The Little Oratory: Serving List November 2011

Saturday, 5 November 2011

Serving List November 2011

Sunday 6th November

9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:

Hans Coessens & Richard McCarthy

11.00a.m. High Mass:

James Godwin; Francis Carey; Dominic Bardill & Bernard Diver

3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:

James Cross; Oliver McCarthy; James Godwin & Jean Leger

Friday 11th November

6.00p.m. High Mass of Requiem for Deceased Fathers and Brothers of the Oratory:

F. Rupert & James Cross; Pat Roberts; Mike Frost & Jean Leger

Sunday 13th November

9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:

F. Rupert's boy servers

11.00a.m. High Mass:

Anthony Jeffery & St. Philip's Schoolboys

3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:

James Cross; Richard McCarthy; Mike Frost & Hans Coessens

Sunday 20th November

9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:

James Godwin & Timothy Ashurst

11.00a.m. High Mass:

James Cross; Pat Roberts; Mike Frost & Philip Benzinski

3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:

James Cross; James Godwin; Mike Frost; Oliver McCarthy & Mike Frost

Sunday 27th November

9.00a.m. Old Rite Low Mass:

Oliver McCarthy & Richard McCarthy

11.00a.m. High Mass:

James Godwin; Mike Frost; Jean Leger & Dominic Bardill

3.30p.m. Solemn Vespers & Benediction:

James Cross; James Godwin; Richard McCarthy & Mike Frost

A blog for those who make up the Little Oratory in London. This blog serves the purpose of notifying Brothers of upcoming events at the Oratory.

The Little Oratory is a group of men with the status of a confraternity. The first Little Oratory was formed by St. Philip Neri, and was made up of young men who went to Confession to him at the church of San Girolamo in Rome. They would meet in his room there for prayer and recreation, and for daily Mass and Confession. They visited the hospitals daily, and took the Discipline several times a week. They also made the pilgrimage of the Seven Churches together, especially at Carnival time, and their devout and recollected demeanour converted many.

The Brothers of the Little Oratory in London meet every Sunday at 4.30pm in the Little Oratory, for Spiritual Exercises and then tea in St Wilfrid's Hall.

"Look down from Heaven, Holy Father, from the loftiness of that mountain to the lowliness of this valley; from that harbour of quietness and tranquillity to this calamitous sea. And now that the darkness of this world hinders no more those benignant eyes of thine from looking clearly into all things, look down and visit, O most diligent keeper, that vineyard which thy right hand planted with so much labour, anxiety and peril. To thee, then, we fly; from thee we seek for aid; to thee we give our whole selves unreservedly; thee we adopt for our patron and defender. Undertake the cause of our Salvation, protect thy clients; to thee we appeal as our leader: rule thine army fighting against the assaults of the devil; to thee, kindest of rulers, we give up the rudder of our lives; steer this little ship of thine, and, placed as thou art on high, keep us off all the rocks of evil desires, that with thee for our Pilot and our Guide, we may safely come to the port of eternal bliss. Amen."