Event

Christmas and New Year at the Shrine

24th December: Vigil of Christmas
5.30pm: First Vespers of the Nativity
7pm: Matins of the Nativity (Gregorian chant)
10.30pm: Traditional Christmas Carols (Organ & Trumpet)
11pm: Procession to the Crib and ‘Midnight’ High Mass

25th December: The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
8.30am: ‘Dawn’ Low Mass
10.30am: Sung ‘Mass of the Day’
5.30pm: Vespers & Benediction

26th December: Feast of St. Stephen
10am: Low Mass

27th December: Feast of St. John the Evangelist
9am Mass (blessing of wine in honour of St. John after Mass)

31st December: New Year’s Eve
9pm: Adoration & Te Deum in thanksgiving for the past year (Plenary Indulgence)
French onion soup afterwards!

1st January: New Year’s Day
10am: Veni Creator (Plenary Indulgence) followed by Sung Mass

Novena for the Immaculate Conception

The Novena in preparation for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception will begin at 6pm on Friday 30th November and will continue each evening at 6pm through to Saturday 8th December.

Daily there will be a decade of the Rosary, followed by a sermon, Benediction,  the Novena Prayer and Tota pulchra es.

 

All Saints and All Souls

Thursday 1st November: All Saints’ Day (a day of obligation in England & Wales)

Mass at:

7.45am at The Carmelite Monastery of the Annunciation, – 12 Grosvenor Place. Prenton. Birkenhead
9am, 12 noon – Low Mass at Ss Peter & Paul and St Philomena
12 noon – Low Mass at St. Anthony’s, Scotland Road, Liverpool
7pm – Sung Mass at at Ss Peter & Paul and St Philomena

 

Friday 2nd November: All Souls’ Day

Mass at:

12 noon – Low Requiem Mass at Ss Peter & Paul and St Philomena
7pm – Sung Requiem Mass and Absolutions at the Catafalque at Ss Peter & Paul and St Philomena
12 noon – Low Mass at St. Anthony’s, Liverpool