Holy Mass will be offered on Friday, January 1, The Octave Day of Christmas at 2pm. It is Low Mass.
Approaching Christmas with the Latin Mass 2020
The schedule of Latin Masses for the coming days:
- The Fourth Sunday of Advent: December 20, 2:00 p.m., Low Mass
- Christmas Day, December 25, 2:00 p.m., High Mass
- Sunday within the Octave, December 27, 2:00 p.m., Low Mass
- Octave Day Mass, January 1, 2:00 p.m., Low Mass
Winter Ember Days 2020
The Winter (Lucy) Ember Days
Wednesday, December 16
Friday, December 18
Saturday, December 19
The Ember days are set for us, four times a year, to center our attention on God’s Providence given through the beauty of creation. The Ember Days refine our understanding that by the quarterly periods that there is a sacramentality of creation. We have now past the feast of Saint Lucy, one of the great Virgin-Martyrs on December 13. This feast day signals that the winter ember days are coming coming historically after the harvest (some people will say following the harvest of the olives).
As you note from the dates above, the three days of asceticism (a disciplined time of prayer and fasting) preparing us for the Nativity of the Lord. Part of the Church’s tradition is to fast on Wednesday and Saturday, and to fast and abstain on Friday.
Pray for the poor and the ill, pray for the clergy, for the Latin Mass apostolate.
For more information on Ember Days, read this blog post at Fisheaters.
Fr. Arnaud Devillers, FSSP, has a brief essay on the Ember Days.
Gaudete Sunday 2020
The Missa Cantata will be offered for Gaudete Sunday, December 13, 2pm at St Stanislaus Church, State and Eld Streets, New Haven.
Fr Robert L. Turner is celebrant.
Mass for the Immaculate Conception, December 8
Today, the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception is a Holy Day of Obligation. Low Mass will be offered at 5:30 p.m. at St Stanislaus Church, New Haven.
The infallibly defined dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary of the Latin Catholic Church reveals to us that “God freely chose Mary from all eternity to be the Mother of his Son. In order to carry out her mission she herself was conceived immaculate. This means that, thanks to the grace of God and in anticipation of the merits of Jesus Christ, Mary was preserved from original sin from the first instant of her conception” (Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church).
Mary is the “New Eve,” the Mother of God, Mother of us all. As such, we believe that Mary Immaculate is a type of the Church and the perfect model of holiness for all Christians.
Under the title is the Immaculate Conception she is the patroness of the United States of America. May she intercede for us before the Throne of Grace!