Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe today

Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God.

For those with only SSPX nearby, food for thought, great video supplements!

Can I Attend an SSPX Chapel and Still Be Loyal to Rome?

Surely more Latin Masses headed to EWTN?

Latin Mass Training for the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word

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CHICAGO, IL (NOVEMBER 9, 2008) - The Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word, based in the Diocese of Birmingham, Alabama, have sent two of their priests to the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius to learn to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass.

The Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word were founded in 1987, by Mother Mary Angelica, PCPA, who also founded the Eternal Word Television Network.

Fr. Joseph and Fr. Miguel are stationed at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama, where Mother Angelica and the Poor Clare Nuns are cloistered.

Each day Fr. Joseph and Fr. Miguel have had the opportunity to study and observe the various forms of the Traditional Latin Mass with the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius.

They have attended Low Mass, High Mass, High Mass with Incense, Requiem High Mass with Incesnse and the Absolution over the Catafalque, as well as Solemn High Requiem Mass.

Since the Summer of 2007 the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius have trained almost 175 priests to celebrate the Extraordinary Form of the Mass through the Sancta Missa Latin Mass Workshops. Future workshops are planned for the Winter and Spring to be held on the campus of Mundelein Seminary at the Cardinal Stritch Retreat House. For more information visit: http://www.sanctamissa.org/workshops/

After a week of study, observation, instruction and preparation, Fr. Joseph and Fr. Miguel were able to offer their first Tridentine Latin Masses at St. John Cantius Church in Chicago.

On Friday, November 7, 2008, at the hour of Divine Mercy, Fr. Joseph celebrated his first Tridentine Latin Mass in honor of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Fr. Miguel and Br. Juan, a novice in the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius, served Fr. Joseph’s Holy Mass at the side altar dedicated to St. Joseph in the Church of St. John Cantius, Chicago.

On Saturday, November 8, 2008, Fr. Miguel celebrated his first Mass in the Extraordinary Form (1962 Missale Romanum) at the High Altar of St. John Cantius, Chicago.

As his religious vocation and priesthood is dedicated to Our Lady under the title of Our Lady, Mediatrix of All Grace, Fr. Miguel celebrated the Votive Mass for Our Lady Mediatrix of All Grace.

Congratulations to the Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word for their efforts in learning to offer the Extraordinary Form of the Mass according to the 1962 Missale Romanum under the instruction of the Canons Regular of St. John Cantius in Chicago.

Traditional Catholic Radio is here!

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Click on the listen link on the upper left hand corner. The schedule is the home page, which makes it convenient to see immediately what's on and what coming next. Lots of great stuff here, Rosary in Latin, Chant, great discourse. Bookmark it!

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Seminarians in the future. This is great.

"This is a video made for Alumni Day 2007 at Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. The premise is that the class of 1957 made a short film about what the seminary would be like in 2007."

Church designs gone wrong

Today at Latin Mass, Father Kloster discussed church architecture and how the Cathedrals in the US leave quite a lot to be desired. He discussed one such Cathedral in Lincoln.

You be the judge:





Yowsa.














Los Angeles Cathedral:









What the? Father Kloster mentioned that the LA Cathedral looks like a spaceship. Um, yeah, I'd have to concur.

Singapore: Traditional Latin Mass Draws Young Working Adults

Union of Catholic Asian News » News Archive » Traditional Latin Mass Draws Young Working Adults: "SINGAPORE (UCAN) -- 'Dominus vobiscum' (the Lord be with you), the priest says, and about 40 people answer, 'Et cum spiritu tuo' (and with your spirit). The priest then turns his back on them and continues the opening prayer facing the cross and tabernacle.

singapore_1.gifA traditional Latin Mass has begun in the bright chapel of St. Joseph's Institution International School. This Mass, held the fourth Sunday of every month, follows the liturgical books published with the approval of Blessed John XXIII in 1962, before that pope opened the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). It features Gregorian chant, and only the homily is not in Latin.

What immediately strikes a first-time visitor to this Mass, organized by the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) movement in Singapore, is the congregation. The young working adults, mostly in their 20s, who make up about three-fourths of the people were born after local languages replaced Latin in liturgies following Vatican Council II.

Only Catholics 45 and older, just one-fourth of this group, would have had the chance to attend the traditional Mass in Latin as children. Jenson Tay, coordinator for the TLM movement, did not."

The 28-year-old tonsured seminarian is taking a leave of absence after his first year of seminary life with the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) in Australia. The fraternity, founded in 1988 with Pope John Paul II's approval, trains its priests to celebrate the traditional Latin liturgy, which the Church recognizes as an extraordinary form of the Roman rite.

Tay also spoke of his role as "master of ceremonies" in another Latin Mass, held the second Sunday of every month at the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour.

That Mass uses the ordinary form of the Roman rite, used around the world today, in which the priest faces the congregation. But everything except the Scripture readings and homily are in Latin rather than a local language. Gregorian chant is used for the hymns.

Into Great Silence

Eagerly awaiting...

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Extraordinary Form Workshop a Success

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CHICAGO, IL (SEPTEMBER 5, 2008) - From August 25-29, 2008, laity from around the Midwestern region of the United States convened at the Cardinal Stritch Retreat House at Chicago’s Mundelein Seminary to attend a Workshop for Laity in the Extraordinary Form of the Mass guided by Fr. Scott Haynes, S.J.C.

Each day participants enjoyed participating in both a Low Mass in the morning and a High Mass in the afternoon. The daytime was filled with conferences, tutorials in both Latin and Gregorian Chant and with stimulating conversation. The evenings afforded time for Eucharistic Adoration at the evening Holy Hour, which included the recitation of the Most Holy Rosary in Latin, led by the participants themselves.

Those in attendance learned to sing Gregorian Chant for the Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missale Romanum). Some participants joined in the schola cantorum for the Missa Cantata, which was celebrated each day.

Everyone enjoyed the interesting lectures about the Classical Form of the Roman Rite. Lectures topics included:

“History of the Mass of the Roman Rite,” “Liturgical Ceremonies and Mystical Theology in the Mass,” “The Traditional Latin Mass in Parish Life Today,” “Spirituality and Active Participation in the Liturgy,” and “The Splendor of Beauty and the Liturgical Arts.”

Returning from an exciting liturgical conference held in Budapest, Hungary, Fr. Dennis Kolinski, S.J.C., shared some of the insights and thoughts discussed in Budapest with Dr. Alcuin Reid, Dr. Laurence Hemming, Dr. Lauren Pristas, and others.

By the week’s end, everyone had deepened his understanding about the Mass which is “the most beautiful thing this side of heaven.”

Padre Pio Shrine in San Antonio, Historical Videos

Due to our kids being in CYO soccer, we are currently unable to attend Latin Mass at St. Pius X. This is a source of great distress to me as any Latin Mass devotee will surely empathize with. So, today, we attended Padre Pio Shrine here, a new parish that was established in 2001. It is a very modern and unattractive architechtural edifice, much like a strip mall or medical clinic type building. Anyhow, the Mass was a Novus Ordo nightmare. It was as bad as it gets. Youth Choir with piano player lead singer and electronic drummer to give all the reorchestrated prayers and hymns a pop groove. They have two gigantic screens on either side that display via a projector the lyrics to hymns, as well as the weekly bulletin which was displayed before and after Mass. It was neat to be honest, but as you might guess, highly distracting and not conducive to any form of reverence. There were females dressed immodestly in abundance, shorts, flip flops, the gamut. Half the church bailed after Communion. It was pathetic, real chaff ready for the fire.

At any rate, I love Padre Pio, and decided to do a little more reading and study on one of my favorite stigmatists. At a minimum I wanted to at least slow the rate of turns that the Blessed Saint is rolling in his grave after this travesty of a Mass being said at the Shrine that bears his name. Wikipedia indicates that he continued to say the Latin Mass until his death with permission from Pope Paul VI due to his ill health. That is comforting to me in many ways. So I found a few videos of Padre Pio, Part 4 has video of his last Mass, what a beautiful thing.

Saint Padre Pio, please help restore the Latin Mass throughout the world. Help us correct errors in our beloved Church. Saint Padre Pio, pray for us.




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Part 4

Low interest or Diocesan censorship?|

Personally, I believe if all dioceses would allow one Latin Mass to be added to their Mass schedule, we would see exponential growth at a very rapid clip. But this isn't happening because left of center dioceses are making it tough for priests to say a Latin Mass by making them take rigorous Latin tests that are all but impossible to pass. It's ok though, the train has left the station. Latin Mass will be victorious in due course. You can't stop a good thing.

Chesapeake chapel rare in saying Latin Mass | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com: "Pope Benedict XVI gave a thumbs-up last July to wider use of the Latin Mass, but a year later the old rite is still hard to find in the Richmond Diocese, which includes Hampton Roads.

In fact, none of the diocese's more than 150 parishes has added the Tridentine rite to its worship schedules, Catherine Combier-Donovan, of the diocese's Office of Worship, said recently.

'There's been a bit of interest expressed' among parishioners, 'but not a great deal.' The diocese is talking with Lynchburg-area congregants interested in adding the Latin Mass to local worship, she said."

Course to prepare altar servers for Latin Mass

Course to prepare altar servers for Latin Mass - SILive.com: "The New York Latin Liturgy Association will sponsor a training course for Catholic men and boys over 8 who want to learn how to serve the traditional Latin Mass of the Roman Catholic Church.

A year ago, the Vatican cleared the way for priests throughout the world to celebrate the Latin mass without prior approval from their bishops. Since then, according to William J. Leininger, chairman of the Grasmere-based Latin Liturgy Association, more than 100 Latin masses have been scheduled across the country, with 10 celebrated within the Archdiocese of New York. He said several Island parishes also are planning to offer masses in Latin."

Beautiful rendition of Ave Maria

CNS STORY: Rome Diocese erects parish dedicated to use of Tridentine Mass

CNS STORY: Rome Diocese erects parish dedicated to use of Tridentine Mass: "VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Diocese of Rome has erected a 'personal parish' in Rome's city center dedicated to the celebration of the Tridentine Mass.

The Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, reported May 15 that Cardinal Camillo Ruini, papal vicar for Rome, recently designated the Church of the Holy Trinity of the Pilgrims as a parish where the pre-Second Vatican Council liturgy will be celebrated exclusively. The newspaper said the cardinal had entrusted the church to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.

Pope Benedict XVI's 2007 document, 'Summorum Pontificum,' allowed for wider use of the Mass in Latin using the 1962 Roman Missal. The document also said a bishop could designate a specific parish where the older form of the Mass would be used exclusively and not simply as an occasional alternative to the post-Vatican II liturgy.

Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, president of the Pontifical Council 'Ecclesia Dei,' which oversees the pastoral care of traditionalist Catholics, said the establishment of the Rome parish is a sign that 'Summorum Pontificum' is being implemented in dioceses.

'The realization of a personal parish (in Rome) also has the value of being an example for other dioceses in Italy and elsewhere,' Cardinal Castrillon said."

Onwards Traditionalist Catholics!

Another great youtube vid...

Wow! 3,000 Iraqis become Catholic!

latin mass : Tags : Holy Smoke : UK : Telegraph Blogs: "Three thousand Iraqi Christians living in America have become Roman Catholics together, in a deal with the Vatican that will spark the interest of traditionalist Anglicans who want to convert en masse without losing their cultural identity."

Between medieval and folk, two Mass audiences

The rise of the traditionalist Catholicism affirmed more every day, here an interesting article on music from the Washington Post. I concur with the sentiment expressed by the blogger in the article that most American parishes have a hardcore 70's group that controls the reins, but I see this as fading.

Between medieval and folk, two Mass audiences: "WASHINGTON Catholics don't argue about abortion or the death penalty nearly as much as they argue about what music is sung (or not sung, or used to be sung) at their local Sunday Mass.

It was ever thus — at least since the 1960s, when Sister first shortened her habit, strummed a G7 chord and, to hear some Catholics tell it, all heck broke loose.

Among his more fastidious devotees, Pope Benedict XVI is valued most for the fact that he is not Casey Kasem, and Mass is no place for a hit parade, and church is most relevant when it is serious."

Newsmax magazine: The Great Crusader

Newsmax magazine: The Great Crusader: "Pope Benedict XVI's historic visit to the United States comes at a critical time for the Roman Catholic Church and the West.

His visit comes as the Church grapples with a growing secularist trend in the U.S. and Europe — and a rising global threat from militant Islam.

Newsmax magazine's special report 'The Great Crusader' reveals the behind-the-scenes effort the Pope is making to revitalize the ancient Church for its present battle and the important role he sees the United States and her people playing.

The new edition of Newsmax magazine is hitting newsstands across the country, including many Barnes & Noble, Hastings, Follett, B.Dalton, Books-A-Million, Joseph Beth and other major bookstores, as well as Publix, Meijer, Kroger's, Wegman's, and Harris Teeter supermarkets, Hudson News and Host airport newsstands, and Sam's Club stores."

All your Mass belong to us.

This is so classic. But, you'd have to be a gamer between the ages of 30 and 40 or so, as well as a traditionalist Roman Catholic to fully appreciate this gem.

The hermeneutic of continuity: Pope Benedict discourages communion in the hand

The hermeneutic of continuity: Pope Benedict discourages communion in the hand: "Pope Benedict discourages communion in the hand"

Check this out! Changes are happening at a very rapid clip, and I'm happy to report...in the right direction!

Return of Latin Mass fills church

LancasterOnline.com:News:Return of Latin Mass fills church:

"Et cum spiritu tuo ...

Oremus ...

It's been nearly 40 years since the words of the Latin Mass — The Lord be with you; And with thy spirit; Let us pray — echoed through the sanctuary of St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church.

Rosie Gross found the Latin responses coming almost automatically.

'One man said it's like riding a bicycle,' the Lancaster woman said."