The Feast of our Cardinal - 9th October

We celebrate Saint John Henry Newman with a sung English Mass at 12.10pm, and a Latin High Mass at 6pm.

Jeroboam and the Altar

Talking Heads is back for a new series. Find out more about some exciting passages from the Bible here.

Salome dancing before Herod

Watch the latest Barocci presentation, featuring Moreau's painting of Salome

Music for October

Music list for October.

Wisdom took root among an honourable people.

Read Fr Richard's sermon, given at the English Oratories' pilgrimage to Walsingham last Saturday.

What is a Musical Oratory?

We have a Musical Oratory on Monday 11th September at 7pm. People have been asking what is this?

Ravens, chariots, whirlwinds, vineyards, forests, bears, axes, and mantles.

These are just some of the exciting objects in the lives of Elijah and Elisha about which we shall hear in the new series of Talking Heads.

Come and sing for us!

The Oratory is seeking to appoint experienced singers to sing on Sundays and holy days.

Coming soon: The St Margaret Clitherow Pilgrimage

Join us on August Bank Holiday Monday for the annual walk remembering St Margaret Clitherow and the Martyrs of York

Martyrs' Map of England and Wales

See this excellent map, compiled by Graeme Garvey, showing the origin of all the English and Welsh martyrs. Click on it for biographies.

Forthcoming Pilgrimage to Walsingham

Details of the English Oratories' pilgrimage to Walsingham on Saturday 9th September.

Sorolla - the painter of light

Watch the latest film from the Barocci group, about the Spanish painter Joaquín Sorolla, whose centenary is this year.

Solomon's wives lead his heart astray

The bright promise of Solomon's youth gives way to idolatry in old age. Watch this week's 'Talking Heads'.

Tell me, O Lord my God, by your mercies, what you are to me.

A new Director of Music

The Fathers and Brothers of the York Oratory are pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Samuel Austin as Director of Music.

The Queen of Sheba

This week's Talking Heads introduces the exotic figure of the Queen of Sheba, who foreshadows the three Kings who visit the Child Jesus.

Will God really dwell on earth?

This week's Talking Heads recounts the magnificent occasion of Solomon's dedication of the Holy Temple.

“The heart of true religion is a personal devotion to the person of Jesus Christ”

Read Monsignor David Hogan's moving sermon given at the York Oratory on the feast of our Holy Father Saint Philip, Apostle of Rome.

Visions of Paradise and Nightmares

In this month's Barocci talk, dive into the fascinating, enigmatic world of Hieronymus Bosch.

The Lord who sits above the Cherubim

What did Solomon's Temple look like? What are Cherubim? Why were there two huge cherubim in the Holy of holies? Find out in Talking Heads.

Music for May and June

Our music list for the coming Sundays and feasts.

Give your servant a discerning heart

Watch the latest Talking Heads and the request of the young King Solomon for Wisdom.

Novena before St Philip's Day

The novena before St Philip's Day begins on Tuesday 16th May. Come and pray!

Ascension Day Masses

Thursday 18th May is Ascension Day, a holy day of obligation. Find our Mass times here.

Solomon: Wisdom and Idolatry

The first Book of Kings is intensely honest about Solomon's successes and failures. Learn more at Talking Heads, beginning this week.

Newman and the Coronation

Read the sermon preached at this evening's Mass on the Vigil of the Coronation - how did St John Henry Newman describe the 1821 Coronation?

Celebrating and praying for the Coronation

On Saturday Their Majesties The King and Queen will be anointed and crowned. Here is how will be pray for them and give thanks to God.

Music for Eastertide

Christ is Risen

See some pictures of the Easter Vigil, the celebration of the Resurrection of Christ, when we also baptize and confirm adult converts.

Order of Service for the Easter Vigil

Here is the order of service for tonight's Easter Vigil, starting at 9pm.

Hail, O Cross, our only hope.

The Solemn Liturgy on Good Friday makes us participants in the Passion. The story continues at 9pm on Holy Saturday at the Easter Vigil.

Good Friday Order of Service

The Sacred Triduum begins

Maundy Thursday begins the Easter Triduum, which continues at 3pm on Good Friday and 9pm on Holy Saturday.

Maundy Thursday Order of Service

Here is the order of service for the Mass of the Lord's Supper.

Palm Sunday Order of Service

Here is the order of service from Mass on Palm Sunday.

Holy Week is here

In this holiest week of the year we invite you to enter into the Death and Resurrection of our Lord through the liturgy.

Music for Holy Week

Scenes of the Passion

Watch this fascinating talk on the 'Pasos' of Spanish Holy Week.

Zadok the Priest and Nathan the Prophet anointed Solomon King

Talking Heads covers the death of King David and the succession of his son Solomon. We will see the very same ritual in Westminster Abbey.

The site of the holy Temple

In the last chapter of II Samuel, David purchases a threshing floor, which will later be the site of the Temple in Jerusalem.

I vault over a wall

David surveys his life and gives thanks to the Lord, who has made his feet swifter than a gazelle.

Service Times for Holy Week 2023

Here are times of Masses, services, and confessions for Holy Week this year.

A Bad Hair Day

In this week's Talking Heads: Absalom is murdered in the heart of the forest, and David cries out in anguish at his son's death.

Wanted: Director of Music

The Fathers and Brothers of the York Oratory seek to appoint a Director of Music.

Music for March

Music at the Oratory for March 2023

Our Lent Project

This year's Lent Project helps to fund the chapel at the Catholic Institute for Business and Technology, Accra, Ghana

Stainer's Crucifixion

This Wednesday at 7pm: A superb musical meditation on the Passion, with choral, solo, and congregational pieces.

Vanity of vanities

Here is a good Lenten meditation on the emptiness of worldly glory.

A Family Feud

David reaches his lowest ebb as he flees, exhausted, from Jerusalem, while being cursed and having stones hurled at him.

Ash Wednesday Mass times

The Wise Woman of Tekoa

Watch this week's exciting episode of Talking Heads, as David's family life unravels further.

How to read a painting

In the latest Barocci presentation we discover how to look at art.

The proliferation of moral chaos

Talking Heads this week has a contemporary relevance.

Music for February

The Image of Sanctity

Last year, for the four-hundredth anniversary of St Philip's canonization, a 'recognition' of his body was carried out.

Confession restores hope

St Philip transformed Rome by encouraging frequent Confession. We can transform York in exactly the same way.

'Spare' - the Old Testament prequel

David's life unravels, and finally ends, in a tale of red-headed heirs and spares.

Nativity Scenes from around the World

As we continue to celebrate Christmas, watch this video of our Barocci Group, looking at nativity scenes from around the world.

Christmas at the York Oratory - times of Masses and services

Find our Christmas Mass times here

Salve Regina is our cry of gladness

Sermon preached at the High Mass for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

"Thou art the man!"

David and Bathsheba

A long lunch and then a siesta lead David to moral disaster.

I will make his kingship unshaken

Hear the extraordinary prophecy of how David's descendant will rule for ever, and Mary will be the Temple of the Lord.

Go to Joseph

The Food Bank at St Joseph's has got off to a blessed start

November: Month of the Holy Souls

To pray for the Faithful Departed is a great act of charity

Mary is the Ark of the Covenant

In this week's Talking Heads we hear how David brought the Ark to Jerusalem - and how Mary is truly the Ark containing God's glory

The York Salve

Listen to the York Salve, as sung in this city before the dissolution of the monasteries.

Masses for All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day 2022

Tuesday 1st November is All Saints' - a holy day of obligation - and Wednesday 2nd is All Souls'. Find our Mass times here.

David Triumphant

In this week's Talking Heads: David is the image of the ideal king: just, merciful, and pious; his anointing prefigures Christ.

Starting to do good

The Gospel commands us to feed the hungry. Volunteers have been preparing St Joseph's hall to host a Food Bank.

David and the Amalekite

The first in a new series of Talking Heads - our Bible Study series

Some definite service

A sermon preached on Sunday 9th October, feast of our Cardinal, St John Henry Newman

When shall we begin to do good?

Our Sunday afternoon Oratory, in the spirit of St Philip, seeks to draw souls to God

Talking Heads - back soon

A new season of Talking Heads begins on 17th October, and will unpack the second Book of Samuel

Sermon from the Requiem Mass for Her late Majesty The Queen

"For me the teachings of Christ and my own personal accountability before God provide a framework in which I try to lead my life."

Queen Elizabeth II RIP

The Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory are deeply saddened by the death of our beloved Sovereign.

The Mission of the Church

We welcomed a Cardinal to our parishes, who reminded us of the Church's mission to all humanity

St Margaret Clitherow witnesses again

On Bank Holiday Monday we renewed the witness St Margaret made by her martryrdom

Film of A Midsummer Night's Dream

If you couldn't come in person, you can now watch the last night of our play on YouTube

The Pearl of York

Watch a new documentary about St Margaret Clitherow

Forthcoming: Pilgrimage

Join us for our forthcoming St Margaret Clitherow pilgrimage.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Our performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in celebration of The Queen's Platinum Jubilee...

The Forty Hours

How we celebrated Jesus in the Eucharist this summer...

Welcome to Catholic York

On behalf of the Fathers and Brothers of the York Oratory, we welcome to our new website for the Catholic communities of the city of York.