Una Voce America

The February 2020 report from the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation features an article by a Brazilian journalism student who writes about the Catholic religious revival occurring in his country.  Parishes offering the traditional Latin Mass in Brazil have risen from 13 in 1990 to at least 133 today.

there is a widespread turn toward Catholic doctrinal orthodoxy, the sanctity of life and religious vocations. Many Brazilians congregate in churches that celebrate the Mass in accordance with the Tridentine rite, also called the traditional Latin Mass. These people are in the forefront of a silent counterrevolution taking place all over the country, especially among the young. They are mostly men and women in their twenties or thirties, whose older family members are mostly in-nameonly Catholics or former Catholics who have joined the ranks of Protestant sects, paganism or religious indifference.

Full article

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/latin-mass-church-traditions-bring-boom-in-vocations-for-us-order-of-nuns

The link above includes rare video-interview (although face-to-face not permitted) with Mother Stella-Marie of Jesus.

“As soon as we took on the extraordinary form of the Mass and we returned to the traditional Carmelite rite, just everything made sense. All of our customs — we understood why we had them, because they all flowed from the liturgy, whereas before that, there had been a disconnect there.”

With the community having so many vocations it overflowed its lodgings twice, the Carmelites received permission last summer from His Excellency Ronald Gainer, bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg, to expand operations again, this time constructing a new monastery from the ground up.

Currently, the monastery at Fairfield has ten professed members, with more on the way from around the globe, including as far as Sweden.

“I think the young women are drawn to beauty in the liturgy. They know that if God exists, if God is on our altars, if God is within the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, then He needs to be worshiped as He deserves: with beauty and reverence,” Mother Stella-Marie of Jesus said of what she thinks draws young women to the Carmelites in particular. “They see that we have that here in our monastery, and they want to be a part of that. They also want something that is authentic, that goes back to the time of our holy mother, St. Teresa.”

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) —  Saint Mary’s Church on Broadway is going back in time in order to move forward.

When Jim Forte joined Saint Mary’s a decade ago, the pews were full and morale was high.

“We had a very good crowd of people we had a lot of people attending and it was very nice.”  But Forte says changes made in recent years caused more people to leave.  “Then it became a question of survival. We knew that down the road, not being able to sustain it financially, it would have closed.”

Desperate times called for drastic measures.

“In August of 2018, Bishop Tobin invited our order to come in and take over Saint Mary’s,” Father John Berg, St. Mary’s Pastor said.  “We do what’s called the traditional Latin mass, for those who are older would’ve known it in 1962.”

The entire mass, except for the homily, is celebrated in latin.

“I have to admit I was a bit skeptical because it was a bit different. and most people said oh if you say you’re going a step backwards, you’re going back in time,” Forte said.

It turns out, that’s exactly what the church needed to move forward.

Attendance numbers started increasing as people from all across New England were attracted to the traditional format.

“I would say the average travel time is about 45 minutes for a parishioner on a Sunday,” Father John Berg said.

“I’ve been attending traditional masses pretty frequently for the past 4 or so years but there’s nothing like this, I’ve been waiting for something like this to come along, something with the full kind of community life that isn’t offered anywhere near where I live,” Jack Marriott said.

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Vatican City, Apr 6, 2017 / 06:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican office which governs the use of the extraordinary form of the Roman rite has given priests permission to say a special Mass for the feast of Our Lady of Fatima this year, noting the importance of the apparition’s centenary.

In an April 5 decree the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei gave permission for any priest of the Latin Rite to celebrate a votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary on May 13, 2017 – the 100th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady at Fatima, Portugal.

The decision was made because “many of the Christian faithful who are attached to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite have a particular and fervent devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Fatima” and out of a wish “to encourage the devotion of the faithful to the Blessed Virgin Mary of Fatima,” according to a translation of the decree made by Gregory DiPippo, editor of New Liturgical Movement.

The permission is significant because in the extraordinary form, May 13 is the third class feast of St. Robert Bellarmine – which means Our Lady of Fatima cannot normally be celebrated.

In the ordinary form, meanwhile, May 13 is already an optional memorial of Our Lady of Fatima.

If a Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart is celebrated on May 13 in the extraordinary form, it may include a commemoration of St. Robert Bellarmine, as per the rubrics of the Roman Missal of 1962.

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The traditional Latin Mass is celebrated every Sunday at 10:00 AM at St. Bridget’s Catholic Church in Las Vegas. Learn more about the Latin Mass community in Las Vegas by visiting the group’s new website >

Msgr. Anthony Spinoza, rector of the Basilica and National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon, will celebrate a Missa Cantata for the Feast of the Assumption on Saturday, August 15 at 10:00 a.m. Music will be provided by the Schola Basilicorum and the St Cecilia Chorale. The Basilica is located at 2759 North Lipkey Road, North Jackson, Ohio. Learn more about the shrine here >

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2014/11/21/billy-murray-misses-the-latin-mass/

Una Voce NH:  Fr. John Zuhlsdorf will be offering a Solemn High Mass on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at St. Paul’s in Harvard Square (corner Bow & Arrow Sts., Cambridge, MA). Confessions and the Holy Rosary begin at 4:45pm. Mass for the Feast of St. Mark will start at 5:15pm.

This will be the first Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form in Boston since the beginning of the post-Vatican II era.

Seminarians from St. John’s in Boston will be assisting at Mass: John Cassani as Deacon and Pat Fiorillo as Subdeacon.

The Boston Archdiocesan Choir school, the only Catholic boys choir school in the country, will be singing their first Extraordinary Form Mass, complete with sacred polyphony.

Deacon Cassani and Mr. Fiorillo are seminarians of the Archdiocese of Boston.  Fr. Zuhlsdorf is a priest of the suburbicarian diocese of Velletri-Segni in Rome.

Following Mass at 7:15pm, Fr. Z, who writes wdtprs.com, one of the most popular Catholic blogs on the web, will deliver a lecture in DiGiovanni Hall.

Latin-English Missals will be provided.

This event is co-sponsored by Una Voce Boston College, the Harvard Latin Mass Society, and Juventutem Boston.

Thanks to Una Voce New Hampshire for this report.

Pope Benedict named U.S. Benedictine Abbot Christopher M. Zielinski to a staff assignment with the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments.

The Old Rite [is] a living treasure of the Church and also should provide a standard of worship, of mystery, and of catechesis toward which the celebrations of the Novus Ordo must move. In other words, the Tridentine Mass is the missing link. And unless it be re-discovered in all its faithful truth and beauty, the Novus Ordo will not respond to the organic growth and change that has characterized the liturgy from its beginning.

http://www.news.va/en/news/other-pontifical-acts-252