Paul D
12-20-2006, 04:18 PM
CHRISTMAS Mass will be broadcast on TV from Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral this weekend.
The Cathedral will host a live televised broadcast of the First Mass of Christmas on BBC1 on Christmas Eve.
The congregation for the traditional celebration of Midnight Mass will need to be seated by 11pm.
The Archbishop of Liverpool, the Most Reverend Patrick Kelly, will be joined by the Cathedral clergy as the broadcast reaches out to more than one million viewers.
Archbishop Kelly said: "As we celebrate the First Mass of Christmas this year, Bethlehem as it is today and all of the Lord's own land is the focus of the active concern of our own Prime Minister and other world leaders.
"The choice to pray in the middle of the night is one way to pray with searching depth that the song the angels proclaim - 'Peace on earth' - may be realised in our day."
BBC executive producer, Hugh Faupel, said: "Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral with its combination of intimacy and grandeur is, quite simply, the best location in which to celebrate the Nativity of the Lord."
The Cathedral will host a live televised broadcast of the First Mass of Christmas on BBC1 on Christmas Eve.
The congregation for the traditional celebration of Midnight Mass will need to be seated by 11pm.
The Archbishop of Liverpool, the Most Reverend Patrick Kelly, will be joined by the Cathedral clergy as the broadcast reaches out to more than one million viewers.
Archbishop Kelly said: "As we celebrate the First Mass of Christmas this year, Bethlehem as it is today and all of the Lord's own land is the focus of the active concern of our own Prime Minister and other world leaders.
"The choice to pray in the middle of the night is one way to pray with searching depth that the song the angels proclaim - 'Peace on earth' - may be realised in our day."
BBC executive producer, Hugh Faupel, said: "Liverpool's Metropolitan Cathedral with its combination of intimacy and grandeur is, quite simply, the best location in which to celebrate the Nativity of the Lord."