15 August, the Feast/Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Holy Day of Obligation on the Latin Church’s universal calendar and in calendars of particular countries (cf. can. 1246). It isn’t transferred.
So, I remind the readership that you are obliged to hear Mass on Thursday, 15 August.
Make a plan.
As a matter of fact, if you are able, make a plan to fulfill your obligation by participating at Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form!
Also, please remember that there is a special blessing of herbs in the traditional Rituale Romanum. Remind Father to bless the herbs you bring before Mass begins.
I invite you to post below opportunities for the Usus Antiquior in your area. (Please don’t send them by email to me to post for you – register and post them yourselves!)
That said, …
In Madison, WI: TLM at the Bishop O’Conner Center at NOON.
In Detroit, MI: All sorts of great things going on at Assumption Grotto Church! (Patronal feast! Plenary indulgence opportunity!)
In NYC: As always at Holy Innocents in Manhattan 8:30 AM & 6:00 PM.
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In the Diocese of Ogdensburg in NY, there will be a Mass at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Constable at 5:30 PM. http://cccwtr.grainofwheat.net/bulletin081113.pdf
St. John Cantius in Chicago has a Latin Mass at 7:30 pm, as well as a few other times.
In Canada, it is sadly not a Holy Day of Obligation (only Christmas and Mary, Mother of God)
But in Toronto, there are four, count ’em, four!
Missa Lecta
St. Lawrence the Martyr 11:00AM
Toronto Oratory Church of the Holy Family 11:30AM
Missa Solemnis
Toronto Oratory Church of the Holy Family 6:00PM
St. Mary Immaculate Parish of Richmond Hill, 7:30PM
Immaculate Conception Church (FSSP) in Omaha, NE (www.latinmassomaha.org) will have three Masses: Low Masses at 7 a.m. and Noon, and a High Mass at 7 p.m.
In Washington DC, a Missa Cantata at the Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, Woodley Park, at 6PM. As many of you have already heard elsewhere, not only is this the first traditional mass there since the promulgation of the NO, but afterwards there will be a meeting to discuss the establishment of a DC chapter of Juventutem. For other venues in the area google tlm-md.
In Charlestown, WV, at the priory of the annunciation, a solemn high Mass at 7PM.
Blessed John XXIII in Lansing, MI (http://getholy.com/BJ23.html) will have Low Mass at 6:30pm in the Crypt under the Cathedral.
Our Lady of Good Counsel in Verona, NY has Latin Mass at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, preceded by confessions. I’ve never been to one there, so I’m not sure exactly what type of mass it is.
St. Stephen of Hungary in Allentown, PA at 7pm will have a Missa Cantata.
Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Church, Newton Upper Falls, MA
Low Mass at 12:30 PM
High Mass at 7:30 PM
Also English masses at 7:30 AM and 5:30 PM
St. Kevin’s, Harrington Street, Dublin 8:
Low Mass 8:00 a.m.
Sung Mass 7:00 p.m. (Missa IX Cum Jubilo)
St Wenceslaus in Cedar Rapids IA
Low Mass 7:00 AM Wednesdays and Thursdays
http://www.stwenceslauscr.com/
Phoenix, Mater Misericordiae (FSSP) masses on Thursday at 6:30 a.m., noon and 6:30 p.m.
1531 W. Monroe, Phoenix, AZ 85007
(Beat you, Jeff!) :-)
Austin Texas
Saint Mary’s Cathedral
High Mass – 7:00 PM
http://smcaustin.org/index.cfm?load=page&page=176
St. Joseph’s (FSSP), Burford Road, Richmond, Virginia will have three Masses instead of the usual two. The Masses will be as follows:
7am Low
9am High
6pm Low
There will be a Missa Cantata at St. Ann’s in Charlotte, NC for the Vigil of the Assumption at 7:00 on Wednesday evening, August 14.
St. Rita Parish in Alexandria VA
3815 Russell Rd, Alexandria VA 22305
7:30PM
Missa Cantata with men’s Gregorian chant schola
Milwaukee, WI: The good Fathers of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest at St. Stanislaus Oratory will offer a Low Mass at 12:00pm and a High Mass at 6:30pm for the Feast. The address is 524 W. Mitchell Street, Milwaukee, WI 53204
Holy Name Parish in Providence, RI
99 Camp Street, Providence RI 02906
7:00PM
Missa Cantata
Fresno, CA
High Mass at 12:15 with FSSP
Rosary at 11:45
No confession available this time as Fr. has other business to attend to on his way to our city
Minneapolis MN – All Saints
Masses at 12:10 and 7 PM
ajf1984;
Two of our sons were Confirmed at St Stanislaus in the Extraordinary Form two years ago. Beautiful church!
St. Joseph the Worker, FSSP, Tyler, Texas 7 a.m. low Mass, 7 p.m. Missa Cantata. confessions before each Mass.
P.S. at St. Joseph the Worker, Tyler, Texas. Compline after 7 p.m. Mass.
St. John Vianney Latin Mass Community (FSSP) will offer 3 Masses in Maple Hill, KS
6:30am
8:00am
7:00pm
They will also offer a Mass at St. Joseph’s in Topeka, KS
7:00pm (Confession will begin at 6:15pm)
http://www.fsspmaplehill.com/
Wilmington, DE: St. Patrick 7pm Low Mass
Confesion before Mass
http://smspwilmington.com/
Monterey Bay Area
Queen of Heaven Cemetery Chapel
18200 Damian Way, Salinas, CA
Low Mass, 6 PM
I have never heard about blessing herbs at August 15, neither in Germany nor in France, although I have been brought up in the traditional Roman rite in a rural country.
Being at the same time interested in plants and in rites, could you please give some explanations to your foreign readers about the rite you are mentioning ? We had traditionnally herbs conveying special powers – especially healing powers – collected at St John’s Day (24 June) ; and on the day of St Michael Archangel (29 September), or the next following Sunday, we presented near the Altar the very best of our sheaves, bread made of them, and a specimen of all the vegetables from the gardens to be blessed by the Priest (Germany). In France, it was usual to present one specimen – the most beautiful one – of all vegetables grown in gardens on St Fiacre’s Day (30 August, or the following Sunday) during a Mass and a procession. St Fiacre is the patron saint of the gardeners in France and some parts of Germany.
Thank you very much in advance.
Traditional Latin Low Mass offered by Fr. Kenneth Baker SJ at Sts.Peter Paul Church, 3402 E. Portland Ave., Tacoma WA to celebrate Our Lady’s Assumption, 12 noon on August 15. Thanks be to God!
North American Martyrs Parish, Seattle WA. Masses for the Feast of the Assumption will be offered at St. Alphonsus Church, 5816 15th Ave.NW, Seattle WA–Low Mass at 12:10pm and High Mass at 7:30pm. Father Gerard Saguto FSSP pastor.
High Mass at 5:30pm at the cathedral of St. Eugene in Santa Rosa, CA.
TLM at San Secondo d’Asti church in Guasti (Ontario), California at 6:30 p.m., follow by the Ordinary Form at 9:00 p.m.!! This pastor truly cares not for his own convenience when it comes to providing for the needs of his parishioners.
Newly ordained Harrisburg diocesan priest Father Daniel Richards will offer a Missa Cantata at St. Anthony of Padua Church in Lancaster, PA, at noon.
Copied from the site of Mater Ecclesiae of Berlin, NJ (http://www.materecclesiae.org/)
Fr. Robert C Pasley, KCHS, Rector of Mater Ecclesiae Roman Catholic Church, Berlin, NJ invites all to Mater Ecclesiae’s 13th Annual Assumption Mass. The Mass will take place on Thursday, August 15, at 7:00PM, at St Peter’s Church, 43 W. Maple Avenue, Merchantville, NJ 08109.
This Mass was begun thirteen years ago to thank and honor our Lady for the establishment of Mater Ecclesiae. We also wanted to feature some of the greatest works of orchestral/choral music ever written for the Sacred Liturgy. The setting of the Ordinary of the Mass is “Mass ?#?1in? B-flat” by Johan Nepomuk Hummel. Other works include the motets “Venite Populi” by Mozart, “Ave Virgo Gloriosa” by Frescobaldi, “Assumpta est Maria” by Rathberger, and the “Concerto for two trumpets” along with the “Concerto for two oboes in D minor” by Vivaldi.
In Cambridge Springs, PA there will be an Extraordinary Form Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Parish at 12:00 noon. (Diocese of Erie, PA)
Mass and Blessing of the Herbs, 1000 at the St. Ulrichskirche here in Pinswang, Austria.
TLM at 7 pm Thursday, August 15
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church
Townsend, Tennessee
Just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park about 30 miles from Knoxville
PORTLAND, OR: Pontifical Solemn High Mass – 7 p.m. [19:00]
Holy Rosary Church [in the Rose Quarter]
Cantores in Ecclesia will sing as part of the William Byrd Festival, Byrd’s Mass [for 5 voices? not sure which one, but will sound like Heavenly Angels]
Diocese of ST. PETERSBURG, FL:
Low Mass @ 10:00 am
Incarnation Catholic Church
5124 Gateway Drive, Tampa 33615
High Mass @ 7:00 pm
Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle (in the chapel)
5185 5th Avenue North, St. Petersburg 33710
Mater Dei Parish in Irving, TX: Low Mass at 6:30 a.m., 12:10 p.m.; and High Mass at 7 p.m.
Blessing of Herbs and Mass in the Extraordinary Form in Trier, Germany at 6 pm (18.00 hrs)
Helenenhaus Kapelle, Vereinigte Hospitien, Windmühlenstraße 6, 54290 Trier
http://www.schilling-trier.homepage.t-online.de/
A good time to purchase a fresh batch of whatever dried herbs you put into your chicken soup. Surely the prayers of the soup maker in addition to the blessed herbs would bring additional healing properties to those ailing in the coming winter.
Mass, consecration to the BVM, procession of the Blessed Sacrament, Benediction. 7 p.m. St. Luke’s, Calgary.
Sorry, should have noted St. Luke’s will be a Novus Ordo. I realize it doesn’t measure up to some folk’s expectations, but it’s better than staying home and ignoring the special day.
All Souls Catholic Church (Historic Chapel)
Sanford, Florida
Low Mass – 5:00 p.m.
The E.F. Mass will be at St. Mary’s in Kalamazoo on the Feast of the
Assumption at 6pm, offered by Fr. David Grondz.
Then also an E.F. Mass at St. Basil’s in South Haven, MI offered by Fr. Teddy Martin at 7:00 p.m.
and the Solemn High E.F. Mass at Sacred Heart of Jesus in Grand Rapids at 7:00 p.m. offered by Fr. Robert Sirico or Fr. Peter Damien. The women’s choir will sing for the last time together before school, etc. takes some of them to other locations.
Following up on what Gregorius wrote, here’s a list of what TLM’s are known for the Assumption in the Washington, DC and Baltimore area:
7:00 AM – Low Mass – St. John the Baptist in Front Royal, VA
9:00 AM – High Mass – St Anthony’s in King George, VA (followed by the traditional blessing of herbs and flowers)
11:00 AM – Low Mass – Old St. John’s in Silver Spring, MD
Noon – Low Mass – St. John’s, McLean, VA
12:30 PM – Holy Trinity in Gainesville, VA
6:00 PM – St Thomas the Apostle, Woodley Road, NW (sung Mass); organizing meeting for a Juventutem, DC Chapter to follow Mass
6:00 PM – Low Mass – St. Lawrence the Martyr in Alexandria, VA
7:00 PM – St. Alphonsus Church, Baltimore, MD
7:00 PM – Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem, Charles Town, WV
7:30 PM – St. Rita’s in Arlington, VA, (Missa Cantata)
No excuse not to attend a TLM on the Assumption, if you live in the area – unless you’re working an 18 hour shift at the hospital that day.
The Maternal Heart of Mary Latin Mass Community in Lewisham, Sydney, Australia, will celebrate a Low Mass at 7am and a Solemn High Mass at 7pm. The Schola Cantorum Sancte Crucis will be singing Byrd’s Mass for Three Voices.
It is also the occasion of the official elevation of the Chapel to a Parish Church of the Archdiocese of Sydney, with Rev Fr Duncan Wong FSSP to be made Parish Priest.
So far as I can tell, the only TLM in Los Angeles is at the Church of Our Lady of the Angels (SSPX) in Arcadia. Beautiful Mass, and faithful Catholic sermons. Our archbishop seems to be busy with immigration and other political matters.
St. Louis, Missouri:
Thursday, 6:30 pm High Mass at St. Francis de Sales Oratory (Confessions at 6:00 pm)
(Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest) http://www.institute-christ-king.org/stlouis/
Beautiful church – Beautiful Mass!
Diocese of New Ulm, Minnesota:
St. Michael’s Church
510 W. Third St.
Morgan, MN
8:30AM Sung Mass
Daniel, that’s good to hear about Maternal Heart Parish. I believe our former priest, Fr. Blust, is (or was) at your parish too. I know he’s there somewhere
St. Anthony’s in Calgary has an OF Mass at 9:00 am followed by benediction, as well as an EF Mass (FSSP) at 7:00 pm followed by Benediction. I suspect it will be a low Mass, but I could be wrong.
A German in France: Flowers & medicinal herbs are blessed after the Divine Liturgy on the Feast of the Dormition. According to tradition, after Mary’s assumption, her tomb was filled with a heavenly fragrance & flowers. The herbs, used as natural medicine, are blessed in commemoration of the numerous healing & extraordinary graces bestowed on pilgrims at Mary’s tomb.
The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom will be celebrated on the Feast of the Dormition of Our Most Holy Lady the Mother of God & Ever Virgin Mary at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Holy Protection Byzantine Catholic Church in Morgantown, WV.
Troparion:
In giving birth you preserved your virginity,
In falling asleep you did not forsake the world, O Theotokos.
You were translated to life, O Mother of Life,
And by your prayers, you deliver our souls from death.
Kontakion:
Neither the tomb, nor death could hold the Theotokos,
Who is constant in prayer and our firm hope in her intercessions.
For being the Mother of Life,
She was translated to life by the One who dwelt in her virginal womb.
We will make the extra trip to our TLM parish. It’s like Christmas in August – we have St Max on 14 and Assumption on 15!
There is a 6 pm (CST) mass in Birmingham, AL, at Blessed Sacrament.
http://myblessedsacrament.com
In West Virginia:
7:00 AM – St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Thomas, WV (Fr. Timothy Grassi)
7:00 AM – Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Nitro, WV (Fr. Joseph Tuscan, OFM Cap.)
Both of these should be Low Masses.
I forgot to state that both of the Masses I listed above are being offered on Thursday, 15 August.
6:30 AM Low Mass at Guardian Angels Catholic Church, and a 7 PM Missa Cantata at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church, both in Louisville KY. The vigil Mass at SMT will be a Mass with choir in the OF.
St. Matthew
Dix Hills, NY
10:30 AM Thursday
North Service Road, Long Island Expressway (I-495)
Exit 51 eastbound, Exit 53 westbound
Between NY 231 and Carlls Straight Path
St. Peter’s Church in Volo, Illinois at 7 pm. Maybe and hour north west of Chicago.
Canon Flattery will be celebrating a Missa Cantata (Sung Mass) for the Assumption at St. Mary’s in Westville, IL at 6:00 PM on Aug 15th. The address is:
St. Mary’s Church
231 N State St.
Westville, IL
St. Edward Catholic Church
Newark, California 5:30pm
From St. Edward Church facebook page:
“On Thursday, 15 August at 5:30 PM Father Jeffrey R. Keyes, CPPS will celebrate a Solemn High Mass of the Assumption in the Extraordinary Form at Saint Edward Catholic Church, 5788 Thornton Avenue, Newark, CA 94544. The Solemn Mass Choir of Saint Edward Parish will sing the ancient Gregorian Chants of the Feast from the Graduale Romanum and
will sing the “Missa Assumpta est Maria” by the famed Renaissance composer Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, which was originally composed for the celebration of the feast at the Vatican. In addition the choir will offer motets of Palestrina and Dufay.”
St. Mary Catholic Church
Salem, SD
Procession around church starting at 6:30 pm
High Mass 7:00 pm
So excited! This is our first opportunity for this. We travel 90+ miles RT each Sunday to attend this beautiful church, where it is done properly. The best 90 minutes drive RT for 90 minutes of Heaven on earth. Love the EF Mass!
Is that Arabic on the bottom of that icon? Ah I see holding the cursor over the image that it is a Coptic icon. I keep several icons of the Eastern Church in my house, including what I believe is a Russian (the writing is some altered form of the Greek alphabet) icon of the Dormition. Two years ago when I was in Jerusalem I stumbled into a Liturgy of the Armenian Orthodox Church in the Cave of the Dormition on Mount Zion. So beautiful. East is the direction that our ecumenical efforts should be headed. It would do so much to revive our own Liturgy. All of us need to do something to clean up the 1500 years of baggage that lie between us since Chalcedon.
A different variety of the usus antiquior, but the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom will be celebrated for the Dormition of the Theotokos in the Kansas City area on Thursday, August 15 at 7:30pm at St. Luke Byzantine Catholic Church. The Eastern Church also retains the ancient tradition of blessing flowers and spices on this feast.
11413 Chicago Street
Sugar Creek, Missouri 64054
(816) 231-7100
6:30 AM at Guardian Angels Catholic Church (Low Mass I think), and then 7 PM Sung Mass at St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church both in Louisville KY.
St. Mary Church Norwalk, CT
http://www.stmarynorwalk.net
Feast of the Assumption is our Parish’s patronal feast.
(Would attendance at this Holy Mass be considered a pilgrimage?)
Traditional High Latin Mass 5:30 p.m.
Our Lady of Fatima, Pequannock, NJ (FSSP). 7, 8, 12, & 7 – Sung High Mass.
St. Benedict Center, Richmond NH (95 Fay Martin Rd.) Richmond is near Fitzwilliam NH not far from MA border.
Missa Cantata 7:30 AM. The Sisters will be providing the choir.
Low Mass 7:15 PM.
Confession times are usually 40 mins before to 10 min before Mass.
There will also be TLM’s at the St. Benedict Center and St. Ann’s house in Still River MA but I don’t have the times for those.
There will also be masses for the St. Gregory Latin Mass Chaplaincy in Maine. I know the one in Lewiston (Basilica of Sts. Peter & Paul) is at 6:30 PM and will be a Missa Cantata. I believe the one in Portland (Cathedral) is in the morning but I’m not sure.
Also regarding St. Benedict Center Richmond NH, slightly OT, but they are dedicating their new chapel the following Thursday, Aug. 22 the feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary with a Solemn High Mass at 9:30 AM. The new chapel doubles the space of their old basement chapel which is bursting at the seams due to the number of young traditional families with many children that attend there.
Akron, OH – St Sebastian Church, 5:15 pm.
Adding to Athelstan’s above list of Washington, D.C. area TLMs — 7:30 p.m. Low Mass at Saint Mary’s in Washington, D.C.
Athelstan,
I sure miss my old diocese of Arlington!
APX, Fr Blust was at Lewisham, but has since moved on to work at the Regional House further west in Sydney. Did you know he was made Regional Superior a while ago?
As far as I know, the *only* Latin Mass in the entire Diocese of Des Moines is at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church (15 Indianola Ave Des Moines, IA 50315) every Sunday at 8:30 in the crypt (lower church).
For Thursday’s Solemnity of the Assumption, Msgr. Frank Chiodo will celebrate a Missa Cantata at 7pm in the upper church. Venite!
St. Agnes Cathedral
Springfield, Missouri
http://www.molatinmass.blogspot.com
Thu 15 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary—Mass @ 10:30am
Just an addition to what Pookiesmom has posted; the Low Mass at SS. Peter & Paul in Tacoma, WA will be held at noon on the 15th. We are known as North American Martyrs, South Sound.
Archdiocese of Miami:
Solemn High Mass at 7:30 p.m. at downtown Miami’s historic Gesu Church!
Celebrant: Fr. Christian Saenz, SJ
Deacon: Fr. Rhone Lillard, FSSP
Subdeacon: Mr. Daniel Heenan, FSSP
The Schola Cantorum of Sts. Francis and Clare, directed by Dr. Jennifer Donelson, will provide Gregorian chant.
Address:
118 NE 2nd Street, Miami, FL 33132
Father Joseph Fishwick, Chaplain-emeritus of the Archdiocese of Miami Traditional Latin Mass Community will offer catechesis for those unfamiliar with the usus antiquior at 7:00 p.m.
Community website (every-Sunday 9:00 a.m. Missa Cantata at Sts. Francis and Clare): http://www.latinmassmiami.org
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/miamiensis
Young adults, affiliation to the Juventutem International Federation pending: http://www.facebook.com/juventutemmiami
Daniel,
Yes, I knew he was made Regional Superior. He mentioned it once or twice during announcements before he left. It was a sad day when he made the announcement, but Fr. Sumich (he was in Australia for awhile) is pretty good too. Very different temperaments…
Diocese of Madison
Saint Norbert’s – Address: 8944 County Highway Y, Sauk City, WI 53583
Phone:(608) 643-3661
August 15th Extraordinary Form 6:30 am Confessions half hour before Mass
St. Augustine University Catholic Center, 135 S. Hickory, Platteville WI 6:30am
Do you think Our Lady could intervene on her feast day to grant the Cardinals a sweep of the Bucs, starting with a win tonight….extra innings now…agonizing….
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Pismo Beach, CA
St. Paul the Apostle Church
TLM — 5:30pm
Diocese of Dallas: there will also be the blessing of herbs before all Masses. Again: 6:30 am, 12:10 pm, and 7 pm.
Fort Collins, CO: Blessed John XXIII TLM at noon offered by Fr. Nix.
Came home with the basil blessed before Mass and made pesto with the blessed herbs, exercised salt, and exercised olive oil!
Auto corrected into error: I meant exorcised!
Went to a beautiful NO Mass, no herbal blessing here, though. We do that later.