Tridentine Masses coming to metro Detroit and east Michigan this week

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

Sunday


• Sun. 09/13 9:30 AM: High Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (16th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/13 9:30 AM: High Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (16th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/13 9:45 AM: High Mass at the Chapel of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (16th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/13 2:00 PM: High Mass at St. Alphonsus Church, Windsor, Canada (16th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
  
• Sun. 09/13 3:00 PM High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (16th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
  
  Monday
  
  
• Mon. 09/14 7:30 AM: High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Exaltation of the Holy Cross - 2nd class)
• Mon. 09/14 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (Exaltation of the Holy Cross - 2nd class)
• Mon. 09/14 7:00 PM: High Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Exaltation of the Holy Cross - 2nd class)
• Mon. 09/14 7:00 PM High Mass, with Fr. David Jenuwine as celebrant, St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (Exaltation of the Holy Cross - 2nd class)
  
  Tuesday
  
  
• Tue. 09/15 7:00 AM High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 2nd class)
• Tue. 09/15 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 2nd class)
• Tue. 09/15 7:00 PM: Low Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 2nd class)
  
  Wednesday
  
  
• Wed. 09/16 7:30 AM: High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Sts. Cornelius & Cyprian - 3rd class)
• Wed. 09/16 7:00: High Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Sts. Cornelius & Cyprian - 3rd class)
  
  Thursday
  
  
• Thu. 09/17 7:30 AM: High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Feria - 4th class, or Stigmata of St. Francis - 4th class)
• Thu. 09/17 7:00 PM: Low Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Feria - 4th class, or Stigmata of St. Francis - 4th class)
  
  Friday
  
  
• Fri. 09/18 7:30 AM: High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Joseph of Cupertino - 3rd class)
• Fri. 09/18 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (St. Joseph of Cupertino - 3rd class)
• Fri. 09/18 7:00 PM: Low Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Joseph of Cupertino - 3rd class)


Saturday


• Sat. 09/19 7:30 AM: High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Januarius & Companions - 3rd class)
  
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• Sun. 09/20 9:30 AM: High Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (17th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/20 9:30 AM: High Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (17th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/20 9:45 AM: High Mass at the Chapel of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (17th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/20 2:00 PM: High Mass at St. Alphonsus Church, Windsor, Canada (17th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
  
• Sun. 09/20 3:00 PM High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (17th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)

“Is there anything still worth fighting for?”

Here is Fr. Z. taking an NRA ad as a sort of allegory for what is also going on with the Church. He writes:

"I don’t watch a lot of TV, and when I do it is usually news or news commentary stuff on cable, and then usually Fox, and even then I am more often than not multitasking.

"However, from time to time (if the volume isn’t turned down) I catch a strain of music that penetrates through the logorrhea and turn to look at what is going on. Not rarely it happens that what caught my ear was the music of an NRA commercial.

"Here is a sample."

"I can’t help but make a connection with what is also going on within the Church.

"We have to rise up and fight now for our Catholic identity and doctrine, wielding especially the spiritual weapons of prayer and fasting.

"BTW… there is also a spot with Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke about Law Enforcement Officers which is worth your time. As a matter of fact, quite a few of those commercials are pretty darn compelling. Try one on media dishonesty which strikes home (apply as well to the catholic media).

"Now… watch the libs melt down."

On the eve of the Synod ...

The following video was released by the Polish publication Polonia Christiana called "Crisis in the Church" containing statements by numerous concerned clerics and theologians:

• "Impossible to excuse or explain away: How the heterodoxy of the Instrumentum Laboris for the Synod of 2015 has been exposed" (Rorate Caeli, September 11, 2015)
• Edward Pentin, "Pope Attacked Over Motu Proprio: Cardinak Kasper Reasserts His Proposal" (National Catholic Register, September 11, 2015) [courtesy of Janet Smith]
• "Texts of the Abstracts from the Steubenville Symposium on Marriage and the Family" (Rorate Caeli, September 12, 2015)
• "Event: Roman Symposium on Adam and Eve as the basis for Holy Matrimony - Rome, September 26" (Rorate Caeli, September 12, 2015).
• "The Vortex—Cdl. Burke and the Synod" (Church Militant, September 11, 2015).
• "Synod primer: Explosive video featuring three prelates speaking on adultery, homosexuality in blunt terms" (Rorate Caeli, September 9, 2015).
• "Dr. Kwasniewski’s Lecture at Steubenville: 'The Old Mass and the New Evangelization: Beyond the Long Winter of Rationalism'” (Rorate Caeli, September 11, 2015).

And then there is this closing portion of the panel discussion following Cardinal Burke's speech at Franciscan University on September 8, 2015 (for Cardinal Burke's speech, simply scroll back to the 17:30 time signature):

Why the brouhaha over streamlined annulments?

Here are two contrasting views:

• Fr. Dwight Longenecker, "Faster Annulments: Building a Raft Out of the Wreckage" (Patheos, September 8, 2015):

  Some people complain that there are too many annulments, and no doubt there are some abuses. Some annulments are given out lightly and I expect with the new rules even more annulments will be doled out too quickly and automatically. However, that need not be the case [huh? did I miss something?], and the more efficient rules will mean that the obvious cases for annulment can be dealt with more quickly and this will help all those involved in the pastoral care of those in broken marriages.
  
  Is it necessarily a terrible thing that there will be more annulments?
  
  I will never forget what one pastor said when discussing this matter: “Of course there are more annulments than ever before. That’s because there are more invalid marriages than ever before.”
  
  I’m sure nobody would dispute the fact that marriage and weddings in our mixed up society are a total mess. [Emphasis added by Guy Noir]

  (Our correspondent, Guy Noir, remarks: "[I]f marriage is so difficult a concept to grab hold of, so rarely now actually realized, maybe the communion ban on divorced people should not be an issue at all -- ban most everybody! Buying into the new meme, it could convincingly be suggested but that Church invite to communion only bonafide singles and those they believe were actually and validly married in the first place. Because they seem to think this latter group is a pretty small one, such a practice would be far sounder and much safer, since under a Franciscan diagnosis society has produced within the Church a morally-addled mess. Running with the hospital analogy, the majority need saving before feeding, confession before Mass. And, I guess, somewhere in there, marriage. Yes, I agree, let's make things as complicated as we possibly can!")
  
  
• Roberto de Mattei, "A Would Inflicted on Christian Marriage" (Rorate Caeli, September 11, 2015):

  ... The indissolubility of marriage is a Divine and unmodifiable law of Jesus Christ. The Church cannot “annul” a marriage in the sense of dissolving it. She can, through a declaration of nullity, verify its inexistence, due to the lack of those requisites which assure its validity. Which means that in the canonical process, the Church’s priority is not the interests of the spouses to obtain the declaration of nullity, but the validity of the marriage bond itself [my ephasis].
  
  ... In Pope Francis’ Motu Proprio this view has been overturned. The interest of the spouses has primacy over that of marriage. It is the document itself that affirms this, by summarizing the fundamental criteria of the reform in these points: the abolition of the double-sentence in conformity, substituted by only one sentence in favor of the enforceability of the annulment; the attribution of monocratic power to the bishop, qualified as sole judge; the introduction of an expedite process [brevior], de facto uncontrollable, with the substantial downsizing of the role of the Roman Rota.
  
  ... Favor matrimonii is substituted for favor nullitatis, which comes to be the primary element of the law, while indissolubility is reduced to an impracticable “ideal”. The theoretical affirmation of indissolubility of marriage, is accompanied in practice with the right to a declaration of nullity for every failed marital bond. It will be enough, in conscience, to deem one’s own marriage invalid, in order to have it recognized as null by the Church. It is the same principle with which some theologians consider a marriage “dead”, where according to both, or one of the spouses, “love has died”. [emphasis from Rorate Caeli]

For anyone interested in delving deeper, I recommend, from Canonist Ed Peters' blog, In the Light of the Law:

• "A first look at Mitis Iudex" (September 8, 2015)
• "A second look at Mitis, especially at the new fast-track annulment process" (September 8, 2015)
• "The pope’s niece might be on to something" (September 9, 2015)
• "A linguistic concern occasioned by an important debate over synodal proposals," September 12, 2015.

Washington Post: "Conservative dissent is brewing inside the Vatican"

Anthony Faiola, HERE (Washington Post, September 7, 2015).

Damian Thompson: "Gay marriage will split the Catholic Church"

In case you missed it, here's his article from back in May, right after Ireland's fateful referendum. Whatever the likelihood of the prospect he envisions, it's an article full of thoughtful and reasoned reflection. The statistical data is rather telling and alarming. So much for Church leaders who want to "stay the course." If it's true, as some say, that no country remains Christian after three generations of apostasy, we've got only a few years left with no signs of the collapse abating.

Two articles on Pope as usher for second coming of Peronism

These are two different articles by Maureen Mullarkey on the same topic; she calls the second an "addendum" to the first:

• "Pope Francis Ushers The Second Coming of Peronism" (The Federalist, September 8, 2015).
• "The Second Coming of Peronismo" (First Things, September 8, 2015)

“Peronism may be a good example of the high cost of social reform when it is indulged in a rhetorical and at times high-handed and arbitrary way.” — Guido Di Tella, “Perón-Perón 1973-1976.”

“Peronism is the highest level of consciousness reached by the Argentine working class.“ — Statement of the Movement of Priests for the Third World, 1971

“We mustn’t pay too much attention to people who talk to us of prudence. We must be fanatical.“ — Eva Perón

Fr. Perrone: the weight of guilt & need for a good confession vs. loud-mouthed exposés or the concealing of sins

 Fr. Eduard Peronne, "A Pastor's Descant"  (Assumption Grotto News, September 6, 2015)

Recently, I think, an ex-satanist told the sordid, frightening, and even gruesome story of his former life as high priest of iniquity. The once reprobate man is, marvelous to tell, now a believing, practicing Catholic. His is a tale so horrible I can’t countenance telling it, nor even think about it. One revealing aspect about his confession, however, was making known the activity of satanists inside abortion clinics. This was a confirmation of what many had suspected: there’s even more evil inside abortion chambers than we dared to admit.
  
Leaving aside the rest of the man’s story – it’s gory details are unnecessary to know–I was surprised to find myself a bit annoyed at the disclosure of his former perversities, not so much because of the shocking specifics told but rather because of the overall public manner of his recital, a forum that has now become popular. This practice of being outspoken, telling-it-all about one’s evil past, is not always  inappropriate, nor always without benefit. The lives of the saints, for example, often edify and inspire, when after a great conversion, a sinful life turns into a holy one. With that kind of story everyone can identify to some degree and profit by it in a more resolute pursuit of righteousness and holiness. But the modern manner of  public disclosure is different. It panders to sensational and lurid tastes, satisfying morbid curiosity rather than the thirst for goodness and wisdom. This practice is prevalent in a lot of modern writing, TV talk shows, radio interviews and films. There the objective is not honorable, aiming to satisfy sinful appetites by hearing about the odd, macabre, bizarre and, most often, lecherous and prurient. Tellers of  these misdeeds typically have no or little remorse, either before God or before humanity, but evince instead a braggart spirit that masks guilt in an supposedly honest admission.

There’s irony in this modern openness, this “transparency” (now a favorite jargon in some quarters), and it is this: while many today are bold and brash in telling their shameful deeds publicly, there’s so little humble and honest divulgence of sins in our confessionals which remain–in most parishes at least – grossly neglected. The reason for both the loud-mouthed exposés and for the concealing of sins is the same: guilt. The arrogant boaster and the cowardly evader of truth suffer alike from guilt and try to alleviate their accusing consciences by inappropriate and utterly ineffective means. The only way to be free from the sting of guilt for sin is the way invented by God in a three-fold act: contrition, confession and absolution. The happy result of this is relief for the throbbing soul. It requires, on the part of the offender, humility and integrity and–on the Other side–divine forgiveness. Because sincere openness and use of the confessional are little in evidence, we’re becoming an ever sicker people, unavailing of the proffered divine mercy that maintains good spiritual and mental health. The Church in Confession holds the remedy for wounded souls in her priests’ hands in such a way that the dignity and privacy of the disclosing penitent is  respected. But many would rather deny their guilt and keep it locked inside them where it corrodes, rots and torments their consciences; or else they would rather boast about their sins and ridicule moral norms. A psalm expresses well the mind of a truly repentant sinner: “Blessed is he whose sins are forgiven...in whose spirit there is no deceit. For when I was silent about my sin, my body wasted away through groaning all day long. But then I acknowledged my sin to You and I did not hide my iniquity.  I said: ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord’ and then You forgave the guilt of my sin” (Ps. 31). 

People who do not admit their guilt with humility and complete honesty in Confession (and with sincere amendment) must suffer the burden of guilt throughout their lives and afterward must face the dread judgment  of God. Confession, however, is the removal of guilt such that a sinner emerges from a good Confession free of blame before God (though before mankind he may yet have to face other consequences for his misdeeds), his conscience now being at peace. For the repentant and restored man, his confessed and absolved sins will not be charged against him at the Judgment.

With such a marvel of divine clemency as is found in  the Sacrament of Confession dare anyone deny himself access to this unspeakably great benefit? The aforementioned Psalm ends this way: “Rejoice in the Lord and  exult, O you just ones, and be glorified, all you upright in heart.”

Boast, then, O  Christian, not of your shameful sins, but of the goodness of Christ whose mercies are  without end.

Fr. Perrone

"Joe Biden's confused Catholicism"

Carson Holloway, "Joe Biden's confused Catholicism" (Catholic Vote, September 8, 2015):

The White House is getting ready for the September visit of Pope Francis to the United States, according to this AP article.  The article includes the following comment by Vice President Joe Biden, who is a Catholic: “Pope Francis has breathed new life into what I believe is the central mission of our faith: Catholic social doctrine.”

Conservative Catholics will no doubt be tempted to use this remark as an occasion to take Biden to task for his own imperfect commitment to Catholic social doctrine.  After all, religious freedom, the right to life, and the definition of marriage as a union between one man and one woman are very important points of Catholic social doctrine.  Yet as a public man Biden has not been a defender of those principles.

But while this is an understandable and predictable reaction, it would overlook something also very important.  Surely Biden errs in saying that Catholic social doctrine is the “central mission of our faith.”  Catholic social doctrine is addressed to society, with a view to informing it how it can be more justly organized.  This is indeed very important.  But, as C.S. Lewis observes in one of his writings, societies, nations, communities don’t go to heaven or hell.  Surely the “central mission” of the faith is not the construction of a more just social order–as important as it is to strive for that–but instead the proclamation of truth and the ministry of the sacraments in order to save souls.  That is the Church’s highest and most urgent concern.
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[Hat tip to JM]

Pope makes a large impression

Maria Pia Negro Chin, "Mural of pope looks out over New York’s Madison Square Garden Mass site" (Crux, September 3, 2015):

NEW YORK — New Yorkers and tourists in Midtown Manhattan have been gazing up at a smiling Pope Francis at one of New York’s busiest intersections.

A 225-foot tall hand-painted billboard welcomes the pope, who will be in New York Sept. 24-26.

The welcoming message is located at the corner of Eighth Avenue and 34th Street, near Madison Square Garden, where the pope will celebrate Mass Sept. 25.

"Obama invites gay Catholic to White House for pope's visit"

Deacon Greg Kandra, "Obama invites gay Catholic to White House for pope's visit" (The Deacon's Bench, September 7, 2015). What would you expect of the POTUS? Can't you imagine how the media will spin this one?

[Hat tip to JM]

Two Motu Proprios on the reform of nullity of marriage, expected at 6:00AM-EST and 12:00PM-Rome time expected Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2015

A Press Conference for the presentation of two Apostolic Letters of Pope Francis, given motu proprio: Mitis iudex Dominus Iesus and Mitis et Misericors Iesus. These concern the reform of the canonical process for the causes of declaration of nullity of marriage.

I've seen some people saying they're going to set their alarms to wake up in the middle of the night for the news. Why? What are people expecting? What difference can it possibly make whether they get the memo in real time or a week from now? Read the Bible.

What could a Marxist possibly like about traditional Catholicism?!

The story of Dale Vree, founding editor of New Oxford Review, needs to be told again and shared abroad. The latest example is evidently found in John Beaumont's The Mississippi Flows Into the Tiber: A Guide to Notable American Converts to the Catholic Church(Fidelity Press, 2014), a tome weighing in at 1,013 pages. In the latest issue of New Oxford Review, now under the amply capable management of his son, Pieter, the elder Vree's story is briefly rehearsed as a thumbnail sketch in a review by Barbara E. Rose. She writes:

... Dale Vree, editor emeritus of this magazine, came through the civil-rights and peace movements, and Marxism-Leninism [and a period of living in the former East Germany], before landing in the Church. In Catholicism, Vree "could emphatically affirm both the rights of labor and the ancient creeds, reject both abortion and the use of nuclear weapons, affirm both lifelong marriage and the dignity of the poor, reject both laissez-faire capitalism and do-your-own-thing morals."

Another telling example touched upon is the Jamaican-American writer and poet Claude McKay. Rose writes:

Harlem Renaissance poet and writer Claude McKay for a time professed communism and atheism but came to believe in God and to love Catholicism. In the March 1946 issue of Ebony, the newly converted McKay warned black Americans to beware "the materialistic Protestant god of progress," and he called the Church "the greatest stabilizing force in the world today -- standing as a bulwark against all the wild and purely materialistic 'isms' that are sweeping the world."

Just a couple of details, maybe; but I know it was the little things, the tiny clues to the meaning of things, which helped me along my way, initially, toward the Church.

Tridentine Masses coming this week to metro Detroit and east Michigan

Tridentine Masses This Coming Week

Sunday


• Sun. 09/06 9:30 AM: High Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (15th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/06 9:30 AM: High Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (15th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/06 9:45 AM: High Mass at the Chapel of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (15th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/06 2:00 PM: High Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Windsor, Canada (15th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
  
• Sun. 09/06 3:00 PM High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (15th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
  
  Monday
  
  
• Mon. 09/07 7:30 AM: High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Feria - 4th class)
• Mon. 09/07 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (Feria - 4th class)
• Mon. 09/07 7:00 PM: High Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Feria - 4th class)
  
  Tuesday
  
  
• Tue. 09/08 7:00 AM High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 2nd class)
• Tue. 09/08 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Holy Name of Mary, Canada (Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 2nd class)
• Tue. 09/08 7:00 PM: Low Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 2nd class)
  
  Wednesday
  
  
• Wed. 09/09 7:30 AM: High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Feria - 4th class, or St. Gorgonius - 4th class, (USA) St. Peter Claver - 3rd class)
• Wed. 09/09 7:00: High Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Feria - 4th class, or St. Gorgonius - 4th class, (USA) St. Peter Claver - 3rd class)
  
  Thursday
  
  
• Thu. 09/10 7:30 AM: High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Nicholas of Tolentino - 3rd class)
• Thu. 09/10 7:00 PM: Low Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (St. Nicholas of Tolentino - 3rd class)
  
  Friday
  
  
• Fri. 09/11 7:30 AM: High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Feria - 4th class, or Sts. Protus & Hyacinth - 4th class)
• Fri. 09/11 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (Feria - 4th class, or Sts. Protus & Hyacinth - 4th class)
• Fri. 09/11 7:00 PM: Low Mass (usually) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Feria - 4th class, or Sts. Protus & Hyacinth - 4th class)


Saturday


• Sat. 09/12 7:30 AM: High or Low Mass (varies) at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (Most Holy Name of Mary - 3rd class)
  
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• Sun. 09/13 9:30 AM: High Mass at St. Josaphat, Detroit (16th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/13 9:30 AM: High Mass at Assumption Grotto, Detroit (16th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/13 9:45 AM: No Mass at the Chapel of the Academy of the Sacred Heart, Bloomfield Hills (Mass will resume the following Sunday, September 20th, as usual.)
• Sun. 09/13 2:00 PM: High Mass at St. Alphonsus Church, Windsor, Canada (16th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)
• Sun. 09/13 3:00 PM High Mass St. Matthew Catholic Church, Flint (16th Sunday after Pentecost - 2nd class)

Tridentine Community News - Dominican Sisters' Vocations Growth

"I will go in unto the Altar of God
To God, Who giveth joy to my youth"
Tridentine Community News by Alex Begin (September 6, 2015):

Dominican Sisters’ Vocations Growth

Our August 16 column discussed the surge in priestly vocations in the Dominican order. It’s not just the men who are doing well; vocations are booming among the more traditional women’s Dominican congregations as well.

Locally, the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, based in Ann Arbor, have enjoyed strong vocations since their founding. Almost every encounter with them, whether in person, in print, or on video, reveals them to be a genuinely joyful, orthodox, and enthusiastic group. A young foundation, with an average age of 28, their new motherhouse in Ann Arbor is built with traditional architectural features [photo below]. They have released a CD of mostly traditional Latin chants and another CD of the Rosary. They are no strangers to the media, having made television appearances ranging from EWTN to Oprah to the American Bible Challenge game show. Their principal ministry is education; locally, they administer two Pre-K through 8th Grade Spiritus Sanctus Academies, in Plymouth and Ann Arbor. Elsewhere they help out with parish schools. [See this blog's earlier post on this school: "Great Catholic education," (Musings, February 11, 2011).]


A similar but much older group, the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville, Tennessee [photo below], has consistently enjoyed strong vocations. Founded in 1860, they now staff schools and apostolates in locations as disparate as Minneapolis; Denver; Sydney, Australia; and Aberdeen, Scotland.


The Dominican Sisters of Summit, New Jersey are currently raising funds to finance the expansion of their 95-year old Monastery of Our Lady of the Rosary to accommodate the influx of new vocations. Known for publishing The Summit Choirbook, a traditional hymnal, and manufacturing candles, soaps, and rosaries, this is a contemplative as well as active group.

The contemplative Dominican Sisters of Linden, Virginia opened St. Dominic’s Monastery in 2008 [photo below] on a hilltop.


What do these groups of Dominican nuns have in common? Use of the full habit. Devotion to Sacred Tradition. Orthodoxy in teaching and practice. Unabashed loyalty to the Magisterium. A commitment to attracting vocations. Traditional concepts, yes, but also a Catholic, spiritual identity rather than a worldly, social justice focus. Women and men considering religious vocations are clearly attracted by congregations with a sense of purpose, with missions distinctly different than what secular charities can offer. Let us pray that an increasing number of religious communities learn from these examples and flourish upon adopting similar philosophies.

Extraordinary Faith Episode 5 Now Viewable On-Line

Continuing with our plan to post each episode of Extraordinary Faith for on-line viewing one month after it debuts on EWTN, Episode 5 – Chicago Part 2 of 2 – may now be viewed on the Episode 5 page of www.extraordinaryfaith.tv. For highest HD viewing quality of the beautiful churches we tour, the episodes are hosted on Vimeo. Each episode is also posted to YouTube for those who prefer that medium. Subscribe to the Extraordinary Faith channel on either Vimeo or YouTube, and you’ll be notified whenever a new video is posted.

Tridentine Masses Thic Soming Week

• Mon. 09/07 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat (Feria)
• Tue. 09/08 7:00 PM: High Mass at Holy Name of Mary (Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary)

[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 6, 2015. Hat tip to Alex Begin, author of the column.]