Post Latin Mass Report: June 29 Solemn Latin Mass at St. Joseph's Parish "Streetsville" Mississauga

Hello Everyone.

I did put out an open invitation on my mentions of the Solemn Latin Mass this past Saturday, for anyone attending to give a report on how it went. The Mass was celebrated at St. Joseph's "Streetsville," Missisauga at 11am for the Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.

One of the altar servers for this mass has graciously sent me a report of the Mass, to be placed here on this blog.

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Hi Julian, I'm one of the altar servers who assisted at the Mass of June 29th, 2013 at St. Joseph Parish in Streetsville (Mississauga).  Here follows an anecdotal account of my own experience in assisting, noting that I'm not a parishioner of St. Joseph's and that I do not speak directly on its behalf.

I was contacted directly by St. Joseph's associate pastor, Fr. Kim D'Souza, about helping out for this Mass: to that end we held a practice for five altar boys from the parish on the preceding Wednesday, going over the ceremony in general and specifically their functioning as torchbearers and the roles of Acolyte/Thurifer for the fifth server (who served as Second Acolyte on Saturday).  To my knowledge the Toronto Traditional Mass Society (TTMS) *may* have provided the high altar cards (though I would have to confirm such a detail for myself), but I gather that literally everything else (sacred music, vestments and vesture, instruments e.g. torches, thurible, candles, etc., etc.) came from within the Parish itself, alongside two sacred ministers and four altar boys recruited from other Archdiocesan parishes (recruited directly by the Parish) who generously donated their time and services for this occasion.

(And yes, this might mean the use of the term "to host" by the Toronto Catholic Witness blog was singularly incorrect - again, any desired clarification on this point ought to be sought directly from St. Joseph Parish and/or the TTMS, I think.)

The Mass itself went off without a hitch, from my perspective at least: the sacred music went very well, with a schola of around a dozen strong (expanded from four cantors in their previous Mass of Corpus Christi Thursday); the in-house sacristans were very generous with their time and expertise, and the parish has virtually everything on hand to confect future ceremonies handily; the Parish's altar boys did very well (even though the four torchbearers had no prior experience in the Traditional Latin Mass, they hit all their marks and served in a mature and dignified manner); the sermon was likewise worthy of the Feast, being preached by a priest of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Canada who was edified by the beauty of the Traditional Roman Liturgy, noting this in the sermon itself as well as in the sacristy after Mass.

So, it's onwards and upwards for St. Joseph Parish as it continues to autonomize its grounding in confecting the Traditional Roman Liturgy, and I for one look forward to the days when there will be as many Traditional Latin Masses being celebrated in the Archdiocese of Toronto as there are stars in the sky!  Christe eleison.

Pax, Andrew R.

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So there is development going on at St. Joseph's in terms of a Latin Mass program. This could be quite interesting. Regardless this is a good contribution here on Servimus. Thank you for your report Andrew.

Pax, Julian.

SOLEMN LATIN/EF/1962 MASS SATURDAY JUNE 29 2013 11AM ST JOSEPH'S MISSASSAUGA

Hello Everyone. May I have your attention please:

There will be a Solemn Latin Mass in the Extraordinary Form/Tridentine Latin Mass/1962 Mass this Saturday, June 29, 11am, at St. Joseph's "Streetsville" in Missassauga, Ontario.

Here is the poster for the event: 

Here are the abridged details:

Where? St. Joseph's Catholic Church "Streetsvile", Missassauga, ON

When? Saturday June 29, 11AM. 

Address: 5440 Durie Road, Missassauga, ON

Parish Website: http://stjosephchurchstreetsville.blogspot.ca/

Parish Contact: 905-826-2766 (Request Fr. Kim De Sousa who will be of the clergy in the Mass for inquiries.)

I will say that this is truly exceptional and a joyous blessing for the Archdiocese of Toronto! With my experience participating in the Latin Mass (May 2011 onward), I will say that to my knowledge, up until now, in the core of the diocese (excluding the outskirts or "suffragan" dioceses),  Latin Masses have been held  only in the designated Latin Mass parishes (e.g. SLTM or the Oratorian ones, the temporary FSSP mission sadly ended by the diocese in 2010 at the Shrine of the Little Flower in Scarborough), or organized by Choirs/Societies in other parishes that have allowed the TLM to occur. This is not what was intended for the Latin Mass, under the governance of ++Collins, and gives a poor appearance and misconception that it's only "on special occasions/in EF parishes" where this is welcome. NEWS FLASH! THAT'S WRONG! NOT ANYMORE!!!! 

NEVER, have I witnessed until now, a regular, ordinary, Novus Ordo diocesan parish in the core of the Archdiocese of Toronto, hold a frequent or random Latin Mass, not as a special parish devoted to the EF (via a program or a designated parish,) and/or without aid from an organized society or choir. Unless otherwise notified (feel free to inform me charitably!) May I declare that THIS IS THE FIRST INSTANCE SINCE SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM that a major core parish in the Archdiocese of Toronto, has held a Latin Mass according to the guidelines of Summorum Pontificum and Ecclesiae Unitatem, free-standing!!!!

With this declaration, I must highly congratulate and give my salutations to St. Joseph's for doing so. This is trailblazing in light of what our Holy Father Emeritus, Benedict XVI, worked so hard to achieve for Holy Mother Church, the New Evangelization, as well as for our Archdiocese of Toronto. 

The faithful of the Church, of whom many have not been able to experience solid, orthodox worship, untainted by the sentiments of secular society/the Devil (e.g. Jesus loves everybody, and as long as you are "nice" you are a good person), are truly being fed and spiritually nourished by liturgies such as this. The more parishes, priests, and laity that do this and word towards this goal, are carrying out the necessary Evangelical Catholicism, needed to combat spiritual apathy and anti-Catholic sentiments in this modern era.

The youth and young adults, who are not indulging in the secular means of society and are truly seeking such aforementioned worship and the Truth, DO want more of this, and are more and more gravitating to this form of the Mass in the Roman Rite, and parishes with solid, reverent liturgy (even in the Novus Ordo/Vernacular Masses). I myself am witness to this: Even in my Novus Ordo efforts, I abandoned my former parish due to such a lack of spiritual nourishment. I went to my current parish (of which you can find out where in an archived post), which is feeding me spiritually, and has many great signs under its current pastorship of spiritual fruits and the TRUE meaning off all contained in Vatican II in effect.  

While I so desire to attend this Mass, I am forced to work Friday night Night, despite a request for the whole weekend off (with apologies from management. Unfortunately, full timers are GUARANTEED every other weekend off, and luck has it most had Friday off). However, anyone who is attending, can you kindly please tell me how it went, provide me details of the event, or at the most, be willing to write a full report??? You will be credited by full name or a pseudo-name on here for your report or information. 

Bottom line: I encourage you, to please attend this blessed and reverent Sacrifice of the Holy Mass, on a critical feast day in the Church, in the Extraordinary Form. Further, please spread the word via every possible form of media in your possession (e-mail, phone ....) and get as many people as possible to go. 

Pax tibi Christi, Julian Barkin.