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The Mass Returns to York Minster

On Friday, May 16 of 2003, the Carmelites offered a mass in York Minster to commemorate the 550th anniversary of the Papal bull ‘Cum Nulla’ allowing the Order to enroll nuns and the laity. York Minster used to be home to a Carmelite congregation, kicked out when the Minster – the largest Gothic cathedral in northern Europe – was appropriated by the government. It survives today as the cathedral for the Archdiocese and ecclesiastical province of York. The official website conveniently makes no mention of the great church being nicked from the Carmelites, but at least they let them offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in their old home.

York Minster was in the news not too long ago, when Canon Professor Edward Norman – one of their clerics and supposedly one of Anglicanism’s leading intellectuals – decided to swim the Tiber (so to speak).

The Lord Mayor of York welcomed the Carmelites before the Mass.

Published at 2:48 pm on Thursday 2 September 2004. Categories: Church Great Britain.
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Yes, and I am a verger there lol

— Raffaele Arcangelo Yusuke 1 Jan 2007 6:35 pm
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