The Coronavirus

This section will be updated as the situation changes

General Guidelines

A Message from Cardinal Nichols HERE

Please contact us if you have any concerns.

Say the Rosary everyday (the Rosary is called Corona in Latin).

The Fathers and Brothers are praying for you everyday.

Church & Sacraments

Mass has NOT been cancelled - this can never happen, because without the Eucharist there is no Church.

The Obligation to hear Mass on Sundays and Holy Days has been suspended.

Easter Duties (i.e. Confession and Holy Communion) have been suspended for this year.

Plenary Indulgences can be gained for assisting at Mass via the TV or online, and the Rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, Stations of the Cross, Reading Sacred Scripture for half and hour. Prayer for the Holy Father's intentions (Pater, Ave and Gloria), and go to Confession and Holy Communion when this time of trial is over.

St Rocco, our patron of times of plague, has a shrine in church where the Community pray each day.

Masses from St Chad's will be live streamed on Twitter (at the top of the page). Others can be found at HERE (including from some of the other Oratories and Manchester churches)

We have a YouTube channel, for videos of sermons and devotions, so we are going to have a go. At least our attempts should make you laugh!

The Hospital

We have stopped general ward visiting and the weekday Mass at the North Manchester General Hospital.

The Last Rites will always be given.

The Fathers also go to the deathbeds of those with the Virus in our hospital.

Holy Communion

If you cannot receive Holy Communion make a Spiritual Communion (prayers can be found above)

A Spiritual Communion asks the Lord to come to us although we cannot receive Him in the Sacrament. If with fervent hearts we ask this He will always come and abide within us.

There is a leaflet to help you with this part of our Catholic tradition here: SPIRITUAL COMMUNION

Help for those in Need

There is always food available here for anyone in need.

Please make sure that those you know from church and your neighbourhood have everything they need.

The church and Community are going to be significantly down on church collections, etc, which keep the whole place going. We are quite happy to pull in our belts considerably, and thankfully the summer means that the heating bill will be less, but the week by week costs of the church are still significant. Please remember us in this matter - there is a donate button at the top of this page. We feel it is best to honest about this with you. God reward you.

And Remember...

Do not be afraid.

God is God. He has had a lot of practise at it, and he is pretty darn good at it.

He is our loving Father, who turns everything for our good, if we abandon ourselves into His hands.

We share the life of His only-begotten Son, and so: our sufferings are His and His sufferings are ours; our hearts are His and His Heart is ours; our happiness His and His glory is ours. In Him we are given the extraordinary privilege of sanctifying and redeeming the world around us. Offer your sufferings, and your joys too, for the Church, for your family, friends and enemies, work colleagues, neighbours, your contact list... - everyone and everything that is in unique configuration around you. These events and people are there not by accident but by Providence, and it is God's good pleasure that you are the place of meeting between them and Him.

Christ Yesterday and Today + The Beginning and the End

Alpha + Omega

All Time Belongs to Him + And all the Ages

To Him belong Glory and Power + Through every Age and forever

Jesus did not suffer to take away our sufferings, but rather to show us how to suffer and die Through Him and With Him and In Him. Every moment is within the palm of God.

I am created to do something or to be something for which no one else is created; I have a place in God’s counsels, in God’s world, which no one else has; whether I be rich or poor, despised or esteemed by man, God knows me and calls me by name.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have a mission – I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next… I have a part in a great work; I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for naught. I shall do good, I shall do His work; I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it, if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.

Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness or perplexity or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain; He may prolong my life, He may shorten it; He knows what He is about. He may take away my friends, He may throw me among strangers, He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide the future from me – He still knows what He is about. (JHN)