Next Latin Mass for Good Counsel 9th July

It was very nice on the feast of the Sacred Heart to see Fr Patrick Hayward so happy with the large turnout for our Mass at Corpus Christi.
On the second Friday of every month the Latin Mass Society organises Mass, in the Old Form of the Latin Rite, for The Good Counsel Network at Corpus Christi Church, Maiden Lane, Central London at 6.30pm. It is normally a Low Mass celebrated by Fr Haywood with a dozen or so of the faithful making up the small congregation.
As the second Friday of June was the feast of the Sacred Heart we had a sung Mass with a congregation 5 or 6 times the norm.
Fr Hayward who faithfully celebrates this Mass every month said that he hoped that they could all come next month and continue to do so.
As the second Friday of July, - the 9th July - is the feast of Sts John Fisher and Thomas More we will have another Sung Mass. Please attend if you can.

Stuart McCullough

On the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Friday 11th June marked the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and was also the day chosen by Pope Benedict to end the Year for Priests.
The Sacred Heart of Jesus embodies the heart of our Catholic faith. God shared our humanity in His Son, Jesus Christ. Our Lord suffered enormously during His earthly life. He took on our wounds and sins upon Himself, whilst remaining sinless, and died a most horrendous barbaric death on the cross, and rose from death three days later.

We are all sinners, wounded and broken, and yet Our Lord's death on the cross, and His defeat of death through His Resurrection, shows us His infinite love for us. God desires above all that we trust in His love and mercy for us, that despite our brokeness, our sins and wounds, inflicted by others and by ourselves, He will purify us and save us.

Confession, or also known as the Sacrament of Reconciliation is an invitation for us all to confess our brokeness, our sins and above all our inability to strive for holiness alone. Through confession, God embraces us with His infinite mercy. God loves us so much and His love is unconditional. No sin is to big for Him, even the sin of abortion. God takes away all feelings of guilt, hurt, betrayal, shame and fear, through this wonderful Sacrament. The slate is wiped clean, though our sins be as scarlet they shall be whiter than snow.

As it said in the Communion Rite on the Feast of the Sacred Heart:

"The Lord says: If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me: whoever believes in me, let him drink, streams of living water shall flow out from within him. " (John 7: 37-38)

Let us take great courage and hope from Our Lord's words. He loves us so much. His Sacred Heart desires all of us to be saved.Our mother, whose feast day was Saturday 12th June,the "Immaculate Heart of Mary", will draw us ever closer to her Sons Sacred Heart so that we will have "streams of living water flowing from within us" and Our Lord through his Holy Spirit will draw all of mankind to Himself.

James Coulborn

Feast of the Sacred Heart, Mass and Act of Consecration London Friday 11th June

Feast of the Sacred Heart. On Friday 11th June 6.30pm at Corpus Christi Church Maiden Lane, London. A Sung Mass in the old form of the Roman Rite has been organised for the Good Counsel Network by the Latin Mass Society and will include a Consecration of the World to the Sacred Heart.