Una Voce America

Details here with an opportunity to contribute to this new Latin Mass community:

http://www.augustalatinmass.org/

Please thank Bishop Bishop Stephen Parkes for his pastoral care and consideration in this matter:

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An opportunity to assist Catholic Families in Need of support:

https://www.change.org/p/catholics-interested-in-the-latin-mass-petition-for-a-traditional-latin-mass-in-the-diocese-of-san-bernardino

“Really in a time where faith isn’t being focused on in school, the Latin Mass Society has proven to be a strong vehicle for bringing together Catholics and different people across campus,” Birch said.

Birch is the group’s vice president and majors in statistics.

“I know in my major I cannot connect with too many people, but through this I’ve been able to connect and grow with people in our shared faith,” he said.

Birch talked about how the sense of community in the group helps students grow in faith.

“Ever since churches started reopening, since then I’ve gone to a Latin Mass every Sunday,” Birch said. “It’s really helped me incorporate prayer into my daily life, including saying the Rosary daily and undertaking acts of penance.”

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Congratulations to Una Voce Northwest Arkansas and all the members of the parish for this development.

Story in Arkansas Catholic here

Please remember prayers for Bishop Anthony Taylor as he is currently recovering from Covid – with thanks to God for his pastoral care to the faithful.

“I am most humbled by the fruits of your labor and dedicate the labors of my priesthood,” said Father Passo, as he thanked the congregants, other priests present and Bishop Anthony B. Taylor. “How fitting in dedicating the parish to Our Lady of Sorrows, as Our Lady will teach us how to suffer and how to love her son. We start a new family as a parish, a new spiritual family and a community trying to love God, to go to heaven and to be sanctified.”

“We were drawn to the reverent community, the tradition and the large families we met here,” said Nowak, mother of 10.

“What drew us to the Mass is that it is holy,” Mike Fakult said. “The Latin Mass sanctifies us as parishioners and a community, but it also sanctifies the whole area for the parish to be established.”

Bishop of Savannah H.E. Stephen Parkes will attend the Latin Mass in his cathedral on Sunday November 15th 2020 at 1:00 pm.

More details at the Una Voce Georgia site:

https://unavoceofga.blogspot.com/

Founded in 1844 by abolitionists known as Free Will Baptists, Hillsdale College has a liberal arts curriculum that is based on classical Western heritage.  As a school founded in Protestant Christian theology, it might seem an unlikely spot for the offering of the traditional Latin Mass.  However, Hillsdale did, indeed host the college’s first ever Catholic Latin Mass ?in their “very Anglican-looking chapel” on Sept. 24, 2020.

Priest and 2010 Hillsdale graduate Fr. Nathanael Anderson celebrated the first Low Latin Mass in Christ Chapel.

“In a way it’s in conformity with what Hillsdale represents,” he said. “Hillsdale strongly believes in recovering and living our heritage.”

Fr. Anderson approached the Catholic society about coming to Hillsdale and since this semester’s theme is on liturgy, it worked well to have him say a Low Mass.

“The Latin Mass is part of our tradition. It’s something that as a Catholic you can’t hate because it’s part of our tradition,” president of Catholic Society Karl Weisenburger said. “It’s also important to know the novus ordo in context of the Latin Mass and what it used to be.”

Anderson grew up as an evangelical Protestant. Two years after he had graduated from Hillsdale he converted to Catholicism, and it wasn’t long until he felt called to the priesthood.

“One day in confession, [the priest] brought up being a priest to me,” he said. “It hit me pretty hard. I had a desire to become a priest, but I wasn’t sure about it. None of my family was Catholic. It was hard not having a Catholic family or upbringing.”

Anderson said it wasn’t until his parents converted on Easter in 2014 that he had the courage to enter the seminary. Once there, he decided to teach himself how to say the Latin Mass.

“When I converted, I realized that probably no one in my family had been Catholic since 16th century Sweden, and I had a desire to be connected with that tradition,” he said. “As a Catholic you should want to preserve what is old. This is a sacred heritage; we can’t forget about it.”

“The primary draw for most people is a sense of the sacred,” Anderson said. “What’s happening here is set apart from what happens in my ordinary life. That kind of jarring difference, after you get over the barrier,  can become something very enticing.”

Senior Morgan Morrison attends a Latin Mass back at home. The first Mass he ever attended was a Low Mass.

“My first encounter with Catholicism was a Latin Low Mass during high school. It was dark, silent, and completely breathtaking. There was no mistaking it for some other Christian denomination. This was Catholic,” Morrison said.

Morrison said he is happy that students are seeing the old liturgy.

“I’m really happy that Hillsdale had the chance to experience the Latin Mass, too,” he said. “It requires a different type of participation from the laity than the Novus Ordo. Following along with the prayers is hard work. You have to concentrate on your missal and the priest. But the result is well worth the effort. You can enter into the mystery of Christ’s sacrifice more fully without distractions.”

Unless weather poses a significant barrier, Whalen has been driving to Jackson to attend a Latin Mass for the 25 years he’s been at Hillsdale. He started going back in his undergraduate days.

“I certainly didn’t know much about the old rite, but what drew me to it was a kind of instinctive recognition of the perfect way the form of the Mass embodied and represented the sacramental reality of the Mass,” Whalen said.

The sacramental reality is “the fact that Christ is becoming completely present in an intimate union with us,” Whalen said.

“That was perfectly represented by that form of Mass. Not because it’s pretty. It’s not an aesthetic attraction or appeal. It’s not historical. My attraction is not nostalgic. I didn’t grow up with the old Mass,” he said. “My attraction is fundamentally sacramental and liturgical.”

Whalen said the reverential posture and movements of the Mass also appeal to him.

“What is distinctive about the old Mass is that the personal individuality of the participants is profoundly suppressed. That strikes some people as really off-putting and alien,” he said. “Some people are attracted to it?—?to the humanly impersonal nature of the ritual. So that the divine and human personal nature of Christ’s presence is more clearly revealed. We’re getting in the way of the reality of the divine. It’s not about me.”

The Latin Mass is an image of the eternal, for its “fixed and permanent” nature is “meant to point to or symbolically embody the permanence and eternal nature of the church,” Whalen said.

“For a while, going to the old Mass was thought to be something questionable since to be attached to it was thought to be an implied rejection of the new Mass. That sense has largely died out,” he said. “People now regard the old Mass as they would view a beautiful old church. This is a place in which great things can happen. It’s a good in and of itself.”

Whalen was careful to point out that even though he may call it the “old Mass,” it is still something very vibrant.

“I think of it as alive, not a museum piece. It’s not a dead relic we bring out and dust off and say ‘how quaint,’” he said. “It doesn’t participate in time. In that way, too, it’s an image of the eternal.”

A High Mass will take place in Christ Chapel on Oct. 2 at 5 p.m., followed by a talk from Whalen.

The elevation of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne to the status of parish shows the confidence the archdiocese has in the community’s stability and future, said Father Fongemie. It is a recognition of the parish’s spiritual maturity and financial health.

Currently, the parish has more than 800 members. It is served by three Priestly Society of St. Peter priests. The society also serves the Latin Mass Community of St. John-Mary Vianney in Maple Hill, on the western side of the archdiocese.

Latin Mass group given ‘personal parish’ status

Founded in 2016, the Priestly Fraternity of St. Joseph is a private association of Catholic priests that aims to foster the sanctity of priests, particularly through devotion to St. Joseph, fellowship with brother priests, and the reverent and devoted celebration of the Mass, particularly in the usus antiquior (that is, the traditional Latin Mass as it was celebrated before the Second Vatican Council).

When asked how he has seen the fraternity make a positive impact on Catholics in his diocese and beyond, Bishop Warfel responded: “The fraternity has a definite purpose. It is a group of young priests who love their priesthood and support each other. They draw upon the Summorum Pontificum that Pope Benedict XVI issued to bring back the extraordinary form. The fraternity has attracted a good number of individuals, many who were alienated on the ‘periphery’ that Pope Francis often speaks about. They were drawn back to the Catholic Church because of the extraordinary-form Masses that the fraternity offers. They have a good turnout when they celebrate these Masses, and they fill up the church! They are truly a fraternity of brothers in the Lord, and they really know one another well.”

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As the world turns darker and Holy Mother Church faces increasing challenges, the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter stands in medio ecclesiae–in the midst of the Church–keeping the flame of tradition alive and offering that flame to an ailing world, that all people everywhere might know the light of the risen Christ.

We are creating a space in the international media to serve all mankind just as we have always served our parishioners: to help people go to heaven.

In this new channel, we will be bringing a Thomistic and traditional perspective to the issues of the day. What is at the root of our society’s devaluation of children? How does Catholic teaching align with the ideas of leading traditional and conservative thinkers such as Sir Roger Scruton or Dr. Jordan Peterson? How can young men find direction and be lifted from hopelessness to energetic action? How can busy homeschooling moms turn their ordinary actions into prayer?

Join Fr. Gerard Saguto, FSSP and Fr. Simon Harkins, FSSP as we begin the conversation on August 31st, featuring a fascinating interview with Abby Johnson on her pro-life work and her recent discovery of the beauty of the sacred liturgy.

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