
St Peter’s Cathedral Lancaster.
Timetable for the visit of St Bernadette’s relics. Thursday 22nd to Friday 23rd September 2022.
Thursday 22nd. St Peter’s Cathedral Lancaster
Download: Schedule for visit of St Bernadette Relics
8.30. Liturgy of Welcome with Bishop Paul Swarbrick. Sung Office of Morning Prayer.
9.30. Rosary. (first decade lead by children from Cathedral Primary school with other school parties invited to be present.) The Joyful Mysteries.
10.00-Noon. Time for individual school visits. Children invited to bring flowers to place before relics plus a photo of someone sick who they wish to pray for.
Mass 12.15 Presider and preacher: Bishop Paul Swarbrick. Priests invited to concelebrate. Will be coordinated by Cathedral Office.
1.30-5. Individual School visits. Similar to above.
5.00-6.00. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and Rosary.
6.00-6.300. Sung Vespers.
7.00-8.30 Mass with the anointing of the sick, and Blessed Sacrament procession, with blessing of the City. Canon Cristofoli ICKSP to preach. Concelebrating priests especially welcome. A procession with the Blessed Sacrament around the Cathedral with the blessing of the city concluding the Mass.
9-9.15. Sung Compline.
9.30-10pm. Devotions to Our Lady led by the Polish community in Polish.
10pm-5am Silent Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Cathedral open during the night. Office of Readings recited at 3am.
5.30. Sung Morning Prayer as service of Farewell.
These are approximate timings. Please be patient if there is some over-run.
During the visit a rota of priests available to hear confessions in the Cathedral.
PLEASE REGISTER FOR A TIME SLOT HERE: https://stbernadette.org.uk/registration/
More information found here regarding the visit and tour: https://stbernadette.org.uk/

The Synod Report for the Lancaster Diocese has now been submitted to the Bishop’s Conference of England and Wales. In this next period the reports from all 22 Dioceses will be synthesised into one national report for submission to Europe.
To see the Diocesan Report click here: LANCASTER DIOCESAN REPORT ON THE SYNOD PATHWAY
Because of the limited size of the report (ten pages maximum) it has not been possible to include every individual comment. Instead we have tried to represent a cross section of views from around the Diocese.