THE
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January 2016
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News from the Groups
Choral Director appointed for the Church
of the Most Precious Blood, London Bridge
This month
marks
the third anniversary
of the Church of the Most
Precious Blood being placed
in the care of the Ordinariate
of OLW. In order to develop
further the music, liturgy and
work with young people and
students a Choral Director
has been appointed.
The emphasis is on developing a choral
foundation which will become self-sustaining,
developing talent within the Parish and
providing opportunities for young people in
this part of London.
The weekly Choral services (on Thursdays until
Ash Wednesday and Wednesdays from then
onwards) in the Lent Term will initially focus
on the music of English composers working
at the time of Reformation. These composers
Miles Ashdown, a music student at King’s College, witnessed the turmoil of the separation from Rome
London, already has extensive singing and conducting first hand and it is a joy to be able to sing their music in
experience both with adults and young people. He has the context of an ecclesial structure and liturgy which
a three-fold brief at Precious Blood.
finally and definitively heals this rupture.
The first is to develop singing within the growing
This emphasis on Tudor Church music will not
congregation, to recruit and train a junior choir and preclude the inclusion in the future of the music
to direct the music for the midweek Choral Evensong of Stanford, Stainer and Sumsion and the revived
and Ordinariate Use Mass during term-time.
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Where to find us at prayer around the UK ... continued:
Day Centre Contact: Fr Lee Bennett: 01702
465720 or 07952 422536 - [email protected],
Fr Jeffrey Woolnough: 01702 525323, 07956 801381
- [email protected], Fr Bob White: 01268
543910 - [email protected], Deacon
Richard Cerson: 07910 388795 - rcerson@
gmail.com - www.hockleyordinariateolw.
blogspot.com
TorbaY The Church of Our Lady of
Walsingham with St Cuthbert Mayne,
Old Mill Road (junction of Ashfield Road),
Chelston TQ2 6HJ Mass: Sunday: 10.30am, Tues
12 noon, Wed 12 noon, Thurs 7pm (Divine Worship)
Contact: Fr David Lashbrooke: 01626 439485 [email protected] - www.ourladyofwalsingham.com
Sunday of the month: 11.30am
HIGHLAND
(Fortrose) St Peter and St Boniface, Cathedral
Square, Fortrose IV10 8TB Mass: 1st, 3rd, 5th
Sundays of the month: 11am. Stirling St
Mary’s, 15 Upper Bridge Street, Stirling FK8
1ES Mass: 2nd Sunday of the month: 4pm
(Confessions: 3.30pm). Divine Worship is
used at every Mass in Scotland. Contact:
Fr Len Black: 01463 235597 or 07836 365719
- [email protected] or Fr Stanley
Bennie: 01851 703259 or 07768 660612 [email protected] - for full details and to
check mid-week Mass times please visit us at: www.
ordinariate.scot
Wales
(South East) Metropolitan
Cathedral of St David, 38 Charles Street, Cardiff CF10
WALSINGHAM The Slipper Chapel, Shrine of
Our Lady of Walsingham, NR22 6AL Mass: 1st Sunday
of the month: 5pm (Divine Worship) Contact: Fr
Gordon Adam: 01553 777428 - gordonadam1962@
btinternet.com
2SF Mass: 4th Sunday of m