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Easter Egg Hunt

April 25, 2025

We know that the children at St Wilfrid's School had an Easter Egg hunt yesterday. Did they have as much fun as the students at More House?

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Mass at the Martyrs' altar

April 25, 2025

Fr Cyril Cheung from Hong Kong has a great devotion to St Margaret Clitherow, and so is visiting York from Ireland, where he is studying.

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The Sheriff of York

April 24, 2025

Fr Richard said Grace at the Sheriff's dinner.

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The beginning of the Easter Vigil

April 23, 2025

A short clip of the beginning of the Easter Vigil

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A Peal for Pope Francis

April 21, 2025

A peal rang from the Oratory Tower for Pope Francis - fully-muffled, which is a privilege reserved for deceased monarchs.

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A Requiem for Pope Francis

April 21, 2025

The 12.10pm Mass on Easter Monday was offered as a Requiem for the repose of the Pope's soul.

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Pope Francis: Rest in Peace

April 21, 2025

We pray for the repose of the soul of our Holy Father Pope Francis. May he rest in peace. The 12.10pm Mass today will be a Requiem for him.

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A double vision

April 21, 2025

What could be better than a visit from Canon Loughlin on Easter Day? Two Canons Loughlin!

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He is risen indeed! Alleluia!

April 20, 2025

The Fathers and Brothers of the York Oratory wish you all a blessed and happy Easter.

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Easter Vigil Booklet

April 19, 2025

As is traditional and litugically correct, our photocopier has given up the ghost during the Triduum. Download full texts for tonight here:

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Even unto death, death on a Cross

April 18, 2025

When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished: and He bowed His head, and gave up the ghost.

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He loved them to the end.

April 17, 2025

The Lord has been placed on the Altar of Repose, where He will be adored until midnight.

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Tenebrae factae sunt

April 17, 2025

The music was electrifying at last night's sung Tenebrae

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Hosanna Flio David!

April 15, 2025

A short clip of one of our Processions.

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The Chrism Mass

April 15, 2025

At the Chrism Mass, the Bishop asks the priests of the Holy Church of Middlesbrough to renew their promises, & the sacred oils are blessed.

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Lauda Jerusalem

April 14, 2025

Welcome to Fr Mayamiko Kachipapa, S.J., from Malawi.

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Ingrediente Domino in sanctam civitatem

April 13, 2025

As Jesus passed through the Sheep Gate from the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem, so we went with palms through Bootham Bar to High Petergate

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Holy Week: the Headlines

April 12, 2025

Here are the very most important events of Holy Week.

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Listen to the lesson of the bees

April 10, 2025

This year's Paschal Candle has arrived.

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Stabat Mater

April 9, 2025

Pergolesi's Stabat Mater will be sung in our church at 7pm this evening as our Passiontide Musical Oratory.

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Tenebrae

April 8, 2025

The Chant Group has been practising ready for Tenebrae on Spy Wednesday, 16th April, at 7pm.

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Bogorodyitse Dyevo

April 7, 2025

Listen to Rachmaninov's Bogorodyitse Dyevo, sung by Caelestis at Compline. Caelestis will sing the polyphony at Tenebrae on Spy Wednesday.

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Jesus hid Himself

April 6, 2025

“Jesus hid Himself.” John 8.59. The Passiontide veils remind us that the Lord waited until the time appointed to die for us.

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Voices for Peace

April 5, 2025

Tonight at St Joseph's: A concert directed by our assistant organist, Joel Starkie

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The name of the Lord is a strong Tower

April 5, 2025

Passiontide begins this evening: time to run to the name of the Lord

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The Edinburgh Oratory-in-formation

April 4, 2025

Keep praying for the establishment of St Philip's Oratory in Edinburgh.

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Tervetuloa Yorkiin

April 3, 2025

Welcome to the Bishop of Helsinki

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Music for Passiontide, Holy Week, the Triduum, and Easter Day

April 2, 2025

It's here: a fantastic music list for the most intense period of the Church's year.

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The walls of Jerusalem are dedicated

April 1, 2025

We finish the Book of Nehemiah in this week's Talking Heads.

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York Students' SVP

March 31, 2025

Faith without works is dead. York Students' SVP does a variety of good works around our City.

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Happy Mothering Sunday

March 30, 2025

A happy Mothering Sunday to all mothers.

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To be a pilgrim

March 28, 2025

Overnight places on the Osmotherley pilgrimage on 18 & 19 July are now fully booked - but you can join us for any part of the walk you like.

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Holy Week 2025

March 28, 2025

Holy Week is coming soon. Find all the times of services and confessions here.

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Cor ad cor loquitur

March 27, 2025

Danny gave the Brothers of the Little Oratory a talk about St Francis de Sales.

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Behold the handmaid of the Lord

March 25, 2025

The Solemnity of the Annunciation has a special significance in York.

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Nehemiah implements Catholic Social Teaching

March 25, 2025

Nehemiah stands up for those in need in this week's Talking Heads.

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He made him Lord over all His House

March 24, 2025

On the Sunday after St Joseph's Day there were celebrations at St Joseph's Church.

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Spring has sprung

March 20, 2025

Here is the photographic evidence of the first day of Spring.

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O Salutaris Hostia

March 19, 2025

Jacob’s famous O Salutaris Hostia was sung at Benediction at the conclusion of the Musical Oratory in honour of St Joseph.

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Happy St Joseph's Day!

March 19, 2025

A happy Solemnity of St Joseph, especially to all our St Joseph’s parishioners! Don’t forget there will be a party after Mass this Sunday.

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I am the Gate of the Sheep

March 18, 2025

Why does Jesus say, "I am the Gate of the Sheep"? Nehemiah explains.

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Ezra weeps

March 11, 2025

We finish the Book of Ezra in this week's Talking Heads.

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Music List for March

February 26, 2025

Here is our Music List for March. Don’t forget that there will be a Musical Oratory each Wednesday during Lent at 7pm

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Musical Oratories every Wednesday in Lent

February 20, 2025

Lent is coming soon, and an ideal way to make good use of the season is to come to a Musical Oratory each Wednesday at 7pm.

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Ezra returns to Jerusalem

February 18, 2025

In this week's Talking Heads the Temple is completed after forty-six years, and Ezra the Scribe leaves Babylon.

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Problems with the planning department

February 12, 2025

The returning exiles in Jerusalem encounter some objections to their building work. Watch this week's Talking Heads.

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Holy Year Pilgrimage to the Lady Chapel

February 6, 2025

The Lady Chapel at Osmotherley is the diocesan shrine of Our Lady. Join us on pilgrimage there in June.

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Celebrate the jubilee year in York

February 4, 2025

See our prayer booklet to celebrate the jubilee year!

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Zerubbabel

February 4, 2025

Zerubbabel, and rather a lot of others, head back to Judea in this week's Talking Heads.

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Cyrus makes Judea great again

January 27, 2025

Talking Heads is back for a new season, and we begin the Book of Ezra.

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Candlemas 2025

February 2, 2025

The feast of the Presentation of the Lord is a Sunday this year. Here are our Mass times.

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Music for February 2025

January 22, 2025

February begins with the feast of Candlemas - on a Sunday this year. Here is the music for the whole month.

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Credo in unum Deum

January 7, 2025

1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea, we have a series going through the Nicene Creed.

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Rebuilding the Temple

January 3, 2025

Often we lament a disappeared past, but Ezra and the exiles show that with the Lord's help we can build back better. Talking Heads is back.

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The Oratory is a Jubilee Church

December 28, 2024

You can gain the Jubilee Indulgence every day of the Holy Year 2025 in our church.

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Challenge and Scandal of Sanctity

December 17, 2024

Bishop Erik Varden's compelling talk on holiness, given as this year's St William of York Lecture.

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Night Fever

December 13, 2024

A night of invitation for those passing by the church to come inside, light a candle and encounter the beauty of Jesus Christ: 7-9pm, 13/12

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Isaian Advent

December 11, 2024

Bishop Erik Varden, the Cistercian Bishop of Tronheim, gave this reflection at our Advent Musical Oratory.

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Advent Musical Oratory with Bishop Erik Varden

December 10, 2024

Tuesday 10th December at 7pm: Music, readings, and an Advent Reflection by the Bishop of Trondheim

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You are the glory of Jerusalem - The Immaculate Conception 2024

December 8, 2024

The novena before Our Lady's Immaculate Conception begins on 29th November. Find details of all our celebrations for the feast here.

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The Destruction of the first Temple

November 26, 2024

This week's Talking Heads ends the Second Book of Kings with disaster in Jerusalem, but after seventy years the exiles will return.

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Music for Advent 2024

November 26, 2024

Keeping Advent can be difficult amid the secular preparations for Christmas, but we have the music you need.

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Advent Sunday Candlelight Compline

December 1, 2024

Come to St Joseph's for Compline by candlelight on Advent Sunday, 1st December, at 6.15pm

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Nebuchadnezzar

November 19, 2024

Nebuchadnezzar carries the gold from the Temple and the King of Judah off to Babylon in this week's Talking Heads.

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You are a priest for ever

November 16, 2024

You are a priest for ever

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Josiah makes Judah great again

November 12, 2024

Josiah makes Judah great again, but then is killed by Pharaoh Neco. What goes wrong?

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Josiah and Religious Restoration

November 5, 2024

When a scroll of the Law is found in the Temple it accelerates Josiah's restoration of traditional religion in Judah.

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Isaiah is sawn in half by his grandson

October 30, 2024

More disfunctional family relationships in Christ's ancestry: Manasseh has his own grandfather sawn in half. Watch last week's Talking Heads

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Music for November

October 30, 2024

Here is November's Music list, including All Saints', All Souls' and Br David's ordination Mass.

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Act now to oppose assisted suicide

October 14, 2024

Unite in prayer and compassionate action to oppose assisted suicide

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She scorns you, the virgin daughter of Zion

October 9, 2024

Lord Byron makes a guest appearance in this week's Talking Heads

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Music for October

October 1, 2024

Some beautiful feasts in October with some beautiful music

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Feast of our Cardinal

October 9, 2024

9th October is the day that St John Henry Newman was received into the "One Fold of the Redeemer". Come to celebrate his feast day with us.

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Standing up to Doubt

October 2, 2024

In this week's Talking Heads, the Rabshakeh tries to undermine morale in Jerusalem, just as doubt tries to undermine our faith.

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The Last Kings of Judah: A new series of Talking Heads

September 5, 2024

Our Bible Study group, Talking Heads, starts again soon, and will read about some more of Our Lord's ancestors in the Second Book of Kings.

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Come and See! New series of Faith on Fridays

September 4, 2024

Our Friday night series of talks will be rather interactive this autumn, with visits to the organ loft, bell-tower, sacristy, and church.

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Learn to sing Gregorian Chant

September 2, 2024

Br Paul's Chant Group begins again on Sunday 8th September.

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Make a joyful noise unto the Lord!

August 31, 2024

The Parish Choir starts singing again after the summer from Sunday 8th September. New members are always welcome.

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A summer of pilgrimage

August 28, 2024

The whole of the Christian life is a journey towards heaven. When we make a pilgrimage, it is part of that journey.

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Go out to the whole world, proclaim the Good News

August 20, 2024

Recently we were visited by Fr Brendan Aroh of the Spiritan Fathers.

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Pilgrimage in honour of the Pearl of York - August Bank Holiday 2024

August 26, 2024

This year's pilgrimage for St Margaret Clitherow and the Martyrs of York is on Monday 26th August. Details here.

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All roads lead to Osmotherley

August 18, 2024

The diocesan pilgrimage to the Lady Chapel at Osmotherley for Assumptiontide is on Sunday 18th August. There is a coach from York

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The Assumption 2024 - Mass Times

August 15, 2024

Thursday 15th August is the Solemnity of the Assumption of Our Lady and a holy day of obligation

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Vespers for the Feast of St James

July 25, 2024

As part of the Incorporated Organists' Festival 2024, there will be sung Vespers for the feast of St James in our church at 6pm

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A new Statue of St Wilfrid

July 19, 2024

On the feast of our church's Dedication, a new statue of our patron was unveiled and blessed.

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Missa Cantata for the feast of SS Peter & Paul, Saturday 29th June

June 29, 2024

This Saturday for the feast of SS Peter & Paul there will be a sung Latin Mass at 12.10pm. Music by Palestrina & Stanford.

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The lost tribes of Israel

June 11, 2024

What happened to the ten tribes of the northern Kingdom of Israel? Find out as we read chapter 17 of the second Book of Kings.

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Jesus of Nazareth is passing by

June 4, 2024

Last week we celebrated Corpus Christi. Come this weekend to adore the Lord during our Forty Hours' Devotion.

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God is with Us

June 4, 2024

This week's Talking Heads deals with King Ahaz, to whom Isaiah made the prophecy that a virgin would conceive and bear a Son, Immanuel.

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Corpus Christi Procession

May 30, 2024

Join our Procession on the feast of Corpus Christi, Thursday 30th May.

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St Philip's Day - Monday 27th May

May 27, 2024

Find out how we are celebrating the feast of our Glorious Patriarch, Saint Philip Neri, Apostle of Rome

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Icons of the Mother of God

May 24, 2024

Find out how to interpret icons of the Mother of God in this fascinating talk.

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An earthquake in the Temple

May 21, 2024

What does Isaiah mean when he says, “In the year that King Uzziah died”? What caused the earthquake, through which the Lord spoke His word?

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Defeat snatched from the jaws of Victory

May 15, 2024

A time of peace and prosperity for Israel and Judah is squandered, with injustice and stupidity prevailing.

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Music for May

May 4, 2024

Music for May at the Oratory, including the feasts of the Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, St Philip's Day, and Corpus Christi.

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The tomb that gives life

April 30, 2024

Even when Elisha has died, his bones bring a corpse back to life. Watch this week's Talking Heads.

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The Murder of Zechariah

April 16, 2024

In this week's Talking Heads the blood of Zechariah the priest cries out from the Temple after his stoning.

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Music for April

April 12, 2024

Music for the rest of this month

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More Faith on Fridays

April 12, 2024

A new series in May: The Petrine office, Church etiquette, the Holy Spirit, how to go to Confession, and Our Lady as Ark of the Covenant.

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The wickedest woman in the Bible

April 11, 2024

This week's Talking Heads finds hope amid the almost-total destruction of the House of David.

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