High Mass: St Cuthbert's College Ushaw 1960 (Laurence Hollis) Digitally restored

(Tyne Tees TV broadcast : Digitally restored version by us)
The tradition of the Seminary at Ushaw goes back to its mother-College, founded at Douai in 1568. Ushaw College was founded in England in 1794, moving to the magnificent Pugin buildings in Co Durham in 1808.
The boarding education at Ushaw was continuous from the age of eleven years, commencing at the Junior Seminary, then progressing to the Senior Seminary and finally to ordination as a Roman Catholic priest. Lay boys were also admitted to the school at Ushaw.
The Second Vatican Council of 1962-65 naturally affected seminaries. The tradition of taking boys as young as eleven was discontinued and the boarding school at Ushaw was closed in 1972; the boys were moved to the last remaining Junior Seminary at Upholland.
Shortly before the Junior Seminary at Ushaw was closed the choir was re-named St Cuthbert’s College Schola Cantorum; which indicates a long and secure future for the choir was expected.
In 1987 the boarding school at Upholland was closed and with it the long tradition of Junior Seminary education of boys was finally brought to a close in England.
The chapel music was of such a high standard that both the BBC and the ITV undertook broadcasts. The High Mass broadcast presented here was produced by Tyne-Tees TV, one of the regional divisions of ITV.
Between 1959 and 1971, the choirmaster Fr Laurence Hollis recorded hundreds of chapel services on his reel-to-reel machine; these recordings were given to the Archive of Recorded Church Music when the college closed in 2011 to ensure their preservation.

[@ignaciorestrepo4460]

It reminds me of my time when I was a minor seminarian at the time of the Second Vatican Council. How much I miss the Holy Tridentine Mass!

[@neilrangel2075]

I ALWAYS PRAY THAT GOD RESTORES THIS GREAT PLACE TO ITS FORMER GLORY

[@oledocfarmer]

Me too….I think it’s gonna happen! People are “done” with the ridiculous nonsense they’re offering now. Things are always darkest before the dawn.

[@baroqueman1]

So reverent, devotional and ,dare I say, magical. Glimpses of heaven, indeed.

[@PeterandBeverleyAdventures]

I remember attending Mass in St. Cuthbert’s during my time in the Junior Seminary. A magical experience.

[@RezaChity-G]

Hey, Pugin made this, no wonder it is so lovely.

[@muttandjeff5213]

Now this once beautiful Chapel is no more. Fire destroyed it in July 2023. Lord have mercy

[@PeterandBeverleyAdventures]

This chapel dedicated to St. Cuthbert is still there as part of the main seminary. The area that was destroyed by the fire was the old junior seminary which had a different chapel dedicated to St. Aloysius.

[@ArchiveofRecordedChurchMusic]

@@PeterandBeverleyAdventures And the old junior seminary chapel was already in a ruinous state before the fire. The main chapel is still there and as magnificent as ever.

[@gda1236]

Does anyone know the organ postlude at the end????

[@rafael6421]

Nowadays we have a table and some chairs right in front of the altar 😭

[@tleatherland]

As I watch these videos from Ushaw, I find myself just shaking my head (literally). No true Catholic, I don't care who he is, would've discarded this liturgy for what we have now. Paul VI a saint? I don't think so.

[@thankcrunchiefriday]

The liturgy here is no doubt exactly what Jesus Christ had in mind for his church. When you go out to make disciples of all nations, you can bring them to this ritual in a language they can't speak every week, and the women can enjoy not being welcome to take any part in it. Take this rite in a dead European language to Asia and Africa. It's guaranteed to increase the kingdom, and keep new converts in the fold. Or have I missed the point of Christianity?

[@SATMathReview1234]

thankcrunchiefriday Yes but unironically

[@RezaChity-G]

@@SATMathReview1234 How? The point of the religion is to be saved, and those who are members of the church are to go out and herd the sheep into the fold of Christ. The Missionaries of the Catholic Church have done this, we have had the Jesuits in Asia, the Italians going up to Gaul, Saint Augustine to the English, Saint Patrick to the Irish, and Saints Cyril and Methodius to the Slavic people. All of these Holy Saints brought these people salvation.

[@shortfusedfox2593]

@@thankcrunchiefriday I don't see your point. This is the Mass that evangelized China, Japan, North America and South America.