While the weekly Sunday Mass at St Mary's is a Novus Ordo (Vatican II) rite, the Choir members regularly sing at Solemn Roman rite Masses -- also Known as Tridentine Masses -- which was the Roman Catholic liturgy prior to the reforms of the Vatican II council.    As part of the Bi-Centennial celebrations of the parish in 1998, a Tridentine Rite Mass was held in August of that year -- and, with the permission of the Canon of the Church, this has been repeated every year since

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Above and below, are pictures of some of those Masses, showing the Sanctuary set such that an 'Old-Rite' Mass can be said within the confines of what is a re-ordered post-Vatican II building

 

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