First Friday and Saturday Reminder

Just a reminder that First Friday and First Saturday are this week.

As usual, following the First Saturday Low Mass at St. Stephen's, Fr. Bede will offer a seminar in the St. Stephen Club Room. This month's seminar will be a continuation of where he left off last month.

Also, remember Coffee and Doughnut Sunday is this week at St. Stephen's, following the 9:30am High Mass.

Requiem High Mass Pictures

The November 3rd Requiem High Mass at St. Stephen's was beautiful. 

Fidelium animae, per misericordiam Dei, requiescant in pace. Amen.

Introibo Ad Altare Dei: Getting to Know the Extraordinary Form

A message from Matt Lewis and Immaculate Conception, Willoughby.

Come join us for a walk through the Traditional Latin (Tridentine) Mass, looking at the prayers, Latin responses, and liturgical movements, learn how to use a hand missal, familiarize yourself with the order of the mass, the liturgical calendar, and more!

Fridays, November 18, November 25, December 2, December 9 & December 16 @ 6:15pm in the John Paul II Room in the old school building behind Immaculate Conception Church in Willoughby (enter through the middle door #3 and descend the steps).

Class will be dismissed in time for the usual 7:30pm Friday night Low Mass.

For more information, contact the instructor, Matt Lewis at vocemur@yahoo.com
or   440-942-2189.

November First Saturday Seminar

The topic for Fr. Bede's first Saturday seminar at St. Stephen's will be "A critique of the New Translation for the Missal."

Of course, the seminar follows Low Mass at 9:30am, and will be presented in the St. Stephen Club Room. 

Nov. 3 Flyer

Please feel free to print out this flyer and pass it around.

Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, High Mass, Oct 16

The following information was sent to us to post on the blog.

Sunday 10/16 at 5pm a Missa Cantata
and 6pm Vespers

Guest homilist:  Canon Matthew Talerico from the Institute of Christ the King.

Sacred Heart of Jesus Church
1545 South Green Road
South Euclid, Ohio 44121
Phone: 216.382.7601 

High Requiem, Nov. 3

On Thursday, Nov. 3, St. Stephen Church will offer a High Requiem Mass in place of the regular Thursday evening Low Mass at 6:30pm. A reminder of the Mass will be posted and sent out one week before. Please make note of this and plan to attend, and invite others as well. Prayers and, especially, the offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the Faithful Departed is so important and necessary to free them from the suffering of Purgatory. 

Also, remember that Nov. 1, All Saints Day, is a Holy Day of Obligation. Both, All Saints Day and All Souls Day (Nov.2) fall on days when St. Stephen offers regularly scheduled Low Masses: on Nov. 1 at 7:00am and on Nov. 2 at 6:30pm.

First Saturday Seminars

The First Saturday Seminars at St. Stephen have resumed. These seminars are given by Fr. Bede, and they follow the 9:30am First Saturday Low Mass. The seminars are located in the St. Stephen Club Room.

We will send out a reminder email, along with the scheduled topic of the seminar, a week before.

Our Lady of Mercy Solemn Mass Recap

Enjoy these beautiful pictures from the Solemn Mass celebrated at St. Rocco Church for the feast of Our Lady of Mercy. Special thanks to Fr. Michael Donovan, O. de M., Fr. Bede Kotlinski, OSB, and Br. David Spencer, O. de M., as well as the St. Stephen schola for providing the music, and Fr. Michael Franz, pastor of St. Stephen, for loaning the gorgeous vestments.

And congratulations to the members of the Mercedarian Third Order, who renewed their promises following the Mass.

Solemn High Mass, Sept. 24, Our Lady of Mercy

In celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Mercy, St. Rocco Church will offer a Solemn High Mass on Saturday,  September 24, 2011, at 9:00am. This is an important feast to the Mercedarian Order.

The Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy, founded in 1218, is an international community of priests and brothers, who live a life of prayer and communal fraternity based on the Rule of Saint Augustine and the Constitutions of the Order.

From this life flows the apostolic work of the Order that seeks to carry on the work of our founder, Saint Peter Nolasco, who in imitation of Jesus the Redeemer, offered even his life for those Christians in need of redemptive love.

 Information on the Mercedarian Order can be found here.

On Saturday, September 24th, the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Redemption of Captives celebrates the Solemnity of Our Lady of Mercy. The title of "Mercy" (Ransom) for Our Lady has its origins in the Order founded by St. Peter Nolasco in 1218. Through Divine intervention and the assistance of the Virgin Mary of Mercy, the Order was founded to visit and free Christians who were being held in captivity on account of their Faith. The Order has always attributed to Mary a special participation in its foundation.  For this reason the Order has always honored Mary under the title of Mercy (Ransom) with particular devotion since its beginning and in accordance with its founder, St. Peter Nolasco, who in 1249, dedicated a church in her honor.  In 1600, permission was granted to celebrate on the feast of the Nativity of Mary a special liturgy dedicated under the title of "Mercy".  In 1696, the feast was extended to the whole Church.