Laudetur Iesus Christus! Tomorrow begins the annual All Souls novena where you can obtain a plenary indulgence for a poor soul in purgatory each day from November 1- 8 by visiting a cemetery, attending Mass, and receiving Holy Communion.

You can also obtain a separate plenary indulgence on All Souls Day November 2^nd by offering prayers in a Church (Our Father & Creed).  See details on our website:

https://charlottelatinmass.org/events/all-souls-novena/

FYI – for a listing of the weekend events including All Saints and All Souls schedule please see yesterday’s post:

https://charlottelatinmass.org/2019/10/29/juventutem-kick-off-and-weekend-schedule/

Laudetur Iesus Christus! We have a few updates to share this week, notably the kick-off for Juventutem, the new young adults group centered around the Latin Mass. If you know of any young adults between 18-35, please share this information with them:

Juventutem kick-off this Saturday November 2^nd (St. Thomas Aquinas parish): A new group for young adults has formed in Charlotte called Juventutem (Latin for youth). It’s open to ages 18-35 and they seek sanctification through the traditional charisms of the Church, especially through a devotion to the Traditional Latin Mass. Juventutem is an international group and takes its name from the prayer at the beginning of each Latin Mass. The kick-off event is this Saturday November 2nd,10am All Souls Requiem Mass at St. Thomas Aquinas parish, followed by a talk at 11:30am in Aquinas Hall by Fr. Matthew Bean on The Mass & Holy Souls in Purgatory. Newcomers to Latin Mass welcome!

We also wanted to share with you the weekend schedule including All Saints & All Souls Day:

All Saints Schedule – Friday November 1: This is a Holy Day of Obligation

• St. Ann parish: 7am (low)
• St. Mark parish: No Latin Mass today
• St. John the Baptist, Tryon: 8:30am & 6pm (both Latin)
• St. Elizabeth, Boone, NC: 7:15pm

All Souls schedule – Saturday November 2

• St. Thomas Aquinas: 10am High Mass
• St. Ann: 12 noon Solemn High Mass
• St. John the Baptist, Tryon, NC: 8:30am
• St. Elizabeth in Boone, NC: 9:00am & 9:45am (Low Masses back to back)

If you are new to the Traditional Latin Mass, All Souls Day is one of those special Latin Masses (like this past weekend’s Christ the King Feast) that you won’t want to miss. St. Ann will also feature a special Solemn High Requiem Mass which is a beautiful Mass, replete with black vestments and unbleached candles, and of course the hauntingly beautiful Dies Irae sequence.

Sunday November 3

St. Ann: 12:30pm – High Mass & 3pm prayers for the dead at Belmont Abbey Cemetery: Followed by 3pm prayers for the dead at Belmont Abbey Cemetery (led by Fr. Reid). Co-sponsored by CLMC and St. Ann Homeschool Ministry. Learn more If you join us, we encourage you to bring “soul cakes” (doughnuts, sweet treats), coffee, or hot chocolate. Thank you!

Sacred Heart parish, Salisbury, NC 4pm Latin Mass: After 4pm Latin Mass, Fr. Robert Ferguson FSSP will present a talk on “The Sacerdotal Vestments for the Mass; history and significance” during the social shortly after Mass in Brincefield Hall.  Please bring your favorite hors d’oeuvres or snack will be most welcome for sharing with others.  All are welcome. Fr. Ferguson is the Dean of Men for Theologians and professor of Moral Theology and Pastoral Theology at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary in Denton, Nebraska.

Laudetur Iesus Christus! We have two announcements this week.

Respect Life Mass Saturday 8:00am: This Saturday October 26^th is the 4^th Saturday St. Ann Respect Life Latin Mass at 8:00am.  Afterwards Father Reid will lead a Rosary at Planned Parenthood (700 S. Torrence Street, Charlotte). If one cannot travel to Planned Parenthood, one is invited to make a Holy Hour to End abortion in the

Feast of Christ the King Sunday: This Sunday October 27 is the Feast of Christ the King. It’s an important feast day that celebrates not only Christ’s Kingship in heaven, but also His reign over all the nations on earth today.  As custom, St. Ann & the CLMC will host a Eucharistic Procession after the 12:30pm Latin Mass on Sunday. Please bring any images, statues, flags, of royal saints who through their virtue and office honored Christ the King and bring them along for the procession. See list of royal saints (attached) or at this link for more information: https://charlottelatinmass.org/2019/10/10/feast-of-christ-the-king-october-27-2019/

As we prepare for the Feast of Christ the King, you may find these links/readings helpful:

Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas: http://w2.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_11121925_quas-primas.html

Fr. Jason Christian’s 2016 talk on the Kingship of Christ: https://charlottelatinmass.org/resources/latin-mass-classes/christtheking/

Blessed Karl of Austria: He was the last Holy Roman Emperor and was beatified by St. John Paul II in 2004*. You may find this interview with Bl. Karl’s grandson interesting: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/prayers-and-royalty-never-die-the-habsburg-dynasty The official website is here: http://www.emperorcharles.org/

* Speaking of St. John Paul II – whose relic will be at St. Ann today – the late pontiff was named after Blessed Karl (Karol Wojtyla) as the late Pontiff’s father served in Bl. Karl’s army.

While there is much to be worried about in today’s world, there is also a lot to be hopeful and joyful about and one of them is this Sunday’s feast day. Invite a friend, or several friends. Please join us for this hopeful and triumphant feast day and invoke the saints of royalty to intercede for us.

Blessed Karl of Austria, pray for us!

Laudetur Iesus Christus! We have just a few reminders coming up this coming week:

Blessed Karl of Austria shrine to be installed in South Carolina – Sunday October 20: Prince of Peace parish in Taylors, SC (2 hours southwest of Charlotte) will be installing a votive shrine to Bl. Karl on Sunday October 20 at the Novus Ordo Mass (10am). Conveniently, the parish offers a Traditional Latin Mass at 12 noon that you can also attend if you choose.  On Monday October 21 (Bl. Karl’s feast day in the Church), Prince of Peace parish will offer a 12 noon Traditional Latin Mass. One can venerate a 1^st class relic of Bl. Karl after Mass any of these Masses. We share this as many CLMC readers have a devotion to Blessed Karl. Learn more about Bl. Karl here: http://www.emperorcharles.org/

Feast of Christ the King & 4^th annual Eucharistic Procession – Sunday October 27, 12:30pm St. Ann: Just a reminder about the Feast of Christ the King coming up the last Sunday in October. It’s an important feast day that celebrates the Kingship of Christ and the traditional doctrine that accompanies his reign (The Social Kingship of Christ). We will have a Eucharistic Procession after the 12:30pm Latin Mass. Please bring any images, statues, flags, of royal saints who through their virtue and office honored Christ the King. See list of royal saints for more information: https://charlottelatinmass.org/2019/10/10/feast-of-christ-the-king-october-27-2019/

All Saints & All Souls Day schedule:

All Saints Friday November 1^st (Holy Day of Obligation/1^st Friday) 7AM Low Mass St. Ann  (the 12:30pm St. Mark Latin Mass is cancelled for this day). No other Latin Masses have been announced in Charlotte.

All Souls Day Saturday November 2^nd (1^st Saturday) 10AM High Mass St. Thomas Aquinas,  12 noon Solemn High Mass, St. Ann

Annual All Souls prayers at Belmont Abbey Cemetery – Sunday November 3rd, 3pm: The month of November is dedicated to All Holy Souls. Please join us on Sunday, November 3 at 3:00 p.m. at Belmont Abbey Cemetery where we will pray for the dead. Fr. Timothy Reid will be leading us in our prayers, and prayer sheets to follow along will be provided.  If you join us, we encourage you to bring “soul cakes” (doughnuts, sweet treats), coffee, or hot chocolate. Thank you! (We organizers will bring trash bags, baby wipes, paper napkins, water bottles, and a folding table.) https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F044FA5AE23A20-praying2  Sponsored by the St. Ann Homeschoolers and CLMC.

Weekend reading:

Bishop Schneider’s new book Christus Vincit: Christ’s Triumph over the Darkness of the Age. It’s really a tour-de-force. As many of us have personally encountered, His Excellency helps to clear up the confusion in our age. To learn more please read Rorate’s review https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2019/10/christus-vincit-bishop-schneiders.html or watch the Remnant’s video on it (click here):

Laudetur Iesus Christus! We wanted to share with you some exciting news for young adults in Charlotte.

A new group for young adults has formed in Charlotte called Juventutem (Latin for youth). It’s open to ages 18-35 and they seek sanctification through the traditional charisms of the Church, especially through a devotion to the Traditional Latin Mass. Juventutem is an international group and takes its name from the prayer at the beginning of each Latin Mass:

Introíbo ad altáre Dei. / Ad Deum, qui lætíficat iuventútem meam. (“I will go in to the altar of God. / To God, who giveth joy to my youth”)

The mission of Juventutem is to strengthen the faith among young adults through fellowship, spiritual growth and faithful catechesis. Founded by Angela Kessler and other CLMC young adults, its chaplain is Fr. Matthew Bean (St. Thomas Aquinas parish). All young adults welcome – especially those new or unfamiliar to the Latin Mass.

Juventutem’s kickoff event will be Saturday, November 2 – All Souls Day.  A special Requiem High Mass will be held in the Extraordinary Form at St. Thomas Aquinas Church at 10 am (1400 Suther Road, Charlotte), followed by a talk on The Mass & Holy Souls in Purgatory given by Father Matthew Bean at 11:30 am in Aquinas Hall. Please share this news with any young adults that may be interested.

For questions or to join Juventutem’s e-mail list, please contact Angela Kessler at JuventutemCLT(at)gmail.com   They are also on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JuventutemCLT/

Laudetur Iesus Christus and Happy Columbus Day! Today, October 12 is the 527^th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World.

Over 125 years ago, Pope Leo XIII decreed that a votive Mass of the Holy Trinity be offered today in thanksgiving for Columbus’ discovery and bringing the Catholic faith to this hemisphere.  Commending Columbus, Pope Leo XIII wrote in his 1892 encyclical:

For Columbus is ours; since if a little consideration be given to the particular reason of his design in exploring the mare tenebrosum, and also the manner in which he endeavoured to execute the design, it is indubitable that the Catholic faith was the strongest motive for the inception and prosecution of the design; so that for this reason also the whole human race owes not a little to the Church.  – Quarto Abeunte Saeculo, 1892

We decree, therefore, that on October 12, or on the following Sunday, if the Ordinary should prefer it, in all the Cathedral churches and convent chapels throughout Spain, Italy, and the two Americas, after the office of the day there shall be celebrated a Solemn Mass of the Most Holy Trinity…  – Quarto Abeunte Saeculo, 1892

http://w2.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_16071892_quarto-abeunte-saeculo.html

In recent times, Columbus and his legacy has been unnecessarily criticized through lies and falsehoods.  But as Servant of God, Fr. John Hardon, SJ observed in his book “Christopher Columbus: The Catholic Discovery of America”, Columbus had a deep faith for Christ and expressed it in many of his writings. Fr. Hardon provides several examples from Columbus’ log:

As is our custom, Vespers were said in the late afternoon, and a special thanksgiving was offered to God for giving us renewed hope through the many signs of land He has provided.  I now believe that the light I saw earlier was a sign from God and that it was truly the first positive indication of land.  – October 11, 1492.

I want the natives to develop a friendly attitude towards us because I know they are a people who can be made free and converted to our Holy Catholic Faith, more by love than by force. – October 12, 1492.

For Fr. Hardon, it was clear that the zealous missionary faith of both Columbus (a Third Order Franciscan) and Servant of God Queen Isabella the Catholic (declared in 1974), led them to pursue this mission.  This hunger for souls for Christ may have also been one of the reasons, another Servant of God, Fr. Michael J. McGivney, choose the name Columbus for his new fraternal order, the Knights of Columbus.

For us in Charlotte, we should be thankful for Columbus because less than 50 years after his discovery, a subsequent Spanish expedition led by Hernando De Soto introduced the Catholic faith to the Carolinas in 1540 as he passed near Charlotte with his priests.  As such, we close with Pope Leo XIII:

And, above all, it is fitting that we should confess and celebrate in an especial manner the will and designs of the Eternal Wisdom, under whose guidance the discoverer of the New World placed himself with a devotion so touching. – Quarto Abeunte Saeculo

As some in the Church today struggle with how to minister to indigenous peoples, let the story of Columbus, the Franciscans who followed him, and the North American Jesuit martyrs serve as an example to us all on how to reclaim the Holy Faith that was introduced to these lands five centuries ago and with zeal share it with those who are separated from it or who lack it entirely.

We are pleased to announce that St. Ann and the Charlotte Latin Mass Community will hold the 4^th annual Feast of Christ the King Eucharistic Procession on Sunday October 27 after the 12:30pm Latin Mass. Weather permitting we will process around the parish after Mass.

The importance of the Feast

As you may recall, in the traditional calendar, the feast of Christ the King falls on the last Sunday in October, and Eucharistic Processions were common on this feast day shortly after its inception in 1925.  The feast is the celebration of an important Catholic doctrine which emphasizes Christ’s kingship over each nation, and how each nation (and city) must explicitly acknowledge Christ’s kingship and his teachings. Bishop Athanasius Schneider visited us 2 years ago and gave a talk on this doctrine. You can listen to it here: https://charlottelatinmass.org/resources/latin-mass-classes/bishopschneider/

Invite your favorite royal saints to join us!

We will continue the theme of invoking the aid of saintly king, queens, rulers and statesman who through their office and virtues recognized Christ’s Kingship over their land and peoples. We invite you to bring visual reminders of these saints as we beg them to intercede for our country. Toward that end, we again encourage everyone to bring:

• Images/icons of their favorite royal saints (see attached list)
• Statues
• Flags (coat of arms of the saint, or their royal/kingdom flag)
• Banners

Saints like:

• Blessed Karl of Austria
• St. Louis IX
• St. Isabel of Portugal
• St. Fernando of Spain
• St. Vladimir of Russia/Ukraine
• St. Thomas More, etc..
• (Canonized, beatified, or Servant of God)

The Mexican Cristeros and the Vendee martyrs are also included as they proclaimed Christ’s Kingship to their martyrdom.

Catholic national/regional flags are also encouraged (like the Sacred Heart flag of Quebec, or the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Cristeros flag).

If you aren’t sure who are royal saints or what their flags are, please view our list of royal saints: https://charlottelatinmass.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/list-of-royal-saints.pdf

We hope you can join us – especially for our readers in other cities in region.

¡Vivo Cristo Rey!

Laudetur Iesus Christus!  Happy feast of St. Bridget of Sweden, mystic, widow, and one of the great saints of Europe. Sensus Fidelium has some great background on her by the great Benedictine liturgist Dom Prosper Gueranger: https://sensusfidelium.us/the-liturgical-year-dom-prosper-gueranger/october/october-8-st-bridget-of-sweden-widow/

With the Diocese’s priests on retreat there are only two Latin Masses currently scheduled this week:

• Wednesday 7am – Low Mass at St. Ann (offered by Fr. Buetnner)
• Friday 7am – Low Mass at St. Ann (offered by Fr. Buetnner)

All other Latin Masses at St. Ann, St. Mark, St. Thomas, etc. (and elsewhere) are cancelled this week.

Nation-wide Rosary this Saturday at 12 noon in front of St. Ann parish: There will be a public Rosary offered in front of St. Ann parish this Saturday October 12 at 12 noon. This is part of America Needs Fatima campaign.

Blessed Karl of Austria shrine to be installed in SC – October 20: We are happy to report that Prince of Peace parish in Taylors, SC will be installing a votive shrine to Bl. Karl on Sunday October 20. The installation will happen by the U.S. promoter for Bl. Karl’s canonization, Fr. Bonafice Hicks, OSB, and will occur at a Novus Ordo Mass (10am). Conveniently, the parish offers a Traditional Latin Mass at 12 noon that you can also attend if you choose.  On Monday October 21 (his feast day in the Church), the parish will offer a 12 noon Traditional Latin Mass. One can venerate a 1^st class relic of Bl. Karl after Mass. We share this as many CLMC members have a devotion to this saint.

Annual All Souls prayers at Belmont Abbey Cemetery – Sunday November 3rd, 3pm: The month of November is dedicated to All Holy Souls. Please join us on Sunday, November 3 at 3:00 p.m. at Belmont Abbey Cemetery where we will pray for the dead. Fr. Timothy Reid will be leading us in our prayers, and prayer sheets to follow along will be provided.  If you join us, we encourage you to bring “soul cakes” (doughnuts, sweet treats), coffee, or hot chocolate. Thank you! (We organizers will bring trash bags, baby wipes, paper napkins, water bottles, and a folding table.) https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20F044FA5AE23A20-praying2  Sponsored by the St. Ann Homeschoolers and CLMC.

Let us continue to follow the advice of Cardinal Burke and Bishop Schneider in praying for the Church (1 decade of the Rosary daily) and fasting weekly.

Laudetur Iesus Christus! First, thanks to everyone who attended last weekend’s Respect Life Latin Mass, and our Michaelmas celebration last Sunday. We are also grateful for Frs. Buettner and Reid and Deacon Tonon for the special Solemn High Mass, and the veneration of St. Michael’s relics afterwards.

We have a few updates to share heading into this weekend and next week:

Friday Friday October 4: St. Ann will offer a 7am Low Mass, St. Mark 12:30pm Low Mass

First Saturday October 5: St. Thomas Aquinas will have their normal 10am Latin Mass for 1^st Saturday

Sunday – October 6: Sunday is Respect Life Sunday, and St. Ann will host the annual Life Chain after the 12:30pm Latin Mass (from 2-3pm along Park Road).

Sunday October 6: 1^st Sunday Latin Mass at 4pm, Sacred Heart parish in Salisbury. Fr. Robert Ferguson FSSP will celebrate a Low Mass.

Priests’ Retreat next week: All diocesan priests will be on retreat next week likely affecting Latin Mass schedules. We will post updates as we receive them.

Saturday October 12, 12 noon Rosary at St. Ann: Many of the Latin Mass families have a devotion to Our Lady of Fatima and as such we are pleased to mention that there is a special Fatima Rosary Rally at noon October 12^th in front of St. Ann parish. The event is part of America Needs Fatima’s national campaign.

Weekend reading: A Brief History of Active Participation – Lastly, 1Peter5 posted another home-run article by Sharon Kabel (former member of our community) on the history of the term “active participation” and how it was used to undermine the Traditional Latin Mass in the 1950s and 1960s. What’s impressive in her approach is her historical research – using newspaper articles from that era which quotes various clergy who display a disposition against the Mass of Ages. Great research and read: https://onepeterfive.com/active-participation/

(Incidentally, Bishop Athanasius Schneider clarifies what authentic active participation should be: https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/04/exclusive-interview-with-bishop.html)