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KNOXVILLE LATIN MASS COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER MASS THIS SUNDAY (May 26, 2019) 5th Sunday after Easter 12:00 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville St. Edmund Campion Missal & Hymnal page numbers: Sprinkling Rite: Vidi aquam (566) Order of Mass: Missalette or Campion Missal (569) Proper
Prayers and Readings (283) – online here, leaflet here Ordinary: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo III,
Sanctus, Agnus Dei - Mass I – Lux et erigo (696) Preface of Easter (Campion 687, Angelus 873, Baronius 881) Anthem to the Virgin Mary: Regina Caeli - throughout Eastertide until Trinity Sunday (online here, Campion Missal 954, Angelus Missal 116, Baronius Missal
121) 8 am, St. Mary Church, Athens 5 pm, Basilica of Sts. Peter &
Paul, Chattanooga MASS NEXT SUNDAY (June 2, 2019) 12 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville 8 am, St. Mary Church, Athens LATIN MASS OF ASCENSION THURSDAY 6:30 AM – Low Mass (in the chapel) Our Lady of Fatima Church, Alcoa
(map here) Proper Prayers and Readings
– online here, leaflet here This Latin Mass will afford area Catholics the opportunity of
hearing the Mass of the Ascension of Our Lord on its proper date—the 40th
day of Eastertide, the Thursday 10 days before Pentecost. The noon Mass at
Holy Ghost Church on Sunday, May 2 will instead be the Mass of the Sunday
after the Ascension. So those who attend only on Sunday will miss the Mass of
Ascension Thursday, a solemnity (class 1 feast) which is a holy day of
obligation in some countries. PROPER ORATIONS FOR THE 5TH
SUNDAY AFTER EASTER The
collects and other orations of the traditional Roman Missal are composed in a
concise and polished form of classical Latin that was never the spoken
vernacular language of ordinary Romans (just as Shakespeare was never street
lingo in England). They typically interweave multiple layers of meaning and
scriptural or classical allusion, which may be difficult to capture in any
single English translation. The English translations in different
Latin-English hand missals may therefore differ slightly in their emphases.
Comparison of two different English translations may help one to penetrate
the full meaning of the original Latin. Compare the translations below with
those in your own personal hand missal (e.g., Angelus 641, Baronius 679,
Campion 283). Collect
Secret
Postcommunion
“AN NFL KICKER, A FAITHFUL PRIEST, and the TRADITIONAL LATIN
MASS” From OnePeterFive
(here)
“It’s opened my
eyes to the tradition of the Faith. You know, with Saint Augustine, with
Thomas Aquinas, with all of these great saints, and then seeing that this
Mass of the Roman Rite, the Latin Mass has been the Mass for the past 1500
years that all these great saints went to. They were saying the same Latin
prayers. It’s just very beautiful, you know? I feel very united.” “It doesn’t go with
the world….it’s just like kind of old school traditional stuff. But then I think
that also attracted me because it was so
different from the world.” In the 12-minute
EWTN interview linked below, Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker is
talking about the traditional Latin Mass (TLM), a liturgy which he not only
attends, but at which he also regularly serves at the altar.
The parish Butker
attends is St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Independence, Missouri (where his
ordinary is Holy Ghost native son Bishop James Vann Johnston). Founded in
1823, St. Mary’s has the distinction of being the oldest Catholic Church in
the Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph. His pastor at St.
Mary’s is Fr. Matthew Bartulica, during whose time in the seminary Pope
Benedict XVI’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum was released, freeing the
ancient liturgy and extolling its sacredness. By the time of Fr. Bartulica’s
ordination in 2010, he had already come to love the Church’s ancient liturgy. “In a culture that is so divided,” he
says, “the TLM gives us a source of unbroken unity that brings all Catholics
together, anywhere in the world, and is the liturgy that can trace its roots
all the way back to the source of our Faith”. As pastor of St. Mary’s, he has four
regularly scheduled TLMs at the parish — three on weekdays, and one on
Sundays — the one Harrison Butker now attends. “It’s a great blessing having his
family at the parish,” Fr. Bartulica says of Butker. “Boys wanting to learn
to serve the Latin Mass went from one or two to around ten when they heard he
was serving.”
“As Vatican II says,” Fr. Bartulica mentions,
“the liturgy is the source and summit of our Faith. Since the greatest saints
of the Church were formed by the Latin Mass, there seems to be no better way
for us to learn the Faith than through the same liturgy that they
participated in.” What Fr. Bartulica and Harrison
Butker have both come to understand is something that Father recalls
Dostoyevski having said: “Beauty will save the world. When the Church finally recognizes her
beautiful traditions and liturgy,” Fr. Bartulica adds, “true evangelization will begin. Until
then we are wasting our time.” SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LATIN MASS Knoxville Latin Mass Community (KLMC) expenses in
support of Latin liturgy typically average several hundred dollars weekly.
This includes a regular KLMC contribution to Holy Ghost Church of two hundred
dollars per scheduled Latin Mass in support of our fine sacred music, plus
additional expenses for purchase of vestments, choir support, Latin Mass
materials, stipends for visiting priests, and for special occasions (e.g., a
couple of thousand dollars for this year’s Holy Week and Easter stipends and
supplements). All these expenses are covered solely by
donations directly to the KLMC (rather than by the general parish budget). So
please use the special addressed Knoxville Latin Mass Community envelopes, or
donate online (here). But let’s not forget our duty to also support our
parish through general Sunday collections and parish envelopes. Donations to
the Holy Ghost building fund are used to pay off the church debt. ONLINE WEEKLY LATIN MASS NEWSLETTER |
