In addition to the usual pattern of Masses in Oxford this coming Sunday there are two others for Pentecost which might - indeed should - interest anyone with an appreciation of liturgy who is free to attend.
On Saturday evening to mark their patronal feast the priory of the Holy Spirit of Oxford Blackfriars are again celebrating the Vigil of Pentecost. This is a liturgy they have re-established in recent years as a novus ordo version of the traditional practice. It begins at 9 pm and consists of First Vespers, the Vigil readings and Office of Readings culminating in the First Mass of Pentecost.
On Sunday there will there will be a Sung Mass in
the Extraordinary Form at 12 noon at the church of SS Gregory and Augustine in Woodstock Road.
The parish currently has the largest number of regular
Masses in the Traditional form, and indeed the longest recent history of
advertised public celebration of them, of any parish in a very wide
radius. It has every Wednesday and Friday Masses offered in this at form 6 pm, as well as sung or solemn celebrations on days such as Ascension and Corpus Christi.
The Oxford Oratory will have Solemn Vespers of Pentecost at 5.30pm that evening - a three cope occasion.
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