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Feria
Greetings Friends,
Thank you for sending notice of Traditional Latin Masses for Christmas – so far, we’ve heard from Blessed John XXIII in Lansing and St. Joseph, Detroit. Please continue to email us date/time/place for any Christmas TLMs that you know of, around the state of Michigan.
Please continue to invite young adults of all languages to our Mass & Christmas party on December 27th, described more fully below. If you’d like to help roll pierogies, send an email to us to let Andrew know.
God bless,
Paul
Group Coordinator, Juventutem Michigan
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News in Brief
December 12: Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas
December 15: Gaudete Sunday; at Our Lady of the Scapular
December 17: O Antiphon Holy Hour in Ypsilanti
December 18, 20-21: Advent Embertide
December 22: Voces Jubilantes and EF Compline – Lansing
December 27: Monthly Mass & Juventutem Christmas Party – Sweetest Heart of Mary, Detroit
January 21-22, 2014: March for Life 2014
January 31: Monthly Mass & Dinner – St. Albert the Great, Dearborn – fb
February 28: Save the Date: Monthly Mass & Dinner – St. Philip, Battle Creek
February 28-March 9, 2014: Alternative Spring Break trip – click here to learn more
March 28-29, 2014: Save the Date: JM Mass & Dinner + Michigan Catholic Young Adult Conference, Lansing
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Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
This Thursday is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Patroness of the Americas. One should be able to attend a Traditional Latin Mass for this feast at Assumption Grotto at 7:30 a.m. or at Church of the Resurrection, Lansing, at 6:00 p.m.
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Gaudete Sunday
Juventutem – Gaudete in Domino semper! Regocijaos en el Señor siempre!
This Sunday is Gaudete Sunday, which takes its name from the first word of the assigned Introit/Entrance chant. Rose is the liturgical color of this Sunday, expressing our subdued joy that the penances of Advent are more than half complete and that the celebration of Christmas is drawing nigh.
In addition to the regularly scheduled Masses at other area parishes, Fr. Mark Borkowski will celebrate a Missa Cantata for Gaudete Sunday at Our Lady of the Scapular Parish (f/k/a Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church) at noon – 10th Street and Superior Blvd., Wyandotte.
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O Antiphon Holy Hour
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Toward the end of Advent, all are welcome to St. John the Baptist, Ypsilanti, for an hour of prayer and Eucharistic Adoration meditating upon the Gregorian chant of the O Antiphons. These prayers (see FishEaters), invoking names of Jesus Christ – O Sapientia, O Adonai, etc. – are the Magnificat antiphons that the Church sings at Vespers for the last seven days before Christmas.
Tuesday evenings at St. John the Baptist begin with an Ordinary Form Mass at 6:00 p.m., followed by Eucharistic Adoration from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m., concluding with Benediction.
On Tuesday evening, December 17th, the O Antiphon Holy Hour will coincide with the last hour of Adoration and will commence at 8:00 p.m.
If you would like to sing the Antiphons, please email Paul.
Address: 411 Florence St, Ypsilanti, MI 48197.
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Advent Embertide
Next week, we have the opportunity to observe the Advent Ember Days – Ember Wednesday (12/18), Ember Friday (12/20) and Ember Saturday (12/21), which fall after the Feast of St. Lucy.
Ember Days fall four times within each year and are days when the faithful can particularly focus on God through His marvelous creation. Ember Days are days of fasting and partial abstinence, which are voluntary under the 1983 code of canon law. Marking the change of the natural seasons by prayer and fasting, we can thank God for all that He has done for us, for the plenty of the earth, and the beauty of the world He created. (See also, New Advent: Ember Days; and the FishEaters explanation of how the Ember Days are fashioned after a prior Jewish fasting tradition.)
In our Protestant and/or secular American culture, it is often said that the Church co-opted pagan festivals, giving them a little leavening of Catholicism but otherwise importing them whole cloth. In most important cases, this claim is wholly untrue; but is made by our opponents so as to suggest that Catholicism is a pagan or non-Christian religion. Ember Days are, in a sense, an exception to the rule – not because the Church adopted anything that was pagan but rather because the Church ‘Christianized’ something that the pagans had gotten almost right – thanking and praising God for a bountiful harvest, a rich vintage, a productive seeding or the blessing of nature in general.
Ember Days began in the Diocese of Rome before Christians were free to practice the Faith in public and gradually spread to all of western Christendom. They were celebrated in the third century and their origins are shrouded perhaps even further in the past. In 1969, in preparation for the introduction of the Missal of Pope Paul VI in 1970, the Congregation for Divine Worship invited all of the national bishops conferences to determine how the Ember Days should be incorporated into the calendar of that Missal within their nations. To date, the Bishops of the United States have not acted on this invitation – and the Ember Days do not yet appear in our Ordinary Form calendar.
Nonetheless, under Pope Benedict’s motu proprio Summorum Pontificum (7/7/07) and its instruction Universae Ecclesiae (4/30/11), it remains our option to take advantage of the Extraordinary Form’s calendar and the prayers and readings attached to the Masses of the Advent Embertide.
It is to be anticipated that the 7:30 a.m. Assumption Grotto Masses on that Wednesday and Friday will be the Ember Masses (Saturday is trumped by St. Thomas the Apostle, though there would be a commemoration).
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Lesson and Carols and Compline
At 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 22nd, Lansing’s Church of the Resurrection welcomes Voces Jubilantes, an early music treble choir from Ohio directed by Annette Murphy, which will present musical offerings and scripture for the season of Advent.
This will be followed by Compline (night prayer) in the Extraordinary Form sung by the Church of the Resurrection Schola.
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Monthly Mass & Christmas “Vigilia” Dinner
Juventutem Michigan’s monthly Mass & Dinner comes to Sweetest Heart of Mary for the Feast of St. John the Evangelist, with a homily in English and Spanish.
7:00 p.m. Mass will be preceded by a 6:30 Rosary, at which members will pray for an increased acceptance of vocations to the priesthood and religious life. After Mass, young adults (18-35 years old) and families will gather for dinner, fine conversation, Christmas cheer, and carol singing in the parish bar / social hall.
On Christmas Eve (“Wigilia” – literally, the “vigil supper”), Polish Catholics celebrate a “Black Fast,” in which they don’t eat flesh meat, but do celebrate Our Lord’s coming Nativity. This menu is highly appropriate for Juventutem’s Friday night gathering where we will share a feast likely to include stuffed cabbage, pierogi, mushroom cutlet, cod, and other Polish delicacies.
The Mass is, of course, open to all ages and it is hoped that many of all ages will come.
The name “Juventutem” itself is the Latin word for “youth” and it appears in the opening prayers of the Traditional Latin Mass.
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March for Life 2014
Through the felicitous good will of Fr. Alfred J. Harris, The Paulus Institute for the Propagation of Sacred Liturgy has scheduled a Second Annual Nellie Gray Mass, which will follow the 2014 March for Life:
Traditional Latin Solemn Mass
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
6:00 p.m., St. Mary Mother of God Church (5th&H, NW)
Celebrant: Dom Philip Anderson, O.S.B., Abbot of Our Lady of Clear Creek Abbey.
The Solemn Mass is co-sponsored by The Lyceum School of Classical Catholic Education (whose Schola Cantorum will sing the Mass), Juventutem Michigan, and Juventutem DC.
The Institute’s press release can be read here. The Paulus Institute will create a Facebook event for the Mass.
After the Mass, there will be a Juventutem social across the street at Market to Market. Facebook event: post-Mass Juventutem young adult social. In addition to the Wednesday evening social, there may be other Juventutem liturgies and activities in the course of the March for Life pilgrimage.
Juventutem Michigan looks forward to seeing Abbot Anderson again. Clear Creek hosted our 2013 Alternative Spring Break trip (pictures) and will receive us again: 3-8 March 2014.
Students and young adults from around the country are welcome to express ASB interest via this form.
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