Archbishop Bernard Longley will celebrate Pontifical High Mass at the Birmingham Oratory at 7pm on 18 October following the canonisation of Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman in Rome a few days before. A relatively quiet quarter saw High Masses at the Birmingham Oratory for the Ascension and Corpus Christi Thursday, with Sung Masses at the usual times for the Sacred Heart and SS Peter and Paul. Low Masses were also celebrated on these days at St Mary on the Hill in Wednesbury, as well as several other feast days, including the patronal feast day of Our Lady Help of Christians in addition to the monthly third Sunday Mass. There was a votive High Mass of the Precious Blood at Our Lady of Perpetual Succour in Wolverhampton on the 12 of July, which, along with the annual Novena, was the only break in the Friday Low Mass schedule. The long-awaited renovations at St Dunstan’s in Kings Heath have finally started, which include returning the tabernacle to the centre of the church from the Adoration chapel, a more centralised altar from which Mass can be celebrated ad orientem and the installation of altar rails. The church will be closed until November, and the third Friday Mass will take place in the community centre until then.
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