FSSP Superior General to offer Mass at St. Augustine Church in St. Paul

Father John Echert, Pastor of Holy Trinity and St. Augustine churches in So. St. Paul, has invited The Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), the Very Rev. John Berg to offer the 11:30 Traditional Latin Mass at the Church of St. Augustine (408 3rd St. N. in So. St. Paul) on the 27th of November. The Fraternity of St. Peter is an international priestly fraternity established by Pope John Paul II to provide the traditional Mass and Sacraments to Catholics around the world under the provisions established by the motu proprio Ecclesia Dei.

There will be a reception for Father Berg in the church hall immediately after Mass, at which time he will also offer a brief presentation on the general mission of the Fraternity of St. Peter. So please--tell your friends and family members, forward this email to your Catholic contacts, pray for the success of this event, and mark your calendars for the 27th of November.

St Augustine also is the place where that potential Eucharistic miracle occurred a while back.

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FatherZ: Pontifical TLM in … Miami? Miami!

I learn about this here.

Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami will be celebrate a Pontifical High Mass at Miami’s Church of the Epiphany (7:30pm) on 2 February 2012, Feast of the Presentation.

This will be the first time in over 40 years that a bishop has celebrated a Pontifical High Mass, according to the Missal of 1962, in the State of Florida. The Mass is part of a symposium jointly sponsored by both Nova Southeastern University and Church Music Association of America.

The symposium is titled “Gregorian Chant and Modern Composition for the Catholic Liturgy: Charles Tournemire’s ‘L’Orgue Mystique’ as Guide ” The Mass will feature the French composer and organist’s compositions for the Feast of the Presentation.

For more information about the Symposium, see here.

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Of course in this state, Bishop Morlino has celebrated the Traditional Mass....  I'm not sure if he has celebrated a Pontifical Mass though?  Perhaps Madison Cathedral folks could fill us in.  I know there is at least one bishop in Minnesota celebrating the Traditional Mass but he as of yet has not celebrated a Pontifical Mass.  As far as I know, Cardinal Burke has never said the Traditional Mass in the state of Wisconsin(at least publicly)...  It seems like that should be a trivia question considering how many other states and countries he has Pontifical-ed in. 

ICKSP makes first pilgrimage to Good Help Shrine

As Cardinal Raymond Burke and the Institute in Europe were making their annual pilgrimage of vocations to the Basilica of St. Therese in Lisieux, France, on October 15, the canons and faithful of the Institute in the American Midwest made their first pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in Robinsonville, near Green Bay, Wisconsin.

The apparition of Our Lady to Adele Brise on October 9, 1859, is the first Marian apparition in the United States to receive diocesan approval. It followed close upon the dedication of the United States to the Immaculate Conception in 1847, the proclamation of that dogma in 1854, and the Marian apparitions at Lourdes in 1858. The Queen of Heaven asked Sister Adele to pray and offer sacrifices for the conversion of sinners and to teach the catechism to the children of the region. Our Lady promised her help in this mission. Now more than ever, we should not hesitate to fly to Our Lady of Good Help to beg her assistance in educating the youth and building a true Catholic culture.

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Sts. Crispin and Crispinian, ora pro nobis!

I wonder if A and K still follow the BC...  The feast was made famous by Shakespeare's epic speech in Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt.  Crispin and Crispinian were twin brothers who were martyred in the early Church.  The feast was removed from the General Calendar following the Vatican II liturgical reforms.

Martyrdom of SS Crispin and Crispinian

Makes me feel like standing up on a beer barrel and giving this speech to Sconnies as to how we will pass Personhood in Wisconsin.

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By the great peace offering of the Cross, Grant us peace

Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today; and the same for ever. Hebrews 13:8.  I found this amazing photo in an antique store. On the back the writing says...Father Vincent F. Hart, Freeglatz Yard, Mainz, Germany July 8, 1945.

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Weekly Traditional Latin Mass in Kenosha, and an endorsement?

Kenosha and Racine Area Catholics
A 12 Noon Sunday Traditional Latin Mass will be offered weekly at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church.

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church
1919-54th Street, Kenosha, WI
Phone: 262-652-7660

Father Dwight Campbell and Father Benjamin Reese will offer this Mass regularly.

Please visit Apostles of Jesus Christ to learn more about the new society of diocesan priests located at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Parish.

Latin Mass Kenosha

Innnnnnnte'esting!  So if we go to the society's website, look at what we find there....

"Father Campbell and Father Reese bring with them a rich tradition, a pastoral heritage, a heart for the people that they serve but also a vision; a vision to create a spirituality in the lives of many as apostles of Jesus Christ who is both priest and victim."

His Eminence Jerome Listecki
Archbishop Of Milwaukee

Fr. Meney elevates the Holy Eucharist before Holy Communion.

Thoughts from Green Bay area Catholic on first Tradtional Mass experience

Today I attended the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite for the very first time. I'd wanted to go for a while, and never managed it. Luckily, however, the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest has an oratory site in Green Bay and celebrates both High and Low Masses every single Sunday. Mindy, Jason, and I went along, and I'm still processing, but I have some observations:

Having been interested in Latin Mass for some time, I've done my research, so I knew a bit what to expect and felt comfortable most of the time. I didn't have a missal with all the prayers, but I had my Handbook which contains the text of the Ordinary Form in both Latin and English as well as collects and Prefaces for each Sunday, so followed along as best I could. I didn't find it daunting to not know exactly what the priest and altar boys were saying. I knew the basics, and that was enough to foster an atmosphere of prayer.

I loved loved loved that the people there were really dressed in their Sunday Best. Many men wore suits. Most wore, at the very least, nice shirts and ties. Women were all in skirts and dresses of modest length (ie, knee-length or longer). Shoulders were covered. No tank tops, shorts, jeans, stiletto heels. Even little children were in "nicer" clothes.

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Cardinal Burke visits French Benedictine Abbey Notre-Dame de Fontgombault

details at New Liturgical Movement

Pretty sure this is where the monks of Our Lady of Clear Creek in Oklahoma came from originally.

"In the manner of our ancestors"

St. Padre Pio celebrating the Extraordinary Form of the Mass.

Orbis Catholicus Secundus

From Wikipedia

Padre Pio is one of only two saints who were priests living after the Second Vatican Council; the other being Saint Josemaria Escriva.  Both priests had permission from the pope to offer the traditional Latin Mass without any of the liturgical reforms that stemmed from the [Second Vatican] Council.

Duluth deacon gets first taste of solemn high Mass

When Deacon Scott Peters of St. Benedict in Duluth was in deacon formation, he was told repeatedly that you never know just what ministry you will find yourself in. But perhaps the last thing he expected was to be preparing for a solemn high Mass as it would have been celebrated in 1962.

Yet that Mass, with a polyphony choir, a chant schola, servers and another permanent deacon who is coming up from a Twin Cities parish famous for its traditional liturgies to fill the subdeacon role, will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 14, at St. Benedict. The liturgical celebration is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, and it is the anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum,” which liberalized access to the traditional Mass.

“I never thought that I would be working in liturgy, especially the Traditional Latin Mass,” Deacon Peters said. When he was in formation, he was doing social work and thought his ministry might involve that. He says he didn’t even know what the old rite was.

He said the whole thing began with the Duluth Men’s Schola. (Full disclosure: This writer is the founder and director of the schola, which will be singing Sept. 14.) Then Father Eric Hastings, who will celebrate the Sept. 14 Mass, began to offer the simplest version of the Traditional Latin Mass, a “low Mass,” and there were no servers, so Deacon Peters learned how to serve.

From there, things began to develop slowly. The next step was doing the more complicated sung version of the Traditional Latin Mass, a “missa cantata,” culminating in a heavily attended missa cantata last year featuring a polyphony choir. (This year the choir will be singing William Byrd’s “Mass for Four Voices.”)

From there, the next step was a solemn high Mass, which is vastly more complex — and a vastly more demanding liturgy for a deacon.

Deacon Peters said all along it was something meant to be guided by the Holy Spirit and carried out peacefully.

“There are no agendas, there were no expectations, it was just people who loved liturgy and wanted to be faithful to what the Holy Father was asking of us,” he said.

He said the pope’s writings on the liturgy call the older form of the liturgy a “precious treasure to be preserved” and something he wants to offer “to all the faithful.”

“In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture,” the pope wrote in Summorum Pontificum, in a passage pointed out by Deacon Peters. “What earlier generations held as sacred remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place.”

In the Traditional Latin Mass, there is really no liturgical role for a deacon in the low Mass or even in a missa cantata. All that changes in the solemn high Mass. For one thing, he will have to chant the Gospel — in Latin.

But the complexity goes well beyond that. Deacon Peters said the deacon’s role includes praying some of the prayers that in the ordinary form of the liturgy are said only by the priest.

“It’s a subordinate role, but it’s much more assisting the priest,” he said. “. . . It’s very heavy rubrics, and the deacon is assisting the priest in every aspect of it.”

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Brick of cheese by brick of cheese.

Photo

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Wis.SJ: Growing number of Catholics push for return to Latin Mass

Ellie Arkin doesn't speak Latin, so upon entering Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in Madison on a recent Sunday, the 21-year-old UW-Madison student opened a Latin-to-English translation book provided by the church.

For the next hour, she and many of the other parishioners followed along in the book as the Mass unfolded mostly in Latin.

For centuries, this was the only way Catholics around the world experienced Mass. Reforms ushered in by Vatican II in the 1960s largely eliminated Latin Mass, but now, across the country and in the Madison Catholic Diocese, traditionalists are seeking its comeback.

Supporters say it offers a reverence and gravity lacking in today's more casual worship approach.

"There's this incredible sacredness you can feel and taste and see — it is not just a social gathering," said Jacek Cianciara, 67, of Madison, one of the parishioners helping to bring back Latin Mass locally.

Other Catholics find the older style needlessly difficult to follow and too passive.

"When it's in Latin, it's just rote — you're not reading the words for the real meaning," said Alice Jenson, 66, of Fitchburg. "I'm opposed to having this artificial barrier being put up."

Catholics now can attend a Mass in Latin somewhere in the 11-county diocese every day, although the vast majority of worship services remain in English. About 200 Catholics consistently attend a Latin Mass at least weekly, with others dropping in periodically, the diocese estimates.

That's a tiny slice of total church attendance — about 57,000 people attend Mass in the diocese each week — but it's a vocal and growing slice.

Read more: http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/article_5ff07426-cc16-11e0-8af0-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1VylBj8q7

I have a great deal to say on the matter and no time.  I'll follow up when I have time.  Nice to see a secular paper take notice(even when diocesan papers seem not to). 

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Traditional Latin Mass at Guadalupe Shrine for Assumption Feast

There will be a 5:30 pm Mass in the Extraordinary Form next Monday the 15th for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Bishop Callahan performs Traditional Confirmation at St. Mary's in Wausau

Bp Callahan at St. Mary's Oratory in Wausau

On Saturday, July 9, His Excellency, the Most Reverend William P. Callahan, Bishop of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, made his first pastoral visit to St. Mary’s Oratory in Wausau and conferred the Sacrament of Confirmation in the Extraordinary Form on sixty-five candidates. Over one third of the candidates are faithful who attend the Institute’s apostolate at Saint Mary’s in Cashton, Wisconsin, which is also located in the Diocese of LaCrosse.

Following the Confirmations, Canon Matthew Talarico, Vice-Provincial, celebrated a Solemn High Mass in the presence of Bishop Callahan. His Excellency was assisted during the Confirmations and the Mass by Canon William Avis, provincial Master of Ceremonies for the Institute’s US province, by Canon Henrique Fragelli, Rector of Saint Mary’s in Wausau, and by Canon Glenn Gardner, Rector of the Institute’s apostolate in Cashton.

more photos at ICKSP - Wausau 

Great photos!  Oddly enough, I've never seen the interior at St. Mary's in Wausau.  Fantastic!  Outstanding!  Beautiful!  Thank you Bishop Callahan for your support!

We're selling our house and looking for a new home right now.  This make me want to move to Wausau.  Would I move to a new city just for a beautiful church and liturgy?  That's affirmative.  I know an Australian Catholic who's children can serve the entire Byzantine Rite liturgy.  The Latin Rite liturgy was so terrible that the family joined a Byzantine Rite parish.  The gentleman laughed as the scoffers who say nobody can learn the Latin since all his children learned Ukrainian to serve at Mass.  When you fall in love with the beauty of Catholic liturgy, no substitute will satisfy. 

Cardinal Burke at Fota IV Liturgical Conference in Dublin

Cardinal Burke with the Lassus Scholars

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Some more photos from New Liturgical Movement

Philadelphia's new archbishop

You know what the headlines are likely to be: "Pope names arch-conservative to Philadelphia," or "Hard-liner to take over Philly church." Are you really an arch-conservative and a hard-liner?

I actually don't see myself as a conservative at all. I try to be faithful to the church's teaching, as the church has handed it on to us. I don't feel that as a Christian or as a bishop I have a right to play with that tradition, which is the apostolic tradition of the church ... As an example, I certainly want to be faithful to the Holy Father and his teaching about the traditional expression of the Roman liturgy in the Tridentine form. I supported that and will continue to support that. It isn't, however, my personal interest or direction.

NCR - Exclusive interview with Archbishop Charles Chaput

Everyone else is covering this pretty close.  If you want more info, you can check out NewAdvent for the latest.

Also Regnum Novum has a great 2008 interview of Archbishop Chaput by Peter Robinson.

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