Traditional Latin Catholic Mass returns to Lafayette, IN

By Brian Poe Lafayette, Indiana Feb 22, 2009 (UVC) Father David Hasser from St. Patrick’s Catholic Church of Kokomo is now celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass (extraordinary form) 5pm every fourth Sunday at St. Ann’s Church in Lafayette.  Over 200 souls came Sunday afternoon to St. Ann’s Catholic Church to witness the return of the Latin [...]

H.E. Bishop William’s Declaration

DECLARATION The Holy Father and my Superior, Bishop Bernard Fellay, have requested that I reconsider the remarks I made on Swedish television four months ago, because their consequences have been so heavy. Observing these consequences I can truthfully say that I regret having made such remarks, and that if I had known beforehand the full [...]

Ash Wednesday TLM Schedule

Ash Wednesday Schedule 6:00 PM at Our Lady of Mt Carmel (parish hall) 1155 W 146th Street Carmel, Indiana 46032 Note:  Mass will be offered in the parish hall which is located in the grade school right next door from the church. .  

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the 40 days of the Lenten Season. The number 40 has always had special significance particularly in Sacred Scripture. St. Jerome observes that this number denotes punishment and affliction. After all, there were 40 days and nights of the Flood, 40 years of exile in the desert, 40 days [...]

Vatican liturgical official makes new plea for ‘reform of the reform’

Feb. 23, 2009 (CWNews.com) – A key Vatican official has called for “bold and courageous” decisions to address liturgical abuses that have arisen since the reforms of Vatican II. Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith, the secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship, cites a flawed understanding of Vatican II teachings and the influence of secular ideologies are [...]

Rules for Fasting & Abstinence

Canon Law of the Catholic Church concerning fasting and abstinence for Latin Rite Catholics states: Can. 1249 — All members of the Christian faithful in their own way are bound to do penance in virtue of divine law; in order that all may be joined in a common observance of penance, penitential days are prescribed [...]

Minor Orders

by Shawn Tribe, founding editor of The New Liturgical Movement. . I’ve often been struck by the wisdom of a seminary path whereby a young man would pass through particular ‘rites of passage’ if you will, along the way to Holy Orders. For those who aren’t familiar with this, until 1972 when this was changed, [...]

New York’s new Archbishop!

H.E. Archbishop Timothy Dolan As per our last discussion concerning a new archbishop for New York, the Vatican has made it official!  Please find H.E.’s  bio. . And, just when you thought that there was only corn in Indiana, we here in the Diocese of Lafayette in Indiana await news on the appointment replacing our own [...]

Quinquagesima Sunday

Quinquagesima Sunday  Having assured ourselves by the stations at St. Lawrence and St. Paul on the two preceding Sundays of the patronage of these saints we go to-day to the Basilica of St. Peter and on next Sunday to that of the Holy Savior in order to commence with full confidence the holy cycle of [...]

Regular TLM in Lafayette, Indiana starting this Sunday

Una Voce of Lafayette, Indiana and the St. Rita Latin Mass Community are pleased to announce that there will be a regularly scheduled Traditional Latin Mass on the fourth Sunday of each month in the Lafayette Deanery. The first Mass in the Extraordinary Form will take place on: Sunday, February 22, 2009 at 5:00 PM [...]

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