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KNOXVILLE LATIN MASS COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER MASS THIS SUNDAY (October 20,
2019) 19th Sunday after Pentecost 12:00 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville St. Edmund Campion Missal & Hymnal page numbers: Sprinkling Rite: Asperges me (567) Order of Mass: Missalette or Campion Missal (569) Proper Prayers and Readings (389) – online here, leaflet here Ordinary: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo III, Sanctus, Agnus Dei – Mass XI Orbis Factor (740) Preface of the Holy Trinity (Missalettes; Campion 598, Angelus 875, Baronius 884) Anthem to the Virgin Mary: Salve Regina – from Trinity Sunday until Advent (online here, Campion Missal 961, Angelus
Missal 116, Baronius Missal 121) 8 am, St. Mary Church, Athens 2 pm, St. Mary Church, Johnson City MASS NEXT SUNDAY (October 27,
2019) Feast of Christ the King 12 noon, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville 8 am, St. Mary Church, Athens 2 pm, St. Mary Church, Johnson City 5 pm, Basilica of Sts. Peter &
Paul, Chattanooga LATIN MASS OF ALL SAINTS Friday, November 1, 2019 (Holy Day of Obligation) 6:30 am, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville 6:30 am, St. Mary Church, Johnson City LATIN MASS OF ALL SOULS Saturday, November 2, 2019 6:30 am, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville 11 am, St. Mary Church, Johnson City PROPER ORATIONS FOR THE 19th
Sunday after Pentecost In
preparation for this Sunday’s Mass, compare the translations below with those
in your own personal hand missal (e.g., Angelus 797, Baronius 847, Campion 389). Collect
Secret
Postcommunion
"This Evening I saw the Future of the Church:
The Future is the Traditional Mass"
From an article (here) by a priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut: “This evening I saw
the future, the real Future of the Church . . . . I was invited to sit in
choir during a Traditional Solemn Mass in a parish church of my diocese. The celebrant, the pastor of the parish,
the deacon and the sub-deacon were each young priests of the diocese. The Mass was celebrated with no frills, no
excesses, no sign of aestheticism. The Feast was the Maternity of the Blessed
Virgin Mary, instituted by Pius XI to celebrate the anniversary of the
Council of Ephesus, at which Mary was proclaimed as Theotokos,
the bearer of God, affirming the full divinity of the person of Christ. “The music of the Mass was all Gregorian chant, Mass
IX. The servers were all young men,
some new to this, some quite practiced in serving this Mass. It was the worship of God in its purest
form, in its traditional form, a form whose liturgical modesty and reticence
invites prayer and therefore worship.
The sacred ministers gave themselves over to their roles in the Mass
in a naturally self-effacing way. They knew the proper tones for the various
chants and sang them well. The sermon was intelligent and truly Catholic.
These three men made worship possible by getting themselves out of the way
and letting the rite speak for itself.
“Many of the young
priests in my diocese have learnt the Traditional Roman Mass, aka the
Extraordinary Form. They love this
Mass in a sober way without any hint of “high church” prancing or
panting. They love Christ and his
Church. They are loyal to the teaching of the Magisterium. They are priests who are at home in any
situation and who enjoy each other’s company.
They enjoy the company of both men and women in their parishes. The
bureaucrats who run the Church do not know that these priests exist. And that
is good. For while the bureaucrats are
running around at synods and conferences and trying to put out noxious fires
without the water of moral purity and therefore failing every time:
these young priests, not only in my diocese, but in most dioceses
through the Catholic world, are just learning once again how to worship and
are discovering the beauty of worship, and they are teaching this to their
flock. And they, and the Traditional Mass they love — they are the Future of
the Church.” Latin Mass, Church
traditions bring boom In vocations CARMELITE
nuns From a recent LifeSiteNews article (here): In an age where
religious professions are in
decline, especially in the United States, one order is looking back in
time to buck the trend. The Discalced Carmelites have turned from the modern
Church’s reforms of the 1960s and embraced ancient traditions – particularly
the traditional Latin Mass. Now their order is booming, with multiple
at-capacity monasteries dotting the eastern U.S.
The cloistered nuns
at their Carmel in Fairfield, PA (website here) close themselves off
from the world and devote the rest of their lives to strict silence, arduous
labor, and prayer. Once they profess their vows, their faces may not be seen
in photographs until after they die. When LifeSiteNews
traveled to Pennsylvania to profile the monastery, Mother Stella-Marie of
Jesus gave
her interview from behind a heavy grate – the same grate through which the
Carmelites are permitted to speak to their family members a single time per
year. “I think the young women are drawn to
beauty in the liturgy. They know that if God exists, if God is on our altars,
if God is within the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, then He needs to be
worshiped as He deserves: with beauty and reverence,” she said of what
she thinks draws young women to the Carmelites in particular. “They see that
we have that here in our monastery, and they want to be a part of that. They
also want something that is authentic, that goes back to the time of our holy
mother, St. Teresa.”
“One of the unique aspects of our monastery,” Mother
Stella elaborated, “is that we do have the extraordinary form of the Mass. We
also have the traditional Divine Office. We pray the Office in Latin. We have
permission also to pray the traditional form of the Carmelite Office, and
young women are very much drawn to that.” Mother Stella told LifeSiteNews, “As soon as we took on the extraordinary
form of the Mass and we returned to the traditional Carmelite rite, just
everything made sense. All of our customs — we understood why we had them,
because they all flowed from the liturgy, whereas before that, there had been
a disconnect there.” Re-embracing the traditional Mass, Mother Stella
explained, effected a “complete explosion of grace and joy for the sisters.” The nuns switched
from the Novus Ordo in 2000, “and ever since
then, we’ve had a great increase in vocations, and the spirit of the
community has been one of joy and growth in the spiritual life.” With the Church’s
ancient liturgy and traditions now firmly ensconced in the order, “young
women are writing, are knocking at the door to enter,” said Mother Stella.
“The growth is very clear and very palpable.” Nor should the Latin Mass remain
confined to the monasteries, Mother Stella insisted. On the contrary, “it
should flow out into the world. And it starts with the monasteries, and then
it will flow out to families, and even to the parish life also. ONLINE WEEKLY LATIN MASS NEWSLETTER |
