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KNOXVILLE LATIN MASS COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER
Prayer in Time of Pandemic
MASS THIS SUNDAY (November 29, 2020) First Sunday of Advent Proper
Prayers and Readings – online here, leaflet here (Angelus 137, Baronius 143, Campion 1) Order of Mass: Angelus
838, Baronius 900, Campion 569 Ordinary: Kyrie, (no Gloria,) Credo III, Sanctus, Agnus Dei Preface of Advent (p. 878 in Angelus and Baronius missals, online here) Final Marian Antiphon: Alma Redemptoris Mater – from Advent to the Purification (Angelus 114, Baronius 119, Campion 947,
online here) 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 MASS NEXT SUNDAY (December 6,
2020) Second Sunday of Advent 8 am, 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 LATIN MASS OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Tuesday, December 8, 2020 Patronal Feast of the United States Holy Day of Obligation 12 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville ORATIONS AND READINGS FOR THE FIRST
SUNDAY OF ADVENT (Angelus 137, Baronius 143,
Campion 1) Collect
Epistle Romans 13: 11-14 Gospel Luke 21: 25-33 Secret
Postcommunion
If you’re thinking about a new (Church) year’s
resolution . . . What better preparation for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
than review of these readings and prayers in advance? THE TRADITIONAL MEANING OF ADVENT The
English word advent stems from the
Latin word adventus
for “arrival” or “coming”. Many may think of the season of Advent primarily
as a period of preparation for the first
coming of Christ in His Nativity which we celebrate at Christmas. However,
the prayers and readings of the traditional Latin Mass during Advent look
more toward His second coming when
at the end of time he will come in power and glory to judge the living and
the dead. For
instance, in the Gospel for this First Sunday of Advent, Our Lord says And
there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon
the earth distress of nations, by reason of the confusion of the roaring of
the sea and of the waves;
. . . And
then they shall see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with great power and
majesty. . . . So you also, when you shall
see these things come to pass, know that the kingdom of God is at hand. (Luke 21:25-33) Moreover, it is thought that the
traditional Requiem Mass sequence Dies
Irae—with its solemn warning of the final “day of wrath” when
Christ will return as “King of fearsome majesty” and “just Judge of
vengeance”—was originally written as a sequence to be chanted before the
Gospel in the Mass of the First Sunday of Advent.
Side altar at Holy Ghost
Church prepared for a candlelight Rorate
Caeli Mass. The Rorate Caeli
Mass is a traditional Advent devotion in which the Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary for Advent offered is just
before dawn, with no lighting other than candles on the altar. (Click here
for more photos.) Although it is no longer included in
the ordinary form funeral Mass, the Dies
Irae (“Day of Wrath”) is still today found in the Liturgia Horarum (Liturgy of the Hours—the
ordinary form Divine Office) as a hymn for each non-feast day of the last
week of Ordinary Time. Its placement there emphasizes the upcoming Advent
season and the Second Coming of Christ. The opening verses are very somber in
tone, describing the Day of Judgement and the trumpet summoning souls before
the throne of God. But soon a note of hope is struck. The initial third of the Dies Irae appears during this final
week as the hymn for the Office of Readings. For instance, in the Universalis
app for the Liturgy of the Hours we see
The middle third appears daily as the
Liturgy of the Hours Lauds hymn, and the final third as the Vespers Hymn. THANKSGIVING AND THE FEAST OF ST. MARTIN
The First Thanksgiving at Plymouth, by Jennie A. Brownscombe, 1914 According
to a recent article (here)
by Prof. Michael Foley in The Latin
Mass magazine, “The story of the first Anglo-American Thanksgiving is
well known. In October 1621, in gratitude to God for their first successful
harvest in the New World, the Pilgrims of the Plymouth Colony held a
three-day banquet that was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Englishmen.
Not as well known is that despite their hatred of popery, the Pilgrims’
celebration was indirectly inspired by the Catholic harvest celebrations of
the Middle Ages, especially the Dutch custom of serving goose on St. Martin’s
Day (November 11). According to some scholars, when the Pilgrims, who had
spent time in Holland before landing on Plymouth Rock, ran out of geese for
their feast, they supplemented the menu with a bird unique to North America.
And that is how the Martinmas goose became the
Thanksgiving turkey.”
At the age of fifteen
Martin was, as the son of a veteran, forced into the army against his will
and for some years, though not yet formally a Christian, he lived more like a
monk than a soldier. It was while stationed at Amiens that is said to have
occurred the incident which tradition and image have made famous. One day in
a very hard winter, during a severe frost, he met at the gate of the city a
poor man, almost naked, trembling and shaking with cold, and begging alms of
those that passed by. Martin, seeing those that went before take no notice of
this miserable creature, thought he was reserved for himself, but he had
nothing with him but his arms and clothes. So, drawing his sword, he cut his
cloak into two pieces, gave one to the beggar and wrapped himself in the
other half. That night Martin in his sleep saw Jesus Christ, dressed in that
half of the garment which he had given away, and heard Jesus say,
"Martin, yet a catechumen, has covered me with this garment". [From
Butler's Lives Of The Saints: Complete Edition. Kindle Edition.] HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!
KNOXVILLE LATIN MASS Click here
for photos and an account
of that auspicious turning point in 21st century Knoxville
Catholicism.
Fr. Dowling and Fr. Orr with our first pair of
Latin Mass servers (Kenny Jacobs and Michael Hendershott) on Nov.
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