The Latin Mass Society of New Zealand

Dunedin Latin Mass Community – September Newsletter

TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS RETREAT

Friday 8th November to Sunday 10 November 2024

Celebrant: Fr Antony Sumich, FSSP

VENUE: St Mary MacKillop Centre, 30 Holgate Road, Kohimarama, Auckland

The program will include:

Daily Traditional Latin Mass with a sung solemn Traditional Latin Mass at St Paul’s Chapel, Ponsonby, Sunday 10 November
Devotional talks by Fr Sumich
Daily Rosary
Exposition and Benediction
Litanies, Chaplet of Divine Mercy and other devotions
Time for personal prayer and reflection
Meals as required per the below schedule.

Cost:

Day attendance: $50.00 per day (including lunch, morning and afternoon tea, retreat costs). $100 for the full weekend. If supper required on Saturday evening this will be an additional cost.

Day attendance without meals: $20 for Saturday (retreat costs) $40 for the full weekend Friday to Sunday.

Payment: Please make payment to the Latin Mass Society of New Zealand ANZ bank a/c no. 11-5438-0112907-11. (If paying by Internet Banking please insert your name and “retreat”).

For further details and registration, email: latinmass.secretariat@xtra.co.nz or jancu7489@gmail.com
Telephone: Janet Curran 027 6128297, Sharon Crooks 027 5775223, Christine Le Lievre 06 3536173

https://novena.cardinalburke.com/novena/reflection-four

Introduction

Making the Nine-Month Novena to the Blessed Virgin Mary under her title of Our Lady of Guadalupe, entrusting ourselves to her guidance and protection and confiding to her intercession our many intentions for the Church and for the world, we rejoice in the perfect union of her Immaculate Heart with the Most Sacred Heart of her Divine Son, Our Lord and Savior.

As the Virgin Mother of God was totally for Christ from the very first moment of her conception, so we, following her example and seeking her intercession, desire to be more and more totally for Christ. We rejoice in the fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah regarding the Virginal Conception and Birth of the Savior: “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” (Isaiah 7, 14).

These words attained their fulfillment at the Annunciation. The Virgin Mary, with her “Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum” (“Let it be done to me according to your word,” [Luke 1, 38]), became the Mother of God, the Theotokos, “God-Bearer” to the world. She exercised her mission of God-Bearer, in a most extraordinary way, on Tepeyac Hill from December 9th to 12th of 1531 by means of her apparitions to Saint Juan Diego and his uncle Juan Bernardino. Her exercise of the mission continues to our day through the miraculous imprint of her image on the mantle (tilma) of Saint Juan Diego which has been faithfully venerated in her “sacred little house” (Nican Mopohua, no. 26) from the time of her apparitions to the present day.

When, after his first visit with the Bishop, Juan Diego begged Our Lady to choose another more efficacious messenger, Our Lady responded to him:

Listen my youngest son, know for sure that I have no lack of servants, of messengers, to whom I can give the task of carrying my breath, my word, so that they carry out my will; but it is necessary that you, personally, go and plead, that by your intercession, my wish, my will, become a reality. (Nican Mopohua, nos. 58-59)

From Our Lady of Guadalupe, we, together with Saint Juan Diego, learn that we are called to become bearers of God, heralds of Christ, in the world. As bearers of God, we, like Saint Juan Diego, are servants of the Mother of God. Through the intercession of Our Lady of Guadalupe, may we become ever more her faithful servants, so that all of our brothers and sisters may know her as the Mother of God and may experience her unconditional maternal love for them, so that, through her maternal care, they may know, love, and serve her Divine Son.

I hope you will share this message with others.

Cardinal Raymond Burke

AUCKLAND

FSSP – Auckland https://www.fssp.nz/:

HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE
PALM SUNDAY
9am Sung Mass with
the Blessing of Palms and Procession
St. Paul’s College Chapel – 183 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn
5pm Low Mass
Holy Name of Mary, 18 Valley Road, Hikurangi

HOLY THURSDAY
7pm Sung Mass
St. Paul’s College Chapel – 183 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn

GOOD FRIDAY
10:30am Stations of the Cross
St. Anne’s Chapel – 3 Cole Place Te Atatu South
3pm Mass of the Pre-sanctified
St. Paul’s College Chapel – 183 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn

HOLY SATURDAY
7pm Easter Vigil
St. Paul’s College Chapel – 183 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn

EASTER SUNDAY
9am Sung Mass
St. Paul’s College Chapel – 183 Richmond Road, Grey Lynn

HAMILTON

EASTER SUNDAY
5.00 pm Low Mass
St Mary’s Chapel, 47 Clyde Street, Hamilton East

PALMERSTON NORTH

EASTER SUNDAY
6.00 pm Low Mass

St Columba’s Church – 83 Mulgrave St, Ashhurst

CHRISTCHURCH

Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer: https://www.facebook.com/LatinMassChaplaincy.Christchurch/

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DUNEDIN

EASTER SUNDAY

9.00 am Low Mass

St Joseph’s Chapel – (next to St Joseph’s Cathedral) 300 Rattray Street, Dunedin

Cancellation of Westminster Old Rite Triduum

The LMS has issued a press release about the cancellation of the TLM Easter Triduum in the Archdiocese of Westminster (reported in National Catholic Register, Catholic Herald, The Tablet). This celebration attracted up to 200 people and had been taking place for 25 years.

Here I want to reflect on how this lamentable development fits into the bigger picture.

The Triduum has not been formally refused permission by the Dicastery for Divine Worship (DDW): rather, Cardinal Nichols chose not to seek permission for it, as with the two annual Masses at the High Altar of Westminster Cathedral which served as the LMS’ annual requiem and AGM Mass. It seems that axing these celebrations is a concession on his part to the stated programme of Traditionis custodes, to close down the TLM, in stages.

One reading of this decision is that as annual events they are not as pastorally important as a weekly Sunday celebration, they are all particularly prominent. They can be sacrificed (as the Cardinal put it) ‘for the sake of the wider provision’.

The Cardinal has also suggested that the Latin Mass Society is not an appropriate body to make requests for a celebration under Traditionis custodes, not being a ‘stable group’. We of course represent ‘stable groups’, but that is his view, which is why the appeal against his initial decision came from a priest on behalf of the ‘stable group’ at the regular Sunday TLM in St James’, Spanish Place. However, this approach did not change the outcome.

Bishops around world are faced with the DDW policy of reducing the number of TLMs in parish churches. Surviving celebrations are permitted for two years, renewable on the condition that the people are ‘educated’ about the liturgical reform in the meantime. (I have yet to hear of any attempt to meet this condition.) Eac©2024 Latin Mass Society | 9 Mallow Street, London EC1Y 8RQh permission incurs a fee of €250.

In the meantime, new non-parochial TLMs continue to be established, often at the behest of the DDW, to substitute for parish locations. Is the policy to eliminate the TLM, or simply to exclude it from parish churches? In the Archdiocese of Westminster, where there are few non-parochial churches, it comes to the same thing, but that is not so everywhere.

Another complicating factor is the different treatment of diocesan clergy and the traditional Institutes; yet another derives from the varying attitude of bishops. The overall effect of the policy is therefore very uneven.

In the meantime, with apologies for the inconvenience, our policy of providing information about Mass times only to members is clearly the right one. Non-members who want to see where the Triduum will be celebrated in England and Wales need to join us: if, that is, they share our aims.

The Latin Mass Society was founded as a campaigning organisation, and we remain that. We will continue to expose the injustice and destructiveness of the current policy, and to support celebrations of the Church’s ancient liturgy wherever we can. This liturgy is every Catholic’s patrimony: as Pope Benedict expressed it: “What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful.”

Joseph Shaw sig