Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

Second Sunday after Easter -- White Semi-double This Sunday is often called Good Shepherd Sunday: the Gospel tells us of the Good Shepherd. Jesus is indeed the Good Shepherd of our souls. He came to give His life for us. INTROIT ¤ Ps. 32. 5, 6 Misericordia Domini plena est terra, alleluia: verbo Domini coeli firmati sunt, alleluia, alleluia. -- Exsultate, justi, in Domino: rectos decet collaudatio. V.: Gloria Patri . . . - Misericordia Domini plena est terra . . . The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord, alleluia: by the word of the Lord were the heavens made, alleluia, alleluia. -- ( Ps. 32. 1). Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: praise is comely for the upright. V.: Glory to the Father . . . -- The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord . . . Continue

"They don't. Call priests 'Father' in Latin that is." Read why here and be sure to listen to the delightful sound clips !

Pre-orders for the Parish Book of Chant can be made here . Also examine the detailed summary of this astounding book. Here is but a bit: Among its features: It contains a complete order of Mass for both the Ordinary form of the Roman Rite and the Extraordinary form, in side-by-side Latin and English. The Ordos include the sung responses of the people and celebrant. In this respect, it serves as an ideal resource for parishes that use both forms or simply hope to emphasize the relationship between them. It contains a large Kyriale, which is a collection of chants that make up the “ordinary” of the Mass: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei. These are the main sung parts of the Mass that are used throughout the year and the parts that all people are invited to learn and sing. This includes the four full Credos in addition to many Mass settings that have been beloved for the dominant part of Catholic history all over the world. It collects 71 Latin chants, with English transla

Rule #1 : If you are interested in attending either a TLM Vigil Mass or Easter Sunday TLM Mass , FIRST check the Parishes located to your RIGHT on the TLM menu I've posted . These have TLM Masses weekly; their websites should have information on the TLM or Vigil and its time. Rule #2 : If you can't find what you need, here is the best list I can come up with on short notice of my past posts and from surveying the internet locally: Baltimore/MD Access: Saint Alphonsus Church, Baltimore, MD, TLM Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption, Baltimore, MD, Latin Novus Ordo ANY Catholic Mass in Maryland; Click on the City or Locale for a Full List Near You Washington, DC or Virginia Access: Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC DC Catholic Blog Calendar Franciscan Monastery, Washington, DC, Easter Vigil (subject to timeout errors ) TLM or Latin Mass in DC/VA locations Campus Mass at UMaryland, College Park Campus Masses Centered In or Near College Park, MD West Virgi

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."

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf has a beautiful commentary on Laetare Sunday that first appeared in his WDTRPS column of The Wanderer . Don't miss it!

Catholic World News prints the revised text for the Good Friday prayer which is published officially in the February 6th edition of L'Osservatore Romano . The revised prayer, which has been expected for some time, now reads: Oremus et pro Iudaeis. Ut Deus et Dominus noster illuminet corda eorum, ut agnoscant Iesum Christum salvatorem omnium hominum. Oremus. Flectamus genua. Levate. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui vis ut omnes homines salvi fiant et ad agnitionem veritatis veniant, concede propitius, ut plenitudine gentium in Ecclesiam Tuam intrante omnis Israel salvus fiat. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen See the full story on Catholic World News . Update: More here on Rorate Caeli .

The incomparable Fr. Z. gives a long summation of three long interviews published on Zenit with His Eminence Francis Card. Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments . Here is just a single long commentary: 5. Did Vatican II discourage Latin? Some people think, or have the perception, that the Second Vatican Council discouraged the use of Latin in the liturgy. This is not the case. Just before he opened the Council, Bl. Pope John XXIII in 1962 issued an Apostolic Constitution to insist on the use of Latin in the Church. [Again, Card. Arinze has brought us back to this important and purposely ignored document.] The Second Vatican Council, although it admitted some introduction of the vernacular, insisted on the place of Latin: "Particular law remaining in force, the use of the Latin language is to be preserved in the Latin rites" (SC, n. 36). The Council also required that seminarians "should acquire a command of Lati

There is an interesting post on the blog, McCarthyism UK , on the decline of Latin in the 60's and the effect it may have had on the Novus Ordo Missae. Here is just a small take: Where Jennings draws fire from Mr McIntyre, however, is in his (altogether too charitable, IMHO) interpretation of the history of the translation of the Novus Ordo Missae into English: he says the current Pope and others are said to believe that the 'initial translations from Latin were hastily done and consequently inadequate in so far as they fail to convey the sacred character of the Mass.' With thousands of liturgical texts to translate, ICEL appeared to show a predilection for chopping the rhetorical flow of the original Latin into shorter chunks of concise English. The 1973 ICEL Roman Missal was criticised for minimising the transcendence of God, and exalting the religious striving of man. To be honest, many of the modern Mass translations are so eye-wateringly wide of the mark that any av