News from the Vineyard
Holy Week at the Dome
All Offices will be live streamed from the main church. Follow us on Facebook & YouTube Sunday 5th April: Palm Sunday9.30am: Procession and Sung Mass Thursday 9th April: Maundy Thursday9am: Gregorian Matins – ‘Tenebrae’7pm: Solemn High Mass & Procession Adoration until Midnight Friday 10th April: Good Friday9am: Gregorian Matins – ‘Tenebrae’2pm: Stations of the …
Quick Response (QR) links to our streams
If you have a smart phone, it is likely that you will have a facility called QR (Quick Response) in the phone which reads a bar code and opens up a preprogrammed link to a website. If your phone does not have a QR reader, there will be several free ones at your …Important Information
Your Canons will prioritise your Sacramental life here at the Shrine in New Brighton during this unprecedented crisis. His Eminence Cardinal Nichols, together with the Bishops Conference of England and Wales have accordingly decreed that all public Masses in our country be suspended from 8pm on Friday 20th March until further notice. Our community needs …
Further National Lottery Funding secured
Our beloved landmark church has been awarded £362,900 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to complete the restoration of the majestic dome and main sanctuary. This architecturally ambitious basilica, built in 1933, the church dominates Wirral’s skyline, and was nicknamed during the Second World War. Its distinctive green dome has been lovingly known …
Pastoral letter of His Lordship Mark, Bishop of Shrewsbury on the Re-dedication of England as the Dowry of Mary, 1st March 2020
My dear brothers and sisters, I think of you all each morning at the Altar and each evening as we pray the Angelus before the statute of Our Lady in the Cathedral. I think of your families and your work; of the loneliness of old age and the generous hopes of youth; of …
Proposed Project activities at the Shrine