Feast Of Corpus Christi - Thursday 7th June 2012

Mass on Sunday 20th May

This Mass will now be at The Church of The Sacred Heart, Morriston at 2pm.

Not Clydach as previously advertised.



                                 Composed by Pope Leo XIII in the 19th century.

                                           As a little child,

                                      I loved you like a mother.

                                          Now that I am old,

                                     my love for you has grown.

                                         Receive me in heaven

                                          as one of the blessed,

                                           and I will proclaim

                                          that I have obtained

                                           such a great prize

through your patronage.

                                                    Amen.



EF Mass next Sunday

Sunday 13th May at 5pm - Holy Mass will be offered at the Church of  St Therese of Lisieux, Sandfields, Port Talbot.


                                              MAY MAGNIFICAT

Photo: Ex Mundabor



MAY is Mary’s month, and I
Muse at that and wonder why:
Her feasts follow reason,
Dated due to season—
Candlemas, Lady Day;
But the Lady Month, May,
Why fasten that upon her,
With a feasting in her honour?
Is it only its being brighter
Than the most are must delight her?
Is it opportunest
And flowers finds soonest?
Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in every thing—
Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,
Grass and greenworld all together;
Star-eyed strawberry-breasted
Throstle above her nested
Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin
Forms and warms the life within;
And bird and blossom swell
In sod or sheath or shell.
All things rising, all things sizing
Mary sees, sympathising
With that world of good,
Nature’s motherhood.
Their magnifying of each its kind
With delight calls to mind
How she did in her stored
Magnify the Lord.
Well but there was more than this:
Spring’s universal bliss
Much, had much to say
To offering Mary May.
When drop-of-blood-and-foam-dapple
Bloom lights the orchard-apple
And thicket and thorp are merry
With silver-surfèd cherry
And azuring-over greybell makes
Wood banks and brakes wash wet like lakes
And magic cuckoocall
Caps, clears, and clinches all—
This ecstasy all through mothering earth
Tells Mary her mirth till Christ’s birth
To remember and exultation
In God who was her salvation. Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ

Latin Masses for the month of Our Lady - May

• Saturday  May 5th - Vigil Mass 5pm Sacred Heart, Morriston

• 2nd Sunday May 13th - 5pm St Therese de Lisieux, Sandfields, Port Talbot

• Thursday May 17th - 11am The Ascension - Holy Name, Fishguard

• 3rd Sunday May 20th - 2pm St Benedict's, Clydach with May Devotions ie Rosary, Litany Benediction and crowning. All Children  welcome and a volunteer needed to be the May Queen.

• 4th Sunday (Pentecost) May 27th - 12 noon St Josephs Cathedral, Swansea

Our Lady Queen of the May

PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING MASS DETAILS:

Saturday 5th May at 5pm - Sacred Heart, Morriston

Thursday 17th May (Feast of the Ascension) at 11am - Holy Name, Fishguard

Some of us plan to adjourn for a light lunch afterwards so please join us if you are able.

Sunday 20th May 2pm - St Benedict's CLYDACH - followed by May Devotions

And please remember to let me know if you would like to reserve seats on the mini bus/coach for the Holywell Pilgrimage on 1st July.

ASAP please to r.collinsassoc@btinternet.com

A full calendar of May Masses will be published shortly

Bishop Rifan and the Holywell Pilgrimage

The Latin Mass Society has announced that Bishop Fernando Rifan of Campos, Brazil, will celebrate the Pontifical High Mass at Holywell on the annual pilgrimage scheduled for Sunday July 1st at 2.30pm.

If there is sufficient interest, the Confraternity will organise a mini bus (or a Coach) that will depart from Cardigan at c. 8.30am (full details will be announced once we have a group).

We will stop off at Aberystwyth to collect any pilgrims who wish to join us at that point.

Please let me know by 15th May if you are interested in making up a party.
Names of all individuals on an email please, to: r.collinsassoc@btinternet.com

Missa Cantata in Sketty

A reminder that there will be a Missa Cantata in Sketty (Swansea) at St Benedict's at 3pm this Sunday 29th April.


I am sure that all Confraternity members will wish to pass on their prayers and good wishes to Confraternity Treasurer and LMS Diocesan Representative, Luigi Dimaio who married Alyson Lewis at the Church of St Therese de Lisieux, Sandfields, last Sunday.

We wish them every happiness for the future.

The wedding service was followed by a beautifully sung Missa Cantata and the celebrants were Fr Paul Brophy, parish priest and Fr Andrew Southwell, Chaplain to the LMS.