A Solemn Mass will be sung on Sunday 14 June at 10:30am, the Second Sunday after Trinity, in celebration of Portugal Day, the national day of Portugal.

The observance has a particular resonance at Warwick Street, whose origins lie in the chapel of the Portuguese Embassy established here in 1724, at a time when Catholic worship in England was severely restricted. Under the protection of the embassy the chapel became an important place of prayer for London’s Catholics, and from these beginnings the present church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory developed.

On this day we give thanks for the Portuguese community whose faith and patronage formed part of the early history of Warwick Street, and we commend the people and nation of Portugal to the prayers of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

We look forward to welcoming H.E. Nuno Brito, Ambassador of Portugal to the Court of St James’s, together with members of the Portuguese community, on this occasion.

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

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