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KNOXVILLE LATIN MASS COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER MASS THIS SUNDAY (June 28, 2020) 4th Sunday after Pentecost Proper Prayers and Readings – online here, leaflet here (Angelus 726, Baronius 774, Campion 328) Order of Mass: Angelus
838, Baronius 900, Campion 569 Ordinary: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo,
Sanctus, Agnus Dei Preface of the Holy Trinity (Angelus 875, Baronius 884, Campion 598) Anthem to the Virgin Mary: Salve Regina – from Trinity Sunday until Advent (Campion Missal
961, Angelus Missal 116, Baronius Missal 121, online here) 8 am, St. Mary Church, Athens 11:30 am, Basilica of Sts. Peter
& Paul, Chattanooga External Solemnity of Ss. Peter & Paul to be celebrated on
June 28 for the Basilica’s patronal
feast and the 130th anniversary of the parish 12 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville 2 pm, St. Mary Church, Johnson City MASS NEXT SUNDAY (July 5, 2020) 5th
Sunday after Pentecost 8 am, St. Mary Church, Athens 11:30 am, Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul, Chattanooga 12 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville 2 pm, St. Mary Church, Johnson City PROPER ORATIONS FOR THE 4TH
SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST (Angelus
726, Baronius 774, Campion 328) Collect
Secret
Postcommunion
Notice
how spare and concise are these “ordinary Sunday” propers, in comparison with
the more loquacious propers of the recent June solemnities. Or compare the
collects (below) for this coming week’s two
solemnities (class 1 feasts). JUNE 2020 - LITURGICAL HIGH SEASON OF SOLEMNITIES The stars have so aligned the Church’s sanctoral and seasonal
cycles this year that this coming week’s Monday Feast of Saints Peter &
Paul and the Wednesday Feast of the Most Precious Blood round out an extraordinary
extended month—from May 31 to July 1—bristling with no less than seven
class 1 feasts (aka solemnities): May
31 – Pentecost Sunday June
7 – Trinity Sunday June
11 – Corpus Christi June
19 – Sacred Heart of Jesus June
24 – Nativity of St. John the Baptist June
29 – Saints Peter & Paul July 1
– Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Other than the Sundays of Advent and Lent, Holy Week, and the
octaves of Easter and Pentecost, the Church calendar includes only about
twenty 1st class feasts, with their typically more beautiful and
eloquent chants and proper prayers. Collect
for the Feast of Saints Peter &
Paul (Monday, June 29)
On the Feast of Ss. Peter & Paul the statue of St. Peter
& Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome is annually vested and crowned
with the papal triple tiara.
Click image to enlarge. Collect
for the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord (Wednesday,
July 1)
THE HOME ALTAR THROUGH THE LITURGICAL YEAR Locked out of our churches for
so many weeks this year, and being compelled to either offer prayers on our
own, read our Missals, or follow along with televised Masses, we have all
gained a new appreciation for bringing the liturgy into our homes. The concept of the “domestic
Church” has a very ancient pedigree. . . . ” St. John Chrysostom called the
home a micra ecclesia, a
little church . . . While naturally we can’t offer Mass or other rites as our
priests and bishops do in sacred buildings, we are all still very much
expected to unite ourselves with those rites in spirit, even to the extent of
making our homes a spiritual and even physical extension of our parishes into
the secular world. [… snip …] We are very soon to enter the
long period of the Sundays after Pentecost—half a year of “ordinary” green
Sundays. How can we keep ourselves and our children as engaged as we seem to
be on the 1st Sunday of Advent? Here is where a home altar can come in. By maintaining a
home altar not just as a static home for our rosaries and prayer books but as
a closer mimic of its ecclesial namesake, the liturgical year can be a
visible part of your home at all times.
There are many possible methods to do this, but here is
one framework. First, an altar cloth of the appropriate liturgical
color can be used. . . . The altar cloth is changed at the beginning of each
new liturgical season and, if desired, at important feast days such as the
Assumption. Next, statues and icons of favorite family saints
are placed atop the altar. Some may stay there year round—favorite images of
Our Lord and Our Lady for example—but the others can be rotated in at the
beginning of each month, depending on the sanctoral calendar. . . . [… snip …] Other pious practices, borrowed from our parishes, quickly
suggest themselves. Some extra violet cloth will allow you to cover the
sacred images at Passiontide. The home altar can be stripped on Maundy
Thursday and, save for any Good Friday devotions, left bare until Easter. At
All Saints’ Day, the altar can be filled to capacity with every icon and
statue available. During All Souls’ Day, black cloth and family photos can
remind us to pray for the Church Suffering. [… snip …] Overall, maintaining a home altar provides us with a
tangible and visible connection to our parishes, and it extends liturgical
living well beyond the hour and a half on Sunday when we are present at Mass.
. . . The home altar is a particularly powerful teaching tool
for young children. They may not yet have the understanding or the attention
span to pick up on subtle changes in recited prayers—but they are naturally
fascinated by colors, images, flowers and lights and will participate with
enthusiasm. . . . PREPARATION for FIRST
COMMUNION and CONFIRMATION
Anyone with a First
Communion or Confirmation candidate is asked to let Misty Weber know at mistyweberrn@gmail.com or 816-809-7309.
Directives
for resumption of public Masses
Dispensation
from Sunday obligation
In his letter, Bishop Stika also
extends his dispensation indefinitely to all Catholics living in the Diocese
of Knoxville from their obligation to attend Sunday Mass. “Let me emphasize,
if you are vulnerable, elderly, or just not comfortable going to a public
Mass beginning May 30-31, please stay home!” Bishop Stika said. Daily
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