Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

In the United States, most Dioceses will follow the custom of celebrating the Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) on the 25th. Here are the Mass readings for Sunday for the Novus Ordo Mass. This "widget" is free, by the way, from www.catholiccontent.com as are others which you can place on any desktop or in a browser. The content changes daily, of course, and is free. The TLM Mass for the Second Sunday after Pentecost, ' Missa Factus Est Dominus ,' is found here .

I have written before on the National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes in Emmitsburg, MD located just above the campus of Mt. St. Mary's University . The link is within the Favorite Websites and Blogroll in the right menu. As it is Spring and the month of Mary, May, visitors begin to contemplate visiting the Shrine in force. Here is a schedule posted on the Shrine's website . Note that retreats and pilgrimages can be scheduled in advance as shown here . Father Jack Lombardi tells us a bit about the Grotto . This says it all, I think: Well, here’s one story. I was recently giving blessing with a relic of Mother Teresa after Sunday noon Mass to all the children gathered. I came upon a little boy in a wheelchair. His family gathered around him and asked for God’s healing. The little boy, age five, said, simply, point blank: “I want to walk.” The Grotto is above all a place of healing and prayer, where all souls can come, like that little boy, and ask for God’s strength, grace...

As I review the search terms in "Google" that lead people to find this blog, I am in awe at how traffic ends up here! Some time back, I did a short feature on the National Shrine of the Grotto of Lourdes in Emmitsburg, Maryland (one of my favorite locations on this planet!). I also posted a far different story about Belmont Abbey College [click here] in North Carolina which has a Monastery on its premises. It turns out--a surprise to me--that the Belmont Abbey Monastery [click here] has a beautiful Grotto of Lourdes as well. People searching for that Grotto, sadly, are directed to a story on the health benefits of the employees at Belmont Abbey College! So, I did some research and found a marvelous website from the University of Dayton that lists the Marian Shrines in the United States . As I glance at this list, I am in awe about how many Marian Shrines there are! Every state seems to be listed. So, if you want to know about the Marian Shrines in Maryland, the...