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April 7, 2024

Eclipse on 8 April 2024, the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Cleveland is the city from which this website is published, and it is where the traditional Latin Mass is offered every day of the year at the Shrine of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary on Buckeye Road with the approbation of His Excellency, Bishop Edward C. Malesic of the Diocese of Cleveland in Ohio. These Masses are broadcast live to the world every day at https://propria.org/today as well as at https://tlm.live and https://YouTube.com/UsusAntiquior

On the afternoon of Monday, 8 April 2024, a total eclipse of the sun will be visible in our city. For the benefit of patrons of this website or the Usus Antiquior video channel who wish to view this eclipse but who live elsewhere, we will attempt to broadcast the eclipse live. The broadcast will begin at about 1:45 p.m. U.S. Eastern time. The eclipse in northeast Ohio, where Cleveland is located, will begin at about 1:57 p.m. U.S. Eastern time. It will become total between approximately 3:12 and 3:16 p.m., and will end at approximately 4:29 p.m.

You can view the eclipse broadcast here: https://youtu.be/7YJ0kVxmOM0

It so happens that on Monday, 8 April 2024, the universal Church observes the Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is the celebration of the Incarnation of our God, Jesus Christ, in the womb of His most holy Mother and the continuation of the dawn of our salvation (which began with her Immaculate Conception, observed on 8 December).

Joy and peace to you!

A.M.D.G.

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March 6, 2023

Your Twentieth Century

Of this I’m convinced.

Our dear Lord desired the full, active, conscious participation of the Faithful in the liturgy He had so patiently crafted for them over centuries and placed in their lap.  He told His servant John to call an ecumenical council so that He could tell His people this.

Then having told them this, how did He accomplish it?

Not in the way most people think.

Not by making it, suddenly, as much about us as it is about Him.

Not by letting the sons of freemasons seize the opportunity for their own ends and deface it almost beyond recognition.

How then?

He did it by taking it away.

By simply depriving them of it.  For forty years.

No coincidence, that.  Well He knew that if You want to make a people grow hungry for You again, You let them wander around in a desert for forty years, subsisting on wretchedness.

And when after forty years He told His servant Benedict to give it back to the Faithful — of whom there were, by then, many fewer than before — how hungry they were!  How fully active and conscious they suddenly were again!

Our Lord is so good.

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January 4, 2023

Requiem Mass for Pope Benedict XVI on 5 January 2023

For churches and oratories where a Requiem Mass for Pope Benedict XVI will be offered on Thursday, 5 January 2023, Propers are available here: https://ususantiquior.files.wordpress.com/2023/01/propers-for-funeral-mass-mass-for-the-dead-on-the-day-of-death-or-burial-for-pope-benedict-xvi.pdf

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December 31, 2022

Proclamation of Moveable Feasts for 2023

The Novéritis for 2023 is finally out; apologies for the delay. It is on the ordo page at https://propria.org/ordo-2023/#January2023.

(This is the proclamation of moveable feasts that is chanted after the Gospel at sung Masses on Friday, 6 January 2023. See also: https://brandt.id.au/music/proc/proc2023.pdf)

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July 21, 2022

Ordo for 2023

Usus Antiquior‘s ordo for the 2023 liturgical year (which begins on Sunday, 27 November 2022) is now posted at https://propria.org/ordo-2023/.

Please direct any corrections to info@propria.org.

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June 12, 2022

Schedule change for Live Stream Mass on Sunday, June 12, 2022

There will not be a broadcast of the usual 8:00 a.m. Low Mass on today’s date on the “Usus Antiquior” channel on YouTube, so that we may bring you the Solemn High Mass to be offered at 12:00 noon on this date.

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April 16, 2021

Special Schedule Change for Live Stream Mass on Sunday, April 18, 2021

On Sunday, 18 April 2021 (Good Shepherd Sunday), the broadcasts of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Extraordinary Form on the Usus Antiquior channel will be as follows:

• Low Mass at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern time (12:00 GMT)
• Pontifical Solemn High Mass at 2:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern time (18:00 GMT)

At 2:00 p.m. (U.S. Eastern time) on this date, His Eminence, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, will offer Holy Mass and administer the Sacrament of Confirmation at Immaculate Conception Church in Cleveland.

The 12:00 p.m. High Mass will not be broadcast on this date.

* Resurrexit, sicut dixit. Alleluia! *

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June 13, 2020

Live Stream Masses on Sunday, 14 June 2020

On Sunday, 14 June 2020, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Extraordinary Form will be broadcast two times, instead of the usual one time.  These Masses will be as follows:

First Mass:  8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern time (12:00 GMT).  This will be a Low Mass for the Second Sunday after Pentecost.

Second Mass:  12:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern time (16:00 GMT).  This will be a sung (High) Mass for the External Solemnity of Corpus Christi.  It will be preceded by a recitation of the Holy Rosary at 11:35 a.m. U.S. Eastern time (15:35 GMT).

Both of these offerings of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass may be viewed here at https://propria.org/mass/.

Thank you, and may God bless the rest of your day!

* Lauda, Sion Salvatorem *

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May 25, 2020

Schedule Change for Live Stream Mass on Usus Antiquior

The offering of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the Extraordinary Form has been broadcast here at https://propria.org/mass/ every day from March 19, 2020, to the present.

Effective on Monday, 25 May 2020, the schedule for the live broadcast has changed.  The new schedule is as follows:

Mass Schedule (effective 25 May 2020):
Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. Eastern U.S. (GMT 11:00)
Saturday, 8:00 a.m. Eastern U.S. (GMT 12:00)
Sunday, 12:00 p.m. Eastern U.S. (GMT 16:00)

To view the Mass live, go to https://propria.org/mass/ during one of the times above, and click on the red link that says “Click Here for Live Stream of the Mass from Cleveland, USA.”  To view a recording of the most recent Mass, go to that same page and click on the video box at the bottom of the page.

If you see a different schedule for this “Usus Antiquior” Mass on another web site, please kindly send an e-mail to info@propria.org and tell us where you saw it, so that we may give the updated schedule to the webmaster.

Thank you, and may God bless the rest of your day!

* Resurrexit, sicut dixit. Alleluia. *

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April 18, 2020

Live Stream Mass on Divine Mercy Sunday

Divine Mercy Sunday, formerly known as Low Sunday, will take place this year on April 19th.

On that day, you can assist at Holy Mass in the Extraordinary Form in real time, by going to the live stream at https://propria.org/mass/.  There, the Holy Rosary will be prayed beginning at 11:35 a.m. Eastern U.S. time (15:35 G.M.T.).  Holy Mass will begin at 12:00 p.m. (16:00 G.M.T.).  Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament will begin immediately after the conclusion of Holy Mass.  The Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be prayed during the Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament.  You can download the proper prayers of the Mass for this day at https://propria.org/today/.

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