London Eucharistic Octave 2026
A Eucharistic Octave at the Diocesan Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Covent Garden.
Saturday 30th May
6:00pm:Â Sung Mass in the Roman Rite (English) opening the Octave
Vigil Mass of the Most Holy Trinity
Sunday 31st June
9:30am:Â Said Mass in English
11:30am:Â Sung Mass in Latin
5:00pm:Â Holy Hour with Vespers, Rosary & Benediction
Monday 1st June
6:30pm:Â Missa Cantata
Celebrant: Fr Alan Robinson, Rector of Corpus Christi
Preacher: Fr Joseph Bailham, OP, Rector of the Rosary Shrine
Tuesday 2nd June
6:30pm:Â Mass in the Gheez Rite (Eritrean)
Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Ephrem Andom, Chaplain to the Eritrean Gheez Community in London
Wednesday 3rd June
6:30pm:Â Ukrainian Catholic Divine Liturgy
Celebrant & Preacher: Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski, Bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Great Britain
The Annual Quarant’Ore Devotions will take place from the end of Mass on Thursday evening until Saturday 6pm. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed from 7am – Midnight during this time.
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Thursday 4th June
6:30pm:Â Mass in the Roman Rite (Latin)
Mass opening Annual Quarant’Ore Devotions
Celebrant: Fr Alan Robinson, Rector of Corpus Christi
Preacher: Mgr Philip Whitmore, Rector of St James’s, Spanish Place
Friday 5th June
7am – Midnight: Continuation of Quarant’Ore Devotions
6:30pm:Â Ordinariate Use of the Roman Rite
Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Mark Elliott-Smith, Rector of Our Lady of the Assumption & St Gregory, Warwick Street
Saturday 6th June
7am – 6pm: Continuation of Quarant’Ore Devotions
6pm:Â Mass in the Roman Rite (English)
Mass closing the Annual Quarant’Ore Devotions
Celebrant & Preacher: Fr Alan Robinson, Rector of Corpus Christi
Sunday 7th June
11:00am: The Solemnity of Corpus Christi followed by a Eucharistic Procession through Central London from Maiden Lane to Warwick Street
Celebrant & Preacher: The Rt Revd Paul Mason, Bishop of the Forces
2:00pm – 3:30pm: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, at Warwick Street. Opportunity to purchase lunch from local shops around Regent Street / Piccadilly.
3:30pm: Continuation of The Annual Corpus Christi Procession Departing from Warwick Street at 3:30pm, towards Spanish Place via the Ukrainian Cathedral. Concluding with Pontifical Benediction, imparted by The Rt Revd Paul Mason, Bishop of the Forces.
