Schedule

Holy Week Schedule

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Palm Sunday 29th March
8.30am Low Mass
10.30am Sung Mass & Procession
4.30pm Solemn Vespers & Benediction

Maundy Thursday 2nd April
8.30am Tenebrae
7pm Sung Mass & Procession
Adoration until Midnight

Good Friday 3rd April
8.30am Tenebrae
2pm Stations of the Cross
3pm Mass of the Presanctified

Holy Saturday 4th April
8.30am Tenebrae
6pm Easter Vigil Mass

Easter Sunday 5th April
8.30am Low Mass
10.30am Sung Mass
4.30pm Solemn Vespers & Benediction

 

Holy Week is an extraordinary time for the entire community, filled with many graces. Pray for the catechumens throughout the world who will be received into Holy Mother Church. At Ss. Peter & Paul and St. Philomena, we look forward to the baptism of Curtis Ronan on the evening of Holy Saturday. Congratulations, Curtis!

Note carefully the extra confession times available this week. Holy Mother Church requires every practising Catholic to make a confession at least once per year and to receive Holy Communion during Eastertide.

Thursday 2 – 6 pm
Friday 12– 2 pm
Saturday 3 – 5 pm

We have our usual adoration time at 5.30pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Holy Thursday, following the evening Mass, there will be adoration at the altar of repose until Midnight. The special office of Tenebrae will be sung in our church on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8.30am. Tenebrae consists of the singing of psalms and the reading of prophecies and sermons from the Church Fathers which instruct us in the mystery of Christ’s passion, death and resurrection. Latin-English booklets are provided.

Two seminarians will be joining us this week, enabling us to have the rare privilege of Solemn ceremonies with deacon and sub-deacon throughout the Triduum. Deo gratias!

Via Crucis

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The Via Crucis is a devotional journey that follows Our Lords’ path from his condemnation to his burial. It consists of 14 stations, each recalling a moment from the Passion. It is prayed especially during Lent and Holy Week, but can be prayed the year‑round. At its heart, it is about walking with Christ in his suffering and allowing that journey to help us prepare fpr Holy Week.

Each Friday during Lent at 5.30pm, we pray the Stations of the Cross (in place of Adoration).

Triduum Paschale 2024

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Sunday 24th March
Palm Sunday

8.30am:
Low Mass

10.30am:
Blessing of the palms, procession and High Mass

5.30pm:
Solemn Vespers & Benediction

Thursday 28th March
Maundy Thursday

8.30am
Gregorian Matins – ‘Tenebrae’

2pm – 6pm
Confessions

7pm
High Mass & Procession – Adoration until Midnight

Friday 29th March
Good Friday

8.30am
Gregorian Matins – ‘Tenebrae’

12 noon – 2pm
Confessions

2pm
Stations of the Cross

3pm
Mass of the Presanctified – 5pm – 6pm: Confessions

Saturday 30th March
Holy Saturday

8.30am
Gregorian Matins – ‘Tenebrae’

2pm – 5pm
Confessions

6pm
Easter Vigil, Adult Baptism & High Mass
(This Mass doesn’t fulfill your Sunday obligation).

Sunday 31st March
Easter Sunday

8.30am
Low Mass with organ

10.30am
High Mass

5.30pm
Solemn Vespers & Benediction

Christmas Schedule

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Sunday 24th December:
Vigil of Christmas. Sunday Morning Masses at 8.30am and 1030am.
First Vespers of the Nativity at 5.30pm.
Sung Matins (Gregorian Chant) at 8.00pm.
Christmas Carols at 10.300pm.
First Mass of Christmas at 11.00pm.

Please note Midnight Mass fulfils your Christmas obligation BUT NOT your Sunday obligation.

Monday 25th December:
Mass (Missa Secunda ‘The Aurora’) at 8.30am
Mass (Missa Tertia) ay 1030am.
Second Vespers of of the Nativity followed by Rosary & Benediction and concluding with Compline at 5.30pm

Christmas Day Services

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Our Christmas Day schedule is shown below.

Saturday 24th December
VIGIL OF CHRISTMAS		 Sunday 25th December
CHRISTMAS DAY
9.30 am: Prime (Gregorian chant)
10 am: Low Mass of the Vigil
5.30 pm: 1st Vespers of the Nativity
7 pm: Matins of the Nativity
10.30 pm: Christmas Carols
11pm: ‘Midnight’ High Mass		 8.30 am: ‘Dawn’ Low Mass
10.30 am: ‘Day’ High Mass
5.30 pm: 2nd Vespers of the Nativity
6.30 pm: Eucharistic Adoration,
Rosary & Benediction of
the Most Blessed Sacrament

Ash Wednesday 2nd March

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Holy Mass will be offered at 12 noon in the day chapel and at 6.30pm in the main church. Distribution of ashes upon the forehead will take placebefore both Masses. Let us all begin this holy season of Lent with great humility, remembering that we are dust, and to dust we shall all return.

Resumption of Public Worship [updated]

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Following the statement of H.M. Government, public worship will resume on Wednesday 2nd December and therefore we will once again gather for Holy Mass!

The Liverpool City Region has been placed in Tier 2. Meaning that whilst we can finally come back to Mass, we must abide by the government guidelines, these being not to socialise with people from outside of our own household/support bubble while in the church. This is much the same as things had been before lockdown with some relaxation of the rules around external socialising. Face covering rules remain except where exemptions apply.

Our schedule for the week commencing Sunday 28th November is thus: