Our Lady of Mount Carmel Solemn Mass Recap

The Solemn Mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel on July 16 was beautiful. Thanks to all who came, especially the St. Stephen schola for providing the music. 

For Father Michael Donovan, O. de M., this was his first time celebrating Solemn Mass. Good job, Father! He was assisted by Fr. Bede Kotlinski, OSB (deacon), and Brother David Spencer, O. de M. (subdeacon).

After Mass, Fr. Michael invited everyone who wished to be enrolled in the Brown Scapular to stay for the enrollment ritual. 

Confiteor Deo...

The Gospel.

The Creed

IN PRINCIPIO ERAT VERBVM

Come Pray with Our Lady of Guadalupe, Protectress of the Unborn

From the St. Stephen bulletin:

On Wednesday, July 20th, St. Stephen Church will host a visit of the Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, and an evening of prayer for conversions, reverence for life, and the sanctity of the family. Our Pro-Life Ministry has arranged for this image, a full-size reproduction blessed at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, to be present during Mass and Holy Hour. This image is one of several which have journeyed on Visitation in the New Evangelization throughout the world and have visited each of the United States in over one thousand parishes. A Latin Low Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be celebrated at 6:30pm with our Schola Choir singing tradtional Marian hymns. Mass will be followed by a brief talk on Our Lady of Guadalupe, and then a Holy Hour with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. The Miraculous Missionary Image of Our Lady of Guadalupe will be available before Mass and after Holy Hour for Veneration. 

Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish in Cleveland will host a Solemn High Mass for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel on July 16, 2011. The Mass will be at 10am. This is also the weekend that begins their parish festival. All are encouraged to attend and enjoy.

Happy Easter

A Blessed Easter to you all!

Classic Catholic Books Online

Many of the classic Catholic books, both fictional and non-fictional, can be hard to find. Luckily, technological advances have put them right at our fingertips...literally, your keyboard. And if you have an electronic reading device, most books on these websites can be directly downloaded to your device, depending on the format.

Archive.org, Open Library and Google Books have very large collections. Project Gutenberg and Many Books are smaller but growing. Save for Google Books, each website has a multitude of formats to choose from for download, dependent upon your particular device. Or you can just read online. The cost: only your time.

Just a sample for starters.

Introduction to a Devout Life

Confessions

The Divine Comedy (illustrated)

The Innocence of Father Brown

Bishop Gilmour's Bible History

Akron Latin Mass: New Location

It was announced on Sunday that the Latin Mass located in the Akron area has been assigned to St. Sebastian, 476 Mull Ave, Akron, Ohio. High Mass at 1pm and confessions heard at 12:30pm. 

"Passion of the Church" MP3

Dear Friends of the TLM,

 

This Lent, many of us have not had the opportunity to attend a parish retreat or mission.  However, you can do this in your very home.  I have found a very poignant talk entitled the Passion of the Church.  It was given by a priest of the Fathers of Mercy to a Fraternity of St. Peter parish.  I whole-heartedly encourage you to download and listen to this MP3 before Lent's end. 

 

This priest hits home on what is really happening in our beloved Church these days.  As the Mystical Body of Christ we are undergoing a passion.  Moreover, he points to what we need to do as Friends of the Traditional Latin Mass.  I trust you will find this talk informative, eye-opening, challenging, and full of encouragement and hope.

 

http://www.AudioSancto.org/auweb/20090324-The-Passion-of-the-Church-Part-2.mp3

In Christ,

Matthew Lewis

Guide to Latin Prayers: Lesson 06 - Angelus

From New Advent:

"The Angelus is a short practice of devotion in honour of the Incarnation repeated three times each day, morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of the bell. It consists essentially in the triple repetition of the Hail Mary, to which in later times have been added three introductory versicles and a concluding versicle and prayer. The prayer is that which belongs to the antiphon of Our Lady, 'AlmaRedemptoris,' and its recitation is not of strict obligation in order to gain the indulgence. From the first word of the three versicles, i.e. Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariæ (The angel of the Lord declared untoMary). the devotion derives its name. The indulgence of 100 days for each recitation, with a plenary once a month. was granted by Benedict XIII, 14 September, 1724, but the conditions prescribed have been somewhat modified by Leo XIII, 3 April, 1884. Originally it was necessary that the Angelus should be said kneeling (except on Sundays and on Saturday evenings, when the rubrics prescribe a standing posture), and also that it should be said at the sound of the bell; but more recent legislation allows these conditions to be dispensed with for any sufficient reason, provided the prayer be said approximately at the proper hours, i.e. in the early morning, or about the hour of noon, or towards evening. In this case. however, the whole Angelus as commonly printed has to be recited, but those who do not know the prayers by heart or who are unable to read them, may say five Hail Marys in their place. During paschal time the antiphon of Our Lady, 'Regina cæli lætare,' with versicle andprayer, is to be substituted for the Angelus. The Angelus indulgence is one of those which are notsuspended during the year of Jubilee."

The Angelus, Jean-Francois Millet, 1857-1859

A few notes before we start the lesson. 


The Ave Maria is not included in this lesson. You can find it in Lesson 04. 


A Latin letter h is generally thought of as a note of aspiration, not pronounced as it is in English. Ecclesiastical Latin has two peculiar words in which the h sounds like k. One of those words is in this lesson: mihi. 


Something we have not addressed before is the Latin words which contain the consonant combination gn, as in digni. We will pronounce it the same way we pronounce the common pasta dish, lasagne: lah-zah-nyah. 


The Angelus may not be as familiar today as some other prayers, be they Latin or vernacular. With that in mind, EWTN provides a good translation here. 

Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae

(AHN-jay-loos  DOH-mee-nee  noon-tsee-AH-veet  mah-REE-ay)

et concepit de Spiritu Sancto

(eht  kohn-CHAY-peet  day  SPEAR-ee-too  SAHNK-toh)

Ave Maria...

Ecce ancilla Domini

(EHK-chay  ahn-CHEE-lah  DOH-mee-nee)

fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum

(FEE-aht  MEE-kee  say-KOON-doom  VAIR-boom  TOO-oom)

Ave Maria...

Et Verbum caro factum est

(eht  VAIR-boom  KAR-oh  FAHK-toom  ehst)

et habitavit in nobis

(eht  hah-bee-TAH-veet  een  NOH-bees)

Ave Maria...

Ora pro nobis, Sancta Dei Genitrix

(OR-ah  proh  NOH-bees  SAHNK-tah  DAY-ee  JAY-nee-treeks)

ut digni efficiamur promissionibus Christi

(oot  DEE-nyee  ay-fee-chee-AH-moor  proh-mee-see-OHN-ee-boos  KREES-tee)

Oremus
(oh-RAY-moos)


Gratiam tuam, quaesumus, Domine,
(GRAH-tsee-ahm  TOO-ahm  KWAY-soo-moos  DOH-mee-nay)


mentibus nostris infunde:
(MEHN-tee-boos  NOHS-trees  een-FOON-day)


ut qui, Angelo nuntiante,
(oot  kwee  AHN-jay-loh  noon-tsee-AHN-tay)


Christi Filii tui 
(KREES-tee  FEE-lee-ee  TOO-wee)


Incarnationem cognovimus,
(een-kar-nah-tsee-OHN-ehm  koh-NYOH-vee-moos)


per passionem eius et crucem,
(pair  pahs-see-OHN-ehm  AY-oos  eht  KROO-chehm)


ad resurrectionis gloriam perducamur.
(ahd  ray-soor-rehk-tsee-OHN-ees  GLOH-ree-ahm  pair-doo-KAH-moor)


Per eumdem Christum
(pair  ay-OOM-dehm  KREES-toom)


Dominum nostrum.
(DOH-mee-noom  NOHS-troom)

This concludes the sixth lesson. Practice often. 

Prayer Before a Crucifix

On each of the Fridays of Lent, a plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful who, after Communion, recite the "Prayer Before a Crucifix" before an image of Christ crucified:

Look down upon me, good and gentle Jesus, while before Thy face I humbly kneel and with burning soul, pray and beseech Thee to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments of faith, hope and charity; true contrition for my sins; and a firm purpose of amendment; while I contemplate with great love and tender pity Thy Five Most Precious Wounds, pondering over them within me while I call to mind the words which David Thy prophet said of Thee, my Jesus: "They have pierced My Hands and My Feet, they have numbered all My Bones." Amen

Guide to Latin Prayers: Lesson 05 - Domine Non Sum Dignus

Lord, I am not worthy.

Matthew 8:

5 And when he had entered into Capharnaum, there came to him a centurion, beseeching him,

6 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of the palsy, and is grieviously tormented. 7 And Jesus saith to him: I will come and heal him. 8 And the centurion making answer, said: Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldst enter under my roof: but only say the word, and my servant shall be healed...

...13 And Jesus said to the centurion: Go, and as thou hast believed, so be it done to thee. And the servant was healed at the same hour.

Domine non sum dignus

(DOH-mee-nay  nohn  soom  DEE-nyoos)

ut intres sub tectum meum

(oot  EEN-trays  soob  TEHK-toom  MAY-oom)

sed tantum dic verbo

(sehd  TAHN-toom  deek  VAIR-boh)

et sanabitur anima mea

(eht  sah-NAH-bee-toor  AH-nee-mah  MAY-ah)