Missa Cantata on Saturday

This coming Saturday, 4 April, our visiting schola will be here for our solemn Missa Cantata in the older form of the Roman Rite The texts of the Mass will be sung in Gregorian chant according to the Roman Gradual.
Since the Mass will take longer than the usual Low Mass, it will be followed by a short service of Benediction and the Marian anthem. There will be a priest available from 11am to hear Confessions during Mass and Benediction.

Traditional Children’s Mass

Last year at Lourdes, one of our Masses was a traditional (Latin) Low Mass with hymns, especially geared for children. Parents have requested a similar Mass occasionally in the parish. On the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Monday 8 December, at 4.30pm, Fr Charles Briggs will come to say Mass and Fr Finigan will help the children to participate prayerfully at the Mass. All are welcome, including children of all ages.

Sung Latin Requiem Sat 6 September

Our next scheduled Missa Cantata (sung Latin Mass in the older form of the Roman Rite) is on Saturday 6 September at 10.30am. This day is the anniversary of the death of Fr Patrick Bailey, a former Parish Priest of Our Lady of the Rosary, and so, at the suggestion of the MC and Schola, I will celebrate this Mass as a Requiem for Fr Bailey and after Mass, there will be the traditional absolutions at the catafalque.

Requiem aeternam dona ei Domine et lux perpetua luceat ei.

Missa Cantata next Saturday

On Saturday 5 July, the 10.30am Mass at Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen will be a Missa Cantata, Mass sung in the older form of the Roman Rite, followed by Benediction. Confessions will be heard during Mass from 11am.

Explaining traditional Liturgy

Following several requests, Fr Finigan will give two talks on the traditional Latin liturgy explaining some of its elements and structure and giving some advice on how to participate in the liturgy. All are welcome. (It is not necessary to know any Latin!)

4 July 8pm - Understanding what is going on
Pope Benedict’s letter and Vatican II. The use of Latin. Facing Eastwards. Silence. Low Mass and High Mass.

11 July 8pm - How to participate at Mass
The teaching of the Popes about participation in the Liturgy. The different parts of the Mass. Interior and exterior participation. Holy Communion. The recovery of the sacred.

The talks will be given by Fr Timothy Finigan in the small hall at Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen. Light refreshments will be served and there will be an opportunity for questions. The talks will not assume any knowledge of Latin or of traditional liturgy. All are welcome.

Pope Benedict speaks

“It is, therefore, permissible to celebrate the Sacrifice of the Mass following the typical edition of the Roman Missal promulgated by Bl. John XXIII in 1962 and never abrogated, as an extraordinary form of the Liturgy of the Church.”
Pope Benedict XVI Motu Proprio “Summorum Pontificum” art.1

“In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture. What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place.”
Pope Benedict XVI. Letter to the Bishops of the World 7 July 2007

Missa Cantata this Saturday

Just a reminder that we have a Missa Cantata this Saturday at 10.30am at Our Lady of the Rosary, Blackfen, followed by Benediction and the Marian Anthem.

For those coming from elsewhere, here is a link to help you in getting to Blackfen.

Missa Cantata - 1 March

Every week at Blackfen, our Mass on Saturday morning at 10.30am is celebrated in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite (Traditional Latin Mass). On the first Saturday of each month, a small Schola of men kindly comes to us so that the Mass can be a sung Mass with the chants from the Roman Gradual.

The next occasion will be this coming Saturday, 1 March.

(Fr Robinson will be available to hear Confessions during the Mass from 11am to 12noon.)

Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary

This Sunday, 7 October, is the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary: our parish patronal feast day.

We have Mass at our usual times (6pm Saturday, 9am, 10.30am and 6pm Sunday). Our 10.30am Mass will be sung in Latin.

In the afternoon, at 3pm we have the Rosary, an indoor procession of the statue of Our Lady, and Benediction.

Usus antiquior Mass on Monday

Fr Finigan will be celebrating a private Mass at 11.30am on Monday 27 August, using the usus antiquior, the older form of the Roman Rite. All are welcome to attend this Mass.

(Mass is celebrated in the older form of the Roman Rite every Saturday in the Church at 10.30am, followed by exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and the opportunity for confession. Adoration concludes with Benediction at noon, followed by the singing of the Marian anthem as appropriate for the season (currently the Salve Regina.)

Latin Mass 29 July

Our next Sunday Latin Mass will be at 10.30am on Sunday 29 July.

Mass is celebrated in Latin every Saturday morning at 10.30am in the Traditional Roman Rite.

See the Our Masses page for information about the different Masses celebrated in the parish.