NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST AUGUSTINE MASS TIMES ADDITIONS. All Masses in the Traditional Rite at St Augustine have been moved to the uniform time of 12.00pm. There is an additional Low Mass on a Monday. The Friday Mass is still followed by Exposition and Benediction, at 12.30pm
FOREST HALL MASSES temporary suspension. Masses from Monday to Friday (7.30am) at St Mary's, Forest Hall, Newcastle have been suspended temporarily.
NEWSLETTERS FROM NEW BRIGHTON can now be downloaded from the LMS website here. Latest edition for Holy Week available.
ARUNDEL & BRIGHTON PILGRIMAGE TO OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION, West Grinstead, has finally been negotiated, and will take place on Saturday, 2 June. Missa Cantata at 12 noon, followed by picnic lunch and Benediction around about 4.00 pm.
LATEST FSSP NEWSLETTER now out. The latest edition of 'Dowry' can be downloaded here.
CHARTRES PILGRIMAGE 2012. The quintessential Catholic Pilgrimage is back, the Latin Mass Society has Sponsored 12 young people to attend, and already the standard places are being booked up very quickly. For more information see the English speaking Chartres Pilgrimage chapters website.
RESIDENTIAL LATIN COURSE, 23-29 July 2012. Organised by the LMS (with discounted rates for paid-up LMS members, clergy, seminarians and full-time students). Full details here.
BOOKING FOR LOURDES. We are now taking bookings for the LMS Pilgrimage to Lourdes, 17-21 September 2012. Full information here. A Booking Form can be downloaded here.
PRAYERS FOR THE LMS NOW ONLINE can be found under Resources. Prayer for the intentions of the Latin Mass Society in English and Latin.
Application forms can be downloaded here
The Latin Mass Society will be organising a residential training conference for priests wishing to learn to celebrate Mass in the usus antiquior. It will be held at Belmont Abbey, Hereford, HR2 9RZ.
Tuition, which will be given by experienced priests, will be tailored to suit the needs of each priest. The conference will also be open for servers who wish to learn or improve their skills with the older form of the Mass.
The fee for attending is £120, which is inclusive of board and lodging at Hedley Lodge, which is adjacent to the abbey. There is a concessionary rate available of £60..
Hereford is close to the motorway network and is easy and quick to get to from most parts of England and Wales.
Rail: Hereford mainline station is two hours 50 minutes from London, around 90 minutes from Birmingham, two and half hours from Manchester, one hour from Cardiff and 90 minutes from Bristol.
Road: The M50 motorway (which connects from the M5) is about half an hour (or less) from Hereford. Belmont Abbey is about a mile and a half outside the city of Hereford.
Please fill in an application form and send with your cheque (payable to 'Latin Mass Society') to the address on the applicaton form. Application forms can be downloaded here.
Photo credit: Belmont Abbey
There will be Confirmations in the Traditional Rite on Saturday, 24 November 2012 at St James's Spanish Place, London W1U 3QY, commencing at 11.30am. The Sacrament will be conferred by Bishop Alan Hopes, auxiliary bishop of Westminster.
If you would like more information, or would like your child, or yourself, confirmed, please contact the LMS Office on 020 7404 7284 or email us.
To register your child or yourself for this year's Confirmations, please read the Explanatory Notes and then complete the appropriate registration form below:
Registration Form for an Additional Child
Registration Form for an Adult
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Thursday, 17 May is the Feast of the Ascension of Our Lord into Heaven, 40 days after the Resurrection.
The Vatican Information Service office issued the following report today:
'Also during the traditional greetings in different languages to the more than 11,000 pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square, Benedict XVI highlighted that tomorrow [Thursday] celebrates the Solemnity of the Lord's Ascension. This feastday "invites us to look to Jesus who, ascending to heaven, entrusts the apostles with the mandate of carrying His message of salvation to the entire world... The Lord has prepared a place for each of us and it is waiting for us. May our thoughts and our deeds be directed toward our heavenly homeland".'
In unity with the Holy Father, Traditional Catholics will celebrate the Ascension tomorrow. We can only pray that the decision of the CBCEW to transfer the feast day to next Sunday (but only in the New Calendar) will soon be reversed and that they will reinstate the obligation to attend Mass on the biblical day of Thursday.
There are many Traditional Masses in England and Wales to enable you to celebrate this great feast fittingly. Our full listing can be downloaded here.