Cardinal Nichols (Westminster) Sun: Cardinal’s Jubilee Catechesis and Mass, Our Lady of Mount Carmel & Saint George RC Church, 45 London Rd, Enfield, EN2 6DS. Mon: Solemn Mass in Honour of St Thomas Becket, Westminster Cathedral, 42 Francis St, London, SW1P 1QW. Tue: Solemn Evensong in Westminster Abbey, 5.00pm. Banquet in Honour of HE The President of Hungary, Drapers’ Hall, Throgmorton Avenue, EC2N 2DQ, 7.15pm. Wed: Council of Priests, Allen Hall, 28 Beaufort St, London, SW3 5AA, 10.30am. Attends Colliquim: Catholic Approaches to Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament, Millbank House of Lords Estate, 3.15pm. Attends Lecture by John Guy, author of ‘Thomas Becket: Warrior, Priest, Rebel, Victim’, IPU Room of the Houses of Parliament, 6.45pm. Thu: All day meetings in Archbishop’s House, 9.00am. The Woolf Institute Celebratory Dinner, Mansion House, Walbrook, London, EC4N 8BH, 6.45pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, SW1P 1QJ, 9.30am. Archbishop Longley (Birmingham) Tue: Good Shepherd Mass, St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, 10.15am. Wed: Council of Priests Meeting, St Mary’s College, Oscott, 10.30am. Thu: 50th Anniversary, Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Transfiguration, Coventry, 7.00pm. Fri: symposium on Thomas Becket, Lambeth Palace, 9.30am. Sat: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Archbishop McMahon (Liverpool) Sun: Visitation Mass, Sacred Heart, Chorley, 11.00am. Tue: Celebrates Mass, St Wilfrid, Liverpool, 9.30am. Josephian Society Meeting, St Teresa, Upholland, 11.30am. Confirmation and First Communion, St Joseph, Penketh, 6.30pm. Wed: Bishops Day of Recollection, Leeds, 11.00am. Thu: Merseyside Church Leaders Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 9.30am. Mass of thanksgiving on the Diamond Jubilee of Rev Laurence Mayne, St Oswald, Coppull, 6.30pm. Archbishop Smith (Southwark) Sun: Mass, 60th Anniversary of ordination of Fr Gerry Flood, Biggin Hill, 10.00am. Mass with Knights of St Columba, 90th Anniversary of Province, Erith, 3.00pm. Mon: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, 10.30am. Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 4.00pm. Bishop Arnold (Salford) Sun: Attends Civic Service, Manchester Cathedral, 11.00am. Celebration of Mass, Salford Royal Hospital, 4.00pm. Mon: Visits St Ambrose Barlow High School, 2.15pm. Tue: Private Meetings, Wardley Hall. Visits St Bede’s College, Manchester, 12.00 noon. Wed: Attends meeting of Northern Bishops, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 11.00am. Blessing of the new chapel at St Joseph’s, Hurst Green, 7.00pm. Thu: Private appointments, Wardley Hall. Sat: Private engagements, Wardley Hall. Bishop Byrne (Birmingham) Sun: Mass at Holy Trinity, Hethe, Bicester, 10.00am. Wed: 500th Anniversary Celebrations of St Philip Neri’s Birth, Rome. Bishop Campbell (Lancaster) Sun: Continues with Parish visitation, St Bede & St Edmund, Carlisle. Mon: Continues with Parish Visitation, St Bede & St Edmund, Carlisle – inc. school, AM. Tue: Attends Tribunal Study Day, Preston, AM, Celebrates Confirmation, St Mary, Fleetwood, PM. Wed: Attends Northern Bishops’ Meeting, Leeds, AM. Thu: Celebrates Confirmation, Our Lady & St Michael, Alston Lane, PM. Fri: Attends Cumbria Church Leaders’ Meeting, PM. Bishop Cunningham (Hexham and Newcastle) Sun: Mass at St Michael’s, Houghton-le-Spring for Visitation, 10.00am. Mon: Dinner with Tynemouth Catenian Circle at The Grand Hotel, Tynemouth, 8.00pm. Tue: Confirmations at English Martyrs and Ss Peter and Paul, Stockton, 6.30pm. Wed: Northern Bishops’ Meeting at Bishop’s House, Leeds, 10.45am. Thu: Mass at Ushaw College, 4.15pm. Attending Ushaw Lecture: ‘The English Secular Priesthood: history, identity and renewal’, 5.30pm. Dinner at Ushaw College, 7.30pm. Sat: Mass at St Mary’s, Easington Lane for Visitation, 6.00pm. Bishop Davies (Shrewsbury) Sun: Pastoral Visitation of St Mary of the Angels, Hooton, Mass 9.30am. Mon: Annual Lunch with Diocesan Tribunal Staff, St Chad’s, Cheadle, 12 noon. Tue: Cathedral Chapter Mass for the Diocesan Patronal Feast with Clergy Jubilarians followed by lunch, Cathedral, 12 noon. Wed: Appointments, Curial Offices, Birkenhead, AM, Commission for New Evangelisation, Curial Offices, 2.15pm. Diocesan Trustees, Curial Offices, 4.00pm. Thu: Confirmation (LPA 6), St Vincent’s, Knutsford, 7.00pm. Fri: Visit to Carmelite Monastery, Birkenhead, 10.00am. Appointments, Curial Offices, Birkenhead, AM. Sat: Mass of Solemn Profession, Poor Clare Convent, Ellesmere, 2.00pm. Bishop Doyle (Northampton) Sun to Tue: St Alban’s College, Valladolid. Tue: Confirmation, St Martin de Porres, Luton, 7.30pm. Wed: Council of Priests, Bishop’s House, 11.00am. Confirmation, St Joseph’s, Luton, 7.00pm. Thu: 40 year anniversary Mass of Bishop Parker School, Milton Keynes, 10.00am. Fri: Trustees and Finance Board, Bishop’s House, 10.30am. Confirmation, St Augustine’s, Daventry, 7.30pm. Sat: Marriage and Family Life and Evangelisation, Sion Community, Brentwood, 10.00am. Bishop Drainey (Middlesbrough) Sun: Parish visitation to English Martyrs, York. Celebrates Mass and confirmations whilst there, 10.30am. Tue: Attends meeting of NOV Board at Ecclestone Square, London, 11.00am. Wed: Attends meeting of Northern Province, Bishop’s House, Leeds, 10.30am. Fri – Sat: Attends annual diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes. Bishop Egan (Portsmouth) Mon: Meetings, Bishop’s House. Talk to Westminster Clergy, on Mercy in the Age of Moral Relativism, London. Tue: Council of Priests Meeting. Schools Department Update Meeting, Bishop’s House, Portsmouth. Wed: Clergy Day, Marwell. Thu: Chapter of Canons Meeting, Bishop’s House. Templeton Prize 2016 Ceremony, London. Sat: Parish visitation, Our Lady of the Rosary, North Hinksey. Bishop Hendricks (Auxiliary in Southwark) Sun: Confirmations, St Anselm’s, Tooting Bec, 11.30am. Confirmations, Holy Ghost, Balham, 6.00pm. Mon: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, 10.30am. Unity Commission Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 3.30pm. Tue: Bishop’s Conference Spirituality Day, Euston, 11.00am. Spirituality Commission, London, 6.30pm. Wed: Council of Priests, London, 11.00am. Thu: 60th Jubilee Mass, Fr Denis Paul, Addiscombe, 7.30pm. Fri: Symposium on Thomas Becket, Lambeth Palace, 9.30am. Farewell Mass for Fr Joe Doetsch, Coulsdon, 7.00pm. Sat: Mass, St Margaret of Scotland, Carshalton Beeches, 6.00pm. Bishop Heskett (Hallam) Sun: Visitation continued – St Vincent’s Church, Sheffield. Tue: Consultation Day, Salford, Bishops’ Conference Spirituality Committee. Reception, St Mary’s, Herringthorpe Valley Road, 6.00pm. Wed: Requiem Mass, St Mary’s, Herringthorpe Valley Road, 11.00am. St Bede’s, Rotherham, Patronal Feast, 7.00pm. Thu: Installation of Vice Chancellor, Hallam University, 2.30pm. Confirmations, St Mary’s, Herringthorpe, Rotherham, 7.00pm. Confirmations, Mount St Mary’s College, Spinkhill, 10.00am. Jubilee of Mercy Mass for Deacons, Cathedral, 5.30pm. Bishop Hopes (East Anglia) Sun: Visitation, Burnham Market, AM. Mon: Visit and Mass, HMP Hollesley Bay, Woodbridge, 10.00am. Tue: Engagements, Poringland, AM/PM. Mass for 50th Anniversary of the consecration of St George’s RC Church, Norwich, 7.00pm. Wed: Meeting with Archbishop Broglio, The Cathedral, Norwich, 9.00pm. Priest Study Day, The Cathedral, Norwich, 10.30am. Engagements, The Cathedral, Norwich, 3.30pm. Mass – 25th Ordination of Deacon Mike Vipond, United Free Church at Framlingham, 6.30pm. Thu to Fri: Rome to visit Seminarians. Sat: Mass for the thousandth anniversary of the death of St Walstan, Costessy, 10.00am. The National Association of Catholic Families, Walsingham, 5.15pm. Bishop Hudson (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Confirmation at Notre Dame de France, French Church, 9.30am. Confirmation for Hampstead and Swiss Cottage parishes, St Mary’s, Hampstead, 4.00pm. Mon: Meeting of Fondation Catholique Trustees (day 1), Paris, All Day. Tue: Meeting of Fondation Catholique Trustees (day 2), Paris, All Day. Wed: Council of Priests, Allen Hall Seminary, 11.00am. Colloquium on Catholic Approaches to Nuclear Proliferation and Disarmament, Millbank House, 2.15pm. Fri: A Symposium on St Thomas Becket, Lambeth Palace, 10.00am. Reception, St John Vianney, West Green, 7.00pm. Sat: Youth Deanery Confirmation, Westminster Cathedral, 2.00pm. Bishop Lang (Clifton) Tue: Meeting in London. Wed: Meeting in London. Thu: Priests Welfare Committee Meeting, 11.00am. Confirmation, Holy Rood, Swindon, 7.00pm. Fri: Visit to University of Bath, 12.00 noon. Bishop McAleenan (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Door of Mercy Visit Waltham Cross, 3.00pm. Hungarian Chaplaincy – Mass celebrated by Cardinal Erdo, 5.30pm. Mon: Annual Meeting of Council at Welwyn Garden City, 7.30pm. Wed: Mass Retiring chaplain, 12.00pm. White City Reception, 7.00pm. Thu: Meeting ABH, 11.00am. Fri: Confirmation, Sacred Heart of Jesus and St John the Evangelist, Bushey, 7.30pm. Sat: Newman Association, WGC, 9.30am. Bishop McGough (Birmingham) Mon: Mass, St Mary’s Primary School, Fenton, 1.30pm. Tue: Visits St Anne’s Primary School, Streetly, 10.30am. Good Shepherd Mass, St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, 1.00pm. Wed: Council of Priests Meeting, St Mary’s College, Oscott, 10.30am. Thu: Visits St Joseph’s Primary School, Darlaston. Confirmations, St Joseph’s, Darlaston, 7.00pm. Fri: Visits St Chad’s Primary School, Sedgley, 2.00pm. Confirmations, St Chad’s, Sedgley, 7.00pm. Sat: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Bishop McKinney (Nottingham) Sun: Celebrates Mass, St Patrick & St Bridget, Clay Cross, 9.00am. Celebrates Mass, Christ the King, Alfreton, 10.30am. Diocesan Youth Service AGM, The Briars, Crich, 2.00pm. Mon: Confirmation, Sacred Heart, Leicester, 7.00pm. Tue: Regional Schools Commissioner and Headteachers Meeting, Diocesan Centre, Mackworth, 10.30am. Confirmation, Ss Peter and Paul, Swadlincote, 7.00pm. Wed: Attends Dinner and Talk, University of Nottingham, 6.30pm. Thu: Primary Heads Conference, Stoke Rochford Hall, 3.00pm. Confirmation, Our Lady of Good Counsel, Eastwood, 7.00pm. Fri: Visits St Clare’s Primary School, Coalville, 1.30pm. Sat: Mass and AGM Catholic Women’s League, St Mary & St Augustine, Stamford, 12 noon. Celebrates Mass, St Francis Convent Chapel, Melton Mowbray, 6.00pm. Bishop Malone (Liverpool) Sun: Confirmation and First Communion, St Mary, Woolton, 11.00am. Tue: Josephian Society Meeting, St Teresa, Upholland, 11.30am. Wed: Bishops Day of Recollection, Leeds, 11.00am. Thu: Mass of Thanksgiving on the Diamond Jubilee of Rev Laurence Mayne, St Oswald, Coppull, 6.30pm. Bishop Moth (Arundel and Brighton) Sun: Mass at St Dunstan’s, Woking, 11.00am. Crawley Deanery Confirmations, Worth Abbey, 3.00pm. Mon: Meetings, High Oaks, 2.00pm. Tue: Mass for the Diamond Jubliee of Sr Concepta at St Joseph’s Convent, Littlehampton, 11.00am. Presides and Preaches at Opening Mass of Exposition at St Ann’s, Banstead, 7.30pm. Wed: Safeguarding Commission Meeting, Dabcec, 10.00am. Meeting, High Oaks, 2.30pm. Mass at the Divine Motherhood and St Francis of Assisi Parish, Midhurst, 7.30pm. Thu: Meetings, High Oaks, 11.30am. Mass and Procession for Corpus Christi, Arundel Cathedral, 5.30pm. Fri: Visits St Wilfrid’s Primary School, Angmering, 1.00pm. Centenary Mass and Parish Celebration, Selsey, 6.00pm. Sat: Mass at Arundel Cathedral, 10.00am. Grandparents Day at West Grinstead. Meeting, High Oaks, 5.30pm. Bishop O’Toole (Plymouth) Sun: Celebrates Confirmation at St Margaret Mary Church, Plymstock, 10.00am. Attends service in honour of John Wesley at Wesley Cottage, Trewint, Cornwall, 4.00pm. Tue: Dorset Deanery Meeting, West Moors, Dorset, 11.00am. Wed: Leads Portsmouth Diocesan Clergy day on “Evangelisation in the Year of Mercy”, Marwell Hotel, Winchester, All Day. Thu: Bishop’s Council Meeting, St Boniface House, Buckfast, 11.00am. Diocesan Trustees Meeting, St Boniface House, Buckfast, 2.00pm. Fri: Celebrates Mass for the Diocesan Retired Clergy at St Mary & St Boniface Cathedral, Plymouth, 12.00 noon. Sat: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes, All Day. Bishop Sherrington (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Confirmation, Harrow School, 10.30am. Confirmation, Mary, Mother of God, Ponders End, 2.30pm. Mon: Attends talk by Bishop Philip Egan followed by Mass for the reception of the bones of St Thomas Beckett, Westminster Cathedral, 3.00pm. Tue: CAFOD Trustees meeting, Romero House, 10.00am. Diocesan Trustees Audit Committee, Archbishop’s House, 2.00pm. Wed: Council of Priests, Allen Hall, 11.00am. Confirmation, Mary Immaculate and St Gregory, Barnet, 7.30pm. Thu: Presides at funeral of Father Frederick de L’Orme, Westminster Cathedral, 11.00am. Fri: Celebrates Patronal Festival Mass for London Oratory School, London Oratory Church, 10.00am. Confirmation, St Francis de Sales, Tottenham, 7.00pm. Bishop Stock (Leeds) Sun: Mass and Parish Visitation, St Joseph, Martin Street, Brighouse, HD6 1DA, 11.00am. Tue: Individual Engagements, Bishop’s House, Leeds, 2.00pm. Sacrament of Confirmation, St Joseph, Pakington Street, Bradford, BD5 7LD, 7.30pm. Wed: Meeting with Vicar General, Bishop’s House, Leeds, 9.00am. Northern Bishops’ Meeting, Bishop’s House, Leeds, 10.30am. Board of Governors Meeting, Leeds Trinity University, Horsforth, Leeds, 6.30pm. Thu: Celebrating Mass for Secondary RE Advisors attending NBRIA Meeting, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 9.15am. Catholic Care Trustees’ Meeting, Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 11.00am. Individual Engagements, Bishop’s House, Leeds, 2.00pm. Sacrament of Confirmation, St Joseph, Queen’s Road, Keighley, BD21 1AT, 7.30pm. Fri: Meeting Member of Parliament for Bradford South, Bishop’s House, Leeds, 11.00am. Sat: Parish Visitation, Our Lady of Czestochowa, Fitzwilliam Street, Huddersfield, HD1 5BB. Bishop Williams (Brentwood) Sun: Pastoral Visitation & Confirmation, Leyton. Mon: Meetings, Cathedral House. Wed: Pastoral Visitation & Confirmation, Chadwell Heath. Thu: Meeting of Bishop’s Council, Cathedral House, 11.00am. Attends Diocesan Strategic Planning Group Meeting, Cathedral House, 7.30pm. Fri: Visits St Mary’s Primary School, Chingford, 1.30am. Meetings, Cathedral House, PM. Sat: Leads Diocesan Pilgrimage to Walsingham. Bishop Williams (Auxiliary Bishop in Liverpool) Sun: Confirmation, St Patrick, Southport, 10.30am. Mon: Celebrates Mass, Our Lady Immaculate School, Liverpool, 8.15am. Tue: Bishops Conference Healthcare Advisers Meeting, Liverpool Archdiocesan Centre for Evangelisation, 10.00am. Wed: Bishops Day of Recollection, Leeds, 11.00am. Retirement celebration for Pat Murphy, St Joseph’s Hospice, Thornton, 6.00pm. Thu: Merseyside Church Leaders Meeting, Archbishop’s House, 9.30am. Governors Meeting, Our Lady Immaculate School, Liverpool, 6.00pm. Fri: Confirmation, St Joseph, Penketh, 6.30pm. Sat: Archdiocesan Pilgrimage to Laydewell, 11.30am. Bishop Wilson (Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster) Sun: Celebration of Confirmation at Our Lady Queen of the Apostles, Heston, 11.00am. Tue: Safeguarding Training for Priests, 11.00am. Wed: Council of Priests, 11.00am. Celebration of Confirmation at Our Lady of Sorrows and St Bridget of Sweden, Isleworth, 7.00pm. Thu: Way of Mercy Walk at Cathedral, 1.45pm. Templeton Prize, 8.00pm. Fri: Symposium of St Thomas Beckett, 9.00am. Confirmation at St Ignatius of Loyola, Sunbury on Thames, 6.30pm. Sat: Youth Deanery Confirmation, 2.00pm. Celebration of Confirmation at Our Lady & St Joseph, Hanwell, 6.00pm. WALES Bishop Brignall (Wrexham) Sun to Fri: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. Bishop Burns (Menevia) Sun: Confirmations, Danygraig Parish, 10.30am. Mon: Visitation, St Albans Seminary, Valladolid. SCOTLAND Archbishop Cushley (St Andrews & Edinburgh) Sun: Diocesan Union of Catholic Mothers’ Mass, St Catharine’s Convent, Edinburgh, 2.00pm. Confirmations, St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, 5.45pm. Mon: Confirmations, St Mary’s, Stirling, 7.00pm. Tue: Confirmations, St Cuthbert’s, Edinburgh, 7.00pm. Wed: Church of Scotland General Assemby, Edinburgh. Evening of Mercy, St James’, St Andrews, 7.00pm. Thu: Church of Scotland General Assembly, Edinburgh. Beating Retreat, Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, 6.00pm. Fri: World Youth Day fundraising evening, Gillis Centre, Edinburgh, 7.00pm. This listing was compiled by The Universe Media Group Ltd and also appears in the Universe and Catholic Times
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