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1962 Sunday Missal Mass Readings/First Sunday After Pentecost (Trinity Sunday)   Colors:  White   INTROIT  Tobias 12: 6Blessed be the Holy Trinity and undivided Unity: we will give glory to Him, because He hath shown His mercy to us. -- (Ps. 8. 2). O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is Thy name in all the earth! V.: Glory be to the Father . . . -- Blessed be the Holy Trinity and undivided Unity . . .   COLLECT - O almighty and everlasting God, who hast granted to Thy servants, in confessing the true Father, to acknowledge the...

1962 Sunday Missal Mass Readings/Propers for Sunday After the Ascension   Colors:  White   INTROIT  Psalms 26: 7-9 Hear, O Lord, my voice with which I have cried to Thee, alleluia; my heart hath said to Thee, I have sought Thy face, Thy face, O Lord, I will seek: turn not away Thy face from me, alleluia, alleluia. -- (Ps. 26. 1). The Lord is my light and my salvation: whom shall I fear? V.: Glory be to the Father . . . -- Hear, O Lord, my voice with which I have cried . . .   COLLECT...

1962 Sunday Missal Mass Readings/Propers for the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker   Colors:  White   INTROIT  Wisdom 10:17 Wisdom rendered to the just the wages of their labors, and conducted them in a wonderful way: and she was to them for a covert by day, and for the light of stars by night. [P.T. Alleluia, alleluia.] -- (Ps. 126. 1). V.: Glory be to the Father . . . -- Wisdom rendered to the just . . .   COLLECT - O God, Creator of all things, Who dost impose on man the law of work; grant...

1962 Sunday Missal Mass Readings/Propers for the Forth Sunday After Easter   Colors:  White   INTROIT  Psalms 97: 1,2 Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle, alleluia, for the Lord hath done wonderful things, alleluia; He hath revealed His justice in the sight of the Gentiles, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. -- (Ps. 97. 1). His right hand and His holy arm hath gotten Him the victory. V.: Glory be to the Father . . . -- Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle, alleluia . . .   COLLECT - O God, who makest the faithful to be...

1962 Sunday Missal Mass Readings/Propers for the Second Sunday After Easter   Colors:  White   INTROIT  Psalms 32: 5, 6The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord, alleluia: by the word of the Lord were the heavens made, alleluia, alleluia. -- (Ps. 32. 1). Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: praise is comely for the upright. V.: Glory to the Father . . . -- The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord . . .   COLLECT -O God, who, by the humility of Thy Son, didst lift up a fallen world, grant...

90 Year old Man's Family Denied Indult Mass for Funeral As much as do not share most of the opinions of M. Matt's The Remnant, this is a fine article is about a Catholic who's last wish was to have a Indult TLM for his funeral. Something well within his rights as a Catholic. See Article here table width=265 height=42 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> Original article from The Remnant < The bishop of New Ulm said that to allow the man's last wish to be buried using the Funeral Mass of 1962 would constitute an act of personal devotion, which is...

1962 Sunday Missal Mass Readings/Propers for Sexagesima Sunday Colors:  Purple   INTROIT  Psalm 43: 23-26Arise, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end. Why turnest Thou Thy face away, and forgettest our trouble? our belly hath cleaved to the earth: arise, O Lord, help us and deliver us. -- (Ps. 43. 2). We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us. V.: Glory be to the Father . . . -- Arise, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? . . .   COLLECT -O God, who seest that we...

An online guide to the Latin Low Mass has been added to the Angelqueen site. Using a variety of sources, the Mass has been divided into sections with narrative explanation, illustration, history and background. The Latin is side by side with the English exegesis/translation. There are also sections on the altar setup,  the vestments, and the furnishings and equipment with photos and descriptions. You can start at the intro and click through the entire mass by hitting the "next" link on each page. Or use the table of contents to find various sections.One reason it was put together was to...

Recently the SSPX published a book titled "Priest, Where Is Thy Mass? Mass, Where Is Thy Priest." The SSPX mailed a free copy of the book to the Catholic priests in America, all 45,915 of them. Over 300 have actually begun correspondence with the priests involved and with the SSPX. A review of this book and discussion of the issues involved can be viewed on-line at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1173010/posts Unfortunately, with priests with whom I've discussed this book the common concern was that the book underestimates the first and primary hurdle for any priest, especially our retired priests. These priests need to...

DETROIT — Regular weekly celebration of the “old Mass” will return to the Archdiocese of Detroit this fall, following Cardinal Adam Maida’s authorization of a celebration of the Tridentine Latin Mass at St. Josaphat Church, Detroit, beginning Oct. 3. In a July 16 letter to priests of the archdiocese, Cardinal Maida noted that a 1984 indult was given by the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship allowing the Tridentine Mass to be celebrated “for pastoral need,” and that Pope John Paul II has urged respect for the feelings of those attached to the Latin liturgical tradition by giving a “wide and...

Why not the indult? After my previous five installments demonstrating that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishops de Castro Mayer, Tissier de Mallerais, de Galarreta, Williamson, and Fellay have not incurred ipso facto excommunication, nor created a schism, on account of the illicit 1988 episcopal consecrations, it is now the time to answer all sorts of objections to the theses advanced in my previous five installments. My answers will necessarily contain some repetition of what I have already written in my previous installments. Objection 1: The Pope said that Lefebvre's act of consecrating these bishops illicitly was schismatic. Since the Pope...

This interview is reprinted with the kind permission of The Latin Mass Magazine. Interview with His EminenceCardinal Castrillion Hoyos [This interview was granted by His Eminence Cardinal Castrillion Hoyos, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy and President of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei" in Rome on May 5, 2004, Feast of St. Pius V.] Q: Eminence, nearly one year after the celebration in Saint Mary Major of the Mass in the Rite of Saint Pius V, what reactions have you have received from the so called "traditionalist" world, with regard to this event? A: I would say that...

What Ever Happened to the Counterrevolution?by Michael J. MattWhile confirming the good based on the liturgical reform wished by the Second Vatican Council and initiated by Pope Paul VI, the Church grants also a sign of understanding to those persons "attached to certain previous liturgical and disciplinary forms" (motu proprio, Ecclesia Dei, n.5). It is in this perspective that one must read and apply the motu proprio, Ecclesia Dei: I desire that everything may happen in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, in full harmony with Tradition, aiming at unity in charity and loyalty to the Truth. (Emphasis added)...Pope...

SSPX Question from Anne on 07-10-2003: Dear Fr. Levis, Thanks so much for the work you do on this forum. I love reading Catholic Q&A, and you are my favorite expert. I’ve read quite a few postings on the SSPX lately, some of them regarding the possibility of their joining full communion with the Church. Some people have seemed interested in joining because they're fed up with abuses some priests and bishops do in the Novus Ordo. I belonged to an independent church, then the SSPX for 19 years, and through the grace of God am back in communion with...

[JP=John Pacheco; RS=Robert Sungenis] RS: As for Assisi being justified by DH, first, apparently you have had a major shift in thinking since the last time we talked about this less than a year ago, and second, would you mind telling me what statement in DH supports the idea that Catholics are to direct pagans to pray to their gods for world peace? I hope, John, that since you offered DH as the justification, that you won't be tempted to dismiss my inquiry with a "I don't want to get into a discussion right now" kind of statement. If you...

For the 40 years following the Second Vatican Council, we have had to endure liturgical abuses, innovations on the part of the priest, experimentation, bongo drums, puppets, guitars, home-baked leavened bread, and "do your own thing" Masses. In the fall of this year, the Vatican will issue a major document that will call for a far wider use of the "old Mass" - the Tridentine Mass, as commonly known throughout the whole world. The new, stricter guidelines call for a mandate for weekly Latin Mass in every parish in the world. Cardinal Arinze of Nigeria said, "We want to respond...

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Tridentine Mass, Eucharistic Ministers by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. The spirit of innovation of the past forty years has dulled the sensibilities of many churchmen to the seriousness and gravity of their almost routine ruptures with tradition. If it is pointed out to them that some innovation would obviously have been detested by the entire assembly of saints, they either do not care (an attitude that at one time would have been unthinkable for a Catholic) or they actually claim that we have made "progress" since their time. Such is the level of our spiritual idiocy that an age as...

Needless Antagonisms The devil hates concord among Catholics. Indeed, Pope Leo XIII had a vision during Mass one day late in 1883 of the Devil being let loose to have a veritable field day in the Church for about a hundred years or so. One of the ways the Devil has been sowing discord and rancor among believing Catholics, no less among fallen away or a la carte Catholics, is by the novelties introduced by the Church since the Second Vatican Council, including the Novus Ordo Missae of Pope Paul VI and the Mason who served as the Secretary of...