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Mass of Thanksgiving and Te Deum at the Oxford Oratory

Categorised as News and published Monday, July 13th, 2009
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On the morning of Sunday 12 July, the Fathers of the Oxford Oratory, accompanied by the Provosts of the Birmingham and London Oratories, other Oratorians and Father Brendan Callaghan SJ, Master of Campion Hall, joined for a Mass of Thanksgiving in St Aloysius Church in Oxford for the recent approval of Cardinal Newman’s Beatification.

Father Paul Chavasse, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory, preaching

Father Paul Chavasse, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory, preached at the Mass, concentrating on Newman’s work both as a major theologian and as a pastoral priest in his own locality in Birmingham. The Mass was followed by a Solemn Te Deum.