Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

The full schedule can be found here .

This is the schedule posted for the week of December 21st to the 27th . As you can see, no Christmas Mass is scheduled according to this post for Christmas Day.

I checked over the "site stats" today on a whim, and found that the most sought item was " Mt. St. Mary's Seminary ." What an excellent choice! If you are visiting Maryland, you MUST get out to see the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes located just above the Mount Saint Mary's University in the Catoctin Mountains in Emmitsburg, MD. Here is the Grotto Home Page , and here is a link to Sunday Masses in the Chapel which are at Noon . T he link to the Pilgrim's Center is here . Here is a link to the Seminary . Sunday Masses in the Church are not listed. It might be best to contact Fr. Lombardi by email before arriving. His email address is on the Grotto page.

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

If you are visiting Maryland or nearby Washington, D.C., there are some places you just MUST visit. The first is the Franciscan Monastery in Washington, D.C. When I want to get into a serene atmosphere and meditate before going to Confession, here is the place to be. The Monastery has frequent Confessions as you can see, and the interior is just gorgeous. The Monastery is a haven of solitude in the middle of one of the busiest cities on this earth. The website has some of its treasures demonstrated here in Flash format. T he address is: FRANCISCAN MONASTERY OF THE HOLY LAND, 1400 Quincy St., N.E., Washington, DC 20017. The website has a map for your convenience . Another is the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary , in Baltimore, Maryland. The Basilica is the first Cathedral built in the U.S. and was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe. It is an architectural masterpiece that has been restored to its full beauty. The website shows

The Baltimore Examiner reports that vandalism occurred 3:00 AM Sunday, February 11, 2008 at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes . The two men apprehended threw a bronze crucifix into a nearby creek. A special Mass celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes was to be celebrated at the very popular Marian Shrine on Monday. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis!

The National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes is one of the oldest American replicas of the revered French shrine, dating to about two decades after the apparitions at Lourdes (1874), although the site had already been in use for more than seventy years as a place of prayer and devotion. The Grotto was proclaimed a Public Oratory on December 8, 1965 by His Eminence Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, Archbishop of Baltimore. A place of pastoral beauty and spiritual inspiration, the Grotto draws hundreds of thousands of religious pilgrims and tourists annually. CLICK to enlarge...