Wishing you...

...a very happy and holy feast day! We're having cake.

Great to see the back of you, Father.

A very good video!

Mass for the Feast of the Assumption...

...at St Pancras, Lewes, at 7.00 pm, on Monday, 15th August. A glass of fizz will follow!



At 10.00 am, Our Lady of Ransom, Eastbourne.

It's Pilgrimage time

The Walsingham Pilgrimage is on, running from the 21st to the 25th of August, the deadline for signing up is 15th August. There are photos from last year to be found HERE to tempt you!

Booking forms and more info can be found HERE.

A taster of the Pilgrimage can be found in the video below.



 

Masses beginning at...

...Our Lady of Ransom, Grange Road, Eastbourne, BN21 4EU

Thanks to Fr Gerard Hatton, there will be Low Masses on the SECOND SUNDAYS of the month at 8.00 am beginning on the 14th August, which IS NOT a Mass for the Feast of the Assumption, by the way.

There will be a Mass for the Assumption on Monday, 15th August, at 10.00 am, at Our Lady of Ransom, however.

Details of future Masses in Eastbourne will be on the side bar.

I have been asked to draw your attention to...

A Walk in Belloc Country round the Devil's Jumps on Sunday, 31st July, an area full of folklore and Hilaire Belloc. Meet up is at the car park of Royal Oak pub, Hooksway, north of Chichester at 4.00pm. Walk to finish about 6.30, option to go to the pub afterwards. If you are interested, all the details can be found HERE.

Lovely to see the back of you, Father

For a really good take on the comments made by Cardinal Nichols, please go to Fr Ray Blake's blog.

The Ordinariate rite is ad orientem, and I can't tell you how good it is to see the back of Father.

Cardinal Sarah...

...enough said...






And in other news:



Pam Talbot is continuing her Open Garden in aid of ACN for the whole of July, please do phone her if you are in the area to make sure she's in, and support this amazing charity. Details HERE

There will be a Low Mass at our Lady of Ransom, Eastbourne, on Sunday 17th July at 8.00 am, celebrant Fr Gerard Hatton. Do please support this Mass if you are able. Seeing the high altar used is sublime, I'll see if I can take a picture or two!

Aid To The Church In Need

Pam Talbot is hosting an Open Day for Aid To The Church In Need!

Please try and make it if you can!

Open gardens, children's play area, wildlife 

quiz, art exhibition, teas & cakes, phoenix cards etc.  

Please support 

us and help the Christians living in Syria.  

Saturday, 25th June 2-5 p.m. at 

Diamond Farmhouse, (opposite Palehouse Common Road) Lewes Road, Easons 

Green, TN22 5JH 

01825 840305.

Happy Whitsun

A very happy feast day to you all.

Masses resume at St Thomas More, Seaford today,with a missa cantata at 3.00pm

Happy Feast Day

Happy Feast of the Ascension!

St Thomas More, Seaford

After a long spell without Masses in Seaford I am more than delighted to be able to tell you that 3.00 pm Masses will resume as usual on the third Sunday of the month, starting 15th May. There will be a Whitsun Missa Cantata celebrated by Fr Bruno, with the Seaford Schola.

Please note that there will be no Mass at West Grinstead for Whitsun.

Upcoming events

Two things to which I would like to draw your attention this morning, one is this, a Hilaire Belloc fest on Sunday 1st May at Shipley Church at 6.30 pm, please follow THIS LINK for details.

Secondly, a reminder that there is a server training day at Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Warwick Street, London W1B 5LZ, on Saturday, 21st May 11.00 am until 3.00 pm. Please bring lunch, but drinks are provided.
If you know of anyone who would like to attend, please will you contact the LMS office on 0207047284 by 16th of May.

Mass Cancellation

There will be no Missa Cantata at West Grinstead in May.

The Annunciation

He is Risen!

Wishing you all a very holy and happy Easter!

News from the pews

In our parish we have been blessed this year by a number of 'innovations'. Usually I groan, often not too silently, at the latest fun and fashionable 'good idea'. Usually, it involves the laity doing even more stuff even more clerically than they do already. Of course, I'm talking about my ordinary form parish, with all the novelty and as many ghosts of Vatican II you can think of still haunting the place. Think lady foot washing is new? It's been here for quite a while.

However, this last year, I felt the wind of change. Small stuff, like really nice vestments appearing. Rorate Masses before Christmas. Benediction and Rosary on Sunday afternoons. The Good Friday Reproaches. And to what can these changes, small and subtle though they are, be attributed? There is only one answer. The Ordinariate. It's been with us for five years now and there is undoubtedly a slow and steady reclamation of things which are really Catholic. They have managed to provide an atmosphere in which it is possible to re-lay some old foundations upon which others are able to build.

I'm not saying it's plain sailing, far from it. The merest mention of ad orientem can lead to spittle flicked nutties in some quarters : the spirit of VII just doesn't want to blow away. That I have a small apoplectic fit every time I see the good ladies washing up the sacred vessels after some Masses, I still can't get my head round laity touching the Blessed Sacrament, or administering the chalice, and altar girls do my head in, is irrelevant.

But the small additions to the spiritual life of the church now happening will in my opinion have a profound impact on spiritual life yet to be seen.

Of course, my true love is the Latin Mass. I miss it when I can't get to it. No I pine for it. But these signs of regeneration in my home parish give me an awful lot of hope for the future, when a few years ago I was pretty sure there was none.

Isn't it ironic that ex-Anglicans have a greater sense of the numinous than some Catholics?

Missa cantata at Our Lady of Consolation, West Grinstead...

...on Sunday, 13 March at 3.00 pm, celebrant Fr Hurley, the Seaford Schola providing the music.


At Bethany Chapel, Easons Green, there will be Low Mass on Palm Sunday, and on Easter Sunday, both at 10.30 am, celebrant Fr Clifton.

A while ago...

...I signed a petition to drop the charges against the Planned Parenthood whistle blower, David Daleidon. His undercover videos showed just what the abortion industry is really about : foetal harvesting for profit. I posted links to these videos in July and August last year.

Since then there have been more videos, and of course, the charges against David Daleidon, and Sandra Merrit who worked with him to expose the vile peddling of baby parts.

If the story was about the abuse of baby pandas I am pretty certain there would be the most appalling outcry. Daleidon and Merrit would be held up as poster children, not being charged with, now get this, trafficking in aborted baby parts.

Yes, they exposed Planned Parenthood.They got them to admit what they do and how they do it on video, which is flog off bits of baby, and the whistle-blowers are being charged and not Planned Parenthood. It's positively Kafkaesque.

So please sign the petition.