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

Early Image of St Philip from 1622

This is one of the oldest images of St Philip, painted in the year of his canonisation, 1622. His reputation for sanctity had spread all over the Catholic world, and the Congregation of the Oratory had begun to grow. Here we have a lifesize fresco in the Church of San Carlo Borromeo at Forio, on the Island of Ischia, in the Bay [...]

Texts and Prayers for the Feast of John Henry Newman

In preparation for the beatification of John Henry Newman by the Holy Father on 19th September, the Congregation for Divine Worship has issued the texts for the Divine Office of the feast. The reading is taken from the ‘Apologia pro Vita Sua’, which poignantly records his life up to the time of the reception into [...]

St Luigi Scrosoppi - Patron of those suffering with AIDS

St Luigi Scrosoppi of the Oratory John Paul II canonised St Luigi Scrosoppi on 10th June 2001, and named him patron saint of those suffering with AIDS. It was at the intercession of St Luigi that an Zambian man, now Fr Peter Changu Shitima, was miraculously cured of AIDS in 1996. He was at that time a member [...]

Festa di San Vito a Forio

Feast of St Vitus at Forio Tuesday 15th June The Silver and Gold Statue of the Saint (with his faithful Border Terrier at his side)   The procession of the relic and image around the parish (in 5 parts) http://www.ischiareporter.it/?p=3845 Buona Festa!

Friendship of Saints

St Philip Neri and St Ignatius Loyola  At the west of the Holy Name, facing each other across the breadth of the church, are the statues of St Philip Neri and St Ignatius Loyola. These images that answer each other in the architectural space show not only great saints of the Counter Reformation, the founders of great Religious [...]

St Philip and the Priesthood

Saint Philip Neri and the Priesthood Fr Frederick Miller   Since his canonization in 1622, Saint Philip Neri has been considered a model of priestly life and holiness among the clergy of Italy. One might say that Saint Philip has there the popularity [...]

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 [...]



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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