You report: Events and announcements.
Rio, Newark, Essex, Lima
In the past few days, we have received from readers and friends the following reports of past events and announcements of future events.
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1. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mons. Sérgio Costa Couto, chaplain of the Church of the Imperial Brotherhood of Nossa Senhora da Glória do Outeiro, a Church to which the Holy Father Pius XII granted the rank of minor basilica (National Basilica of the Assumption), will celebrate Mass in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, next saturday, July 11th, at 12:30 PM.The new Archbishop, Dom Orani João Tempesta, O. Cist, does not intend to oppose the celebration of the TLM in Rio as his predecessor, Cardinal Scheid, did.Although no such thing was requested by the Archbishop as a precondition, the organizers of the July 11th Mass intend to use the occasion as an opportunity to collect signatures for a petition, requesting the appointment of a priest for the permanent pastoral care of the faithful attached to the Traditional Mass in Rio.[The Igreja da Glória is located near the Glória subway/metro station - Google Maps.]
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2. Newark, New Jersey
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (259 Oliver Street, Newark, New Jersey - Google Maps), will hold a Solemn High Traditional Latin Mass in honor of its patroness, on the titular feast of the parish, July 16 at 12 noon. The Mass will be immediately followed by a procession with the Statue of Our Lady through the parish accompanied by a full symphonic Italian feast band and fireworks.
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3. Essex
The Traditional Latin Mass is now offered on Mondays, 6 PM, in the Church of the Assumption (left), Diocese of Brentwood, Essex, England (Hainault/Chigwell: Google Maps). The celebrant is the Parish Priest, Fr Jean-Claude Selvini, who is associated with Latin Mass Society.
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4. Lima, Peru (Special Report)
For many years the TLM had been celebrated in a small private chapel in downtown Lima. Local Church authorities had known about this and put no obstacles, especially since Summorum Pontificum came into force. The Mass had few public due to space and also because few people knew about it.But more or less one year ago, the priest celebrant (a dominican priest, Fr. José Luis Mejía, O.P., although the Mass is in the Roman Rite) told us that Church authorities wanted us to move to a proper church. And since Father was recently appointed Rector of one of the city's shrines (Santuario de Nuestra Señora de la Soledad), that church was obviously the first choice. Also, the Confraternity of Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, which is in charge of the shrine, is very traditionally minded and welcomed wholeheartedly the newly scheduled TLM.So we started celebrating the TLM on the First Sunday of Lent this year, every sunday at 10 AM. This is the main Sunday Mass. Almost every week the church is packed. Unfortunately, the main church cannot be used because it is in ruins due to a terrible fire that ocurred back in 2005. All Masses here are celebrated at what was the old Capitular Hall of the Confraternity (right), now transformed into a chapel. It is far bigger than what we had before.As far as we know, this is the only TLM in the whole Archdiocese of Lima, or at least the only one celebrated regularly.[The Iglesia de la Soledad is in the Historic Center of Lima, near the Plaza de Armas and the Desamparados train station - Google Maps]
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posted by New Catholic at 4:59 PM
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I apologize if I forgot to post any event, announcement, or report; for any corrections, please e-mail me at newcatholic AT gmail DOT com.
NC
Thank you, NC, for these good news.
Next time I'll be in Peru, I'll know where to go...
Martin
Rio, Newark, and Essex? I couldn't care less. Not important.
Now the news from Lima is fascinating and extremely important. This is the only every-Sunday Mass not only in Lima but in ALL of Peru. Lima is one of the most important Catholic cities on the planet earth. It is crucial to have a Mass there.
I have some good news for bloggers here. We now have TWO every-Sunday Traditional Latin Masses in Ecuador. They are the first in Ecuador in about forty years. One priest celebrates both of them and both every Sunday. I do not yet know the name of the diocese but the place is on Wikimissa. It is not in Quito.
Step by step, ...
As for England, phooey on Essex, what is needed is a Mass every Sunday in the Dicoese of Arundel & Brighton. That Bishop Kieran Conry is a real problem child. He is standing fast against the Pope, alone now in England except for the Bishop at Hallam. Let's hope he slips on a banana peel at the top of the cathedral steps, ...
P.K.T.P.
You have disappointed me, PKTP, Traditional Catholic Mass non-important? Who cares?? Newark, Lima, Essex?? Excuse me, but....every little helps!! If God wills, Arundel and Brighton will join soon and banana peel may be already waiting on Cathedral steps for its great moment. God bless
Dear Jay:
I was only using a little hyperbole to emphasise a ranking among these events. Rio, Essex, and Newark have had secure T.L.M.s for some time now. Seeing improvements in such places is 'nice' but not critical. Seeing an improvement at Lima is MAJOR. It is a real scandal that it is the only T.L.M. in all of Peru, a huge Catholic country. We are doing gradually better in Brazil, now having the Traditional Mass in about fifteen dioceses. We have only this one in Peru. More--way more--is needed for Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Argentina--Chile also. In Venezuela, there are no every-Sunday T.L.M.s offered by anyone (including the S.S.P.X) on any basis whatsoever.
P.K.T.P.
Um... Mr. Perkins, they are only in the chronological order in which they were received. No order of "relevance" intended.
NC
I have come to understand PKTP's mode of expressing himself and I take pleasure in reading his posts, especially those written with 'straight-face' humor. They are delightful!
"....I couldn't care less. Not important..." :-D :->
Very good, Mr. Perkins! ;-)
Thanks, M.A. In regard to England, I have a 'thing' about Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton, just as I have a 'thing' about Cardinal Baloney of Los Angeles. These are the sort of men one can imagine defenestrating. You know, surprise!, as you give them that dear little shove that would be just enough force to propel them out of a third-storey window. Whoops! So sorry. I am soooo sorry. Was that me who pushed you? What's that? You say that he survived but all his arms and legs are broken? Oh, I'm so teribly sorry.
That popular journalist in the U.K., Thompson or someone or other, said that Conry should be deposed by the Pope. It's not good sport to stand up and defy a Pope when you're only a bishop. To a Pope, a bishop is not much more than a rook or a pawn.
P.K.T.P.
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George Cardinal Pell will celebrate a Solemn Pontifical Mass in Cork city, Ireland, this Sunday. See http://www.latinmassireland.org/
It is not easy to find a TLM in Brazil.
In my state (Paraná), just 2 cities regularly have the TLM (Curitiba, every week, but not in feasts and Luiziana, once a month). The first is more than 300 km away from my city, and the other is about 155 km far from here.
In Santa Catarina, there is no TLM. The same in many other states.
Brazil is a very large country. The great majority of masses is concentrated in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
It is sad to say, but it is a disaster. Theologically and litugicaly speaking. Liberation theology is still alive. Modernism is everywhere and the Charismatic Renewal Movement grows fastly.
Novus Ordo masses are more often celebrated in rupture with Church's tradition. The Spirit of the Council is in charge here.
I'll send mine again to you NC ;)
Thank you, New Catholic.
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Mr. Perkins,
I wasn't quite able to figure out wether you are using sarcasm or speaking seriously, but may I assure you, Sir, that it is by no means easy to find a TLM in Rio (at least not one celebrated by a priest with faculties).
Yes, there was, and is, a regular TLM over at the City of Niterói, but that's another municipality altogether (at the other side of Guanabara Bay), and you must either drive a lot or pay expensive taxi fares to get there and return.
And, in the City of Rio de Janeiro proper, the only place were the TLM was offered by a priest in full communion was in a neighbourhood in the Western Zone of the city. The neighbourhood in particular is a violent one, and it is almost one hour distant from the city centre or from the Southern Zone. Even if you forget the safety issues, getting there isn't easy or cheap.
Our former ordinary, Card. Sheid, opposed the TLM (to the extent that, at the Monastery of St. Benedict, regular celebration of the TLM in the abbot's private Chapel, where it used to be celebrated discreetly for the faithful who requested it in the pre-Summorum Pontificum's time, was discontinued as soon as the abbey lost territorial status and was incorporated into the Archdiocese).
The celebration of the usus antiquor in an artistic and cultural landmark such as the Church of the Outeiro da Glória, one of Rio's most significant Churches, both historically (Emperor Pedro II was baptized there) and currently (the Church is of symbolic importance, and is the site of many high society marriages, etc), sure signals a shift: TLM in Rio will not be hidden anymore, it is going to be a public fact now .
This TLM that will happen Saturday will be the first TLM offered in the area comprising Rio's Downtown and Southern Zone. Also, the beautiful Church of the Outeiro da Glória is adjacent to a subway station; making it easier for people from several different places to come. Think of the elderly, think of the disabled: for them, this will be a much more accessible TLM.
So, this is huge news. This is the implementation of Summorum Pontificum finally arriving in our shores.
Prof. Basto.
Does anyone know if the situation in changing in Venezuela..A very Catholic country but no sign that I can see of any traditional Mass...
Dear Prof. Basto:
While it is true that Traditional Latin Masses have not been easy to fidn in Rio de Janeiro, there have been at least one or two for some time now, even if in bad areas, and there are others in the civil province, which has a high population. I believe that about fifteen Brazilian dioceses have the old Mass every Sunday now, which is *by far* the best record anywhere on the continent. I was under the impression that, until a few years ago, there was also one offered at an abbey nullius but that its status was reduced to an ordinary abbey since then.
While the situation in Rio is far from great, consider that the Mass in Lima is the only one for that ENTIRE COUNTRY, so, yes, I do think this to be more significant. The same can be said for the new every-Sunday Mass in Ecuador. While it is not in Quito, it is still the only one for an entire country for over forty years. I don't mean to insult Brazil in the least but the situation in Brazil has been considerably better than in Ecuador or Peru, and Peru does have a very large Catholic population.
Someone else asked about Venezuela. Venezuela has not one T.L.M. on any basis, either from the dioceses or the S.S.P.X. It is a scandal which is hard to fathom. I am wondering if it has something to do with the political crisis there.
In Argentina, there are S.S.P.X Masses in about ten dioceses but only one offered by diocesan priests. It is in Córdoba. In Lima, Peru, the S.S.P.X has a chapel but only celebrates its Masses of Sunday obligation on Saturday evenings there.
Frankly, the only significant presence of the S.S.P.X is in Argentina. Following are roughly the number of dioceses per country in which the S.S.P.X offers Mass on the every-Sunday basis: Argentina, 10; Brazil, 2; Chile, 2 or 3; Uruguay, 0 (even though they have Masses on a lesser basis there); Paraguay, 0; Bolivia, 0; Peru, 1 (on Saturday evenings); Colombia, 2; Venezuela, 0; the three Guianas, 0; Trinidad & Tobago, 0; the entire Caribbean, 1 (in the Dominican Republic; nothing for Catholic Haiti or Martinique, Guadaloupe, Dominica, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, Cuba, &c.); Central America (all seven countries), 1 (at Guatemala); Mexico, about 5.
I respect the work done by the S.S.P.X in Latin America but the result has been negligible. That's the way it is.
Regularised every-Sunday Masses? Here they are by country: Brazil, about 15; Argentina, 1 (there was once one offered by the military ordinary in B.A. but no longer); Chile, 2; Bolivia, 0; Uruguay, 0; Paraguay, 1; Peru, 1; Ecuador, 1; Colombia, 1; Venezuela, 0; the Guianas, 0; Trinidad & Tobago, 0; the entire Caribbean, 0; all of Central America, 0; Mexico, 4 or 5, one of which is on Saturday evenings.
So, as we can see, "Summorum Pontificum" is not creating a whirlwind of activity in Latin America. There is even less to say about Africa, India, East Asia. Frankly, there is much better access to the old Mass in tiny Protestant New Zealand than in anywhere in all of Catholic Latin America.
Without Latin America, in particular, there is NO FUTURE for our movement. So I would advise the F.S.S.P. and I.C.R. to stop playing Mr. Dressup in Switzerland and get some seminaries opened up where the language of instruction is Spanish.
P.K.T.P.
Mr. P.K.T.P.
FSSPX has Masses two sundays a month in Montevideo, and one Sunday a month in Lima and Assunción - http://www.fsspx-sudamerica.org/principal.html
SSPX has also a chapel in Guadeloupe that depends directly from its french district - see La Porte Latine.
About Ecuador, the traditional mass is offered here on a daily basis by the parish of Santa Teresa, in the town of La Puntilla - http://www.steresita.com/
J.S.
PKTP is right. The SSPX is significantly more present in Latin America than anyone else. Hundreds of Catholics have access to the TLM in Argentina or Chile for example, thanks to the SSPX. Even the idea of an SSPX Seminary in Argentina was a great one.
So, when the FSSP or others will realize how important and crucial is to pay attention to our people there?
".... So I would advise the F.S.S.P. and I.C.R. to stop playing Mr. Dressup in Switzerland and get some seminaries opened up where the language of instruction is Spanish."
The FSSP has one apostolate in Mexico, but curiously, it is not even mentioned in their brochures which list all other missions in the Americas, including Canada.
And I believe that the IBP had been extended an invitation by a Mexican Cardinal, but evidently nothing came of it.
One must realize that Brazil is a huge country.
Area (km²)
Venezuela: 916.445
State of Amazonas: 1.570.745
Brazil: 8.547.403!!!
Just a comparison. There are about 155.000.000 catholics in Brazil and 68 places where one finds a TLM being regularly celebrated, but 30 of these are located in the relatively small area of Campos. There are more de 15 million people living in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Let's consider 80% catholic. Then we have 13 million catholics.
Putting Rio aside, there are only 38 places of TLM for 142 million catholics. That's to say, 1/3.736.842!!! That is far, far from good!
(and remember that in many places this number varies; for example, in Rio Grande do Sul, 1/8.684.171)
I have considered all places (including those with a mass once a month...).
Our bishops are opposed to the TLM. Our priests are opposed. A huge number of the so-called catholics is opposed.
Does anyone know if there is a regular Sunday TLM in Cuba, or Puerto Rico?
These nations are teetering on the brink of the abyss. Many are succumbing to athiestic dictatorships, and there is a link between that and the N.O. I don't think the N.O. produces Catholics. I think you can be a Catholic in spite of it, but that is rare. Neither does it form good priests. Rather, it produces liberals, both lay and religious. And being liberal, they are self-centered, pleasure seeking, difficulty avoiding, emotionally driven, poorly formed mushminds that think they're Catholic, which they probably are, but only by virtue of the 'dragging the lake' parable. But the N.O. is sort of like a gateway drug - it is the largest exposure most Catholics have to God, and it strongly introduces one to the world of liberal religion, which weakens the will for penance, remorse, and sacrifice. Hence, less resistance to the dangers of evil governments, for example. Can large-scale war be far behind?
So, I don't see the Catholic church being able to influence our crumbling societies positively and effectively until the percentages of Catholics attending N.O.s and various forms of ancient liturgies, including the TLM, are reversed, or nearly so. That's right, 99.9% moving to 0.01% and vica versa.
The thing might as well be abolished, as we've had quite enough time to see it is a centerpiece of the disaster of modernism. And since I don't see this Pope being of that mindset at all, I think realistically we will see little progress beyond what we have seen, thank you for this much dear Lord, unless the consecration is done in a manner that moves Heaven to a spectacular intervention. Thus, SSPX is right in throwing all their weight behind the consecration at this time, rather than at a canonical agreement or even the outcome of the theological discussions. They are indeed thrusting at the heart of the beast.
Mr. Perkins:
The SSPX has a priory in Martinique, regular Sunday masses in Guadeloupe and occasional masses in French Guyana.
Luiz, you are correct.
For another example, the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo seems to have a reasonable number of Sunday TLMs: two in the city of Sao Paulo and one in Campinas, plus one SSPX chapel in the city of Sao Paulo, according to public sources. Yet, the state of Sao Paulo is as populous as the whole of Argentina, more populous than all of Canada, and has almost double the population of either Peru or Venezuela. This is just one Brazilian state...
The truth of the matter is that no country in the world, not even France or the United States, has an appropriate number of TLM locations. These comparisons between nations are useless at this moment in history, and deceptive regarding the dismal situation of the Traditional Mass around the world, even two years after Summorum Pontificum.
NC
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