On Sunday, July 1, 2018, the weekly Traditional Latin Mass in Kitchener, Ontario, will move from St. Anne’s Church to St. Mary Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows Church at 56 Duke Street West, Kitchener. Mass will be offered at 3 p.m. every Sunday, with Confessions from 2:30 to 2:50 p.m.
For more information, please phone 1-519-576-3860 or email stmarys@rogers.com or kitchenerlatinmass@gmail.com.
On Sunday, June 3, Holy Family Parish in Vancouver, British Columbia, celebrated the External Solemnity of Corpus Christi with a procession after the 10:30 a.m. High Mass.
(Photos courtesy of Claire Phillips)
Fr. Charles Ryan, FSSP, will be offering four Low Masses in Dieppe, New Brunswick, from June 9 to 12. The Masses will be held at Notre-Dame-de-Lorette Church (1542 Champlain Street, Dieppe, NB), as follows:
Latin-English and Latin-French Mass booklets will be provided at the church entrance.
The Tower of Babel (Wikipedia Commons)
In a recently published article, Dr. Joseph Shaw, chairman of the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, highlights a worldwide phenomenon in the Catholic Church five decades after the close of the Second Vatican Council: the loss of a common language:
The world’s bishops are not diplomats or linguists, and they have no common language. In Roman synods they are divided into language groups, which means that they will never effectively communicate with those they may most need to hear: those with significantly different cultures, experiences, and insights. The melding together of different views is not done by the bishops in discussion, but by the synod secretariat, in drawing up draft documents in Italian, which are then translated into various other languages. Hearing a translation of a translation of other bishops’ views, which may have been expressed in a second language the first time round, is a hardly a meeting of minds. This process is a terrible way to form a consensus, or draft a theologically precise document.
Proposing Latin as a means of communication may seem quixotic, but the problem with it—that many people would have to learn it—would not be avoided by choosing a modern vernacular. Should we work for the day when seminarians, and other educated Catholics, can exchange ideas in Italian? English? Spanish? We might as well learn Latin.
Read the entire article here.
At 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 30, the Society of St. Dominic, a private association of lay faithful in Winnipeg, Manitoba, will confer on His Excellency Bishop Athanasius Schneider its Regina Sacratissimi Rosarii Award for the Fatima centenary. The award will be presented on the Society’s behalf by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski of Wyoming Catholic College at the Fort Garry Hotel, 222 Broadway, Winnipeg.
For more information, please visit the Society of St. Dominic website.
Bishop Schneider is the auxiliary bishop of Archdiocese of Maria Santissima in Astana, Kazakhstan. He was born of ethnic German parents on April 7, 1961, in the Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, which was part of the former Soviet Union at the time. When he was eight, the family moved to Estonia, then also part of the Soviet Union. For four years, they travelled, at great risk from the communist authorities, a hundred kilometres by train one Sunday a month to attend Mass at the nearest church.
The family moved to Germany in 1973. Bishop Schneider joined the Canons Regular of the Holy Cross in Austria and was ordained a priest on March 25, 1990. He received a doctorate in Patristics from the Pontifical Patristic Institute Augustinianum in Rome in 1997, and began teaching at Mary, Mother of the Church Seminary in Karaganda, Kazakhstan in 1999. His episcopal ordination took place on June 2, 2006, and he served as Auxiliary Bishop in Karaganda before being appointed to his current post in Astana in 2011. He is also General Secretary of the Conference of the Catholic Bishops of Kazakhstan.
Una Voce Canada was honoured to have Bishop Schneider as guest speaker at its 2015 annual general meeting.
Dr. Kwasniewski holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College in California and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. After teaching at the International Theological Institute in Austria and for the Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Austrian Program, he joined the founding team of Wyoming Catholic College in Lander, Wyoming, where he serves as professor and choirmaster. He is a board member and scholar of The Aquinas Institute for the Study of Sacred Doctrine, which is publishing the Opera Omnia of the Angelic Doctor, and a Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Center for Scholastic Studies.
Dr. Kwasniewski has taught and written several hundred articles on Thomistic thought, sacramental and liturgical theology, the history and aesthetics of music, and the social doctrine of the Church. He has published two books with The Catholic University of America Press and a volume of music for liturgical use, Sacred Choral Works (Corpus Christi Watershed, 2014). His book Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis: Sacred Liturgy, the Traditional Latin Mass, and Renewal in the Church (Angelico Press, 2014), has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Polish, and Czech. His latest book, Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness: Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages, was published by Angelico Press in 2017.
Una Voce Canada was honoured to have Dr. Kwasniewski as guest speaker at its 2016 annual general meeting.
Sts. Joachim & Ann Parish in the Archdiocese of Vancouver, British Columbia, under the care of pastor Fr. William Ashley, has gained local renown for its rich liturgical life and beautiful sacred music program. All the parish liturgies are celebrated ad orientem and employ both the chanted ordinary and propers of the Mass. The Traditional Latin Mass is celebrated on Sundays and feast days, with chant and polyphony directed by the parish’s chant master, Alex McCune, and Vespers is sung every Sunday afternoon before Benediction.
“Chant is simple music that anyone can learn,” says Mr. McCune. “Not only that, it’s music with a uniquely Catholic character. The sounds of chant grew out of our Catholic liturgy, and nothing is better suited for our worship. As Catholics, this is truly our music.”
This deep devotion to their liturgical patrimony has led several members of the parish’s schola cantorum to organize a conference, dubbed the BC Sacred Music Symposium, as a way to share and promote what they have cultivated at Sts. Joachim & Ann. The inaugural symposium will be held from July 20 to 22, 2018, at Sts. Joachim & Ann, with the support of Una Voce Canada.
“We truly believe in the power of beauty to turn the minds and hearts of men towards God,” says symposium planning committee president Ryan Bjorgaard. “This is especially true when beauty is encountered within the context of the Sacred Liturgy, which, as St. John Paul II teaches, is the privileged place of encounter with God.”
The aim of the BC Sacred Music Symposium is to invite people with a general interest in sacred music, especially those involved in parish music ministry, to come and learn, to experience the riches of the Church’s music tradition, and to be inspired. “You don’t need to have any particular expertise in sacred music to benefit,” continues Mr. Bjorgaard. “We will have workshops for people will all levels of experience, from those who have never seen a square note in their lives, to those who would have little trouble sight reading one of the great motets by Palestrina. The only real requirement is good will.”
This year’s keynote speaker and the celebrant at the symposium’s principal Mass will be Bishop Joseph Perry, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Early registration (January and February) is now open. The early registration fee is $50 per individual participant. Group rates are available: $45 per participant for groups of 5-9, and $40 per participant for group of 10 or more.
For more information or to register, please visit the symposium website at www.stsjoachimandann.org/symposium.
Our Seminarian Program currently provides financial assistance to five Canadian seminarians at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary (OLGS) in Denton, Nebraska, operated by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP), and one Canadian seminarian at St. Philip Neri Seminary in Gricigliano, Italy, operated by the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (ICKSP).
Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary, Denton, Nebraska
It costs money to form and train good priests. According to the OLGS website:
“The actual cost [to form a seminarian] is about $22,000 per year. Most of this cost is paid through the generosity of our benefactors, who deserve our prayers every day … The charge for room, board, and tuition is $7,000 per seminarian, per year. This amount is substantially less than the actual cost of priestly formation, thanks to the generous support of Fraternity benefactors. Additional expenses may include books, medical and vehicle insurance, travel to/from home during breaks, etc. Candidates are expected to find benefactors (i.e., family, friends, Knights of Columbus, parish, etc.) to help pay for the various expenses associated with their priestly formation” [emphasis added].
St. Philip Neri Seminary, Gricigliano, Italy
According to the ICKSP website:
“The expense of maintaining the seminary building, as well as that of lodging, feeding, providing instruction, and supplying the necessary study materials to approximately sixty young men, is very high. Our seminarians are thus asked to contribute the relatively small amount of $1050 per month toward these costs, but many are not able to afford this contribution” [emphasis added].
With your help, we hope to donate $8,000 towards the support of our six seminarians in the coming year.
Your donation to our Seminarian Program will help form future priests who will lead souls to heaven by bringing the beauty and spirituality of the Traditional Latin Mass to dioceses across North America.
Una Voce Canada (the Vancouver Traditional Mass Society) held its 2017 annual general meeting on Saturday, November 11, at Holy Family Parish, a personal parish in the Archdiocese of Vancouver, British Columbia, dedicated to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite and in the care of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter since 2008. The incumbent board of directors was re-elected by acclamation. Serving for another year are David Reid, president; Frank Chow, vice president; Lynn Reid, treasurer; Margie Mackey, corresponding secretary; Arnold Wiegert, webmaster; and Claire Phillips and Kenneth Lieblich, directors.
We were privileged to have as our guest speaker historian and prolific writer Dr. John Rao, professor of history at St. John’s University in New York City and director of the Roman Forum, a Catholic cultural organization founded by the late Professor Dietrich von Hildebrand. We are pleased to present a recording of Dr. Rao’s talk, “My End Is My Beginning: A Historical Guide to Catholic Hope in an Age of Unprecedented Collapse,” and the question-and-answer session that followed.
Dr. Rao’s talk
Beginning on October 29, 2017, Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite (Traditional Latin Mass) will be celebrated every Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity Church at 348 Rockland Road, St. John, New Brunswick.
The parish has set up a webpage to answer questions that parishioners may have about the Traditional Latin Mass. For more information, please contact Holy Trinity pastor Fr. Peter Melanson at fr.melanson@gmail.com or office@holytrinitysj.com.
