Our new bishop, bishop Robert Byrne, visited the Gateshead deanery/partnership on Friday. I am delighted to say that the bishop was keen to arrange a time he could come to St Joseph`s to celebrate the Extraordinary Form Mass. So this has been arranged for Sunday 8th December at 12. This time it will be a Pontifical Low Mass with motets sung by the Westland Singers. I hope one day we will have a Pontifical High Mass at the throne but that will take a lot more preparation and many extra personnel. In the meantime I am looking forward to the feast of the Immaculate Conception this year.
gratia ad opus
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This is very good promising news.
ReplyDeleteGod Bless our new bishop.
ReplyDeleteWonderful news. Let us hope - and pray - that this positive lead from our bishop will encourage more celebrations around the diocese.
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