A Solemn Mass will be sung for Laetare Sunday, the Fourth Sunday in Lent, on Sunday 15 March at 10:30am.

In the midst of penitence, the Church bids us rejoice. Laetare Sunday offers a foretaste of Easter joy, reminding us that divine mercy relieves our sorrow and that grace restores those who turn again to God with contrite hearts. Today we also observe Mothering Sunday, a day which invites us to give thanks for the Church as our Mother in Christ, to honour our own mothers, and to remember with reverence the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Lord.

All the faithful are warmly invited to assist at this Solemn Mass, said according to Divine Worship: The Missal (Ordinariate Use).

Music list:
Introit: Laetare Ierusalem
Setting: Harold Darke – Collegium Regale in E
Psalm: 122
Creed: Shaw
Lord’s Prayer: Merbecke
Anthem: Herbert Howells – O pray for the peace of Jerusalem
Hymns:
The King of love my Shepherd is (NEH, 457)
Jerusalem the golden (NEH, 381)
Shall we not love thee, Mother dear (NEH, 184)

Collect:
GRANT, we beseech thee, Almighty God: that we, who for our evil deeds do worthily deserve to be punished, by the comfort of thy grace, may mercifully be relieved; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.