Some dates for early April

Looking ahead to after Easter, here are details of Masses taking place in early April in the diocese:


On Tuesday 2nd April at 12.30pm there will be a low Mass at the Eyre Chapel, Perrymead, Bath.

On Wednesday 3rd April at 6pm there will be a Low Mass at St Gregory's, Cheltenham.

On Saturday 6th April at 11am there will be a Low Mass at All Saint's Chapel, Wardour.

On Sunday 7th April there will be NO Mass at St Benedict's, Stratton-on-the-Fosse. Instead, there will be Low Mass at Our Lady and St Alphege, Bath, at 12 noon.

On Sunday 7th April there will be a Missa Cantata at 5.30pm at St Dominic's, Dursley.

On Monday 8th April there will be a Solemn High Mass for the transferred feast of the Annunciation at 7pm at Our Lady the Immaculate Conception, Devizes.

All are most welcome to these Masses.

Spiritual bouquet for Pope Francis

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE LATIN MASS SOCIETY

A Spiritual Bouquet for Pope Francis

The Latin Mass Society is gathering together a Spiritual Bouquet for our new Holy Father, Pope Francis I.
We are asking you, our members, supporters and friends, to help us with this.

We are encouraging everyone to ask priests that they know to celebrate Masses in the Extraordinary Form for the new Pope, that he may receive the graces necessary to fulfil the duties of his new office (you should pay the priest a stipend for this - suggested minimum offering £10). We are also asking you to offer up rosaries and other prayers and devotions for the Pope. In particular, offer up your Communion for the Pope.

The Pope has asked for our prayers to help him in his new office. Let us respond generously to his call. As Catholics, the Church has always asked us to pray, in charity, for others, living and dead, but one of the people She has always specifically requested the faithful to pray for is the Pope. This is a good and holy Catholic tradition. Let us live up to that tradition. Offer a priest that you know a stipend to celebrate a Traditional Mass for the Pope, or offer your daily rosary for Pope Francis, or add him to your intentions in your daily prayers, or offer a novena for him. The choice is up to you.

Once you have done this, or decided that you will do this, email or write to us at the LMS to tell us how many Masses, Communions, Rosaries or other prayers and devotions you have offered, or will offer, for Pope Francis. Please let us know as soon as possible. In fact, why not do it today?
These will then be gathered together and presented to the Holy Father on behalf of the Latin Mass Society and its supporters and friends. You don't have to be an LMS member to take part in this spiritual initiative.

Contact details
Email us at info@lms.org.uk
Write to us at: LMS, 11-13 Macklin Street, London WC2B 5NH

Mass listings for Holy Week and Easter

Here is a list of the Masses for Holy Week and Easter in the diocese. All are Low Masses:

St Dominic’s, Jubilee Road, DURSLEY, Gloucestershire GL11 4ES	Palm Sunday	5.30pm
	Monday in Holy Week	9.00am
	Tuesday in Holy Week	8.00am
	Spy Wednesday	8.00am
	Easter Sunday	5.30pm
Holy Cross Church, Dean Lane, Bedminster, BRISTOL BS3 1DB	Palm Sunday  Easter Sunday	12.30pm 12.30pm
SS Joseph & Teresa, 16 Chamberlain Street, WELLS, Somerset BA5 2PF	Easter Sunday	8.00am
Our Lady & St Kenelm, STOW-ON-THE-WOLD, Gloucestershire GL54 1DR Our Lady and St Alphege, BATH  BA2 3NR Our Lady of Lourdes, WESTON-SUPER-MARE	Easter Sunday Palm Sunday Easter Sunday Palm Sunday Easter Sunday	6.30pm 12pm 12pm 11.30am 11.30am

New Sunday Masses in Westminster Archdiocese

We are delighted to announce that there will be weekly Sunday Masses in the Extraordinary Form at two new venues in the Archdiocese of Westminster in the near future.

The Masses will take place in St Albans in the parish of St Bartholomew’s, 47 Vesta Avenue, St Albans, AL1 2PE (pictured above) and in Willesden, north-west London, at the Shrine of Our Lady of Willesden, Nicoll Road, London NW10 9AX (pictured below).

In both cases, the parish priests have been asked by the archdiocese to learn and celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form.

Neither Fr Tim Edgar of St Albans nor Fr Stephen Willis of Willesden has previously celebrated the Extraordinary Form, but both are approaching the opportunity of offering the ancient form of Mass with a very positive and pastoral attitude. It will obviously take some time for them to reach the necessary level of proficiency to start offering Masses publicly. Nevertheless, training has begun and regular weekly Masses on Sundays will start later this year on dates and at times yet to be announced. Their parishioners have already been consulted and informed about the introduction of the Extraordinary Form in their parishes and the reaction has been positive.

This very good news follows meetings between the LMS and the archdiocese over a period of a year or more, in which LMS Chairman Dr Joseph Shaw, Local Representative for Hertfordshire Mike Mason, and LMS General Manager Mike Lord met with Bishop Alan Hopes and Bishop John Sherrington a number of times to discuss wider provision of the Extraordinary Form.

The LMS would like to thank Bishop Hopes, Bishop Sherrington and Archbishop Vincent Nichols for their work in helping to make the Traditional Mass available in these areas of the Archdiocese of Westminster.

LMS General Manager Mike Lord commented: ‘We are very pleased at this positive response from the archdiocese to what has been something of a pastoral crisis in Hertfordshire and north-west London in recent years for Catholics attached to the Extraordinary Form of Mass.

'It is doubly pleasing that the parish priest in each case has been asked to be the principal celebrant. The Traditional Mass needs to become a full and accepted part of parish life in dioceses across the country with an important role to play in drawing the faithful closer to Christ, especially in this Year of Faith. In the cases of St Albans and Willesden, the Extraordinary Form is set to do just that.’