FESTIVAL MASSES

Pageant of reparation near Hampton Court
BEGINNING with Solemn Pontifical Mass in Westminster Cathedral, Catholics in many cities and towns will hold a long series of indoor and outdoor services and pageants in the religious celebration of the Festival of Britain.
Catholic peers, M.P.s and other leaders in public life will attend.
On the same day the Bishop of Portsmouth, Mgr. King, will join many high civic and Services dignitaries when the Festival of Britain ship—which is to tour the ports of the country—is launched at Southampton.
The Capitular Mass in Westminster Cathedral at 10.30 a.m. on Sunday. May 6, with a sermon by Mgr. Ronald Knox, will be broadcast for about an hour in the B.B.C. Home Service.
Some 20,000 people are expected to attend a Festival service on July 29 on the site of the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.
Relics of the Lancashire martyrs will be carried in procession and will afterwards be venerated in the crypt.
Pontifical High Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Heenan at an altar on the Headingley football ground, Leeds, on Sunday, June 24.
A series of historical tableaux will be presented by children from all the Catholic schools in the city, and all the parishes will take part in a procession from the Town Hall Square.
Reparation
The Catholics of Molesey, facing the Palace of Hampton Court— where St. Thomas More and Henry VIII had many conversatiOns before the King's break with the Holy See— are planning an act of reparation as their contribution to the religious celebrations.
There will be a two-mile march of pageantry through the streets showing different phases of Catholic England through the ages.
Fr. Edward Rodley, the parish priest, also hopes to have Benediction in the open air opposite the palace. In Wimbledon's Church of the Sacred Heart, the. Mayor and Corporation will on May 6 attend Mass at which Archbishop Roberts, S.J. will preach.