Two Announcements

[From one of our Filipino readers]

"On January 28, Monday, at 8:00 AM at the Parish of the Lord of Divine Mercy, His Excellency Bishop Camilo D. Gregorio, Prelate of Batanes, will celebrate a Pontifical Low Mass according to the Missal of 1962, better known as the "Tridentine Rite"

"This will be the first-ever Pontifical Tridentine Mass to be celebrated in Metro Manila by a Catholic bishop in full communion with the Holy See ever since the Novus Ordo was promulgated in 1969.

"Bishop Camilo Gregorio, as Bishop of Bacolod from 1987 to 2001, established the Traditional Latin Mass in that diocese in the early 1990's... He also attended and celebrated Mass for the Sixth Proceedings of the CIEL in 1999, where he gave a talk entitled "A Pastoral View of the Ecclesia Dei Communities"

[From one of our Irish readers]

"The Lady Chapel of Venerable John Henry Newman's University Church, Dublin, Ireland, will be the venue for the celebration of Candlemas (Lá Fhéile Muire na gCoinneal in Gaelic) in the Extraordinary Form on Saturday, 2nd February, at 10.30 am. This is the usual monthly meeting of the Saint Anne's Guild of the Sodality of Our Lady. The celebrant will be Fr. John Emerson, FSSP."