- Patron Saint of Football at the Holy Name
The Patron Saint of Football
Manchester is certainly the City of Football, and whichever colour you support, it is part of what makes up the life of the city.
Towards the back of our church, near St Philip’s statue, there is an image of the Patron Saint of Football - another Oratorian, St Luigi Scrosoppi.
He was a member of the Oratory [...]
- Newman Circle - Summer Programme
Newman Circle - Summer 2012
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In the Summer Programme of the Newman Circle we will be examining some important questions regarding human ethics; what it is to be human, how we are to understand ourselves, and how Christian revelation and the teaching of the Church offer a clear way of appreciating this.
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Thursday 21st June - Issues at [...]
- New Publications from the Holy Name
Summer Publications from the Holy Name
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New Titles:
Devotions and Prayers to St Philip Neri
This collection of prayers and devotions to St Philip were composed by the Bl John Henry Newman. They are brought together in this volume to provide an accessible prayer book to the Saint of gentleness and kindness from one of his saintly sons.
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The [...]
- Solemn Mass of St Philip Neri
Solemn Mass of St Philip
Friday 25th May at 5.15pm
Haydn, Jugendmesse (1749)
Novena in Preparation for the Feast
Thursday 17th May at 5.15pm Mass
Friday 18th May at 5.15pm Mass
Saturday 19th May at 8pm Benediction
Sunday 20th May at 11am Solemn Mass
Monday 21st May at 5.15pm Mass
Tuesday 22nd May at 5.15pm Mass
Wednesday 23rd at 5.15pm Mass
Thursday 24th at 5.15pm Mass
It is [...]
- Holy Name Music Diary - Trinity Term 2012
Music Diary - Trinity Term 2012
Sunday 29th April - 11am Mass
Anerio, Missa della Battaglia
Phillips, Surgens Jesus
Rossi, Tantum Ergo
Credo III
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Sunday 6th May- 11am Mass
Palestrina, Missa aeterna Christi Munera
Victoria, Ave Maria
Credo I
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Sunday 13th May - 11am Mass
Langlais, Messe Solennelle
Grieg, Ave Maris Stella
Credo III
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Sunday 20th May (Ascension) - 11am Mass
Victoria, Missa ‘O Quam Gloriosum’
Credo I
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Friday 25th May (St [...]
- Blessed Cyprian Tansi
Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi, OCSO
1903-1964
…We are very fortunate to have received an image of Blessed Cyprian Tansi. He is the patron of Nigeria, and many people from his native country worship at the Holy Name. We have made a shrine to him in the west part of the church where his fellow countrymen, and anyone else, can ask Bl [...]
- Ad Multos Annos
Fr Ray celebrates his 30th Anniversary of
ordination to the priesthood
this weekend.
Here are some pictures from the ordination at Clifton Cathedral on the Wednesday of the Easter Octave (14th April 1982). The ordaining bishop is Dr Mervyn Alexander, Bishop of Clifton.
The Litany of the Saints
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The Imposition of Hands
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Vesting with the Chasuble by Mgr Crispian [...]
- Seven Churches Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage to the Seven Churches of Rome
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This week Br Richard is leading a pilgrimage to the seven great basilicas of Rome, following in the footsteps of St Philip.
At each stage there will be beautiful music, a short uplifting sermon, time for devotions, and then on the road again.
Please pray for our pilgrims as they make their [...]
- 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 [...]
- 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 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.