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Trinity Sunday

Laudetur Iesus Christus!  Sunday is the ancient octave day of Pentecost, otherwise known as the feast of the Most Holy Trinity, the beginning of the season after Pentecost.  According to Dom Prosper Lefebvre, OSB, in the St. Andrew Daily Missal, the reign of the Holy Ghost begins in this season after Pentecost, giving the faithful roughly six months of sanctoral feasts (e.g. the saints) to help deepen one’s faith and in love of God. The June feasts of the Holy Trinity (today), Corpus Christi (this Thursday June 8), the Sacred Heart (Friday June 16), and followed by Ss. Peter & Paul (June 29) help to emphasize this aspect of the calendar. As custom, we share commentary on Sunday’s collect: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/05/the-confessional-collect-of-trinity.html

Announcements

  • CORRECTION: Deacon Jose Palma Torres will not preach at today’s St. Ann Latin Mass – Sunday June 4, 12:30pm: We apologize for the late notice, but we learned that newly ordained Deacon Jose Palma Torres will not preaching at this Sunday’s 12:30pm St. Ann Latin Mass. Please pray for all the newly ordained deacons as they begin their service to the Church.
  • 1st Sunday Latin Mass in Salisbury – Today Sunday June 4, 4pm: Fr. Joseph Wasswa (Our Lady of Grace parish) will offer the 1st Sunday Latin Mass at Sacred Heart parish in Salisbury today Sunday June 4 at 4pm. There will be a potluck social in Brincefield Hall afterwards. One is welcome to bring a favorite dish, hors d’oeuvres or dessert.  For more information contact the Salisbury Latin Mass Community at: www.salisburylmc.org

Latin Masses This Week

  • Wednesday June 7, 6pm – St. Ann (Feria – e.g. no feast on the calendar)
  • Thursday June 8, 7pm St. Ann and 7pm St. Thomas Aquinas (feast of Corpus Christi – see note below about 40 Hours devotion).
  • Friday June 9, 7am – St. Ann (Feria)

40 Hours Devotion – Feast of Corpus Christi – Thursday June 8: For the traditional feast day of Corpus Christi (Thursday after Trinity Sunday), St. Ann parish will be offering its annual Corpus Christi Latin Mass at 7pm, which will also commence the parish’s annual 40 Hours of Adoration devotion.  To sign up for one of the 40 hours please use this signup sheet: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0544a8af29a4f94-40hours2#/ In a parish-wide e-mail Friday, Fr. Reid encouraged parishioners to fast ahead of the feast of Corpus Christi and 40 Hours devotion.

(Separately, as noted above, St. Thomas Aquinas will also be offering its regular 7pm Latin Mass that evening as well.)

Holy Face Devotions

  • St. James, Concord– Mondays 10-10:30am in the cry room in the church
  • St Mark – Mondays 5pm in the church
  • St. Thomas Aquinas – Tuesdays 6am in the main church
  • St. Ann – Tuesdays 7:30am in the main church after the Novus Ordo Mass (uses the booklet/chaplet which takes 15-20 minutes)
  • St Michael the Archangel, Gastonia – Tuesdays, 9am, main church
  • Holy Spirit, Denver – Tuesdays 10-11am after the Novus Ordo Mass
  • Don’t see your parish? Why not organize one?

2023 Women’s Traditional Silent Retreat (July 21-23)

The Legion of Mary in Raleigh is sponsoring a traditional silent women’s retreat at the Catholic Conference Center in Hickory, northwest of Charlotte from July 21-23. The retreat will feature Fr. Sean Kopczynski of the Missionaries of St. John the Baptist, a Latin Mass order of priests in Kentucky. Masses will be offered each day. Cost is around $280 and the flyer is attached. To register or for more details please see below flyer.

2023 Silent RetreatDownload

Scholarship Help for FSSP Seminarians to Attend Latin Workshop in Charlotte

This summer, the Veterum Sapientia Institute, founded and operated by Fr. Barone and several others in our diocese, will be hosting its annual Latin Summer Workshop. Priests, seminarians and religious from around the country travel to Charlotte to attend this now renowned seminar.

The Institute informed us that two Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) seminarians are attending and in need of scholarships. One of the seminarians, Rev. Mr. Brendan d’Amato, is from Charlotte and attended St. Ann parish before seminary (in fact he was in choir for Wednesday’s Latin Mass at St. Ann). The other seminarian accompanying him is Rev. Dr. Brian Hill. As our readers may recall, the FSSP priests offer the Latin Mass exclusively at parishes and chapels around the world.  

Cost: The amount needed to cover the cost of each seminarian is $750 per seminarian, or $1,500 total (for both seminarians).

The CLMC would like to invite our readers to kindly consider helping these Latin Mass seminarians with a scholarship contribution. In your charity, would you consider making a tax-deductible donation to cover some of their scholarship cost? If yes, please see donation details below.

Online: Donations can be made electronically* via this page on their website: https://veterumsapientia.org/giving/

*If you make an online donation can you e-mail Gregory DiPippo with the Institute, indicating your contribution amount so they can keep track of the scholarship donations?

Gregory’s e-mail is: gdipippo(at)veterumsapientia.org

By Mail: Donations by check for the seminarians can be sent to:

Veterum Sapientia Institute (please note FSSP scholarship in memo)

5088 Abbington Way

Belmont, NC 28012

We are sure the seminarians will be grateful and keep their benefactors in their prayers.

Latin Mass & Traditional News

  • Father Reid’s Ordination Anniversary Tomorrow: Monday June 5 marks the 19th anniversary of the ordination of Fr. Reid by Bishop Jugis on June 5, 2004. Please consider offering prayers for him and for the dedication in being the first parish priest to host the Latin Mass in Charlotte only a few years after his ordination. To see photos of the event please see the Catholic News Herald archive at: https://issuu.com/catholicnewsherald/docs/cnh_issue_06_11_04
  • Book Recommendation: Dies Irae – by Msgr. Nicholas Gihr: The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter’s bookstore, Fraternity Publications, is recommending a new reprint of Dies Irae by Msgr. Nicholas Gihr. This book examines the famous and hauntingly beautiful sequence from the traditional Requiem Mass (or All Souls Day Mass), entitled Dies Irae (Day of Wrath). Msgr. Gihr explains the spiritual meaning of this sequence of the Mass of the Dead and offers meditations on the its verses and how they can be applied in one’s own spiritual life. To learn more visit: https://fraternitypublications.com/product/dies-irae/

Trinity Sunday Reflection – Dom Prosper Gueranger, OSB

After the solemnities of Ascension, and Pentecost, the importance of today’s feast day is often overlooked but the great liturgist Dom Prosper Gueranger, in The Liturgical Year, gives some excellent reasons on why the feast of the Most Holy Trinity is quite foundational for the Church and her faithful. We provide an excerpt and a link to read further:

On the day of Pentecost the holy apostles received, as we have seen, the grace of the Holy Ghost. In accordance with the injunction of their divine Master,[1] they will soon start on their mission of teaching all nations, and baptizing men in the name of the holy Trinity. It was but right, then, that the solemnity which is intended to honour the mystery of one God in three Persons should immediately follow that of Pentecost, with which it has a mysterious connection. And yet, it was not until after many centuries that it was inserted in the cycle of the liturgical year, whose completion is the work of successive ages.

Every homage paid to God by the Church’s liturgy has the holy Trinity as its object. Time, as well as eternity, belongs to the Trinity. The Trinity is the scope of all religion. Every day, every hour, belongs to It. The feasts instituted in memory of the mysteries of our redemption centre in It. The feasts of the blessed Virgin and the saints are but so many means for leading us to the praise of the God who is One in essence, and Three in Persons. The Sunday’s Office, in a very special way, gives us, each week, a most explicit expression of adoration and worship of this mystery, which is the foundation of all others, and the source of all grace.

This explains to us how it is that the Church was so long in instituting a special feast in honour of the holy Trinity. The ordinary motive for the institution of feasts did not exist in this instance. A feast is the memorial of some fact which took place at a certain time, and of which it is well to perpetuate the remembrance and the influence. How could this be applied to the mystery of the Trinity? From all eternity, before any created being existed, God liveth and reigneth, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. If a feast in honour of that mystery were to be instituted, it could only be by fixing some one day in the year, whereon the faithful would assemble for offering a more than usually solemn tribute of worship to the mystery of Unity and Trinity in the one same divine Nature.

Trinity Sunday: https://fsspatl.com/liturgical-year/471-temporal-cycle/time-after-pentecost/the-first-sunday-after-pentecost/3572-feast-of-the-most-holy-trinity

What Mass are you attending Sunday?