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Second Sunday After Pentecost

Laudetur Iesus Christus! Sunday is the second Sunday after Pentecost and depending on parish, it may also be the external solemnity of Corpus Christi. As custom we provide a commentary on the propers for this Sunday’s Mass: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2022/06/heavenly-life-on-earth-secret-of-second.html#.Yq6VoezMKHt

Latin Masses This Week

  • Wednesday June 14, 6pm – St. Ann (St. Basil the Great, Bishop & Doctor)
  • Thursday June 15, 7pm – St. Thomas Aquinas (Feria, e.g. no feast day)
  • Friday June 16, 7am – St. Ann (Solemnity of the feast of the Sacred Heart);

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 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, in the 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 the 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 (gdipippo(at)veterumsapientia.org), indicating your contribution amount so they can keep track of the scholarship donations?

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

  • Fr. Richard Heilman interviews Fr. Chad Ripperger: A new interview with traditional theologian and exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger was released this past week covering the crisis in the Church. To view the video visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVE-hWhrqkg
  • Pope Francis elevates Las Vegas to a metropolitan archdiocese: On May 30, the Vatican upgraded diocese of Las Vegas to an archdiocese. The bishop, His Excellency George Leo Thomas (who was appointed by Pope Francis in 2018 as the Las Vegas bishop), was appointed the new archbishop: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/254445/pope-francis-elevates-las-vegas-to-a-metropolitan-archdiocese

    CLMC note: This is an interesting development as just a few weeks earlier, then Bishop Thomas in responding to Rome’s recent restrictions on the Latin Mass, issued a letter saying how much he valued the Traditional Latin Mass in his diocese, and while he had to move the Latin Mass community from its existing parish setting, he found them a new home at the Shrine of the Most Holy Redeemer. He has also given his approval for expanded liturgical schedule in the future which includes the possibility of daily Latin Masses and even a Latin Triduum. This is welcome news and is an example of a creative solution to help preserve (and even expand) the Latin Mass. To see Archbishop Thomas’ May 2023 announcement we share a copy here: https://charlottelatinmass.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/las-vegas-latin-mass-announcement.pdf

Joy that One is Born into the World

As we celebrated the feast of Corpus Christi last Thursday, and prepare for the feast of the Sacred Heart this Friday we wanted close this update with another excellent installment written by Fr. William Rock, FSSP. In this new article Father Rock beautifully highlights the connection the between the two feasts the Church celebrates in mid-June (Corpus Christi and Sacred Heart) with that of Holy Thursday and Good Friday. We share some excerpts below:

It seems that after the two-and-a-half-weeks of Septuagesima, the 40 fasting days of Lent, the 50 days of Easter, and then the Octave of Pentecost and Trinity Sunday, Our Holy Mother, the Church, is not yet ready to leave behind the mysteries she has been meditating upon during those times.  She, as it were, turns her gaze backwards and renews, recapitulates, some of the most profound moments of the Easter Cycle, but this time, not with Our Lord’s impending Passion and Death before her, but rather with His glorious Resurrection and Ascension behind her.

She begins this backwards gaze on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday.  A Thursday because here she recapitulates Holy Thursday.  Holy Thursday itself commemorates so many things – the Last Supper with the Washing of the Feet, the Institution of the Sacrifice and the Priesthood of the New Law, the betrayal of Judas, Our Lord’s Agony and Capture in the Garden.  It was God Himself, in a vision to St. Juliana, Who established which of the aspects of Holy Thursday was to be recapitulated.  On the Thursday of Corpus Christi, then, the Church, through the lens of the Resurrection and Ascension, places her focus on the Holy Eucharist, one of the themes of Holy Thursday, and all that It means to her… As such, when the feast of Corpus Christi was instituted in 1264, it was instituted with an octave.

This Octave having run from a Thursday to a Thursday, the Church finds herself on Friday.  How could this not bring to her mind that Friday which followed Holy Thursday, Good Friday?  But this Friday is not shrouded in sorrow as Good Friday was, but rather, now that He is Risen, it is vested in joy and celebration.  Just as with the celebration of Corpus Christi, it was God Himself Who directed what would be the focus of the devotion of this recapitulated Good Friday.  According to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Our Lord asked that a Feast of the Sacred Heart, the Heart which was pierced on Good Friday, be celebrated on the Friday following the Octave of Corpus Christi.

What Mass are you attending Sunday?