Latin Mass in Menevia this coming Sunday...

......13th January will be at 5pm at the Church of St Therese de Lisieux, Sandfields, Nr Port Talbot.


Now that the New Year is with us, time to review Confraternity matters.

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The 4th Sunday of Advent Mass is at the Cathedral

Low Mass in the Extraordinary Form will be celebrated this coming Sunday 23rd December at 12 noon at St Joseph's Cathedral, Swansea, courtesy of Fr Michael Burke.

Rorate........................

"They shall not grow old...."

Remembrance Sunday, 11th November - Mass in the Extraordinary Form will be celebrated by Father Paul Brophy at 5pm at St Therese, Southdown Road, Sandfields, PORT TALBOT SA12 7HL.

For The Fallen
With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.

Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.

They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.

But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

Although the poet, Lawrence Binyon, speaks of "England" I hope that, with a little poetic licence, Wales may also be included in this most inclusive of verses.

Menevia Latin Mass next Sunday

Sunday 9th September's EF Mass will be at the Church of St Therese de Lisieux at Sandfields, near Port Talbot at 5pm.

Due to holiday breaks, there will fewer EF Masses during September - we will advise as and when Mass dates and times are known.

We adore Thee O Christ and we praise Thee, because by Thy Holy Cross 

Thou hast redeemed the world"

Mass at Clydach

The EF Mass next Sunday (19th) will be at St Benedict's, Clydach* at 2pm - please note the earlier than usual time.

                   St Benedict's also has a shrine to St Vincent de Paul complete with first class relic



*SA6 5NS for visitors with satnavs.