his teens, but then escaped back before travelling to France, where he received his theological formation and ordination. Plausibly there were Christian communities in Ireland before he came to the country, but his achievement was the widespread propagation and acceptance of the Faith by the Irish.
The Month of
March
The Holy Father’s Prayer Intention EVANGELISATION – Catholics in China: We pray that the Church in China may persevere in its faithfulness to the Gospel and grow in unity
Sunday 1 March Ps Week 1 1st SUNDAY OF LENT 10.30am Solemn Mass (Full Choir) Plainsong – Missa XVII Malcolm – Scapulis suis Byrd – Emendemus in melius 3pm Rite of Election (Second Service) No public Vespers 4.30pm Deaf Service Mass (Cathedral Hall) 4.45pm Organ Recital: David Price (Portsmouth Cathedral) Monday 2 March Lent Feria
Tuesday 3 March
Lent Feria 5.30pm Chapter Mass (Canon Cronin) Cathedral Quarant’Ore begins
Wednesday 4 March
Lent Feria (St Casimir) Cathedral Quarant’Ore continues
Thursday 5 March
Lent Feria 5.30pm Solemn Mass, followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament to close the Quarant’Ore
Friday 6 March
Friday Abstinence Lent Feria World Day of Prayer Please remember the people of Zimbabwe 6.30pm Stations of the Cross Family Fast Day
Saturday 7 March
Lent Feria (Ss Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs) 4pm Extraordinary Form Mass (Lady Chapel) 24
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St Patrick outside the church of St Patrick on the Strip, Pittsburgh USA
Sunday 8 March Ps Week 2 2nd SUNDAY OF LENT 9am Family Mass 9.30am – 1.30pm SVP Book Sale in Cathedral Hall 10.30am Solemn Mass (Full Choir) Palestrina – Missa Emendemus in melius Palestrina – Peccantem me quotidie 3.30pm Solemn Vespers and Benediction Lassus – Magnificat primi toni Byrd – Aspice Domine 4.45pm Organ Recital: Callum Alger (Westminster Cathedral) Monday 9 March
Lent Feria (St Frances of Rome)
Tuesday 10 March Lent Feria
Wednesday 11 March Lent Feria
Thursday 12 March
Lent Feria 7pm St Peter’s Way of the Cross (in aid of the Westminster Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes)
Friday 13 March Friday Abstinence Lent Feria 6.30pm Stations of the Cross Saturday 14 March
Lent Feria 6pm Victoria Choir sings at Mass
Sunday 15 March Ps Week 3 3rd SUNDAY OF LENT 10.30am Solemn Mass (Full Choir) Rubbra – Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici Tallis – Suscipe quæso Domine Tallis – Si enim iniquitates 2pm Filipino Club Spring Tea Dance in Cathedral Hall 3.30pm Solemn Vespers and Benediction Bevan – Magnificat primi toni Purcell – Hear my prayer 4.45pm Organ Recital: Christopher Holman (Exeter College, Oxford) Monday 16 March Lent Feria
Tuesday 17 March St PATRICK, Bishop, Patron of Ireland 7, 8 & 10.30am Mass in St Patrick’s Chapel
Wednesday 18 March Lent Feria All day NHS Blood Transfusion Service in Cathedral Hall 5pm First Vespers 5.30pm Vigil Mass of St Joseph (Cardinal Nichols) Chancellors and Chancery Staff attend Mass
Thursday 19 March ST JOSEPH, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Patron of the diocese All day NHS Blood Transfusion Service in Cathedral Hall 2pm Visit of the Statue of Our Lady of Walsingham to the Cathedral begins, with Dowry Tour Exhibition and Devotions 5.30pm Solemn Mass (Full Choir) Mozart – Missa brevis in B flat K.275 Malcolm – Veritas mea Organ: Buxtehude – Toccata in F BuxWV 156
Friday 20 March Friday Abstinence Lent Feria Visit and Devotions continue 7pm Eucharistic Healing Service, concluding with Benediction Saturday 21 March Lent Feria Visit and Devotions continue 6pm Vigil Mass to conclude the Visit (Cardinal Nichols)
Sunday 22 March
Ps Week 4 4th SUNDAY OF LENT (Laetare) 10.30am Solemn Mass (Full Choir) Padilla – Missa Ego flos campi Victoria – Ave Regina cælorum a 5 Byrd – Ave verum corpus Organ: J. S. Bach – Prelude and Fugue in A major BWV 536 1.30pm Dowry Tour Exhibition closes 3.30pm Solemn Vespers and Benediction Oremus
March 2020
