Father Robert Novokowsky, FSSP, the newly installed pastor of St. Joseph Church in Richmond, will fill in for Father Joseph Mary, OSB at Our Lady of Peace Church on August 7 at 3:00 P.M.
Please spread the word and give Father a warm welcome!
Father Joseph Mary intends to offer Missae Cantata (Sung Mass) at Our Lady of Peace but cannot due to the lack of choir members. He will out of the country in August but when he returns, he would like to have the choir in place. PLEASE contact Delane Karalow at dkaralow@gmail.com. Altar boys (men) are urgently needed. Please contact George or Isabel Perry – training will be provided – 434-352-7976
Thank you!
Fr Joseph Mary Lukyamuzi, OSB, has begun offering regular monthly Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the southwest Virginia region of the Diocese of Richmond. The November 7th Mass, at Our Lady of Peace in Appomattox, was well attended by folks from Lynchburg, Lexington, Radford and other locations. There are some pictures at Una Voce (Richmond).
The next Mass in the Extraordinary Form at Our Lady of Peace will be celebrated 3pm on July 3rd, by Fr Joseph Mary Lukyamuzi who is returning from a three month training seminar in Rome.
Fr Joseph Mary Lukyamuzi celebrating Mass at Our Lady of Peace
For most of southwest Virginia, the closest regularly scheduled Latin Mass in the Extraordinary Form is actually in another diocese: on Sundays, 12 noon, at Holy Angels,
1208 North Main Street, Mount Airy, NC.
Fr Nichols will be celebrating Mass, in the Extraordinary Form, at 2pm, June 5th at Our Lady of Peace in Appomattox. We appreciate Fr Nichols travelling from St Benedict Chapel in Chesapeake.
It appears that this has been cancelled (link to Fr. Zuhlsdorf’s blog for more info).
Solemn Pontifical Mass, Extraordinary Form,
April 9, 2011, at the Basilica of the National Shrine, Washington, DC, honoring Pope Benedict XVI.
Celebrant is American Archbishop DiNoia of the
Curial dicastery for Divine Liturgy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following the gloriously reverent Pontifical Mass in the Extraordinary Form last April 24 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, The Paulus Institute is pleased to announce a Pontifical Solemn High Mass, to be offered Saturday, April 9, 2011, at 1 p.m., also in the Extraordinary Form at the High Altar of the Shrine, honoring Pope Benedict XVI on the 6th anniversary of his inauguration. All the Catholic Faithful are invited.
The celebrant, from the Vatican, will be the American Archbishop Joseph Augustine DiNoia, O.P., Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Liturgy and the Discipline of the Sacraments. His Excellency holds four theology degrees or certificates. He taught theology for 25 years at the Dominican House of Studies and was executive director for 7 years of the Secretariat for Doctrine and Pastoral Practices of the now United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
“We are pleased to once again honor Pope Benedict XVI and to give to Our Lord the great glory offered by Holy Mass at the High Altar of the majestic National Shrine,” said Paulus Institute president Paul King. “The Mass will be celebrated in the Extraordinary Form, as His Holiness has encouraged in his Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum. We are grateful to have Archbishop Joseph Augustine DiNoia to celebrate this Mass, who was suggested by His Eminence Antonio Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Liturgy. Archbishop DiNoia is an eminent theologian and an instructor of seminarians. We especially invite seminarians and novitiates to participate in this Mass.”
We invite all the Catholic Faithful to a most beautiful—and unique—celebration of a Lenten Mass. As explained by Paulus Institute Director Jonathan Terrell, “This Mass will be a unique liturgical opportunity that the Catholic Faithful are unlikely to ever see again. Rarely is a pontifical Mass said in Lent, especially on a Saturday, let alone in the Extraordinary Form. The readings for this day, though Lenten and therefore usually penitential, are in this case inspirational, while the violet vestments and acappella sacred music will provide us with an extremely rare celebration of the Mass, both solemn and glorious.”
All the Catholic Faithful are invited to again fill the Shrine to capacity. Please see our website at www.PontificalMass.org.
St. Anne Catholic Church (350 Euclid Avenue, Bristol, VA) will celebrate Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Latin Mass) each Sunday of Lent through Palm Sunday, 5pm, beginning March 13 and ending April 17, 2011. Fr Franz Humpert will preside and the Mass will be celebrated in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel.
In support of the Southwest Virginia Latin Mass, a schola/choir is forming. Our goal is to be able to sing at Mass beginning sometime in 2011, at the Mass in the Extraordinary Form which is celebrated at 3pm on the 1st Sundays of the month at Our Lady of Peace in Appomattox, VA. We practice on 1st and next to last Sundays in Lynchburg, 11:30-1:30pm (our next practice will be March 20th). Tutorial materials (CD and book) will be provided.
We will be starting from the beginning and will first learn the ordinaries for Missa XI (and Credo III), in preparation for a Missa Cantata in July. We will be using The Parish Book of Chant and, for the Propers, Solesmes’ Gregorian Missal (but with MEF choice of texts, where different).
As Jeffrey Tucker writes in What Vatican Singing Norms Imply :
And what should the choir sing? It is not complicated:
Sundays of Advent: Missa XVII Credo IV
Sundays of Christmas: Missa IX Credo IV
Sundays of Lent: Missa XVII Credo IV
Sundays of Easter: Missa I Credo III
Sundays of Ordinary Time: Missa XI Credo I
Feasts of Ordinary Time: Missa VIII Credo III
Feasts of the B.V. Mary: Missa IX Credo IV
Feasts of the Apostles: Missa IV Credo III
Recordings of the Mass Propers:
Corpus Christi Watershed
and
http://www.christusrex.org/www2/cantgreg/all_masses_trid.html
Recordings of the Mass Ordinary:
Corpus Christi Watershed (free recordings..lots of stuff here, browse around the Other Recordings too)
and
Chants of the Ordinary, St George Cathedral, London.
(the best tutorial CD available for the ordinaries).
Polyphony
The Corpus Christi Watershed site also has some very useful resources for beginning polyphony.
CMAA (Church Music Association of America) has made a massive amount of text freely available online, see: http://musicasacra.com/communio/
In a post at the New Liturgical Movement blog,
Claudio Salvucci writes:
It may surprise Anglicans–it certainly surprised me–at how numerically negligible some of the existing ethnic enclaves within Holy Mother Church really are.
The Annuario of Eastern Churches states that as of 2010, the Albanian Byzantine Catholic Church had 3845 members, 9 parishes, and 1 bishop. The Greek Byzantine Catholic Church had 2525 members, 4 parishes, and 1 bishop. The Bulgarian Catholic Church, 10,000 members, 21 parishes, 1 bishop. These are sui juris churches; there are also other Eastern communities without a hierarchy that are even smaller. Georgian Byzantine-Rite Catholics number perhaps only 500.
In the Western Church, only a handful of churches in Spain regularly offer the venerable Mozarabic Rite. There are about 6 parishes and as many priests in the Hebrew-speaking Catholic vicariate–headed by a patriarchal vicar, not a dedicated bishop. There are three American Indian missions along the St. Lawrence that preserve a 300-year old tradition of Iroquois plainchant and hymnody that dates from the North American martyrs. They have no dedicated priests or religious, no dedicated bishop, no formal recognition above the parish level. In the 1930s they were justly proud to have a native Mohawk priest–but that was about the extent of it.
Being faithful in small things extends from the individual all the way to the entire Church.
POST-SYNODAL APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION VERBUM DOMINI (click on link for full pdf, see below for html links) OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI
70. As part of the enhancement of the word of God in the liturgy, attention should also be paid to the use of song at the times called for by the particular rite. Preference should be given to songs which are of clear biblical inspiration and which express, through the harmony of music and words, the beauty of God’s word. We would do well to make the most of those songs handed down to us by the Church’s tradition which respect this criterion. I think in particular of the importance of Gregorian chant.
Given in Rome, at Saint Peter’s, on 30 September, the Memorial of Saint Jerome, in the year 2010, the sixth of my Pontificate.
Verbum Domini: Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church (September 30, 2010) [English, French, Italian, Latin, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish,German]
another excerpt:
Letting the Bible inspire pastoral activity
Along these lines the Synod called for a particular pastoral commitment to emphasizing the centrality of the word of God in the Church’s life, and recommended a greater “biblical apostolate”, not alongside other forms of pastoral work, but as a means of letting the Bible inspire all pastoral work”.[254] This does not mean adding a meeting here or there in parishes or dioceses, but rather of examining the ordinary activities of Christian communities, in parishes, associations and movements, to see if they are truly concerned with fostering a personal encounter with Christ, who gives himself to us in his word. Since “ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ”,[255] making the Bible the inspiration of every ordinary and extraordinary pastoral outreach will lead to a greater awareness of the person of Christ, who reveals the Father and is the fullness of divine revelation.
For this reason I encourage pastors and the faithful to recognize the importance of this emphasis on the Bible: it will also be the best way to deal with certain pastoral problems which were discussed at the Synod and have to do, for example, with the proliferation of sects which spread a distorted and manipulative reading of sacred Scripture. Where the faithful are not helped to know the Bible in accordance with the Church’s faith and based on her living Tradition, this pastoral vacuum becomes fertile ground for realities like the sects to take root. Provision must also be made for the suitable preparation of priests and lay persons who can instruct the People of God in the genuine approach to Scripture.
Furthermore, as was brought out during the Synod sessions, it is good that pastoral activity also favour the growth of small communities, “formed by families or based in parishes or linked to the different ecclesial movements and new communities”,[256] which can help to promote formation, prayer and knowledge of the Bible in accordance with the Church’s faith.
Latin Mass of Southwest Virginia 