October 2 to October 8
Archbishop Nichols (Westminster) Sun: CONSILIUM CONFERENTIARUM EPISCOPORUM EUROPAE CCEE, Tirana, Albania.
Archbishop Kelly (Liverpool) Mon Tue: Visits to Roman Curia. Wed Sat: Leads Retreat for Venerable English College Sudents. Rome.
Archbishop Longley (Birmingham) Tue: Chapter Mass, St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, 12.15pm; Walsall Deanery Vocations Mass, St Mary’s, Wednesbury, 7pm. Wed: Clergy Ongoing Formation Day, Oscott College, 10.30am; Birmingham Faith Leaders Meeting, Central Mosque, Birmingham, 7.30pm. Thu: Maryvale Trustees Meeting, Maryvale Institute, 2pm; Birmingham South Deanery Parish Visitations Opening Meeting and Mass, 7pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, Birmingham, 9.30am; Consecration of Our Lady and St Kenelm Church, Halesowen, 7pm.
Archbishop Smith (Southwark) Tue: Bishops’ Conference and Italian Chamber of Commerce Reception, Archbishop’s House, 6pm. Wed: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, 10.30am; Education Executive Committee, Archbishop’s House, 2pm. Thu: Diocesan Headteachers’ Conference, Ashford, noon. Fri: Mass for End of Year of Education, Westminster Cathedral, 1pm. Sat: Anniversary Mass, Wimbledon Common, 6pm.
Bishop Arnold (Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster) Sun: Attends Choral Matins at Temple Church and preaches for opening of the Legal Year, Temple, 11.15am; Celebrates Mass for Deaf Community, Cathedral Hall, 4pm. Mon: Attends Red Mass, Westminster Cathedral, 9.30am. Thu: Attends Cardinal Hume Centre
Reception, Cathedral Hall, 7pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council meeting, 9.30am. Fri Sat: Attends CAFOD Trustees weekend, from 6.30pm.
Bishop Brain (Salford) Sun: Celebration of Mass, Catholic Fellowship for the Handicapped, Our Lady’s, Langley, 3pm. Tue: Caritas Diocese of Salford AGM, Cathedral Centre, 10.30am; Celebration of Mass, St Francis, Gorton, 7.30pm. Wed: Chapter Meeting and Celebration of Mass, Cathedral Church of St John the Evangelist, Salford, 11am/ Thu: AGM Safeguarding Commission, Cathedral Centre, 7pm. Fri: Meeting of Greater Manchester Churches Together, Wardley Hall, 11am.
Bishop Budd (Plymouth) Sun: Visitation, St Joseph’s Parish, Newton Abbott. Tue: Enabling Group Meeting, Bishop’s House, 10am. Wed: Church Leaders Meeting, Bishop’s House, 11am. Thu Fri: Bio-ethics meeting, Oxford. Sat: Diaconate Ordination, Cathedral, 3pm.
Bishop Campbell (Lancaster) Sun: Visitation, St Nicholas Owen, Thorntonle-Flyde; Preside at Rosary, Vespers & Benediction for Feast of Dedication of Cathedral, 4pm. Thu: Mass for Diamond Jubilee of Austin Friars School, Carlisle, 2.30pm; Confirmation, Our Lady, St Annes on Sea, 7pm. Fri: Lancashire Church Leaders’ meeting with Archbishop Sentamu, Preston, 6pm. Sat: Meet with UCM, Cathedral Social Centre, 11am.
Bishop Conry (Arundel & Brighton) Sun: Induction Mass for Angela O’Hara as Head Teacher of St Wilfrid’s School, Burgess Hill, St Wilfrid’s Church, Burgess Hill, 9.30am; Mass for Youthgather, The Towers, Upper Beeding, 11.15am. Mon: St Andrews Secondary School, Leatherhead, 9am; Inaugural
Mass for Catholic Women’s League, Bexhill, 7.30pm. Wed: Good Shepherd Celebration, Worth Abbey, 11am. Thu: Mass to Celebrate Centenary of St Joseph’s School, Haywards Heath, 9.30am; Diocesan Jubilee Meeting, Dabcec, 2.30pm. Fri Sat: Cafod, Leeds.
Bishop Cunningham (Hexham and Newcastle) Sun: Mass for Visitation, St Thomas More, Hartlepool, 9.30am, Tue: Visiting Priests of Deanery 11. We: Strategy Group Meeting, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Penshaw, 5.30pm. Thu: Meetings, Bishop’s House. Fri: Episcopal Council and Trustees Meeting, Bishop’s House, 9.30am; Confirmations, St Mary’s, Forest Hall, 7pm. Sat: Mass, St Mary’s Cathedral for Diocesan Altar Servers, 11am; Mass, St Patrick’s, Langley Moor for closing of 100th Anniversary celebrations, 5pm.
Bishop Davies (Shrewsbury) Sun: Pastoral Visitation to Our Lady’s and St Augustine’s, Runcorn; Masses, St Augustine’s, 9am, Our Lady’s, 10.30am; Benediction in honour of St Therese, Carmelite Monastery, Birkenhead, 3pm. Wed: Pastoral Visit to Our Lady’s Catholic Primary School, Runcorn, 10am. Sat: Mass for the Feast of Blessed John Henry Newman, Birmingham Oratory, 11am.
Bishop Doyle (Northampton) Mon: Northampton South & West Pastoral Area Council, Hunsbury, 7.30pm. Tue: North Northants Pastoral Area Council, Kettering, 11am. Wed: Clergy Day, Holy Ghost, Luton; New Starters Year 7 Mass, Cardinal Newman School, Luton, 7pm. Thu: NBRIA Executive, London, 11am; Slough Pastoral Area Council, Holy Family, Langley, 7pm. Fri: College of Consultors, Bishops House, 11am; Confirmation, St Mary’s, Dunstable, 7.30pm. Sat: Altar Servers’ Mass, Northampton Cathedral, 1pm.
Bishop Drainey (Middlesbrough) Sun: Parish Visitation, St Clare of Assisi, Middlesborough, celebrates mass, 9.30am, celebrates baptism, 11am. Tue: Blessing of new extension, St George’s
School, Scarborough, 10am, Celebrates Education Mass, St Wilfrid’s York, 7pm. Wed: Bishop’s Council, Curial Office, 11am. Thu: All Day Meeting, Burn Hall. Sat: Diocesan Pilgrimage to Walsingham.
Bishop Hendricks (Auxiliary in Southwark) Sun: Parish Visitation, Roehampton. Tue: Mass, St Joseph’s School, Surrey Docks, 11am; Catholic Association Trustees’ Meeting, London, 6.30pm. Wed: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, 10.30am; Education Executive, London, 2pm. Thu Fri: Diocesan Headteachers’ Conference, Ashford. Sat: Extraordinary Ministers’ Day, St George’s Cathedral, 10.30am.
Bishop Hine (Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark) Sun: Attends Justice & Peace meeting, The Hermitage, West Malling, 2pm. Mon: Chairs Kent Dean meeting, The Hermitage, West Malling, 10.30am. Wed: Attends Archbishop’s Council meeting, Archbishop’s House, Southwark, 10.30am; Attends Education Executive Committee meeting, London, 2pm. Thu: Head Teacher’s Conference, Ashford International Hotel, 12 noon. Sat: Attends Graduation of Marriage & Family Life, Archbishop’s House, Southwark, noon; Induction Mass of new Parish Priest, St Dunstan church, Hersden near Canterbury, 5.30pm.
Bishop Hopes (Westminster) Mon: Engagements, Archbishop’s House; Chairs meeting of the Committee for the Welfare of Sick and Retired Priests, Archbishop’s House, 2pm. Tue: Visit to Wood Green Crown Court. Wed: Attends Liturgy Day meeting for School Leaders, Vaughan House, 12.30pm. Thu: Engagements, Archbishop’s House; visit to the Antioch Community, Acton, 1pm; Concelebrates Mass, Westminster Cathedral, 5.30pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council meeting, Archbishop’s House, 9.30am; Chairs meeting of the London Ethnic Chaplains’ Group, Archbishop’s HOuse, 2pm; Presides at Mass, Cathedral Hall, 8pm. Sat: Pastoral Visitation, St Michael’s Church, Ashford. Bishop Kenney (Birmingham) Sun Thu: Leads Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Thu: Returns from Diocesan Pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, Birmingham, 9.30am. Sat: Requiem Mass for Burial of Saxon Remains, Bicester, 11am.
Bishop Lang (Clifton) Tue: Confirmation, Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Charlton Kings, Cheltenham, 7pm. Wed: Staffing committee, Bristol, 10am; Confirmation, Our Lady of the Rosary, Lawrence Weston, Bristol, 7pm. Sat: Diocesan Pastoral Council, St Bede’s Catholic College, Lawrence Weston, Bristol, 10.30am; Induction of Father David Ryan as Parish Priest, St John the Evangelist, Bath, 5.45pm.
Bishop Lynch (Auxiliary in Southwark) Sun: Induction of Headteacher, La Retraite, St Bede’s, Clapham Park, noon. Mon Tue: Meeting with Justice and Peace Commission on the Issue of Trafficking, Rome. Wed: Archbishop’s Council, Archbishop’s House, 10.30am; Education Executive Committee, 2pm. Thu Fri: Diocesan Headteachers’ Conference, Ashford.
Bishop McGough (Birmingham) Sun: Celebrates Mass, St Mary’s, Uttoxeter, 9.30am. Mon: Interviews, Wolverhampton University Chaplaincy, 9am. Tue: Chapter Meeting, Cathedral House, Birmingham, 11am; Chapter Mass, St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, 12.15pm. Wed: Clergy Ongoing Formation Day, Oscott College, 10.30am. Thu: Induction of Parish Priest, St Mary of the Angels, Aldridge, 7.30pm. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, Birmingham, 9.30am; Mass and Book Launch, St Dominic’s, Stone, 6pm.
Bishop McMahon (Nottingham) Sun: Ordination to the Priesthood of Rev Marcus Wakely, St Barnabas Cathedral, 10pm; Briars Trustees AGM, Crich, 2pm; Deanery Youth Mass, Church of the Assumption, Beeston, 5pm. Mon: Visits the Convent
of the Poor Clares, Crossbush, Arundel. Wed-Sat: Leads Diocesan Pilgrimage to Jordan and Petra.
Bishop Malone (Liverpool) Sun Thu: Clergy In-service, Hothorpe Hall. Sat: Notre Dame Training College Reunion, Liverpool Hope, University, 11.30am.
Bishop Moth (Bishop of the Forces) Sun Sat: Leading a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Bishop Pargeter (Birmingham) Thu: Golden Jubilee Celebrations, St Elizabeth’s, Scarisbrick, 11am. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, Archbishop’s House, Birmingham, 9.30am.
Bishop Rawsthorne (Hallam) Sun: CTSY Autumn Forum, Victoria Hall, Sheffield, 3pm. Mon: Rainbows Trustees Event, Pastoral Centre, 11.30am. Tue: Elections, Monastery of the Holy Spirit, Kirk Edge, 8am. Wed: Rainbows Management Meeting, Pastoral Centre, 10am; Committee for Mission and Unity, Pastoral Centre, 2.15pm. Fri Sat: CAFOD Residential meeting, Leeds.
Bishop Roche (Leeds) Sun: Visitation Mass, St Mary and St Monica, Cottingley, 9.30am; Visitation Mass, Sacred Heart, Bingley, 11am. Mon: Batley Torchlight Procession, St Mary’s, Batley, 7pm. Tue: Visitation, Our Lady and St Francis Primary School, Bradford, 10am. Wed: Opening of new Foundation Unit St Wilfrid’s School, Ripon, 10.30am. Thu: Mass, Diocesan Headteachers, Leeds Cathedral, 10am.
Bishop Sherrington (Auxiliary in Westminster) Sun: Open new presbytery and parish offices, SS Mary and Joseph, Hemel Hempstead, 2.45pm. Wed: Give welcome at ‘Praying the Mass’, inset for primary and secondary years, Vaughan House, 9.30am. Fri: Archbishop’s Council Meeting, 9.30am; Mass to conclude the Year of Catholic Education and launch Olympic Truce for 2012, Westminster Cathedral, 1.45pm.
Bishop Williams (Liverpool) Sun: Visitation Mass, St John, Wigan, 11am; Mass for people with disabilities, Metro
politan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool, 3pm. Tue: Confirmation, St Mary, Magdalen, Penwortham, 7.30pm. Wed: Healthcare Meeting, Liverpool, 2pm; Confirmation, St Teresa, Penwortham, 7.30pm. Thu: Attends 50th anniversary celebration, Ormsby’s, Scarisbrick, 10am; Confirmation, Holy Rosary, Aintree Village, 7.30pm. Fri: Confirmation, St Oswald, Longton, 7pm. Sat: Visitation Mass, St Aidan, Winstanley, Wigan, 6pm.
WALES
Archbishop Stack (Cardiff) Sun: 150th Anniversary of St Peters, Cardiff. Mon: Parish Visits, St Mary’s, Dinas Powys and St Joseph’s, Penarth. Tue: Poor Clares, Hereford. Wed: Parish Visits, St Teilo’s, Our Lady of Lourdes and St Patrick’s, Cardiff. Thu: Year 7 Welcome Mass, Cardinal Newman School; Annual Schools Mass, Mary Immaculate High School. Fri: Year 7 Welcome Mass, Mary Immaculate High School; Missionaries of Charity, Merthyr Tydfil.
Bishop Burns (Menevia) Sun Sat: St Luke’s Board Meetings and Book Launch, Washington DC.
Bishop Regan (Wrexham) Mon Fri: Lourdes.
SCOTLAND
Cardinal O’Brien (St Andrew’s & Edinburgh) Mon: Abbatial Blessing of Abbot Anselm Atkinson, Pluscarden Abbey, 11.30am. Tue: Assembly of Priests, Gillis Centre, 3pm. Fri: Meeting of Scottish Church Leaders, Scottish Churches House, Dunblane, 10am; Meeting regarding Fabric and Planning, St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, 3pm. Sat: Meeting and meal with Fort Augustus Former Pupils, Holiday Inn, Glasgow, 7pm.
This listing was compiled by Gabriel Communications Ltd and also appears in the Universe and Catholic Times