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Fifth Sunday After Pentecost

Laudetur Iesus Christus! Sunday is the fifth Sunday after Pentecost, or, depending on the parish, the External Solemnity of the Feast of Ss. Peter & Paul. It also is the commemoration of the feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which normally falls on July 2nd.  We share a commentary on the Collect for the Mass of the fifth Sunday after Pentecost: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/06/the-loving-collect-of-fifth-sunday.html

Latin Masses This Week

  • Wednesday July 5, 6pm – St. Ann (St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria, Confessor)
  • Thursday July 6, 7pm – St. Thomas Aquinas (Feria, e.g. no feast day)
  • Friday July 7, 7am – St. Ann (Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Bishops and Confessors)

First Sunday Latin Mass in Salisbury – Today Sunday July 2, 4pm

Sacred Heart parish in Salisbury will offer its 1st Sunday Latin Mass today Sunday July 2nd at 4pm. Mass is offered by Fr. Robert Ferguson, FSSP. Afterwards a potluck will be held in the Brincefield Hall. Please bring a dish or dessert to share. For more information please contact the Salisbury Latin Mass Community at: www.salisburylmc.org

CANCELLED: 1st Sunday Potluck at St. Thomas Aquinas

Due to the holiday weekend, there will not be a potluck after today’s Sunday’s Latin Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas.

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?

Help Support Fr. Ripperger’s New Chapel

Many of you may recall exorcist and theologian, Fr. Chad Ripperger’s visit to St. Thomas Aquinas this past March. Several years ago, he founded an order of exorcists, the Dolorans (who offer the Traditional Mass exclusively) in Colorado, who are now trying to build a chapel for their community. If one would like to support this worthy endeavor or learn more, please view their website and watch their documentary: https://dolorans.org/chapel/

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 this flyer below.

2023 Silent RetreatDownload

Latin Mass & Traditional News

  • The Canonization of Maria Goretti: July 6 was traditionally the octave day of Ss. Peter & Paul, but in 1950, Pope Pius XII canonized a famous Italian martyr for purity, St. Maria Goretti, and established her date of death – July 6 – as her feast day. Although it is not celebrated as a universal feast day in the Latin Mass, her feast day is actually in the 1962 Roman Missal as a local feast day in Italy. This article shows a video of that canonization Mass: https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2022/07/the-canonization-of-st-maria-goretti.html

Martyrdom of St. Paul (June 30)

On Wednesday we shared Dom Prosper Gueranger’s reflection on St. Peter’s martyrdom. Today, on the 4th day of the ancient octave of Ss. Peter & Paul, we share his brief commentary on St. Paul’s martyrdom, who the Church also commemorates on June 30, the day after the feast of Ss. Peter and Paul. This feast of June 30 is also different from the feast of St. Paul’s conversion on January 25. Here is Gueranger’s entry for June 30 on St. Paul’s martyrdom:

On the twenty-ninth of June, in the year 67, whilst Peter, having crossed the Tiber by the triumphal bridge, was drawing nigh to the cross prepared for him on the Vatican plain, another martyrdom was being consummated on the left bank of the same river. Paul, as he was led along the Ostian Way, was also followed by a group of the faithful who mingled with the escort of the condemned. His sentence was that he should be beheaded at the Salvian waters. A two miles’ march brought the soldiers to a path leading eastwards, by which they led their prisoner to the place fixed upon for his martyrdom. Paul fell on his knees, addressing his last prayer to God; then having bandaged his eyes, he awaited the death-stroke. A soldier brandished his sword, and the apostle’s head, as it was severed from the trunk, made three bounds along the ground; three fountains immediately sprang up on these several spots. Such is the local tradition; and to this day three fountains are to be seen on the site of his martyrdom, over each of which an altar is raised.

https://fsspatl.com/liturgical-year/520-sanctoral-cycle/june/3190-june-30-the-commemoration-of-st-paul

I Have Given Blood to You – Feast of the Precious Blood, July 1

Continuing on his series of liturgical feast days and scripture, Fr. William Rock, FSSP, has written an insightful essay on the meaning behind the feast of the Precious Blood, which was celebrated yesterday July 1, in the Traditional Rite. To conclude today’s update, we share a few excerpts from his article:

Corpus Christi celebrates the presence of Our Lord’s Body (Corpus Christi) hidden under the appearance of Bread.  Does the Feast of the Precious Blood, then, celebrate the presence of Our Lord’s Blood under the appearance of Wine?

An examination of the texts of Corpus Christi, however, reveals that this feast, despite its name, celebrates the Eucharistic presences of both of Our Lord’s Body and His Blood.  For example, the Collect, the opening prayer, of Corpus Christi reads: “O God, under a marvelous sacrament you have left us the memorial of thy Passion; grant us, we beseech thee, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of thy Body and Blood, that we may ever perceive within us the fruit of thy Redemption.”

Similarly, by examining the texts for the Feast of the Precious Blood, it becomes clear that the Feast is about celebrating, not Our Lord’s Blood under the appearance of Wine in the Holy Eucharist, but rather the Blood in Our Lord’s veins, the Blood shed in Sacrifice, the Blood hypostatically united to the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity, God the Son.  For even when Our Lord’s Blood was separated from His Body on the Cross, His Blood, at least a great deal of It, was still united to Our Lord’s Divinity and worthy of divine worship.  The Feast of the Precious Blood can be paired, then, with the Feast of the Sacred Heart and its devotion rather than with the Feast of Corpus Christi…

…Blood crying out on behalf of the faithful, Blood as a source of divine life, Blood sealing a divine covenant, Blood as protection, Blood for the forgiveness of sins in sacrifice, and Blood as a means of purification.  These are the considerations which the Church invites her children to ponder in their hearts on the Feast of the Precious Blood and, by extension, during this month of July.

I Have Given Blood to You: https://fssp.com/i-have-given-blood-to-you/

Blood of Christ, poured out on the Cross, save us!  (From the Litany of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ)

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