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Father Timothy Grassi will offer Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite on Sunday, June 6, 2010 at 5:00 pm at St. Joseph Church in Huntington, West Virginia. Gregory Gray, organist, and a group of talented singers from the Charleston area will provide the musical and vocal portions for which the Sung High Mass is noted. There will also be a short outdoor procession.
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St. Martha’s Church in Enfield, Connecticut will host the New England Traditional Catholic Conference on Saturday, April 24, 2010. Beginning at 9:30 a.m., the event will feature Solemn High Mass, confessions, Eucharistic Adoration, Catholic speakers, and high-quality Catholic vendors. Those who register in advance will be entered to win a Haydock Douay-Rheims Bible. Register today.
Father Scott Settimo, Parochial Administrator of St. Gregory Nazianzen Parish in Sitka, Alaska, has passed along a piece of good news: his parish began a weekly Latin Mass at the beginning of Advent. Low Mass is celebrated every Sunday at 12:30 in Ave Maria Chapel. To learn more about the parish, visit the parish website.
All are invited to attend a Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Tridentine Latin Mass) on Sunday, January 10 in Tallahassee, Florida. A low Mass with hymns will begin at 2 p.m. at the Co-Cathedral of St. Thomas More, located at 900 W. Tennessee Street, across from Florida State University. For more information, please visit latinmasstallahassee.blogspot.com, or contact Stephen Mozier at (850) 443-1887 or stephenmozier@aol.com.
His Excellency Bishop Salvatore Cordileone will ordain the Rev. Mr. Jose Zepeda, F.S.S.P to the Holy Priesthood on Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 11 AM. The ordination Mass will be celebrated according to the 1962 missal at St. Jarlath Church, 2620 Pleasant Street (off Highway 580) in Oakland, California.
After Mass, the Zepeda family will graciously host a reception. Members of St. Stephen the First Martyr Parish (the FSSP apostolate in Sacramento) will assist with cooking and other preparations. If you plan to attend the reception, RSVP to Tish Gallagher at 916-223-3112.
Submitted by Doug Zeitz, Una Voce Palo Alto
One year after its official designation as a personal parish for the Latin Mass, St. Anne’s Church in San Diego has responded to increased attendance by adding a fourth Sunday Mass. Catholics in San Diego may now attend a Low Mass at 6:00 PM, in addition to Low Masses at 7:30 AM and 12:00 PM and a High Mass at 10:00 AM. The parish is served by Fr. Carl Gismondi, FSSP, Pastor, and Fr. Federico Masutti, FSSP, Associate Pastor. For more information, visit the parish website.
On October 25, the Feast of Christ the King, the Latin Mass Community of San Juan Bautista will be blessed to host the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter’s Fr. James Fryar and his pilgrimage to the California Missions. Fr. Fryar will celebrate a Solemn High Mass for this important feast.
For more information, please visit the Monterey Traditional Latin Mass website.
Project Seeks to Restore Historic St. Francis de Sales Church in St. Louis
St. Francis De Sales, St. Louis Interior
At the turn of the 21st Century, tradition is coming home to St. Francis de Sales. In its physical and its spiritual essence, the vision of grandeur is being rekindled: from the vestibule down the long aisle to the High Altar; from the classic stained glass windows to the frescoes dulled by time; from the sacristy for the clergy to the school rooms for the children; and from the spacious apses to the tip of the spire. Solemnity, beauty, and tradition are being uncovered as the restoration of St. Francis de Sales begins.
“We are losing ground”
Number of Traditional Latin Masses available in Los Angeles archdiocese shrinks
Of the 4.2 million Catholics in the Los Angeles archdiocese, those who want to attend an extraordinary rite Latin Mass have fewer options available to them with the recent demolition of St. John Vianney Chapel on the downtown campus of the former Daniel Murphy High School.
While the archdiocesan web site still lists St. John Vianney’s as offering a Tridentine Latin Mass every fourth and fifth Sunday of the month, the archdiocesan newspaper The Tidings reported Feb. 20, “After 72 years of near continuous use, St. John Vianney Chapel on Third and Detroit Streets in Los Angeles has closed. The last Mass in the chapel was celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Edward Clark on Feb. 8. The following day the work of dismantling the chapel began.”
Citing “a decade-long decline in enrollment combined with increased operating costs” and the “severe financial challenges” it faces, the Los Angeles archdiocese announced in October 2007 that it would close Daniel Murphy High School. In an Oct. 8, 2007 archdiocesan news release, the “severe financial challenges” were not spelled out — but the archdiocese had already said it would sell as many as 50 non-parish properties to cover its up to $373-million portion of a $660-million settlement with victims of molestation by priests. Now that the Daniel Murphy property has been sold, St. John Vianney Chapel had to be taken down before the site was turned over to its new owner. The school held its final commencement ceremony on May 30, 2008.