Assumption Solemn Mass

Plans for a solemn Mass at Holy Souls Scunthorpe at 3 pm on Sunday 15th August for the Assumption are faultering. We really need a subdeacon and a couple of servers otherwise we will have to reduce our ambitions to a Missa Cantata.

Regular Sunday Mass at St Catherine's

I am very happy to be able to say that starting on the Feast of the Assumption, 15th August at 11.30am, Holy Mass will be offered in the Traditional Form of the Roman Rite here at St Catherine's each Sunday. We will be starting quietly with Low Mass and see how things go.

For anyone travelling, our little church is on the outskirts of Leyland not far from junctions 28 & 29 of the M6.

St Catherine Labouré

Stanifield Lane

Farington

PR25 4QG

Tel: 01772 421174

Solemn Mass at St Catherine Labouré, Farington, Leyland

Just one still from the Mass offered at St Catherine's on 6th July.


Further video footage can be viewed here: http://offerimustibidomine.blogspot.com/


Fr Simon.

Another Useful Website

I'm probably the last person to find this website but I flag it up just in case. Amonst other things it contains exstensive translations from the 1962 Rituale and a video tutorial for serving Low Mass. It looks like they are still planning to extend the video library to include tutorials for Missa Cantata and Solemn Mass. http://www.sanctamissa.org

Mass at St Charles, Hull

Congratulations to all involved in organising this Missa Cantata at such a prestigious venue. Comments from those who were there may well be of interest to readers of this blog. Mike Forbester has a great set of photos of the event on Flicker.

The Annual Founders' Day Memorial Requiem for John and Josephine Bowes

Saturday 31st July, 2010

St Mary's Church,

Birch Road,

Barnard Castle,

Co. Durham.

DL12 8NR

The annual Requiem for the founders of the church & museum.

Some info from the parish website...

If John Bowes' birth had been legitimate, then he would have become the Earl of Strathmore and our history would probably have been different. As it was, he inherited lands and money from the old Earl, his father, and after a classic education for a gentleman of his time he developed an interest in the theatre, was a successful owner of race horses (his horse Western Australian won the Derby in 1853), was a popular MP for several years, and together with his French wife Josephine became a great collector of French paintings and other artifacts which he intended to house in a great museum to be built at Barnard Castle. John was not a Catholic, but his wife was. He was devoted to his wife, who was much younger than him, and when she died in 1874 he decided to fulfill her desire to have a chapel next to the museum on which work had already started. The chapel reached the height of the eves when John became short of money to complete the museum. Work was stopped, and the chapel stood for almost fifty years as a folly. John died in 1885, but his will was not probated until 1905. Then began years of discussion between the trustees of the museum and the trustees of the chapel as to its siting and use. Eventually in 1926 agreement was reached for the chapel to be moved to a corner of the museum site, and the building was finished and opened in 1928. The bodies of John and Josephine Bowes were brought from their temporary resting-place at the vault at Gibside Hall, Dunston, and they rest now behind the apse of St Mary's Church with their tomb directly facing the front door of their Museum. A Requiem Mass for Founders' Day is celebrated each year in July.

Useful links.

http://www.stmarys-rc-barnardcastle.org/Default.asp

http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/about/bowes/

SS Peter & Paul High Mass, Longbenton

A few photos from Tuesday evening's High Mass. More can be found here. The music was provided by the Jarrow Schola and the choir of St George's Church, Cullercoats.