STABAT MATER MENEVIA: May 2012

Tuesday, 29 May 2012

Feast of the Holy Trinity

The Saturday Vigil Mass will be at The Sacred Heart, Morriston, Swansea at 5pm on Saturday 2nd June

Monday, 21 May 2012

Sunday 3rd June marks the birthday of Bishop Tom Burns of Menevia and to mark this special occasion, we in the Confraternity are organising a Rosary to be said individually on his Lordship's behalf.

Of course, it does not need to be one Rosary, please offer up as many as you please and join the Confraternity of the Holy Cross in wishing Bishop Tom a very happy birthday for June 3rd.

Ad Multos Annos!

Sunday, 20 May 2012

Feast Of Corpus Christi - Thursday 7th June 2012

Sunday, 13 May 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.

Thursday, 10 May 2012

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

Wednesday, 2 May 2012

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.