Christmas Mass

Pope Benedict XVI comes to the U.S. Papal Mass at Nationals Park.

Slideshow of a families experience on 17 April 2008 at Nationals Stadium for the Papal Mass. Songs are “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name” and Placido Domingo’s “Panis Angelicus” which were performed during the Mass.

Traditional Latin Mass filmed on Easter Sunday in 1941 at Our Lady of Sorrows church in Chicago. The film presents the ceremonies of the Missa Solemnis or Solemn High Mass in full detail with narration by then-Mgr. Fulton J. Sheen. Celebrated by Rev. J. R. Keane of the Order of Servites (hence the white habits and cowls), the ceremonies are accompanied by a full polyphonic choir, orchestra, and fifty Gregorian Chanters.

The attention to detail in the ceremonies is impressive. Notice, for example, how the servers and ministers always take great care to move in order. Notice too that the servers are all almost identical in height. The Ordinary of the Mass, composed by Rev. Edwin V. Hoover, while pleasant in places, is very much a reflection of its time. The Proper on the other hand is timeless and sung admirably by a healthy throng of Seminarians from Mundelein, Illinois.

Unfortunately due to size restrictions at Youtube around 20 mins have been cut from the original. Apologies from the editor for the error in the captions for the two parts of the Mass (software). The first part is of couse the Mass of the Catechumens, the second is the Mass of the Faithful.

Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Solemn Pontifical Mass at the Faldstool
Most Reverend Bishop Joseph Perry, D.D.
Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, Celebrant
Saint Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr Church
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Alleluia – Psalm 107. 2 – St. Josaphat Catholic Church Detroit Michigan 10/14/07 9:30am.

Tenor F.Tenelli sings “Ingemisco” from Verdi’s “Requiem”.

Enardecido por el amor a Dios y al prójimo, Padre Pío vivió en plenitud la vocación de colaborar en la redención del hombre mediante la dirección espiritual de los fieles, la confesión y la celebración de la Eucaristía. El momento cumbre de su actividad apostólica era aquél en el que celebraba la Santa Misa. Los fieles que participaban en la misma percibían la altura y profundidad de su espiritualidad.

Sarum rite high mass celebrated at Merton College, Oxford. Feast of Candlemas 1997.

The Christian Anglo-Saxons knew no other Liturgy than that of the Mother Church of Rome. Their celebrated Synod of Clovesho (747) lays down: “That in one and the same manner we all celebrate the Sacred Festivals pertaining to Our Lord’s coming in the Flesh; and so in everything, in the way we confer Baptism, in our celebration of Mass, and in our manner of singing. All has to be done according to the pattern which we have received in writing from the Roman Church” (Canon 13). — “That the Seven Canonical Hours be everywhere gone through with the fitting Psalmody and with the proper chant; and that no one presume to sing or to read aught save what custom admits, what comes down to us with the authority of Holy Scripture, and what the usage of the Roman Church allows to be sung or read” (Canon 15).

St. Osmund, a Norman nobleman, who came over to England with William the Conqueror, and was by him made Bishop of Sarum or Salisbury (1078), compiled the books corresponding to our Missal, Breviary, and Ritual, which revised and fixed the Anglo-Saxon readings of the Roman Rite. Iit must not be forgotten that the Sarum Use represents in the main the Roman Rite as carried out in the eleventh century, and that the reforms introduced by Gregory VII and his immediate successors which culminated in the thirteenth century Franciscan revision of the Breviary, only very slowly and very partially found their way into the service books of the Gallic and British Churches. Hence, the marked resemblance of the Sarum Use to those of the Dominicans, Calced Carmelites, and other medieval religious orders.