UnaVoce              
 New Hampshire
Una Voce is an international federation of associations 
dedicated to preserving, restoring and promoting the Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal of Blessed John XXIII
                           In Support of the Traditional Latin Mass


Saints Feasts  1962 Missal
                        
           
February
1  St. Ignatius
2  Candlemas
St. Blaise
4  St. Andrew 
    Corsini
5  St. Agatha  
6  St. Titus 
St. Blaise,          Bishop and Martyr,
Pray for Us!!


Schedule:
Next TLM's in NH/Northern MA:

Friday, February 5, 2010 
Immaculate Conception Church
Portsmouth, NH
Low Mass                            12:10PM

Saturday, February 6
St. Denis Church
Hanover, NH
Tridentine Latin Mass             9:00PM


Sunday, February 7, 2010
Immaculate Conception Church
Portsmouth, NH
Low Mass                            11:00AM

Immaculate Conception
Fitchburgh, MA
TLM                                       8:00AM

We have not confirmed this Mass
Please call Rectory at
(978) 345-2491

Wednesday, February 10
St. Monica's Church
Methuen, MA
Low Mass with  Hymns         7:00PM

     
     
  
    Sexagesima 
          Sunday




Dear Friends:

On behalf of Una Voce NH, I wish to extend
our wishes to you for a blessed season of preparation and reflection as we enter the pre-Lenten period as celebrated in the 1962 calendar.

If this is your first time visiting Una Voce NH, welcome. The Mission of Una Voce NH is to promote the spread of the offering of the Traditional Latin Mass(TLM) in New Hampshire. As the official voice of Una Voce International in New Hampshire, our goal is to unite traditional Catholics  throughout the state in a network to support and promote the celebration of the Mass according to the 1962 Missal of Blessed John XXIII. The TLM is now available in NH at four parishes  for  the first time in almost 40 years.

In neighboring Northern Massachusetts,
the TLM is also growing. We need your help. Volunteer your efforts or donate to our cause!!!

Thank you...and may God Bless you!!!

Bill St. Laurent
President,
Una Voce New Hampshire
Telephone    603-436-1378   

Billstl60@aol.com 

    Support the Latin Mass in 
            New Hampshire   
Una Voce New Hampshire is registered with the state of New Hampshire as a charitable, independent nonprofit organization. The spread of the celebration of the traditional Latin Tridentine has created significant needs including: 
- communicating the message of the
  beauty and theology of the Latin Mass,
- enabling programs for Priestly formation
  in Latin in the traditional rite,
- training for Altar Servers, 
- development of sacred music programs,
-
and sacristal support and procurement of traditional vestments, altar cards, communion pattens etc.
We need your help. Volunteer
your efforts or donate to our cause!!!
Donations may be made to Una
Voce NH with checks payable to
same.

Please send donations to: 
     
Una Voce New Hampshire
Martin Cameron
Treasurer 
469 Ocean Road
Portsmouth NH 03801
Telephone 603-431-7977

mcame038@myfairpoint.net
+++++++++  Breaking News  +++++++++

                   Readings in English during the
                Extraordinary Form Mass?

             ASK FATHER Question Box, SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM
             — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf 

          From a reader:

Hey Father Zed.  I’ve got a question about using the vernacular in the TLM…  Last night my fiancee and I went to a TLM and the priest, who had a wonderful voice, sang the mass very well…. Except when it came to the Epistle and Gospel, he sang them in English.....  What’s the deal with that? Is that allowed?  Does it invalidate/illicit-ate the Mass? Or is it all cool?  I know that S.M. says that the readings can be read in the vernacular, but I always took that to be an affirmation of reading them before the Homily.  

Yes, that is allowed under Summorum Pontificum.  No it does not invalidate the Mass.

Whether it is a good idea… or cool… or not is another matter.

I think most people will agree that the Council Fathers at Vatican II intended that the use of the vernacular was intended for the liturgy of the word part of the older, traditional form of Holy Mass.   What we actually got went way beyond the intention of the document on liturgy.  From that point of view, it could be taken as a good idea. 

Also, that would eliminate the need to repeat the readings.

However, I am not sure how many congregations of TLM goers would take to this.  From that point of view, such a practice could simply wind up producing more heat that light.

From that point of view, I think it is probably not the best practice… yet.  Perhaps someday it will be, depending on the community.

TLM purists will absolutely HATE that suggestion, I know.  So, spare us, please.  

25th Jubilee for Latin Mass in New Haven, CT

25 January 2010

Una Voce America - On Sunday, February 7th at 2:00 p.m. the old Latin Mass will be celebrated with special pageantry and ceremony at St. Stanislaus Church, State and Eld Streets in downtown New Haven.

A landmark occasion in the spiritual and cultural life of the Elm City, this event will be the first in a series of public functions marking the 25th Anniversary of the return of the traditional Latin Mass to our Community offered in its age-old form, which began at Sacred Heart Church in New Haven in January of 1986, sponsored by the Saint Gregory Society of New Haven.

The service will feature a festive musical program sung by the Society’s Schola Cantorum,
a vocal ensemble of professional musicians from area churches of many denominations, internationally known for their performances in concert, recordings and media broadcasts of sacred music and Gregorian chant in its original context–the historic sung Latin liturgy.

For more detailed information, please visit our website at www.saint-gregory.org or call Britt Wheeler at 203.850.8670; email: britt.wheeler@yale.edu 

                   Boston: diocesan effort to
           promote confessions

"How To..." - Practical Notes, Our Catholic Identity

 — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf  

The use of the sacrament of penance, reconciliation has been horribly eroded over the last few decades.

Ven. Pius XII said once that the sin of the 20th century was the loss of the sense of sin.

Surely that pertains now even more.

Here is a nice story from
CNA:

Boston, Mass., Feb 3, 2010 / 03:01 am (CNA).- Seeking to promote the Sacrament of Reconciliation, the Archdiocese of Boston has launched a new website about how to make a good confession. Its priests will also offer confessions in every chapel and church on Wednesdays during Lent. The website, www.TheLightIsOnForYou.org, describes how to prepare for confession with an examination of conscience. It also provides an act of contrition to recite before absolution.

Auxiliary Bishop of Boston Robert F. Hennessey recorded a video message on the website. In the video, he quotes Jesus as saying that Heaven rejoices more for one repentant sinner than for 99 that never needed to repent.

“Every time that someone returns to the Sacrament of Confession, Heaven celebrates. And that unbelievable experience of joy becomes ours when we are forgiven.”
 

Read the rest over there.

WDTPRS says kudos!

Does your diocese have a special effort to promote the sacrament of penance during Lent?

Does your parish?

Do you? 

 

   The Curia is Preparing a Document on 
         Liturgical Formation of Religious


by Gregor Kollmorgen

Cardinal Franc Rodé, C.M., the Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, on this World Day of Consecrated Life granted an interview to the Italian section of Vatican Radio, in which he announced that his Congregation, together with the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, is preparing a document, which will also deal with the liturgical formation of the religious. Here is an NLM translation of the relevant part of the interview:

Q.: The Congregation is also engaged in a reflection about the importance of prayer ...

Card. Rodé: Some say that today men and women religious pray too little. I do not know that, I do not know if it is true and I certainly hope it is not. Prayer presents difficulties today, difficulties which maybe [were not so much present] in the past, in a time in which the rhythm of life was a bit more human, and there was not so much stress, not so much noise, maybe [then] prayer, recollection, concentration, thinking, elevating one's mind towards God were much easier.
Today in a world as busy as ours, prayer becomes certainly more difficult. We must emphasize the absolute necessity of prayer in the spiritual life of consecrated men and women. This we want to try to do with the creation of a document we are preparing. Then there is also another point of view: Cardinal Cañizares, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, had the idea - which he
proposed to me - to produce an interdicasterial document, with a first part entrusted to our dicastery and a second seen to by the dicastery for Divine Worship, about the liturgical formation of men and women religious. This, too, seems very important to me because
on the one hand there is a certain "ignorance", a certain lack of liturgical knowledge and training in young men and women religious; on the other hand, there are also liturgical fantasies that are not always of good taste and which do not correspond to the desire and the will of the Church and to the spirit of the Liturgy itself. Some corrective measures appear, therefore, necessary. This part will be the responsibility of the Congregation for Divine Worship, and together we will produce a single document, consisting of two parts, that regarding prayer and that regarding liturgical formation. I think that both parts are necessary and will - I hope - benefit the spiritual life of men and women religious.


 Papal Vespers on the Feast of the Presentation

   by Shawn Tribe

A few quick photographs from the papal vespers celebrated on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord this evening in Rome in St. Peter's Basilica with the members of institutes of consecrated life and societies of apostolic Life, in conjunction with the "Day of Consecrated Life". 

 






                

                
                              (All photos, except for the "CTV" screen capture, are courtesy of Daylife.)

From the Vatican booklet for these Vespers:

The Feast of the Presentation of the Lord is the celebration of Jesus Christ, “Light of the Nations”. Today's feast also celebrates the encounter (“Hypapante”) of the Messiah with his People in the Temple of Jerusalem.


Mary and Joseph acted in obedience to the Law and its demands when they offered the Child Jesus to the Lord. Their generosity in making this offering to God has been the inspiration for the many men and women Religious gathered around the Holy Father for today’s celebration. These Religious represent all who have chosen the path of the evangelical counsels and of religious consecration. In the rich variety of her charisms, the Church is made radiant by the gifts of the Spirit and is prepared to carry out her mission of preaching the Gospel to all nations. The Religious men and women present today have come here in order to renew their own religious consecration and commitment to the Church’s mission, and to manifest by their presence with the Pope the communion and the unity of charisms in the whole People of God.


 

 Notes on the origins and Character of PreLent (Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quinquagesima)

While in the modern Roman liturgy, we today celebrated the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time, and will celebrate the 5th and the 6th Sundays in Ordinary time respectively in the next two weeks, and while green vestments are worn in that form of the Roman liturgy, within the usus antiquior we would have noted today violet vestments, no Gloria and no Alleluia. This is because one has entered the pre-Lenten period within the ancient calendar that is denoted by the names of "Septuagesima" (seventieth), Sexagesima (sixtieth), and Quinquagesima (fiftieth) -- these numbers are probably symbolic, being tied to the reference of "Quadragesima" (fortieth) which comes in reference to the forty days of Lent of course.

This period of liturgical time is probably that which
shows forth the single most noticeable variance between the two Roman calendars because of their varying characters and characteristics.

For Catholics who have only or primarily known the modern form of the Roman calendar -- and perhaps even for some of those who do worship within the context of the calendar of the usus antiquior -- it no doubt strikes one as one of the unique elements of the older Roman calendar, and it may invite the questions, "what is it and why is it done?"

Pre-Lent in the Byzantine Liturgical Calendar

While it might seem unique to the older Roman calendar, it is worth noting that within the Byzantine liturgical calendar, they too celebrate a pre-Lent period of similar duration. Accordingly, the pre-Lenten period is a point of unity between the calendar of the usus antiquior and the Byzantine East.

Within the Byzantine liturgical calendar, their pre-Lent begins with the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee (which constitutes their "70th"), continues through the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, followed by what is popularly known as Meatfare Sunday (after which fasting from meat begins), and finally Cheesefare Sunday (after which fasting from dairy products begins). The Sunday following is the 1st Sunday of Great Lent.

The Origins and Purpose of Pre-Lent

With regard to the origins of the pre-Lenten period in the West, many liturgical writers attribute the beginnings of pre-Lent to the fact of accomplishing the 40 days fast -- since there were non-fast days within the weeks of Lent proper which accordingly did not amount to 40 days of fasting. Through piety and devotion, this was extended further still. The specific time of origin is not agreed upon, but various dates surrounding the time of St. Gregory the Great in the 6th and 7th centuries are noted in various respects -- with the devotional extension of the fast being mentioned even earlier. According to Duchesne, the fourth Council of Orleans mentions Quinqagesima and Sexagesima around A.D. 541 -- albeit it by way of disapproval.

The purpose of pre-Lent seems to be the same in both the Byzantine East and more ancient form of the Roman rite; it is a period of progressive preparation and movement toward Lent and ultimately Easter.

Fr. Weiser, in his Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs speaks of it accordingly:

The liturgical preparation for the greatest feast of Christianity -- Easter -- proceeds in five periods of penitential character. As the observance of this preparation apporaches the feast, the penitential note grows progressively deeper and stricter. The first period of this season of pre-Lent, from Septuagesima Sunday to Ash Wednesday; the second extends from Ash Wednesday to Passion Sunday; the third comprises Passion Week; the fourth includes the days of Holy Week up to Wednesday; the fifth consists in the Sacred Triduum (Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.) In these three days, which are devoted entirely to the commemoration of the Lord's Passion, the penitential observance reaches its peak, until it ends (at the Easter Vigil) in the glorious and joyful celebration of the Resurrection. (p. 154-5)
How do we see this manifest then? Within the Byzantine rite we see the progressive movement from non-fasting to the gradual tightening of the discipline of the fast beginning on Meatfare Sunday leading through until the Great Fast itself. Within the Roman rite, we see the penitential character which the liturgical rites take on during pre-Lent, before finally proceeding into Lent itself with its fast -- though a note must be added at this point: since 1966, this has now also taken on the form of being an optional devotional fast as well, but for Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and all Fridays generally within Lent when fasting yet remains obligatory; see the 1966 Apostolic Constitution of Pope Paul VI, Paenitemini.

Bishop Guimaraes of Garanhuns, Brazil appointed

On Monday, the Pope
appointed new members to the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, presided over, of course, by one of the greatest patrons of the usus antiquior, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke. One of the new members is Mons. Fernando José Monteiro Guimarães, C.Ss.R., Bishop of Garanhuns (Brazil). Mons. Guimarães had been, until his appointment as ordinary of Garanhuns in 2008, head of department in the Congregation for the Clergy. In this capacity, and as collaborator of the then-Prefect, Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, he has been instrumental in the regularisation of Campos and the creation of Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney, as well as the erection of the Institute of the Good Shepherd (IBP).

Here we see the founders of the IBP and Card. Castrillón on the day of its erection; then-Father Guimarães is to the very left:


Fr Guimarães celebrated Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form in the main church of the Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney at Campos on 14 September 2007, the day the motu proprio Summorum Ponticum came into effect:


As bishop of Garanhuns, he again celebrated Mass according to the usus antiquior there in 2009:


 H/T to Una Voce Málaga. 

Aging Hippie Paradise

HONORED GUESTS, Lighter fare, Parody Songs
— Fr. John Zuhlsdorf 
(Note from Una Voce NH:
Very entertaining "Rap Song about the Novus Ordo and TLM !!!)

No… this is not about the offices of the NCR.

It is actually about a rap music song.

I have always thought that rap did for music what S&M did for romance… but I digress.

I came by a rap song by a rapper I had never heard of… which doesn’t mean much … named "Zuhlio".

Rap is sometimes about social issues.  This is about liturgical issues.

What I find odd about this is that the words were attributed to a "T. Ferguson", coincidentally the name of the official WDTPRS parodohymnodist.

Select "Audio MP3" button below to play:

icon for podpress  Aging Hippie Paradise [4:01m]:

Note from UnaVoceNH: If you can't get the audio above to play, go directly to Fr. Z's website at the link below:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2010/01/27/

and scroll down to the 2nd story where you will find this audio. Definitely worth the effort!)

 
        The First Seminary Chapel in the U.S. Built for 
         Seminarians in the Extraordinary Form of the
                              Roman Rite in 40 Years

DENTON, Nebraska – January 22, 2010 – The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter is pleased to announce the Pontifical Consecration of its newly built chapel at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary on Wednesday, March 3rd at 10:00am (CST).   Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz will celebrate the Pontifical Consecration and Mass according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite.

The five hour ceremony will be held in the presence of a very special guest from the Vatican, William Cardinal Levada, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.  The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter is delighted to have the presence of one of the highest ranking officials in the Catholic Church.  Cardinal
Levada's presence is connected with his position as President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei established by Pope John Paul II and recently expanded by Pope Benedict XVI to facilitate the full
incorporation into the life of the Church of communities and individuals attached to the Extraordinary Form.
 
Thanks to Thomas Gordon Smith, its architect, the seminary chapel reflects a contemporary rebirth in the rich tradition of classical Catholic architecture.  Upon entering through its mahogany doors, the visitor will be immersed in the chapel's beauty and grandeur which include an elevated main altar, emphasized by a 31-foot marble canopy or “baldachino”, the chapel's seven side altars and liturgical choir stalls which seat 92 seminarians and priests.  These are some of the integral qualities of this chapel which, on March 3rd, will be full of the people for which it was made.

The Pontifical Consecration and Mass is open to all of the public.  Any and all the faithful are cordially invited and are most welcome to attend this joyful event and enjoy refreshments afterward.

Due to the number of guests and limited space, rooms and television screens will be provided for those outside of the chapel who wish to participate.

The Pontifical Consecration and Mass will be televised live on the Eternal World Television Network (EWTN) at 11:00AM (EST).  Watch the Pontifical Consecration and Mass Live Online!
www.ewtn.com/audiovideo

Media Contact
Father Joseph Lee, FSSP
Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary
7880 West Denton Road
Denton, Nebraska  68339
phone (402) 570-2707
emailjlee@gmail.com

The Consequences of Roe v. Wade
49,551,703

Total Abortions since 1973
Source: National Right to Life

"Requiescat in Pace"

                                                    Friday, January 22
                                  Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade 
                                                      St. Patrick Church
                                                            Nashua, NH
                                                 Votive Mass for Peace
                                                 1962 Missale Romanum
                                        Low Mass                             7:00PM
 
   His Eminence Cardinal Egan to offer  
   Pontifical TLM “at the throne”
 in NYC
                       on 
March 25
 - Fr. John Zuhlsdorf 

I had this nice piece of news in my mailbox today:

His Eminence Edward Card. Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York, accepted the invitation of the Agnus Dei Council of the Knights of Columbus in New York City to celebrate a Solemn Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite – a Mass for Life – on 25 March 2010, the Feast of the Annunciation.  The Council’s annual Mass for Life emphasizes the special link between the Incarnation of Jesus from the moment of conception in the womb at the Annunciation and Catholic Pro-Life Values. 

More information about the location and time of the Mass will be released shortly.  

 TLMass held in Rio de Janeiro

The NLM is always interested in hearing news from various parts of the world, be it of the reform of the reform, the usus antiquior, or other rites and uses for that matter. Accordingly, I was interested to receive the following pictures from a Mass this past Sunday in the usus antiquior from Rio de Janeiro at the Outeiro da Glória (Imperial Church of Our Lady of the Glory at the Hill).

The celebrant was Fr. Demétrio Gomes, who, the NLM is informed, is the prefect of Theological studies at the Archdiocesan seminary of Niterói, and the homilist, Fr. Paulo Ricardo de Azevedo Jr., the rector of the Archdiocesan seminary of Cuiabá.



 
 
  Marble Altar Rail to be restored
 
 Mary Immaculate of Lourdes, Newton, MA 
 announces Church Renovation/Restoration

Left:
Exterior of Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Church in Newton, MA
      
       Below:
       Interior view of High Altar

     

Una Voce NH - Below is an announcement from Fr. Charles Higgins on January 2, 2010 regarding planned 2010 Renovations of Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Church: 


"With this new year of 2010 we begin the centenary year of our parish church building which was consecrated on Thanksgiving Day, 1910. Having attended to the capital repairs on the outside of the building and the restoration of the stained glass windows (2007-2008), we now hope to refurbish more of the church’s interior, which was so magnificently appointed at its construction. Since the summer plans have been in the works to restore the marble altar rail which was formerly across the sanctuary of the church. A perfect match of the original marble has been imported from Italy. The iron posts and two gates have been readied. Now, during this month of January, the installation work will be done, together with other projects to restore the sanctuary more to its historical look.

Specifically, the sanctuary work will involve the following items:
 1. The red carpeting in the sanctuary will have to be temporarily removed.
 2. An extension of the bottom step of the already-existing extension of the sanctuary will create the adequate space for the altar rail.
 3. The altar rail (with two gates in the center) will extend from the pillar by the pulpit to other pillar, near where the organ is.
 4. The organ will temporarily be placed in storage for safe-keeping during construction. After the work in the lower church hall is done, it will be relocated there.
 5. Ramps for wheel-chair access into the sanctuary will be constructed on the Oak St. side.  
 6. The Last Supper sculpture will be restored to its place under the high altar.
 7. The main altar, which is put together from the two former side altars, will be taken apart and the side altars will be put back.
 8. The marble altar in the lower sanctuary of the church, and which is currently unused, will be dismantled, brought upstairs, and reconfigured as a worthy, free-standing altar for our “Ordinary Form” Masses, while still being movable so that it can allow for an open sanctuary space during the celebration of our “Extraordinary Form” Latin Masses.
 
Obviously, these projects will create some disruption in the short term, but we will soon have our beautiful sanctuary back together. I ask for your patience and understanding."
 

                             
 NY Times editorial
on
Pius XII 
from 1941 


by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf  




These are posted on the site of the Catholic League.  They are editorials from the New York Times in 1941 and 1942:
 

 

On Christmas Day, 1941, the New York Times, commenting on Pius XII’s Christmas Message, carried the following editorial:

The Pope’s Message
The voice of Pius XII is a lonely voice in the silence and darkness enveloping Europe this Christmas. The Pope reiterates what he has said before. In general, he repeats, although with greater definiteness, the five-point plan for peace which he first enunciated in his Christmas message after the war broke out in 1939. His program agrees in fundamentals with the Roosevelt-Churchill eight-point declaration. It calls for respect for treaties and the end of the possibility of aggression, equal treatment for minorities, freedom from religious persecution. It goes farther than the Atlantic Charter in advocating an end of all national monopolies of economic wealth, and so far as the eight points, which demands complete disarmament for Germany pending some future limitation of arms for all nations. 

The Pontiff emphasized principles of international morality with which most men of good-will agree. He uttered the ideas a spiritual leader would be expected to express in time of war. Yet his words sound strange and bold in the Europe of today, and we comprehend the complete submergence and enslavement of great nations, the very sources of our civilization, as we realize that he is about the only ruler left o the Continent of Europe who dares to raise his voice at all. The last tiny islands of neutrality are so hemmed in and overshadowed by war and fear that no one but the Pope is still able to speak aloud in the name of the Prince of Peace. This is indeed a measure of the "moral devastation" he describes as the accompaniment of physical ruin and inconceivable human suffering.
   

In calling for a "real new order" based on "liberty, justice and love," to be attained only by a "return to social and international principles capable of creating a barrier against the abuse of liberty and the abuse of power," the Pope put himself squarely against Hitlerism. Recognizing that there is no road open to agreement between belligerents "whose reciprocal war aims and programs seem to be irreconcilable," he left no doubt that the Nazi aims are also irreconcilable with his own conception of a Christian peace. "The new order which must arise out of this war," he asserted, "must be based on principles." And that implies only one end to the war.

        TLM Votive Mass for Peace from 1962 Missale Romanum to be offered 
     St. Patrick's, Nashua announces special
     TLM to be offered on Friday, January 22

  Una Voce NH - Fr. Martin Kelly, Pastor, St. Patrick Church,
  Nashua, has announced that on January 22, the Anniversary
  of the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision,
 and in
  accordance with the General Instruction of the Roman Missal
  (GIRM 2004) directive that the day shall be observed as a
  particular Day of Prayer and Penance for violations to the
  dignity of the human person committed through acts of
  Abortion,
that the Parish will observe the following
  schedule including the 
usual Ordinary Form of the Mass that
  will be celebrated at 12:05 PM. 
  This will be followed by:

  12:30 - 6:45P.M.    Adoration, Rosary and 
                              Chaplet of Divine Mercy
  7:00 P.M.              Votive Mass for Peace 
                              from the 1962 Missale Romanum
                              Low Mass

 

Another TLM announced for St. John the Baptist, Allenstown

Una Voce NH - Father Ed Crowley, pastor of St. John the Baptist in Allenstown (a.k.a. "Suncook") wishes to let all know that a public celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, according to the Extraordinary Form will take place this upcoming Sunday, Jan. 10,
2010 @ NOON.
 
 
The Holy Sacrifice will be offered up by Father Adrien Longchamps.
 
All are invited, refreshments to follow in the hall.
 
        New Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei
           members have just been announced

Fr. Vincenzo Nuara offering Mass in Santa Maria Maggiore, Feast of St. Pius V, 2009 

Note from Una Voce NH - Sounds quite positive in the direction of tradition and our goals and aspirations.  As we know, the PCED has the designated authority to implement the Holy Father's motu proprio Summorum Pontificum (July 7, 2007).  Having advocates in full support of the traditional Latin Mass on this Commission is directly relevant to implementation in areas that have, thus far, been denied or neglected. 

Please do pray for His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI and consider offering Masses for his intentions and well being.  The recent security breach (at the Christmas Mass in St. Peter's) shows how fragile the situation can be for him and he deserves our prayerful support now more than ever.

Happy New Year!


Messa in Latino has announced that the newest members of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei will be Fr. Vincenzo Nuara OP and Fr. Almiro de Andrade FSSP.

Fr. Almiro de Andrade is the first member of any of the "Ecclesia Dei Communities" to be officially
appointed to the Commission. He also serves as MC at SS. Trinita dei Pellegrini, and is already considered as the de facto "secretary to the Secretary" of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Msgr. Guido Pozzo.

Fr. Vincenzo Nuara, on the other hand, is the founder of the "Amicizia Sacerdotale Summorum Pontificum" and of "Giovane e Tradizione". Fr. Nuara, who had been removed from his position as vicar for religious in the Diocese of Acireale for his role in assisting the organizers of the celebration of the Traditional Mass in that diocese (in Sicily, which currently has only two locations with a regular TLM) -- a Mass that was saved only upon the intervention of the PCED -- has been very much at the forefront of promoting Summorum Pontificum,being one of the leaders in organizing study days and conferences on the Traditional Roman Rite, in Rome most notably the October 2009 conference that concluded with Archbishop Burke's Pontifical Mass in St. Peter's Basilica.


     St. Monica's, Methuen may move Sunday
         afternoon TLM to Sunday morning

Una Voce NH - Fr. Patrick Armano, Pastor, St. Monica's in Methuen,  has announced that the Parish is studying the possibility of offering the Sunday TLM earlier in the day. The current 3rd Sunday TLMass is scheduled for 1:30PM...the plan would be to offer the Mass on Sunday mornings at 10 or 11AM instead. This would require finding a different church for the Mass as there is a regular Ordinary Form Mass celebrated at St. Monica's during this time. The Parish is looking at smaller Parishes in the Methuen area that may have the time available.
This may or may not affect the current weekly TLM offered on Wednesday evenings at St. Monica's. 
UnaVoceNH will keep you posted on plans as they are announced.

ImmaculateConception, Portsmouth announces  
        Updated January Mass Schedule
 
                                                                                                                  
                                                      
  Una Voce NH - Fr. Kerper has announced an
  updated schedule for Traditional Latin Masses
  at
  Immaculate Conception Church at Corpus
  Christi Parish
in Portsmouth, NH.

  Note that the weekday Masses for the 2nd half of   
  January will be cancelled due to Fr. Kerper's
  absence. 
  Sunday, January 03, 11:00 AM  
  The Most Holy  Name of Jesus 

 

  Friday, January 08, 12:10 PM Traditional Latin Mass
  Friday, January 15, 12:10 PM Traditional Latin Mass
  Friday, January 22, 12:10 PM Cancelled-No Mass
  Friday, January 29, 12:10 PM Cancelled-No Mass


TLM to return to St. Denis in Hanover, NH

Una Voce NH - Fr. W. Becket Soule, O.P., Pastor of St. Denis Parish in Hanover, NH has announced that the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass will resume on Saturday, January 23rd.

As announced by Fr. Soule in the St. Denis bulletin: 

"Saturday Morning Mass will be offered at 9:00 am in English only through the middle of January. The Tridentine Latin Mass will resume on Saturday, 23 January with a sung High Mass with incense for the feast of Saint Raymond of Pennafort. The regular schedule (first and third Saturdays) will resume in February."

The Parish has a great website with up to date information:

http://saintdenisparish.org/
St. Denis Catholic Church
8 Sanborn Road
Hanover,  NH   03755
Click here for directions
Parish Office:
603-643-2166
General e-mail:
admin.stdenis@gmail.com


Washington Post - What’s in: Latin Mass

CATEGORY: Brick by Brick,
Mail from priests — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

An alert priest reader sent me this:

In the Washington Post’s annual "What’s In and What’s Out"
list for the new year, the list for 2010 includes:

What’s out:  Latin fusion
What’s in:  Latin Mass

(scroll about 45% down the page, just past the pictures of Emily Blunt and Rosamund Pike)
Washington Posts says we got the BigMo.  
Brick by brick.



WDTPRS POLL: attacks on the Pope and the sedia gestatoria

 Fr. John Zuhlsdorf 

We all know that Pope Benedict would not want to be completely surrounded by bullet proof glass everywhere he went.

On the other hand, security around our Popes has been relatively light.

The use of the sedia gestatoria would both help people to see the Pope and also
protect him from the sort of attack that took place on Christmas Eve in the Basilica.  You could put a line of Swiss Guards on either sides.  Frankly, I would prefer Recon Marines, but the Pope doesn’t have them available.

Some would argue that by raising the Pope higher he would be an easier target to shoot. 
I think if someone wanted to shoot the Pope, he would shoot the Pope even if he wasn’t on the sedia gestatoria.

Some would argue that the sedia gestatoria sends the wrong message about what Catholics think about Popes.   I say we can answer those questions easily.  The knuckleheads who want to cling to the falsehoods about Catholics will cling to them no matter what we explain. 

I am sure there are other pros and cons.

Here is a WDTPRS POLL for you.  Please vote and then give your reasons in the combox.
In light of the recent physical attack on Pope Benedict in St. Peter's Basilica, should the sedia gestatoria be brought back?

Total Votes: 1700 Started: 29 December 2009


Recent Popes and the Sedia Gestatoria

Provided by Una Voce NH - Courtesy of Orbis Catholicus and costumbrario.blogspot.com

Pope Píus XII (1939-1958)







Pope John XXIII (1958-1963)


Pope Paul VI (1963-1978)




Pope John Paul I (1978)


Pope Benedict XVI?


   Two Upcoming Solemn Pontifical TLMasses
                 to be offered by Cardinals

(Rorate caeli Website) - On January 6, 2010, at 3:45 P.M., Dario Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos, assisted by the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate, will offer Solemn Pontifical Mass (from the throne) in honor of the Epiphany at the Santuario della Beata Vergine Addolorata di Campocavallo in Osimo. This Marian shrine is run by the same friars, and is the location of the Archdiocese of Ancona's sole regular TLM, daily offered by the friars.

On January 7, 2010, as previously reported on Rorate, Antonio Cardinal Canizares Llovera will offer Solemn Pontifical Mass at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, as part of the "Year for Priests"- Clergy Conference 2010 in Rome. A full list of this conference's musically magnificent liturgical program can be found in this page.

Both Masses will be offered according to the Missal of 1962.


  Solemn Requiem in Dijon Cathedral
                Burgundy, France

Dijon, December 19th, Cathédrale Saint-Bénigne, former Benedictine Abbey, 13th century (a chapel in the crypt dates from the 9th century)

I wished to post some views of my father's Solemn Requiem Mass, as Shawn has been so kind as to announce his death, and wanted to express my gratitude for the support I received from the New Liturgical Movement family.

I do not want to emphasize this as a personal event, however; my purpose is only to show that in France, the motu proprio is willingly applied in a few places.

My father was born in Dijon, capital of Burgundy. Not only was permission immediately granted by the cathedral when we suggested a sung, traditional Requiem Mass for my father, but we also received participation from the cathedral staff (the MC and sacristan rehearsed) and a warm welcome from the archpriest.

Some views of the ceremony. (The Mass included a FSSP priest and seminarian, diocesan priest, servers from the cathedral.) A French flag was placed on the catafalque.




Ecce Agnus Dei...



 Selection of Christmas Photos from New  
        Liturgical Movement
Website


Celebration of the The Office of Vigils before the Midnight Mass,
Cathedral of Saint Mary, Diocese of Fargo, North Dakota, USA
(Modern Roman Liturgy)


Birmingham Oratory, Birmingham England
(Ancient Roman Liturgy)


Midnight Mass at St. Bernadette's Church in Silver Spring, Maryland
(Modern Roman Liturgy)


Solemn Mass at St. Anthony's in Des Moines, Iowa.
(Ancient Roman Liturgy)


Midnight Mass at St. John the Baptist Church in Osgood, Indiana
(Modern Roman Liturgy)


Midnight Mass at Sacred Heart, Chariton, Iowa
(Modern Roman Liturgy)

 

Today the Holy Father gave his Urbi et Orbi Christmas message and blessing.







In the wake of the recent physical attack on the Pope…
 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf
... I wonder if the issue of the sedia gestatoria should be revisited.

In years past when the Holy Father was carried on the sedia gestatoria, there were adequate lines of men flanking the chair bearers so that no one could have done what happened on Christmas Eve in St. Peter’s.

That said, by making the Pope more visible, you might expose him to other kinds of attacks.

The Pope clearly can’t be put into a bubble.  But the security around him has to be increased.
It is not fair to the whole Catholic world, the whole world, that he should be exposed to this pesky … or perhaps deadly… events.


NYC - Manhattan - Christmas Midnight TLM with music 

  On the road — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf 

If you are in or near Manhattan….

There will be a Solemn TLM for Midnight Mass (yes, midnight, Christmas) at Holy Innocent’s in Manhattan.

The undersigned is celebrant

 

 

 
Prelude Music (starting at 11:30 PM)

  • Gwendolyn Toth, organ: Pastorale from the Concerto Grosso #8 – Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
  • Linnea Shin & Lauren Alfano, sopranos; Kelly-Ray Meritt, recorder: Amoena Quam Festivitas duet – Valentin
  •      Molitor (1637-1713)
  • Peter Becker, bass: Verbum Caro – Ottavio Durante (fl. 1608-1618)
  • Linnea Shin, soprano; Lauren Alfano, soprano; Kelly-Ray Meritt, tenor; Peter Becker, bass: Chorale,
  •     O Jesulein Süss by J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
  • Gwendolyn Toth, organ: Joseph est Bien Marie – Claude Balbastre (1724-1799)
  • Linnea Shin, soprano: Virgin Slumber Song – Max Reger (1873-1916)
  • Lauren Alfano, soprano and Peter Becker, bass: Gesu Bambino – Pietro Yon (1866-1943)
  • Linnea Shin, soprano; Lauren Alfano, soprano; Kelly-Ray Meritt, tenor & recorder; Peter Becker, bass:
  •     Lo How A Rose E’er Blooming – Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) 
    Mass Music
  • Processional: organ, Noel – Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)
  • Chanted propers from Liber
  • Missa "O Magnum Mysterium" – Tomas Luis de Victoria (c.1548-1611)
  • (Creed is congregational except for Et Incarnatus est)
  • Offertory:Angelus ad Pastores Orlande de Lassus (1532 – 1594)
  • Offertory: Christe Redemptor  – Victoria (alternating chant & polyphony – as many verses as needed)
  • Communion #1: O Magnum Mysterium – Victoria
  • Communion #2: O Magnum Mysterium – Poulenc
  • Recessional: Organ, Noel Suisse – Daquin
  •  

    •     

All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God: sing joyfully to God, all the earth. ?. The Lord hath made known His salvation: He hath revealed His justice in the sight of the nations.

GRADUAL: PS. 97. 3-4, 2

Missale Romanum

 
       Sung High Midnight Mass  confirmed 
       for Immaculate Conception, Fitchburg

 
                Interior, Immaculate Conception, Fitchburgh, MA
UnaVoceNH - Una Voce has confirmed with the Pastor of Immaculate Conception, Fitchburgh, MA that there will be, (as previously announced), a Sung High Midnight Mass of Christmas in the Traditional Latin rite. 
         
        Local NH/Northern Massachusetts 
   Christmas Mass Schedules Announced

UnaVoceNH - At this time UnaVoceNH is not aware of any Midnight or daytime Masses that
will be offered  in the Extraordinary form for Christmas eve or during the day in New Hampshire.

We have confirmed that there is a TL Midnight Mass at Mary Immaculate of Loudes in
Newton, MA
and an
"Early Dawn" Low Mass at 1:15AM St. Adelaides Church in Peabody, MA.

We are trying to confirm a Midnight Mass at Immaculate Conception in Fitchburg, MA which
is about 30 Minutes from Nashua going through Hollis.

St. Patrick's, Nashua will offer a TLM on Sunday, December 27 at 1:30PM. It has not been announced if it will be a High Mass yet.

Also, Immaculate Conception Church at Corpus Christi Parish, Portsmouth  will offer a TLM on Sunday, January 3, 11:00 AM on the Feast of The Most Holy  Name of Jesus.
We will keep the "Christmas Schedule section" above updated with the latest announcements.



      Immaculate Conception, Corpus Christi Parish, 
          Portsmouth announces Mass Schedule


Una VoceNH - Fr. Kerper has announced the schedule
for Traditional Latin Masses at
Immaculate Conception Church at Corpus Christi Parish in Portsmouth, NH.

Sunday, January 03, 11:00 AM  
The Most Holy  Name of Jesus
 
Friday, January 08, 12:10 PM
 
Friday, January 15, 12:10 PM

 

 

 

 

 

Recently there was a meeting of French faithful attached to the usus antiquior, the rencontre pour l’Unité Catholique (Meeting for Catholic Unity), in Versailles, France. In the course of the meeting, Fr. Laurent Spriet of the Association Totus Tuus made an important announcement.

(The Association Totus Tuus, which was established in 2007 by the Archbishop of Avignon and this year recognised canonically by Cardinal Barbarin, the Primate of Gaul and Archbishop of Lyon, is itself attached to the celebration of the usus antiquior, without excluding saying Mass in the Ordinary Form if so requested by the bishop. Msgr. Jean-Pierre Batut, former pastor of the Parisian parish of Saint Eugène-Sainte Cécile, which is equally dedicated to both forms of the Roman Rite, who was appointed auxiliary of Lyon last year, functions as the protector of this association.)

Fr. Spriet announced, that Cardinal Barbarin will open next year in Lyon a "bi-formalist" seminary, i.e. a seminary dedicated to both forms of the Roman Rite, which will be both taught and celebrated there. This is the first diocese in France after that of Toulon which offers this possibility to its seminarians. Cardinal Barbarin's project will even go further than that of Toulon: not only will the seminarians have the opportunity to be formed according to the extraordinary form, Mass according to the usus antiquior will be celebrated every day in the seminary, open to all seminarians, including those of the ordinary form.


It is not licit to deny communion
on the tongue due to H1N1

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments responded
to a lay Catholic in Britain, in a diocese in which communion on the tongue had been
restricted due to concerns related to the Influenza A virus, subtype H1N1 ("Swine flu")
epidemic.

It does not make any scientific sense, either, as it is better when there is just one hand
involved (that of the Priest). It would seem that it would be safer to have just one man
distributing Holy Communion (the Priest), no "Extraordinary ministers" of any kind, and
to have all faithful receive Communion in the traditional way.

Source: Rorate Reader Link includes letter from Congregation for Divine Worship
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2009/11/it-is-not-licit-to-deny-communion-on.html


Bishop Schneider continues his worldwide pilgrimage in defense of Traditional Communion


Bishop Athanasius Schneider, ORC, in Estonia

Bishop Athanasius Schneider visited Estonia December 10, 2009, for the publication of his book Dominus est in Estonian. After the presentation, Bishop Schneider celebrated a Missa Cantata in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul.

In the book presentation the Bishop explained how the present form of hand communion has nothing to do with the practise of hand communion in the early centuries. The new way was adapted by some liberal priests in Holland directly from the Calvinists in 1965.

The Bishop ultimately decided to write a book defending the traditional way of receiving Holy Communion, and when the work was finished he gave a manuscript to the Holy Father. The Pope wrote back to the Bishop praising the work and his accuracy of knowledge of the patristics.

Bishop Schneider told he had also asked the Pope to stop distributing Communion in the hand in Papal Masses, and even if the Pope's answer was supportive it was not certain that it would happen. But since only a few months later, all communicants have been asked to receive Holy Communion from the Pope only kneeling and on the tongue. A true miracle, says Bishop Schneider.
From our friends in the Baltic (Blog Summorum); posted by New Catholic

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

PODCAzT 93: 40 years ago…
Paul VI on the eve of the Novus 
Ordo 
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf                                                                             

We are coming up on the 40th Anniversary of the implementation of the Novus Ordo in the Latin Church.

Forty years ago on 30 Nov 1969 the Novus Ordo went into force.  It was the 1st Sunday of Advent.

Therefore, we welcome as our guest Pope Paul VI (+1978) who gave a General Audience 26 Nov 1969 address on the subject of the changes people were about to experience.

It is interesting to return to such a moment, in the face of the changes we are facing today with the reintegration of the older, traditional form of Holy Mass through the provisions of Summorum Pontificum and the change in the English translation of the Novus Ordo.

You will hear Paul Paul’s General Audience text along with my commentary. 

The pop music selections were all hits from 1969.   Their choice is also part of my commentary.

 

 09-11-16 Paul VI's General Audience on the eve of the Novus Ordo:
Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download


LISTEN TO PART II

 

QUAERITUR: keeping maniples on your arm
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf

"How To..." - Practical Notes, SESSIUNCULA 
I got a question via e-mail:

I have recently noticed that when maniples are in use at my church, they are fastened to the alb by binder clips.  I assume that there is a more appropriate device for accomplishing this task, perhaps originating before the days of Office Depot.  Do you know of such a device?  What do you use?  Does it have a technical name?  Where could I find some for my pastor?

 Binder clip?

I am fond of blinder clips.  As a matter of fact in my Roman house, in the refectory, I would sometimes use one for my napkin, depending on what we were eating.

I don’t think I would use one for a maniple.

Sometimes maniples have little cloth tabs sewn into the center, where it folds over the forearm.



This one has a safety pin, because the fabric is precious.  When you use a straight pin, be sure to tuck the point under somewhere, so you don’t snag something.

Otherwise, the "classic" way, is to tie them on, which the way I prefer.

Here, by the way, is a shot of a "normal" maniple, more in the French style, together with a maniple of the taglio filipino, to show you a difference in size.


But I digress.  Behold the tie, method.



It helps to have a server help you with this. 

I have gotten pretty good at tying one by myself, but sometimes I just leave it tied.



Some people find the tying to be trying. 

Thus, they opt for the less "classic" elastic band.

It ain’t elegant, but hey, it works. 


This one I made a knot in to shorten it a bit.  It was slipping around.



There is a brief foray into maniplology.

I encourage priests and deacons to use the maniple whenever one is available with the set of vestments you are using, regardless of which Missale Romanum you are using.   The maniple is not obligatory in the Novus Ordo, but neither is it forbidden.  

My practice is simple.  If the maniple is available, I put it on.  If it isn’t, no big deal.  But if they are available, I really think they ought to be used.  First, that completes the set as the set was intended to be used.  Second, it provides continuity.  Third, it is thought
provoking.  Maniples took on their own meaning, apart from the rather practical aetiology. 

When the priest puts on the mainple, he would recite the prayer:

Merear, Domine, portare manipulum fletus et doloris; ut cum exsultatione recipiam mercedem laboris.  Grant, O Lord, that I may bear the maniple of weeping and sorrow, so that I may receive the reward for my labors with rejoicing.

If someone should think that the priesthood is a bed of roses, he might reflect on this prayer.

So, in regard to maniples, if you are in Holy Orders…


• • • • • •

Correction on Time:
2nd TLM  at St. John the Baptist, Allenstown, 
          NH Sunday, 12/13(tommorrow)
                 to be held at
11:30AM
UnaVoceNH - Please note that the 2nd Traditional Latin Mass at St. John the Baptist
Church in Allenstown set for tomorrow December 13, had been
incorrectly
announced
on our website.
Our apologies. The correct time is 11:30AM.

Gaudete Sunday
Source: The Catholic Encyclopedia

The third
Sunday of Advent, so called from the first word of the Introit at Mass
(Gaudete, i.e. Rejoice). The season of
Advent originated as a fast of forty days in
preparation for
Christmas, commencing on the day after the feast of St. Martin (12 November),
whence it was often called "St. Martin's Lent"-- a name by which it was known as early as
the fifth century. The introduction of the
Advent fast cannot be placed much earlier,
because there is no evidence of
Christmas being kept on 25 December before the
end of the fourth century (Duchesne, "Origines du culte chrétien", Paris, 1889), and
the preparation for the feast could not have been of earlier date than the feast itself.
In the ninth century, the duration of
Advent was reduced to four weeks, the first allusion
to the shortened season being in a letter of
St. Nicholas I (858-867) to the Bulgarians,
and by the twelfth century the fast had been replaced by simple abstinence.
St. Gregory the Great was the first to draw up an Office for the Advent season,
and the Gregorian Sacramentary is the earliest to provide Masses for the
Sundays
of
Advent. In both Office and Mass provision is made for five Sundays, but by the tenth
century four was the usual number, though some churches of
France observed five as
late as the thirteenth century. Notwithstanding all these modifications, however,
Advent still preserved most of the characteristics of a penitential seasons which made
it a kind of counterpart to
Lent, the middle (or third) Sunday corresponding with
Laetare or Mid-Lent Sunday. On it, as on
Laetare Sunday, the organ and flowers,
forbidden during the rest of the season, were, permitted to be used; rose-coloured
vestments were allowed instead of purple (or black, as formerly); the deacon and
subdeacon reassumed the dalmatic and tunicle at the chief Mass, and cardinals
wore rose-colour instead of purple. All these distinguishing marks have continued in use,
and are the present discipline of the
Latin Church. Gaudete Sunday, therefore,
makes a breaker like
Laetare Sunday, about midway through a season which is
otherwise of a penitential character, and signifies the nearness of the Lord's coming.
Of the "stations" kept in
Rome the four Sundays of Advent, that at the Vatican
basilica is assigned to Gaudete, as being the most important and imposing of the four.
In both
Office and Mass throughout Advent continual reference is made to our Lord's
second coming, and this is emphasized on the third
Sunday by the additional signs
of
gladness permitted on that day. Gaudete Sunday is further marked by a new Invitatory,
the
Church no longer inviting the faithful to adore merely "The Lord who is to come",
but calling upon them to worship and hail with
joy "The Lord who is now nigh and
close at hand". The
Nocturn lessons from the Prophecy of Isaias describe the
Lord's coming and the
blessings that will result from it, and the antiphons at Vespers
re-echo the prophetic promises. The
joy of expectation is emphasized by the constant
Alleluias, which occur in both Office and Mass throughout the entire season.
In the Mass, the
Introit "Gaudete in Domino semper" strikes the same note,
and gives its name to the day. The Epistle again incites us to rejoicing, and
bids us prepare to meet the coming Saviour with
prayers and supplication and
thanksgiving, whilst the Gospel, the words of St. John Baptist, warns us that
the Lamb of God is even now in our midst, though we appear to
know Him not.
The spirit of the Office and Liturgy all through
Advent is one of expectation and
preparation for the
Christmas feast as well as for the second coming of Christ,
and the penitential exercises suitable to that spirit are thus on Gaudete Sunday
suspended, as were, for a while in order to symbolize that
joy and gladness in the
Promised Redemption which should never be absent from the heart of the
faithful.

2nd TLM  at St. John the Baptist, Allenstown, NH announced for this Sunday, 12/13
Una Voce Note: The first TLM at St. John the Baptist  on 11/29 drew a very large crowd of Catholic faithful.
Fr. Longchamps offered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass at the Church's beautiful High altar.
The church itself is beautiful and very traditional.
(Una Voce NH) - Father Ed Crowley, pastor of St. John the Baptist in Allenstown (a.k.a. "Suncook") N.H. has announced that there will be a 2nd  public celebration of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Missal, which will
take place on the 3rd Sunday of Advent, December 13,  2009 at 12:00 Noon.
Correction/Update:Mass is at 11:30AM not Noon!!

The Mass will again be offered by Fr. Adrien Longchamps.
Directions/Link to map:
link to map
St. John the Baptist Church
12 School St
Allenstown, NH 03275-1917
(603) 485-3972



   COMMENTARY ON THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION 
                     OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

 

“Tota pulchra es! O Mary, thou art all fair, unstained by original sin” (1st Ant.
at Vespers; All
.). This cry of admiration, which the Church puts on our lips,
expresses the feelings of mankind subject to the evil consequence of sin,
before the spotless purity of our Lady. From all eternity God had chosen
Mary to be the Mother of the Word Incarnate (Ep.); He therefore decked
her in holiness (Int.), preserving her from all stain and making her a worthy
dwelling for His Son (Collect). The Blessed Virgin’s perfect redemption which,
from the moment of her conception, preserved her from original sin cannot,
therefore, be dis­sociated from our redemption by Christ; and so, the feast of
the Imma­culate Conception, coming in the course of Advent, heralds the
splen­dours of the Incarnation of the Redeemer.

As we have it to-day, the feast was instituted by Pius IX when he defined the

dogma on December 8, 1854. However, a feast of the “Conception” was
celebrated long before; it is found in the East in the eighth century, in Ireland

in the ninth and in England in the eleventh century. These feasts are evidence
of the traditional veneration of Mary’s spotless holi­ness; Pius IX’s definition
only reaffirmed and defined the meaning of the Church’s traditional belief.
 

- Commentary From St. Andrew Daily Missal, 1952 ed.

 

           Solemn High Mass to be offered for
           Immaculate Conception in Lynn, MA

Latin Mass North Website - Fr. Mario López, O. Carm, will celebrate a
 Solemn High Mass on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of
 the Blessed Virgin Mary
at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, December 8, in the
 main church at St. Joseph Parish
, 115 Union St., Lynn. Fr. Daniel Marino-Barragan will serve as deacon for the Mass.

Click for directions to churches and a complete, up-to-date calendar of
area Masses.

Turn by turn: Benedict XVI again
offers Mass ad orientem/versus
deum
Fr. John Zuhlsdorf  

The Holy Father celebrated Holy Mass with members of the Pontifical Theological Commission.

Mass was in the Pauline Chapel in the Apostolic Palace.

Mass was ad orientem, at an altar which can be used from either side.

Since this was for the theological commission, perhaps the Holy Father was also saying something theological by a choice he knew would be widely discussed.

What do you think?

No matter what, it is nice to see the Roman Pontiff celebrating ad orientem versus.

Brick by brick, friends.

Turn by turn.

Altar by altar.


 
Latin Mass Appeal

Published: November 28, 2009

WALKING into church 40 years ago on this first Sunday of Advent, many  
Roman Catholics might have wondered where they were. The priest not 
only spoke English rather than Latin, but he faced the congregation instead 
of the tabernacle; laymen took on duties previously reserved for priests;
folk music filled the air. The great changes of Vatican II had hit home.

All this was a radical break from the traditional Latin Mass, codified in
the 16th century at the Council of Trent. For centuries, that Mass served
as a structured sacrifice with directives, called “rubrics,” that were not
optional. This is how it is done, said the book. As recently as 1947,
Pope Pius XII had issued an
encyclical on liturgy that scoffed at
modernization; he said that the idea of changes to the traditional Latin

Mass “pained”
him “grievously.”

Paradoxically, however, it was Pius himself who was largely responsible
for the momentous changes of 1969. It was he who appointed the chief
architect of the new Mass, Annibale Bugnini, to the Vatican’s liturgical
commission in 1948.

Bugnini was born in 1912 and ordained a Vincentian priest in 1936.
Though Bugnini had barely a decade of parish work, Pius XII made
him secretary to the Commission for Liturgical Reform. In the 1950s,
Bugnini led a major revision of the liturgies of Holy Week. As a result,
on Good Friday of 1955, congregations for the first time joined the
priest in reciting the Pater Noster, and the priest faced the congregation
for some of the liturgy.

The next pope, John XXIII, named Bugnini secretary to the Preparatory
Commission for the Liturgy of Vatican II, in which position he worked
with Catholic clergymen and, surprisingly, some Protestant ministers on
liturgical reforms. In 1962 he wrote what would eventually become the
Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, the document that gave the form of
the new Mass.

Many of Bugnini’s reforms were aimed at appeasing non-Catholics, and
changes emulating Protestant services were made, including placing
altars to face the people instead of a sacrifice toward the liturgical east.
As he put it, “We must strip from our ... Catholic liturgy everything which
can be the shadow of a stumbling block for our separated brethren,
that is, for the Protestants.” (Paradoxically, the Anglicans who will join
the Catholic Church as a result of the current pope’s outreach will use
a liturgy that often features the priest facing in the same direction as
the congregation.)

How was Bugnini able to make such sweeping changes? In part because
 none of the popes he served were liturgists. Bugnini changed so many
 things that John’s successor, Paul VI, sometimes did not know the latest directives.
 The pope once questioned the vestments set out for him by
his staff, saying they were the wrong color, only to be told he had
 eliminated the week-long celebration of Pentecost and could not
wear the corresponding red garments for Mass. The pope’s master
of ceremonies then witnessed Paul VI break down in tears.

Bugnini fell from grace in the 1970s. Rumors spread in the Italian press
that he was a Freemason, which if true would have merited
excommunication. The Vatican never denied the claims, and in
1976 Bugnini, by then an archbishop, was exiled to a ceremonial post in Iran.
He died, largely forgotten, in 1982.

But his legacy lived on. Pope John Paul II continued the liberalizations of
Mass, allowing females to serve in place of altar boys and to permit
unordained men and women to distribute communion in the hands of
standing recipients. Even conservative organizations like Opus Dei
adopted the liberal liturgical reforms.

But Bugnini may have finally met his match in Benedict XVI, a noted liturgist
himself who is no fan of the past 40 years of change. Chanting Latin,
wearing antique vestments and distributing communion only on the
tongues (rather than into the hands) of kneeling Catholics, Benedict

has slowly reversed the innovations of his predecessors. And the
Latin Mass is back, at least on a limited basis, in places like Arlington,
Va., where one in five parishes offer the old liturgy.

Benedict understands that his younger priests and seminarians — most
born after Vatican II — are helping lead a counterrevolution. They value
the beauty of the solemn high Mass and its accompanying chant,
incense and ceremony. Priests in cassocks and sisters in habits are
again common; traditionalist societies like the Institute of Christ the
King are expanding.

At the beginning of this decade, Benedict (then Cardinal Joseph
Ratzinger) wrote: “The turning of the priest toward the people has
turned the community into a self-enclosed circle. In its outward form,
it no longer opens out on what lies ahead and above, but is closed
in on itself.” He was right: 40 years of the new Mass have brought
chaos and banality into the most visible and outward sign of the
church. Benedict XVI wants a return to order and meaning.
So, it seems, does the next generation of Catholics.

Kenneth J. Wolfe writes frequently for traditionalist Roman Catholic publications.

NY City to get daily TLM at Holy Innocents

UnaVoceNH - Beginning Monday, November 30th there will be a new daily Low Mass (in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite) every weekday at 6:00 PM at the Church of the Holy Innocents in Manhattan. 
 

 [Logo]  

 

[The Sanctuary]

The Roman Catholic Church of The Holy Innocents is located in the Fashion
Center, mid-town Manhattan. Founded in 1868, the mission of the church is
to be a spiritual oasis in one of busiest business districts in the world -
imes/Herald Square. The celebration of six daily Masses, confession,
and public devotions, enable visitors time for personal and communal prayer.

              

St. Patrick's, Nashua TL Mass to be a Sung High Missa Cantata on Sunday, November 22

(Una VoceNH) - St. Patrick Parish, Nashua, will offer the first Sunday,
High Sung Missa Cantata since early last Summer. Due to issues
 with the availability of music resources, the 2nd Mass of the month
(4th Sunday) which had been a Missa Cantata, was offered as a
low Mass through the Summer months and into the fall. The new
 Schola, Choir, Director and Organist had their debut a couple of
weeks ago on All Souls Day singing the Requiem High Mass.  
They return now to sing the Traditional Holy Mass.
Web Hosting Companies