First Fri. & Sat. TLM’s for February, 2017; Blessing of Throats -St. Blaise at St. Albert The Great
First Friday, February 3, A.D. 2017, Traditional Latin Mass, with Blessing of Throats on the Feast of Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr:
Priest:  Fr. Harold B. Mc Kale, Parish Vicar of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church
Location:Â Â Rectory Chapel of St. Albert The Great Parish (address below)
Time:Â Â 7:00Â p.m., preceded by Confessions at 6:30Â p.m.
This Traditional Latin Mass will be the Mass of Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr, offered in Reparation to The Sacred Heart of Jesus.  Red vestments.
Blessing of Throats on this First Friday Feast of Saint Blaise, Bishop and Martyr, will occur after the Leonine Prayers. You may want to bring Family and friends for this TLM. Please don’t miss it!
First Saturday, February 4, A.D. 2017, Traditional Latin Mass:
Priest:  Fr. Harold B. Mc Kale, Parish Vicar of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church
Location:Â Â Rectory Chapel of St. Albert The Great Parish (address below)
Time:Â Â 9:00 a.m., preceded by Confessions at 8:30 a.m.
This Traditional Latin Mass will be the Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, offered in Reparation to The Immaculate Heart of Mary, with a Commemoration of Saint Andrew Corsini.  White vestments.
Address:
St. Albert The Great Parish
212 Welsh Road
Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
(T) (215) 947-3500
The Rectory, also known as the Parish Center, is located behind the Church, which fronts on Welsh Road.
Mark Matthews
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The Fifth Nellie Gray Mass, After the 2017 March for Life
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January 8, 2017 No Comments
Manifesto of the Catholic Laity
The below [sic] Manifesto of the Catholic Laity was drafted by English Catholics twenty years before the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium.  Dated Pentecost 1943, the long forgotten letter was discovered in the Archives of the Archbishop of Westminster, and appears as a footnote in Dom Alcuin Reid’s excellent work The Organic Development of the Liturgy (Ignatius Press, 2005, pp. 103-104).
This articulate and heartfelt plea of English Catholics for the preservation of something as venerable as the liturgical language of the Roman Rite is still inspiring to read over seventy years later.  It also serves as an important reminder that the “reformers†of the twentieth century Liturgical Movement were very busy in the decades leading up to the Council.  Knowing as we do now that the words of this manifesto would have little impact, and that the liturgical revolution would commence in twenty short years, makes this an even more compelling read today.
Manifesto of the Catholic Laity
“We, the undersigned Catholic Layfolk, desire…to make known our true feelings with regard to the present controversy concerning the language used by the Church in her public worship. Â
“We utterly repudiate the subversive efforts that are being made to discredit the use of the Latin Liturgy, a precious heritage brought to the English people by Saint Augustine of Canterbury from our glorious Apostle, Saint Gregory the Great, and which we are proud to have preserved intact these fourteen hundred years, even throughout the hardships and dangers of the penal times. Â
“We therefore protest that we are opposed to all attempts to tamper with this venerable Liturgy, or to substitute for it a copy of any non-Catholic rite, however beautiful or impressive. Â
“We strongly resent the implication that we and our children are not sufficiently intelligent to understand the simple Latin of the Mass, and we declare our readiness to do all we can to equip ourselves with the necessary knowledge so as to be able to take a more active and intelligent part in our parochial Mass. Â
“We also respectfully petition our bishops to use their authority to make the teaching of simple liturgical Latin obligatory in all our Catholic schools, since we are convinced that such instruction would be of immense spiritual and intellectual value to our children and would help them to realise more vividly the supra-national character of our faith. Â
“Finally we very humbly beg our Clergy to help our efforts by a distinct and deliberate enunciation of all the words of the Liturgy, so as to make it possible for every one of us to become more at home with the spiritual language of our Holy Mother Church, and thus to assist at her public worship with greater understanding and devotion.â€
These words are as relevant today as when they were first penned in 1943. Â Pray that many priests and bishops may read them now and take them to heart.
January 7, 2017 No Comments
Defending Good Priests from the Papacy of Insults
The papal hits just keep on coming. If you are a “rigid†Catholic these days (in other words orthodox and traditional) there’s a bullseye on your cassock and the Holy Father has taken aim. In this morning’s  homily at Casa Santa Marta, Pope Francis resorted once again to insulting “rigid†Catholics, this time priests.
The Holy Father began by first discussing the need for priests to be mediators rather than intermediaries. Yes, I am aware that those words (largely) have the same connotation, but regardless, Pope Francis classified intermediaries as being those awful “rigid†priests we keep hearing about. One wonders if by rigid he is referring to those unmerciful meanies who get so hung up on things like doctrine, truth, sin, salvation, etc.
Nevertheless, it was then that the pope recounted this odd anecdote:
About rigidity and worldliness, it was some time ago that an elderly monsignor of the curia came to me, who works, a normal man, a good man, in love with Jesus – and he told me that he had gone to buy a couple of shirts at Euroclero [the clerical clothing store] and saw a young fellow – he thinks he had not more than 25 years, or a young priest or about to become a priest – before the mirror, with a cape, large, wide, velvet, with a silver chain. He then took the Saturno [wide-brimmed clerical headgear], he put it on and looked himself over. A rigid and worldly one.
This has, unfortunately, become classic Francis. Note we have the elderly monsignor, who is both “normal†and “good.†In other words, the Vatican II generation priest is the good guy in our story. He just wants to buy a couple regular shirts.
He then encounters the usual villain in these papal admonitions: the young traditionalist. This one is extra young (not more than 25) and extra traditional (trying on a Saturno!), so we know that he is extra villainous.
For his actions, trying on the cape and Saturno, the young man is called “rigid and worldlyâ€, which seems a bit extreme. After all, who are we to judge him?
Pope Francis went on:
And that priest – he is wise, that monsignor, very wise – was able to overcome the pain, with a line of healthy humor and added: ‘And it is said that the Church does not allow women priests!’. Thus, does the work that the priest does when he becomes a functionary ends in the ridiculous, always.
Ridicule. Always an effective tool for educating your (spiritual) children. As a father of five I can honestly say that insults and ridicules are horrible ways to correct our kids behavior. Of course, there really is nothing to correct here. The villain of the piece is simply a young priest who prefers traditional garb. Period.
This disdain for a certain group of faithful, both clergy and laity, who lean traditional in their preferences is par for the papal course these days. Whatever.
That a younger generation has rejected the scorched earth policy of the post-conciliar generation is beyond comprehension to them. We want ALL the truth and beauty of our faith. That a 25 year old priest might actually want to dress like priests have dressed for centuries confounds them.
As to the “joke† by the normal and good elderly monsignor referencing the young priest behaving as a woman, this is standard fare for the self-loathing Catholic. It’s straight out of the National Catholic Reporter com box. It’s what heterodox Catholics resort to when presented with cassocks, capes, capa magnas, Latin, and lace. Those on the side of error always attack what’s true, good, and beautiful.
We must defend our good priests from this continued effort to demean and demoralize them in their vocation. The continuing insults hurled at so many good and holy men can take a toll. It’s the Saul Alinsky tactics of the Left: isolate and ridicule your opponent.
Many of our very best, orthodox, traditional priests will never ask for our help. They will perceive this papacy as an opportunity to grow in holiness through these insults. They’re not wrong of course.
We the faithful, however, must still defend. We must fortify them through our words of encouragement. We must reassure them in their vocation. And most of all we must support them with our prayers, most particularly to Our Lady.
And let us all consider buying our favorite priest a Saturno to go along with his glorious cassock while we’re at it.
January 7, 2017 No Comments
The Sound of Neo-Catholics: On Gathering Rites and Hippies
Written by Michael Matt | Editor, The Remnant
New from RTV…
From the Remnant Underground, Michael Matt recounts his experience at a recent Novus Ordo ‘Gathering Rite’.
What is neo-Catholicism? What is the New Mass? Why are Jimmy Fallon, Bill Murray, Sting and Bianca Jagger readily admitting that which the Neo-Catholics insist on denying: The Catholic Church is in all out revolution that kicked into high gear at the Second Vatican Council.
Plus, more of our interview of Cardinal Raymond Burke.
January 7, 2017 No Comments
First Friday and First Saturday TLM’s for January, 2017
First Friday, January 6, A.D. 2017, Traditional Latin Mass will be offered at the Cathedral-Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Philadelphia, PA at 7 p.m.
First Saturday, January 7, A.D. 2017, Traditional Latin Mass:Â
Priest:  Fr. Harold B. Mc Kale, Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Doylestown, PA
Location:Â Â Rectory Chapel of St. Albert The Great Parish (address below):
Time:Â Â 9:00 a.m., preceded by Confessions at 8:30 a.m.
This Traditional Latin Mass will be the Votive Mass of the Immaculate Heart of Mary offered in Reparation to The Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Address:
St. Albert The Great Parish
212 Welsh Road
Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
(T) (215) 947-3500
The Rectory, also known as the Parish Center, is located behind the Church, which fronts on Welsh Road.
Mark Matthews
January 6, 2017 No Comments
Epiphany of Our Lord – Friday, January 6, 2017, at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul
7.00 p.m. at the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul, 1723 Race St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Solemn High Mass with Blessing of Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh and Chalk
Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Jason Kulczynski, Pastor, Holy Martyrs’ Church, Oreland
Deacon: Rev. Fr. Gerald Carey, Parochial Vicar, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Morton
Subdeacon: Mr. James Griffin, Acolyte, St John the Baptist Catholic Church (Ordinariate), Bridgeport
Solemn Announcement of the Moveable Feasts of 2017: Fr Kenneth Barbazon, Parochial Vicar, Cathedral Basilica of SS Peter & Paul
Ordinary of the Mass: Mass for 4 Voices, Byrd
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