Some photos from Fr Paul Lester's final Sunday Mass at St Mary on the Hill yesterday. The phtotos are courtesy of Edmund Waddelove.
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There will be three 1962 Missal Masses in the region for the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Holyday of Obligation as follows:
10.30am Low Mass Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Cannock Road, Wolverhampton
6.30pm Low Mass St Mary on the Hill, St Mary's Road, Wednesbury
7.30pm High Mass the Birmingham Oratory, Hagley Road, Edgbaston
Directions to these churches are available in the sidebar
The usual schedule of Masses at the Birmingham Oratory will be interrupted on two Thursdays in June, firstly on the traditional date of Corpus Christi, this year falling on the 8th June 2023, and then on the Solemnity of SS Peter and Paul on 29th June; on both of these dates, High Mass will be celebrated at 7.30pm instead of the usual 5.45pm Low Mass. Details of the music for these Masses and the other Sunday High Masses in June are available in the graphic below:
High Mass will be celebrated at the Birmingham Oratory for the Feasts of St Joseph at (7.30pm Monday 20th March 2023 - this replaces the usual 5.45pm Low Mass) and the Annunciation (11am Saturday 25th March 2023 - this replaces the usual Saturday 9am Low Mass. Directions are available in the sidebar.
There will be two Masses in the 1962 Missal tomorrow for the Feast of the Epiphany: a 6.30pm Low Mass at St Mary-on-the-Hill in Wednesbury and a High Mass at 7.30pm at the Oratory in Birmingham, replacing the usual 5.45pm daily Low Mass. Please note the First Friday Mass at Sacred Heart and All Souls in Acocks Green will be in the new rite, as will be the 7pm Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Wolverhampton which will replace the usual Friday 6.30pm Low Mass. The January Music list for the Birmingham Oratory is available below.
Here are the Mass times in the region for the Christmas Octave and slightly beyond. I wish all readers of this blog a happy and holy Christmas and New Year!
Mass times for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary are as follows:
Low Mass 6.30pm, St Mary-on-the-Hill, Wednesbury
High Mass 7.30pm, the Birmingham Oratory (n.b. no 5.45pm Mass today)
A parishioner at St Mary-on-the-Hill in Wednesbury is hoping to start a local chapter of the Guild of St Clare; there will be an exploratory meeting this Saturday 24th September 2022 at 11am in the church hall. Directions are available in the sidebar.
The Guild of St Clare was founded in Oxford in 2009. Its purpose is to repair and make the liturgical vestments necessary for the celebration of the traditional liturgy of the Catholic Church, to pass on the skills necessary for this, and to promote domestic sewing.
The Guild today runs two Sewing Retreats each year, where liturgical sewing is combined with spiritual talks and liturgy, one in the spring and one in the autumn.
It also runs Vestment Mending Days in London on Saturdays.
There are local chapters around the country.
Everyone is welcome at Guild events: appropriate tasks can be found for all skill levels.
The Guild is affiliated with the Latin Mass Society, which was founded in 1965 to promote traditional Catholic liturgy. The Latin Mass Society is a registered charity, number 248388.
The Guild’s spiritual patron is St Clare of Assisi, who, like many female religious over the centuries, made liturgical vestments.
High Mass will be offered at the Birmingham Oratory for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross at 7.30pm, replacing the usual 5.45pm low Mass.
Please note that Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual in Succour on Friday is cancelled - this is bad luck as there are a couple of priests who cover the Mass who are also unavailable. It is the only time Mass has been cancelled in nearly ten years since the 1962 Missal has been offered at the church.
The third Friday Mass at St Dunstan's in Kings Heath is going ahead as normal and is a possible alternative, albeit on the other side of Birmingham, along with the 5.45pm daily Mass at the Oratory of course.
The Birmingham Oratory will celebrate High Mass at 7.30pm tomorrow (15th August 2022) followed by a candlelight procession and dedication of the parish - this is a change for Mass of Ages where the daily 5.45pm low Mass was to be celebrated as a Missa Cantata, after celebrating the Assumption today as an external solemnity. There will be no Mass at 5.45pm tomorrow.
There will still be a low Mass at St Mary-on-the-Hill in Wednesbury at 6.30pm.
The Oratory Music list for August is detailed below:
