Programme

All Masses during the week of the Octave will take place at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane, WC2E 7NB, which is the Westminster Diocesan Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament.

The Annual Corpus Christi Procession on 22nd June this year is in two parts:

1) The first part departs from Maiden Lane at the end of the 11am Mass and will go through Central London to Warwick Street. On arrival at Warwick Street, there will then be a period of Adoration, and the opportunity to buy lunch locally from shops around Regent Street/Piccadilly.

2) The second part departs from Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street, W1B 5LZ at 3:30pm, and processes to St James’s, Spanish Place via the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral. The Procession concludes with Benediction at St James’s, Spanish Place at approx. 5pm.

A Eucharistic Octave at the Diocesan Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Covent Garden.

Saturday 14th June

6:00pm: Sung Mass in the Roman Rite (English) opening the Octave
Vigil Mass of the Most Holy Trinity

Sunday 15th June

9:30am: Said Mass in English
11:30am: Sung Mass in Latin
5:00pm: Holy Hour with Vespers, Rosary & Benediction

Monday 16th June

6:30pm: Missa Cantata
Celebrant: Fr Alan Robinson, Rector of Corpus Christi
Preacher: Fr Joseph Bailham, OP, Rector of the Rosary Shrine

Tuesday 17th June

6:30pm: Byzantine-Slavic Liturgy in Old Slavonic
Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Gabriel Diaz-Patri

Wednesday 18th June

6:30pm: Ukrainian Catholic Divine Liturgy
Celebrant & Preacher: Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski, Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Great Britain

The Annual Quarant’Ore Devotions will take place from the end of Mass on Thursday evening until Saturday 6pm. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed from 7am – Midnight during this time.

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Thursday 19th June

6:30pm: Mass in the Roman Rite (Latin)
Mass opening Annual Quarant’Ore Devotions
Celebrant: Fr Alan Robinson, Rector of Corpus Christi
Preacher: Mgr Philip Whitmore, Rector of St James’s, Spanish Place

Friday 20th June

7am – Midnight: Continuation of Quarant’Ore Devotions
6:30pm: Ordinariate Use of the Roman Rite
Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Mark Elliott-Smith, Rector of Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street

Saturday 21st June

7am – 6pm: Continuation of Quarant’Ore Devotions
6pm: Mass in the Roman Rite (English)
Mass closing the Annual Quarant’Ore Devotions
Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Alan Robinson, Rector of Corpus Christi

Sunday 22nd June

11:00am: The Solemnity of Corpus Christi followed by a Eucharistic Procession through Central London from Maiden Lane to Warwick Street
Celebrant & Preacher: Abbot Cuthbert Brogan, OSB, Abbot of Farnborough Abbey

2:00pm – 3:30pm: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, at Warwick Street. Opportunity to purchase lunch from local shops around Regent Street / Piccadilly.

3:30pm: Continuation of The Annual Corpus Christi Procession Departing from Warwick Street at 3:30pm, towards Spanish Place via the Ukrainian Cathedral. Concluding with Pontifical Benediction imparted by Bishop David Waller, Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.