A Solemn Mass celebrated by Cardinal Vincent Nichols on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady rounded off a year of Jubilee celebrations marking 175 years since the famous London church was opened by the Jesuits in Britain.
The special Mass at Farm Street Church on 9 December included music by composers Luca Uggias, Christopher Walker and Eric Thiman, and was accompanied by a trumpet concerto (Vivaldi’s only solo work to include brass instruments) and a choir singing hymns.
“This was a wonderful celebration of thanksgiving for all that Farm Street has been about throughout 175 years as a place of welcome and oasis of prayer in the centre of the city,” says Fr Dominic Robinson SJ, the parish priest at Farm Street Church.
