Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

AmericanPapist >> Latin Mass celebrated on a Navy supercarrier (photo of the TLM being celebrated aboard CVN-71, the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt) WDTPRS >> CWN: Orthodox bishop shares Communion with Catholics FIRST THINGS: On the Square >> Cloning Without Conscience: The New British Embryology Bill (Christopher Tollefsen) LatinMassNetwork >> Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi ( Reverend Anthony J. Manuppella) The Recovering Choir Director >> Learning Gregorian chant with the help of GNU Solfege - interval recognition Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Saint Augustine of Canterbury Whispers in the Loggia >> The New Breed (article on vocations)

The New Liturgical Movement >> Corpus Christi in Saint-Eugene - Paris - France (Philippe Guy; Beautiful photos!) The New Liturgical Movement >> Ward's Rossini-Like Propers (Jeffrey Tucker; Justine Ward's simplified Propers for Children! - 1932)

I have given a hat tip to this link before but it bears repeating. myCatholic.com has a free "home page" that can be customized to suit your Catholic needs . Yes, it has Catholic News.com, CNA, CNS and a large variety of Catholic blogs, but it also has financial news, Yahoo top sports, headline news, etc. The entire package is very attractive and I wouldn't know what to do without it. The CatholicContent.com folks also offer links to Catholic job listings nationwide. They also have free widgets that will give you a link to Catholic Search Engines or to the Daily Mass Readings of the USCCB . The Daily Mass Readings widget is the one I have linked in the right menu bar near the bottom of the page . I also used it recently as a demo on a post a few days ago. You can install this onto a web page and then check the Readings each day along with the provided Meditation. Give it a look. It is a great feature and is provided by a solid Catholic company.

RORATE CAELI >> You Report: Corpus Christi in Front Royal, VA The Black Biretta >> Fr. Z. celebrates 17 year jubilee (Fr. John Trigilio gives "megaprops" to Fr. John Zuhlsdorf of What Does the Prayer Really Say ...Ditto!) Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Saint Bede the Venerable First Things: On the Square >> To Seek God in the Spirit of Truth (Jose H. Gomez)

WDTPRS>> Video of the great Archbp. Ranjith (Sec. CDWDS) on liturgy The New Liturgical Movement >> Report on Sancta Missa Workshop, May 19-23, Chicago The New Liturgical Movement >> Celebrating the Graduale RORATE CAELI >> Corpus Christi in the Philippines

It is hard to imagine a more fitting musical tribute than that of the beautiful theme written by Michael Kamen for the TV series, "Band of Brothers." On this Memorial Day, perhaps a silent meditation on this cemetery scene with Kamen's theme playing as a backdrop will help us to focus on what so many have given as the price for our liberty and our religious freedom... "Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and may the Perpetual Light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. And may their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed through the Mercy of God rest in peace! Amen+ Grateful Hat Tip to "Wretchard" of "The Belmont Club"

The Cabarfeidh Pages (Highland Warriors) posts the words to the beautiful hymn, "Mansions of the Lord," written for the movie, "We Were Soldiers ." Here are the words sung by the West Point Glee Club: To fallen soldiers let us sing Where no rockets fly nor bullets wing Our broken brothers let us bring To the Mansions of the Lord No more bleeding, no more fight No prayers pleading through the night Just divine embrace, eternal light In the Mansions of the Lord Where no mothers cry and no children weep We will stand and guard though the angels sleep Through the ages safely keep The Mansions of the Lord The website has a link to the recording used in the movie in .wav format. Click here and open in another tab to hear the hymn played . It is indeed a beautiful hymn... You will also here a portion of the Scottish ballad, Sgt. MacKenzie. Click here to hear the complete ballad in Scottish. The words are on the website . Garry Owen!

Monday, May 26th is designated "Memorial Day" in the United States (the last Monday in May). It is both a federal and state holiday and many in the U.S. mark it as the "unofficial" first day of summer. The day is set aside to commemorate those members of our military who have died. Many will visit civilian or Veteran's cemeteries to pay their respects, attend scheduled memorial services or go to special Masses to mark this day. I will be posting lightly over the next day or so, but new posts are scheduled.

WDTPRS >> WDTPRS: 2nd Sunday after Pentecost (1962 Missale Romanum) - from The Wanderer Traditional Latin Mass Propers in English >> Second Sunday After Pentecost (this kind Deacon religiously updates the Propers each day as a work of love; please visit his site as often as possible!) The New Liturgical Movement >> Solemnity and A Restored Altar Frontal in Spain (Shawn Tribe) The New Liturgical Movement >> Prostration on the Forms in the Dominican Rite (Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.; visit Dominican Liturgy ! It is listed in my Blogroll in the right menu!)

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 .

Ars Catholica posts an image and story on the beautiful image of Our Lady of Sheshan . When I saw this image both on Fr. Z’s blog and Amy Welborn’s, I thought it was one of the more stunning, modern images of Our Lady. I was particularly struck by the Chinese characters, and how, at least to this western eye, and non-Mandarin speaker, they hearken to the tradition of gold stars on a blue background. Read the full story posted here .

I thought I had covered this adequately, but it still appears in "search strings" in various forms and orders of words! Search engines are "tempermental!" Visitors often ask for the "Tridentine Mass" (or the "Latin Mass," or the "TLM," or " Usus Antiquior ," or "Extraordinary Form") in the Archdiocese of Baltimore (or even more generally, "in Baltimore" or "in Maryland"). Here is the scoop... The ONLY " TLM " or " Tridentine Mass " celebrated in the Archdiocese of Baltimore every Sunday and Holy Day is at Saint Alphonsus Church on Saratoga Street in the heart of Baltimore city. The Sunday TLM Mass there is at 11:30 AM. There is a weekly " Latin Novus Ordo Mass " celebrated at the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Assumption nearby at 9:00 AM each Sunday. Please note that both of these Masses are to be found in the RIGHT MENU and are also contained in th