Latin Mass Society Pilgrimage
to
Our Lady of Caversham
Saturday 23rd February
Saturday 23rd February
The shrine to Our Lady of Caversham is the official Marian Shrine of the Archdiocese of Birmingham. It is the restored Medieval shrine which predated the Norman Conquest and was visited by Queen Catherine of Aragon. It is built as a (neo) Norman chapel on the side of the (neo) Gothic church of Our Lady and St Anne. The shrine was blessed in 1958; the shrine image is a medieval Madonna and Child from Northern Europe which was crowned in 1996.
The Pilgrimage will take place on the Ember Saturday of Lent. This is a very special day liturgically, with extra readings from the Old Testament, and chants to go with them. It will be celebrated as a Solemn Mass. It is the ideal way of getting into the spirit of the coming Easter Triduum. We will have the Schola Abelis singing the chant and the Newman Consort singing a polyphonic Ordinary.
Picture: Fr Armand de Malleray celebrating Mass at the altar of the shrine at last year's pilgrimage. More photos.
Our Lady & St Anne's Church
2 South View Avenue
Caversham,
Reading RG4 5AB
