As many of you will already know,
Bishop Fernando Rifan of Campos in Brazil will be visiting Britain this summer.
The past few weeks have involved
our organising and finalising the arrangements and I am now in a position to let
you know the confirmed schedule. This has been a team effort by the office staff
and a number of our Reps and volunteers, and I thank them all, but I would
particularly like to thank David Lloyd and Neil Walker for their sterling
efforts.
We are delighted that Bishop
Rifan will be present at three LMS events. The bishop’s public engagements for
us are as follows:
Saturday, 30 June, 3pm:
Pontifical High Mass at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 294 Harrogate Road,
Moortown, Leeds LS17 6LE
Sunday, 1 July, 2.30pm: Holywell
Pilgrimage, St Winefride’s Catholic Church, Well Street, Holywell, Flintshire
CH8 7PL (Pontifical High Mass)
Saturday, 7 July, 11.00am: AGM
and Pontifical High Mass at St George’s Cathedral, Southwark, London SE1 6HX
(Mass at 11.00am, AGM at 2.00pm, addressed by the bishop).
Some notes about
transport:
For Holywell, we hope to run
coaches from London, Birmingham and Liverpool/Wirral. The London coach (and
overnight accommodation) is being organised by Graham Moorhouse, for the
Birmingham coach, please contact the office (020 7404 7284), and for
Liverpool/Wirral, please contact Jim Pennington (0151 426 0361) and Anthony
Sibert (0151 625 9033) respectively so that we can gauge the level of demand.
Prices will be publicised once we have received quotes from coach companies,
although Graham Moorhouse already has details for the London coach (phone him on
01322 409231).
For the AGM, we are looking at
the possibility of running coaches from Brighton, Reading and Cambridge. Please
contact the office if you know anyone who is interested. Also for the AGM, for
the first time, we are arranging a buffet lunch for all members attending. This
will take place in Amigo Hall (the same building as the AGM). In order to defray
our costs for the catering, we will be asking for a contribution of £5 per head
for the lunch, which I think is reasonable. The Officers have taken the view
that this allows ordinary members to meet each other and to meet and speak with
their Committee in a more informal environment. I have to say I think this is a
very healthy development. Although payment for the lunch can be made on the
door, we are asking anyone planning to attend to inform the office in advance,
as we need to know numbers for food. The Cathedral caterers have asked us to
give them 2 weeks’ notice, so that means we need to know by 22 June. Please
mention this in your publicity.
Publicity for all these events is
included in the forthcoming edition of ‘Mass of Ages’, and more will follow on
our website and Facebook page, but could I also ask you, our local Reps, to
publicise these events as appropriate on your blogs and newsletters, as much as
you can? I will be issuing a press release for the above shortly (probably next
week) for you to use for this purpose, although, please go ahead before then if
you wish!
You may also be interested to
know that Bishop Rifan will be visiting Scotland during his trip and he will be
celebrating Mass on Monday, 2 July at 7pm in Edinburgh. At the present time, the
venue is to be confirmed. The bishop is also intending to visit Ireland, but I
have no information about his schedule there at the moment.
If you have any questions about
the above, please phone or email me. Thank you.
Kind regards,
Mike
General Manager
Latin Mass Society
11-13 Macklin Street
London
WC2B 5NH
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020 7404 7284
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