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• ▼ 2021
  • ▼ December
    • Christmas Mass Times 2021-2
    • I pray thee, gentle mortal, sing again
    • See our moonlight revels
    • A calendar, a calendar!
    • Our nuptial hour draws on apace
    • Mass intentions for the week beginning Saturday, 11th December
    • I’ll put a girdle round about the Earth in forty minutes.
    • St Joseph - a patron for every season
    • The Immaculate Mother of God
    • Here is the scroll of every man’s name.
    • Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath
    • Have I thought long to see this morning’s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?
    • Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so
    • Mass intentions for the week beginning, Saturday, 4th December
    • Jephthah - An Irresponsible Father
    • In Defence of Life
  • ▼ November
    • A Day Out at Home
    • The Church's Year begins
    • Advent
    • Newsletter - by another means
    • The novena begins tomorrow
    • "For the Lord and for Gideon!"
    • Thou art she who crushed the serpent
    • Literally
    • St Cecilia - Patroness of Music
    • Christ the King
    • Fra' Matthew Festing R.I.P.
    • Honouring Sunday
    • Jael: Driving the point home
    • Red Sky at Night
    • The Synodal Path
    • Lest we forget
    • I must go seek some dewdrops here
    • Armistice Day
    • Star of the East
    • The Lateran Basilica
    • Now we are Two
    • Brothers
    • Blessed Salvio Huix Miralpeix
    • Oratorian Requiem
    • Ehud - a left-handed tribute
    • All Saints' Day: Made in Yorkshire
    • All Souls' Day
    • All Saints' Day
  • ▼ October
    • Plenary Indulgences extended this November
    • Praying for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
    • On your bike
    • "What a sad thing one cannot live on biscuits."
    • A message from Chris Bond
    • 1,300 years since the death of St John of Beverley
    • Blessed Thomas Thwing
    • "Let him take the water of life, freely."
    • Saint John Paul II
    • Mystical Rose
    • Send forth Thy Spirit, O Lord
    • How lovely is Thy dwelling place
    • The Winged Ox
    • Autumn in the Oratory Garden
    • St Teresa of Avila
    • A greater miracle than the halting of the sun
    • St Edward the Confessor
    • Hail, holy Wilfrid, hail!
    • Judica me
    • An invitation to visit the garden at More House
    • Saint John Henry Newman, our Cardinal - pray for us
    • Chant Group
    • Joshua: the Demolition Man
    • Do something useful: pray the Rosary
    • Saint Luigi Scrosoppi
    • Loyaulte me lie
    • Br David in Walsingham
    • Richard III Coming Home
    • To save souls is their desire
  • ▼ September
    • Rahab - Saved by Scarlet
    • Holy Michael, Archangel, Defend us in battle!
    • Oratory lunches
    • San Lorenzo de El Escorial
    • Non est sine pulvere palma
    • Bienvenue, Monsieur Bond!
    • Swift pace, light step, unswerving feet
    • And he's off!
    • Our Lady of Walsingham
    • For the beauty of the earth
    • St Aelred's at the Shrine
    • St Matthew
    • Hortus conclusus
    • Feast of our Cardinal
    • St Crux
    • The Special Daughter of the Roman Church
    • Mystery Sonatas
    • Our Lady of Sorrows
    • Hail, O Cross, our only Hope
    • Our Cardinal on St John Chrysostom
    • Furnished and prepared
    • No sandwiches short of a picnic
    • Pray the Rosary
    • Musical Rosary: next Monday
    • The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    • St Anne's Church, Jerusalem
    • Make a cheerful noise unto the God of Jacob
    • Lunchtime concert
    • St Cuthbert's Ring
    • St Gregory the Great
    • Floored
    • Poisoned for faithfulness
  • ▼ August
    • The Martyrs' Holy Triumph
    • The Pearl of York
    • God is close to us
    • Talking Heads - back soon
    • St Margaret Clitherow pilgrimage
    • Blessed Dominic Barberi, Apostle of England
    • Youth Pilgrimage
    • We ought to surpass all others in our praises and devotions to the Blessed Virgin
    • Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy
    • Our Lady of York: pray for our City
    • Mass at Fountains Abbey
    • Bishop Bagshawe and Our Lady of York
    • Our Lady of York - this Sunday
    • More bees
    • A bee, hard at work in our lavender
    • More House Website
    • Our Lady's Assumption
    • Flower Power
    • Forthcoming events
    • St Jane Frances de Chantal
    • Our Cardinal's anniversary
    • San Lorenzo fuori le Mura
    • Sicut lilium
    • Back to school
    • Blessed Nicholas Postgate
    • Transfiguration
    • Dedication of St Mary Major
    • The greatest gift
    • Undercoat
    • "Repair My House"
    • Happy Yorkshire Day!
  • ▼ July
    • Sant'Ignazio
    • Mass Intentions for the week beginning Saturday, 31st July
    • "For they refreshed my spirit as well as yours."
    • Choral Scholarships 2021-2
    • Oratory 'JustGiving' is up and swimming
    • Au revoir
    • Holy Annie, God's Granny
    • ¡Buen Camino!
    • On pilgrimage
    • Our life, our sweetness, and our hope
    • Pippo Buono
    • As confident as is the falcon's flight
    • Look down from heaven, Holy Father
    • The Shrine is open again
    • And you will be like a watered garden
    • I have loved the beauty of Thy House
    • Remember, O Virgin Mother, to speak good things before God's face on our behalf
    • "Upcycling"
    • Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur
    • Ahead of the Game
    • Robert Aske
    • My flesh is real food
    • The Upper Room
    • The Chinese Martyrs
    • Pediludium venit in domum suam
    • Ite ad Ioseph
    • Licensed to Swim
    • This is the gate of heaven!
    • When I am weak then I am strong
    • San Tommaso in Parione
    • Pardon and Peace
    • July: Month of the Precious Blood of Jesus
  • ▼ June
    • Which came first?
    • Tu es Petrus
    • Cardinal Baronius and the Bronze Statue
    • Chicken Parmesan
    • Our Lady of Perpetual Succour
    • June - Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
    • He must increase, I must decrease
    • The hard sell
    • Merrily in Heaven
    • O Aloysi!
    • The Lord is the strength of His people
    • York Panorama
    • They do not sow or reap
    • Be prepared
    • The Lord looks down from Heaven
    • Make disciples of all nations
    • What can we say the kingdom of God is like?
    • Behold the birds of the air
    • Before the eyes of all Israel
    • The Lord has made known his salvation
    • Planted in the house of the Lord they will flourish in the courts of our God.
    • Night Watch
    • The Immaculate Heart of Mary
    • The Forty Hours have begun
    • Sacred Heart of Jesus
    • They shall see the glory of the Lord
    • Lights, camera, action
    • The name of the Lord is a strong tower
    • A quiet pilgrimage to the shrine of St William
    • Saint William - pray for York
    • The blessing of Moses
    • Now we see through a glass darkly
    • Sing forth, O Zion
    • Saint Boniface
    • The Lord in Duncombe Place
    • Sit at my right hand
    • Containing in Itself all Sweetness
    • Domine salvam fac reginam nostram
    • Adoremus
    • The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come
  • ▼ May
    • Give ear, O heavens, that I may speak
    • Trinity Monday
    • On the mountains of Judea
    • Holy, holy, holy
    • And they were all gathered in one place
    • Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur
    • Amphibious tenants sought
    • Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Eternal High Priest
    • Look down from heaven, Holy Father
    • Covid-proof, environmentally-sustainable plates
    • Rain: the perfect weather for an English Garden Party
    • Ready for St Philip's Day
    • "Unfurl the sails, and let God steer us where He will"
    • Be strong and of good courage
    • Day set on Rome
    • True sons of Philip
    • Come, Holy Spirit
    • Look down from heaven, Father dear
    • Salvete Flores Martyrum!
    • Dear Father Philip! Holy Sire!
    • Philip, on thee the glowing ray
    • Saint Philip! I have never known a saint as I know thee
    • Open wide the doors to Christ!
    • Choose Life!
    • On northern coasts
    • The novena begins
    • Come, Holy Spirit
    • Twenty years ago...
    • The hidden things belong to the Lord our God
    • The Spirit of Saint Francis
    • Oratory School Vacancy
    • Our Easter Flowers....
    • Easter flowers
    • If you do not heed
  • ▼ April
    • Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim
    • My father was a wandering Aramean
    • Requiem Mass for the Duke of Edinburgh
  • ▼ March
    • The Easter Triduum
    • Flower Power
    • You shall not forget
    • Mgr Boleslaw Zabludowski
    • Remember what the Lord did to Miriam
    • Deuteronomy Chapter 23
    • Chaplaincy of the University of York
    • Neither do I condemn you
    • Holy Week & Easter
    • Novena to St Joseph
    • The Consequences of Jealousy
  • ▼ February
    • The laws of warfare
    • Good fences make good neighbours
    • A Prophet shall I raise up for them
    • When you choose a King
  • ▼ January
    • The place God will choose
    • Remember that you were slaves in Egypt
    • 2021 Talking Heads begins
    • Epiphany Celebrations...
    • Public Worship Continues
• ▼ 2020
  • ▼ December
    • Christ is born for us!
    • The last Talking Heads for the Year of the Word
    • Be it done unto me according to Thy Word
    • Chapter Twelve of Deuteronomy
    • Money for old rope
    • A Christmas Message from Mary's Meals
    • Mince Pie Victors
    • I set before you a Blessing and a Curse
    • Deuteronomy 10
  • ▼ November
    • The great Mince Pie Pageant
    • Public Masses to begin again, and preparing for the Immaculate Conception
    • The Molten Calf
    • Mass during Lockdown
    • Man does not live on bread alone
    • Prayers for Sister Teresa
    • Bar Convent Christmas Angels
    • God's Peculiar People
    • Hear, O Israel
  • ▼ October
    • Vatican extends November Plenary Indulgence for 2020
    • The Ten Commandments
    • National Rosary Rally
    • Deuteronomy Chapter 4
    • Og the King of Bashan
    • Moses: the final lap
  • ▼ September
    • Musical News
  • ▼ August
    • The York Salve Regina
    • A Good News Story
    • Talking Heads - Back in the Autumn
  • ▼ July
    • The Cities of Refuge
    • Maps and names
    • Dedication of St Wilfrid’s Church
    • Getting lost in the Wilderness
    • Archbishop of York's Pilgrimage to St Margaret's Shrine
    • Transjordania
    • Open for Business
  • ▼ June
    • Public Worship Starts Again
    • Smiting the Midianites
    • Numbers Chapter 30
    • Solemnity of the Sacred Heart
    • More Sacrifices in the Book of Numbers
    • York Oratory Church of St Wilfrid to reopen
    • Urbi et orbi
    • Talking Heads and Luminous
    • Solemnity of Corpus Christi
    • Very Rev. Jonathan Robinson RIP
    • More Talking Heads
  • ▼ May
    • St Philip's Day
    • Cooking by Numbers
    • Click here for the York Oratory YouTube Channel
    • Vorsprung durch Technik
    • Talking Heads: the latest episode
    • Blessed John Rochester and Blessed James Walworth
    • Bells for V.E. Day
    • This morning's sermon
    • Talking Heads
    • Happy Feast of St Joseph
  • ▼ April
    • Bells for the Queen's Birthday
    • Please Subscribe!
    • Film for Divine Mercy Sunday
    • At the Lamb's High Feast we sing
    • Easter Bells
    • Maundy Thursday - Mass, Holy Hour and Compline
    • Easter Clergy Offering
    • The Guardian Angels and Spiritual Communion
    • Spiritual Preparation for Holy Week and Easter
  • ▼ March
    • Novena to St Thérèse
    • Rededication of England
    • Stations of the Cross
    • The Rededication - Play your part
    • Church Closed
    • Saint Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church - Pray for us
    • No Public Masses at St Wilfrid's, St Joseph's or the Shrine
    • The voice of prayer is never silent, nor dies the strain of praise away....
    • Talking Heads
    • Coronavirus (COVID-19)
  • ▼ January
    • Talking Heads - The God Who Speaks
    • Mass of Thanksgiving for the York Oratory
    • Epiphany House Blessing
• ▼ 2019
  • ▼ December
    • Christmas Presents
    • Musical Oratory Pictures
    • Blessing of the Angelus Bell
  • ▼ November
    • Thomistic Institute Lecture in York
    • Canonical Independence of the York Oratory
    • A new documentary about St John Henry
    • A new Oratory in Manchester
    • Musical Oratory in Celebration of St John Henry Newman
  • ▼ October
    • Fr Jerome Bertram RIP
    • A Prayer to St John Henry Newman
    • The Canonisation of John Henry Newman
  • ▼ September
    • New book on the York Martyrs
    • New Bible Study Series
    • St Margaret Clitherow, a popular saint!
    • St Wilfrid's Bells
  • ▼ August
    • Feast of Our Lady of York
    • The Solemnity of the Assumption
    • Pilgrimage in Honour of St Margaret Clitherow
  • ▼ July
    • Canonisation Events
    • Congratulations to Fr Stephen