I’ve just learned from the Catholic Writers’ Guild in the UK that Jeremy de Satge’s Penitential Mass for Eight Voices is to be sung at the Oxford Oratory on the Second Sunday of Lent – 4th March 2012 at the 11.00am Solemn Mass. This is the second known performance of this work in the UK. Written in 2001, Penitential Mass for Eight Voices received its UK Premiere at Farm Street Church (Mayfair) in February 2008. If I were still living in England I’d have relished the opportunity to attend this Mass. The Oxford Oratory is one of my favourite churches in the UK, as is the Jesuit church of the Immaculate Conception in Farm Street, the other church at which de Satge’s Pentitential Mass has been sung. The former church breathes with the spiritual life of Newman and Hopkins, and is known for a liturgy that almost rivals, on a smaller scale, the aesthetic heights reached by the Brompton Oratory in London. The latter church was home to those great English Jesuits, Martindale, D’Arcy and Caraman, and was the church of choice of literary converts, such as Evelyn Waugh and Edith Sitwell, both of whom were received there.