Easter is early this year and this effects somewhat certain feast days which occur in Holy Week. The feast of Saint Cuthbert which falls on March 20th may be kept on Saturday, March 15th,the Saturday in  Passion Week. This permission is on account of the devotion which many in the ArchConfraternity have to Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Alas! It is quite forbidden to keep the feast of Saint Patrick because it falls on Monday in Holy Week.
Equally the Solemnity of Saint Joseph cannot be observed on Wednesday, 19th March because, obviously, it falls in the middle of Holy Week. March is the Month of Saint Joseph, and the Bishops, in consultation with The Chapter of Advice, have decided that Saint Joseph’s Day will be solemnly kept on Monday,31st March which is the Monday in Low Week – and still in the month of the Spouse of our Blessed Lady.

So many of you tell us how much you appreciate the monthly Notes, and not least some of the housebound who are staunchly associated with us. Please offer the daily Intentions of the Kalendar in union with The ArchConfraternity. And please pray for all on the Sick List who specially need your prayers. You are all remembered at Holy Mass frequently. Let us in this holy time of Lent and then at Easter remember those who have so much less than we do: the Christians of the Holy Land and of Sudan – and never forgetting the suffering people of Zimbabwe/Rhodesia. Every Mass offered by our Clergy is in the Old Rite and for the Intentions of our Holy Father, Pope Benedict.

Do please consult the Clergy and Guardians for the times. At Hampstead there will be Low Mass and Stations of the Cross each Holy Week evening at 6pm. Times in other Missions are still to be finalised but there are details of several Masses in the Kalendar proper. The Friday before Palm Sunday Father Flynn will be driven by car to Rochdale where he will stay overnight at Mrs Moira Quinn’s house before singing Mass of Palm Sunday at 2pm on Saturday 15th. There will also be the anticipated Blessing & Distribution of Palms. Thanks so much to Moira for all she does. Father looks forward to meeting you all for the first time and we expect that some of the Manchester folk will attend.
Bishop Anthony must be in London that weekend to prepare for Solemn Mass at Noon on Palm Sunday – which also happens to be his birthday. A celebration buffet lunch will follow the Mass.
The Chrism Mass will be offered at Midhurst at 11am on Maundy Thursday and Solemn Mass of the Last Supper will be at 7pm at the Hampstead Oratory. Maundy Masses also: Brecon at 11am,Ebbw Vale at 6pm and Peterborough at 6pm. Good Friday Liturgy: Hampstead at Noon;Monmouth at Noon;Peterborough at Noon. For all Services in Scotland (Dundee; Forfar; Kirriemuir; Arbroath; St.Andrews) do please consult Canon Anson.  For Easter Vigil Liturgies consult the Clergy. Easter Vigil at Hampstead at 10pm

The February Mass was on Friday 15th and, as ever, it was a pleasure for Bishop Anthony to be with you all. Moira was unavoidably absent, undergoing a small “outpatients” operation at her local hospital, but one of her three sons, Matthew, an art student, was at home to offer a warm welcome to the eleven people who attended. As said above there will be Sung Mass & Blessing of Palms at Rochdale on Saturday,March 15th at 2pm. We thank sincerely the Rochdale people for their loyalty and staunch support. This Mission grew out of the embryo Mission established three years ago by one of our student Faithful, Mr Johnny Armstrong, now a librarian at Manchester University.

This problem, it must be stressed, only applies to a handful of our Hampstead people who perpetually appear five or ten minutes after Mass has begun.  Given our present circumstances, this puts Bishop Anthony in a very difficult position. You would not be late for an audience with the Queen, so why are you happy to be late for an “audience” with GOD? It is displeasing to JESUS and very bad manners. I have been loathe to mention this earlier but think Lent an excellent time to raise this serious matter. PLEASE contemplate these words. Every Mass in future WILL begin exactly on time!!

is for the Leukaemia Research Fund. We do urge our Faithful to send a donation, however small, either to Bishop Anthony or to Simon Gibbs, ArchConfraternity Treasurer, made out to The Leukaemia Research Fund. We would like to send donations to them as an offering from the ArchConfraternity. A Receipt  for any donation will obviously be sent to you. Many thanks in advance.

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Meryl Lay(Bracknell);Richard & Heike Podger;Will Malyon(Canterbury);Valerie Crombie;Billy Robinson;Olive Almond;Vernon and Elsie Davies;Janina Harper;Malcolm Hall;Margaret Wyatt;Gertrude Perkin;Edith Barraskell;
Honey Coleman;(Southampton);Marie Dufekova;Father Bohuslav;Jan Graf;Eva Motlova;Jirina Starkova;;Hanna Malinova;Sonja Trpikova(Czech Missions);Naomi Jackson;Eileen Thomas;Tony Keane;Barbara Evans(Ebbw Vale);Lyndon Brain;Breda Williams(Cardiff);Nancy Phillips;Mr.Brynfil Taylor;Gordon Griffiths;Kate Haines;
Eileen Jones;Christine Tidey(Abertillery);Cissie Sweet;Jane Llewelyn;Howard Hillier;William Bard;Stan Jones;
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;(St.Pancras);Constance & Eric Harris(Winchester);Arthur Medrow;Tom Dale;Robin Bencard(Battersea);Peggy Witcombe(Blackwood,Monmouthshire);James Milton;Aidan Magner;Teresa Mitchell;
Betty Baker;Ann Mocatta(Worthing);Gerald Wilson;Tom Smith(Edinburgh););Betty Dawkins;Netta Piotrowska;
Hanna Mlodnicka;Diz Harford(Shepherds Bush);Eileen Conrad-Frankowska(Bath);Beryl Hickman(Southampton);
Christopher Biston(Norwich);Ross Fraser(Dundee);Isobel Hurgon(Carmarthenshire);Carys and Philip Day(Usk);
Gee Cayley;Ernest Taylor;Sylvia Wynn(Hove);Noel Clarke(Huddersfield);David Gibson(Bow);Alan Feldman(West Ealing);Mr.Duncan(Evesham);Juliet Spicer(Edinburgh);Mrs Doris Lake(Liverpool);John Smith;Nigel Bunce;Ian Ellison(Swindon);Dot Unwin(Kilburn);Will Owen;Jon Paul Guiaullme;Anthony Gross (Chelsea);Tony Banks;Tanya
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Walter Beddows; Anne Greenhalgh(Peterborough);Gainor Beynon(Ystradgynlais);Mrs Joan Maunder(Portsmouth);
Zdena Vychodilova;Zdena Havlova(Chrudim/East Bohemia);Ceinwen Game (Brecon);Paulette Ellis(Gospel Oak)
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