Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

I received an email today from my contact in Southern Maryland: I checked the St. Mary’s bulletin online for the TLM on Tuesday and found that the TLM is scheduled for Friday instead . "LATIN TRIDENTINE MASS - Rev. Mark White will be offering a Latin Tridentine Mass in the Church on Friday, September 26th at 7:00 pm . Why not take this opportunity to either acquaint or re-acquaint yourself with this 'Extraordinary Form of the Holy Mass.'" If you are close by, why not attend?

AmericanPapist >> Breaking: USCCB releases 2-page responding to Pelosi The New Liturgical Movement >> Institute of Christ the King to celebrate Extraordinary Form of the Latin Mass on EWTN The New Liturgical Movement >> Dominican Liturgical Books Whispers in the Loggia >> The Pelosi Push Continues

This is a second article of interest today. It is detailed enough that I placed it as a separate link . The questioner has an excellent comment. Fr. John then tries to get to the details of the matter which are not simple. It is worthy of note as a starting point for a LONG discussion.

Creative Minority Report >> Liturgical Institute, Mundelein, Adds Course on the Extraordinary Form Summorum Pontificum >> Mundelein Adds Required Course on the Extraordinary Form AmericanPapist >> Report: Superior English translation of the Mass approved by the Holy See (Confirmation needed as it is embargoed) WDTPRS >> An interesting Curial shift coming up WDTPRS >> UK Petition to the Bishops for the TLM WDTPRS >> QUAERITUR: advice for a wymynpryst wannabe Creative Minority Report >> On Christian Unity

Summorum Pontificum >> Saner (SSPX) heads prevail (with comments on WDTPRS and RORATE CAELI's posts) The New Liturgical Movement >> EF at the Eucharistic Congress The New Liturgical Movement >> FSSP Ordinations in Wigratzbad with Cardinal Rodé

Father John Zuhlsdorf has the entire Ordination in a photo montage from the EWTN Live liturgy . He also has extensive commentary on the entire Ordination and the Mass. It was beautiful to see. Please visit! There are now 62 comments on this thread and many more are sure to come. The most heartfelt congratulations go out to the four new Reverend Fathers who were ordained this day! Hat tip and photo credit: WDTPRS!

Jeffrey Tucker of The New Liturgical Movement has great news to report ! Here is just a snippet: The Church Music Association of America is making fast progress on printing a new book. It is called Psallite Sapienter: A Musician's Guide to the 1962 Missal . It is by B. Andrew Mills, the marvelous and learned organist at St. Agnes in New York. It is the one reference that every Catholic musician needs to provide music for the extraordinary form. [...] Please check out this story . There is a link to where you can purchase this book!

The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (F.S.S.P.) has updated the training schedule for priests and seminarians in the Extraordinary Form . The current schedule looks like this: Upcoming dates for Extraordinary Form Seminars: Low Mass May 12 - May 16 (Monday - Friday) $300.00 Low Mass June 16 - June 20 (Monday - Friday) $300.00 Sung Mass *NEW* June 23 - June 27 (Monday - Friday) $250.00 Low & Sung Mass June 16 - June 27 (Monday - Friday, two weeks) $500.00* * To celebrate the 1st Anniversary of the Motu Proprio - Summorum Pontificum we are offering a special discount for those who wish to attend both June sessions on Low and Sung Mass. Please consult the website for full costs, instructions and availability .

Gregor Kollmorgen of The New Liturgical Movement reports on the Extraordinary Form of the Mass ( as reported by John Paul Sonnen of Orbis catholicus ) celebrated in Rome today. Go here for Gregor's story, photo and the link to the report .

The New Liturgical Movement : The Question of Vernacular Readings in the Usus Antiquior: An Answer ? (A response to a question to the PCED) The New Liturgical Movement : The Announcement of the Beatification of Cardinal Henry John Newman ? Whispers in the Loggia: Discourse of Pope Benedict XVI to the Representatives of Other Christian Communities

This information came via email from my friend with knowledge on all issues on the TLM. Hat tip, J.! The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (F.S.S.P.) has prepared an instructional Mass video called, "The Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite: An Instructional Video for Priests and Seminarians. " There is a special pre-order price of $19.99. This is a 2-DVD disc set (3 hours total) offered in NTSC format (which will not work properly in overseas CD players using PAL or SECAM format). Go to this site for more information on what the DVDs entail . The DVD has been done in collaboration with the EWTN Global Television Network and is designed to teach priests and seminarians how to say Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite .

Here is a link to the EWTN website with a reminder of the Missa Cantata in the Extraordinary Form to be celebrated tomorrow morning, Sunday, April 6th, at 8 AM EDT . For those interested, EWTN has posted a PDF booklet pertaining to this Mass on its Resources page . Please note that in the right menu bar near the bottom, I have links to both EWTN radio and TV. If your computer is equipped with TV software, you can watch it linked here.

Father Zuhlsdorf of " What Does the Prayer Really Say ?" has a good post today on the necessity of tracking statistics for the Extraordinary Form . Read his post here .

New Catholic of RORATE CAELI has an eye-popping post: the Archbishop of Paris, Cardinal Vingt-Trois, has announced the return of the Usus Antiquior Mass to the Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of Paris (Notre-Dame de Paris) sometime in June . Laus Deo!

I am indebted to the Tridentine Latin Rite Missal Project for this post . The Holy Thursday Mass readings appear to be fully accurate except for the special forms of the Communicantes , Hanc Igitur , etc. which can be found only in a Missal such as the Summorum Pontificum F.S.S.P. version of the Baronius Missal . GOSPEL ¤ John 13. 1-15 † Continuation of the holy Gospel according to St. John. † Sequentia sancti Evangelii secundum Ioannem. [Washing of the feet. Humility of Our Lord Jesus Christ.] Ante diem festum Paschae, sciens Iesus quia venit hora eius, ut transeat ex hoc mundo ad Patrem: cum dilexisset suos, qui erant in mundo, in finem dilexit eos. Et coena facta, cum diabolus iam mississet in cor ut traderet eum Iudas Simonis Iscariotae: sciens quia omnia dedit ei Pater in manus, et quia a Deo exivit et ad Deum vadit: surgit a coena, et ponit vestimenta sua: et cum accepisset linteum, praecinxit se. Deinde mittit aquam in pelim, et coepit lavare pedes discipulorum,

This was posted previously, but I thought I'd do it once more . Click this link for a previous post summarizing the schedules here (Baltimore) and in D.C. I have posted the schedules for Saint Alphonsus and for Saint James the Greater in Charles Town, WV. DC Catholic has a link to the DC calendar of events. Also note the list of Parishes on the menu bar to the right . Many have their bulletins online on their website and so will have their particular Holy Week schedules. Also, check here . This is a search from MassTimes.org and lists ALL Latin Masses in the region (both the TLM and the Ordinary Form). This may help you narrow your search. Note that Silver Spring was chosen arbitrarily as the "center" for this search. Finally, here is a list of all Parishes in the Baltimore metro region . The times include Sunday Mass and Vigils. Many have web pages. If you know the zip code you are visiting, you should be able to find a "close fit."

I checked my favorite website, MassTimes.org and found several new TLM Masses I thought I 'd list on this blog's menu bar to the right . To discover these, I entered MassTimes.org, used a search string beginning with a local zip code and stipulated "Latin" as being the preferred language . It returned both the Latin Novus Ordo Masses and those Masses listed as being in the Extraordinary Form . Here is the full complement . I now have listed Georgetown University which has the TLM being celebrated on Sundays in Copley Crypt during the school year, and both St. Lawrence and St. Catherine of Siena in Virginia. Please email me if you have any corrections, if one of the Churches listed obtains a website or if special events are taking place. I am happy to post this information.

George P. Matysek Jr. files this important story in the Catholic Review Online . Monsignor Robert J. Jaskot is stepping down as Chancellor of the Archdiocese and has been appointed as Director of the Archdiocesan Office of Worship by Archbishop Edwin O'Brien . As the story explains: The new office will provide support and education to parishes in the area of liturgy and worship. Monsignor Jaskot expects to have the office up and running by September after completing his licentiate in canon law at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. In addition to heading the office of worship, Monsignor Jaskot will serve as an adjunct faculty member and teach an introductory sacraments class at St. Mary’s Seminary, Roland Park. [...] Monsignor Jaskot said liturgy has always been one of his passions. He holds a licentiate in sacred theology in dogmatic theology specializing in sacraments from the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm in Rome. His bachelor’s degree in sacred theol

Rorate Caeli has now confirmed a story it had posted once before and was asked to remove . To wit, a Personal Parish for the Extraordinary Form is to be established in Rome : the traditional Mass apostolate in Rome under Fr. Joseph Kramer is to be elevated into a personal parish, with Fr. Kramer as its first parish priest. Read the story here ! Update: Gregor Kollmorgen has a nice story on this as well on The New Liturgical Movement with photos and a translation of the complete article ! Further Update: Fr. Zuhlsdorf adds more details on this development. He refers to it as one of Rome's " treasure Churches."

Following up on Fr. John Zuhlsdorf's post earlier today, Shawn Tribe of the NLM now posts the entire letter from Cardinal George HERE . Also, according to Fr. Zuhlsdorf, Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos will ordain the new Deacons of the F.S.S.P. in Nebraska in May. He is the President of the Ecclesia Dei Commission . Be sure to read the comments as other members of the Curia are ordaining Deacons in what appears to be a show of support for the Usus Antiquior . One new Deacon of the F.S.S.P., Jared McCambridge, is a former Naval officer and graduate of the Naval Academy in Annapolis .