On Sunday, 28 April, the 7:30 AM Mass at St Mary’s Pine Bluff will be a Solemn Mass for the Octave Day of Easter / Low Sunday. We will also be singing the Te Deum immediately after Mass in thanksgiving for the appointment of our new bishop.
Welcome to His Excellency, the Most Rev Donald J Hying, who was announced today, 25 April 2019, as the Fifth Bishop of Madison!
Thanks to Mr Joe Hanneman, who provided these excellent photos of our Easter Vigil at St Mary’s in Pine Bluff
Yesterday, our Holy Thursday observance began with sung Tenebræ, featuring our newly-acquired hearse. In the evening, for the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, we had a Solemn Mass with the debut of our splendid new white vestments, which arrived from Rome only one week ago. Here are some photos:
We have now entered the liturgical season of Lent, and thus violet vestments have been the norm for the last three Sundays. The TMSM had been using portions of our violet Pontifical set until recently, so to avoid uneven wear to that set, we have acquired a separate Solemn Mass set. This new set arrived … [Read more…]
We are already well into the pre-Lenten season, and Ash Wednesday is just around the corner. At St Mary’s Pine Bluff, we are planning to have a Solemn High Mass for Ash Wednesday, 6 March 2019, preceded by the blessing and distribution of ashes, beginning at 6:30 PM.
We are planning to have a Solemn Mass for the Vigil of the Epiphany on Saturday, 5 January, at St Mary’s in Pine Bluff at 4:00 PM, followed by Exposition, Benediction, and the Solemn Blessing of the Epiphany Water. What began as plans for simple Benediction and blessing of the Epiphany Water before the Knights … [Read more…]
Today is the Octave Day of the Nativity, and this Sunday, January 6, we will celebrate the great Feast of the Epiphany. The Roman liturgy offers some wonderful chants this time of year, which are a bit outside the norm of what most Catholic laity are used to hearing, even if they are familiar with … [Read more…]
The Tridentine Mass Society was recently approached by Fr Andrew Showers, one of the priests at St Paul’s, the campus parish of the University of Wisconsin, requesting our assistance. The students were requesting a traditional Advent Rorate Mass, and they would need to borrow some liturgical items for proper celebration of the TLM in their … [Read more…]
The Tridentine Mass Society will hold a Solemn Requiem Mass to pray for the repose of His Excellency, the Most Rev Robert Morlino, our beloved departed Bishop of Madison on Thursday, December 6, 7:00 PM at St Mary’s Pine Bluff. We will begin with Vespers of the Dead at 7:00 PM, followed by Mass at … [Read more…]