The following comes from a Dec. 4 story in Angelus, the Los Angeles archdiocesan online newspaper.
St. Victor Church in North Hollywood is hosting a traditional Tridentine Mass at 7 p.m. on Sundays during Advent.,,, Father James Fryar, FSSP, is celebrating the Masses at St. Victor’s. He is a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, which forms priests according to the traditional liturgy of the Roman rite.
The fraternity has established missions in dioceses throughout the United States, offering the Latin Mass in full Communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
“We’d like as many people as want to come, but we know not everyone will,” said Joe Tropeano, who is the master of ceremonies at Queen of Peace Church in Ocala, Fla. Tropeano worked with Father Fryar and the fraternity to establish the Tridentine Mass at his parish.
To his surprise, young people have started coming. A larger part of the 150 regular attendants are young adults with children, Tropeano said.
“They’re stuck by the beauty, the polyphonic music, the ceremony,” he said. “They’re looking for something, some reverence.”
…. Father Fryar has assembled a choir of 20 to sing the Mass and is planning on establishing a permanent presence of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in the Los Angeles Archdiocese.
Comments to the Angelus story:
Charles Coulombe
The four deacons were from the FSSP Seminary in Germany. Also, we are in need of acolytes to serve masses like these in the entire Los Angeles Archdiocese. If you would like to serve, please contact me at decoulombe@gmail.com
Victor T.
One correction: St. Victor’s is in West Hollywood, not North Hollywood for those planning to attend on Sunday evenings.
To read the original story, click here.
This is beautiful! I hope that someday, the Fraternity of St. Peter will establish a parish in San Francisco!
The following links were posted previously, but can be very helpful.
Please save the links in your favorites to help others.
For those who want more info on the Extraordinary Form of the Mass (aka: EF, Latin, Tridentine, Traditional) :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbwrH53-4oU
SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM – Apostolic Letter, Motu Proprio
https://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/motu_proprio/documents/hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20070707_summorum-pontificum_en.html
Instruction regarding Summmorum Pontificum:
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_commissions/ecclsdei/documents/rc_com_ecclsdei_doc_20110430_istr-universae-ecclesiae_en.html
If your Priest (or Bishop) wants more info they can contact the FSSP (the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter).
The FSSP will train Priests in the EF Mass, or with invitation/permission of the Diocese Bishop might be able to establish an EF Parish within your Diocese.
https://fssp.com/press/
Young Men who want more information on Vocations regarding the EF Mass and the FSSP, should contact them directly.
https://fssp.com/press/vocations/
Those attending an EF Mass for the first few times might want to purchase an inexpensive “Latin-English Booklet Missal” for better understanding.
https://www.fraternitypublications.com/labomi.html
There is a children’s Missal for ages 4 – 10.
https://www.fraternitypublications.com/machmi.html
For women who are interested in a Mantilla (which can be worn at both EF and OF Masses) – There are inexpensive ones on the EWTN Catalogue –
https://www.ewtnreligiouscatalogue.com/shop.axd/Search?keywords=mantilla&sort_by=price_asc
There is a moderately priced “Edmund Campion Missal and Hymnal” –
https://www.ccwatershed.org/Campion/
The “Roman Missal 1962″ Daily Missal by Baroness Press is also available.
https://www.baroniuspress.com/book.php?wid=56&bid=4#tab=tab-1
None of these are required. But I recommend them. Hope you find this info helpful.
Holy Communion at the EF Mass is received while kneeling and on the tongue.
Anyone attending an OF Mass who wishes to receive Holy Communion while kneeling and/or on the tongue may do so –
per GIRM (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, Nov, 2011); and the Vatican.
Redemptionis Sacramentum
https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccdds/documents/rc_con_ccdds_doc_20040423_redemptionis-sacramentum_en.html#Chapter IV
Chapter IV
HOLY COMMUNION
1. Dispositions for the Reception of Holy Communion – Paragraphs 80-85;
2. The distribution of Holy Communion – Paragraphs 91-93. (right of the individual regarding kneeling and on the tongue).
https://fallibleblogma.com/index.php/on-kneeling-kneelers-and-altar-rails-by-cardinal-arinze/
Phil 2:10 “…that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on the earth and under the earth.”
Pray for Father Fryar and the F.S.S.P. for its success in Los Angeles to spread the TLM to as many churches as possible. It is a tiny foothold in a land of Novus Ordonarians but it is a foothold none the less, attend and support the F.S.S.P. as much as you can they depend on us who love The Mass of All Times.
As a side note St. Victor’s is located smack in the middle of West Hollywood and the gay stronghold there, but you might be suprised more than you think who loves the TLM, yep the gay community and they don’t make it a point about their sexuality they only come to attend the Mass of All Times!!
Perhaps with the parish being in such a place it will sew the seeds of conversion for some of these souls
Hmm…come to think of it, the only priest to say the Tridentine Mass here in San Francisco, Fr Bill Young, was living at Most Holy Redeemer IN THE CASTRO for about thirty years!
The gay people loved that TLM.
The Latin Mass is celebrated every Sunday at 2:30 PM at Sacred Heart Church in Palm Desert, CA. The Church is located at the intersection of Fred Waring Drive and Deep Canyon. Copies of the Edmund Campion Latin Mass Missal are made available for all attendees to use. On a few Sundays when the celebrant is out of town, the Mass service is cancelled. If you are driving in from outside Palm Desert, best to call the parish office to confirm that the Mass is scheduled. Phone number is 760-346-6502. Website is http://www.sacredheartpalmdesert.com.
There is a young and excellent Hispanic diocesan priest, Fr. Michael Rodriguez, of the Diocese of El Paso, Texas– who is constantly persecuted by his Bishop, for his great devotion to the Tridentine Mass, and outspokenness regarding the immorality of the “Death Culture.” He has now been placed on six months of leave, to determine his future, as his Bishop HATES the beautiful Tridentine Mass! I think the evil action of this Bishop is a CRIME!! Perhaps Fr. Rodriguez could come to California, and say the Tridentine Mass in an all-Latin Mass church! Maybe he could join the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, or the Institute of Christ the King, or a similar all-Latin Mass religious order, or group of priests! We desperately need dedicated, excellent, true Catholic priests, and good bishops, too! Especially, those who love and cherish the beautiful Tridentine Mass! Our TRUE MASS OF ALL TIME!!
Recently, I watched the beautiful DVD on the life of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, made by the Society of St. Pius X, which he founded. It was excellent! Lefebvre was a true Catholic catechist and missionary, all his life, and stood completely by the true Catholic Faith, to his dying day! Nothing could shake his Faith! He was so beautifully trained, and so very clear, about his Catholic beliefs and way of life! He was a truly good and saintly soul! Very impressive! I have always hoped the Vatican could someday understand what Lefebvre was trying to say, and find a way to incorporate the Society of St. Pius X, into the present-day Church.
Many people of today’s world, sadly infected with the evils of the “Death Culture,” do not understand the meaning of belief in God, and a commitment to obedience to Him. That includes many priests and prelates of our Church! We are NOT supposed to be “children of the world, the flesh, the devil, and selfishness,” with ENSLAVEMENT TO SIN, and to the “Death Culture!” Instead, Christ was born to give His life for our salvation— a PRICEESS GIFT! It is our responsibility, as Catholics, to pursue the path of purification, while in this earthly life, so that we may someday go to live with God, in Heaven! (Or at least, to end up in Purgatory, for further purification!) It is the responsibility of the Church to carry out Christ’s holy work, to correctly teach, guide, and sanctify souls, and prepare us all for Heaven, by the grace of God! Our Church needs a true and faithful commitment, only to firmly believe in, and do the work of Christ, and to ignore the “babble” of the secular world! We desperately need faithful and holy priests and prelates, to do Christ’s holy work, so we may prepare for Heaven, and glorify God!
The Tridentine Mass reflects the sublime and incomparable beauty of God, in Heaven! It is very holy! It is also completely accurate, theologically! It is very ancient, more than 1500 years old, from the time of the early Christians!
Yes, after the Church started praying the Mass in Latin in the 4th century, St. Gregory the Great wrote much of the Liturgy.
Father James Fryar, FSSP, helped to set up the FSSP Parish in Sarasota, FL, Diocese of Venice.
He is a wonderful and holy man. Loved and Missed in FL, but out there now helping others.
There are pictures of him saying Mass in the Edmund Campion Missal and Hymnal – to help the congregation follow the prayers and ceremonies. All vestments used in the pictures were 200+ years old.
Beautiful for worship of our God,
https://www.ccwatershed.org/Campion/
The schedule for all the latin masses in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles can be found in
Latinmass-la.blogspot.com
Most notably, there will be a Solemn Sung Mass (three priests) at 12:00 pm Midnight Christmas Eve at St. Victor’s in West Hollywood.