Christmas Masses 2024/5

 Wednesday 25th December 2024

The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Oratory 12 midnight High Mass (n.b. no 7.30 a.m. Mass)

Wolverhampton (OLPS*) 8 a.m. Low Mass of Dawn
Oratory 10.30 a.m. High Mass of the Day

Thursday 26th December 2024 to Saturday 28th December 2024

Oratory 9.00 a.m. Low Mass (no Mass at 5.45pm)

Friday 27th December 2024

Wolverhampton (OLPS*) 6.30 p.m. Low Mass

Sunday 29th December 2024
Octave Day of Christmas

Oratory 7.30 a.m. Low Mass
Oratory 10.30 a.m. High Mass

Monday 30th December 2024 to Tuesday 31st December 2024

Oratory 9.00 a.m. Low Mass (no Mass at 5.45pm)

Wednesday 1st January 2025
Oratory 12.00 midday High Mass (no Mass at 5.45pm)

Normal service resumes from Tuesday 2nd January 2025

*OLPS - Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Cannock Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 8PG

Directions to the Oratory and Our Lady of Perpetual Succour are available in the sidebar

I wish all readers of this blog a happy and holy Christmas and New Year!

All Hallowtide 2024

Birmingham Oratory

First Vespers of All Saints                            6.30pm 31st October 2024

High Mass for the Solemnity of All Saints  7.30pm 1st November 2024

Requiem Mass for All Souls                        11am 2nd November 2024

The Requiem Mass for All Souls will be the Annual LMS Requiem Mass, following the withdrawal of permission for this to be celebrated at Westminster Cathedral in London. Throughout the rest of the day, private Masses will be offered at the Altars in the Birmingham Oratory

The Music List for November is available below.

As the Solemnity of All Saints falls on a Friday and is a holyday of obligation, the usual Friday Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour will take place on Saturday at 11.30am for All Souls.

The Feast of St John Henry Cardinal Newman 2024

 

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross 2024

Please note the celebration of Mass for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross according to the 1962 MR at the Birmingham Oratory will be a Missa Cantata at 9am on Saturday 14th September 2024 and not an 11am High Mass which may have been advertised on some channels. 

The Solemnity of the Assumption 2024

High Mass will be celebrated at 7.30pm on Thursday 15th August at the Birmingham Oratory for the Solemnity of the Assumption, replacing the usual 5.45pm Low Mass. Directions are available in the sidebar.

Latin Mass Society AGM 2024 in Birmingham

 The Latin Mass Society AGM comes to Birmingham on Saturday and I hope you can join us. The schedule for the day is below. It is too late to book lunch now but there are a few pubs, a Subway and a chip shop nearby. Directions to the Oratory are available in the sidebar - there have been some roadworks on Monument Lane from the Hagley Road direction so it may be best to approach via Ladywood Middleway if you are coming by car. For those coming by public transport, the Tram which can be caught outside Birmingham New Street Station is probably the simplest way to get to the Birmingham Oratory which is close to the Terminus at Edgbaston Village.

Quarant'ore Devotion 2024

The Quarant'ore devotion starts tonight at the Birmingham Oratory with High Mass of Exposition at 7.30pm. There will be a Missa Cantata on Thursday at the same time, and the Forty Hours' Devotion will end with High Mass for the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at 7.30pm on Friday. All these Masses will replace the usual 5.45pm Mass. Directions to the Oratory are available in the sidebar.

Corpus Christ 2024

There will be High Mass tonight on the traditional date of Corpus Christi at 7.30pm at the Birmingham Oratory, replacing the usual 5.45pm Low Mas, followed by an indoor Eucharistic procession. Corpus Christi will be celebrated as an External Solemnity on Sunday at 10.30am, with the outdoor procession taking place after the English Mass at 12.15pm. 

The Transferred Feast of St Philip Neri

As the 26th May fell on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity this year, the Birmingham Oratory will celebrate the founder of the Oratorian movement on Monday 27th May with High Mass at 11am. The music is detailed in the poster below.

Ascension 2024

Thursday is the Solemnity of the Ascension, a Holy Day of Obligation. High Mass will be celebrated at the Birmingham Oratory at 7.30pm, replacing the usual weekday 5.45pm Low Mass.

The Feast of St Joseph and Holy Week

The Birmingham Oratory will celebrate High Mass tonight for the Feast of St Joseph at 7.30pm, replacing the usual 5.45pm Low Mass.

On Palm Sunday, the High Mass usually at 10.30am will start earlier at 10.00am to accommodate all of the additional ceremonies. The Holy Week schedule is available in the poster below.

Ash Wednesday High Mass 2024

Lent starts tomorrow and there will High Mass at the Birmingham Oratory at 7.30pm, replacing the usual 5.45pm Low Mass.

Two High Masses for the Candlemas

Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Wolverhampton and the Birmingham Oratory will celebrate High Mass at 7.30pm for Candlemas tomorrow, the latter replacing the usual 5.45pm Low Mass.

Two High Masses for the Epiphany on 6th January

There will be two High Masses in the region for the Feast of the Epiphany celebrated on Saturday 6th January, both at 11am at the Birmingham Oratory and Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Wolverhampton. The Mass in Wolverhampton will be for the repose of the soul of Pope Benedict, who passed away just over a year ago.

This differs slightly from the Mass Listings disseminated with the most recent Mass of Ages which said the Epiphany would be celebrated as Low Mass at the usual time of 9am on Saturday and as an External Solemnity at 10.30am on Sunday - in fact, the 9am Mass will be in English and the Masses on Sunday will be the Masses of the second Sunday following Christmas, which in the 1962 Missal is of the Holy Family.