Thursday, 13 August 2020

External Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Sunday 16th August at 4pm Sacred Heart Morriston

As usual, please get in touch if you would like to attend Holy Mass on Sunday via text or e-mail:

Text: 07702230983

Mail: tom.sharpling@btinternet.com

Mass Propers can be found here - just select Assumption:

https://www.sanctamissa.org/mass-chants-and-propers

Thursday, 6 August 2020

10th Sunday After Pentecost - 9th August 2020

Tenth Sunday After Pentecost

The Pharisee and the Tax Collector

Holy Mass in the extraordinary form will be celebrated on Sunday 9th August at 4 p.m. at Sacred Heart Morriston. Attendance will be by booking only owing to the coronavirus pandemic restrictions either through the parish or as follows

tom.sharpling@btinternet.com

07702 230983 (direct call or text message)

For more details about this, please view our coronavirus update page on the site.

Many thanks for "praying safe and staying safe".

The Propers of the Holy Mass can be printed and brought along to the Mass, and give a simultaneous Latin and English translation. These can be viewed, downloaded or printed by clicking on the below link.

Propers of the Holy Mass for 10th Sunday After Pentecost

The Church Year is now within the Season of the Sundays After Pentecost

The season is represented by the colour green which symbolises hope. It is the longest season of the Church's year and its readings often concern Jesus's works and actions. An interesting discussion about this season can be found here During Ordinary time and after Holy Mass we also sing the Salve Regina, one of the four main liturgical anthems to Our lady. This will continue up to Advent.

Depending upon the timing of Easter and Advent, the season after Pentecost can have as few as 23 weeks an as many as 28.

Below is a useful summary of the Season After Pentecost

"In order to give solidity and permanence to the image of Christ formed within us, it was necessary that the Holy Ghost should come, that so He might increase our light, and enkindle a fire within us that should never be quenched. The liturgy of this Season after Pentecost signifies and expresses this regenerated life, which is to be spent on the model of Christ's, and under the direction of His Spirit".

Taken from The Liturgical Year by Abbot Gueranger

This particular Sunday, we hear about the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector. A traditional commentary on this Gospel Reading can be heard here.

Traditional Commentary on this Sundays Gospel Reading

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Extraordinary Form Mass Schedule (August to November)

Schedule for Holy Mass

Extraordinary Form Mass Schedule

In the current situation, it is important to book a place in the church. Please get in touch:

tom.sharpling@btinternet.com

Mobile: 07702230983

If the arrangements for Holy Mass have to be changed then information will be published on:

http://meneviastabatmater.blogspot.com/

Please check before travelling.

Sunday 9^th August	10^th after Pentecost	4pm
Sunday 16^th August	External Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary	4pm
Sunday 23^rd August	12^th after Pentecost	4pm
Sunday 13^th September	15^th after Pentecost	4pm
Sunday 27^th September	17^th after Pentecost	4pm
Sunday 4^th October	Solemnity of Our Lady of the Rosary	3.30 Rosary 4pm Holy Mass
Tuesday 13^th October	Final Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima Corey Sharpling RIP 2^nd Anniversary	7pm Holy Mass Benediction Rosary
Sunday 18^th October	20^th after Pentecost	3.30 Rosary 4pm Holy Mass
Sunday 25^th October	Our Lord Jesus Christ the King	3.30 Rosary 4pm Holy Mass
Sunday 1^st November	The Feast of All Saints	4pm
Sunday 15^th November	24^th after Pentecost	4pm
Sunday 29^th November	First Sunday of Advent	4pm

Wearing a Mantilla

Why do women cover their heads in the Extraordinary Form of the Holy Mass

St Paul wrote that women should cover their heads and men uncover them as a way of explaining how women represent the Church in a particular way - as a sacred and veiled bride to Christ.

Women covering their heads used to be very common and reaches back into our Catholic history connecting us to ancient liturgy and unbroken tradition. And yet, it is almost completely unknown in the Ordinary Form - the tradition has been lost and the links broken.

Some people see the wearing of a veil or mantilla as a sign of weakness or of being subservient to men but this is completely untrue.

Pope St. John Paul II speaks of women finding their feminine identity and a special genius of their relationship with the Lord through being a bride of her husband and recognising that the Church is the bride of Christ. Through this women can align themselves with the Blessed Virgin Mary as the archetype of Mother Church which is something that men cannot do.

Women wear veils in church because as Mothers of the Church, they are a sign and inspiration for all those around them. They remind people that they are representing the church as the Bride of Christ; they demonstrate their reverence before the Blessed Sacrament by showing people that in this place and before the Lord they wear something different; they signal to people that in this state of reverence they are not up for a chat and by all of these things they are empowered as strong Catholic women.

As women, it is our responsibility to uphold the wearing of a veil as a sign of our special position in the Church and of our duty towards our family, Mother Church and Our Lord - it is a gift not to be tossed aside but to be embraced.

Sunday, 19 July 2020

Holy Mass of 8th Sunday after Pentecost - 4 p.m. Sunday 26th July

Welcome back to Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form in the Diocese

Dear Supporters of the Holy mass in the Extraordinary Form in the Diocese of Menevia.

Canon Jones has kindly offered to celebrate Holy Mass next Sunday 26th at 4 pm at Sacred Heart Morriston, subject to the current government social distancing regulations.

As you know, churches were able to re-open for public Mass for a limited number of congregation from last Sunday in Wales. Please see below for the current regulations, and details of registering attendance.

The propers of the Holy Mass can be viewed here

Current number of free seats is 16, or 6 family rows plus 2 rows of two people

Holy Mass Booking Process

At Sacred Heart, a system of registration has been introduced, whereby people wishing to attend the Mass are asked contact us to register their prospective attendance. Bookings can continue until numbers are full. Similarly , people who for one reason or another are not able to attend the Mass are asked to contact us to withdraw the booking, and this could mean others could attend instead.

We'll display available seating here, and update this as the week goes on.

Contact details are as follows

Mobile Phone (voice call or text message) - 07702 230983 or 07790 579473
email tom.sharpling@btinternet.com
via Canon Jones, who can pass on the booking details to us.

We'll acknowledge messages as soon as possible.

Confessions will be available before Holy Mass at 3.30 p.m.

Thank you for your continued support of the Holy Mass in the Diocese, and for your patience and understanding at this time,

Seating Plan

Up to 6 people of the same family can occupy one row.

For people of different households, two people can occupy one row

Current Availability.

At the time of writing, we have availability for 16 people from different households. If several people from the same household register, additional people can be accommodated.

Thursday, 27 February 2020

First Sunday of Lent - 1st March 2020

"Then Jesus saith to him: Begone, Satan! for it is written: The Lord thy God shalt thou adore, and Him only shalt thou serve. Then the devil left Him: and behold angels came, and ministered to Him".

Holy Mass will take place in the Extraordinary Form on Sunday 1st March at 4 p.m. at Sacred Heart Morriston.

All are welcome .

There will be refreshments served in the Parish Centre after Holy Mass and the opportunity for confessions before Holy Mass.

Please click here for the propers of the Holy Mass

Attende Domine (Hearken O Lord)

R. Hearken, O Lord, and have mercy, for we have sinned against Thee.

Crying, we raise our eyes to Thee, Sovereign King, Redeemer of all. Listen, Christ, to the pleas of the supplicant sinners. R.

Thou art at the Right Hand of God the Father, the Keystone, the Way of salvation and Gate of Heaven, cleanse the stains of our sins. R.

O God, we beseech Thy majesty to hear our groans; to forgive our sins. R.

We confess to Thee our consented sins; we declare our hidden sins with contrite heart; in Thy mercy, O Redeemer, forgive them. R.

Thou wert captured, being innocent; brought about without resistance, condemned by impious men with false witnesses. O Christ keep safe those whom Thou hast redeemed. R.

An interesting discussion about the virtue of fasting and abstinence can be found here, which was a holy given at a Traditional Mass in the USA.

Tuesday, 28 January 2020

Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary 2nd February

The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Holy Mass will take place at Sacred Heart R.C Church , Morriston, Swansea on Sunday 2nd February at 4 p.m.

The propers of the Holy Mass will be for the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which is otherwise known as Candlemas.

"The feast of Candlemas, which derives its origin from the local observance of Jerusalem, marks the end of the Feasts included in the Christmas cycle of the Liturgy. It is perhaps the most ancient festival of Our Lady, commemorating not only the obedience of the Blessed Virgin to the Mosaic Law in going to Jerusalem forty days after the birth of her child, making the accustomed offerings, but also the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, and the meeting of the Infant Jesus with the old man Simeon, the Occursus Domini, as the Feast was anciently termed".

This is the principle theme of the liturgy today , Jesus taken to the temple to "present Him to the Lord"

The propers of Holy Mass can be found by clicking here