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KNOXVILLE LATIN MASS COMMUNITY
NEWSLETTER MASS THIS SUNDAY (May 28, 2017) 12:00
noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville St. Edmund Campion Missal &
Hymnal page numbers: Asperges Rite: Vidi aquam (566) Order of
Mass: Missalette or Campion Missal (569) Proper Prayers and Readings (Campion 292 or propers
leaflet) Kyrie, Gloria, Credo III, Sanctus,
Agnus Dei: Mass I – Lux et erigo (696) Preface of the Ascension (Campion 688 or propers leaflet) Final Marian Antiphon: Regina Caeli (954)
3 pm, St. Joseph the Worker Church,
Madisonville 5 pm, Basilica of Sts.
Peter & Paul, Chattanooga MASS NEXT SUNDAY (June 4, 2017) Pentecost Sunday 12:00 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville 3 pm, St. Therese of Lisieux Church, Cleveland 3 pm, St. Mary Church, Johnson City ASCENSION THURSDAY (MAY 25, 2017) The Ascension of Our Lord Low Mass at the St. Mary side
altar 6 pm, St. Mary Church, Oak Ridge (directions here) REQUIEM: GREGORIAN CHANT and the MASS FOR THE DEAD
Perhaps no rite of
the Church is more distinctly Roman Catholic than the Mass for the Dead, nor
differs in tone and ethos more from its typical vernacular funeral Mass
counterpart. Whereas the typical
funeral service serves more to comfort the bereaved and memorialize the life
of the departed, the Requiem Mass explicitly offers sacrifice for the repose
of his or her soul. This altogether different emphasis of the traditional
Mass for the Dead is evoked by its Offertory chant: O Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory, deliver the souls
of all the faithful departed from the pains of Hell and from the deep pit:
deliver them from the mouth of the lion, that Hell may not swallow them up,
and they may not fall into darkness; but may the holy standard-bearer Michael
bring them into the holy light: * Which Thou didst promise of old to Abraham
and to his posterity. We offer Thee, O Lord a sacrifice of praise and
prayers; do Thou receive them in behalf of those souls whom we commemorate
this day: grant them, O Lord, to pass from death to the life * which Thou
didst promise of old to Abraham and to his posterity. a And no chant of the
Church is more evocative than that most celebrated of them all, the great Dies Irae sequence that precedes the
Gospel in the Mass for the Dead:
Released May 12 and
already headed to the top of the music charts as an Amazon “best seller”—from
priests singing at the U.S. seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP)—is
a new album including all the ancient Gregorian chants for the Requiem Mass for the Dead (e.g., p.
551 ff. in the Campion Missal). From its major-label (Sony Classical) web
site (here): Be transported throughout ancient history to all regions of the world with this beautiful and unique presentation of The Requiem. . . . The original sounds of the Requiem, or the Mass for the Dead, were heard via the plainsong melodies of Gregorian chant, voiced by devout European monks nameless to us today. The Fraternity [a name which among its priests and devotees is a shortened form for The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter] – an international community of young [traditional Latin Mass] priests that includes some of today’s most skilled and committed singers of Gregorian chant – presents these ancient melodies anew. Requiem, the debut major-label release by The Fraternity, was recorded by two of the top talents working in classical music today. . . [Multiple Grammy Award-winning producer] Christopher Alder, who has worked with some of the greatest classical singers of the past 30 years, echoes this idea that the words and melodies of the Requiem chant are deep inside the members of The Fraternity. “They know this material intimately, as it rolls out of them as if it were poetry that one has recited countless times. They know it by heart, in every sense of the term because the text is being simultaneously believed and sung at the highest level.” Fr. Garrick Huang, co-music director of The Fraternity and a singer on Requiem, reflected on the roots of Gregorian chant, saying: “The style of chant that we sing go all the way back to ancient Rome, but it even has its sources, as certain people believe, in Jerusalem, with certain melodies Middle Eastern in origin.”
The following
6-minute video (click here)
chronicles the inception and development of this uniquely inspiring album and
is as beautiful as it is informative (about both the Requiem and the
Fraternity):
See also the
following 14-minute EWTN feature (click here):
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 (e.g., stipends for visiting priests and special occasions) of
several hundred dollars monthly. These expenses are covered solely by
donations directly to the KLMC, separate from our individual members’
contributions to Holy Ghost Church itself via parish envelopes and cash
donations in the 12 pm Sunday Mass collections. Please
use the special addressed Knoxville Latin Mass Community envelopes that can
be handed in or mailed to the KLMC (but should be kept separate from and
in addition to the regular parish and diocesan offertory envelopes). ONLINE WEEKLY LATIN MASS NEWSLETTER |
