MASS LAST NIGHT

It has been sometime since I posted photos of our Extra Ordinary Form Masses. So with this post are a few pictures taken at our Mass last night.
I would like to record my thanks to everyone who was involded in last night's Mass. The Choir for singing so splendidly Faure's Requiem. Our Altar servers and MC and the faithful souls who came to this Mass to pray for those gone before us marked with the sign of faith.

PLEASE PRAY FOR

Of your charity please pray for the souls of those who have recently died and whose funeral rites have been celebrated recently:

Mandy Deakin

Ryszard Szfranski

Veronica Armstrong

FAURE'S REQUIEM

Holy Mass will be offered on Friday Evening 6th November at 7:30pm for all our deceased relatives, benefactors, friends and parishioners. At this Mass the names of those who have died will be read out so that we can remember them as we offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the repose of their souls.

The choir will be singing Faure's Requiem Mass. All are warmly welcome to attend this Mass and pray for all those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith.

BLESSING OF GRAVES

On the 1st November I went to visit the cemetery to bless the graves of the Italian Community who are buried in Bury Cemetery. The weather was not kind to us but none the less we prayed for and blessed the graves of those who have gone before us marked with the sign of faith.

Dio omnipotente

che con la morte in croce del tuo Figlio

hai vinto la nostra morte.

Con il suo riposo nel sepolcro

hai santificato le tombe dei fideli

e con la sua gloriosa risurrezione

ci hai ridato la vita immortale.

Accogli le nostre prehgiere

per colore che morti e sepolti in Cristo

attendono la beata speranza

e la manifestazione gloriosa del Salvatore.

Concede O Signore

a coloro che ti hanno servito fedelemente sulla terra

di lodarti senza fine alla beatitudine del cielo

Per Christo nostro Signore.

FAURE'S REQUIEM

November is the month when we traditionally pray for those who have gone before us 'marked with the sign of faith.' At our Sung Mass on the First Friday of November (6th November 7:30pm) we will have an opportunity to do just that. The choir will be singing Faure's Requiem.

Many of you will be familiar with some of the music of this Mass if you listen to Classic FM. But the Mass is not something that we listen to or watch as if we were mere spectators. The Mass is what we fully and actively participate in.

I realise that the Latin Mass may not be everyone's cup of tea. Some will object to it saying they so do understand the latin. We do not have to understand everything that is said or sung at Mass in order to pray. Some of the times I have felt closest to God in pray have been when attending Mass on holiday in a country where I did not speak the the language.

We can use the music to help raise our minds and hearts to God as we remember our loved ones who have died.

LATIN MASS

Just a brief post to say there will be NO EXTRA ORDINARY FORM MASS (Latin Tridentine) for the next two weeks. The next Mass offered according to the 1962 Rite will be on Friday 30th October at 7:30pm

HOLY CROSS COLLEGE OPEN EVENING

Our local sixth From College is hosting an number of Open Evenings for Year 11 Students, their parents and guardians.

TUESDAY 20th OCTOBER

THURSDAY 12th NOVEMBER

from 5:30 till 8:00pm

You are welcome to come along to the evening and find out more about the wide variey of courses available at the College and meet students and staff.

Further details from the College

Telephone 0161 762 4500

www.holycross.ac.uk