Special Weekday High Masses for 2010

Tridentine Community News (March 21, 2010):

As in 2009, St. Josaphat Church will be holding special Tridentine High Masses (Missa Cantata) on most of the First and Second Class Feast Days on which a Gloria and Credo are specified. Attending Holy Mass on these days is an excellent way to integrate the most important feasts of the Church calendar into your lives. All Masses are at St. Josaphat Church at 7:00 PM unless otherwise indicated.

Thursday, March 25: Annunciation (High Mass at St. Theresa, Windsor at 7:00 PM; High Mass at 7:00 PM as well at St. Josaphat)

Saturday, May 1: St. Joseph the Worker (At St. Joseph Church, time yet to be determined)

Tuesday, May 11: Ss. Philip & James, Apostles

Thursday, May 13: Ascension (Holy Day of Obligation in the Tridentine calendar in U.S.)

Monday, May 24: Pentecost Monday

Monday, May 31: Queenship of Mary

Thursday, June 24: Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Tuesday, June 29: Ss. Peter & Paul, Apostles

Thursday, July 1: Precious Blood

Friday, July 2: Visitation

Friday, August 6: Transfiguration

Tuesday, August 24: St. Bartholomew, Apostle

Wednesday, September 8: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin

Tuesday, September 14: Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Wednesday, September 15: Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin

Tuesday, September 21: St. Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist

Wednesday, September 29: Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel

Monday, October 18: St. Luke, Evangelist

Thursday, October 28: Ss. Simon & Jude, Apostles

Monday, November 1: All Saints (Holy Day of Obligation in U.S.)

Tuesday, November 2: All Souls

Tuesday, November 9: Dedication of the Archbasilica of Our Savior (St. John Lateran)

Tuesday, November 20: St. Andrew, Apostle

Wednesday, December 8: Immaculate Conception (Holy Day of Obligation in U.S.)

Tuesday, December 21: St. Thomas, Apostle

Monday, December 27: St. John, Apostle & Evangelist

Tuesday, December 28: Holy Innocents

Bishop Boyea Celebrates First Mass in Jackson

Diocese of Lansing Bishop Earl Boyea continues to support the Extraordinary Form of Holy Mass. On Sunday, February 7, His Excellency celebrated a Missa Cantata at St. Joseph Church, Jackson. This was the first time that a bishop of the Lansing Diocese has celebrated Mass for the Jackson Tridentine Mass Community.

Latin Continues To Grow In Popularity

One of our intrepid readers reports that Fr. Nick Zukowski, pastor of St. Mary Queen of Creation in New Baltimore, Michigan, held a one-time-only Ordinary Form Latin Mass last Saturday, March 13 at 4:30 PM. Fr. Zukowski explained in his parish bulletin that he wanted to expose his congregation to the tradition of Latin in the liturgy. Steps such as this, simple though they might seem, were unimaginable even a decade ago. Our priests should always be thanked for taking initiatives such as this.

Vatican Best-Seller: New Extraordinary Form Altar Missal

In another sign of the times, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, the publishing arm of the Vatican, has just published an altar missal for the Tridentine Mass. It immediately became the Vatican’s best-selling book, as the below screen-shot indicates. It is priced at $334, more than Roman Catholic Books’ popular $110 altar missal, yet less than PCP Books’ $460 reprint of the Benzinger missal.

While we have not yet seen a copy, it is likely that this is a reprint of the Vatican’s 1962 edition (a very rare but extant book), perhaps with the addition of Pope Benedict XVI’s 2008 Good Friday Prayer for the Jews. The Church is still in need of a brand-new Extraordinary Form Missal, in digital form, edited for accuracy, and not just a high-quality photocopy of an older edition. This is a critical step to be undertaken if additional feasts or prefaces are to be added to the Traditional Mass. The Missále Románum must be made more easy to update, as the 1962 edition cannot reasonably be expected to last forever. Fortunately, this very project is under consideration, but that is a topic for another day.

[Comments? Please e-mail tridnews@stjosaphatchurch.org. Previous columns are available at www.stjosaphatchurch.org. This edition of Tridentine Community News, with minor editions, is from the St. Josaphat bulletin insert for March 21, 2010. Hat tip to A.B.]