Marian Conference

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2014 Columbus Marian Conference

Correcting a Correction

Please be aware and advise others who may need to know that the CORRECT Mass time for the Feast of the Sacred Heart at Immaculate Conception on Superior Avenue in Cleveland is......drum roll, please......6:30pm.

We sincerely apologize for this and hope that it reaches everyone who plans to attend. The confusion came from their regularly scheduled First Friday Mass, which is at 6:00pm.

If you wish to confirm with the parish, and that would certainly be understandable, the rectory phone number is 216-431-5900.

Feast of the Sacred Heart

For the glorious feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Immaculate Conception will offer Low Mass with the Litany and Benediction at 6:00pm.

Please be aware that it was mistakenly announced on Sunday at St. Stephen that the Mass would be at 6:30pm. The correct time is 6:00pm.

Corpus Christi Mass

First, much apology for having not announced this earlier. Things at home this week have been VERY busy.

St. Stephen will offer a Missa Cantata for the traditional day of the Feast of Corpus Christi (Thursday, June 19, 2014). Mass will be at 6:30pm. There will be a Procession in the church, followed by Benediction. Fr. Bede announced on Sunday that he will be trying to find a deacon and sub-deacon.....so there is a possibility it will be a Missa Solemnis.

We are reminded that the Feast has been transferred to Sunday here in the Diocese of Cleveland. As far as we know, the other Latin Mass parishes will offer the Feast of Corpus Christi on Sunday, June 22, 2014.

Feast of the Ascension

From the words of St. Augustine:

Today our Lord Jesus Christ ascended into heaven; let our hearts ascend with him. Listen to the words of the Apostle: If you have risen with Christ, set your hearts on the things that are above where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God; seek the things that are above, not the things that are on earth. For just as he remained with us even after his ascension, so we too are already in heaven with him, even though what is promised us has not yet been fulfilled in our bodies.

Christ is now exalted above the heavens, but he still suffers on earth all the pain that we, the members of his body, have to bear. He showed this when he cried out from above: Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? and when he said: I was hungry and you gave me food. 

Why do we on earth not strive to find rest with him in heaven even now, through the faith, hope and love that unites us to him? While in heaven he is also with us; and we while on earth are with him. He is here with us by his divinity, his power and his love. We cannot be in heaven, as he is on earth, by divinity, but in him, we can be there by love. 

He did not leave heaven when he came down to us; nor did he withdraw from us when he went up again into heaven. The fact that he was in heaven even while he was on earth is borne out by his own statement: No one has ever ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven. 

These words are explained by our oneness with Christ, for he is our head and we are his body. No one ascended into heaven except Christ because we also are Christ: he is the Son of Man by his union with us, and we by our union with him are the sons of God. So the Apostle says: Just as the human body, which has many members, is a unity, because all the different members make one body, so is it also with Christ. He too has many members, but one body. 
Out of compassion for us he descended from heaven, and although he ascended alone, we also ascend, because we are in him by grace. Thus, no one but Christ descended and no one but Christ ascended; not because there is no distinction between the head and the body, but because the body as a unity cannot be separated from the head.

**We are reminded that in the Diocese of Cleveland, the Feast of the Ascension has been transferred to Sunday, Jun 1, 2014.  Therefore, Thursday, May 29, 2014, is not an Holy Day of Obligation. Nonetheless, it would be a pious act to celebrate it on its traditional day of observation. 

Ascension Thursday UPDATE

The updated schedule of Latin Masses for Ascension Thursday:

St. Sebastian, Akron
5:15pm High Mass

St. Stephen
6:30pm Solemn Mass

Immaculate Conception, Cleveland
6:30pm High Mass

Ascension Thursday

Ascension Thursday Latin Mass schedule:

St. Stephen
6:30pm Solemn High Mass

Immaculate Conception, Cleveland
6:30pm High Mass

Palm Sunday, St. Stephen's, Time Correction

Please make note of the following correction.

Palm Sunday High Mass at St. Stephen's will be at 9:15am, NOT the regular time of 9:30am. This is due to the Blessing of Palms and Procession before Mass begins.

Holy Week

Here's the schedule:

Palm Sunday
   Normal Sunday Mass schedule, except:

             9:15am High Mass
                   St. Stephen

 Monday

   7pm  Communal Penance Service with Individual Confessions
          Immaculate Conception, Cleveland

Tuesday
   7am Low Mass
          St. Stephen

Wednesday
   7am Low Mass
          Immaculate Conception, Cleveland
   6:30pm Low Mass
          St. Stephen
   7:15pm Office of Tenebrae

Holy Thursday
   8pm  Latin High Mass
          Immaculate Conception, Cleveland

Good Friday
   12pm Stations of the Cross
   6pm Celebration of Our Lord's Passion
          Immaculate Conception, Cleveland

Holy Saturday
   1pm Blessing of Easter Foods
   4pm Confessions
   11:30pm Easter Vigil in Latin
          Immaculate Conception, Cleveland

Easter Sunday
   Normal Sunday Mass schedule

Feast of the Annunciation

St. Stephen will offer High Mass for the Feast of the Annunciation, Tues Mar 25, at 6:30pm.

Also, because its a Tuesday, St. Stephen will have the regularly celebrated Low Mass at 7am.

Remember to pray the Angelus three times everyday: morning (6am), noon and evening (6pm).

V. The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary,

R. And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. 

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen. 

V. Behold the handmaid of the Lord.

R. Be it done unto me according to Thy word. 

Hail Mary ... 

V. And the Word was made Flesh.

R. And dwelt among us. 

Hail Mary ... 

V. Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God,

R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. 

Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy grace into our hearts; that we, to whom the incarnation of Christ, Thy Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may by His Passion and Cross be brought to the glory of His Resurrection, through the same Christ Our Lord. Amen. 

 Or in Latin:

V. Ángelus Dómini nuntiávit Maríae.

R. Et concépit de Spíritu Sáncto. 

Áve María, grátia pléna, Dóminus técum; benedícta tu in muliéribus, et benedíctus frúctus véntris túi, Jésus. Sáncta María, Máter Déi, óra pro nóbis peccatóribus, nunc et in hóra mórtis nóstræ. Ámen. 

V. Ecce ancílla Dómini.

R. Fiat mihi secúndum vérbum tuum. 

Áve María ... 

V. Et Vérbum cáro fáctum est.

R. Et habitávit in nóbis. 

Áve María ... 

V. Ora pro nóbis Sáncta Dei Génitrix.

R. Ut dígni efficiáur promissiónibus Christi. 

Oremus: Grátiam túam quaésumus, Dómine, méntibus nóstris infúnde: ut qui, Ángelo nuntiánte, Chrísti Fílii tui Incarnatiónem cognóvimus; per Passiónem Ejus et Crucem, ad resurrectiónis glóriam perducámur. Per eundem Chrístum Dóminum nóstrum. Ámen.