Sunday, April 09, 2017

A photo in search of your captions ...


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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.
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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.]
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Tridentine Masses coming this week to metro Detroit and east 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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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.
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Saturday, April 08, 2017

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.
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Friday, April 07, 2017

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]
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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.
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Tuesday, April 04, 2017

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]
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Monday, April 03, 2017

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.
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Sunday, April 02, 2017

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.]
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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]
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Saturday, April 01, 2017

Tridentine Masses coming this week to metro Detroit and east Michigan


Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

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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

* 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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Guéranger: the Church reminds us of the apostasy of the Jewish nation - Part II

Continuing from last week our examination of supercessionism in Volume 5 of Dom Prosper Guéranger's The Liturgical Year,the Gospel reading for Friday of the second week of Lent is from Mt 21, where we find the Parable of the Vineyard whose husbandmen eventually kill the owner's heir, that is, his very own son who was sent to them.

Here we have more than the mere figures of the old Law, which show us our Redeemer in the far distant future; we have the great reality. Yet a little while, and the thrice holy Victim will have fallen beneath the blows of His persecutors. How awful and solemn are the words of Jesus, as His last hour approaches! His enemies feel the full weight of what He says; but, in their pride, they are determined to keep up their opposition to Him, who is the Wisdom of the Father. They have made up their minds not to acknowledge Him to be what they well know He is -- the stone, on which he that falls shall be broken, and which shall grind to powder him on whom it shall fall. But what is the vineyard, of which our Lord here speaks? It is revealed truth; it is the rule of faith and morals; it is the universal expectation of the promised Redeemer; and, lastly, it is the family of the children of God, His inheritance, His Church. God had chosen the Synagogue as the depository of such a treasure; He willed that His vineyard should be carefully kept, that it should yield fruit under their keeping, and that they should always look upon it as His possession, and one that was most dear to Him. But, in its hard-heartedness and avarice, the Synagogue appropriated the Lord's vineyard to itself. In vain did He, at various times, send His prophets to reclaim His rights; the faithless husbandmen put them to death. The Son of God, the Heir, comes in Person. Surely, they will receive Him with due respect, and pay Him the homage due to His divine character! But no; they have formed a plot against Him; they intend to cast Him forth out of the vineyard, and kill Him. Come, then, ye Gentiles, and avenge this God! Leave not a stone on a stone of the guilty city that has uttered this terrible curse: 'May His Blood be upon us and upon our children!' [Mt 17:25] But you shall be more than the ministers of the divine justice; you yourselves are now the favored people of God. The apostasy of these ungrateful Jews is the beginning of your salvation. You are to be the keepers of the vineyard to the end of time; you are to feed on its fruits, for they now belong to you. From east and west, from north and south, come the great Pasch, that is being prepared! Come to the font of salvation, O ye new people, who are gathered unto God from all nations under the sun! Your mother the Church will fill up from you, if you be faithful, the number of the elect; and when her work is dome, her Spouse will return, as the dread Judge, to condemn those who would not know the time of their visitation. [Lk 19:44]
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"Cantate Domino Canticum Novum": A Statement on the Current Situation of Sacred Music

"A Statement on the Current Situation of Sacred Music," Altare Dei: Velociter Currit Sermo Eius, in nine languages with a list of signatories. If you're interested in and concerned about sacred music, you might want to read this.
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