Cardinal Nichols (Westminster) Sun: Mass for 150th Anniversary of Notre Dame de France, London, 11am. Tue: Celebrates 50th Anniversary of becoming a Parish of the Diocese of Westminster, Immaculate Conception, 7pm. Wed: Meeting with Bishops’ Conference Staff, London, 10am, Governance Meeting followed by Dedication of New Altar, Allen Hall Seminary, 3pm. Thu: Cardinal Hume Centre AGM, 6pm, CBCEW Christmas Reception, Southwark, 7pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, London, 9.30am, Trustees Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 11am. Sat: Mass of Thanksgiving to celebrate the 100th Birthday of Fr Augustine Hoey, Chapel of Our Lady of Reconciliation, Walsingham, 12 noon. Archbishop Longley (Birmingham) Sun: Parish Visitation, St Anne’s, Digbeth, Confirmations, St Anne’s, Digbeth, 11.30am. Mon: Birmingham University Carol Service, 18.15pm. Tue: Jubilee Year of Mercy Opening Mass, St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, 12 noon, Father Hudson’s Care Trustees’ Meeting, Coleshill, 4.30pm. Wed: Council of Priests, St Mary’s College, Oscott, 10.30am, Women of the Diocese Gathering, St Chad’s Sanctuary, 7.15pm. Archbishop McMahon (Liverpool) Sun: Visitation Mass, St Anthony of Egypt, Liverpool, 10am, Visitation Mass, Our Lady Immaculate, Liverpool, 11.45am, Mass for the opening of the Year of Mercy, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 3pm, Marie Curie ‘Lights to Remember’ Service, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 5pm. Mon: Meetings and engagements, London. Tue: Mass for the opening of the Year of Mercy, Holy Cross, St Helens, 12.15pm, Mass for the opening of the Year of Mercy, St Mary, Leyland, 7.30pm. Wed: Mass of Thanksgiving for Marriage, Family Life and Funeral Ministries, Liverpool Archdiocesan Centre for Evangelisation, 7pm. Thu: Private Engagements, Archbishop’s House, am, Schools Advent Service, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 2.15pm. Fri: BBC Radio Merseyside Carol Service, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 7.30pm. Archbishop Smith (Southwark) Sun: Mass, Tunbridge Wells, 11.15am, Mass, Tonbridge, 6.30pm. Mon: Archbishop’s Council, 10.30am, Archbishop’s Council & CCF Team, 3pm. Tue: Mass, St George’s Cathedral, Southwark, 12.30pm, Reception, Archbishop’s House, 6.30pm. Wed: Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 3pm. Thu: CBCEW Reception, Archbishop’s House, 6pm. Fri: Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 11.30am. Bishop Arnold (Salford) Sun: Celebration of Mass, Sacred Heart, Colne, 9.30am, Celebration of Mass, Holy Saviour, Nelson, 11.15am, Carol Service, Cathedral Church of St John, 7.30pm. Mon: Celebration of Mass, Nazareth House, Prestwick, 11am, Celebration of Mass, St Vincent’s, Over Hulton, 7pm. Tue: Schools launch for the Year of Mercy, Cathedral Church of St John, 11am, Celebration of Mass for the Year of Mercy, Cathedral Church of St John, 7.30pm. Wed: Private appointments all day, Wardley Hall, Civic Carol Service, Cathedral Church of St John, 7pm. Thu: Meetings all day, Wardley Hall, Manchester University Carol Service, Holy Name Church, Oxford Road, 7pm. Fri: Private engagements all day, Delivers a talk at St William’s, Sheffield, 7.30pm. Sat: Parish visit, am, Celebration of Mass, Mary & Joseph Hostel, Ancoats, Manchester, 11.15am, Private meetings, Wardley Hall, pm. Bishop Byrne (Birmingham) Sun: Parish Visitation, St Philip Neri, Smethwick, Confirmations at St Ambrose, Kidderminster, 6pm. Mon: Retirement Mass for Rev John Rigby, Bolton, 7pm. Tue: Chaper Meeting, Archbishop’s House, Birmingham, 10am, Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, Birmingham Oratory, 7pm. Wed: Council of Priest’s Meeting at Oscott College, 10.30am, Diocesan Trustees Meeting, Coleshill, 2.30pm. Fri: Penance Service at Bishop Walsh School, 9.30am. Sat: Mass at SS Mary & John, Wolverhampton, 4pm. Bishop Campbell (Lancaster) Sun: Celebrates Mass at Lancaster University Catholic Chaplaincy, pm. Mon: Celebrates Novena of the Immaculate Conception, St Walburge’s, Preston, pm. Tue: Celebrates Inauguration of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Lancaster Cathedral, pm. Thu: Attends Christmas production, Cathedral Catholic Primary School, Lancaster, pm. Fri: Celebrates Opening of Shrine of Divine Mercy for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Our Lady and St Joseph, Carlisle, pm. Bishop Cunningham (Hexham and Newcastle) Sun: Mass at St Charles, Tudhoe for Visitation, 10am. Tue: Opening of the Year of Mercy at St Mary’s Cathedral, Newcastle, Mass, 7.15am, Talk, 10.30am, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, 11.15am, Concelebrated Mass with Diocesan Clergy, 12.05pm. Wed: Sixth Form Advent Service at St Mary’s Cathedral, Newcastle, 6pm. Thu: Mass of Thanksgiving for Fr Dermott Donnelly’s Service to the Youth Ministry Trust at Emmaus Youth Village, 7pm. Fri: Mass at Carntyne, Hexham for Sisters of Mercy, 11am. Sat: Attending Inauguration of Bishop Christine Hardman, as Bishop of Newcastle at St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle, 11am. Bishop Davies (Shrewsbury) Sun: Pastoral Visitation to St Winefride’s, Sandbach, Masses, 9am, 10.30am. Tue: National Catholic Safeguarding Commission, Westminster, 11am-4pm. Wed: Cathedral Chapter Mass, Christ the King, Bromborough, 12 noon. Thu: Bishop’s Council, Curial Offices, Birkenhead, 2pm, Diocesan Trustees, Curial Offices, Birkenhead, 4pm. Fri: Fund Raising Committee, Curial Offices, Birkenhead, 11am, Appointments, Curial Offices, Birkenhead, pm. Sat: Leads Wythenshawe LPA Advent Day of Recollection, Sacred Heart, Baguley, 10.30am, Opens the Holy Door of Mercy at St Anthony’s, Wythenshawe, with the celebration of Advent Evening Prayer, 3.30pm. Bishop Doyle (Northampton) Tue: Marriage and Family Life Committee, Eccleston Square, London, 12.30pm, Mass of the Immaculate Conception and the Opening of the Holy Door, Cathedral, 7pm. Wed: Discussion/talk on the Synod, St Augustine’s, Milton Keynes, 7.30pm. Thu: Meeting and lunch with the new headteachers, Bishop’s House, 12.30pm. Fri: College of Consultors, Bishop’s House, 11am, Speak about the Synod, St Mary’s, Oscott College, 6.15pm. Bishop Drainey (Middlesbrough) Sun: Parish Visitation, St Joseph & St Francis Xavier, Richmond. Tue: Attends meeting of Bishop’s Council at the Curial Office, Middlesbrough, 11am, attends meeting of Council of Priests at Curial Office, Middlesbrough, 2pm, Celebrates Mass for beginning of Holy Year of Mercy at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough, 7pm. Thu: Meets with regional representative of Friends of the Holy Land, at Curial Office, Middlesbrough, 11am. Bishop Egan (Portsmouth) Mon: Meetings in Bishop’s House, Portsmouth. Tue: Mass to celebrate 400th Anniversary, Douai Abbey. Wed: Advent Day of Prayer for Clergy, Park Place, Wickham. Thu: Trustees Meeting, Bishop’s House, Portsmouth. Fri: Funeral Mass for Canon Richard Hind R.I.P. at 11am, Cathedral, Portsmouth. Sat: Pastoral Visitation, Portsmouth Corpus Christi with St Joseph. Bishop Hendricks (Auxiliary in Southwark) Sun: Confirmations, Holy Cross, Carshalton, 3pm. Mon: Archbishop’s House, 10.30am, Ecumenical Carol Service Whitgift Centre, Croydon. Tue: Year of Mercy Mass, St George’s Cathedral, 12.30pm, Diocesan Angencies Reception, 6pm. Sat: Confirmations, Saint Winefride’s, South Wimbledon, 12 noon. Bishop Heskett (Hallam) Sun: Redemptorist Youth Ministry Retreat, Hawkstone Hall. Tue: Mass at Cathedral, Start of Year of Mercy, 12.45pm. Thu: Concert, St Bernard’s Catholic High School, Rotherham, 6.30pm.Fri: Holy Land Evening, St William of York Church, Sheffield, 7.30pm.Sat: Mass, Opening of Holy Door of Cathedral for Year of Mercy, 2pm, Nightfever, Cathedral, 5.30pm. Bishop Hopes (East Anglia) Sun: Parish Visitation to St Pancras, Ipswich continues with Mass, 9.30am. Mon: Meetings, Eccleston Square, Full gospel business Men’s Fellowship Dinner, 7pm. Tue: Mass and blessing of new classrooms, St Pancras School, Ipswich, 11am, Solemn Mass of the Immaculate Conception, Cathedral in thanksgiving for the beginning of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, 7.30pm. Wed: University of East Anglia, Carol Concert, Cathedral, 7.30pm. Thu: Priests and Deacons meeting, New translation the Rite of Confirmation, Newmarket, 10am, Carol service for St Louis Middle School, Bury St Edmunds, 7pm. Fri: Engagements, The White House, am, Emmaus Christmas Carol festival for Norwich Homeless Charities, Cathedral, Norwich, 7pm. Sat: Mass, Walsingham to celebrate Mgr Hoey’s 100th Birthday. Bishop Hudson (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Celebrates Rite of Admission as Candidates for Permanent Diaconate, St Scholastica, Clapton, 11.45am. Tue English Martyrs School Nativity, Tower Hill, 2.15pm, Book Launch, Archbishop’s House, 6.30pm. Wed: Concelebrates Mass of Consecration of Chapel, Culham, 11am, Advent Carol Concert, Sacred Heart Chapel, Cardinal Hume Centre, 6.30pm. Thu: Cardinal Hume Centre Board and AGM, Westminster, 4pm, Ethnic Haplains’ Christmas Dinner, Clerkenwell, 6.30pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 9.30am. Fri: WRCDT Trustee Board Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 11am, Meeting in Archbishop’s House, 3pm, Youth Mass, Somers Town, 6pm. Bishop Kenney (Birmingham) Sun: Institution as Acolyte, St John the Evangelist, Banbury, 14.45am. Tue: Chapter Meeting, Cathedral House, Birmingham, 10.30am, Mass of Immaculate Conception, St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, 12 noon. Wed: Priests’ Council, Oscott, 10.30am, Diocesan Trustees Meeting, Coleshill, 2pm. Bishop Lynch (Auxiliary in Southwark) Sun: Visitation, Italian Mission, Holy Redeemer, Brixton. Mon: Archbishop’s Council, 10.30am. Tue: Mass for Deceased Clergy, St Peter’s, Woolwich, 12.30pm. Wed: Gospel Christmas Concert 2015 at St Alfege Church, Greenwich, 7pm. Thu: Meeting of National Refugee Welcome Board, 11am. Fri: Advent Day of Recollection (Ongoing Formation) at Aylesford Priory, 10.30am, Reconciliation Service at St Thomas More, Dulwich (East), 7pm Bishop McGough (Birmingham) Sun: Parish Visitation, St Teresa’s, Wolverhampton. Tue: Chapter Meeting, Cathedral House, Birmingham, 10.30am, Jubilee Year of Mercy Opening Mass, St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, 12 noon, Mass to Inaugurate Year of Mercy, Sacred Heart, Tunstall, 7.30pm. Wed: Talk on Year of Mercy, St Austin’s, Stafford, 7pm. Thu: Oulton Abbey Trustees, 10.30am. Bishop McKinney (Nottingham) Sun: Confirmation, Our Lady and All Saints, Stourbridge, 2pm. Tue: Opening Mass for the Year of Mercy, St Barnabas Cathedral, 11.30am, 90th Anniversary Mass, St Mary’s, Loughborough, 7pm. Wed: Trinity Catholic School Presentation Evening, Albert Hall, Nottingham, 7pm. Fri: Visits St Mary’s Primary School, Boston, 2pm, Visits HMP North Sea Camp, 4pm. Sat: Visitation, St Mary’s, Boston. Bishop Malone (Liverpool) Sun: Mass for the opening of the Year of Mercy, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 3pm. Tue: Professor Sir Mark Hedley Lecture, Liverpool Hope University, 5.30pm. Wed: Schools Advent Service, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 2.15pm. Sat: Dickensian Christmas Carol Concert, Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 7pm. Bishop Moth (Arundel and Brighton) Sun: Evensong and Opening of Holy Door at Chichester Cathedral, 3.30pm, Vespers at Arundel Cathedral with Friends of Arundel Cathedral, 6.30pm. Mon: Meetings at High Oaks, 10am, Prize giving and Evening of Celebration for Cardinal Newman School, Hove at The Dome, Brighton, 7pm. Tue: Feast Day Mass at St Mary’s University, 1pm. Wed: Catholic School’s Service, Year of Mercy Day with Headteachers, Crawley, 9.30am, Worthing Deanery Schools’ Advent Service, Arundel Cathedral, 6.30pm. Thu: Foundation Mass at Woldingham School, 8.45am, Requiem Mass for Rev Robin Mountford, All Saints, Oxted, 12 noon, Meetings at High Oaks, 4.30pm. Fri: Meetings at St John’s Seminary, Wonersh, 1pm. Bishop O’Toole (Plymouth) Tue: Engagements, Bishop’s Conference Office, London. Wed: Pastoral Meeting, Bishop’s Conference Office, London, 12 noon, Concelebrates at the Mass of Dedication of the Chapel, Allen Hall Seminary, London, 5.30pm. Thu: Bishop’s Council Meeting, St Boniface House, Buckfast, 11am, Celebrates Mass for Holy Land with Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, Torre Abbey, Torquay, 6pm. Fri: Engagements, Bishops House, Plymouth, am, Hosts Reception for the Lord Mayor and local MP’s, Bishop’s House, Plymouth, 7pm. Bishop Sherrington (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Celebrates Mass and presents benemerenti, St Augustine, Hoddesdon, 9.15am. Tue: Celebrates Mass, London Oratory, 6.30pm. Wed: Allen Hall Governors Meeting, Allen Hall, 3pm. Thu: Celebrates Mass, Heythrop College, Kensington, 1.05pm, Episcopal visitation, 4.30pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, 9.30am, Diocesan Trustee Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 11.15am. Sat: Opens Holy Door, St Patricks Church, Soho Square, 6pm. Bishop Stock (Leeds) Sun: Light up a Life Remembrance Ceremony, St Gemma’s Hospice, Leeds, 4pm. Mon: NCSC Pastoral Support Working Group, London, 2pm. Tue: NCSC Meeting, London, 9am. Wed: Meeting with Vicar General, Bishop’s House, 9am, Finance Sub Committee Meeting, Hinsley Hall, 12 noon, Open Meeting, Halifax Deanery, 7pm. Thu: Individual Engagements, Bishop’s House, 11am, Meeting with Diocesan Deans, Bishop’s House, 2pm, Individual Engagement’s, Bishop’s House, 6.30pm. Fri: Mass, Community of the Franciscan Sisters of the Renewal, Leeds, 7.30am. Sat: Mass, Convent of Mercy, Yeadon, 11am. Bishop Williams (Brentwood) Sun: Preaches at St Francis Hospice Service of Remembrance, Cathedral, 4pm. Mon: Meeting at Notre Dame de France, London. Tue: Mass to Open Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy Cathedral, 7pm. Wed: Visits Sick & Retired Clergy. Thu: Attends Annual Meeting of Corporate Trustees & Finance Board. Fri: Meets with Diocesan Clergy, Abbotswick. Bishop Williams (Liverpool) Sat: Visitation Mass, St Joseph, Wrightington, 6pm. WALES Archbishop Stack (Cardiff) Tue: Mass for the Immaculate Conception of the BVN, St David’s Cathedral, 12.30pm, Gathering of Religious at Llantarnam Abbey, Year of Consecrated Life, 2.30pm, Prizegiving Ceremony, St Alban’s School, Pontypool, 7pm. Wed: Meeting of Diocesan Trustees, 10am. Thu: Festival of Lessons and Carols, Cardiff, 7pm. Sat: Celebrates Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk, 12 noon. Bishop Brignall (Wrexham) Sun: Pastoral Visitation of Blaenau Ffestiniog Parish. Mon: Bishops’ Conference Scripture Group Meeting, Eccleston Square. Tue: Mass for the Start of the Year of Mercy and Opening of the Holy Door, at the Cathedral, 7pm. Wed: Churches Tourism Network Wales meeting at Cardiff. Thu: St Asaph Deanery Clergy meeting at Rhyl, 10.30am, Meeting of Diocesan Board of Trustees, 1 for 1.30pm at Bishop’s House, Installation of new Chancellor of Glyndwr University at the Cathedral, 5.30pm. Fri: Meeting with Flint Deanery Clergy, at Flint, 11am, Confirmations, at Ruabon, 7pm. Sat: Pastoral Visitation of Bala and Dolgellau parishes. Bishop Burns (Menevia) Sun: 150th Anniversary Celebrations, Notre Dame De France Church, London, 11am, Tue: Chapter Mass, Installation of Provost & Two New Canons, St Joseph’s Cathedral, 11.30am. Fri: School Mass, St illtyd’s Church, Danygraig, 10am, HCPT Christmas Gathering, Swansea, 7.30pm. SCOTLAND Archbishop Cushley (St Andrews & Edinburgh) Sun: Sunday Mass, St John the Baptist, Edinburgh, 10am. Tue-Wed: Bishops’ Conference of Scotland, Gillis Centre, Edinburgh, Missio board meeting, Gillis Centre, Edinburgh, 2.30pm. Thu: SCIAF board meeting and Mass, Glasgow, 9.45am. Sat: Presentation on Mercy, St Catherine’s Convent of Mercy, Edinburgh, 6.30pm. This listing was compiled by The Universe Media Group Ltd and also appears in the Universe and Catholic Times