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THE ORATORY OF SAINT PHILIP NERI, BIRMINGHAM

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SUNDAYS AFTER PENTECOST

The longest section of the Church’s liturgical year is the time from Trinity Sunday until Advent Sunday. On the green Sundays throughout the year we celebrate the Mystery of Christ in its totality, trying to realize the implications of all that we celebrated from Advent until Pentecost: the hope of salvation, the coming of the Saviour, His hidden life, His public ministry, His saving Passion, His Resurrection and glorification, His sending of the Holy Spirit. Week by week at Sunday Mass the Gospel presents us with various aspects of the content of revelation.

This extended green season is enriched by beautiful feasts in the calendar: the Sacred Heart, the Precious Blood, the Assumption of our Lady, the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, the Holy Guardian Angels, and many more. There is also the rich tapestry of saints’ days, and the numerous feasts and commemorations of our Blessed Lady. Her pervasive presence in the calendar is one of the loveliest highlights of the Church’s living tradition. That living tradition is to be treasured and handed on. And precisely because the tradition is living, it must never be frozen, but must always be open to organic growth and authentic development. Our beloved Cardinal, Blessed John Henry Newman, has taught us about the authentic development of Catholic doctrine. We need to apply the same wise principles to the necessary future development of Catholic liturgy.

If you cannot attend daily Mass, you can at least follow the Church’s liturgical life by meditating on the principal texts of each day’s Mass from the missal (also usefully available online). To live ‘in Christ’ means entering into the Mysteries of His incarnate life, thus preparing for what we hope will be our eternal sharing in the Mystery of His infinite Being in heaven. We prepare for that Vision by plunging into the divine Life as deeply as possible here and now: the life of faith, the life of grace, which is to say - life in the Holy Spirit. Our life of faith must always bear fruit in our cultivation of the virtues, and that includes practising the spiritual and corporal works of mercy, and demonstrating our communion and fullest cooperation with the Holy Father and all the successors of the Apostles.

Cum Petro, per Mariam, ad Iesum.

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RESTORING THE CARDINAL NEWMAN MEMORIAL CHURCH

We need to raise £200,000 as soon as possible for the repairs that are

urgently needed to restore and protect the Oratory church building. And

beyond that we shall also need to raise further sums for on-going

maintenance.

The total raised since last November now stands at £35,000. We offer our

sincere thanks to all who have already contributed to this fund. We still

have a long way to go before we can begin the necessary work of repair

and restoration. Please give whatever you can. It is always better if your

donations can be Gift-Aided, so that we can reclaim the tax.

The Fathers and Brothers offer holy Mass and pray regularly for the

intentions of all our benefactors, living and departed.

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MAKING A DONATION TO THE BIRMINGHAM ORATORY CHURCH RESTORATION FUND

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