Medals seen in the wild: in Switzerland!

Two members of the Society of St Tarcisius served a First Mass of a newly ordained priest of the Fraternity of St Peter, Fr Andreas Brem, in Switzerland. The young men are in fact the priest's nephews.

The ordination had taken place at the Abbey of Ottobeuren, with nine other FSSP seminarians.

June server training and enrollments

Today we had the largest number of trainees we have ever had, at 22. I was actually too busy to take

photos, though I did get one of the enrollment, of three new members, including a father and son. The son became a Junior MC, while the father was enrolled as a Junior Acolyte.

The training took place in St Mary Moorfields, and the enrollments were done by the parish priest Fr Christopher Vipers.

We will announce new dates for training days as soon as possible.

Mass to be celebrated for the Society of St Tarcisius

 The feast-day of St Tarcisius coincides with the Assumption, 14th August.

This year, the Vigil of the Assumption falls on a Monday, and the regular Monday evening Sung Mass (organised by the Latin Mass Society) on that day will be celebrated for the intentions of the Society.

Mass on 14th August, Vigil of the Assumption, Corpus Christi Maiden Lane, 6:30pm.

(Photos: Masses at Corpus Christi.)

February Server Training and Enrollments

Thanks very much to our instructors and to Fr Michael Cullinan who enrolled the four new members. Two others were promoted.

The previous weekend nine enrolments and three promotions had taken place at St Bede's, Clapham Park, done by Fr Marcus Holden the Parish Priest. Congratulations to all our new members!

Servers' Dialogue videos

The Latin Mass Society is pleased to present this set of short videos giving the texts with which those learning to serve the Traditional Mass need to familiarise themselves, setting the written text alongside an audio recording. 

The Collect, Epistle, and Gospel used are taken from the Votive Mass of Our Lady used 'per annum.' 

In these videos the texts are said as slowly and distinctively as possible, to assist servers and others unsure of the principles of Ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation. In Mass these texts should be said in a more flowing way. 

The texts are taken from parts of the Mass where the server has to make responses; there are separate videos for different parts of the Mass. Links to all the videos can be found under the Resources tab here.

We would like to thank Fr John Saward, Priest in Charge of SS Gregory & Augustine's for his assistance with these. The responses were made by Joseph Shaw, Chairman of the Latin Mass Society.

 

Server Training Dates for 2023

Enrollments into the Society of St Tarcisius in St Mary Moorfields, Nov 2022

We are delighted to announce three server training dates for 2023.

All these events are accompanied by vestment-mending days with the Guild of St Clare: see their website.

Saturday 18th February, in St Mary Moorfields, 10am for 10:30 (on the venue; booking page)

Saturday 22nd April in St Dominic’s Haverstock Hill, 10:30 for 11am (on the venue; booking page)

Saturday 17th June , in St Mary Moorfields, 10am for 10:30 (on the venue; booking page)

Please book online! There is no charge.

Server Training at St Mary Moorfields

Ten trainee servers came to St Mary Moorfields for our training day, with four instructors, at the end of which Fr John Scott of Westminster Cathedral enrolled six new members into the Society of St Tarcisius.

As usual the Guild of St Clare had vestment-mending in the basement at the same time. Vreni Windsor, who attended, is the head of the London Chapter of the Guild, and also mother of one of the instructors and three of the new members.