Join us in St Bernadette’s parish church on Tuesday (26 May) evening for our solemn Mass at 17:30 as we celebrate the annual feast of our Oratorian founder, St Philip Neri. There will also be Masses at 06:30 and 08:30 and an Extraordinary Form (Latin) Mass at 13:10 on that day.
“St Philip was a man of culture and charity, of study and organization, of teaching and prayer. For Rome, he was a holy priest, a tireless confessor, a brilliant educator and a friend of all, and particularly he was an expert counsellor and a delicate director of consciences. Popes and cardinals, bishops and priests, princes and politicians, religious and artists, had recourse to him: illustrious persons, such as the historian Cesare Baronio and the famous composer Palestrina, St Charles Borromeo and St Ignatius of Loyola, and Cardinal Federigo Borromeo, confided in his heart, the heart of a father and a friend.”
St John Paul II, from the homily at Mass during his visit to the Roman Oratory, 26th May 1979
To read further about our Oratorian founder, click here.
The novena in preparation for St Philip’s feast continues each weekday at 17:30 [including Monday 25 May]. On Saturday and Sunday the novena is incorporated into evening Benediction.
The church grants a plenary indulgence to those who, in honour of St Philip’s feast, visit our church of St Bernadette on 26 May and there recite the Apostles’ Creed and the Our Father (subject to the usual conditions of confession, communion and prayer for the Pope’s intentions; Enchiridion Indulgentarium 33.1.7)