Immaculate Conception 8th. December, at English Martyrs, Alexandra Rd. South, Manchester, 7.00a.m.
Christmas Day, 25th. December, at English Martyrs at 8.00a.m.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Great feasts - great news
I have just received confirmation of two extra Masses for two Great Feasts
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Extra Masses
Thanks to the Parish Priest for offering these Masses.
Friday, August 14, 2009
News...at last
Happy Feastday!
It was great to meet up with Father Wadsworth at the Ushaw Conference in April, which was a wonderful event for the north of England.
Today, the Feast of the Assumption, marks a new milestone in the restoration of the Tridentine Mass in the Diocese of Salford. Mass will be offered at 10.15 a.m. today at the church of the English Martyrs, Alexandra Road South, Manchester by the Parish Priest Father Marlow and thereafter every Saturday at 10.00a.m. Many thanks to Fr. Marlow.
The Masses every Friday at St. Marie's, Manchester Road, Bury continue, but Masses at St. Osmund's, Breightmet, Bolton are currently being offered now on the first Thursday of each month - except September, when Fr. G. Hilton is unavailable.
Before long I will be in a position to announce other regular venues as interest continues to grow.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Tip top blog and other news
Fr. Francis Wadsworth has started a new blog from his new parish St. Marie's in Bury. I sincerely recommend it to you and will add it to the sidebar http://mariesgem.blogspot.com/.
Father is clearly sowing the seeds of Faith and vocation. I wish I had a parish priest of like Fr. Francis. The weekly TLM (Fridays 7.30p.m. - sung on first Fridays) continues to go from strength to strength.
Unfortunately there will be no Easter Triduum in Salford Diocese according to the liturgical books of 1962.
However Mass on Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday will take place at Holy Name, Oxford Rd. Manchester at the usual time of 4.00p.m.
The Sacred Triduum will take place according to the 1962 books at Notre Dame Chapel (St. Mark's Avenue, Leeds - near the University of Leeds) as follows:
Holy Thursday - Mass of the Lord's Supper 7.30p.m. with watching at the altar of repose until 10.00p.m.
Good Friday - the Passion. 3.00p.m.
Holy Saturday - the Vigil and first Mass of Easter 7.30p.m.
Our thanks to Fr. Hall, celebrant, Fr. Kravos, the University chaplain and to Bishop Roche for permitting the celebration of the Triduum in the Cathedral parish.
Over recent weeks our Holy Father has been severely criticized by the media for lifting the excommunications on the four SSPX bishops consecrated by Archbishop Lefebvre and for his comments on condoms in the "fight" against Aids . Please offer prayers for His Holiness and for our new Archbishop of Westminster.
We are living in historic and dare I say, exciting times.
The Northern Priest Training Conference to be held at Ushaw Seminary, Durham has attracted many priests from a variety of English dioceses. The conference will take place during Low Week. Please pray for the success of this conference and for similar success at the Southern Training conference, to be held at London Colney in August. Details to follow.
Friday, March 6, 2009
Normal service....
I have been plagued with internet problems for well over a week now, which has meant using the 'phone far more and in turn has produced some interesting results, one being that I haven't yet written 90 year 9 reports due on Tuesday!
Tomorrow I have to attend the regular quarterly Committee meeting of the LMS and am already dreading the hassle on the London Underground.
Still, I'll get my reports done on the train.
Tomorrow I have to attend the regular quarterly Committee meeting of the LMS and am already dreading the hassle on the London Underground.
Still, I'll get my reports done on the train.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Last Friday's Missa cantata at Bury
I am delighted to be able to show a picture of last Friday's Missa cantata and the perceptive and thought provoking sermon given by Fr. Wadsworth. I hope to be back at St. Marie's on Friday for Mass at 7.30p.m.
Thanks to Father for the following. This is my first ever posting using imported text!
Messis quidem multam operarii pauci. Rogate ergo Dominum messis, ut mittat operarios in messem suam’ The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he send labourers into his harvest.
Until quite recently and even today when people talk of someone "having a vocation" they usually mean he has gone off to be a priest or she has become a nun. Linked with this has been another all too popular idea. Though they rarely say so, many think that the Church is saying that Priesthood and Religious Life is the Grade 'A' vocation. For those who could not rise to these heights Married Life is good Grade B' but those who remain single are really the bottom of the pile! Nothing could be further from the truth!There is a dream in the heart of God for each one of us, a loving purpose. The Good Shepherd is calling each of us by name to do something, be somebody. What each of us has to do is to try and come to know what the dream is, and then, with faith and trust, and taking our courage in both hands, try to live it out in our lives day by day. When we come to know what God's dream for us is, we can be said to have discovered our vocation. Most of us will not get a blinding light or a voice from heaven, which clearly says "I want you to do this with your life". Wouldn't it be great if we did!
We have to discern over a period of time what it is God is asking of us. We have to get into the mind of God. We do that by prayer, talking and listening to Him. We will ask, "What must I do? What is it you want of me? What is your dream for me?"Life is God's gift to us. When we are on our deathbed we don't want to look back on the unlived life. It is so sad when people reach that point, and look back with regret saying "how I wish I had done more for others'. How I wish! The solution is in our own hands. "Carpe Diem" Seize the Day. Now is the time to make sure that does not happen. God has a dream, a purpose for each of us. And there will not be just one task for many of us. The Shepherd continues to call His sheep to follow Him throughout their lives. For example, the call to marriage is a call from God to find Him and mediate Him to a lifelong partner in a loving faithful sexual relationship. But one partner will die first. Then there will be a new vocation - the vocation of widowhood, the call to find God in this experience of loss. There is the vocation of the terminally ill. There is the vocation to a single chaste life. And there are many others.There is too, the vocation to the Priesthood, the Permanent Diaconate, and Religious Life. These things must merit consideration in the life of every member of the Church, whatever there age and circumstance. They must be seriously looked at, in case God is asking this of me. Jesus taught us that, 'it is in losing your life that you shall find it. . . it is in dying that we shall live'. Yes, we are Christ's sheep. But we also share in His role as Shepherd and following his example; we are to care for one another - even to laying down our lives for others.
Sometimes the voice of the Shepherd is heard through someone else, most often a friend or family member. Sometimes the call presents itself not as a voice at all, but as a need of the Christian Community, which challenges me to meet it.
So many ask, "Why me?" at that point, but what they should be asking is "Why not me?"
There has to be a very good reason for not responding to the need of a particular religious order for new members, or the need of the wider community for clergy, both deacons and priests. God loves me, so it is not so strange that He could be calling me to something specific like Ordination or Consecrated Life.
It all comes down to love in the end. God's love for us and ours for God and other people. He wants each of us to be lovers. To be a lover is why people enter the vocation of marriage. To be a lover is why others choose the single life. To be a lover is why one becomes a deacon or priest or religious.
Maybe God and the Church are calling someone here to Ordination or Religious Life. you can ignore Him, you can turn up the volume and live the noise of this world and try to drown out his voice. But if he is calling you and you run away, whatever happiness you experience in this life it will never be able to compare with that which you could have experienced had you been open to him and listened. God's dream for us is a dream for our fulfilment and happiness. That is why we should listen. That is why we should trust him and respond.
Pray, my dear people not just for an increase in vocations, but pray that the Lord will send us many holy vocations. Holy priests to offer the Sacrifice of the Mass and holy religious to be examples of prayer to us.
Prayer also for those who have answered the call to serve the Lord as His priests and religious may be granted the gift of perseverance. As a friend of mine would say, ‘Poor Jesus. He deserves better than us!’
Thanks to Father for the following. This is my first ever posting using imported text!
Messis quidem multam operarii pauci. Rogate ergo Dominum messis, ut mittat operarios in messem suam’ The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he send labourers into his harvest.Until quite recently and even today when people talk of someone "having a vocation" they usually mean he has gone off to be a priest or she has become a nun. Linked with this has been another all too popular idea. Though they rarely say so, many think that the Church is saying that Priesthood and Religious Life is the Grade 'A' vocation. For those who could not rise to these heights Married Life is good Grade B' but those who remain single are really the bottom of the pile! Nothing could be further from the truth!There is a dream in the heart of God for each one of us, a loving purpose. The Good Shepherd is calling each of us by name to do something, be somebody. What each of us has to do is to try and come to know what the dream is, and then, with faith and trust, and taking our courage in both hands, try to live it out in our lives day by day. When we come to know what God's dream for us is, we can be said to have discovered our vocation. Most of us will not get a blinding light or a voice from heaven, which clearly says "I want you to do this with your life". Wouldn't it be great if we did!
We have to discern over a period of time what it is God is asking of us. We have to get into the mind of God. We do that by prayer, talking and listening to Him. We will ask, "What must I do? What is it you want of me? What is your dream for me?"Life is God's gift to us. When we are on our deathbed we don't want to look back on the unlived life. It is so sad when people reach that point, and look back with regret saying "how I wish I had done more for others'. How I wish! The solution is in our own hands. "Carpe Diem" Seize the Day. Now is the time to make sure that does not happen. God has a dream, a purpose for each of us. And there will not be just one task for many of us. The Shepherd continues to call His sheep to follow Him throughout their lives. For example, the call to marriage is a call from God to find Him and mediate Him to a lifelong partner in a loving faithful sexual relationship. But one partner will die first. Then there will be a new vocation - the vocation of widowhood, the call to find God in this experience of loss. There is the vocation of the terminally ill. There is the vocation to a single chaste life. And there are many others.There is too, the vocation to the Priesthood, the Permanent Diaconate, and Religious Life. These things must merit consideration in the life of every member of the Church, whatever there age and circumstance. They must be seriously looked at, in case God is asking this of me. Jesus taught us that, 'it is in losing your life that you shall find it. . . it is in dying that we shall live'. Yes, we are Christ's sheep. But we also share in His role as Shepherd and following his example; we are to care for one another - even to laying down our lives for others.
Sometimes the voice of the Shepherd is heard through someone else, most often a friend or family member. Sometimes the call presents itself not as a voice at all, but as a need of the Christian Community, which challenges me to meet it.
So many ask, "Why me?" at that point, but what they should be asking is "Why not me?"
There has to be a very good reason for not responding to the need of a particular religious order for new members, or the need of the wider community for clergy, both deacons and priests. God loves me, so it is not so strange that He could be calling me to something specific like Ordination or Consecrated Life.
It all comes down to love in the end. God's love for us and ours for God and other people. He wants each of us to be lovers. To be a lover is why people enter the vocation of marriage. To be a lover is why others choose the single life. To be a lover is why one becomes a deacon or priest or religious.
Maybe God and the Church are calling someone here to Ordination or Religious Life. you can ignore Him, you can turn up the volume and live the noise of this world and try to drown out his voice. But if he is calling you and you run away, whatever happiness you experience in this life it will never be able to compare with that which you could have experienced had you been open to him and listened. God's dream for us is a dream for our fulfilment and happiness. That is why we should listen. That is why we should trust him and respond.
Pray, my dear people not just for an increase in vocations, but pray that the Lord will send us many holy vocations. Holy priests to offer the Sacrifice of the Mass and holy religious to be examples of prayer to us.
Prayer also for those who have answered the call to serve the Lord as His priests and religious may be granted the gift of perseverance. As a friend of mine would say, ‘Poor Jesus. He deserves better than us!’
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