The Papal MC, Mgr Guido Marini and two officials from the Vatican Master of Ceremonies Office visited Cofton Park on Wednesday 7 July during a Liturgical Planning Visit to Birmingham, London and Glasgow.
The Papal MC, Mgr Guido Marini (pictured sixth from left) during a visit to Cofton Park, Birmingham on Wednesday 7 July. Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate Mass and Beatify Cardinal Newman in this park on Sunday 19 September.
Pope Benedict XVI will celebrate Mass and Beatify Cardinal Newman at Cofton Park on Sunday 19 September at the end of his historic four-day State Visit.
Cofton Park is situated near the Oratory Retreat, Rednal, where Cardinal Newman was buried following his death in his room at the Oratory House in Edgbaston on Monday, 11 August 1890.
Mgr Marini was accompanied by Mgr Andrew Summersgill, Organiser of the Papal Visit to the the Archdiocese of Westminster, Southwark and Birmingham, and Mgr Philip Moger, from the Diocese of Leeds, Organiser of Liturgy, and Fr Paul Conroy from Scotland.
The Papal MC, Mgr Guido Marini, Mgr Andrew Summersgill, Papal Visit Organiser for England and Wales, Canon Patrick Browne.
The Vatican party was welcomed to Cofton Park by Canon Patrick Browne, Administrator of the Metropolitan Cathedral of St Chad, Birmingham, and Local Organiser for the Papal Visit to the Archdiocese of Birmingham.
He was accompanied by Fr Jan Nowotnik, Parish Priest of Our Lady and St Brigit, Northfield, situated near to Cofton Park and Deputy Local Liturgy Organiser, and me.
The Vatican party also met and discussed the arrangements of the Papal Mass with representatives of WRG and Pamela Hossick, the BBC Producer / Director of the ‘live’ broadcast of the Papal Mass and Cardinal Newman Beatification, scheduled to be shown on BBC 2 Television.
The Papal MC, Mgr Guido Marini (right) and Mgr Andrew Summersgill at Cofton Park.
After the visit to Cofton Park the Vatican party were driven the nine miles to Cathedral House, situated next to the Metropolitan Cathedral and Basilica of St Chad, situated in central Birmingham.
In the Chapter Room Mgr Marini discussed detailed arrangements about the Liturgy and Music for the Papal Mass with Fr Timothy Menezes, Parish Priest of St Thomas More, Coventry, Local Organiser for Liturgy, and Fr Peter Jones, Local Organiser for Music.
At the end of the meeting the Vatican Party left for a visit to Glasgow.
The Papal MC, Mgr Guido Marini, pictured in the Chapter Room at St Chad's Cathedral after I had presented him with a copy of my book: "Benedict XVI And Cardinal Newman".
