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KNOXVILLE LATIN MASS COMMUNITY
NEWSLETTER MASS THIS SUNDAY (September 24, 2017) 16th Sunday after Pentecost 12:00 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville St.
Edmund Campion Missal & Hymnal page numbers: Order of Mass (567) Proper Prayers and Readings (377) –
online here, leaflet here Kyrie, Gloria, Credo III,
Sanctus, Agnus Dei: Mass XI Orbis factor (740) Preface of the Holy Trinity: Missalette
or Campion Missal (598) Closing Marian Antiphon: Salve Regina (961) 3 pm, St. Joseph the Worker Church, Madisonville 5 pm, Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul,
Chattanooga MASS NEXT SUNDAY (October 1, 2017) Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary 12:00 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville 3 pm, St. Joseph the Worker Church, Madisonville (No Latin Mass in Cleveland on October
1) Benedict
XVI, the new Nehemiah, who rekindled the hidden fire
(From Rorate Caeli) On the 10th anniversary of the
entry into force of the motu proprio
Summorum Pontificum, we
praise the heritage of Pope Benedict XVI, who recognized the grievous
injustice of the attempted but impossible abolition of the Apostolic Mass of
the Latin Church and freed it from its shackles, thereby rekindling the fire
of the Church’s traditional Latin liturgy after its 40-year exile, as
Nehemiah rekindled the fire of the Jewish liturgy after its Babylonian exile
long ago.
From the Second
Book of the Maccabees, chapter 1: Blessed
be God in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked. Therefore
whereas we purpose to keep the purification of the temple on the five and
twentieth day of the month of Casleu, we thought it
necessary to signify it to you: that you also may keep the day of Scenopegia, and the day of the fire, that was given when
Nehemiah offered sacrifice, after the temple and the altar was built. For
when our fathers were led into [Babylon], the priests that then were worshippers
of God took privately the fire from the altar, and hid it in a valley where
there was a deep pit without water, and there they kept it safe, so that the
place was unknown to all men. But when many years had passed, and it pleased
God that Nehemiah should be sent by the king of Persia, he sent some of the
posterity of those priests that had hid it, to seek for the fire: and as they
told us, they found no fire, but thick water.
And
the prayer of Nehemiah was after this manner: O Lord God, Creator of all things, dreadful and strong, just and merciful, who alone art the good king, Who alone art gracious, who alone art just, and almighty,
and eternal, Who deliverest Israel from all
evil, who didst choose the fathers and didst sanctify them: Receive the sacrifice for all thy people Israel, and preserve thy own portion, and
sanctify it. Gather together our scattered people, deliver them that are slaves to the Gentiles, and look upon them that are despised and abhorred: that the Gentiles may know that thou art
our God. Punish them that oppress us, and that treat us injuriously
with pride. Establish thy people in thy holy place, as Moses hath
spoken. And the priests sung hymns till the sacrifice was
consumed. VIDEO: SOLEMN PONTIFICAL LATIN MASS
IN PHILADELPHIA CATHEDRAL COMMEMORATING THE 10TH
ANNIVERSARY OF SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM On September 14—the feast of the
Exaltation of the Holy Cross—Bishop Joseph Perry (Auxiliary of Chicago)
celebrated a magnificent solemn Pontifical Mass in Philadelphia’s Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, in thanksgiving for the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum on
the tenth anniversary of its coming into effect on September 14, 2007,
thereby restoring the traditional Latin Mass to the official liturgy of the
Church. Click the image below for a professional quality video of the
complete ceremony.
The glorious sacred music—with
organ, orchestra, choir and schola—for the Mass
included Mozart’s Missa Brevis in C-major, (the “Sparrow”
Mass), Elgar’s Ecce Sacerdos Magnus,
Monteverdi’s Adoramus te,
Christe, and John Blow’s Salvator
Mundi, in addition to the proper Gregorian chants. Some snapshots from the video:
What’s
different about a solemn pontifical Mass
in the usus antiquior? A solemn pontifical Mass is celebrated
by a bishop. In the Tridentine rite, it is distinguished from an “ordinary”
solemn high Mass by a number of additional ceremonies and roles that require
numerous additional clerical ministers and servers. The following reflection
(here) of Peter Kwasniewski, on a solemn
pontifical Mass he attended in Europe earlier this year, may apply as well to
this very special Mass in Philadelphia last week:
“This
fundamental contrast was brought home to me by the very ‘passivity’ of the
laity (as the progressive liturgists would have seen it) at Saturday's
liturgy. We did not do much of anything, at least outwardly. The Schola sang the Propers; the
Choir sang the Mass Ordinary; the ministers in the sanctuary sang and
whispered most of the prayers; the people sat quietly in the pews, opening
their mouths occasionally for a thunderous ‘Et cum spiritu
tuo’ or ‘Amen.’ And yet, I felt intensely involved, intensely connected with what was
happening around me and before me—I was taking part through and
through in the whole that was set before me, taking as much a part of it as I
could. . . . It was the greatest privilege to receive, to watch and
listen, pray and adore. Nothing more was needed to make this participation
complete, as it already summoned and satisfied all of my powers.” “Do your best to get to a solemn
Pontifical Mass. This experience teaches more than any books can teach.” Most of us may rarely if ever have
the opportunity to experience in person the majesty of a traditional Latin
solemn pontifical Mass. But a video like this one may at least afford a
vicarious participation in the heavenly liturgy of which such a solemn
pontifical Mass in all its glory is the fullest earthly reflection. 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 of $200 per week to Holy Ghost Church to
support the Latin Mass (and specifically our outstanding sacred music
program), plus additional expenses for purchase of Latin Mass materials,
stipends for visiting priests, and special occasions. These expenses are covered solely by donations directly
to the KLMC. Please use the special addressed Knoxville
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