Services This Week.

Thursday 2nd November. 7:30pm. Church of St. Joseph the Worker, Heywood.

All Souls' Day Requiem.

Requiem Mass in the Ordinariate Use of the Roman Rite (Divine Worship.)

Friday 3rd November.  7:00pm. Church of St. Mary, Bishophill Junior, York.

St Winefride, Virgin, optional memorial

Solemn Evensong according to the Customary of Our Lady of Walsingham

(The York Ordinariate Mission's weekly Evensong)

Ps 18

Office Hymn:  Give me the wings of faith (NEH 225: Tune: Song 67)

Readings: Sir 34:1-8, 18-22 Rev (5:1-10) 6:12—7:4

Friday 3rd November. 9:00pm. Church of St Mary, Bishophill Junior, York.

Compline by Candlelight. (Roman Rite, Extraordinary Form.)

Feria Sexta infra Hebdomadam XXI post Octavam Pentecostes V. Octobris ~ IV. classis

Psalms {from the Psalter for the day of the week} 76i; 76ii; 85. Antiphon: Voce mea

Office Hymn: Te Lucis (tune 3. Ferial)

Marian Antiphon. Salve Regina - simple tone.

This is a good place (and time) to add a few words about the Divine Office, be it Roman Rite (either Form) or Anglican/Ordinariate Use. I borrowed these from the website of Ampleforth Abbey (where I was yesterday) as they hit the nail on the head, so to speak.

The Office is a public prayer, and this means two things. Firstly, in the Office, the community gathers together visibly, in public, as the local manifestation of the Body of Christ. Secondly, in the Office, the community is very much making its own the prayer of the Church, which is Christ’s prayer to the Father. As with Christ, as we listen to and pray the Psalms and readings, we sometimes praise God as our loving father, while at other times we hear him speaking to us as his beloved children, and at other times again we pray to him for our own needs and the needs of the whole Church and the world.

What I want to point out here, is that the Office at Bishophill Junior, isn't just a private gathering of friends on a Friday evening. It's the public prayer of the church, to which all are invited. A very warm welcome awaits at Evensong, Compline, or both!

Saturday 4th November. 12:00pm. Church of St. Charles Borromeo, Hull

Roman Rite, Extraordinary Form.

S. Caroli Epíscopi et Confessoris ~ I. classis

This is normally only a 3rd class feast, but because it's also the Feast of Title of the church, it gets upgraded. :-) It's also a Hull City of culture event.

Missa Cantata, with the Rudgate Singers.

Proper from the Graduale Romanum: Statuit ei.

Ordinary: Byrd. mass for Four voices.

Motets: Johan Kaspar Aiblinger. Inveni David.

Tallis. Sancte Deus

Schubert. Salve Regina.

Sunday 5th November. 12:00pm. Church of St. Joseph, Gateshead.

Dominica XXI Post Pentecosten I. Novembris ~ II. classis

Missa Cantata, (Roman Rite Extraordinary Form.)

Also worthy of note!

Sunday 5th November 6pm. Church of St Wilfrid, York.

Vespers and Benediction.

Sunday 5th November 6pm. Church of St Lawrence, York.

Choral Evensong.

If I have enough energy after Gateshead in the morning, I may end up going to one of these!