*UPDATE 1. Please note: Tenebræ is no longer able to happen, due to unforeseen circumstances outside our control. **UPDATE 2. We are now fully booked for ALL the services of the Sacred Triduum. Please be aware that we cannot guarantee seats for anyone without a booking. For those with reservations, please be in your spaces in plenty of time.
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Thanks be to God, the latest restrictions announced by the government do not affect public worship in England. Therefore, our Mass schedule continues as advertised. To read our latest bulletin, go here.
Our latest newsletter, with Mass times and activities is here Please note especially the times for Masses at Christmas: Bedford: Midnight Mass, and 8.30am (Dawn Mass of Christmas) Reading: Midnight Mass (Sung), and 11am (Day Mass of Christmas) Chesham Bois: 8am (Dawn Mass of Christmas – Sung) There will also be a Holy Hour followed by a Sung Mass at Midnight on New Year’s Day in Reading.
As you will be aware, the Government’s new lockdown legislation calls for the cessation of public worship. Please sign this petition and write to your local MP to challenge this blatant and unnecessary violation of liberty. You will be pleased to note that the Bishops Conference has challenged the Government on this point, as have several bishops including Bishop Egan. Please pray that these restrictions are lifted quickly. During the lockdown, we will strive to keep the founts of sacramental […]
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I regret to inform you that the FSSP England summer camps scheduled for this coming August in the Peak District have had to be cancelled. This is due to the restrictions imposed by the government, which made it unrealistic for Savio House to host us this time. Here’s hoping and praying that the 2021 camps will be even better to compensate!
A monk of my acquaintance once drily remarked, as he looked across at the banks of gloomy faces in the choir stalls opposite, that he sometimes doubted the Resurrection had really happened. The point is well made. It can be easier in a way, for us Catholics, to identify with Lent and Passiontide than with Easter. Even if we haven’t kept our Lenten resolutions as well as we would have liked, we still relate more readily to the themes of […]