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Diary of Services and Events
May—July 2015
MAY 2015
Sunday 3
Easter 4
JUNE 2015
Thursday 4 Corpus
Christi
10.30 am Mass
Vidi aquam is the Eastertide equivalent of
5.30 pm
Asperges. Each consists of sprinkling with holy
water accompanied by an antiphon, a psalm
and
verse, ‘Glory be…’ and the antiphon repeated.
Sung Mass
Asperges has the antiphon ‘Thou shalt purge
me…’ and a verse of Ps. 51, ‘Have mercy upon me, O God...’ Vidi aquam has the antiphon ‘I
beheld water issuing out from the temple, on the right-hand side, and all to whom that water
Thursday 7
S. John of
Beverley
Sunday 10
Easter 5
10.30 am Mass
5.30 pm
Thursday 14
Sung Mass
Ascension Day 12.45 pm Mass
7.30 p.m. Sung Mass
Sunday 17
Sunday after
Ascension
Wednesday 20 Eve of St
Helen
10.30 am Mass
5.30 pm Sung Mass
7.30 pm Choral
Evensong
First Evensong of The Feast of St Helen, sung by
The Laudate Singers: Stamford in C
St Helen, the mother of Constantine, who made her joint Empress, has
been described as “the most powerful woman ever to walk on planet
Earth”
Thursday 21
St Helen
12.45 pm Mass
Sunday 24
Pentecost
(Whitsunday)
10.30 am Mass
Thursday 28
Sunday 31
Sunday 7
Trinity 1
5.30 pm
Sung Mass,
Procession and
Benediction
St Barnabus was a Levite from Cyprus, and a companion of St Paul
on some of his journeys. He was martyred, probably at Salamis,
Cyprus.
Sunday 14
Trinity 2
10.30 am
Mass
Sunday 14
Trinity 2
10.30 am Mass
5.30 pm Sung Mass
5.30 pm Sung Mass
Thursday 9
4th-century hymn writer in Mesopotamia and Syria, who was
hugely influential in the development of singing in the Liturgy and
its importance in encouraging faithfulness to the Christian
tradition. He had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Trinity 3
Sung Mass
Mass
10.30 am
5.30 pm
Mass
Asperges and
SS. John
12.45 pm
martyrs in 1535 under Henry VIII.
Fisher and English
Fisher was Bishop of Rochester, More
Thomas
was Lord Chancellor.
They were
executed for opposing the king’s claim
More
Trinity 6
Thursday 16
Our Lady
of Mt.
Carmel
10.30 am
5.30 pm
12.45 pm
Mass
Sung Mass
Mass
The feast-day of the Carmelite Order,
founded in Palestine in the 12th century.
This order, which stresses contemplation,
missionary work, and theology, has produced some of the greatest of
Christian mystics, notably the 16th-century S. Teresa of Avila and S. John of
the Cross. The order propagates a special devotion to Our Lady and to the
Child Jesus.
Saturday 18
10.00
11.00
10.30 am Mass
5.30 pm
12.45 pm
Sung Mass
Mass
Sunday 12
2.00
Sunday 21
Visitation
of BVM
Trinity 5
to absolute authority in matters of
.
Church and faith
S. Ephraem 12.45 pm Mass
of Syria
4.00
Feast
of Our
Lady of
North
Street
A day celebrating the medieval
Church and Visions of All Saints
North Street.
York Archaeological Trust
Excavation open for viewing in the
afternoon.
Guided tour of the stained glass
Talk: The Medieval Visions, Architectural Development and
Shrine
High Mass of Our Lady according to the Use of York, with
music by The Clekes of All Saints, from the 15th-century
York Masses.
Medieval Tiles and the New Tile Pavement (In Lady Chapel)
Sunday 19
Trinity 6
10.30 am
Mass
5.30 pm
Sung Mass
Thursday 25 feria
12.45 pm Mass
Sunday 28
10.30 am Mass
First-century Martyred-Bishop of Ravenna in Italy, whose church faced
.
nearly constant persecution
5.30 pm
Sunday 26
Trinity 7
Thursday 30
feria
Sung Mass
In Whitsun / 12.45 pm Mass
Pentecost
Trinity Sunday 10.30 am Mass
5.30 pm Sung Mass
Sunday 5
Asperges and
Sung Mass
Thursday 11 St Barnabas 12.45 pm Mass
Thursday
18
Thursday 2
10.30 am Mass
5.30 pm
12.45 pm Mass
Born in the late 7th century at Harpham on the Yorkshire Wolds, he became a
monk at S. Hilda’s monastery at Whitby and then Bishop of Hexham, where he
ordained the Venerable Bede. He was subsequently Bishop of York (bishops of
York were not ‘archbishops’ until 735). He founded the monastery at Beverley and
died there in 721. As bishop his special concern was for the poor and
handicapped, those who required the most patience.
12.45 pm Mass
7.30 pm
Vidi aquam
JULY 2015
Trinity 4
Sung Mass
Thursday 23
S. Apollinaris 12.45 pm
10.30 am
5.30 pm
12.45 pm
Mass
Mass
Sung Mass
Mass