Assuming the internet is still up and running on Saturday, May 19, 2012, at 10 a.m., the excellent site LiveMass.net will be showing the Ordinations to the Sacred Priesthood of the Fraternity of St. Peter from Nebraska. This will also be available through the iMass App for iPhone and iPad.
His Excellency Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz, part-time friend of Traditional Catholicism, will confer the Sacrament of Orders upon five candidates.
I believe the assistant priest from St. Francis de Sales in Mableton, Georgia, Fr. Matthew McCarthy will be assisting at the Ordination. For more information, check out the Fraternity's news feed.
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Just to show, Marc, that I accepted your invitation to visit here. And let me know if you still expect to attend our TLM in Knoxville sometime this summer.
LiveMass.net is not merely excellent, but somewhere beyond that. Most weekday mornings I assist remotely in their 9 am low Mass--which in its quiet proper daily place I prefer to the splendorous Sunday missa cantata or solemnis--uniting myself with the prayers of the priest at the altar just as if I were physically present, and making a spiritual communion with the same preparation and intentions as for a sacramental communion.
Thank you for stopping by, Henry! I share you sentiments about LiveMass, although I don't tune in as often as I should.
I hope to be at Holy Ghost in August for at least one Sunday Mass - my family will be vacationing in Townsend, TN - right on the edge of the Smokys.
Wait a minute ... Bishop Bruskewitz is a PART-TIME friend of traditional Catholicism? Explain, please.
Did you click on the link for "part-time"? That's the explanation...
These days he appears to be approaching full-time, with his excellent support of the FSSP and his assistance with the Baronius Press 1962 Breviarium Romanum project.
In the past he has said some pretty wacky things about the SSPX that are not based in reality, diligence, or prudence.
Yes, I clicked on the link, and frankly, I was tempted to ask if you had clicked on it. Nothing I read in the article denoted being a "part-time friend" of traditional Catholicism. And of course, it's wonderful that he supports the FSSP and has been instrumental in the Baronius Press 1962 Breviarium Romanum project. But I'd like to know what he said about the SSPX that you find "wacky" and not "based in reality, diligence, or prudence" (I didn't find anything fitting that description in the article you posted).
http://www.sspx.org/diocesan_dialogues/Lincoln_diocese3.pdf
While in Townsend, Marc, you may want to attend the TLM celebrated several days per week at St. Francis Catholic Church there by its pastor Fr. Brent Shelton. His blog:
http://fathershelton.blogspot.com/
I just noticed his post this morning on the SSPX matter at hand.
Wow! I had no idea about that! How long has he been at that parish? I've been to the OF there a couple times in the past few years and was always VERY impressed with the way the OF was said. It is the only time I have seen the OF said exactly in accordance with the rubrics.
If that's the same priest, I'll make a point of trying to meet him in person. Thanks for the info, Henry.
Fr. Shelton has only been at Townsend since last July. Previously, he was associate at Our Lady of Fatima Church in Alcoa, where he celebrated the TLM 7 days a week at 6:30 am. However, his weekday Masses at Townsend are in the evenings. We are blessed with a number of priests in our area who celebrate the OF in exact accordance with the norms, but Fr. Shelton is perhaps the most precise. Indeed, in the past, he has been the victim of complaints that he was turning the clock back, when all he was doing was following the OF norms to the letter.
Well, maybe I went overboard singling out a local priest as our most precise OF celebrant, though he certainly is absolutely precise and proper.
But late this afternoon, I attended an ordinary form anticipated Mass of the 6th Sunday of Easter celebrated by another of our diocese's wonderful young priests. Ad orientem in beautiful Roman vestments, with the priest's parts all chanted, including the Gospel. The Ordinary (Kyrie-Gr, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) in Latin--Missa de Angelis, all the Simple English Propers chanted--beginning (after organ prelude) with introit in lieu of processional as priest and server came out of the sacristry and approached the altar, offertory and communion antiphons chanted by choir in lieu of hymns, Latin motet (Non nobis Domine) after communion (some of us kneeling at the altar rail), the usual bells and smells, no recessional, Mass ended with a stirring Christus Vincit--Latin chant alternated between celebrant (verses) and the choir (responses), after which the priest retired with server directly to the sacristry as the organ postlude began. Wonderful sermon about ad orientem celebration and the Church's glorious treasury of sacred music as twin jewels, like two sides of a coin, the sacred music lifting us up to heaven, where (in the East) priest and people face together the Lord whence he will come in glory.
OK, I should admit that this was a children's Mass--closing a chant workshop for children from several parishes. Admittedly, few of our adults are ready to participate actively in such a heavenly Mass. But afterwards, I heard myself--notorious hereabouts as an inveterate TLM devotee--remarking to the celebrant that probably nothing is now more important to the Church than showing that the OF most Catholics attend can (and should) also be this gloriously beautiful and reverent.
Wow! Something is going right in your diocese! How's the bishop of Knoxville? It's a relatively new diocese, right? Spun off from Nashville in the 1990s?
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