Laudetur Iesus Christus and happy Father’s Day! Sunday is the third Sunday after Pentecost and as custom we share a commentary on Sunday’s Mass: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2022/06/the-merciful-orations-of-third-sunday.html#.YrfYhezMKHt

The CLMC would like to offer our congratulations to the three new priests ordained yesterday, Fathers Christopher Brock, Chinonso Nnebe-Agumadu and Peter Rusciolelli. Please consider offering prayers for them as they begin their ministry to the Church. Separately we also thank Fr. Reid for kindly offering the Litany of the Sacred Heart after Friday’s Mass in reparation for the blasphemy occurring in Los Angeles that day.

Latin Masses This Week

• Wednesday June 21, 6pm – St. Ann (St. Aloysius Gonzaga, Confessor)
• Thursday June 22, 7pm – St. Thomas Aquinas (St. Paulinus, Bishop)
• Friday June 23, 7am – St. Ann (Vigil of St. John the Baptist)
• Saturday June 24, 8am – St. Ann (Respect Life Latin Mass/Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist)

** After the 8am Mass on Saturday June 24, there will be prayers at the local abortion facility (700 S. Torrence Road) or for those unable to travel, a Holy Hour of Reparation in the Church. The day also marks the 1-year anniversary of the overturning of Roe vs. Wade.

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 flyer below.

Latin Mass & Traditional News

• The Heart-Warming Orations of the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: This past Friday was the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and Dr. Mike Foley has written a helpful commentary on the prayers for Friday’s Latin Mass: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2023/06/the-heart-warming-orations-of-feast-of.html

• A Retreat Center for the United States: Last week we were blessed to have a priest from the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest offer Latin Mass at St. Ann parish. This pontifical society of priests offers the Latin Mass exclusively in several dioceses across the US and the world. That same week, the Institute announced it has established a retreat center in southern Wisconsin (not too far from Chicago) with the blessing of Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki. Providentially named, the Sacred Heart Retreat Center (announced on Friday), it will offer traditional retreats and youth camps – which will include the Traditional Latin Mass in a chapel that sits 300. No retreats have been announced yet, but to learn more visit: https://www.institute-christ-king.org/1503-a-retreat-center-for-the-united-states

• St. Anthony’s Eucharistic Miracle: This past Tuesday was the feast of St. Anthony of Padua (or Lisbon) as well as the sixth day within the ancient octave of Corpus Christi. To commemorate this saint, Greg DiPippo has a wonderful story of a Eucharistic miracle involving St. Anthony and the conversion of a heretic: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2023/06/st-anthonys-eucharistic-miracle.html

• St. Ann Parish Bulletin Letter – Sunday June 11: On the topic of the Eucharist, last Sunday Fr. Reid wrote in the weekly bulletin about the importance of receiving Communion on the tongue and kneeling. If you haven’t read the letter, it’s worthwhile to do so and consider sharing it with friends who may not practice this devotion at other parishes/liturgies. The Traditional Latin Mass can be an efficacious way to introduce this devotion to people desiring a deeper devotion to the Eucharist for as readers know, Holy Communion is distributed on the tongue and kneeling in the Traditional Rite. https://www.stanncharlotte.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/June-11.pdf

• Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) Novena to Ss. Peter & Paul (June 20-28): The FSSP is encouraging its supporters to participate in its annual 9-day novena to its patron saint beginning this Tuesday June 20 and ending on the vigil of Ss. Peter and Paul (June 28), the day before the Solemnity. Praying a novena for traditional congregations such as the FSSP or our diocesan Latin Mass priests (current or future), is a great way to help preserve the Traditional Latin Mass during these times. To learn more see attached novena pamphlet or visit here: https://fssp.com/ss-peter-paul-2023

• As Pilgrims Flock to See Sister Wilhelmina, Abbey Becomes ‘Spiritual Haven’ for All: While the Benedictines Sisters of Mary, Queen of the Apostles, in Gower, Missouri, wait for the investigation into the case of their late foundress, Sister Wilhelmina (whose body was found incorrupt a few weeks ago), the superior, Mother Abbess Cecilia Snell, recently chatted with the National Catholic Register and gave a window into their daily life, and one of their charisms – praying for priests.  We share this excerpt as a reminder of the importance of praying for priests – including our own here in this diocese:
  
  “We continue a tradition Sister Wilhelmina faithfully practiced, that of placing an ordination card at the foot of the crucifix in our community room each day, asking Our Lady to take our prayers especially for that priest. We seem to feel the effects of this and instinctively know who needs prayers. For example, we will sometimes have days where it seems everything is going wrong. Sisters check the crucifix, and, sure enough, there will be a bishop’s card that day, and we will see it as a sign that extra prayers and sacrifices are needed. We also devote much of our work to the making of vestments, a very privileged work.”

Article: https://www.ncregister.com/features/sister-wilhelmina-s-sisters

Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Meditation from Divine Intimacy

With the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus this past Friday, we close with an excerpt from Divine Intimacy, the spiritual classic by Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene OCD:

“Other devotions to Our Lord have for their object the mysteries or special aspects of His life, as for example, the Incarnation, the hidden life, the Passion. Devotion to the Sacred Heart, on the contrary, has a more general object, the love of Jesus, which constitutes the profound, essential reason for all His mysteries, the love that is the first and only cause of all He has done for us. In this sense, devotion to the Sacred Heart touches, as it were, the mainspring of all the mysteries of the Redeemer, the essential raison d’étre of His life, His Person. It is the love which explains the Incarnation of the Word, the life of the Man-God, His Passion, His Eucharist. We cannot possibly understand the mystery by which the Son of God became Man, died on the Cross to save mankind, and then became their Food, if we do not admit this infinite love which compelled God the Creator, the Most High, to find a way to give Himself entirely for the salvation of His creatures.”

To read more visit: https://voiceofthefamily.com/devotion-to-the-most-sacred-heart-of-jesus-meditation-from-divine-intimacy-2/

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