A 12-week curriculum of live webinars for priests to better understand the liturgical requisites and perfect their sacred actions for the traditional Roman Mass. The webinars will be a refresher for veterans and introduction for beginners.
With the traditional Latin Mass now more popular than it has been in half a century, an increasing interest in traditional Catholic books is also taking place.
Whether Latin-English missals, liturgical commentaries, catechisms, writings of saints, modesty manuals or extensive and elaborate prayer books, more Catholics have been buying titles that unequivocally present the perennial teachings and practices of the Church. This has led to new publishers coming into existence — most of which are small, but one of which already sells more than 100,000 books annually.
“St. Mary’s Church will serve as the diocesan worship site for those desiring the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, more familiarly known as the Tridentine Mass or the Traditional Latin Mass.”
Bishop Lucia also said it was his “intention to bring a Society of Apostolic Life” to St. Mary’s to conduct the “centuries-old rites.”
MABLETON–St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Atlanta has begun sending daily email messages with meditations on the liturgical year. The meditations were written by Dom Prosper Guéranger, the Benedictine abbot who re-founded the Solesmes monastery in France in 1833. Dom Guéranger wrote a 15-volume series that covers the whole liturgical year with many details of the history of the celebrations and explanations of the significance of many ceremonies.
To sign up for these emails and for more information you can go HERE
Latin Masses offered by FSSP priests are livestreamed daily from one of four apostolates:
Warrington, England
Sarasota, Florida
Fribourg, Switzerland
Guadalajara, Mexico
http://www.livemass.net/
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.
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.”
Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
By Lynne Bissonnette Pitre, MD, PhD
For the last seven years I’ve been involved in the organization of conferences focusing on the importance of sacred liturgy and music in the life of the Church. This journey began with my own longing for the sacred which led me to form Schola Cantus Angelorum in 2007 as a response to Pope Benedict XVI‘s request for liturgies to be celebrated with the beauty and solemnity of the traditional Gregorian chant.
From its modest beginnings in 2013 The Sacred Liturgy Conference has grown into a premiere annual event with participants coming from throughout the United States and beyond. The 2017 and 2018 conferences attracted nearly 400 participants and included Bishops, Archbishops and a Cardinal. So how did this happen? As Cardinal Burke said: “The growth of this conference is evidence of a great thirst in the people for the Truth of the Sacred Liturgy and its beauty.” It was exactly this thirst which caused the Sacred Liturgy Conference to come into being. How is it possible to study the encyclicals and writings of Popes and Saints throughout Christian history and not thirst for the depth and breadth and beauty of the liturgy? How is it possible to read the declarations of Councils of the Church on the importance of sacred music in the liturgy and not ask the question: “All of these documents prescribe Gregorian chant as the preeminent choice for the sacred music of the liturgy, why do we not hear it in our local parishes?”
Registration and background information for this conference is available via this link:
An article on the background and purpose of the event can be read here:
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.