Northampton Cathedral

Welcome

The Cathedral of Our Lady Immaculate & St Thomas of Canterbury is the mother church of the Diocese of Northampton - www.northamptondiocese.org.

If you have recently moved into the town, are visiting the area, are already a parishioner or simply browsing the web, we hope you find the information you are looking for here.

If you require any further help don’t hesitate to call the parish office on: +44 (0)1604 714556 or email: office@northamptoncathedral.org.

***Click here for a complete list of our liturgies for Holy Week & Easter***

Mass Times

Sunday: Vigil Mass (Saturday) 7pm, 8.30am, 10.30am & 5.15pm

Weekdays: Mon-Thurs 9.30am & 7pm, Fri 12.15pm, Sat 9.30am

Holydays: Vigil Mass 7pm, 9.30am & 8pm.

For more details please read our Newsletter

Confessions: Saturday 10-10.30am, 6-6.30pm and at call

Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Tues 7.30-8pm, Fri 11am - 12 noon, Sat 10-11am

Message of the Day

There is a most wonderfully revealing phrase in the Parable of the Prodigal Son. It is the one that describes that son’s change of heart, his waking up to reality. It says, ‘He came to his senses’ (Luke 15.17). It was as if he’d been living in a fantasy land until then. The literal translation: ‘He came to himself.’ In other words he came home to himself. He woke up to who he was - a cherished child, loved to bits by his long-suffering father.

Conversion is coming to oneself, waking up to who we are. When Paul says that ‘anyone in Christ is a new creation, the old has gone’ he doesn’t mean we become someone else. He means we shed the shallows of our sinful nature that always obscures our deepest identity. Conversion is a coming to oneself. It is becoming who we were born, and reborn in baptism, to be. Conversion is a kind of homecoming. And it is in the experience of that coming home that we hear the call of God more clearly than anywhere else.

Canon John Udris, Cathedral Dean