The Catholic Church Of The Holy Name Of Jesus

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The Catholic Church Of The Holy Name Of Jesus

The Catholic Church of The Holy Name of Jesus

Oxford Road, Manchester, England

Mass Times:

Sundays: 7.30am, 11.00am (Solemn Sung) & 4.00pm (Latin Tridentine)

Weekdays: Monday - Friday
7:00am & 5.15pm

Saturdays:
11.00am (only Mass on Saturday)

Latest News From The Holy Name Church

Solemnity of St Joseph

Friday 19th March Solemnity of St Joseph   Sung Mass - 5.15pm

Holy Week 2010

 Times of Masses, Services and Confessions   Sunday 28th March - Palm Sunday 7.30am - Mass 11am - Solemn Mass           Blessing of Palms           Procession           Singing of the Passion 4pm Mass (Extraordinary Form)    Thursday 1st April - Maundy Thursday 12noon - 1pm Confessions (no Adoration and Benediction) 4.30pm - 5.30pm Confessions 6pm - Mass of the Lord’s Supper           Procession to the Altar of Repose           Stripping of [...]

Bishop Mark Davies

Ordination of Bishop Mark Davies Monday 22nd February- Feast of the Chair of Peter   Ad Multos Annos   Bishop Davies, Co-Adjutor Bishop of Shrewsbury, was Secretary to Bishop Kelly at the beginning of the Oratorian venture at the Holy Name. At the outset and throughout our 18 years here he has been particularly supportive of our work. We offer our prayers for him as he takes [...]

Lent Talks

Spirituality and the Fathers of the Church   In this series of talks and reflections we will see how various ways of spirituality developed in the first 500 years of the Church. It was a time of persecution and growth, as well as the era when doctrines about the person of Christ were debated and settled, and sacramental and monastic life consolidated. We will [...]

Stations of the Cross

Stations of the Cross       Every Friday in Lent  5.45pm  

Blessed Sebastian Valfrè

Bl. Sebastian Valfrè (1629-1710) Priest of the Turin Oratory   Saturday 30th January Third Centenary of his Entrance into Heaven   In the year that we look forward to the beatification of John Henry Newman, we celebrate the third centenary of the first of St Philip’s sons to be raised to the altars, Bl. Sebastian Valfrè of the Turin Congregation. This [...]

Newman on Assenting to Mysteries

Some Help in Assenting to Mysteries of Faith from John Henry Newman’s   An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870)     Sunday by Sunday Christians solemnly declare, “I believe in one God”, and a whole set of dogmatic statements which follow from that. The grounds for this statement of faith seems radically inconsistent with the grounds we have for [...]

Galileo and the Oratory: Science and Faith

Come si vadia al cielo, e non come vadia il cielo How to go to Heaven: not how the heavens go It seems a fight that has been going on for centuries; science in the blue corner of the ring and religion in the red corner, and the crowd cheering for their man and booing the opponent. [...]

New Statue of St Philip

Statue of St Philip Neri   We have been extremely fortunate to have received a beautiful statue of St Philip. It is from the old church of our Lady St Mary and St Philip, Radcliffe in north Manchester. Fr Manock, the parish priest, has built a new church, with a new shrine to St Philip, and he has generously given [...]

Beatification of Cardinal Newman

Beatification of John Henry, Cardinal Newman of the Oratory   The Holy Father, Benedict XVI, has formally approved a miracle granted by God at the the intercession of the Ven. John Henry Newman. Deacon Jack Sullivan, from Boston, USA,was healed from a serious debility of the spine after asking the intercession of Cardinal Newman in 2001. “The prayers of Christ’s faithful all [...]



The History And Design Of The Catholic Church Of The Holy Name Of Jesus

 

Holy Name Of Jesus In the sixteenth century the Spanish saint, Ignatius of Loyola founded an order called the Society of Jesus or Jesuits, who were a powerful force for the reform of the Catholic Church. They often built large churches in cities where their influence could be effective through preaching, the confessional and parochial work. They were invited to come to Manchester by the Bishop of Salford, Rt. Rev. William Turner in the late 1860’s. The foundation stone of the Holy Name was laid in 1869 and the church opened on 15th October, 1871.

The architect was a favourite of the Jesuits, Joseph Aloysius Hansom, the inventor of the cab that bears his name. The church he designed is 14th century French Gothic in style, but the plan is typical of a Jesuit city church – a broad nave, prominent pulpit and a short sanctuary with the altar near and in full view of the congregation. It is 186ft. from east to west, 112ft. from north to south and 100ft. from the floor to the inside of the vault.

The structure is brick faced inside with moulded terracotta and outside with Warwick Bridge stone. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner in his introduction to the ‘South Lancashire’ volume of his ‘Buildings of England’ series wrote that the Holy Name ‘is a design of the very highest quality and of an originality nowhere demonstrative…….Hansom never again did so marvellous a church.’

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