A Solemn Mass will be sung on Friday 1 May at 6:30pm in celebration of the Feast of Our Lady, Protectress of Bavaria (Patrona Bavariae).

This title of the Blessed Virgin has long been honoured throughout Bavaria, where the faithful commend themselves to her maternal protection and intercession.

The observance is especially fitting at Warwick Street, which in the eighteenth century served as the chapel of the Bavarian Embassy to the Court of St James’s, when the church was one of the few places in London where the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass could be publicly offered.

On this day we give thanks for the Bavarian community which formed an integral part of the church’s early history and for the Catholic witness preserved here in those years.

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

Music list:
Anthem: Felix Mendelssohn – Verleih uns Frieden
Setting: Franz Schubert – Mass No. 2 in G major
Hymn: Ignaz Franz – Großer Gott, wir loben Dich

Collect:
O GOD, who by the fruitful virginity of the Blessed Mary hast bestowed upon mankind the rewards of eternal salvation: grant, we beseech thee; that we may experience her intercession for us, through whom we have been made worthy to receive the Author of life, our Lord Jesus Christ thy Son: who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen.