- Brothers of St Philip - Sunday Programme for Spring
Brothers of St Philip meet before the Solemn Mass on these Sundays
for Prayer, Reading and Meditation
Spring Programme based on the
Spring Sermons of the Bl John Henry Newman from 1838
Sunday 5th February
9.45am Rosary in the Newman Chapel
10am Conference on Sermon Faith and Love
Sunday 19th February
9.45am Rosary in the Newman Chapel
10am Conference on Sermon Fasting a Source of [...]
- Candlemas
Thursday 2nd February
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
Feast of the Purification of Our Lady
Candlemas
Blessing of Candles, Procession,
Solemn Mass at 5.15pm
Rheinberger: Mass in Eb Major for Two Choirs -’Cantus Missae’ 1878
- Fr Gregory Winterton - RIP
Of Your Charity
Pray for the Repose of the Soul of
Fr Gregory Winterton
Priest of the Birmingham Oratory
who died on the morning of 18th January
Prayer of the Bl John Henry Newman
May He support us all the day long,
till the shades lengthen and the evening comes,
and the busy world is hushed,
and the fever of life is over,
and our [...]
- The Holy Name of Jesus
The Holy Name of Jesus
In the middle of the Christmas Cycle, between the Nativity and the Epiphany, the Church celebrates the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. In this we recall the eighth day after his birth when the Lord’s parents brought him to be circumcised and given the name announced by Gabriel to Mary, “His [...]
- Old Pictures of the Holy Name
Old Pictures of the Holy Name
As they come to light, old pictures of the church and area will be put up here. If you have any old pictures of Holy Name buildings, worshippers and parishioners, priests and religious, the liturgy and services, guilds, clubs, societies and schools (or anything else!), then please let Fr Christopher know so we [...]
- New Oratory at Dijon
Some of the Community of the Dijon Oratory in the Roman Catacomb where St Philip received the gift of the Holy Spirit
A new family of St Philip has been established at Dijon on 15th July 2011, by a rescript of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
The new Community was founded from the [...]
- The Spirituality of St Philip 9: Obedience
The Spirituality of St Philip
Obedience
Obedience is the only law imposed by God for the universal ordering of all things and for their conservation (Istruzione per Esercizi, p.85). The cosmos obeys the divine order. Man, to give greater glory to God, is called to obey in total freedom.
There is no greater expression of freedom than following [...]
- The Spirituality of St Philip 8: Chastity
The Spirituality of St Philip
Chastity
“Chastity is mentioned by St Paul as being one of the fruits of the Spirit. Chastity ought to be lived as the freedom of the heart, in a total giving of oneself to the Lord; not as a rejection of a human reality that was willed by God and sanctified by [...]
- The Spirituality of St Philip 7: Work
The Spirituality of St Philip
Work
This is the most important means of practicing poverty in the Oratory. The members of the Congregation live by their own work, “miliant propriis stipendiis,” they live off their own incomes (General Constitutions n. 102).
Even work becomes a means of sanctification when it is understood as a way to fulfil the will [...]
- The Spirituality of St Philip 6: Poverty
The Spirituality of St Philip
Poverty
Jesus warns, “…whoever of you does not renounce all that he has he cannot be my disciple” (Luke 14.33).
Detachment from the things of this world and poverty are like the travelling companions of the other virtues. St Philip always showed great freedom from, and indifference to, worldly possessions and an unconditional [...]
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.’
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.