Fourth Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday)

This Sunday, the fourth in Lent, is known as Laetare Sunday because the Mass begins with the invocation: Laetáre, Jerúsalem: et convéntum fácite, omnes qui dilígitis eam: gaudéte cum laetítia, qui in tristítia fuístis.

Third Sunday of Lent

In the Gospel for the Third Sunday of Lent Jesus invokes the image of a kingdom divided against itself to refute those who accuse him of casting out devils “by Beelzebub, the prince of devils.”

St. Gregory Latin Mass Novena Begins Today

Just a reminder that today March 3rd begins our annual novena to St. Gregory the Great for the preservation of the Latin Mass.

Second Sunday of Lent

In this week’s Gospel for the Second Sunday of Lent we see Jesus on another mountain in a very different light. Taking Peter and James and John “up into a high mountain apart . . . "

First Sunday of Lent

In the Gospel for the First Sunday in Lent we are told that after Jesus had fasted forty days in the desert, the devil confronted Him with three temptations.

Ash Wednesday Schedule (Updated)

We share the Ash Wednesday Latin Mass schedule across the region including the new/corrected time for the Latin Mass at Our Lady of the Lake Church (Chapin SC).

Quinquagesima Sunday

The first reading in the liturgy for Quinquagesima Sunday – the third of the three Sundays in the pre-Lenten season of Septuagesima – is Saint Paul’s great discourse on charity (I Corinthians:13).