The Archdiocese is pleased to announce that Father Gordon Tall of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, will be received into the Traditional Roman Catholic Church, on Saturday, March 10th at The Mission of Our Lady of The Rosary at Wittering (Peterborough).

The Bishop Metropolitan will offer Mass at Noon, before which Bishop Dunlavey will receive Fr. Gordon and his wife into the Church. Father Gordon, his family and their Wellingborough congregation had previously been attached to a tiny “Old Catholic” jurisdiction which recently lost the majority of its clergy after internal squabbles. This has, of course, nothing whatever to do with The Archdiocese!

We thank God that Father Gordon and his people of Saint Stephen the Martyr, Wellingborough were able to find us and we offer them, with our love, a safe and truly Catholic Home within the gentle Fold of The Archdiocese of Our Lady of Victories. Father offers Sunday Mass in a public building and has besides a growing congregation.

Bishop Anthony will be in Southampton for the weekend of March 3rd and 4th. Solemn Mass will be offered on Saturday 3rd at Noon and will be a Votive Mass of the Mission’s Patron, Saint Teresa. The Sunday Mass will also be at Noon and will of course be that of the Second Sunday in Lent. Dame Della Edling will accompany the Bishop who felt he really should be in Southampton for a Sunday Mass. We look forward so much to being again with all our Southampton Faithful. Renewed thanks to Dame Patricia Earl-Williams for all she does; also to Joan and to Mary for their constant generosity towards the lunch that follows.

But there is sad Southampton news: Of your + Charity please pray for the + Repose of the + Soul of HARRY DOCKSEY of Southampton who died on Sunday, January 28th whilst playing bowls. He was 80. Harry was a staunch supporter and benefactor of The Archdiocese and his financial generosity will always be remembered. Bishop Anthony sang a Pontifical Requiem for Harry. His wife Sheila had died some two years earlier – she too was one of our staunch St.Teresa’s people and is still missed. We give thanks to God for reuniting them and that we were all fortunate enough to know such truly Christian people. Bishop Anthony’s fondest memory of them both is a Southampton Pilgrimage to Walsingham when Harry shared the driving of the mini bus.

JESU, Mercy! MARY, Pray! SAINT TERESA, Pray!

We are happy that Mrs Jenny Edwards, Guardian at Kirriemuir, has recovered from a recent bout of illness and is out of hospital and back home. Jenny has invited Bishop Anthony and Dame Della Edling to visit the Mission soon and to stay with her.

We look forward so much to seeing you again, dear Jenny. Blessings and sincere thanks for all you do. Please keep Jenny and their people in your prayers. Jenny hales from Tredegar – hence the Mission Title of Saint David!

Father Flynn reported 14 people at the 6pm Ash Wednesday Mass which was held by kind permission of Mr and Mrs Flaherty in Treorchy. Catrina drove down with five others from Abertillery and the visitors were of course made most welcome. A vegetarian supper (as befits Ash Wednesday) followed the Mass.

There was no Ebbw Vale contingent at the Rhondda Mass because Father Flynn said Mass at Tredegar on Monday, February 26th at 5pm. The service began with the Imposition of Ashes. We thank Miss Edwards for her hospitality and the supper that followed. Eight lay people were present, including a new lady who had heard of the TRCC through Mrs O’Shea in Ebbw Vale.

We thank all our Monmouthshire and South Wales people for all their staunch loyalty and enthusiasm. If people realised the state of the Novus Ordo Church in the Archdiocese of Cardiff, they would understand just why our TRCC Missions in that part of the country are so successful!! God bless you all.

There was one Solemn Mass for all the London Missions at the slightly unusual time of 5pm. This enabled our Faithful from various districts of London to attend. Bishop Anthony’s homily centred on Our Lord’s words in the day’s Gospel: “Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven….”

Ben is (finally!) becoming a proficient server and it was good that Mrs O’Connor and Diz Harford from Shepherds Bush were able to be present since both have been unwell.

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.

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 February. Any March 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); Valerie Crombie; Peggy Derwent; Olive Almond; Vernon and Elsie Davies; Janina Harper; Malcolm Hall; Margaret Wyatt; Gertrude Perkin; Malcolm Hall; 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); Joan Arthur; Eileen Crabbie; Tony Jaques; Anthony Gross (Chelsea); Carol Cole; Lyn Hobb; Tanya Wolfman (Brighton); Delyth Jane Mattingly (Huntingdon); Kate Haines (Abertillery); Timmy Williams (Midhurst); Kate Dorran; Ben Catty (Finchley); Sister Tessa Fisk (Lindisfarne); Phillip & Mavis Boylan (Whitehaven, Cumbria); Mrs Target; Elyned Powell (Rhondda); Margaret McNally; Pat Wroe; Brian Fisher; Nellie (Barnsley); Anna Protheroe; Mrs 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); Walter Beddows (Peterborough); Ceinwen Game (Brecon); Mrs Rhys-Evans (Ystradgynlais); Mary Davies (Kensington).

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…

Solemn Mass & Blessing of new statue of St. David : Hampstead at 6pm. (Supper)

Mary Walters and Gerry Ellis are stoutly continuing the leafleting campaign and, in fact, extending it to various villages beyond Midhurst and Petworth. They are also speaking to many Catholics in the area and inviting them to our Masses. As we write the next Petworth Mass on February 27th has yet to take place.

The March Mass is on March 7th at 6pm – feast of St. Thomas Aquinas.

There will be Solemn Mass at Marylebone at 7pm on Monday, 19th March for the Feast of Saint Joseph, at Ben’s. The usual sausage and mash supper follows and we look forward to good support that evening from our London congregations.

It was a real loss to us when in 2005 our Guardian, Diz Harford, tried to settle again in her native Australia. Thankfully for us, Diz returned to London a year later where she had kept her flat on Shepherds Bush Green.

The February Mass at St. Sebastian’s boasted 7 people and we all thank Diz and Eileen O’Connor for all they do. Next Mass: Tuesday, March 27th at 7pm. +

Bishop Anthony thanks Simon for all he does in Chelsea, Dorset, and as Treasurer.