Saturday, October 26, 2019
Aliquippa Knights Host Twelfth Annual Lepanto Mass & Dinner
On Monday, 7 October 2019, the Knights of Columbus Woodlawn Council 2161 Traditional Latin Mass Guild hosted a High Mass at St. Titus Church, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary and to commemorate the great Catholic victory at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. Leading the procession before Mass was the Knights of Columbus flag followed by a reproduction of the Holy League flag that flew on the Catholic flagship at the Battle of Lepanto.
The Mass was offered by Canon William Avis of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest.
Additional photos of the Mass and dinner, along with a brief report, can be found on the Knights of Columbus Woodlawn Council 2161 Latin Mass blog here.
Thursday, October 24, 2019
Atlanta Knights organize annual parish picnic
St. Francis de Sales Council (14625) in Mableton, GA (outside Atlanta) organized the annual parish picnic for St. Francis de Sales parsh in Mableton on Sunday October 6. They were visited by two Transalpine Redemptorists (one priest, one brother) who were passing through the area.
St. Francis De Sales Council is based at the Latin Mass parish, St. Francis de Sales, which is operated by the priests of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), a Latin Mass society of priests established by St. John Paul II in 1988.
To learn more about the visit and the Transapline Redemptorists, a traditional Latin Mass order, visit UnaVoce of Georgia:
http://unavoceofga.blogspot.com/2019/10/transalpine-redemptorist-monks-visit.html
Between two Redemptorists is St. Francis de Sales pastor, Fr. Joseph DeGuzman, FSSP.
St. Francis De Sales Council is based at the Latin Mass parish, St. Francis de Sales, which is operated by the priests of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), a Latin Mass society of priests established by St. John Paul II in 1988.
To learn more about the visit and the Transapline Redemptorists, a traditional Latin Mass order, visit UnaVoce of Georgia:
http://unavoceofga.blogspot.com/2019/10/transalpine-redemptorist-monks-visit.html
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
NYC Knights organize annual traditional men's retreat
Knights from the Agnus Dei Council (12361) in the Bronx organized their annual men's retreat with Fr. John Perricone on October 18-20 at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, New York.
Over 60 men attended and the event featured Traditional Latin Masses on Saturday and Sunday.
Agnus Dei Council is based at St. Anthony parish in the Bronx.
Over 60 men attended and the event featured Traditional Latin Masses on Saturday and Sunday.
Agnus Dei Council is based at St. Anthony parish in the Bronx.
Friday, October 18, 2019
Manifesto of Faith
Brother Knights,
A Brother Knight in our group passed along a great video that defends the Catholic faith against the confusion of our time. It's based on Cardinal Gerard Muller's Manifesto of Faith which he released earlier this year to defend the faith in this confusing time. It features the Traditional Latin Mass in
https://manifestooffaith.com/
Feel free to watch and share
- Traditional Knights Latin Mass Network
A Brother Knight in our group passed along a great video that defends the Catholic faith against the confusion of our time. It's based on Cardinal Gerard Muller's Manifesto of Faith which he released earlier this year to defend the faith in this confusing time. It features the Traditional Latin Mass in
https://manifestooffaith.com/
Feel free to watch and share
- Traditional Knights Latin Mass Network
Saturday, October 12, 2019
For Columbus is Ours - Pope Leo XIII, 1892
By Mike FitzGerald, October 12, 2019
Today, October 12 is the 527th 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
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.
The Knights of Columbus main website has some great resources helping to clarify Columbus' place in history:
For
us Knights in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, we should be grateful for Columbus' bringing the Holy Faith to these shores. 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.
- Brother FitzGerald is a member of Mater Dei Council 15033 in Irving, Texas and serves as Coordinator for the Traditional Knights Latin Mass Network.
The views and
opinions
expressed in this blog are those of the author and may
not necessarily reflect the official position of the Traditional
Knights Latin Mass Network. That said we’re happy to share these and others with our Brother
Knights.
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