Upcoming Lectures with Dr. Kwasniewski in Canada — Award Ceremony for Bishop Schneider in Winnipeg

The end of May will see a number of lectures and Latin liturgies of interest to tradition-loving Catholics in the cities of Ottawa and Winnipeg.

OTTAWA

In celebration of its 50th anniversary, St. Clement Parish presents a lecture by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski: “The Supreme Expression of the Lex Orandi: Twelve Truths of the Faith Transmitted by the Roman Canon.” In this lecture, Kwasniewski will discuss the rich theological content and awesome reverence towards of the sole Eucharistic prayer used in the Roman Rite of the Church for nearly 1,400 years, with its roots going back even further, as well as the problems implicit in having abandoned this tradition in favor of a multiplicity of anaphoras.

The lecture will take place on Saturday, May 26, at 7:00 pm, at St. Paul’s University, 223 Main Street, Ottawa. Free admission (suggested donation $10). Refreshments and book signing with the lecturer to follow.

WINNIPEG

The Society of St. Dominic will be honouring Most Rev. Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Mary in Astana, Kazakhstan, with the Regina Sacratissimi Rosarii award at the Fort Garry Hotel on Wednesday, May 30th, 2018. His Excellency will deliver an address.

The Society has commissioned New York iconographer Mr. Ken Woo to create the inaugural award, which will be presented by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski. The Master of Ceremonies for the evening will be Mr. Alex Begin, Executive Producer and Host of EWTN’s Extraordinary Faith. Music for the evening will be provided by the Rembrandt String Quartet.

Tickets are $100 per person, payable by cash or cheque. (To minimize transaction costs, we are not accepting credit card payments.) Cheques should be made payable to the SOCIETY OF ST. DOMINIC. NB: Deadline for registration is May 23rd.

For further inquiries, email or call the Society of St. Dominic:
Email: societyofstdominic@gmail.com
Telephone: (431) 800-5803 / Toll Free: (866) 244-7136
https://www.facebook.com/SocietyofStDominic/

Bishop Schneider will be offering the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on Wednesday, May 30th, and Thursday, May 31st (Corpus Christi), at 9:30 am each day. On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Begin and Dr. Kwasniewski will be speaking at the Canadian Mennonite University.

SCHEDULE

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

9:30–11:00 am   Extraordinary Form Low Mass celebrated by Bishop Schneider
                           (music by a men’s choir under the direction of Dr. Kwasniewski)
                           St Anthony of Padua Church, 250 Burrin Ave.
                           Winnipeg MB R2V 1E5

6 pm–12 am      Regina Sacratissimi Rosarii Award Dinner
                           Bishop Schneider, Dr. Kwasniewski, Mr. Begin (MC)
                           The Fort Garry Hotel, 222 Broadway
                           Winnipeg, MB R3C 0R3
                           [Registration required]

Thursday, May 31: Corpus Christi

9:30–11:00 am   Extraordinary Form Low Mass celebrated by Bishop Schneider
                           (music  by a men’s choir under the direction of Dr. Kwasniewski)
                           St Anthony of Padua Church, 250 Burrin Ave.
                           Winnipeg MB R2V 1E5

1:30 pm–2 pm    Alex Begin, “The Ancient Mass in the Modern World”
2 pm–4:30 pm   Peter Kwasniewski, “Sacred Music & Its Architecture
                            Through the Ages” (two conferences, with Q&A and break)
                            Canadian Mennonite University, 500 Shaftesbury Blvd.
                            Winnipeg, MB R3P 2N2

All events are open to the public, except for the Award Dinner which requires preregistration.

Prelatitial Mass on Low Sunday in Carona, Switzerland

His Excellency Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, Apostolic Nuncio to Switzerland and Lichtenstein, will celebrate a Prelatitial Mass on Low Sunday, April 8th, at the church of St Martha in Carona, Switzerland, starting at 9:30 a.m.

Abp Sample to Celebrate Pontifical Low Mass This Sunday in Portland, Oregon

Archbishop Alexander Sample will celebrate a Latin Pontifical Low Mass, according to the Missale Romanum of 1962, in Portland, Oregon, this coming Sunday, October 16th, beginning at 7:45 am.

The Mass will be at St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church, located at 1112 SE 41st Avenue.

More details can be found on a Facebook page for the event, here.

St Stephen’s Church was the place where the archdiocese held a conference on the liturgy just over a year ago, at which Archbishop Sample spoke and celebrated Mass. You can read his address to the conference, and see more pictures, in the report from Fr Eric Andersen which was posted on the New Liturgical Movement shortly afterwards, here.

EF Pontifical Mass for Christmas in the Diocese of Lake Charles, LA

Out thanks to Barbara Wyman for sharing with us in these photographs, and an account of the Pontifical Mass celebrated by His Excellency Bishop Glen Provost during the Octave of Christmas. The ceremony took place in the cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in diocese of Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Seasonably cool temperatures, at last, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, on the night of December 30, 2015, found the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception comfortably full on the occasion of a Solemn Pontifical Mass for the Sixth Day in the Octave of Christmas. Indeed, it was one of the largest crowds to date since His Excellency Bishop Glen John Provost, D.D. began celebrating this Mass in the diocese. From the time of his installation as 3rd Bishop of Lake Charles on April 23, 2007, Bishop Provost has celebrated eleven Solemn Pontifical Masses in the Extraordinary Form throughout the diocese. This was the fourth from the throne of his own cathedral. His Excellency was vested in his pontificalia, the vestments and ornaments proper to a bishop, which include the pectoral cross and ring, the miter and crozier, gloves, tunicle and dalmatic beneath the chasuble. Located in the niche of the high altar is a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. At the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Aug. 22, 2013, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the Apostolic Nuncio to the United States from the Holy See, officiated at the crowning rite of the statue. With the splendor of both the surroundings and of the liturgy, and with the carefully orchestrated pageantry of the Solemn Pontifical Mass, for nearly two hours, time seemed to stand still -- intimations of Heaven.

One thing particularly evident in an Extraordinary Form Solemn Pontifical Mass is that the Bishop appears not as a sort of figurehead, a church CEO, but as a leader, our General, with us, the soldiers of Christ behind him, along with the differing ranks of officers in the persons of priests, deacons, seminarians, and on this occasion, the fully vested Knights and Dames of St. Gregory the Great, the Knights bearing actual swords. The reality of spiritual warfare and this our battle against principalities and powers is made visually present. The Bishop’s message on this day was that we, like Holy Mary, must ponder the mystery of the Incarnation in our hearts, leading us to the contemplation of the other mysteries of the Faith, especially the saving mystery which is reenacted at every Mass.

What struck this writer particularly on that happy night was the mystery and power of prayer, and, how the Holy Spirit works through individual fiats to effect His purpose on earth. It just so happened that as I looked around, I noticed many familiar faces. These friends were the very same people who welcomed us, a Protestant family, fleeing not the beauty of Anglicanism, but the heterodoxy, 17 years ago. This faithful bunch in the 80s had petitioned then Bishop Jude Speyrer (RIP) to allow the “indult” traditional Latin Mass. Bishop Speyrer’s fiat along with those of two brave priests, Fr. Roland Vaughn and Fr. Marty Martineau (RIP) was the beginning of a little parish which grew. Although the group was moved about the diocese, it soon found a semi-permanent home at a cinder-block mission church way out by the airport. It was there that my family and I found them in 1999. We marveled as week in and week out, the tiny chapel was transformed: banners temporarily removed and a crucifix and statue of Mother Mary set in place. Portable kneelers were moved in from a van, and a small but strong schola stood in the back, chanting the Mass.

Time passed, and for a period, the indult was canceled. Nevertheless, the whole family eventually converted, and the core Latin Mass group stayed in touch, offering prayers and sacrifices for the return of the Traditional Latin Mass to the diocese. The rest of the story is beautiful: after the motu proprio of Pope Benedict, the diocese of Lake Charles received Bishop Provost and with him, the glorious Mass of the Ages returned and now, is celebrated at the Cathedral. Vocations are soaring, and many young priests offer the Extraordinary Form in the diocese. Two young men in particular stood out to this musing writer on that December night, small boys at the time of the cinderblock indult Mass, sons of one of the original families: one is now a seminarian and was assisting at the Solemn Pontifical Mass, the other was leading the schola. Deo Gratias!

For more pictures of this and other Pontifical Masses, please see the website: http://www.immaculateconceptioncathedral.com/events-1

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Pontifical Low Mass in Cincinnati

Ben Yanke writes:

The pontifical low Mass is an interesting ceremony in the Roman Rite. On the one hand, you have the low Mass, which by it's nature, was envisioned as a private, quiet Mass for the days when there were too many priests to easily celebrate a sung Mass with a schola cantorum, server corps, and congregation. It is, in a word, private. Then on the other hand, you have the fact that the Bishop is a successor to the apostles, and that the Roman Rite has always included extra ceremony for Masses with a bishop, due to their unique role in the church, in their diocese, and as a direct successor of the apostles standing in our midst.

Out of this is born the Pontifical Low Mass. It is like the low Mass of a priest, but several traditional aspects of the pontifical solemn high Mass are also used, such as vesting in the sanctuary and entering in choir dress, as well as being directly assisted by two assistant priests and an MC. Likewise with the bugia (the small hand-candle). Yet most of the prayers are still said silently, and there is no singing from the sanctuary (though there is sometimes hymns and organ music).

The celebrant of this Mass was Bishop Andrew Cozzens, Auxiliary Bishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and it was celebrated at Sacred Heart Church in Cincinnati.

Here, the bishop prepares for Mass

Here he is removing his choir dress and preparing to vest for Mass

Vesting for Mass

The gospel, flanked by his two attendants

Pontifical Low Mass with Raymond Cardinal Burke

Today, I'd love to highlight something that is not a common sight for many Catholics, the EF Pontifical Low Mass. I recently found pictures on Facebook of Cardinal Burke celebrating one very recently at Sacred Heart Church, Carlton, in the Archdiocese of Melbourne. Astute readers will note that in addition to the two servers that you find at any typical low Mass, there are also two priest-attendants to the bishop that assist him, reminding us that a bishop retains the fullness of holy orders, and even when celebrating a simple Low Mass, there is additional ceremony, honoring the office of Bishop. You'll also note the use of the biretta instead of the miter, as well as the dual books: the missale and pontificale, just as at a solemn pontifical Mass.

The two priest-attendants at the Low Mass were Fr Glen Tattersall and Canon Gilles Guitard. The full photo gallery can be viewed here on the website of the Parish of Bl. John Henry Newman, taken by Chris Steward.

I also feel I can't finish without mentioning his chasuble. I think the design is beautiful (though possibly a bit busy), but as with anything that is less subdued, it can sometimes cause people to love the design or strongly dislike it. The first two pictures have clear views of the front and rear design. What do you think? Let us know below!

In this picture, you can clearly see the two servers in addition to the two attendants.