CALLED TO Central Point, OR. SERVE: Knights of Columbus This past month four St. Augustine Council No. 11258 members of our Council Vol. 24, No. 8, August 2017 were among the knights providing an Honor Guard for a Tridentine Pontifical High Mass NEXT MEETING: celebrated by Raymond TUESDAY, AUGUST 1st Cardinal Burke at Sa- cred Heart Parish shown Plan to attend our monthly meeting this coming above. Had it not been Tuesday, August 1st. The evening begins with Mass at for our involvement with 6:00 PM in the side chapel, followed with a pizza din- the knights it is doubt- ner and the Business Meeting at 7:00 pm in the Parish ful that any of us would Center. Be forewarned: On Tuesday your editor will have been present for the event. As it was it be working to fill out our anniversary and birthday list. proved to be an enormous- ly fruitful religious experi- FRENCH TOAST BREAKFAST ence as is recounted in this The Council is sponsoring one of its Fabulous French issues feature essay. Toast Breakfast after the 8:30am Mass on Sunday, Au- gust 6th. Helpers are always needed, particularly for 7:45 am set up and serving. Sign up next Tuesday. The breakfast provide both knight and parish an opportu- scenes in a number of events including Fourth of July nity to meet, share and build our parish community. Hot Dog Sales at Pfaaf Park, the parish picnic, and three parish-sponsored receptions. Thanks to all the A BUSY JULY knights and wives who made this work a success! July was a particularly busy month for the Council Parish Ministry Fair Sat./Sun. Aug 26 & 27th whose members worked both in public and behind the Tuesday, August 29th Officers’ Meeting Schedule of Events Tuesday, September 5 Business Meeting Tuesday, August 1 Business Meeting Saturday, September 9 Carnival Set Up Sunday, August 6 French Toast Breakfast Sunday, September 10 Parish Carnival Wednesday, August 16th 4th Degree Dinner at Wild Friday, September 15 Raffle Spaghetti Dinner and River Pizza We Celebrate Patterns of Faith: BIRTHDAYS Members: Jerry Bourgeois, Frank Hernandez,Larry Mullaly. THE MAJESTY OF THE LITURGY Wives: Mary Barnum, Jeanette Henault, Cathy Johnson, By Larry Mullaly Paula LeRoy, Jan Plunkett, Sally Strasser. WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES: For the past several years, the pros and cons of cel- Kelly & Russell Crocker; Marty & Mark Edinger; Myrt & ebrating the Catholic Mass in the Latin language have Harvey Foster; Pam & Mike Masters; Amy & Bret Moore; been very much in evidence on the web. It was there- Becky & Hank Rademacher. fore an unusual opportunity to participate in such a Service first hand, when the Knights of Columbus Prayer Intentions were invited to provide a Guard of Honor at a Pontifi- cal High Latin Mass celebrated by Cardinal Raymond Remember in your prayers Ed Daniels, , Jim Giorvas, Burke in conjunction with a conference on the Sacred Jack Kolaso, John Plunkett, Rudy Wertepny, and Gary Liturgy held recently in nearby Medford. The reaction Staats. Anyone who knows of other brother knights of those taking part was mixed: a fellow knight who or family members in need are asked to contact Ron attended with me as part of a Knights of Columbus DeAvilla at 541- 499-9217. Guard of Honor, who was raised as a cradle Catholic and recalls the Latin Mass in the 1950s, remarked that the service was “a strange experience…I had no idea what was going on.” A friend, who had converted to Catholicism as an adult, described it as a “deeply devo- tional experience, the most beautiful Mass I have ever experienced.” The Liturgy that day in Medford was very dif- The Pontifical High Mass of the Post-Reformation era is a visual and auditory feast. For many Catholics it provides a deeply spiritual ferent from the parish Mass of my childhood where experience. the prayers of the priest and altar boys were barely au- dible and churchgoers often prayed the rosary. There was based on the Mass celebrated at the Papal Court in were no Old Testament readings and on weekdays Rome during the early Baroque era following the Coun- there was no homily. The entire service with the ex- cil or Trent (1545-1563). The more solemn forms of ception of prayers for the conversion of Russia, at the the “Tridentine” Mass that resulted came from a world end of the service was prayed in Latin by the priest of princes, kings, and prelates in which high earthly Congratulations to our Shepherd of the Valley Council’s newest facing the crucifix. Elements we take for granted today authority pointed to the person of Christ, the King Sir Knight, Jesus (“Chino”) Sevilla inducted into the Fourth such as communal singing, the honoring of the book of Kings. In this context, the sanctuary of a church Degree at a June 24th Exemplification in Klamath Falls. In the of Scripture, offertory prayer only appeared in the late photograph above (left to right) council members Thom Gilsdorf, became the antechamber to the heavenly throne room Jesus Sevilla, Larry Mullaly. The Fourth Degree is the public face 1960s following the Second Vatican Council. But dif- and the Mass the sacred drama of Calvary. Reflecting of the knights at ecclesial and patriotic events and is open to all ferences were deeper than mere appearances. the courtly manuals of the time, liturgical guidelines Third Degree members. The Pontifical High Mass represented the required minute details of ecclesial etiquette, down to most formal expression of the older Latin Liturgy, and the type of shoes the celebrant should wear, the layered vestments, and complex bows, genuflections, and hand formed with great devotion by the perfectly blended gestures. So intricate was the Pontifical High Mass that voices of a Portland women’s choir. very few modern bishops and priests today, even those More significant than its outward elements, with knowledge of Latin, have the skills to properly however, is the theology and spirituality undergird- render it. ing such services. The Mass evokes the 16th century The Sacred Liturgy Conference in Medford world of the counter reformation in which the Church represented leading figures in the movement to pro- stabilized the liturgy in response to Protestant attacks mote the traditional liturgy, and the Mass with Cardinal against the doctrine of the real presence of Christ in Burke – himself an outspoken champion of the older the Eucharist, and the validity of the priesthood. form of worship – was a high point of a series of Lat- The Medford Mass was celebrated in strict in Mass celebrations. Assisting him were priests of the observance of this classical format. In a setting of un- Fraternity of St. Peter, a traditionalist Catholic society broken verticality a single celebrant enacts the role of of apostolic life for priests and seminarians that is in Christ. An assistant priest accompanied him at every communion with Rome and specializes in preserving turn, along with four deacons, and a sea of altar serv- the older form of worship. ers, masters of ceremonies, and torchbearers. Amidst The altar that evening was awash in gold can- bells, and incensing, the drama culminated in the eleva- delabra and implements of worship, ceremonial vest- tion of the sacred bread and wine in which heaven and earth, time and eternity were sacramentally conjoined. The instructions for celebrating the Tridentine ments, veils, and copes and one could easily imagine Mass saw minor alterations between the 16th this service taking place with orchestra and choir per- There is a devotional aspect to the Pontifical and 20th century. forming the great liturgical compositions of Hayden, Tridentine Mass that cannot be easily dismissed. The Mozart, or Beethoven. In Medford, the music was nuanced observances in the form of multiple genu- rendered in Gregorian chant of the 13th century, per- flections, bows, and signings of the cross, strip from fered only a single reading from an Epistle chanted in the celebrant every vestige of individuality. In the pro- Latin by the deacon facing the altar. In emphasizing cess of faithfully performing the prescribed ritual, the the sacrifice on the cross, the life and resurrection of celebrant and ministers make themselves completely Christ was downplayed. The practice of con-celebra- subservient to the requirements of the Liturgy. Such tion in which priests and bishops collegially celebrated attitudes have a long history in the Western Church. I the Eucharist, and that has always been practiced by would give up my life a thousand times,” St. Theresa Eastern Rite Catholic Churches in union with Rome, of Avila, once wrote, “not only for each of the truths was excluded. Finally, there was almost no role for the of Sacred Scripture, but even more for the least of the congregation in this form of worship: singing became ceremonies of the Church.” In its day, the Tridentine a province of professional choirs, the laity were not Mass played a key role in defining the Catholic faith invited to take part in the exchange of peace; only the and worship. celebrants chanted the Lord’s Prayer. At the Medford The Baroque-era Mass, however, also brought Mass, all of this was strictly observed, and the sepa- with it a certain narrowness. The role of Scripture, ration between pew and altar, was only briefly lifted which played such a powerful role in the celebration when the congregants filed forward to the edge of the A bishop celebrating a Tridentine Pontifical High Mass typically sanctuary to kneel to receive the sacred bread on the wears gloves, slippers, and leggings. These elements were done away of the Mass prior to the 11th century, was notably ab- with in the post-Vatican II era. sent. Apart from the Gospel, the Tridentine form of- tongue. For four hundred years the Tridentine Mass remained a monument of a church fixed in its certain- You Can Keep Your Kids Catholic. invoke the powerful intercession of the Blessed Virgin ties: Mass was perceived as an action of the priest; Here’s How. Mary each day (she knows quite a bit about parenting, after all) on behalf of your family, especially your chil- the faithful were prayerful observers. Not until the By Patrick Madrid 1930s were the prayers of the liturgy made available dren, you can rest assured that, no matter how bumpy [Excerpted from a new feature on Supreme’s website: “Fathers to American Catholics in the farm of Sunday missals the road of life may become, she will be there helping for Good: An Initiative for Men by the Knights of Columbus.] in which the Latin and English texts appeared side by you. side. In the 1950s the assembly was allowed to take First, you have to let your children know that the It may be a challenge at times to gather the part in the Latin responses during the Mass. But the Catholic faith is more than an hour a week on Sunday. whole family together, but the spiritual benefits of world had greatly changed since the reformation and Sunday Mass should be the highlight and absolute praying the rosary are enormous, especially if each it was therefore not surprising when offered the op- obligation of the week, but it doesn’t end there. child is allowed to take part in reciting part of this portunity to substantially reform the Tridentine Mass A Catholic home is a sort of “domestic church,” as beautiful prayer. Other acts of piety are things such at Vatican Council II, the bishops of the world agreed John Paul II and others have noted. This does not as prayer before and after meals (every meal), night to do so by a vote of 2,147 to 4. mean Gregorian chant and incense at the dinner table. prayers that include devotions such as the Act of Since that time the Pontifical High Mass was But it does mean that faith must inform the daily Contrition… etc. virtually unseen until Pope Benedict XVI re-estab- routine and decisions in the home. Children must see In our home, when our kids get to be about lished its use in 2007. As part of a general permission, their mom and dad as truly prayerful, again not in a 12, Nancy and I give them their own personal Bible the pontiff allowed the old form of the Latin Mass to showy way, but in a way where they know — because with a loving inscription from us inside the cover. And be celebrated as an “extra-ordinary” style of worship, they can see — that their parents look to almighty we strongly encourage them to read Scripture often, ranging from the “Low Mass” used in daily and Sunday God trustingly throughout the day and are not too starting with the Gospels. This has two goals in mind: services, to the elaborate “Pontifical High Masses” proud to ask for help from above. First, our children learn that Scripture is Catholic and celebrated at special occasions. He encouraged I always strongly encourage praying the fam- is (or should be) cherished by all Catholics every- bishops “to make broad and generous use” of this ily Rosary. If you, the father of the family, trustingly where. Also, they learn to discover the biblical basis format “on behalf of all the faithful who sought for a wide range of Catholic teachings and practices, it.” found either explicitly or implicitly. Today the Baroque-era Pontifical High Beyond the externals of prayer and piety in the home, the children have to see that mom and dad Mass has an honored place in Catholic life, but as are imbued with results of prayer – which they actu- a piece in the great and diverse mosaic of Catholic ally live out the gifts of faith, mercy and forgiveness. worship. As Pope Francis explains, authentic lit- Having kids in the home is really a constant source for urgy is always more than a “doctrine” or a “rite examination of conscience. A father does well to tell to be executed,” but “fundamentally a source of his kids not to gossip or speak critically about others, life and light for our faith.” In the end, the liturgy but does he talk about the neighbors uncharitably? If draws it strength not from the majesty of its cer- dad tells his children to practice moderation but he emonials but from the person of Christ who in a eats or drinks to excess, that’s sends the strong signal simple meal, asked his followers in the language which says: “Do as I say, not as I do.” Telling children of his people to share the sacred bread and wine not to talk back or be disrespectful is a good thing, as perpetual memorial of his life, death, and resur- but if the father sets a bad example of shouting at rection. his wife or ignoring her, his words to the children are Patrick and Nancy Madrid and their 11 children. empty.