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
http://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume4/sermon21.html
 

Sunday 19th February
9.45am  Rosary in the Newman Chapel
10am  Conference on Sermon Fasting a Source of […]

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 […]

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 […]

Congratulation to our newly appointed Parish Priest
Fr David Lannon.

Fr David is a native of south Manchester, and after school at St Bede’s College he studied for the priesthood at St Sulpice, Paris and Oscott.
As well as being our parish priest, he also has charge of the parish boundaries in the diocese of Salford, and is the diocesan […]

Manchester is the City of Football, especially with both Manchester City and Manchester United as champions.
Every profession has its patrons, and the patron Saint of Football is the Oratorian St Luigi Scrosoppi.
There is an image of him at the back of our church, but here is a statue of recent carved by the famous Stuflesserr company […]

The Holy Name Magazine
 
After a break of a number of years the Holy Name Magazine is due to be republished as a Quarterly.
It will cost £1.50
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Spring for Lent and Easter
Summer for St Philip’s Day
Autumn for Bl John Henry Newman’s Day
Winter for Advent and Christmas
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The Holy Name Magazine covers a whole range of topics which will be of interest to those […]

Holy Name Choir  
 
The Holy Name Choir is the senior liturgical choir at the Holy Name Church in Manchester’s busy Oxford Road.
If you are a singer who enjoys singing Renaissance Polyphony, Viennese orchestral Masses and other sacred music please get in touch.
Existing members include music students from the University of Manchester and the Royal Northern College of […]

Secular Oratory 

Loving God and our neighbour is everything, and it is the vocation of the Community at the Holy Name to assist this greatest of works in the laity, following the inspiration and guidance of St Philip Neri.
Four times a day St Philip and his community of priests and brothers would offer sermons and spiritual conferences to the […]

The Chapel of the Blessed John Henry Newman
 

This is one of three chapels originally designed by the architect of the Holy Name, Joseph Aloysius Hansom. However, lack of funds at the time of the church’s opening in 1871 meant that they were left unfinished. In the 1890s Francis Bentley, the architect of Westminster Cathedral, was […]

Newman’s Relic at the Holy Name 
When Newman’s grave at Rednal was opened on 2nd October 2008, nothing was found of his body. Consequently, a call was made for relics to be made available from those in private collections, and we at the Holy Name were able to contribute some cuttings from his hair (along with similar relics from […]