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.