Compline by Candlelight this evening

                                               S. Philippi Neri Confessoris ~ III. classis

A very happy Feast Day to all our Oratorian friends! Not a Solemnity for the rest of us though...

So, Psalms of Friday with Alleluia antiphon.
Office Hymn Te Lucis - Ascensiontide tune.
Marian Antiphon, simple tone Regina Caeli.

Advance notice: There will be NO Compline next Friday as some of us will be singing for a Solemn Mass at St. Austin's Church in Wakefield, to which of course, everybody is welcome. 

It's a Votive Mass in honour of the Blessed Sacrament and is due to start at 7.30pm.

Next week instead, we'll sing Compline on Saturday at the same time of 9pm.

Compline details for 19th May + other events

19th May, St Mary's Church, Bishophill Junior, York. 9pm. Compline by Candlelight.

Feast of  S. Petri Celestini Papae Confessoris ~ III. classis)

Ordinary Office.

Psalms of Friday. Antiphon Alleluia.
Office Hymn (Te Lucis, Eastertide tune)
Responsory, Verse & Nunc Dimittis (Eastertide)

Marian Antiphon Regina Caeli (simple tone) sung in the Lady Chapel.

This is the start of a busy weekend for me, as I've been roped into singing for the Sheffield Ordinariate's pilgrimage to York in honour of St. Alcuin on Saturday. This will be in the form of a Missa Cantata, in St. Wilfrid's Church at 10.30am using the Ordinariate Rite (Divine Worship), something I've done a few times now, but am still trying to get used to! Needless to say, everyone is welcome. After Mass, the pilgrims will be going to have a pub lunch and then a few hours free time in York, before concluding their pilgrimage in York Minster where they will be attending Evensong.

More details here from St Wilfrid's own site, including the photograph that I took a couple of years ago!

To conclude the weekend, some of the Rudgate Schola will then be travelling to Doncaster on Sunday to sing what could probably be the first full Gregorian Chant Mass to have been sung there for decades, if at all. I don't know anything about the history of Catholic Choral music  & chant in the area, so I may just be wrong, but I'd fancy my chances of winning if I were to bet on us being the first. :-) If anyone knows for sure, please do feel free to post a note in the comments section.

The Mass itself takes place at 3pm on Sunday in the church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Everyone is, of course, very welcome!

Compline by Candlelight this Friday 12th May

Venue, as always, the oldest church in York. St. Mary's Bishophill Junior, 9pm.

Feast of BB John Rochester, James Walworth & companions MM III Cl.
(local to the Dioceses of Leeds & Middlesbrough)

Ordinary Office.

Psalms of Friday. Antiphon Alleluia.
Office Hymn (Te Lucis, Eastertide tune)
Responsory, Verse & Nunc Dimittis (Eastertide)

Marian Antiphon Regina Caeli (simple tone) sung in the Lady Chapel.

There may be a slight delay this week, as some of us will have travelled across to Broughton Hall, near Skipton, to sing at the Requiem Mass of Henry Tempest, who died last Friday. We will be depending on light traffic in/around the Harrogate area on the way back to York!

Prayers for Henry and his family would be very much appreciated .