Let me tell you a story about a woman who used to self-describe herself as a “cool mom”. This cool mom grew up as an evangelical and later in life began to attend a much more liberal, Protestant church. As an evangelical, she remembered wearing those little round dollies on her head only when she [...]
This mass has been canceled due to the difficult travel conditions resulting from Hurricane Sandy.
There will be a Missa Cantata in the Dominican Rite on All Souls Day, Friday, November 2, 2012, 7 PM, at St Catherine of Siena. Fun fact about the Dominican Rite: The Dominican rite was approved in 1267. Even though after Vatican II, the Dominican order chose to celebrate the newer Roman Rite, there seems [...]
In the Extraordinary form, the Collect for the thirteenth Sunday of Pentecost says: OMNÍPOTENS sempitérne Deus, da nobis fídei, spei, et caritátis augméntum: et, ut mereámur ássequi quod promíttis, fac nos amáre quod præcipis. Per Dóminum. Almighty and everlasting God, grant unto us an increase of faith, hope and charity: and that we may obtain [...]
There apparently is an internet petition circulating for our Holy Father to celebrate the 1962 mass publicly. From Eponymous Flower The Brazilian Attorney Ottavio Demasi has started an Internet Petition. It aims to move Pope Benedict XVI to publicly celebrate the Rite of 1962. The petition has been running since early July. Demasi is active [...]
From Father Z’s blog: On Sunday, August 5, at 10:30 am, a Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form will be held at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, 84 K Street, Turners Falls, Montague, Massachusetts. Fr. Robert Fromageot, FSSP, will be the celebrant. Seminarians from Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Denton, Nebraska, will serve [...]
From New Liturgical Movement: Fr. William V. Blazek, S.J., newly ordained for the Jesuit Chicago-Detroit province, celebrated his first Solemn High Mass (Traditional Mass) on June 24 (Nativity of St. John the Baptist) at Mary Immaculate of Lourdes in Newton, MA. Serving as deacon was Fr. Charles J. Higgins of the Archdiocese of Boston and [...]
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen does an amazing job in explaining the beauty and holiness of the Traditional Latin Mass in this 1941 video. Pray that one day, what is now called the Extraordinary form will become the Ordinary form again.
The Epistle – Romans 6. 19-23 FRATRES: Humánum dico, propter infirmitátem carnis vestræ: sicut enim exhibuístis membra vestra servíre immundítiæ, et iniquitáti ad iniquitátem, ita nunc exhibéte membra vestra servíre justítiæ in sanctificatiónem. Cum enim servi essétis peccáti, líberi fuístis justítiæ. Quem ergo fructum habuístis tunc in illis, in quibus nunc erubéscitis? Nam finis illòrum [...]
