Ensconced in his "Evangelical Catholic" perspective, Weigel "positively hysterical" over Rome's SSPX overtures

[Disclaimer: Rules ##7-9] P. J. Smith, "George Weigel and the SSPX" (Rorate Caeli, April 28, 2017):

George Weigel, in his most recent column, has decided that the Holy See should not offer the Society of St. Pius X a personal prelature. It appears from statements by Archbishop Guido Pozzo, secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, and Bishop Bernard Fellay, superior general of the Society, that a personal prelature is the current offer. More than that, it seems that the Holy See is not insisting on the Society’s submission to every jot and tittle of every document of the Second Vatican Council. This is wonderful news.

Many informed commentators noted that the 2012 negotiations between Rome and the Society were torpedoed at the last moment by the sudden insistence of the Roman authorities on such submission. Archbishop Pozzo has conceded in public interviews that there are levels of authority in the documents of that “pastoral council,” and that total assent may not be necessary. And Weigel is positively hysterical at the prospect. Read more >>

Important: Review of Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option

The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation, by Rod Dreher, Sentinel Press, 2017, 262 pp. Reviewed by Sacerdos Romanus at Rorate Caeli, April 24, 2017:

We would not usually be inclined to read a formal schismatic’s thoughts on how Christians should comport themselves in the secular world. But two things persuaded us make an exception for Rod Dreher’s The Benedict Option. The first was a favorable mention of the book by the Rt. Rev. Abbot Philip Anderson of the traditionalist Benedictine monastery at Clear Creek. The second was the bitter dismissal of the book by many mainstream Catholic pundits. And we were not disappointed. While we would agree with the criticisms of some tradition-minded writers, we find that overall Dreher’s analysis of the current situation in Western Europe and North America is accurate, and his suggestions for a practical response to the situation sensible. In fact, Dreher’s insights can very easily be developed into an argument for Catholic Traditionalism and against the anti-traditionalism of the Catholic mainstream since Vatican II. Read more >>

Sandro Magister: "After Four Cardinals, Six Laymen Speak. Who Knows If the Pope May At Least Listen To Them"

Sandro Magister, "After Four Cardinals, Six Laymen Speak. Who Knows If the Pope May At Least Listen To Them" (L'Espresso, April 22, 2017):

The four cardinals have never been alone with their “dubia.” Proof of this comes from what happened in Rome on April 22 in an auditorium of the Hotel Columbus, a short walk from Saint Peter’s Square, where six renowned lay scholars came together from as many countries of the world to give voice to an appeal that is being raised from a large part of the “people of God” so that clarity may be brought to the confusion raised by “Amoris Laetitia.”

Anna M. Silvas came from Australia, Claudio Pierantoni from Chile, Jürgen Liminski from Germany, Douglas Farrow from Canada, Jean Paul Messina from Cameroon, Thibaud Collin from France. And one after the other, over the span of one day took stock of the crisis that the document of Pope Francis has produced in the Church, one year after its publication.

Settimo Cielo offers its readers the complete texts of the six presentations, in the languages in which they were delivered. But it calls special attention to the one by Claudio Pierantoni, a scholar of patristics and professor of medieval philosophy at the Universidad de Chile, in Santiago, an abridgment of which is provided below.

Pierantoni brings up again the cases of two popes who fell into error during the first Christian centuries, the one condemned “post mortem” by an ecumenical council and the other induced to correct himself during his lifetime.

But also today - he argues - there is a pope who is “victim,” although “hardly aware of it,” of a widespread tendency to error that undermines the foundations of the Church’s faith. And he too is in need of a charitable correction that may bring splendor back to the truth.

Pierantoni is not the only one among the six to have recalled the lessons of the past, ancient and recent.

Thibaud Collin, a professor of moral philosophy and politics at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, recalled for example the opposition of numerous theologians and entire episcopates to the encyclical of Paul VI “Humanae Vitae,” which was downgraded to purely “ideal” and thereby made inoperative. And he showed how this deleterious “pastoral” logic has come back into vogue with “Amoris Laetitia,” concerning indissoluble marriage and soon also concerning homosexual amours.

Anna M. Silvas, an Australian of the Eastern rite, a scholar of the Fathers of the Church, and a professor at the University of New England, instead emphasized the danger that the Catholic Church might also go down the road already traveled centuries ago by the Protestants and Orthodox toward divorce and remarriage: just when - she surprisingly added - the Coptic Church is returning to the indissolubility of Christian marriage, without exception.

On a response from Pope Francis to the “dubia,” as also on the possibility of a “correction” from him, Anna M. Silvas expressed skepticism. She instead proposes a “Benedict option” for the current post-Christian era, inspired by the monasticism at the collapse of the ancient era, a humble and communal “dwelling” with Jesus and the Father “Jn 14:23) in the faithful expectation, made up of prayer and work, that the tempest shaking the world and the Church today may cease.

Six voices, six different interpretations. All profound and nourished by “caritas in veritate.” Who knows if Pope Francis may at least listen to them.

• Claudio Pierantoni, "La necessaria coerenza del magistero con la Tradizione. Gli esempi della storia" - translation provided under the title of "THE NECESSARY CONSISTENCY OF THE MAGISTERIUM WITH TRADITION. THE EXAMPLES OF HISTORY" [scroll down]
• Anna M. Silvas, "A Year After Amoris Laetitia: A Timely Word"
• Douglas Farrow, "The Roots of the Present Crisis"
• Thibaud Collin, "Discerner en conscience?"
• Jürgen Liminski, "'Co-créé avec l’Homme.' Pourquoi l'indissolubilité du mariage est une bonne chose pour la société"
• Jean Paul Messina, "Lecture d’Amoris Laetitia pour l’Afrique et les Églises d’Afrique"

Tridentine Community News - Chaplet of Divine Mercy in Latin: Coróna Divínæ Misericórdiæ; Tridentine Summer Camps; TLM schedule

"I will go in unto the Altar of God
To God, Who giveth joy to my youth"
Tridentine Community News by Alex Begin (April 23, 2017):

april 23, 2017 - Low Sunday / Divine Mercy Sunday

The Chaplet of Divine Mercy in Latin: Coróna Divínæ Misericórdiæ

It is meritorious for the faithful to know how to pray many of the popular and important prayers in Latin, the official language of the Church. This column, for example, has previously printed Latin versions of the Holy Rosary and various indulgenced prayers from the Enchirídion Indulgentiárum. As today is the Feast of Divine Mercy, you may wish to consider praying the Chaplet of Divine Mercy in Latin. The below basic structure of the Chaplet was assembled from a variety of sources; unfortunately we have not been able to locate the various optional introductory and concluding prayers in Latin.

Sign of the Cross: In nómine Patris, et Fílii, et Spíritus Sancti. Amen.

Our Father>: Pater noster, qui es in cælis, sanctificétur nomen tuum. Advéniat regnum tuum. Fiat volúntas tua, sicut in cælo et in terra. Panem nostrum quotidiánum da nobis hodie, et dimítte nobis débita nostra, sicut et nos dimíttimus debitóribus nostris. Et ne nos indúcas in tentatiónem: sed líbera nos a malo. Amen.

Hail Mary: Ave María, grátia plena, Dóminus técum; benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus fructus ventris tui, Jesus. Sancta María, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatóribus, nunc et in hora mortis nostræ. Amen.

Apostles’ Creed: Credo in Deum, Patrem omnipoténtem, Creatórem cæli et terræ. Et in Jesum Christum, Fílium ejus unícum, Dóminum nostrum: qui concéptus est de Spíritu Sancto, natus ex María Vírgine, passus sub Póntio Piláto, crucifíxus, mórtuus, et sepúltus: descéndit ad ínferos: tértia die resurréxit a mórtuis: ascéndit ad cælos: sedet ad déxteram Dei Patris omnipoténtis: inde ventúrus est judicáre vivos et mórtuos. Credo in Spíritum Sanctum, sanctam Ecclésiam cathólicam, Sanctórum communiónem, remissiónem peccatórum, carnis resurrectiónem, vitam ætérnam. Amen.

On each Our Father bead: Pater ætérne, óffero tibi Corpus et Sánguinem, ánimam et divinitátem dilectíssimi Fílii Tui, Dómini nostri, Jesu Christi, in propitiatióne pro peccátis nostris et totíus mundi.

On each Hail Mary bead: Pro dolorosa Ejus passióne, miserére nobis et totíus mundi.

At the conclusion, three times: Sanctus Deus, Sanctus Fortis, Sanctus Immortális, miserére nobis et totíus mundi.

Tridentine Summer Camps

Are you looking for a traditional Catholic summer camp experience for your children? Each year it seems there is a gradually increasing number of Tridentine Mass-centered camps. A few worthy of your consideration are:

Camp St. Peter, run by the Fraternity of St. Peter, is held at Custer State Park, south of Rapid City, South Dakota, August 11-23. It is for boys age 13-15. Applications must be filed by May 19.

Camp St. Isaac Jogues, also run by the FSSP, is held on the grounds of St. Gregory the Great Academy in Elmhurst Township, Pennsylvania. It is for boys age 13-16. Applications must be filed by May 17.

St. Francis Xavier Mission Trips, run by the FSSP, provide a charity and service experience in a foreign land. A mission trip to Guadalajara, Mexico takes place July 19 – August 1 and is open to families of all ages and individuals age 16 and over. Youth mission trips to Piura, Peru for young men and women age 16-21 take place July 21 – August 3 and August 5-18. It appears that the deadline for applying has already passed, however it could not hurt to make inquiry.

For more information on all three of the above, visit: https://seminarycamps.wordpress.com/

St. Anne’s Chant Camp is run by the San Diego, California FSSP parish and is open to girls and boys age 8-18. This may not be a residential camp, so parents may need to arrange accommodations. Further information is available at: www.stannes-sandiego.org/

The Institute of Christ the King offers camps in Wausau, Wisconsin for boys age 10-17 July 17-21 and for girls age 10-17 July 24-28. Applications are due by June 30. For more information, visit: www.institute-christ-king.org/wausau/wausau-events/

The Morning Star Summer Camp for teenage girls, and the Montfort Boys Camp are run by the St. Benedict Center in Still River, Massachusetts. Four week-long camps are planned for 2017, but dates have not yet been announced. For more information, visit: www.saintbenedict.com/index.php/apostolates/montfort

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

• Mon. 04/24 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat (St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Martyr)
• Tue. 04/25 7:00 PM: High Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Windsor (St. Mark, Evangelist)
• Sat. 04/29 8:30 AM: Low Mass at Miles Christi (St. Peter of Verona, Martyr)

[Comments? Please e-mail tridnews@detroitlatinmass.org. Previous columns are available at http://www.detroitlatinmass.org. This edition of Tridentine Community News, with minor editions, is from the St. Albertus (Detroit), Academy of the Sacred Heart (Bloomfield Hills), and St. Alphonsus and Holy Name of Mary Churches (Windsor) bulletin inserts for April 23, 2017. Hat tip to Alex Begin, author of the column.]

Tridentine Masses coming this week to metro Detroit and east Michigan

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

Sunday

• Sun. 4/23 7:30 AM and 10:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 45 minutes before and after Masses) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 8:00 and 10:30AM Low Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 9:00 AM: Low Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 9:45 AM: High Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23: [occasional Tridentine Masses: contact parish] at Our Lady of the Scapular Parish (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 11:00 AM: Solemn High Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 12:00 Noon: Missa Cantata at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class) -- Perrone's Missa Cantata, and Frank's Redemption, Mascagni's Regina Caeli, and Gounod's Judex
• Sun. 4/23 12:00: High Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea, Jackson (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 2:00 PM: High Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 3:00 PM: Tridentine Mass (call ahead for Confession times, 989-892-5936) at Infant of Prague, Bay City [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 3:00 PM: High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)

Monday

• Mon. 4/24 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen - 3rd class)
• Mon. 4/24 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen - 3rd class)
• Mon. 4/24 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen - 3rd class)
• Mon. 4/24 12:00 Noon: High Tridentine Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen - 3rd class)
• Mon. 4/24 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen - 3rd class)
• Mon. 4/24 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen - 3rd class)

Tuesday

• Tue. 4/25 7:00 AM Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Mark - 2nd class, or Rogation Mass (if there is a procession) - 2nd class)
• Tue. 4/25 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (St. Mark - 2nd class, or Rogation Mass (if there is a procession) - 2nd class)
• Tue. 4/25 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (St. Mark - 2nd class, or Rogation Mass (if there is a procession) - 2nd class)
• Tue. 4/25 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (St. Mark - 2nd class, or Rogation Mass (if there is a procession) - 2nd class)
• Tue. 4/25 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Mark - 2nd class, or Rogation Mass (if there is a procession) - 2nd class)

Wednesday

• Wed. 4/26 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Sts. Cletus & Marcellinus - 3rd class)
• Wed. 4/26 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Sts. Cletus & Marcellinus - 3rd class)
• Wed. 4/26 12:00 Noon: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit followed by Perpetual Novena to St. Joseph (Sts. Cletus & Marcellinus - 3rd class)
• Wed. 4/26 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Sts. Cletus & Marcellinus - 3rd class)

Thursday

• Thu. 4/27 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Peter Canisius - 3rd class)
• Thu. 4/27 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (St. Peter Canisius - 3rd class)
• Thu. 4/27 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions Thursdays: 7:00 - 7:30 PM during Benediction) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (St. Peter Canisius - 3rd class)
• Thu. 4/27 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Peter Canisius - 3rd class)

Friday

• Fri. 4/28 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Paul of the Cross - 3rd class)
• Fri. 4/28 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (St. Paul of the Cross - 3rd class)
• Fri. 4/28 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (St. Paul of the Cross - 3rd class)
• Fri. 4/28 7:00 PM: Low Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Paul of the Cross - 3rd class)
• Fri. 4/28 7:00 PM: Tridentine Mass at St. Joseph, Sarnia, Ontario (St. Paul of the Cross - 3rd class)

Saturday

• Sat. 4/29 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Peter of Verona - 3rd class)
• Sat. 4/29 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (St. Peter of Verona - 3rd class)
• Sat. 4/29 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (St. Peter of Verona - 3rd class)
• Sat. 4/29 8:30 AM: Low Mass at Miles Christi, South Lyon, MI (St. Peter of Verona - 3rd class)
• Sat. 4/29 9:00 AM: High Mass at St. Anthony, Temperance (St. Peter of Verona - 3rd class)
• Sat. 4/29 9:00 AM: Low Mass and Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (St. Peter of Verona - 3rd class)
• Sat. 4/29 6:00 PM: Tridentine Mass at SS. Cyril & Methodius Slovak Catholic Church, Sterling Heights (St. Peter of Verona - 3rd class)

Sunday

• Sun. 4/30 7:30 AM and 10:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 45 minutes before and after Masses) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (2nd Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) - 2nd class)
• Sun. 4/30 8:00 and 10:30AM Low Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (2nd Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) - 2nd class)
• Sun. 4/30 9:00 AM: Low Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (2nd Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) - 2nd class)
• Sun. 4/30 9:30 AM: High Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (2nd Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) - 2nd class)
• Sun. 4/30 9:45 AM: High Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (2nd Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) - 2nd class)
• Sun. 4/30: [occasional Tridentine Masses: contact parish] at Our Lady of the Scapular Parish (2nd Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) - 2nd class)
• Sun. 4/30 11:00 AM: Solemn High Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (2nd Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) - 2nd class)
• Sun. 4/30 12:00: High Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea, Jackson (2nd Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) - 2nd class)
• Sun. 4/30 2:00 PM: High Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (2nd Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) - 2nd class)
• Sun. 4/30 3:00 PM: High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (2nd Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) - 2nd class)

* NB: The SSPX chapels among those Mass sites listed above are posted here because the Holy Father has announced that "those who during the Holy Year of Mercy approach these priests of the Fraternity of St Pius X to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation shall validly and licitly receive the absolution of their sins," and subsequently extended this privilege beyond the Year of Mercy. These chapels are not listed among the approved parishes and worship sites on archdiocesan websites.

Tridentine Masses coming this week to metro Detroit and east Michigan

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

Sunday

• Sun. 4/16 7:30 AM and 10:00 AM: Mass (Confessions 45 minutes before and after Masses) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 8:00 and 10:30AM Tridentine Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 9:00 AM: Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 9:30 AM: Missa Cantata at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Sunday - 1st class) -- Perrone's Missa Cantata, and Frank's Redemption, Mascagni's Regina Caeli, and Gounod's Judex
• Sun. 4/16 9:45 AM: No Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16: [occasional Tridentine Masses: contact parish] at Our Lady of the Scapular Parish (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 11:00 AM: Solemn High Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 12:00: High Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea, Jackson (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 2:00 PM: High Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 3:00 PM: High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (Easter Sunday - 1st class)

Monday

• Mon. 4/17 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Monday - 1st class)
• Mon. 4/17 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Easter Monday - 1st class)
• Mon. 4/17 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Easter Monday - 1st class)
• Mon. 4/17 12:00 Noon: High Tridentine Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Monday - 1st class)
• Mon. 4/17 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (Easter Monday - 1st class)
• Mon. 4/17 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Monday - 1st class)

Tuesday

• Tue. 4/18 7:00 AM Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Tuesday - 1st class)
• Tue. 4/18 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Easter Tuesday - 1st class)
• Tue. 4/18 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Easter Tuesday - 1st class)
• Tue. 4/18 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Easter Tuesday - 1st class)
• Tue. 4/18 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Tuesday - 1st class)

Wednesday

• Wed. 4/19 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Wednesday - 1st class)
• Wed. 4/19 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Easter Wednesday - 1st class)
• Wed. 4/19 12:00 Noon: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit followed by Perpetual Novena to St. Joseph (Easter Wednesday - 1st class)
• Wed. 4/19 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Wednesday - 1st class)

Thursday

• Thu. 4/20 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Thursday - 1st class)
• Thu. 4/20 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Easter Thursday - 1st class)
• Thu. 4/20 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions Thursdays: 7:00 - 7:30 PM during Benediction) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Easter Thursday - 1st class)
• Thu. 4/20 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Thursday - 1st class)

Friday

• Fri. 4/21 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Friday - 1st class)
• Fri. 4/21 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Easter Friday - 1st class)
• Fri. 4/21 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Easter Friday - 1st class)
• Fri. 4/21 7:00 PM: Low Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Friday - 1st class)
• Fri. 4/21 7:00 PM: Tridentine Mass at St. Joseph, Sarnia, Ontario (Easter Friday - 1st class)

Saturday

• Sat. 4/22 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Saturday - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/22 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Easter Saturday - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/22 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Easter Saturday - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/22 8:30 AM: Low Mass at Miles Christi, South Lyon, MI (Easter Saturday - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/22 9:00 AM: High Mass at St. Anthony, Temperance (Easter Saturday - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/22 9:00 AM: Low Mass and Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Easter Saturday - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/22 6:00 PM: Tridentine Mass at SS. Cyril & Methodius Slovak Catholic Church, Sterling Heights (Easter Saturday - 1st class)

Sunday

• Sun. 4/23 7:30 AM and 10:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 45 minutes before and after Masses) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 8:00 and 10:30AM Low Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 9:00 AM: Low Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 9:30 AM: High Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 9:45 AM: High Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23: [occasional Tridentine Masses: contact parish] at Our Lady of the Scapular Parish (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 11:00 AM: Solemn High Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 12:00: High Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea, Jackson (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 2:00 PM: High Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 3:00 PM: Tridentine Mass (call ahead for Confession times, 989-892-5936) at Infant of Prague, Bay City [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/23 3:00 PM: High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (Low Sunday [Divine Mercy Sunday] - 1st class)

* NB: The SSPX chapels among those Mass sites listed above are posted here because the Holy Father has announced that "those who during the Holy Year of Mercy approach these priests of the Fraternity of St Pius X to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation shall validly and licitly receive the absolution of their sins," and subsequently extended this privilege beyond the Year of Mercy. These chapels are not listed among the approved parishes and worship sites on archdiocesan websites.

A faithless retired Episcopal priest's demythologized Easter 'homily'

Harry T. Cook, "On Easter, an alternative approach to resurrection" (Detroit Free Press, April 15, 2017):

The Easter story is not the work of journalists. No good can come from torturing it into news, good or otherwise. It is a story with meaning. What is its meaning? It cannot be that a convicted revolutionary who was executed on a Friday walked out of his grave on Sunday to the profound amazement of his followers. Is it possible that the meaning of the story is that while you can kill a human being, you cannot kill what he or she has been or done?

Pitiful. Pitiful that good people ever come to believe such complete nonsense. Pitiful in the way St. Paul says that we would be of all people most to be pitied if Jesus hadn't been raised from the dead as claimed (providing an intricate logical syllogism to that effect in 1 Corinthians 15).

Even on empirical grounds, how pitiful is it to believe that miracles "can't happen" because, well, just because "miracles don't happen." Even if all the stars in the heavens arranged themselves so as to spell "Jesus saves," such individuals would probably respond: "Why, goodness me! What a remarkable coincidence! It almost looks as if someone has played some sort of optical trick on us."

There are accounts of other resurrected deities? Like Dionysus? Yeah, so what? Where have they left a paper trail of witnesses and martyrs like Jesus has? The Apostles must have been deceived about Jesus' resurrection? You think? One can be deceived about lots of things, but some things are just too big to be deceived about. A resurrected man is one of these. I doubt one could be anymore deceived about a man being resurrected from the dead than be deceived into thinking that exactly 37 pink pigs with wings are hovering in the air like hummingbirds just outside one's window.

But it could have been in the Apostles' self-interest to believe the Jesus rose from the dead. True. But it could also be in your own self-interest to believe that exactly 37 pink pigs with wings are hovering in the air like hummingbirds just outside your window if I offered you $1 million to believe that. Trouble is, our honest beliefs aren't quite under our control the way our ordinary choices are. I can't really bring myself to believe something just because someone offers to pay me money to believe it.

If course, I could say I believed it, even if I didn't. So maybe the Apostles conspired to lie about Jesus' resurrection? You think? When each of them (except for John) went to his martyrdom knowing that all he'd have to do is refuse to go along with the lie anymore, to just break and tell the truth and admit that Jesus didn't rise from the dead? Furthermore, each of these conspirators would have known that each of his fellow conspirators was lying through his teeth in the face of terrible persecution, torture, and the threat of death, and all that would have to happen if for one of them to break and tell the truth, and the whole resurrection story would go down in flames as a failure not worth being martyred for.

So we have a story people just can't be mistaken about of someone rising from the dead, and a story that the Apostles' couldn't possibly have conspired to lie about, given the fact that each of them (except John), knowing that it is human nature to break under torture, nevertheless willingly gave his life as a martyr for the authenticity of the story with not one of them throwing in the towel and denying its authenticity. Not to mention centuries of martyrs and witnesses to lives changed, relationships redeemed, bodies and souls healed in expectation of life eternal.

Pray for Harry T. Cook. Poor man. Pitiful.

He is risen! He's alive!

More light on a persistent confusion

Mats Wahlberg,"The Two Faces of Amoris Laetitia" (First Things, April 4, 2017), writes:

Two completely different—and logically incompatible—arguments in favor of communion for the divorced and remarried have figured in the synodal process that led up to Amoris Laetitia. Despite their incompatibility, both arguments can be found in Amoris itself, at least according to many of the document’s interpreters. Here is one of the arguments:

A) Living in a new sexual relationship after a divorce from a valid marriage can in some cases be objectively morally good or at least morally acceptable, namely in cases where the new relationship is so established that the well-being of children and other innocent persons would be jeopardized if the couple were to separate or attempt to live as “brother and sister.” Jeopardizing the well-being of innocent persons would be unjust, which is to say immoral, and this means that the morally right course of action is to preserve and nurture the new relationship. This is why persons who are in this kind of situation can receive communion.

Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., senior analyst for the National Catholic Reporter, has no doubt that this is how Pope Francis reasons: “Francis would be sympathetic to the woman who put her husband through law school waiting tables but then got dumped for a pretty, younger associate. She is now married to a loving plumber who is a good father to the children from both marriages. Telling her to abandon her new husband or live as brother and sister is not only absurd, it is unjust” (National Catholic Reporter, Dec 8 2016, my emphasis). However, some other commentators who embrace communion for the divorced and remarried reject this argument out of hand. According to them, the pope reasons like this:

B) Living in a sexual relationship after a divorce from a valid marriage is always objectively gravely immoral, but various factors can diminish or even remove subjective guilt. So while the situation itself is gravely sinful, the persons involved in it need not be in a state of mortal sin. This is why some of them can receive communion.

The philosopher Rocco Buttiglione advances this interpretation. “Sexual relations outside of marriage are without doubt gravely contrary to the moral law. This was the case before Amoris Laetitia, this is still the case in Amoris Laetitia. … Again, there is no doubt as to whether [the divorced and remarried person] is living in an objective situation of grave sin, except in the limited case of an invalid marriage. Whether he or she is carrying the full subjective responsibility and is at fault remains to be seen” (L’Osservatore Romano, July 19 2016).

Then, skipping ahead to the conclusion, we read:

Since Argument A is very persuasive, taken on its own terms, it is no wonder that intelligent and faithful Catholics feel its pull and are moved to advocate what they see as a merciful pastoral solution for people in difficult marriage situations. And it is no wonder that faithful Catholics prefer to defend this pastoral solution in terms of another, incompatible argument—the arguably orthodox Argument B—that allows them to claim that no doctrine has changed. However, this double play can only go on for so long in “good faith.” And the time when Arguments A and B could be innocently confused is over.

Now, go back and read the detailed argument in between at the original source.g

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Fr. Perrone: Our Lord's physical sufferings and our own penances

Fr. Eduard Perrone, "A Pastor's Descant" (Assumption Grotto News, April 9, 2017):

Something struck me -- besides my hand -- when I said Domine, non sum dignus ("Lord, I am not worthy ...") at Mass this past week. The self-deprecating gesture, which we make also during the Confiteor, and by pious custom at the elevation of the Host and Chalice, and again during the Agnus Dei, derives from the Gospel parable of the two men who went into the Temple to pray: the justified of the two having struck his breast for his unworthiness to appear before God. The moment of illumination at Mass for me was the realization that this is a symbolic punishment of oneself (howsoever mildly) for one's sins. (A secular psychologist would suspect here a masochistic tendency; but for those of an authentically-formed religious mind it manifests remorse for having offended God.) The logic behind voluntary penances is twofold: as a corrective and as a compensation for the debt incurred by sin. I'm reminded of what Saint Paul spoke of as the chastisements he inflicted on his body to bring it into subjection to his will.

I mention this gesture to you at the beginning of Holy Week because I am much impressed by the corporal punishments inflicted on our Lord during His Passion. He, being sinless, had no need of corrective punishments. It was in compensation for our sins that He received the abuse visited upon Him. This aspect of reflection on Christ's Passion -- now much outmoded -- makes one realize the violence done to the innocent Christ for no wrongdoing of His own, but for ours. He was literally punched, struck, fiercely slapped, receiving what the Latin Vulgate Psalter (Ps 38) calls plagas, physical punishments. We deserve, each one, some of what He took upon Himself in our place. By these attacks and assaults and especially by His ruthless scourging, Christ became our proverbial whipping boy. We will sing of this on Easter: "For the sheep the Lamb has bled: (the) Sinless in the sinners' stead."

Perhaps by this brief reflection you will come to appreciate better what you do at Mass in striking the breast. You make a statement regarding yourself as a sinner and you are making recollection of the cruel punishment our Lord received for what you have done. Things to keep in mind this week.

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There ought not be need for me to remind you of conserving and consulting the enclosed Holy Week schedule. Lacking it, and without recourse to the much abused and overused "handheld device," you may consult our parish website which can supply where feeble memories have failed. Know that everybody should attend all the Holy Week services and that all should have confessed sometime before Easter. Do come and spend a significant amount of time in church this week, following with Christ in His sufferings, giving Him the comfort of your presence and your fidelity, seeing Him all the way through to His glorious rising. A terrible week. A wonderful week.

A closing word concerns our music for Holy Week. We do try to sing the prescribed chants of the Church all this week, and as best we can. This includes the chanting of the Passion and the many antiphons and hynmns which come down to us from centuries past. The orchestral Masses of Easter morning (9:30) and Divine Mercy Sunday (noon) will make heard some very stirring music by Franck, Gounod, and Mascagni. Without feigning and unbecoming obsequiousness, I must relate to you that the orchestral Mass played those days will be my own composition, a Missa Cantata in honor of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a work orchestrated rather hastily in its first performance two years ago but which may be heard this year in a more perfected form. With all the great music written for the church by master composers it may be somewhat vainglorious to offer my own work -- yet once again. I ask your kind indulgence -- and our Lord's -- for this repeat performance which I hope will be nevertheless graciously received.

Fr. Perrone

P.s. The Tuesday evening Mass this week will be at 7:00 p.m. in the convent chapel, not in the church.

Tridentine Community News - Audio Meditations for Holy Week; Vatican recommends Tridentine Vesting Prayers before Ordinary Form Mass; TLM Mass schedule

"I will go in unto the Altar of God
To God, Who giveth joy to my youth"
Tridentine Community News by Alex Begin (April 9, 2017):

April 9 2017 - Palm Sunday
Audio Meditations for Holy Week

A reader brought to our attention an audio recording on YouTube, which itself suggested two additional shorter recordings. We pass along all three as appropriate meditations for Holy Week. All are on the subject of Purgatory: the reasons a soul is sent there and the possible means to avoid it. These somber yet inspiring presentations may be listened to while driving or performing chores. During Holy Week in particular, they can help us reflect upon our obligation to lead a moral, virtuous, Catholic life. Our sufferings, of course, are a pittance in comparison to those which our innocent Lord had to endure during His Passion.

The first recording, Purgatory: An Unpublished Manuscript, lasts almost three hours. It documents the private revelations of a soul from Purgatory who appeared many times to a nun. A main theme is that priests and religious are held to higher standards than laypeople. While full of thought-provoking content, it is worth noting that this is an automated reading of a document, done by a robotic British female voice that does not pause in appropriate places. That can make it challenging to parse out, as subject and paragraph breaks are not obvious. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHL2KWN6WeQ&t

The second recording, Purgatory: Pay Now or Pay Later (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFNntL843tw) and the third, Purgatory: Why and How Long (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRW1DpNILjg), are short sermons with practical suggestions on leading a life that will take one directly to heaven.

Vatican Recommends Use of Tridentine Vesting Prayers Before the Ordinary Form Mass

On February 16, 2010, the Vatican’s Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Roman Pontiff issued a document entitled “Liturgical Vestments and the Vesting Prayers,” which elaborates upon the value of the traditional vesting prayers and their continued usefulness, even before the celebration of the Novus Ordo. Interesting excerpted paragraphs are below. [Thanks to New Liturgical Movement blog founder Shawn Tribe for reminding us of this document.]

“In the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite (the so-called Mass of Pius V), the putting on of the liturgical vestments is accompanied by prayers for each garment, prayers whose text one still finds in many sacristies. Even if these prayers are no longer obligatory (but neither are they prohibited) by the Missal of the ordinary form promulgated by Paul VI, their use is recommended since they help in the priest’s preparation and recollection before the celebration of the Eucharistic sacrifice. As a confirmation of the utility of these prayers it must be noted that they are included in the “Compendium Eucharisticum,” recently published by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments....

Over the alb and around the waist is placed the girdle or cincture, a cord made of wool or other suitable material that is used as a belt. All those who wear albs must also wear the cincture (frequently today this traditional custom is not followed)....

The maniple is an article of liturgical dress used in the celebration of the extraordinary form of the Holy Mass of the Roman Rite. It fell into disuse in the years of the post-conciliar reform, even though it was never abrogated....


... one hopes that the rediscovery of the symbolism of the liturgical vestments and the vesting prayers will encourage priests to take up again the practice of praying as they are dressing for the liturgy so as to prepare themselves for the celebration with the necessary recollection.

While it is possible to use different prayers, or simply to lift one’s mind up to God, nevertheless the texts of the vesting prayers are brief, precise in their language, inspired by a biblical spirituality and have been prayed for centuries by countless sacred ministers. These prayers thus recommend themselves still today for the preparation for the liturgical celebration, even for the liturgy according to the ordinary form of the Roman Rite.”

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

• Mon. 04/10 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat (Monday in Holy Week)
• Tue. 04/11 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Windsor (Tuesday in Holy Week)
• Thu. 04/13 7:00 PM: High Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Holy Thursday) -
• Thu. 04/13 7:00 PM: High Mass at St. Joseph (Holy Thursday)
• Fri. 04/14 1:30 PM: Good Friday Service at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills
• Fri. 04/14 3:00 PM: Good Friday Service at St. Joseph
• Fri. 04/14 5:30 PM: Good Friday Service at Holy Name of Mary, Windsor
• Sat. 04/15 8:00 PM: High Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Easter Vigil)
• Sat. 04/15 9:00 PM: High Mass at St. Joseph (Easter Vigil)
• Sun. 04/16: No Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart

[Comments? Please e-mail tridnews@detroitlatinmass.org. Previous columns are available at http://www.detroitlatinmass.org. This edition of Tridentine Community News, with minor editions, is from the St. Albertus (Detroit), Academy of the Sacred Heart (Bloomfield Hills), and St. Alphonsus and Holy Name of Mary Churches (Windsor) bulletin inserts for April 9, 2017. Hat tip to Alex Begin, author of the column.]

Tridentine Masses coming this week to metro Detroit and east Michigan

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

Sunday

• Sun. 4/9 7:30 AM and 10:00 AM: Mass (Confessions 45 minutes before and after Masses) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 8:00 and 10:30AM Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 9:00 AM: Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 9:30 AM: High Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 9:45 AM: High Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9: [occasional Tridentine Masses: contact parish] at Our Lady of the Scapular Parish (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 11:00 AM: Solemn High Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 12:00: High Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea, Jackson (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 12:30 PM: Tridentine Mass at Old St. Patrick's, Ann Arbor (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 2:00 PM: High Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 3:00 PM: Mass (call ahead for Confession times, 989-892-5936) at Infant of Prague, Bay City [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 3:00 PM: High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (Palm Sunday - 1st class)

Monday

• Mon. 4/10 8:00 AM: Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Monday of Holy Week - 1st class)
• Mon. 4/10 8:00 AM: Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Monday of Holy Week - 1st class)
• Mon. 4/10 12:00 Noon: High Tridentine Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Monday of Holy Week - 1st class)
• Mon. 4/10 7:00 PM: Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (Monday of Holy Week - 1st class)
• Mon. 4/10 7:00 PM: Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Monday of Holy Week - 1st class)

Tuesday

• Tue. 4/11 8:00 AM: Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Tuesday of Holy Week - 1st class)
• Tue. 4/11 8:00 AM: Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Tuesday of Holy Week - 1st class)
• Tue. 4/11 7:00 PM: Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Tuesday of Holy Week - 1st class)
• Tue. 4/11 7:00 PM: Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Tuesday of Holy Week - 1st class)

Wednesday

• Wed. 4/12 8:00 AM: Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Wednesday of Holy Week - 1st class)
• Wed. 4/12 12:00 Noon: Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit followed by Perpetual Novena to St. Joseph (Wednesday of Holy Week - 1st class)
• Wed. 4/12 7:00 PM: Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Wednesday of Holy Week - 1st class)

Thursday

• Thu. 4/13 8:00 AM: Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Holy Thursday - 1st class)
• Thu. 4/13 8:00 AM: Mass (Confessions Thursdays: 7:00 - 7:30 PM during Benediction) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Holy Thursday - 1st class)
• Thu. 4/13 7:00 PM: High Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Holy thursday - 1st class)
• Thu. 4/13 7:00 PM: High Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Holy Thursday - 1st class)
• Thu. 4/13 7:00 PM: Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Holy Thursday - 1st class)

Friday

• Fri. 4/14 8:00 AM: Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Good Friday - 1st class)
• Fri. 4/14 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Good Friday - 1st class)
• Fri. 4/14 12:00 Noon until 3:00 PM: Tre Ore (three hour) Services, Solemn Liturgy with sun Passion according to St. John, Veneration of the Cross, Holy Communion; 3:00 PM Divine Mercy Prayers - at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Good Friday - 1st class)
• Fri. 4/14 1:30 PM: Good Friday Service at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Good Friday - 1st class)
• Fri. 4/14 3:00 PM: Good Friday Service St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Good Friday - 1st class)
• Fri. 4/14 5:30 PM: Good Friday Service at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Good Friday - 1st class)
• Fri. 4/14 7:00 PM: Stations of the Cross at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Good Friday - 1st class)
• Fri. 4/14 7:00 PM: Tridentine Mass at St. Joseph, Sarnia, Ontario (Good Friday - 1st class)

Saturday

• Sat. 4/15 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/15 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/15 8:30 AM: Low Mass at Miles Christi, South Lyon, MI (Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/15 9:00 AM: High Mass at St. Anthony, Temperance (Saturday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Immaculate Heart of Mary - 3rd class)
• Sat. 4/15 9:00 AM: Mass and Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/15 1:00 PM: Blessing of Easter foods and baskets at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Holy Saturday - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/15 6:00 PM: Tridentine Mass at SS. Cyril & Methodius Slovak Catholic Church, Sterling Heights (Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/15 8:00 PM: High Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Easter Vigil - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/15 8:00 PM: Tridentine Vigil Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Holy Saturday and Easter Vigil - 1st class)
• Sat. 4/15 9:00 AM: High Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Easter Vigil - 1st class)

Sunday

• Sun. 4/16 7:30 AM and 10:00 AM: Mass (Confessions 45 minutes before and after Masses) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 8:00 and 10:30AM Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 9:00 AM: Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 9:30 AM: Missa Cantata at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Easter Sunday - 1st class) -- Perrone's Missa Cantata, and Frank's Redemption, Mascagni's Regina Caeli, and Gounod's Judex
• Sun. 4/16 9:45 AM: No Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16: [occasional Tridentine Masses: contact parish] at Our Lady of the Scapular Parish (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 11:00 AM: Solemn High Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 12:00: High Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea, Jackson (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 2:00 PM: High Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Easter Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/16 3:00 PM: High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (Easter Sunday - 1st class)

* NB: The SSPX chapels among those Mass sites listed above are posted here because the Holy Father has announced that "those who during the Holy Year of Mercy approach these priests of the Fraternity of St Pius X to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation shall validly and licitly receive the absolution of their sins," and subsequently extended this privilege beyond the Year of Mercy. These chapels are not listed among the approved parishes and worship sites on archdiocesan websites.

If There's an Antichrist, What About an Antimary?

LEFT: Michelangelo, “The Fall of Adam and Eve and their Expulsion from the Garden” from the Sistine Chapel. RIGHT: Master of the Life of the Virgin, “Christ on the Cross with Mary, John and Mary Magdalene”, between 1465 and 1470.

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Carrie Gress, "If There's an Antichrist, What About an Antimary?" (National Catholic Register, January 27, 2017): No matter how strong the “spirit of antimary” may be, Mary still remains the most powerful woman in the world:

While researching my latest book, The Marian Option: God’s Solution to a Civilization in Crisis (Tan Books, May 2017), I was struck by a new theological concept. I kept running across the notion that Mary is the New Eve—an idea that goes back to the early Church Fathers. Mary as the New Eve is the female complement to Christ, the New Adam. In Scripture, St. John speaks of an antichrist as a man, but also as a movement that is present throughout history (1 John 4:3, 2 John 1:7). This got me thinking: if there is an antichrist, perhaps there is a female complement, an antimary?

What, then, would an antimary movement look like, exactly? Well, these women would not value children. They would be bawdy, vulgar, and angry. They would rage against the idea of anything resembling humble obedience or self-sacrifice for others. They would be petulant, shallow, catty, and overly sensuous. They would also be self-absorbed, manipulative, gossipy, anxious, and ambitious. In short, it would be everything that Mary is not.

While behavior like this has been put under a microscope because of the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., the trend of women-behaving-badly is nothing new. There is, however, ample evidence that we witnessing something, because of its massive scale, quite different from run-of-the-mill vice seen throughout history.

The treatment of motherhood is one of the first signs that we are dealing with a new movement. Mothers (both spiritual and biological) are a natural icon of Mary – to help others know who Mary is by their generosity, patience, compassion, peace, intuition, and ability to nurture souls. Mary’s love (and the love of mothers) offers one of the best images of what God’s love is like – unconditional, healing, and deeply personal.

The last few decades have witnessed the subtle erasing of the Marian icon in real women. First through the pill, then the advent of abortion, motherhood has been on the chopping block. Motherhood has become dispensable, to that point that today the broader culture doesn’t bat an eye when a child is adopted by two men.

Signposts in the historical erosion in French and Québécois Catholicism

Jean Louis Clement:

"The French bishops in the interwar years have favored the elaboration of a political theology which up to 1930, they rooted in the sovereignty of God, Creator of the Universe, and which later on, they built on the idea of the human person, at the service of which stand both society and State. They endeavored to promote that theology since 1919, but very specially in the thirties, in the thick of the parliamentary crisis. In the hope of countering the blossoming of political doctrines scorning the concept of 'person' the Assembly of Cardinals and Archbishops offered the faithful a political catechism drafted by the Abbe Daniel Joseph Lallement under the Daladier government. The episcopate entered into negotiations for a project that aimed at rooting in the conscience obedience to the Authority."

Anthony Sistrom:

Prior to the forties Cardinal Louis Billot, SJ spoke for the bishops. Vide his scathing article, "Liberalism" online in English. In the wake of the condemnation of Action francaise, personalism became the philosophy of the moment. No one has more eloquently critiqued personalism than Charles de Koninck (the only lay peritus at Vatican II). His article "On the primacy of the Common Good against the Personalists" (1943) is online. The date is important because the Quebec bishops had just introduced a marriage preparation program based on personalism that would spell the end of the Quebec traditional family.

A film in which Christians and non-believers are not cast as natural enemies

Well, this is interesting. I've never cared much for overtly 'Christian' films, which tend in my experience to be too long on didacticism and too short on artistry. But here's what Steven D. Greydanus has to say about 'The Case for Christ,' based on Lee Strobel’s best-selling conversion story:

The atheists and nonbelievers in The Case for Christ don’t have horns and tails, or even mustaches for twirling. They aren’t out to crush believers into dust or banish their beliefs from respectable society.

The believers aren’t persecuted, marginalized victims, but capable, respected professionals in fields ranging from medical science and health care to archaeology, New Testament studies, philosophy, journalism and more. The conflict turns on faith and unbelief, but believers and unbelievers aren’t cast as natural enemies.

In other words, The Case for Christ is far from the paranoid, agonistic world of the two God’s Not Dead films, for which Pure Flix Entertainment is best known. Producers Elizabeth Hatcher-Travis and Pure Flix CEO Michael Scott collaborated on all three films — and Lee Strobel, the protagonist of The Case for Christ, cameoed as himself in God’s Not Dead 2. Yet The Case for Christ is the furthest thing from a God’s Not Dead 3.

The differences start with the real-life story behind The Case for Christ, Strobel’s conversion story from atheism to Christianity. Where the God’s Not Dead films offer lurid distillations of fundamentalist urban legends, The Case for Christ is about real people — at least, about as much as an average fact-based Hollywood drama. Read more >>

[Hat tip to JM]

Good news! Number of Christians martyred worldwide down by 15,000 last year

The bad news? The number of Christians martyred for their faith in 2016 was 90,000 -- 1 every 6 minutes -- making Christians the most persecuted group in the world. The previous year the number was even higher: 105,000. The statistics were cited by the prominent Italian sociologist Massimo Introvigne in an interview with Vatican Radio, referencing a study produced by the independent Center for Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. [Source]

Women from the Christian community mourn for their relatives, who were killed by a suicide attack on a church, during their funeral in Lahore, March 17, 2015. Suicide bombings outside two churches in Lahore killed 14 people and wounded nearly 80 others during services on Sunday in attacks claimed by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban.

John Vennari (1958-2017) - RIP

JOSEPH JOHN VENNARI, R.I.P.M
(February 24, 1958 - April 4, 2017)

Dear Friends,

Joseph John Vennari died on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 10:46 a.m. E.S.T. It is not only Passion Tuesday, but the 98th anniversary of the death of Blessed Francisco of Fatima - the first Tuesday (the day dedicated weekly to the Holy Face) in April (the month dedicated to the Holy Face).

John received the traditional Sacraments and blessings of the Church several times during the past weeks and months. On Sunday, April 2, Holy Mass was offered in his hospital room. John was able to receive Holy Viaticum one last time, as well as Extreme Unction and the Apostolic Blessing.

John died wearing the Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and the cord of St. Philomena, with the St. Benedict Crucifix (with the special 'Happy Death' indulgence attached) next to him. He died shortly after the recitation of 15 decades of the Holy Rosary and during the recitation of the 'Commendatory' prayers for the dying, and being blessed with Holy Water. He died with his wife Susan and a close family friend at his side. Immediately after his death, another Rosary was prayed for the repose of his soul.

Please keep the repose of John's soul in your Masses, Holy Communions, prayers and sacrifices. Funeral arrangements will be posted shortly. May John's soul, and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.

Thank you and God bless you,
The Vennari Family

[CFN and multiple sources]

Supreme Court Justice Warns Catholics of Coming Persecution

Spencer Irvine, "Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Reminds Catholic Audience of Warning of Persecution after Obergefell decision" (Accuracy in Media, March 20, 2017). Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's words:

Perhaps recognizing how its reasoning may be used, the majority attempts, toward the end of its opinion, to reassure those who oppose same-sex marriage that their rights of conscience will be protected. . . . . We will soon see whether this proves to be true. I assume that those who cling to old beliefs will be able to whisper their thoughts in the recesses of their homes, but if they repeat those views in public, they will risk being labeled as bigots and treated as such by governments, employers, and schools.

By imposing its own views on the entire country, the majority facilitates the marginalization of the many Americans who have traditional ideas. Recalling the harsh treatment of gays and lesbians in the past, some may think that turnabout is fair play. But if that sentiment prevails, the Nation will experience bitter and lasting wounds.

Tridentine Community News - Churches for weddings in the Extraordinary Form; Former Detroit Tridentine Mass Organist Dr. Steven Ball Arranges Altar Serving Training in Atlantic City; riduum Tridentine Mass Schedule; TLM schedule this coming week

"I will go in unto the Altar of God
To God, Who giveth joy to my youth"
Tridentine Community News by Alex Begin (April 2, 2017):

April 2, 2017 – Passion Sunday

Churches for Weddings in the Extraordinary Form


A few weeks ago a wedding in the Extraordinary Form was held at Detroit’s magnificent, historic Sweetest Heart of Mary Church [photo above]. Sweetest Heart is one of the most popular sites for Catholic weddings in Detroit due to its grandeur, elaborate stained glass, and detail of sacred art.

Are you or someone you know looking for an ornate church that will permit a wedding in the Extraordinary Form? Consider making inquiry with these churches in our region which have either already hosted Tridentine wedding(s) or have a track record of being friendly to tradition:

Detroit: Assumption Grotto, Holy Family, Holy Redeemer, Old St. Mary’s, St. Albertus, St. Hyacinth, St. Josaphat, St. Joseph, Sweetest Heart of Mary

Bloomfield Hills: OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart Chapel

Wyandotte: Our Lady of the Scapular

Windsor: St. Benedict/St. Alphonsus

Former Detroit Tridentine Mass Organist Dr. Steven Ball Arranges Altar Serving Training in Atlantic City


For many years Dr. Steven Ball was a prominent substitute organist at Detroit and Windsor Tridentine Mass sites. He was organist at Detroit’s Blessed Sacrament Cathedral, Carillonneur and Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, and organist at Ann Arbor’s Michigan Theatre. He also refurbished the tower bells at Detroit’s St. Albertus and Windsor’s Assumption Churches. In 2013 he relocated to Atlantic City, New Jersey, where he is now organist and Director of Outreach for the restoration of the world’s largest pipe organ at Boardwalk Hall.

Last fall Steven became the organist and choir director for the year-old Tridentine Mass at Atlantic City’s historic St. Nicholas of Tolentine Church. In only its second year of existence, the Sunday 8:45 AM Tridentine Mass is already supported by a professional choir and regularly attracts tourists as well as locals. Last weekend Steven and celebrant Fr. Thanh Pham arranged an altar server training workshop to support the growing team of men young and not-so-young who desire to serve the Sacred Liturgy according to the mind of the Church. Steven invited this author to conduct the training; he hopes to recreate at St. Nicholas much of the quality of worship that he fondly recalls from his time spent in our region.

Triduum Tridentine Mass Schedule

Holy Thursday, April 13

Oakland County Latin Mass Association at the Academy of the Sacred Heart Chapel, Bloomfield Hills: 7:00 PM. Members of the choir from Windsor’s St. Benedict Tridentine Community will join the OCLMA choir for special music during the Triduum.

St. Joseph Oratory: 7:00 PM

Good Friday, April 14

OCLMA/Academy: 1:30 PM

St. Joseph Oratory: 3:00 PM

Holy Name of Mary, Windsor: 5:30 PM

Easter Vigil, April 15

OCLMA/Academy: 8:00 PM

St. Joseph Oratory: 9:00 PM

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

• Mon. 04/03 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat (Monday in Passion Week)
• Tue. 04/04 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Rosary Chapel at Assumption Church, Windsor (Tuesday in Passion Week) – Special location this week only
• Fri. 04/07 7:00 PM: High Mass at Old St. Mary’s, Detroit (Friday in Passion Week) – First Friday Devotions before Mass. Reception after Mass. Celebrant: Fr. Louis Madey

[Comments? Please e-mail tridnews@detroitlatinmass.org. Previous columns are available at http://www.detroitlatinmass.org. This edition of Tridentine Community News, with minor editions, is from the St. Albertus (Detroit), Academy of the Sacred Heart (Bloomfield Hills), and St. Alphonsus and Holy Name of Mary Churches (Windsor) bulletin inserts for April 2, 2017. Hat tip to Alex Begin, author of the column.]

Interview with Metropolitan Tikhon, Primate of Orthodox Church in America, during visit to Russia

"Orthodoxy in the United States attracts very many converts" (Interfax-Religion, November 23, 2016). Son of an atheist father an ordained Anglican priest(ess) mother, Tikhon offers his opinion about the recent presidential campaign in the United States, the ongoing crisis in the Ukraine, and some interesting facts abut Orthodoxy in America.

[Hat tip to J. Likoudis]

Tridentine Masses coming this week to metro Detroit and east Michigan

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

Sunday

• Sun. 4/2 7:30 AM and 10:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 45 minutes before and after Masses) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Passion Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/2 8:00 and 10:30AM Low Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Passion Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/2 9:00 AM: Low Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Passion Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/2 9:30 AM: High Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Passion Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/2 9:45 AM: High Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Passion Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/2: [occasional Tridentine Masses: contact parish] at Our Lady of the Scapular Parish (Passion Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/2 11:00 AM: Solemn High Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Passion Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/2 12:00: High Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea, Jackson (Passion Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/2 2:00 PM: High Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Passion Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/2 2:00 PM Low Mass at Our Lady Queen of Angels Church, Detroit (Passion Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/2 2:00 PM: High Mass at St. Alphonsus Church, Windsor, Canada (Passion Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/2 3:00 PM: High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (Passion Sunday - 1st class)

Monday

• Mon. 4/3 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Monday in Passion Week - 3rd class)
• Mon. 4/3 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Monday in Passion Week - 3rd class)
• Mon. 4/3 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Monday in Passion Week - 3rd class)
• Mon. 4/3 12:00 Noon: High Tridentine Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Monday in Passion Week - 3rd class)
• Mon. 4/3 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (Monday in Passion Week - 3rd class)
• Mon. 4/3 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Monday in Passion Week - 3rd class)

Tuesday

• Tue. 4/4 7:00 AM Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Tuesday in Passion Week - 3rd class)
• Tue. 4/4 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Tuesday in Passion Week - 3rd class)
• Tue. 4/4 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Tuesday in Passion Week - 3rd class)
• Tue. 4/4 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Rosary Chapel at Assumption Church, Windsor (Tuesday in Passion Week - 3rd class) - special location this week only
• Tue. 4/4 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Tuesday in Passion Week - 3rd class)

Wednesday

• Wed. 4/5 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Wednesday in Passion Week - 3rd class)
• Wed. 4/5 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions by appointment) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Wednesday in Passion Week - 3rd class)
• Wed. 4/5 12:00 Noon: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit followed by Perpetual Novena to St. Joseph (Wednesday in Passion Week - 3rd class)
• Wed. 4/5 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Wednesday in Passion Week - 3rd class)

Thursday

• Thu. 4/6 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Thursday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Jesus Christ the High Priest - 3rd class)
• Thu. 4/6 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Thursday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Jesus Christ the High Priest - 3rd class)
• Thu. 4/6 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions Thursdays: 7:00 - 7:30 PM during Benediction) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Thursday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Jesus Christ the High Priest - 3rd class)
• Thu. 4/6 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Thursday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Jesus Christ the High Priest - 3rd class)

Friday

• Fri. 4/7 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Friday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Sacred Heart of Jesus - 3rd class) [First Friday]
• Fri. 4/7 8:00 AM: Low Mass St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Friday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Sacred Heart of Jesus - 3rd class) [First Friday]
• Fri. 4/7 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 1st Fridays of the month, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, during Holy Hour) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Friday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Sacred Heart of Jesus - 3rd class) [First Friday]
• Fri. 4/7 7:00 PM: High Mass (periodically) at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Friday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Sacred Heart of Jesus - 3rd class) [First Friday]
• Fri. 4/7 7:00 PM: Low Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Friday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Sacred Heart of Jesus - 3rd class) [First Friday]
• Fri. 4/7 7:00 PM: High Mass at Old St. Mary's, Greektown, Detroit (Friday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Sacred Heart of Jesus - 3rd class) [First Friday]
- First Friday Devotions before Mass. Reception after Mass. Celebrant: Fr. Louis Madey
• Fri. 4/7 7:00 PM: Tridentine Mass at St. Joseph, Sarnia, Ontario (Friday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Sacred Heart of Jesus - 3rd class) [First Friday]

Saturday

• Sat. 4/8 7:30 AM: Low Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Saturday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Immaculate Heart of Mary - 3rd class) [First Saturday]
• Sat. 4/8 8:00 AM Low Mass at St. Edward on the Lake, Lakeport (Saturday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Immaculate Heart of Mary - 3rd class) [First Saturday]
• Sat. 4/8 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 8:30 AM to 9:30 AM) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Saturday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Immaculate Heart of Mary - 3rd class) [First Saturday]
• Sat. 4/8 8:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Saturday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Immaculate Heart of Mary - 3rd class) [First Saturday]
• Sat. 4/8 8:30 AM: Low Mass at Miles Christi, South Lyon, MI (Saturday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Immaculate Heart of Mary - 3rd class) [First Saturday]
• Sat. 4/8 9:00 AM: High Mass at St. Anthony, Temperance (Saturday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Immaculate Heart of Mary - 3rd class) [First Saturday]
• Sat. 4/8 9:00 AM: Low Mass and Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Saturday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Immaculate Heart of Mary - 3rd class) [First Saturday]
• Sat. 4/8 9:00 AM: High Mass at St. Anthony, Temperance (Saturday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Immaculate Heart of Mary - 3rd class) [First Saturday]
• Sat. 4/8 6:00 PM: Tridentine Mass at SS. Cyril & Methodius Slovak Catholic Church, Sterling Heights (Saturday in Passion Week - 3rd class, or Immaculate Heart of Mary - 3rd class) [First Saturday]

Sunday

• Sun. 4/9 7:30 AM and 10:00 AM: Low Mass (Confessions 45 minutes before and after Masses) at St. Joseph's Church, Ray Township [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 8:00 and 10:30AM Low Mass (Confessions 1/2 hour before Mass: call beforehand) at St. Ann's Church, Livonia [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 9:00 AM: Low Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 9:30 AM: High Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 9:45 AM: High Mass at OCLMA/Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9: [occasional Tridentine Masses: contact parish] at Our Lady of the Scapular Parish (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 11:00 AM: Solemn High Mass at St. Joseph Oratory, Detroit (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 12:00: High Mass at St. Mary Star of the Sea, Jackson (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sat. 12:30 PM: Tridentine Mass at Old St. Patrick's, Ann Arbor (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 2:00 PM: High Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 3:00 PM: Low Mass (call ahead for Confession times, 989-892-5936) at Infant of Prague, Bay City [NB: See note at bottom of this post about SSPX sites.]* (Palm Sunday - 1st class)
• Sun. 4/9 3:00 PM: High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (Palm Sunday - 1st class)

* NB: The SSPX chapels among those Mass sites listed above are posted here because the Holy Father has announced that "those who during the Holy Year of Mercy approach these priests of the Fraternity of St Pius X to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation shall validly and licitly receive the absolution of their sins," and subsequently extended this privilege beyond the Year of Mercy. These chapels are not listed among the approved parishes and worship sites on archdiocesan websites.