Sunday, September 29, 2019

Tridentine Community News - The Rite of Betrothal – Part 3 of 3


"I will go in unto the Altar of God
To God, Who giveth joy to my youth"

Tridentine Community News by Alex Begin (September 29, 2019):
September 29, 2019 – Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel

The Rite of Betrothal – Part 3 of 3


5. Thereupon he blesses the engagement ring:

V. Our help is in the name of the Lord.
R. Who made heaven and earth.
V. O Lord, hear my prayer.
R. And let my cry come unto Thee.
V. The Lord be with you.
R. And with thy spirit.
Let us pray. O God almighty, Creator and Preserver of the human race, and the Giver of everlasting salvation, deign to allow the Holy Spirit, the Consoler, to come with His blessing upon this ring. Through our Lord, Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for endless ages.
R. Amen.
The ring is sprinkled with holy water.

6. The man takes the ring and places it first on the index finger of the left hand of the woman, saying: In the name of the Father, (then on the middle finger, adding): and of the Son; (finally placing and leaving it on the ring finger, he concludes): and of the Holy Spirit.

7. The priest opens the missal at the beginning of the Canon, and presents the page imprinted with the crucifixion to be kissed first by the man and then by the woman.

8. If Mass does not follow (or even if Mass is to follow, if he deems it opportune), the priest may read the following passages from Sacred Scripture:

Tobias 7: 8

Tobias said: I will not eat nor drink here this day, unless thou first grant me my petition, and promise to give me Sara thy daughter… The angel said to Raguel: Be not afraid to give her to this man, for to him who feareth God is thy daughter due to be his wife; therefore another could not have her… And Raguel taking the right hand of his daughter, he gave it into the right hand of Tobias, saying: The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob be with you, and may He join you together, and fulfill His blessing in you. And taking paper they made a writing of the marriage. And afterwards they made merry, blessing God… Then Tobias exhorted the virgin, and said to her: Sara, arise, and let us pray to God today, and tomorrow, and the next day; because for these three nights we are joined to God; and when the third night is over, we will be in our own wedlock. For we are the children of saints, and we must not be joined together like heathens that know not God. So they both arose, and prayed earnestly both together that health might be given them.
R. Thanks be to God.

John 15: 4-12
At that time, Jesus said to His disciples: Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abide in the vine, so neither can you, unless you abide in Me. I am the vine; you the branches. He that abideth in Me, and I in him, the same beareth much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. If any one abide not in Me, he shall be cast forth as a branch, and shall wither, and they shall gather him up, and cast him into the fire, and he burneth. If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you shall ask whatever you will, and it shall be done unto you. In this is My Father glorified; that you bring forth very much fruit, and become my disciples. As the Father hath loved Me, I also have loved you. Abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you shall abide in My love; as I also have kept my Father’s commandments, and do abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may be in you, and your joy may be filled. This is My commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you.
R. Praise be to Thee, O Christ!

9. Lastly, the priest extends his hands over the heads of the couple and says: May God bless your bodies and your souls. May He shed His blessing upon you as He blessed Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. May the hand of the Lord be upon you, may He send His holy Angel to guard you all the days of your life. Amen. Go in peace! 10. Before leaving the church, the betrothed couple as well as the witnesses will affix their signatures to the document previously prepared for this purpose. [The Ritual goes on to provide an example document.] 11. If Mass does not follow immediately, it would be appropriate to sing at this time the seasonal anthem of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Tridentine Masses This Coming Week
  • Tue. 10/01 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Windsor (St. Remigius, Bishop & Confessor)
  • Thu. 10/03 6:00 PM: Solemn High Mass at St. Mary of Redford (St. Therese of Lisieux, Virgin) – Rosary, Novena Prayers for fallen away Catholics, and veneration of relics follow the Mass
  • Fri. 10/04 7:00 PM: High Mass at Old St. Mary’s (St. Francis of Assisi, Confessor) – First public Tridentine Mass of Fr. Adam Nowak. Devotions to the Sacred Heart before Mass. Reception after Mass. Juventútem gathering for young adults also follows.
  • Sat. 10/05 8:30 AM: Low Mass at Miles Christi (Saturday of Our Lady)
  • Sun. 10/06 6:00 PM: Solemn High Mass at St. Mary of Redford (External Solemnity of Our Lady of the Rosary) – Rosary, Novena Prayers for fallen away Catholics, and veneration of relics follow the Mass
[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 September 29, 2019. Hat tip to Alex Begin, author of the column.]
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Sunday, September 22, 2019

Tridentine Community News - The Rite of Betrothal – Part 2 of 3; Tridentine Masses this Coming Week

September 22, 2019 – Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost

The Rite of Betrothal – Part 2 of 3


Below is the first part of the English translation of the Rite of Betrothal from the Traditional Roman Ritual, which speaks beautifully of God’s plan for the man and the woman.

1. The priest (vested in surplice and white stole) with his assistants (vested in surplice) awaits the couple at the altar rail. At hand are the stoup with holy water and the altar missal. As the man and woman come forward with the two witnesses they have chosen, the following antiphon and psalm are sung on the eighth psalm tone:

Antiphon: To the Lord I will tender my promise: in the presence of all His people.

Psalm 126
Unless the house be of the Lord’s building, in vain do the builders labor.

Unless the Lord be the guard of the city, 'tis in vain the guard keeps his sentry.

It is futile that you rise before daybreak, to be astir in the midst of darkness,

Ye that eat the bread of hard labor; for He deals bountifully to His beloved while they are sleeping.

Behold, offspring result from God’s giving, a fruitful womb the regard of His blessing.

Like arrows in the hand of the warrior, are children begotten of a youthful father.

Happy the man who has filled therewith his quiver; they shall uphold him in contending at the gate with his rival.

Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and forever, through endless ages. Amen.

Antiphon: To the Lord I will tender my promise: in the presence of all His people.
2. The priest now addresses them:

Allocution
Beloved of Christ: It is in the dispensation of Divine Providence that you are called to the holy vocation of marriage. For this reason, you present yourselves today before Christ and His Church, before His sacred minister and the devout people of God, to ratify in solemn manner the engagement bespoken between you. At the same time you entreat the blessing of the Church upon your proposal, as well as the earnest supplications of the faithful here present, since you fully realize that what has been inspired and guided by the will of your heavenly Father requires equally His grace to be brought to a happy fulfillment. We are confident that you have given serious and prayerful deliberation to your pledge of wedlock; moreover, that you have sought counsel from the superiors whom God has placed over you. In the time that intervenes, you will prepare for the sacrament of matrimony by a period of virtuous courtship, so that when the happy and blessed day arrives for you to give yourselves irrevocably to each other, you will have laid a sound spiritual foundation for long years of godly prosperity on earth and eventual blessedness together in the life to come. May the union you purpose one day to consummate as man and wife be found worthy to be in all truth a sacramental image and reality of the union of Christ and His beloved Bride, the Church. This grant, Thou Who livest and reignest, God, forever and evermore.

R. Amen.
3. The priest now bids the couple to join their right hands, while they repeat after him the following:

The man:
In the name of our Lord, I, N.N., promise that I will one day take thee, N.N., as my wife, according to the ordinances of God and holy Church. I will love thee even as myself. I will keep faith and loyalty to thee, and so in thine necessities aid and comfort thee; which things and all that a man ought to do unto his espoused I promise to do unto thee and to keep by the faith that is in me.
The woman:
In the name of our Lord, I, N.N., in the form and manner wherein thou hast promised thyself unto me, do declare and affirm that I will one day bind and oblige myself unto thee, and will take thee, N.N., as my husband. And all that thou hast pledged unto me I promise to do and keep unto thee, by the faith that is in me.
4. Then the priest takes the two ends of his stole and in the form of a cross places them over the clasped hands of the couple. Holding the stole in place with his left hand, he says: I bear witness of your solemn proposal and I declare you betrothed. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, + and of the Holy Spirit.

R. Amen.

As he pronounces the last words, he sprinkles them with holy water in the form of a cross.

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week
  • Tue. 09/24 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Windsor (Our Lady of Ransom)
  • Sat. 09/28 8:30 AM: Low Mass at Miles Christi (St. Wenceslaus, Duke & Martyr)
  • Sun. 09/29 6:00 PM: Solemn High Mass at St. Mary of Redford (Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel) – Rosary, Novena Prayers for fallen away Catholics, and veneration of relics follow the Mass
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Tridentine Masses coming this week to metro Detroit and eastern Michigan


Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

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* 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.

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Saturday, September 21, 2019

Tridentine Community News - Solemn High Masses at St. Mary of Redford; Men’s Discussion Group at St. Mary of Redford; The Rite of Betrothal – Part 1 of 3


"I will go in unto the Altar of God
To God, Who giveth joy to my youth"

Tridentine Community News by Alex Begin (September 15, 2019):
September 15, 2019 – Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost

Solemn High Masses at St. Mary of Redford

The Franciscans of the Holy Spirit have scheduled three Solemn High Tridentine Masses (with Deacon and Subdeacon) at St. Mary of Redford Church as part of a Novena for the Return of Fallen Away Catholics. The Novena runs from Sunday, September 29 through Monday, October 7. The Holy Rosary, novena prayers, and veneration of relics of St. Therese, St. Francis, and St. Faustina will follow the Mass. The schedule for the three Traditional Masses is as follows:
  • Sunday, September 29 at 6:00 PM (Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel)
  • Thursday, October 3 at 6:00 PM (St. Therese of Lisieux, Virgin)
  • Sunday, October 6 at 6:00 PM (External Solemnity of Our Lady of the Rosary)
Men’s Discussion Group at St. Mary of Redford

Along with the above Latin Masses, a men’s group is being formed at St. Mary of Redford which will discuss the Franciscan Masters of Prayer. Details from Fr. Athanasius: The Franciscan tradition is unique in that many of our most popular devotions were either developed by Franciscans or popularized by Franciscans (ie. Stations of the Cross, the Angelus, devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus, Sacred Heart devotion) as well as devotional practices like pilgrimages and hermitages.

There are many people who ‘mastered’ the spiritual life in the Franciscan tradition. Some are very popular: St. Francis of Assisi, St. Bonaventure, St. Clare of Assisi, St. Padre Pio, St. Maximillian Kolbe, Blessed Solanus Casey; others are more obscure: Blessed Giles, David of Augsburg, St. Margaret of Cortona, Blessed Angela Foligno). But these Franciscan Masters of Prayer are tremendous examples and teachers for us as we try to live the Gospel and imitate our Lord Jesus Christ.

Here’s the plan: 

Where: Greyfriars House of Studies (the friary attached to St. Mary of Redford Catholic Church in Detroit: 14601 Mansfield Street, Detroit).
When: Thursdays 6:30 (you can come early at 6:15 for Compline with the friars). Beginning September 19th.
Who: Men. You are invited and can bring friends. Boys in High school can also attend with you as their guardian.
  What:
  • Compline (Night Prayer) in the Church for those who come early
  • Each week I (or another friar) will present for approx 30 mins on a Franciscan Master of Prayer. 
  • a primary text will be provided ahead of time for you to read over if you'd like
  • Questions and Discussion will follow the presentation (approx. 30mins)
  • Fellowship
This semester we will focus on St. Francis of Assisi and his experiences in prayer, also how he taught his brothers to pray. 

Please e-mail Fr. Athanasius if you plan to attend: athanasius@becomefire.faith

The Rite of Betrothal – Part 1 of 3


The Traditional Roman Ritual provides two sister ceremonies that are not often seen, which complement two of the Sacraments: The first is the Churching of Women, a blessing of a new mother which can accompany or follow the Sacrament of Baptism. The second is the Rite of Betrothal, a formalization of the engagement of a couple who intend to be married. Recently a young couple well-known to many readers of this column, Laura Hurajt, who sings alto in the choirs at St. Benedict and Old St. Mary’s, and Matthew Charbonneau, an altar server at St. Benedict and Old St. Mary’s, chose to mark their upcoming nuptials with the Rite of Betrothal following Sunday Mass at St. Alphonsus Church in Windsor. [Photo by Sheila & Francis Ang]

To help our readers become familiar with this beautiful ritual, the next two weeks’ columns will contain the text of the rite.
[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 September 15, 2019. Hat tip to Alex Begin, author of the column.]
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Tuesday, September 17, 2019

Why I’ve Tuned Out National Public Radio

Why I've Tuned Out National Public Radio
ON THE WORSHIP OF THE MOLOCH OF EQUALITY

By John Lyon | September 2019

One day recently, prompted by programming on National Public Radio (NPR), I undertook a penance I had often threatened myself with on similar provocation but had firmly resisted: I listened to an hour of Rush Limbaugh.

Since 1956 I’ve listened to NPR via various state affiliates from Pennsylvania to Minnesota, including 26 years of broadcasts from Madison, Wisconsin. Over those 63 years, I’ve witnessed the steady drift of NPR’s programming downward and to the Left: the expectable, inevitable, massive movement of most institutions in a democracy.

By some fey magic, NPR manages to continue providing valuable programming: classical music; the narration of vital books; generally useful because informative programs about agricultural, medical, and scientific matters; and even news of events. The slant of commentary about events, however, as well as the choice of topics and sociopolitical pitch of most of its talk-show sessions, is obnoxiously slanted and blatantly partisan. It is sheer “progressive” propaganda. And this is particularly dangerous in a republic degenerating into a democracy.

National Public Radio pleads the cause of radical feminism. (Why isn’t this a form of sexism?) It foments racism by offering outrageous examples of it, all designed to demonstrate that nothing white is right. I can’t recall the last time it covered a case of egregious black-on-white or black-on-black violence. Recently, NPR has been treating listeners to endless harassment over “reparations” — even poetry is called to take sides — because some of our ancestors were here when slavery was legal. How does this bring people together in our society? If genuine reconciliation is to take place, then truly monstrous behavior in the past ought not to be forgotten, but it ought never to be emphasized by public media.

National Public Radio plays about with socialism — a discreet, tentative, middle-class, pleading, speaking-in-euphemisms about what is, in fact, revolutionary. In NPR’s scope, policemen, policing, and, above all, any action carried out by ICE functionaries tend ipso facto to be in the wrong; meanwhile, NPR makes celebrities of chosen criminals.

National Public Radio turned the nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh into a circus maximus performance, abetting the pre-judged, thumbs-down verdict of social media in the circus minimus. It played to the galleries about the bad, bad Covington High School students’ oppressing and threatening a poor, unarmed, tom-tom beating “Native American,” when it was, in fact, the tom-tom beater who was attempting to incite an outrage.

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Sunday, September 08, 2019

Tridentine Masses this week in metro Detroit and east Michigan


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* 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.

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Tridentine Community News - Cardinal Burke to Celebrate Pontifical Solemn Mass at Assumption Grotto; Interesting British Church Fixtures; The Strange Case of the Palmarians; Tridentine Masses 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 (September 8, 2018):
September 8, 2019 – Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost

Cardinal Burke to Celebrate Pontifical Solemn Mass at Assumption Grotto


This year’s Call to Holiness conference on Saturday, October 26 has the honor of having Raymond Cardinal Burke as its keynote speaker. On Sunday, October 27 at 11:00 AM His Eminence will celebrate a Pontifical Solemn Mass in the Extraordinary Form at Assumption Grotto Church in Detroit. This is a rare opportunity for our local readers to attend this most elaborate of liturgies. Further information on the conference and Mass may be found at: www.calltoholiness.com

Interesting British Church Fixtures

Recently two photos of unusual church fixtures appeared on Facebook postings by two churches in London, England:


The liturgical and musical powerhouse St. James Spanish Place posted the above photo of a paddle sign located next to the sacrárium (sink which drains into the soil) in their sacristy. The movable boards on this sign are titled after some of the Tridentine Votive Masses which a priest may celebrate. More likely they represent the optional Collects, taken from those Votive Masses, which a priest either is required to or intends to add to a Mass, after the principal and possible commemoration Collects. The English translations of the paddles are In Time of War, For the Celebrating Priest, For Any Necessity, Obligatory Prayer [e.g. as ordered by the bishop], Of the Holy Spirit, and For the Pope.

The second photo, from the Dominicans’ Rosary Shrine, depicts a Sanctus Candle permanently mounted to the wall. Ordinarily we are accustomed to seeing the (optional) Sanctus Candle placed on the altar by a server at the Sanctus and removed after Holy Communion, signifying the Real Presence of Christ on the altar during that portion of the Mass. Apparently the Dominicans consider this to be a more essential component of the traditional Dominican Rite.


The Strange Case of the Palmarians

One usually thinks of the Traditional Latin Mass as being longer and more elaborate than the typical Ordinary Form Mass. Many of the so-called independent [not in union with Rome], usually sedevacantist, “Catholic” groups take things a step further, using pre-1955 or older, often even lengthier liturgies. However, one independent movement takes the matter in entirely the opposite direction: The Palmarians, a group in Spain, have reduced the Tridentine Mass to a five minute liturgy, focused on the bare essential elements of Offertory, Consecration, and Communion. Their thinking is that this enables a priest to offer more Masses each day, each of which is a source of grace for the world. A more thorough treatment of this odd subject, including the entire text of the Palmarian Mass and a link to a video of one of their Masses, is here: https://magnuslundberg.net/2017/08/29/the-palmarian-order-of-the-mass/comment-page-1/

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week
  • Tue. 09/10 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Windsor (St. Nicholas of Tolentino, Confessor)
  • Sat. 09/14 8:30 AM: Low Mass at Miles Christi (Exaltation of the Holy Cross)
[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 September 8, 2018. Hat tip to Alex Begin, author of the column.]
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