The Feast of Blessed Michael McGivney

Brother Knights - 

Today, Friday August 13, is the first feast day of Knights founder, Blessed Michael McGivney, who was beatified last fall. 

His feast day falls between Blessed McGivney's date of birth, August 13, 1852, and his date of death, August 14, 1890. 

We encourage Knights to try and attend a Traditional Latin Mass today. Although he is not on the 1962 calendar, August 13 is a ferial day and a votive Mass for Any Necessity can be offered for Blessed McGivney's canonization. 

To learn more about Blessed McGivney, the Knights of Columbus has set up a resource page:

https://www.kofc.org/en/events/father-mcgivney-beatification/index.html

Additionally, please see our own page about Blessed McGivney:

https://www.latinmassknights.org/p/fr-michael-mcgivney.html

Vivat Jesus!

Traditional Knights Latin Mass Network

Novena for Bl. Michael McGivney Begins Today August 4 - August 12

Brother Knights,

Please join us for our annual novena for Blessed Michael McGivney’s canonization, the founder of the Knights of Columbus. The novena begins today August 4 and it concludes Thursday August 12, the day prior to his new feast day of August 13th. 

Our suggested intention is for the protection of the Traditional Latin Mass, the Mass of Bl. McGivney.

Additionally, in the most recent edition of Columbia, the Supreme Chaplain encourage Knights to attend Mass on that day (even if his feast is not celebrated at Mass). We would add to that and encourage members of our network to try and attend a Traditional Latin Mass on that day. 

Novena prayer is below. 

 

Novena to Blessed Michael McGivney - August 4 – 12 (Feast day August 13)

English

God, our Father, protector of the poor and defender of  the  widow  and  orphan,  you  called  your  priest, Blessed  Michael  McGivney,  to  be  an  apostle  of Christian  family  life  and  to  lead  the  young  to  the generous  service  of  their  neighbor. 

Through  the example of his life and virtue, may we follow your Son, Jesus Christ, more closely, fulfilling his commandment of  charity  and  building  up  his  Body  which  is  the Church. Let the inspiration of your servant prompt us to greater confidence in your love so that we may continue his work of caring for the needy and the outcast.  

We   humbly   ask   that   you   glorify   Blessed Michael McGivney on earth according to the design of your holy will. Through his intercession, grant the favor I now present (here make your request).Through Christ our Lord. Amen

Intention: Protection and growth of the Traditional Latin Mass within the Church and throughout the Knights of Columbus

 

Latin

Deus, pater noster, protector pauperum atque defensor viduarum et orphanorum: vocasti sacerdotem tuum, beatum Michaelem McGivney, familiari vitae christianae apostolum, iuvenibusque ducem ad adiuvandum proximum. Per exemplum vitae virtutisque eius, Filium tuum propius sequamur, Iesum Christum, ut mandatum caritatis perficiamus ad corroborandum corpus Eius quod est Ecclesia.

Fiat nobis inspirationi famulus tuus ut confidentes tuae caritati pergamus curare indigentes et incuria captos.  Humiliter petimus ut inter caelites connumeretur beatus Michael McGivney presbyter in terra secundum voluntatem tuam. Concede propitius gratiam hanc ______(pete quod desideras)  per Christum Dominum Nostrum. Amen.

ACTION ITEM! - 15 August 2021 – Worldwide Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by all TLM Communities

As endorsed by Rorate Caeli, Fr. Z, and many other Catholic blogs and pages, you are urged to get your Traditional Latin Mass community to join this global effort. This is very important! We can only win this spiritual battle through prayer & sacrifice, and through the intercession of our Immaculate Mother.

The Holy Catholic Church is in an unprecedented worldwide crisis. The only hope for the Faithful is a Divine intervention, through the intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

 

Two priests who wish to remain anonymous - one a Diocesan, the other a Religious, both of whom offer exclusively the Traditional Mass - propose a worldwide consecration to the Immaculate Heart by all TLM communities on 15 August, 2021, the feast of Our Lady’s Assumption. They hope that many Cardinals and Bishops will also associate

themselves with this entrustment.

 

May the Immaculate Heart of Mary triumph and reign!

The consecration formula is available here.

Observations about Traditionis Custodes

Brother Knights,

As many of you know, the Holy See has released a new Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes (July 16, 2021) which attempts to place new restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass. The document is unusual (to say the least), in that it was issued with no advance notice, with an immediate implementation and with some problematic regulations that are hard for bishops to decipher. 

Curiously though since the publication of Traditionis Custodes, many more people are coming to the Traditional Latin Mass. Moreover, Cardinals are defending it, bishops supporting it, and more priests are now interested in learning it. An important aspect of Traditionis Custodes is the fact that it has no text claiming to abrogate the Mass of Ages.

The simple fact remains that the Traditional Latin Mass is the future of the Latin Church, as it perfectly contains not just the sacredness of the liturgy, Gregorian chant, and the language of Latin, but also the traditions, theology, customs, and culture of the perennial Church. Christ loves the Traditional Latin Mass so much that he allowed it to nourish his flock for 1,600 years and counting (2,000 years if one counts the apostolic origins of the Canon). It truly is the Mass of Ages.

Ultimately this situation could very well accelerate the complete restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass in every parish, and perhaps much sooner than we think. Of note, Traditionis Custodes states that only new priests should obtain permission to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass. While some dioceses have reduced the number of locations offering the Traditional Latin Mass (e.g., bi-liturgical churches) it continues to be available without restriction at designated Traditional Latin Mass parishes and certain monasteries.

What are Knights to do? Response may vary depending on the local situation; however, we already have many of the resources necessary for the full restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass at our disposal. We can suggest but a few options:

• Attend the Traditional Latin Mass each Sunday: Invite family and friends to come along with you to weekly Mass or unique events such as Holy Days.
  
  
• Make a Thanksgiving after Mass
  
  
• Pray the Rosary Daily: Each new Knight receives a Rosary and is asked to carry it at all times - and for good reason. Learn how to pray it in Latin (www.praylatin.com)
  
  
• Pray the Breviary: Any layperson can pray the traditional Divine Office or Breviary. This Office is similar to what Bl. McGivney prayed.
  
  
• Promote the Mass of Ages: This is the new documentary on the Traditional Mass we long supported and promoted and comes out August 15 (Feast of the Assumption). This series is a game changer that can convert many faithful to the TLM, especially in light of Traditionis Custodes. To learn more visit: https://theliturgy.org/
  
  
• Pray to Blessed McGivney: He offered the Traditional Latin Mass and still loves it. He can be a powerful intercessor to protect the liturgy which formed his priesthood and helped him save countless souls. His feast day is providentially coming up on Friday August 13. Perhaps ask your pastor for a special Latin Mass for Bl. McGivney’s canonization and intercession.
  
  
• Encourage priests: Get to know Traditional Latin Mass locations in your area and encourage priests to learn the Traditional Latin Mass and celebrate it at these churches.

As we approach the 450^th anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto this October, let us seek refuge in Our Lady of the Rosary, who can take the most seemingly hopeless moments and quickly turn them greatest victory for Her son. Let us also pray for Pope Francis’ conversion, and that he will consecrate Russia to the Immaculate Heart, so that the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart will arrive as soon as possible.

Our Lady of the Rosary, pray for us!

Vivat Jesus!

Special Online Seminar Friday June 25: How to Attend the Traditional Latin Mass

June 26 update: The video of the event is now posted:
https://spiritualdirection.com/events-video/make-ordinary-time-extra-ordinary

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Brother Knights,

Please see the below announcement about a webinar entitled "How to Attend the Traditional Latin Mass", which will be held next Friday June 25 at 8:30pm Eastern.  Please see below for more details:

~ Traditional Knights Latin Mass Network

How to Attend the Traditional Latin Mass

Guests: Fr. Matthew McDonald, author of "On the Marian Nature of the Extraordinary Form" and Eric Sammons of Crisis Magazine.

Hosted by Dan Burke of the Avila Institute.  

This webinar will be about how to pray and engage the Traditional Latin Mass in a way that brings one closer to Jesus and that is truly spiritually fruitful, whether one is new or old to attending this Form of the Roman Rite or whether one has never attended it but are interested in doing so. 

This free webinar will be on Friday, June 25th from 8:00-9:30PM Eastern (7:00-8:30PM Central). Here is a link to register for it: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/avilafoundation/494607

Pope Pius XI on the Knights of Columbus

Brother Knights,

We share an excellent quote from an encyclical published by Pope Pius XI on the persecution of the Church in Mexico in 1926 as mentioned in an Cristeros Martyrs article in the May edition of Columbia magazine (p. 14). His Holiness lauds the Knights for their efforts to support Mexican Catholics in resisting the masonic-communist regime in Mexico.

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"First of all We mention the Knights of Columbus, an organization which is found in all the states of the Republic and which fortunately is made up of active and industrious members who, because of their practical lives and open profession of the Faith, as well as by their zeal in assisting the Church, have brought great honor upon themselves.  

This organization promotes two types of activities which are needed now more than ever. In the first place, the National Sodality of Fathers of Families, the program of which is to give a Catholic education to their own children, to protect the rights of Christian parents with regard to education, and in cases where children attend the public schools to provide for them a sound and complete training in their religion. 

Secondly, the Federation for the Defense of Religious Liberty, which was recently organized when it became clear as the noonday sun that the Church was menaced by a veritable ocean of troubles. 

This Federation soon spread to all parts of the Republic. Its members attempted, working in harmony and with assiduity, to organize and instruct Catholics so that they would be able to present a united invincible front to the enemy." 

- Pope Pius XI,  Iniquis Afflictisque (On The Persecution of the Church in Mexico), November 18, 1926

https://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_18111926_iniquis-afflictisque.html 

Blessed by the Blood of Martyrs

The May 2021 edition of Columbia Magazine published an excellent article on a new shrine to the Cristeros Martyrs in Mexico who died for the faith in the 1920s. 

Although the shrine's architecture is tragically modernist, and a stark departure from the classical church architecture Mexico was known for, the promotion of the cult of these martyrs (and brother Knights) can only help increase the traditional faith in Mexico (and the Knights).  God willing perhaps someday a traditional chapel can be built on site. 

https://www.kofc.org/en/news-room/columbia/2021/may/blessed-by-the-blood-of-martyrs.html

We also note that Guadalajara is one of the main cities for the Traditional Latin Mass as it is home to a Fraternity of St. Peter Latin Mass parish, and a school of formation, St. Junipero Serra Institute for Spanish speaking Latin Mass seminarians. 

https://www.missiontradition.us/mexico/

Lastly, we include a link to Columbia Magazine's page about the Cristeros or Mexican martyrs: 

https://kofc.org/en/news-room/mexican-martyrs/index.html