Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

The "Deo volente" Special Events Calendar is showing some interesting things coming up! Rather than to "bury" these with a blog post, I have been posting them to the calendar. The events include two Corpus Christi Masses on Sunday, June 6th, and a tremendous Saturday of Chant at Saint Bernadette's in Silver Spring on June 12th (this was posted in the New Liturgical Movement). Please check the calendar if you are interested in keeping current. Also, events can be posted "privately" and I will make them public to all after checking the sources.

I just received this from a colleague by email: Solemn High Mass - Feast of the Purification - Saint Bernadette Church, Silver Spring, MD Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form for T he Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Candlemas) - Beginning with the Blessing of the Candles and Procession - With polyphonic propers composed by William Byrd, and the Ordinary from his Mass for Four Voices, sung by Chantry. Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 7:30 PM Saint Bernadette Church 70 University Boulevard East Silver Spring MD 20901 Linked to the Public TLM Events Calendar

Please check the Events Calendar for May as it is filling up . You will find all of the following: Saint John the Baptist Church TLM and May Crowning, May 17th Saint Bernadette Church, Silver Spring, TLM Mass on Ascension Thursday, May 21st Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, Discernment Retreat, May 23rd USA Book Tour of Piers Paul Read, "The Death of a Pope" in the DC area on May 31st Anyone may post events to this site pending my approval or you may send me an email.

For some time, I've wondered how to integrate a calendar into this blog that would be of use for Special Events or non-recurring events . Usus Antiquior or Tridentine Masses scheduled weekly can be assembled in a menu ( SEE RIGHT MENU NAVBAR, for example ) and linked to Parish websites. However, what of the occasional special Mass, colloquium or musical event ? So many of these are missed when posted here unless someone knows of it in advance. The New Liturgical Movement has found a solution using a calendar embedded into their blog page . Events are self-reported and require approval by the moderator. This is a huge blog, however, affiliated with the CMAA, receives millions of "hits" and handles international events. So, the local may be lost in the shuffle. In the header to this blog, you will now see the following: Special Event Usus Antiquior Calendar for MD, DC, VA, DE, PA and WV (opens New Window) This calendar is one I've created for TLM events in t

Some of you have been returning on a regular basis to find out more on the TLM at Saint James Parish in Charles Town, WV . The website is still under construction so that has not been of help. Also, I do not receive the bulletin. My faithful contact has been invaluable in linking me with the news from the Parish bulletin. Here is an email update I just received and I give my thanks for this information: As announced yesterday at St. James' bulletin: "TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS NEXT WEEKEND: Fr. Gismondi of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter will be here NEXT Sunday, May 18th, at 4:00 pm to offer a Traditional Latin Mass." I'm afraid that email from my contact will be the only way to get news out on this forum. I understand that altar boys are to be trained this summer so that a group of trained servers is always on hand.

I have posted on this several times but want to add one final reminder. A TLM Mass will be celebrated by Father Michael Roach at St. Bartholomew's Parish on Sunday, May 11th at 2:00 PM. Further information and a contact phone number are given in this prior post . Note too that this was announced in the Catholic Review. I posted a link to that article in this post . I pray that an enormous group comes to this TLM. It has been sought by the folks in Carroll County for quite some time.

George Matysek, Jr. of the Catholic Review Online follows up his story on the Bicentennial of the Archdiocese of Baltimore with a list of the special events to take place . A special display of historical documents will be unveiled in Laubacher Hall at St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Roland Park, on April 12 at 2 p.m. The exhibit will be open from 4 to 6 p.m. Monday-Friday from April 14 through May 14. [...] A series of 7 p.m. lectures named in honor of America’s founding archbishop, John Carroll, will be launched April 22 at the Baltimore Basilica. Archbishop Timothy Dolan of Milwaukee will deliver the first lecture April 22, speaking about John Carroll. George Weigel, a Baltimore native and biographer of Pope John Paul II, who serves as a distinguished senior fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., will speak May 12. His topic will be “Popes, power and world politics: from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI.” Colleen Carroll Campbell, author of “The New Fait