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National Events
Westminster bishop to confer Traditional Latin Rite confirmations
Pilgrimages and Cathedral Masses in 2008 (PDF)
New!
New St. Bede’s, Clapham Park, newsletter - August (PDF, 8.4MB in size) and September (PDF, 138KB in size).
Press Release: Residential Training Conference for Priests Wishing to Learn the Traditional Latin Rite at Merton College, Oxford, Monday 28 July to Friday 1 August 2008
August Mass Supplement (PDF)
Selection from May's Mass of Ages:
  • The Mass: Meal or Sacrifice?
  • Law and Liberty Catholic teaching on the social order
  • St Margaret Clitherow One of the LMS' new patron saints.
  • Father George E. Smith remembered
  • Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos visit:
  • Press Release: Crowds Overflow Westminster Cathedral for Traditional Latin Mass Celebrated by Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos
  • Talk delivered to the Latin Mass Society’s AGM
  • Homily preached at the Pontifical High Mass
  • Special Announcement immediately following the Mass
  • Announcement of May's Mass of Ages magazine
    Upcoming Events & Notices
    St. Mary's, Barnard Castle, Hexham & Newcastle: The TLM for Our Lady's Birthday on Monday, September 8th, will be at 7.30pm, not midday. The weekly TLM will be on Tuesday at 7.30pm as usual.
    Aylesford Pilgrimage: Saturday 20th September at 1.00pm 1.00pm High Mass; 3.00pm Talk, Rosary and Benediction, Coach from London at 10.00am. Details: LMS office on 020 7404 7284.
    Update for the East Anglia Diocese: there will be no more First Friday Masses at Swaffham, after the July Mass.
    Gregorian Chant Workshop Day: Saturday 20th September at St. Marie's, Gibbett, Street, Halifax. Starting at 10.45am and concluding with Mass at 6.00pm. More details in this leaflet.
    Oxford Pilgrimage with Procession and unveiling of a plaque to the Catholic martyrs of 1589: Saturday 25th October 2008. More details on the Oxford LMS blog.
    News from the Diocese of Leeds: Mass will be offered, at the request of Bishop Roche, according to the 1962 Rite every Sunday at 3.00pm at the church of St. Joseph, Pontefract Road, Castleford.
    Mass in the Nottingham diocese: Our Lady of the Angels, East Leake, Notts, 3pm - 4th Sunday of each month alternately sung or said (July sung, Aug low etc). Celebrant Fr P Vellacott. Also weekly every Saturday at 10am (Low Mass). Before travelling please consult parish website timetable (under "Latin Mass").
    Articles Introducing the Latin Mass
     The Beauty and Spirituality of the Latin Mass   The Development of the Mass Since 1960 
     The Case for the Latin Mass   The Glory of the Silent Canon 
     The History of the Roman Rite   The Catholic Sanctuary and Vatican II 
    The Catholic Encyclopedia on the Roman Liturgy
    Latin Mass at the Grotto, Lourdes
    “As for the use of the 1962 Missal as a Forma extraordinaria of the liturgy of the Mass, I would like to draw attention to the fact that this Missal was never juridically abrogated and, consequently, in principle, was always permitted.”

    – His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI in his letter to the Bishops on the publication of his Motu Proprio SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM

     


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