Philadelphia Chapter

You are invited to
The Birthday of Saint Philomena
January 10, 2012

A Traditional Latin Mass Missa Cantata (The Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite)
will be celebrated at 7:00 p.m.

Saint Philomena Roman Catholic Church
Center of the Universal Archconfraternity of Saint Philomena
41 E. Baltimore Ave.
Lansdowne, Pa 19050

Directions are available on our website:
www.stphilomenapa.org

Reverend Jason V. Kulczynski, Parochial Administrator
Saint Philomena Roman Catholic Church, Lansdowne, Pa. www.stphilomenapa.org

Spiritual Director of the Universal Archconfraternity of Saint Philomena for Pennsylvania in the United States

Chaplain, Saints John Neumann and Maria Goretti Catholic High School

The entire schedule of Masses for Christmas is posted on www.materecclesiae.org .

Thank you for posting the two announcements. Please replace the second one with this corrected version:

A Missa Cantata in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite will be celebrated on Sunday, December 25, at 12:00 noon at St. Paul Church, 931 Christian Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147. The Gregorian propers will be chanted by a men’s schola, and a quintet will sing Palestrina’s Missa Aeterna Christi Munera and “Hodie Christus Natus Est” by Sweelinck. Celebrate Christmas this year in a very special way by attending the Traditional Latin Mass in this historic Catholic Church in South Philadelphia.

Please post this announcement at the LLA Phila. Chapter website. Thanks. — Michael J. Miller

A Missa Cantata in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite will be celebrated on Sunday, December 25, at 12:00 noon at St. Paul Church, 808 S. Hutchinson Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147. The Missa de Angelis and the Gregorian propers will be chanted by a men’s schola, and a quintet will sing “Hodie Christus Natus Est” by Sweelinck. Celebrate Christmas this year in a very special way by attending the Traditional Latin Mass in this historic Catholic Church in South Philadelphia.

Please post the following at the LLA Phila. Chapter website. Thanks. — Michael J. Miller, LLA Advisory Council

SOLEMN HIGH MIDNIGHT MASS

A Solemn High Missa Cantata will be celebrated in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite at 12:00 a.m. on Christmas Day (“Midnight Mass”) at Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 63rd Street & Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19151. A men’s schola will chant the Gregorian propers, and the parish choir will sing Haydn’s Missa Brevis. A service of carols will precede the Mass. This historic Catholic Church in Overbrook Farms is always magnificently decorated for the Christmas season, including an elaborate praesepio (manger scene). Celebrate Christmas this year with the splendor of the Traditional Latin Mass.

From Mark Matthews:

The First Friday, December 2nd, 2011 TLM will be offered by Fr. Gerald Carey with the usual 6:30 p.m. Confessions followed by the TLM at 7 p.m.

The First Saturday, December 3rd, 2011 TLM will be offered by Fr. Patrick Brannan, S.J., with the usual 8:30 a.m. Confessions followed by a 9 a.m. TLM with all TLM’s at the Rectory Chapel of St. Albert The Great, 212 Welsh Road, Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery County, PA 19006 (T) 215-947-3500.

Thank you for publicizing the TLM’s and Confession schedules.

Rabbi David Rosen, head of inter-religious dialogue for the American Jewish Committee, claimed on November 10, 2011, that in the event of the Society of St. Pius X returning to the Catholic Church, the conciliar declaration Nostra Aetate (October 28, 1965), which is the basis of inter-religious dialogue, would not be compromised. “We have already voiced our concerns,” he declared at the end of an audience granted by the Pope to the Council of the Religious Leaders of Israel.

According to the Italian press, the Rabbi recalled that he had obtained from Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Commission for the Relations with Judaism, the guarantee that the Vatican II text concerning the Church’s relations with non-Christian religions was not under discussion. “That does not mean that an explicit recognition of Nostra Aetate is included in the doctrinal Preamble submitted to the priestly Society of St. Pius X by the Holy See,” explained David Rosen, even if this should be accepted in practice for, according to him, “this acceptance is necessary for any reconciliation.”

When questioned on the appropriateness of the discussions between the Vatican and the traditionalists, David Rosen recognized that he did not have the right to intervene in the internal choices of another religion, but he hoped nonetheless that the Holy See would be “explicit” in refusing the negation of the Holocaust, if there were to be a reconciliation.

Mentioning the Assisi meeting on October 27, David Rosen emphasized the “humility and fraternity” of Benedict XVI, who sat on the same seat as all the other participants and was on the same level as them. (sources: apic/imedia – DICI#245, Nov 26, 2011)

On September 23, 2011, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, Archbishop Fouad Twal, published a decree authorizing the celebration of the traditional Mass. “In the diocese of the latin patriarchate, the Eucharist is still celebrated in the ordinary form of the Roman Missal but, at the request of the pilgrims that come in great numbers and from all over the world to the holy places, the celebration of the Eucharist in the extraordinary form can be allowed,” indicated the patriarch on his website on November 15, 2011.

This decree authorizes “the priests of the Society of St. Pius X to celebrate privately in the basilicas or sanctuaries, without advertising their initiatives,” and adds that this celebration should “still remain exceptional” and follow the norms contained in the Instruction on the application of the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum (April 30, 2011), published by the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.

When questioned by La Croix, Fr. Claude Boivin, first assistant of the SSPX District of France, who has accompanied pilgrimages to the Holy Land for many years, explained that the Society of St. Pius X lived up until now under the decree of the interdiction promulgated in 1988 by Archbishop Michel Sabbah, then the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, but that, in reality, the priests “received the good will of the local clergy”. “Except in certain places, things went pretty well,” he added. “I myself have celebrated in the Holy Land in almost thirty churches, even at the Holy Sepulchre in 2011,” and the pilgrimage Masses have always been celebrated “without any publicity.” (sources: La Croix/apic – DICI#245 Nov 26, 2011)

First Friday information is as follows: Confessions (as usual) at 6:30 P.M followed by TLM at 7 P.M. offered by Fr. Harold B. Mc Kale, of St. Bede the Venerable Parish, Holland, Bucks County, PA.

First Saturday Confessions (as usual) at 8:30 A.M., followed by TLM at 9 A.M. offered by Fr. Dominick Finn, O.S.F.S.

All of course, are at the Rectory Chapel of St. Albert The Great Parish, 212 Welsh Road, Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery County PA 19006.

Thank you for publicizing these.

Mark Matthews

There will be a Missa Cantata at St. Paul’s, Ninth and Christian Sts., on the Feasts of All Saints and All Souls at 7:00 p.m., on Tuesday, November first and second respectively. The Mass for All Souls will be a sung Requiem Mass. All are welcome.