We are most pleased to announce that Deacon Eric of our Mission of St. Matthias at Barnsley Central, will be raised to the Sacred Priesthood by Bishop Anthony on the Feast of Pentecost – Sunday, May 31st at 1pm at the Hampstead Oratory of St. Anthony of Padua. The time has been chosen to make it easier for people outside London to attend and support Deacon Eric on this his special day. Pentecost is of course the Birthday of the Catholic Church when the Holy Ghost descended on the Apostles in tongues of fire and the Gift of Holy Orders was given to the Church.
Deacon Eric was raised to the Diaconate in the summer of 2005 and has been preparing in the years since for the precious Gift of Priesthood.  He continues to build up the Mission at Barnsley Central. We do earnestly ask your prayers for Deacon Eric in these weeks before Pentecost. A buffet lunch will follow the Ordination Mass.   It would be helpful if those hoping to attend will inform Bishop Anthony in advance.    

Falls this year on Saturday, May 23rd (the actual Feast of 24th being a Sunday).  The principal May Devotion for the ArchConfraternity will take place on May 23rd and there will be Solemn Pontifical Mass at Hampstead at Noon, followed by holy Rosary.

Tuesday, May 12th. Mass & Renewal of Vows for those in the Order of St.Pancras:7pm

The next Mass will be offered on Tuesday, May 5th, the Feast of Saint Pius V, Pope, at Urmston at Noon, thanks as ever to Penny. A buffet lunch will follow and Bishop Anthony looks forward to seeing as many of our Northern stalwarts as possible. Our Manchester students agreed that on that particular day, Noon was a suitable time, and they will be present, as will some of our Rochdale folk who “turn out” faithfully to support the Manchester Masses. The last Mass was well attended on the Tuesday in Easter Week, April 14th, when nineteen people made their Easter Duties. Bishop Anthony thanks the kind drivers, usually Percy and Don, who gladly meet him off the train at Rugby every time – though I have often said that going all the way to Manchester Piccadilly would not be a chore!!

On March 20th, following talks with the Bishop Metropolitan, Mr. Nicholas Roden-Johnson of Chester was received into the ArchConfraternity during a private Ceremony. He was also accepted as an advanced Seminarian, having studied for two years at Saint Chad’s College, Durham.   Nicholas, who is 43, is about to sit his final Law exams. As with so many of us, his deep attachment to the Old Rite meant, painfully, his withdrawal from the Novus Ordo Church, when he felt obliged to abandon his theological studies at Durham.
With the Chapter’s approval, Bishop Anthony proposes to raise Nicholas to the Diaconate in June. We have already, by God’s goodness, the makings of a new Mission at Southport in Lancashire where recently many traditional laity, loyal adherents of The English Missal, have been deprived of their heritage. The Mission is to be entitled “Our Lady of Sorrows”. They will certainly find a new, loving and gentle Home within the ArchConfraternity. Nicholas hopes also to establish a small Mission in Chester. For sound, pastoral reasons, Bishop Anthony proposes further to raise Nicholas to the Sacred Priesthood this year.  +Lord, Grant it!  ++

Just lately we seem to have lumped our five Czech Missions together when it comes to News. Father Jan Vojen who does so much for us in the Pardubice region, suggests that we should report on the Missions in turn. In future we will do this!  Father Vojen works tirelessly in two of our East Bohemia Missions, one centred on Pardubice and Hradec Kralove (two small cities) and the other based on a collection of villages and small towns. Thanks to the generosity of the Novus Ordo Catholic authorities, and perhaps the lack of Novus Ordo priests, we are able to say Mass in Catholic churches. As some of you reading this know, Bishop Anthony’s annual Visitations always include the offering of Holy Mass in various churches, as well, of course, as in private houses. In the Semtin district of Pardubice, the industrial part of the city, Father Vojen offers Mass in a small church as well as in the canteen of a local factory. Since the fall of communism in 1989 many have been reconciled with the Church, and young factory workers attend our Latin Masses as well as elderly people! God be thanked.  Our Czech clergy are all retired and remain in good standing with the normative Church. Without this relationship we would not, and we admit it, have been so successful in Bohemia and Moravia. Approximately fifty Faithful attend  Sunday Mass in Pardubice. Weekday Masses range from ten to thirty, depending on the Feast day.

Rt. Honourable Margaret, Baroness Thatcher,O.M., Rt. Honourable Michael Foot.

Mr.& Mrs Mistry;Jenny Rees; Jill Emery ;Peggy & Charles White; George Hepworth;Angela King;Tam McBride;Shelley Breach;Linzee Hickox;Mr.Aslan (Hampstead); Marie Jones;Peter Dean;Mavis Williams(Breconshire);
Meryl Lay(Bracknell);Richard & Heike Podger;Will Malyon(Canterbury); Valerie Crombie;Billy Robinson;Olive Almond; Elsie Davies;Janina Harper;Doris Ford; Margaret Wyatt;Gertrude Perkin; Edith Barraskell;Mike Ryan;
Honey Coleman;(Southampton); Zdena Havlova;Father Bohuslav;Jan Graf;Eva Motlova;Jirina Starkova;Jaroslav Havlicek;Sonja Trpikova;Marie Starkova(Czech Missions);Eileen Thomas;Tony Keane;Barbara Evans(Ebbw Vale) Lyndon Brain;Breda Williams(Cardiff); Brian Tidey; Brynfil Taylor;Marian James;Kate Haines; Phillip Preece;
Eileen Jones;Carol & family(Abertillery);Mr.Aylesbury;Frances Duggan;Wendy Hillier;William Bard;Mrs Mason;
Mrs Hopkins(Six Bells);Patrick & Irene Cornesh(Finchley);John & Mary Hart(Alton);Della Edling(Covent Garden);
John Crouch;Mrs Grey(Oxford);Mike Gould(Paddington); Nigel & Brenda Dawson; Lisa & Kath  Mitchell; Joan Rawlins;(St.Pancras);Constance Vincent(Winchester);Selina Harper;Phil O’Hare;Robin Bencard;Gordon Passmore
(Battersea);Peggy Witcombe(Blackwood, Monmouthshire);Paul Topley (Mill Hill);James Milton; Cynthia Bodkin;
Betty Baker; Ann Mocatta(Worthing);Gerald Wilson;Tom Smith(Edinburgh);  Betty Dawkins; Netta Piotrowska;
Hanna Mlodnicka;Terence Warburton(Shepherds Bush);  Beryl Hickman; Patricia Earl-Williams (Southampton);
Christopher Biston(Norwich);Ross Fraser(Dundee); Carys and Philip Day(Usk);Sandra Cavacuiti(Golders Green);
Gee Cayley; Sylvia Wynn(Hove); Noel Clarke(Huddersfield);Linda Tillgallon;Rosemary McGagh (Bo’ness); Juliet Spicer(Edinburgh); Peter Casselton(Morden);Nigel Bunce (Swindon);Tracy Kerr(Jersey);Dot Unwin(Kilburn);Will Owen;Tony Gross (Chelsea);Francis Hudson(Barry);Tony Banks;Jacky Tuppen;Tanya Wolfman(Brighton);Bishop Trevor Twentyman(Oxfordshire);FrankRaymond;TimWilliams(Midhurst); Mrs Katie Dorran;Ben Catty(Finchley); Sister Tessa Fisk(Lindisfarne);Phillip & Mavis Boylan(Whitehaven,Cumbria);Gladys Target;Ffion Edwards;Hefyn Walters(Rhondda); Patricia Wroe;(Barnsley); Mike Farrar(Charterhouse, London);Bill Barnes(Cambridge); Kim Morgan; John Allen(Cardiff);Daisy Watson(Taunton); Christopher and Cathy Bosworth(Northampton);Stephen Chester; Charles Oldfield(Shepherds Bush); Jim and Margaret Ford(Dulwich);David Foulkes;Terry Dwyer;Mary Molloy(Manchester);Josie Poultney;David Noble;Glenys Price; Mrs Pugh; Maud Baskerville (Ebbw Vale);Anthony Dunlavy (Walsall);June Dunlavey (Peterborough);Herbert & Elsie Buckingham (St.Albans);Harry Young(Glasgow);
Zdena Vychodilova;(Chrudim); Sister Pat Wade(Teddington); Mary and William Wishart (Burnt Island, Fife);John Hickey(Egham,Surrey);Countess Maryse-Antoinette de Goutiere;Helen Mango;Rosemary Burton;June Stubbs         (Westminster); Bernard Phillips;Mrs Inack;Paul O’Hagan(Cardiff); Shane Paris(Gloucester); Clive Christie(Kos);