KNOXVILLE LATIN MASS COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER

MASS THIS SUNDAY (August 1, 2010)
10th Sunday after Pentecost
Mass: 1:30 pm, Holy Ghost Church, Knoxville
Refreshments following Mass

MASS NEXT SUNDAY (August 8, 2010)
11th Sunday after Pentecost

FIRST SUNDAY REFRESHMENTS AFTER MASS
Plan to stay after Mass this Sunday (August 1) for light refreshments and camaraderie in the Fr. Henkel Hall downstairs. Please note that, on First Sundays when refreshments are scheduled, there will be no confessions after Mass. Two special attractions this Sunday:

--  Holy Ghost parish nurse Letha Lehman will be present to offer free blood pressure checks.

--  Back in Tennessee for summer break, Nathan West will be with us to share briefly his experience this past year as a beginning seminarian at the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter's (FSSP) Seminary of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Nebraska.

SOLEMN HIGH MASS ON EWTN
Three years after Summorum Pontificum's restoration of the traditional Latin Mass to the liturgical life of the Church, spectacular televised celebrations by famous bishops in big and famous churches are perhaps not such a novelty as before. So this coming Saturday morning's presentation of a solemn high Mass -- with three of the Eternal Word friars who are familiar to and loved by millions of EWTN viewers around the world -- may seem almost "down home" to many. Down home in Alabama, that is, at Mother Angelica's Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville:

EWTN  8-10 am EDT, Saturday, August 6
From the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament
A Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
For the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary 
Fr. Joseph Mary, Celebrant, with Fr. Dominic Mary and Fr. Miguel Mary as Deacon and Subdeacon

Also noteworthy:
St. John Cantius Church, Restoring the Sacred
EWTN  6:30 pm EDT, Friday, August 5
The story of a declining parish in a decaying Chicago neighborhood, and how the decision to make it an oasis of liturgical beauty and reverence -- with old and new forms of the Mass mutually reinforcing each other -- rejuvenated both the church and parish and it's surrounding inner city community.

PAPAL LITURGIST: EF LATIN MASS IN EVERY PARISH IN THE WORLD?
From an interview with Msgr. Nicola Bux, an Italian professor of sacramental theology and  Consultor of both the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Office of Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff who is frequently described as one of the liturgical experts closest to Pope Benedict, and author of the recent book The Reform of Benedict XVI:

"It is important that the old Mass (also called the Tridentine rite but more appropriately the 'rite of Gregory the Great') become better known, as Martin Mosebach has recently said. This Mass received its form already under Pope Damasus [4th century] and afterwards, in fact, under Gregory the Great [6th century], and not under Saint Pius V. The only thing Pope Pius V did was to make some adjustments and to codify what already existed, retaining the enrichments of earlier centuries and putting aside what had become obsolete. With that understood, we can consider this rite of Mass, an integral part of which is the Offertory. ..... The structure of the Offertory was seen by the great commentators and theologians of the Middle Ages as the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem, Who goes to be immolated in a sacrificial offering. ..... The modern simplification has led many people to demand the return of the rich and beautiful prayers of the Suscipe, sancte Pater and the Suscipe, Sancta Trinitas, to mention only a few.

"However, only through a wider diffusion of the old Mass will this 'infection' of the new Mass by the old be possible. Therefore, the reintroduction of the 'classical' Mass -- if you will allow me the expression -- may be a factor of great enrichment. It is necessary to facilitate a regular Sunday [festiva] celebration of the traditional Mass, at least in every cathedral of the world, but also in every parish. This would help the faithful get used to Latin and to feel themselves part of the Catholic Church."

NEW ALTAR SERVERS WELCOME
With the exception of Jacob Sommers -- whom you may have noticed on the altar for the first time this past Sunday -- all of our fine crew of altar boys date back to before our first Mass at Holy Ghost Church just a few months over two years ago. And if you refresh your memory with a look at the pictures (click here) or slide show (click here) of that solemn high Mass in April 2008, you may be amazed to how much they've all "grown up" in such a short time.

And several of these fine young men and their families will unfortunately be moving away from Knoxville in the near future. So let's keep an open eye in our parishes for some new boys (above the age of first Holy Communion) who might like to learn some more about the history and traditional liturgy of the Church. Feel free to pass the word or forward suggestions.

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