By the time this edition goes to press we will have had our first Mass of the year at Sizergh Castle which, deo volente, Canon John Watson will have kindly travelled from Workington to offer for us. The next scheduled Mass will be on Friday 14 June at 7 pm, but this is dependent on priest availability, so please check the website or phone us before travelling. A Traditional Latin Mass was sung at Lanercost Priory near Brampton in Cumbria on Saturday 23 March, with the kind permission of the Anglican authorities and Bishop Paul Swarbrick. The celebrant was Canon Scott Tanner, ICKSP from St Walburge's in Preston, with Charles Jordan as MC and Nicholas and George Steven serving as acolytes. This was a very beautiful Missa Cantata with the Brampton Consort (leader Simon Mortimer) singing the Byrd Four Part Mass and the propers sung by a local Schola (leader Andrew Plasom-Scott). The Schola also sang Parson's Ave Maria at the Offertory and Byrd's Ave Verum and Tallis's O Sacrum Convivium as Communion motets. Lanercost Priory was an Augustinian foundation from 1169, dissolved in 1538 and subsequently ruined but the nave of the former Priory Church, re-roofed in 1747, was the setting for this beautiful Missa Cantata, probably the first Traditional Latin Mass since the Reformation. Mass was offered for the living and deceased members of the Steven family (on the occasion of Lucy Steven's 25th, Edward Steven's 26th, William Steven's 30th and Nicholas Steven's 70th birthdays) Thank you to Jonathan Steven for this report.
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