Traditional Latin Requiem Mass Scheduled for Mother Angelica of EWTN-TV Fame…
JERSEY CITY – The Latin Mass Community of Jersey City announces the celebration of a Month’s Mind Requiem Mass for Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, PCPA who died on Easter Sunday. The Month’s Mind Mass will take place on Thursday, April 28 at 7:00PM at historic St. Anthony of Padua Church located in the downtown section of the city.
Mother Angelica was born Rita Antoinette Rizzo in Canton, Ohio on April 20, 1923. She entered the contemplative Franciscan Order of Poor Clares in 1944 and was best known as a television personality and the founder of both the internationally-broadcast cable television network Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the radio network WEWN.
In 1981, Mother Angelica started broadcasting religious programs from a converted garage on the grounds of her monastery in Birmingham, Alabama. Over the next twenty years, she developed a media network that included radio, TV, and internet channels as well as printed media. Mother Angelica hosted shows on EWTN until she had a stroke in 2001. She continued to live in the cloistered monastery in Hanceville until her death at age 92 on March 27, 2016.
The Month’s Mind Mass refers to the traditional practice of offering a Mass for the dead thirty days after the person’s death or burial for the repose of his soul. The Traditional Requiem differs significantly from what most Catholics experience when attending Funerals Masses today. Besides the use of Latin those in attendance will immediately notice the color of the vestments worn by the priest are black, not white and the Mass is celebrated at the main altar while facing Liturgical East. At the end of Mass there is a final blessing at the catafalque which is a coffin-like object surrounded by candles representing the deceased.
The celebrant of the Mass is Rev. Fr. John A. Perricone, Ph.D. who worked with Mother Angelica when producing a series for EWTN. The resident choir, Cantantes in Cordibus will sing the beautiful Renaissance Requiem Mass by the Spanish composer Cristobal de Morales. Mass Programs in Latin and English will be available for the congregation
Related Articles
No user responded in this post