It is with much pleasure that we report the foundation of yet three more Missions. Bishop Francis Dunlavey has established the Mission of Saint Chad at Walsall in the Greater Birmingham area. If anyone reads this on the website will they please contact Bishop Francis via his email address which is: father149@hotmail.co.uk

There are many Catholics in the Walsall area and we look forward to hearing from any of them who have been missing the old Latin Mass in recent years.

Our second new Mission is in south London at New Cross in the Borough of Lewisham. It has been dedicated in honour of Saint Alphege of Canterbury. We are truly grateful to Mr and Mrs Soraghan who indeed found The Archdiocese on the website. The first Mass was offered on January 23rd at 6pm when five people were present. Bishop Anthony thanks Kevin and Maureen for their hospitality. The next Mass will be offered on Saturday, 10th February at Noon. A leaflet is planned to distribute locally.

The third new Mission is, in fact, overseas – on the Greek Island of Kos where there is a small, but growing ex-patriate British community. Its new Guardian, Mr.Clive Christie, has asked that the Mission be dedicated to Saint John Chrysostom an early bishop and doctor of the Universal Church. In 398 he was elevated to the See of Constantinople. He is one of the four great doctors of the Eastern Church and Pope St.Pius X made him the Patron of Christian orators. Chrysostom, indeed, means “mouth of Gold.”

Bishop Anthony looks forward so much to travelling to Kos before long and meeting our new Faithful there. We must never, never tire of emphasising that it is the laity not the clergy who ARE the Church! Priests are scarcely Shepherds at all if they have nobody to shepherd!

Vicky Carpenter, Wendy Taylor, Mair Jeffery, June Dunlavey, Simon Gibbs, Della Edling and Alan Feldman for their loving emotional and practical support in the last three months. A special Votive Mass of the Holy Ghost has been offered for you all.

Thanks also to Bishop Dunlavey and to Fathers Anson, Flynn, Simms, Vojen & Zezulek for all they have done.

The last Mass was offered at Petworth on Thursday, January 4th at Noon. Eight of our local Faithful were present and again we thank Miss Halliday for her kindness and hospitality and for yet another splendid buffet lunch. Leaflets have been distributed in the area and by this means the Mission has gained another new supporter, Mr.Higgins. The Midhurst “band” are so very faithful and we thank you all for everything you do. The next Mass will be sung (and followed by Benediction) at Noon on Tuesday, 27th February by kind permission of Miss Walters.

Friday, February 9th is, of course, the feast of Saint Teilo and at Crickhowell at 6pm there will be Solemn Mass that day, by kind invitation of the Burton family.

Father Flynn reports that some of our staunch Brecon and Ystradgynlais Faithful think that there should be “slightly more mention of us” in the monthly Kalendar. This is indeed one of our special, founding TRCC Missions, consisting of traditional Welsh Catholics who, over a couple of decades, left the Novus Ordo Church, although not, as Mr Glyn Probert puts it, “without a fight!”. We admire you and love you – and thank you with all our hearts for what you do.

Bishop Anthony is so sorry he cannot be with you on the 9th because he must be at Lewisham on the 10th – but he will be coming down again soon. He thanks you so much for all your recent prayers and concern. It was Mother Julian who said : “All manner of thing shall be well.”

As was said last month, some Archdiocesan news and certain forthcoming events will NOT be listed on the Website but available only in the printed, manual copies of our News/Kalendar which are sent by post to the Faithful. Some 300 of these now go out monthly by post – a labour of love only made possible because of the great generosity of so many of you in sending regular postage stamps!

We do beg all our people to pray with us the daily intentions, whether for our many Missions or for the more general needs of our suffering world. You can obviously do this as part of your daily Office or Rosary; and we do ask you to remember the day’s intention whenever one of the clergy is present to offer Holy Mass. In this pious way we support each other by loving prayer before the throne of God.

Father Simms will offer the next Mass on Saturday, February 24th at Noon at the home of Mrs Penny Rees in Urmston. We thank the faithful band for all they do and not least Johnny, Penny and Pauline. A new leaflet, aimed particularly for the University, is currently being prepared and should be ready before the Mass. Volunteers please!

To everyone for recent Epiphany donations of stamps and money. God will bless you.

There will be Solemn Mass at Southampton on Saturday, March 3rd at Noon. Bishop Anthony looks forward to being with all our stalwarts there once more and offers special thanks to his mother, Dame Patricia Earl-Williams, OSP, for all she does. The continuous generosity of the Southampton people is appreciated more than words can say. We continue to pray for Peggy and also for Doris following a recent fall which, thank God, was not serious. Mass on Sunday 4th will also be sung at Noon.

+ Pray for the + Repose of the + Soul of Phyllis Medrow, one of the Battersea stalwarts. A Solemn Requiem Mass for her soul is being arranged. We offer Arther, her husband, loving condolences.

Bishop Anthony wishes to thank Gill Bencard for all her care and concern for Phyllis over many years. However much we know that the Faithful have gone to God, it is never easy to say Goodbye. JESU, MERCY!

It isn’t only the Brecon people who think they should be mentioned more often! So do our Monmouth people! Two Masses a month are offered by Father Flynn, one at either Monmouth or Usk and the other at Abergavenny or Gilwern. We thank our band of truly staunch Faithful for all they do. The next Mass will be sung at Usk on Friday, February 23rd at 6pm. Details from Mrs Dallanegra or from Miss Hendy. One of our Monmouthshire Faithful, Mr.James Coyne, recently returned to England (Monmouthshire is not in Wales!!) after five months with his daughter in New Zealand and there will be a “Welcome Home” Party for him after the Sung Mass at Christina Dallanegra’s home. +

They are a source of real income to the Archdiocese and help tremendously with the postal bill for the despatch of the monthly Notes. As we’ve already stressed: many of our older Faithful don’t have access to a computer – and thus to our Web Site – and really do rely on the “old fashioned word” as a vital means of communication. Particular thanks to all who’ve sent stamps during December. Any February donations would also be most welcome. Cheques should be made payable to “The Traditional Roman Catholic Church” and sent to Bishop Anthony at the address at the top of the Kalendar or to Mr.Simon Gibbs, our Archdiocesan Treasurer, at:

Gibbs & Co. , Blackwell House, Guildhall Yard, London, EC2V 5AE.
God will bless you. Holy Mass is offered monthly for all our benefactors.

Flora Hindle; Jenny Rees; Rose Gothsch; Peggy & Charles White; George Hepworth; Sheila Shanks; Eileen Conrad;
Shelley Breach; Linzee Hickox; Les Purcell (Hampstead); Marie Jones; Ralph Tuck; Mavis Williams (Breconshire);
Meryl Lay (Bracknell); Richard & Heike Podger; Will Malyon (Canterbury); Harry Docksey; Valerie Crombie; Peggy Derwent; Olive Almond; Vernon and Elsie Davies; Janina Harper; Malcolm Hall; Margaret Wyatt; Gertrude Perkin;
Honey Coleman; (Southampton); Marie Dufekova; Vera Vojnova; Jan Graf; Eva Motlova; Jirina Starkova; Mirek Havel; Hanna Malinova; Sonja Trpikova (Czech Mission); Naomi Jackson; Eileen Thomas; Tony Keane; Barbara Evans (Ebbw Vale); Lyndon Brain; Breda Williams (Cardiff); Nancy Phillips; Mr.Brynfil Taylor; Anthony Rees;
Eileen Jones; Christine Tidey (Abertillery); Cissie Sweet; Jane Llewelyn; Howard Hillier; Marie and William Bard;
Mrs Hopkins (Six Bells); Patrick & Irene Cornesh (Finchley); John & Mary Hart (Alton); Della Edling (Covent Garden);
Ena Wotherspoon; Hilary Walton; Mrs Grey (Oxford); David Springham (Hounslow); Nigel & Brenda Dawson; Lisa & Kath Mitchell; Joan Rawlins; Mrs Hill (St.Pancras); Constance & Eric Harris (Netley, Hants); Arthur Medrow; Robin Bencard (Battersea); Peggy Witcombe (Blackwood, Monmouthshire); James Milton; Aidan Magner; Teresa Mitchell;
Betty Baker; Ann Mocatta (Worthing); Gerald Wilson; Tom Smith (Edinburgh); Mrs O’Connor; Netta Piotrowska;
Hanna Mlodnicka (Shepherds Bush); Bobbi Robi (Paddington); Mrs Ford (Dulwich); Beryl Hickman (Southampton);
Christopher Biston (Norwich); Ross Fraser (Dundee); Frank Raymond (Midhurst); Isobel Hurgon (Carmarthenshire);
Kate Dodds; Ernest Taylor; Sylvia Wynn (Hove); Noel Clarke (Huddersfield); David Gibson (Bow); Alan Feldman (West Ealing); Fred Smith (Evesham); Juliet Spicer (Edinburgh); Mrs Doris Lake (Liverpool); John Smith; Nigel Bunce; Ian Ellison (Swindon); Tanya Fraser; Margaret Kane (Angus); Joan Arthur; Eileen Crabbie; Tony Jaques; Anthony Gross (Chelsea); Jessie McIntosh Alma Anderson; Sue & Jan (Angus); Tanya Wolfman (Brighton); Delyth Jane Mattingly (Huntingdon); Kate Haines (Abertillery); Timmy Williams (Midhurst); Kate Dorran; Ben Catty (Finchley); Sister Tessa Fisk (Lindisfarne); Phillip & Mavis Parke r(Whitehaven, Cumbria); Mrs Target; Elyned Powell (Rhondda); Margaret McNally; Pat Wroe; Brian Fisher; Nellie (Barnsley); Ann O’Sullivan (Newcastle on Tyne); Bill Barnes (Cambridge); Kim Morgan; Dylis Oldfoot (Cardiff); Tom Blenkinsop ;Cathy Bosworth (Northampton); Stephen Chester; Baby Charles Oldfield (Shepherds Bush); Ian Tarr (Rochdale); Grace Withers ;Mary O’Shea; Penny Inglefield (Manchester); Terry Fouracre (Ebbw Vale); Mair Llewelyn-Price (Cardigan); Joe O’Hagan (Loughborough); Ceinwen Game (Brecon).

please send in any new names to be included on the Sick List at your earliest convenience – and tell us to remove others! Thanks. Holy Mass is offered monthly for all on the List. **It would be sincerely appreciated if names are submitted by post and NOT telephoned through! Thanks…