A Reminder. Feast of SS Peter and Paul.

Just a reminder for anyone in the area that there is a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form in St. Francis Xavier, Broad Street, Hereford, on tomorrow Sunday, 29th. June at 11.30 a.m.

The Mass setting is Missa Papae Marcelli by Palestrina and Tu es Petrus by Palestrina will also be sung. The preacher is the Revd. Dr. Laurence Hemming.

(There is a poster on the L.M.S. Society website but try as I might I cannot upload it.)

The timing is excellent, ( i.e. NOT 3.30pm), and I think this is an very good example of how the Extraordinary Form can be regularised into normal parish life. The parish has its Ordinary Form Mass at the usual time of 9.00.a.m.

Fr. Blake's Common Sense.

Fr. Ray Blake is talking a lot of sense, as usual, over at St. Mary Magdalen, regarding the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite of Mass http://marymagdalen.blogspot.com/2008/06/westminster-i-am-going.html






On the question of the bishops and the M.P. I am very glad to hear that some bishops are actively canvassing for priests able to celebrate the Extraordinary Form. And it is excellent to hear a priest who is sympathetic to the issue discuss the practicalities involved.

I tend to agree with him on the question of Low Mass; my idea of it is as something quiet, deeply spiritual, etc but in reality I come away unfulfilled. It could be countered that the Mass is not about me at all but a sacrifice offered to God. But it is meant to offer us consolation as well. Perhaps our world has moved on so much that I no longer "get it". ( There was after all a genuine reason why Vatican II called for a reform of the Missal, even if what we got was nowhere near their intention. )

But above all I hope and pray that we might have as Fr. Ray suggests reconciliation with the Past.

Oh and GET TO WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL ON SATURDAY.