Masses for 5 Jan. and Epiphany at Swnnerton

With the situation at St. Joseph's, Burslem uncertain now, the first Sunday Mass (Jan. 5th.)in the Old Rite in the New Year will be at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Swynnerton ,
near Stone, at 6 p.m.

The day after, the Epiphany (6 Jan.), Mass will also be at Our Lady's, Swynnerton, at 7 p.m.

Our thanks to Fr. Chevasse who is willing to celebrate the Old Rite each Sunday (evening) while the situation is resolved, but as yet this is only a suggestion.  Should this happen Masses would most likely be in the Missa Cantata form.

ALSO: there is a current press release with photos of a record number of Confirmations in the Old Rite in Spanish Place recently on the main LMS website:   www.lms.org.uk

UPDATE:  FRIARS LEAVING BURSLEM 3rd Jan. 2014

 

Apologies for this website not being updated for a while.

 

This is to give you the dates of Masses around Christmastime; also to let you know I have written again to Archbishop Longley regarding Sunday Traditional Latin Masses from January onwards, and will let you know his reply when I receive it.  We have been given a date for the friars leaving Burslem: 3 January 2014. 

 

Recently (Nov. 30) the LMS reps met at their AGM with some of the Committee at London Blackfriars.  Before the Meeting we had Mass in the Dominican Rite celebrated by Fr. Gregory Pearson OP, who was only ordained in July.  He was formally a very active contributor to Godzdogz, the blog of the Dominican seminarians!  This was in the OP Church off Haverstock Hill, St. Dominic’s, a grand and impressive neo-Gothic work with a lovely Lady Chapel (with altar rails) where we had Mass.

The national picture from the reps is quite mixed: some areas like ourselves have few priests, some have more priests than servers, some do pretty well, depending upon the area.  Quite a number of members have died over the years and LMS membership is down.  Might I encourage those who are lovers of the Trad. Mass who are not members to become members: a good New Year’s resolution.  It’s only £25 a year and there are concessions, and it’s no longer the ‘LMS for  the Preservation of the Traditional Rite’, but the Promotion of the Traditional Rite.  This is important.  Membership includes free issues of the quarterly Mass of Ages which currently (Winter Issue) carries an excellent article by Fr. Edgar from St. Alban’s who received a request from the Westminster archdiocese last March (Bp Alan Hopes) to include the EF Mass in his Sunday schedule.  Though in his fifties, he learned the Mass from scratch (began March 2013, first Mass Aug.), and is amazed at the spiritual benefits he has received.  I recommended the article to Abp Longley.

MASSES:  Sat.,14 Dec. SWYNNERTON Our Lady’s, Low, 10 a.m.  Tues, Dec 24, BURSLEM, St. Joseph’s MIDNIGHT MASS, Sung;  Sat. 28 Dec. SWYNNERTON, Low, 10 a.m.; Mon. 30 Dec. WOLSTANTON, St. Wulstan’s (St. Thomas of Canterbury) 11 a.m. Low/Sung; Fri., 3 Jan. WOLSTANTON, Low 7 p.m.  

There is also a Sung Vespers Christmas Service in Latin & English on 24 Dec., at 4 p.m. at St. Wulstan’s, Wolstanton (some organ they have there now!)

 

OULTON ABBEY MASS - DATE CHANGE

The Sunday Mass at Oulton Abbey (near Stone) scheduled for 27 October has been changed to a week earlier: Low Mass at 3 pm on Sunday 20 October.    Mass for the upcoming First Friday, Oct. 4, is at 7 pm at St. Wulstan's, Wolstanton, near Newcastle-under-Lyme, and the next fortnightly Mass at Our Lady's, Swynnerton (near Stone) is at 10 am., Saturday 5 Oct.

Masses in September

1st - St. Joseph's, Burslem 6.00pm Sung Mass

6th - St. Wulstan's, Wolstanton 7.00pm Low Mass

7th - OL of the Assumption, Swynnerton 10.00am Low Mass

8th - St. Joseph's, Burslem 6.00pm Sung Mass

15th - St. Joseph's, Burslem 6.00pm Sung Mass

21st - OL of the Assumption, Swynnerton 10.00am Low Mass

22nd  - Oulton Abbey 3.00pm Sung/Low Mass

- St. Joseph's, Burslem 6.oopm Sung Mass

29th - St. Joseph's, Burslem 6.oopm Sung Mass

Next Masses at Oulton Abbey & Swynnerton

The Masses for Oulton Abbey, near Stone, will be on the fourth Sundays of the Month; 
22 Sept. and 27 Oct., at 3 pm.  One or both will probably be sung.  Masses on Saturday morning (followed by Confession) continue fortnightly at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Swynnerton near Stone, next Masses at 10 a.m., 7 Sept & 21 Sept.

Several regular and occasional attenders at the Burslem weekly Sunday Mass took part in the Ely-Walsingham Pilgrimage Walk last weekend, some 90 pilgrims in all, mostly under 30 years of age.  Great!  It was a splendid occasion and the 5th. such Annual Walk will take place around this time next year.

July 28 Mass at Oulton Abbey Cancelled

Unfortunately due to illness, the scheduled Mass for this Sunday has had to be cancelled.  The next Sunday Mass at Oulton Abbey (sung or low) will be on Aug. 18 at 3 pm.  Other upcoming Masses are at Swynerton this Saturday (27 July) at 10 a.m. and at St. Wulstan's, Wolstanton, Newcastle at
7 p.m., Friday Aug. 2.

Please note there is a Trad. Rite Latin Mass for the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady at St. Joseph's, Burslem at 7 pm (Aug. 15)

Forthcoming Masses

Sunday Masses at Oulton Abbey are at 3pm as usual, the next ones being on July 28th. and Aug. 18th.  The (usually Sung) Sunday Mass at 6 p.m. at St. Joseph's, Burslem, near Stoke-on-Trent will continue each week, and there is a new fortnightly Mass at Our Lady of the Assumption Church, Swynnerton, near Eccleshall/Stone, on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. as indicated in earlier message.

There will be a Low Mass for the Feast of the Assumption (Aug. 15) at St. Joseph's, Burslem, at
7 pm., and a Low Mass for the Feast of All Saints (Nov. 1) at St. Wulstan's, Wolstanton (Newcastle) at 7 p.m.  A little south of the N. Staffs deanery area, at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour Church, Cannock Road, Wolverhampton, there is a now a weekly Mass on Fridays at 6.30 pm.

Younger people (but not exclusively!) may well be interested in the revived historical Pilgrimage Walk from Walsingham (Aug. 24-26), culminating in the Annual LMS High Mass at the Walsingham Shrine, 2pm Sunday 26 Aug.

CONGRATULATIONS  FR. CRAIG !  

Craig Davies, former altar server and sacristan to Fr. Anton Guziel at Our Lady's Church in Fenton who went on to be a seminarian at Oscott College, was ordained in St. Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham on Sunday July 14th., by Archbishop Bernard Longley, and celebrated his first public Mass the following day appropriately at Fenton.  Our warmest congratulations and prayers, Fr. Craig.  We know you will be a fine priest.