The well advertised Solemn Mass on September 8th, Feast of The Nativity of Our Lady was supported by fifty three people – seven of our Midhurst Faithful making their promised trip. People from our other South Wales and Monmouthshire Missions also came and the Mass was sung in the local Scout Hall which had been transformed beautifully into an appropriate setting for the offering of the Holy Sacrifice. Thanks to the scouts for their kindness and indeed for their generous offer of future hospitality. Glenys reports that twenty five percent of the large collection was given to the scouts who had, in fact, given their hall free of charge. This new venue bodes well for further South Wales joint events. Father Flynn preached on Our Lady’s pre-destined role as Mother of the Redeemer. Only one person in the Midhurst contingent had ever visited South Wales before, that being Angela Ullathorne, our Midhurst Guardian. They were deeply impressed by the warm Welsh welcome and the hospitality generally and the visit has created a new bond of friendship. The “Bring and Share” method of catering continues to be a huge success – something to recommend to all our Missions. Thanks to you all in the Rhondda and also to Catrina Morgan, our Abertillery Guardian, for all she did to help, not least in putting up three of the Midhurst folk and giving them a guided tour of Abertillery, Cwmtillery and Six Bells on the following day! Angela says that the Sussex stalwarts learned a lot about life in the Welsh valleys, in many ways so different from the prosperity of Southern England. There was a further Abertillery Mass at Catrina’s on September 10th before the Midhurst group returned home. Bishop Anthony has always been anxious for our “scattered” Faithful to come together in this way; the Chapter prays that this will be the start of lasting bonds.

There was Solemn Mass at the Hampstead Oratory at 7pm, during which Mr. Gerald Wilson of our small Edinburgh Mission was confirmed according to the traditional Roman Pontifical. It was a pleasure to see Gerald again, not least for Dame Della Edling; she and Gerald are old friends. The Veneration of the Ikon of Saint Wenceslaus (Svaty Vaclav) followed the Mass – as did supper!
The Masses at Havlickuv Brod, Chrudim and Bila Hora were well attended, the Feast being an Holyday of Obligation in Bohemia. Please continue your prayers for all our Czech Faithful whose support we treasure.

The last advertised Mass on September 8th was changed to Wednesday 9th at Noon and was “Of Our Lady”.  Three of our Holborn people came and were warmly welcomed by Eileen O’Connor and  eleven others of the Saint Sebastian congregation who were able to attend. Bishop Anthony tried the newly found train route from Hampstead Heath a great help – and hopes that Eileen and Co will find it equally convenient coming the other way!! The next Shepherds Bush Mass will be on Sunday, October 11th at Noon – Nineteenth after Pentecost, as ever at Goldhawk Road. Thanks so much to Eileen, to Pam and Don Kerridge and all our staunch “W.12” gang.  [ps: Low Mass & Benediction at Hampstead at 7pm on October 11th – usual arrangement when the Solemn Mass is elsewhere]

We are so pleased to announce that Father Eric Bilton is building up the Mission slowly but surely and now has four regular communicants. His parish visiting is being very well received – and in our Mission territories there is no better way of spreading the traditional Catholic Faith than by old fashioned visiting! Father Eric will be in London with Bishop Anthony on the weekend of October 3rd and 4th and we all look forward to seeing him.

Canon Harry Anson is in regular contact with Bishop Anthony and reports continued excellent congregations at Dundee, that quite Catholic of Scottish cities! Inevitably the work is harder in the small Angus country towns but Father is also holding his own at Forfar and also at Saint Blane’s at Arbroath which has the advantage of its own building.
Even a few Scots Presbyterians have been known to come to Mass – and we welcome them with open arms!!
The Chapter of Advice recently discussed a Visitation to Scotland: Canon Harry is, after all, our Vicar General there. We decided that a Spring 2010 Visit to our Scots Faithful must take precedence, and Father Eric and Dame Della will accompany Bishop Anthony.

Regular weekly Masses are offered in our three Brecon Mass centres – Ystradgynlais, which was part of the old County of Brecon and where dear Father Flynn lives, Crickhowell, and Brecon itself. Although the Kalendar always makes mention of one Mass or other in these places, far more Masses are said than are advertised. We thank Father for his unstinting work and in particular Mrs Mabel Jones of Brecon who has become a more-or-less full-time Mission Secretary. Numbers remain good, with an average of thirty at all the advertised Masses. We owe our Brecon folk more publicity!

Rt. Honourable Margaret, Baroness Thatcher,O.M., Rt. Honourable Michael Foot; Lady Jane Cambell

Mr.& Mrs Mistry;Jenny Rees; Rosette Irwin ;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; Jan Harper; Olive Almond; Elsie Davies; Janina Harper;Doris Ford; Margaret Wyatt; Gertrude Perkin; Edith Barraskell;Mike Ryan;
Peggy Derwent(Southampton); Renata Bozonova;Father Bohuslav Smesny;Jaroslav Marel;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;(Abertillery);Mr.Aylesbury;Frances Duggan;Wendy Hillier;William Bard;Mrs Mason;Brian Williams;
Mrs Hopkins(Six Bells);Patrick & Irene Cornesh(Finchley);John & Mary Hart(Alton);Della Edling(Covent Garden);
John Crouch (Oxford);Mike Gould (Paddington);Norah Hughes (Dublin) Nigel 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);  Mrs Teresa Mitchell; James Milton; Pauline Hamilton;
Betty Baker; Ann Mocatta(Worthing);Gerald Wilson;Tom Smith (Edinburgh);  Dolly O’Hagan; Netta Piotrowska;
Hanna Mlodnicka;Terence Warburton (Shepherds Bush);  Beryl Hickman; Patricia Earl-Williams (Southampton);
Christopher Biston; Pat Lane (Norwich);Ross Fraser(Dundee); Annie Evans(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);Frank Raymond; Tim Williams (Midhurst);  Katie Dorran; Ben Catty(Finchley); Sister Tessa Fisk(Lindisfarne);Phillip & Mavis Boylan(Whitehaven,Cumbria);Gladys Target;Ffion Edwards;Hefyn Walters(Rhondda); Mavis Harrison; Patricia Wroe;(Barnsley);Bill Barnes(Cambridge); Kim Morgan; John Allen (Cardiff);George Robins(Barnsley); Christopher and Cathy Bosworth(Northampton);Stephen Chester(Shepherds Bush);Janet Girsman(Esher);Jim & Margaret Ford(Dulwich);David Foulkes;Terry Dwyer;Mary O’Dowd; Mary
Molloy(Manchester);Josie Poultney;David Noble;Glenys Price; Mrs Pugh; Maud Baskerville (Ebbw Vale);Anthony Dunlavey (Walsall);June Dunlavey (Peterborough);Herbert & Elsie Buckingham (St.Albans);Harry Young(Glasgow);
Zdena Vychodilova; Eva Vojnova (Chrudim); Mary Wishart; Gail Thomson (Burnt Island, Fife); Colin Fisher(Bath);
John Hickey (Egham, Surrey);Countess Maryse-Antoinette de Goutiere;Helen Mango;Rosemary Burton;June Stubbs         (Westminster); Bernard Phillips; Mrs Inack; Paul O’Hagan(Cardiff); Daveen Saywell (Bo’ness); Clive Christie(Kos);
Michael Farrar (Charterhouse, City of London); Elizabeth Smith (Rochdale);Sister Patricia Wade(Teddington)