Friends in Christ,
Welcome to our weekly Sunday update. This Sunday is the Second Sunday after Pentecost. It follows by three days the Feast of Corpus Christi celebrated, according to the traditional Roman Calendar of 1962, on the Thursday following Trinity Sunday. The bishops of the United States allow, as an alternative, celebration of the External Solemnity of Corpus Christi on the Sunday following the feast day. In the Gospel reading for the Second Sunday after Pentecost we hear the parable of the great feast to which many notables are invited but do not come. Jesus shares this parable while seated at supper in the house of a leading Pharisee. Once again, He makes His listeners the object of His parabolic message: In this case, the Pharisees and lawyers who are too preoccupied with the details of their own legalistic pursuits to acknowledge the presence of the Word of God Himself in their midst. They have been invited to the heavenly banquet, but they will not come. The places they were to occupy will be filled by those they consider unworthy, signified by “the poor, and the feeble, and the blind, and the lame” (Luke 14:21).
Note: The Chapel of the Little Flower will offer the External Solemnity of Corpus Christi on Sunday June 7.
Calendar of Special Observances
Celebrations are those listed in the Roman Missal of 1962.
DAY, DATE – FEAST (CLASS)
Sunday, June 7 – Second Sunday after Pentecost (II) or External Solemnity of Corpus Christi (USA) (II)
Monday, June 8 – Feria (IV)
Tuesday, June 9 – Feria (IV) – Ss. Primus and Felician, Martyrs (III)
Wednesday, June 10 – St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland (III)
Thursday, June 11 – St. Barnabas, Apostle (III)
Friday, June 12 – Sacred Heart of Jesus (I)
Saturday, June 13 – St. Anthony of Padua, Confessor and Doctor of the Church (III)
Second Sunday after Pentecost (External Solemnity of Corpus Christi)
The links provided below can be used to download printable copies of the Proper Prayers for the Second Sunday after Pentecost as well as the External Solemnity of Corpus Christi with English or Spanish translations, followed by commentaries by Dr. Michael P. Foley.
Second Sunday of Pentecost
External Solemnity of Corpus Christi
Traditional Latin Mass Schedule
Diocese of Charlotte Sunday Masses
Chapel of the Little Flower (757 Oakridge Farm Road, Mooresville, NC)
Note: Only Sunday Latin Masses and Holy Days are offered at the Chapel. This is the only Diocese of Charlotte location which offers the Traditional Latin Mass.
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, the Little Flower, pray for us!
Diocese of Raleigh Sunday Masses
Diocese of Charleston Sunday Masses
Diocese of Charleston Daily Traditional Latin Masses
Note: The summer Mass schedule for Prince of Peace parish is in effect Monday June 1st and according to the bulletin there will be no daily Latin Masses at Prince of Peace during Monday-Saturday this summer.
As a reminder, travelers are urged to consult parish websites or offices for up-to-date information regarding possible changes in the schedule of Mass times.
Chapel of the Little Flower Announcements
Mass Intentions for Sunday
Sunday June 7, 10:00 a.m. – Brigitte Tsomos by Agnes Schaper
This Sunday June 7, 12:00 p.m. – Mass of Thanksgiving by Fr. David Carter, FSSP
Father David Carter, FSSP, a Saint Ann parishioner ordained to the priesthood for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) on May 28, will offer a Solemn High Mass of Thanksgiving at the Chapel of the Little Flower on Sunday June 7, 12 noon. Please keep Fr. Carter in your prayers as he begins his priestly ministry. (see novena in General Announcements)
Sunday June 7: Father Jones’ Ordination Anniversary
This Sunday Fr. Jones is celebrating his 18th anniversary of his priestly ordination, June 7, 2008. Please keep him in your prayers on Sunday.
Donations for the Chapel of the Little Flower
To donate to the Chapel of the Little Flower, please make out a check to “St. Ann Catholic Church” and carefully earmark it for “Latin Mass” or “Chapel of the Little Flower”. It can be mailed to the parish (3635 Park Road, Charlotte, NC 28209). To donate online, please visit the parish’s “Chapel of the Little Flower” online donation portal at this link.
Lost and Found
The Chapel has a growing collection of items left behind after Mass. If one is missing a missal, book, or other item, please see the table in the cry room.
Father Jones’ Contact Info
If one has questions about the Chapel of the Little Flower, that are not related to one’s parish, please email Father Jones directly at: tlmchapel(at)rcdoc.org
Visiting the Chapel of the Little Flower
If you haven’t attended Mass at the Chapel of the Little Flower yet, you are welcome to join us. Seating is adequate at both Masses, and there is plenty of parking; a cry room; open space outside for the kids after Mass. Bulletins from Saint Ann and Saint Thomas Aquinas parishes are usually available.
General Announcements
Next Sunday: Food & Fellowship Potluck at Saint Thomas Aquinas – Next Sunday (June 14) will be the monthly Sunday Food and Fellowship at Saint Thomas Aquinas from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. If you attend Mass at the Chapel, you can always drop by after Mass.
US Bishops to Consecrate the Nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on June 11 – This Thursday June 11, the eve of the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the US Bishops will formally consecrate the United States to His Sacred Heart. To download the prayer click on this link.
O Most Sacred Heart of Jesus:
You know the longings of our hearts, and you desire that we enjoy friendship with you. From your pierced side, you have poured out the wellspring of life, for which we thirst.
Your heart burns with a love for all people to return to a right relationship with you. We celebrate the abundant gifts you have given this nation, founded on the self-evident truths that our Creator has endowed all people with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We make reparation for the offenses against you and against human dignity that have taken place in this nation. May our hearts be united to yours, so that our families and communities enjoy peace and happiness; may broken relationships be reconciled, injustices repaired, and the wounds of our land be healed.
May your holy Catholic Church serve as a sign, pointing all people to your infinite love. O Desire of Nations and Center of History, we ask you to bless these United States of America. Who live and reign with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us! Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us!
June 11: One Year Anniversary of the Passing of Fr. Carl Kaltreider – This Thursday June 11 is also the first anniversary of the passing of Fr. Carl Kaltreider, a priest of our diocese. Father was longtime administrator of Our Lady of the Angels Chapel in Marion, where he offered the Traditional Latin Mass each Sunday. A faithful priest and friend to our community, in your charity, please pray for the repose of his soul this week.
Novena for Newly Ordained Saint Ann Priests Concludes Monday June 8 – Father Reid is inviting all to join him in praying a novena for our newly ordained priests. It began Sunday May 31 and will conclude Monday June 8. The novena is below or can be downloaded as a PDF this link
Jesus, Good Shepherd, You sent us the Holy Spirit to guide Your Church and lead her faithful to You through the ministry of Your priests. Through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, grant to Your priests Robbie Bauman, David Carter, and Peter Townsend wisdom in leading, faithfulness in teaching, and holiness in guarding Your sacred Mysteries.
As they cry out with all the faithful, 'Abba, Father!' may Your priests be ever more closely identified with You in Your divine Sonship and offer their own lives with You, the one saving Victim.
Make them helpful brothers of one another, and understanding fathers of all Your people.
Renew in Your priests deeper faith, greater trust in You, childlike reliance on our Mother Mary, and unwavering fidelity to the Holy Father and his bishops.
Holy Mary, intercede for your priests.
St. Joseph, protect them.
St. Michael, defend them.
St. John Vianney, pray for them.
LiveMass.net – Want to watch a Latin Mass online? The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP) has a broadcast apostolate which streams its Latin Masses across the world at various times of the day. To view visit: https://www.livemass.net/
Support Saint Ann and Saint Thomas Parishes – Our parishes remain the anchor of our spiritual and community lives and continue to promote the sacred traditions, devotions, speakers and catechesis important for the spiritual growth of ourselves and our families. They also need our continued financial support (and occasional visits!). Both parishes would appreciate our continued generosity.
Rosary for the Traditional Latin Mass – A Rosary is offered for the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass in the church on Sundays after the 11:30 a.m. Novus Ordo Mass at Saint Thomas Aquinas Church.
Daily Holy Face Chaplet for Sacred Liturgy (perpetual novena) – For the preservation of the Traditional Latin Mass, it has been recommended to all friends of the sacred liturgy in the diocese to consider continually praying the powerful Holy Face chaplet, under the banner of Our Lady of the Holy Name. To pray the chaplet, please see this link.
Cardinal Burke’s Prayer for Pope Leo XIV – His Eminence Cardinal Raymond Burke has released a prayer for Pope Leo XIV. Please see the prayer at the links below and consider praying this daily for the Holy Father as he leads the Church. PDF copies can be accessed at these links: [English] [Español] [Latin]
Holy Face Devotions
Prayers of Reparation to the Holy Face of Jesus are offered each week at the following churches on the indicated days:
Note: Days and times may be subject to change due to holidays.
“Jesus, Your ineffable image is the star which guides my steps. Ah, You know, Your sweet Face is for me Heaven on earth” (from Canticle to the Holy Face by Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, the 19th century Discalced Carmelite nun who took the name in religion, Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face).
Traditional Latin Mass and Liturgical News
Saints and Special Observances
The Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus was established as an obligatory feast of the universal Church by Pope Pius IX in 1856, but the liturgical celebration had its origin in an encounter between St. Margaret Mary Alocoque and Our Lord on June 16, 1675, which was described in Dom Prosper Guéranger’s beautiful treatment of this solemnity in his work, The Liturgical Year. [Feast of the Sacred Heart]
Yet, there is more to the meaning of this feast as Father William Rock noted in a 2023 article, expounding on how both the Feasts of Corpus Christi and Sacred Heart are, in a way, a joyful recapitulation, or look back, at the Easter cycle. [Joy that One is Born into the World]
Closing Commentary
In closing, we commend to our readers the following superlative commentary from The Liturgical Year of Dom Prosper Guéranger, OSB, “On Holy Communion, During the Time After Pentecost.”
On Holy Communion, During the Time After Pentecost
If, in the early stages of the Liturgical Year, in Advent, at Christmas, and during the periods of Septuagesima and Lent, when there was question of nothing beyond a preparation for the divine Mysteries which wrought our salvation,—if, in the name of holy Church, we then invited the Faithful to have recourse to the Sacrament of our Lord’s Body, as being the heavenly nourishment that would support them in the glorious career on which they had entered: now, that the work is done, that they have risen again with their Redeemer, that they have followed him, by their desires and their hopes, even to the very summit of heaven; now, that the Holy Ghost has come down upon this earth, that he might complete within them the work of their union with God;—surely, nothing could profit them more, than that they nourish themselves, and even more frequently than before, with the Bread of Life, which came from heaven, that he might give Life to the World.
From our first entrance into the new season, which we are now passing through, holy Church has, by the great Feast of Corpus Christi, brought us face to face with the august Mystery, which is both the Sacrifice whereby God receives the honor due to him, and the Sacrament containing within himself the nourishment of our souls. We have now a clearer understanding of the unspeakable gift, which our Savior vouchsafed to bestow upon us, the night before his Passion. We now see more plainly the nature and greatness of the homage which earth gives to its Creator, by the ceaseless offering of the holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We now know, so much better than formerly, what that deifying relation is, which is made to exist between God and the soul, by means of the participation of the Sacred Host. The Holy Ghost has shed his light upon all these truths; he has opened out of us the very depths of the mystery shown to us from the outset, the mystery, that is, of the Emmanuel, or God with us. Now that we are so fully initiated into the whole of God’s work, we the better understand that great text of the Gospel, which says: The Word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us. We grasp the meaning more completely; we can give it a more literal, and equally faithful, translation, and say: the Word was made Flesh, and took up his dwelling within us.
All this has increased in the Christian the desire of assisting at the Holy Sacrifice. He says to himself, as did the Patriarch of old: “Truly, the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not; my faith was sound, but I did not perceive, as I do now, the immensity of what our Lord did at his Last Supper.” In the same way, having now a clearer knowledge of the union, which is brought about, even in this present world, between God and the soul that is nourished with the living Bread, whereby that soul is transformed into its Creator,—having this clearer knowledge, the Christian longs more ardently than ever for the enjoyment of that Lord, who, even during this mortal life, gives us, by means of the Eucharistic Bread, not only a foretaste, but the very reality, of that which awaits us in heaven. We may truly assert, that the keeping up of that state, which we have already described in the Third Chapter, and which is the state both of the Church herself and of the faithful soul, during this period of the Liturgical Year, is the joint work of the Holy Ghost, who abides within us, and of the Eucharistic gift, in which the Son of God ceases not to act for the preservation, increase, and development of the divine life, which he came to bring us, and of which he thus speaks: I am come, that they may have life, and may have it more abundantly. [On Holy Communion During Time after Pentecost]