Knights promoting the TLM

Courtesy of the Fraternity of St. Peter newsletter, The Missive, comes an article from Legatus magazine about how Catholics are discovering the Traditional Latin Mass. It features Brother Knight, Don Haverkamp (who wrote our 1st blog post last month). You can read more here:

https://fssp.com/fssp-appears-in-legatus-magazine/

N.B. If you aren't already subscribed to The Missive, we strongly encourage it!

129th anniversary of Fr. McGivney's death

Today, the Vigil of the Assumption, is the 129th anniversary of Venerable Fr. Michael McGivney's passage into eternal life.

Fr. McGivney was ordained a priest in 1877, and served Our Blessed Lord as His priest for 13 years.  He offered the Traditional Latin Mass for his entire priesthood and cared deeply about protecting the families. This zeal for souls led him to found the Knights of Columbus.

Please read more about this priest's life and consider praying his canonization prayer (which we pray on our monthly teleconferences).

Venerable Father McGivney Guild

Canonization Prayer

God, our Father, protector of the poor and defender of the widow and orphan, you called your priest, Father Michael J. 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 your venerable servant Father Michael J. 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. (Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory be.)

Solemn Mass for the Vigil of the Assumption 2019 - Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

Traditional Latin

Solemn Mass

for the

Vigil of the Assumption

of the

Blessed Virgin Mary

Wednesday, 14 August 2019

7:00 PM

Saint Titus Church

952 Franklin Avenue, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania 15001

Priest: Canon Jean-Marie Moreau

Deacon: Canon John O'Connor

Subdeacon: Canon William Avis

Of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest

Holy Rosary & Confessions begin at 6:30 PM.

Sponsored By:

Knights of Columbus Woodlawn Council 2161

Traditional Latin Mass Guild

Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

Saint Titus Church
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania

The Traditional Latin Mass is offered at St. Titus Church on First Fridays at 7:00 PM and the 3rd Sunday of the month at 12 noon.  View the complete 2019 Traditional Latin Mass schedule here.

Want a Latin Mass at your parish? Traditional Knights can help...

Brother Knights,

Just a reminder that our group has a new initiative to help bring a Traditional Latin Mass to your parish/Council.

If your council’s parish does not have a Latin Mass and you would like one, we’re offering to help your council in organizing a one-time Latin Mass at your parish. Below are the details of what we can assist with and also what responsibilities the council will have. 

The Network can provide:

• Assistance with scheduling a priest familiar with the Traditional Latin Mass; or
• Assistance in arranging for a local priest to attend Latin Mass training
• Ideas on how to approach the pastor for permission
• Ideas on how to publicize the Traditional Latin Mass
• Assistance with securing vestments & necessary liturgical items
• Ideas on how to secure/train servers and training for local priest (if necessary)

The local council will be expected to provide/arrange the following:

• Secure venue and pastor permission
• Local publicity
• Certain liturgical items needed for a Traditional Latin Mass
• Recruit and train altar servers
• All expenses, including celebrant's travel, lodging, stipend, and related liturgical items
• Provide support for priests to acquire training for the Traditional Latin Mass (if necessary)
• Take photographs of event, with submission to Knights publications (crediting the Traditional Knights Latin Mass Network)

Should you be interested in this offer for help, please let us know.  

 - Traditional Knights Latin Mass Network

Throwback Thursday: 1926 Eucharistic Congress in Chicago

The Knights supported the 1926 Eucharistic Congress in Chicago.  Please see the link from the Knights of Columbus website:

K of C Throwback Thursday

Knights throwback Thursday - Latin Mass in 1919

The Knights of Columbus posted an excellent photo of a Knights attending a Latin Mass in Camp Mammoth Cave, Kentucky in 1919. The Knights were chaperones for an ROTC group at University of Kentucky. Check out the full article and photo here:

http://www.kofc.org/en/news/releases/throwback-thursday-1919-mass-mammoth-cave-ky.html

Views of a former Novus Ordo Catholic concerning the Traditional Latin Mass

By: Donald Haverkamp – 6/14/19

My daughter and son-in-law (both graduates of the Great Books program of the University of San Francisco) and my ten grandchildren lived in Sacramento, CA and were active parishioners at St. Stephen’s, The First Martyr Church (a Fraternity of St. Peter parish - FSSP). When they first moved to Sacramento and began attending St. Stephen’s, my wife, Kathie, and I were obliged to join them for Sunday Mass when we visited them in their new home. It was here where I experienced the Mass in Latin (Extraordinary Form Mass or Traditional Latin Mass) for the first time since I was an Altar boy before Vatican II. It was a solemn High Mass, and it brought back to me just how beautiful the Catholic Mass can be.

Since I had spent the whole of my adult life in the post-Vatican II era I had become comfortable but nonchalant in my understanding of worship and what the Mass was really all about.  I had to re-familiarize myself with the liturgy, better understand what is happening upon the altar, and relearn the replies in Latin, and I was able to experience the Mass again as I had in my youth.