JOHN COSMAS
Program Manager

   
 

 


Core Contributions
 
Steering Committee
Event Management
Program Management
Liturgical Services
Team Building

 

Featured Projects:
 

  • Latin Community Parish
  • Orchestral Latin Mass
  • Latin Mass Awareness

 

 

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Affiliations and interest groups...

We are affiliated national lay and Latin mass apostolate programs that helps promote our liturgical interests.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Favorite Parishes:
 

  • St. Ann on Park Road
  • St. Thomas Aquinas
  • St. Michael's, Gastonia
  • Sacred Heart, Salisbury

 

 

Featured Liturgies:
 

  • St. Maria Gioretti Visit 2016
  • Epiphany and Sacred Music
  • Sparrow Mass for Epiphany
  • Rorate Caeli St. Thomas 2015
  • St. Thomas Missae Solemnis 2015
  • Epiphany at St. Thomas 2015
  • Tenebrae at St. Thomas 2016
  • Feast of St. Dominic Savio 2015
  • St. Ann, Solemnity Ascension 2015
  • St. Ann, Feast Assumption 2015
  • Epiphany at Charlotte Catholic 2015
  • Rorate Caeli, St. Thomas 2014
  • Rorate Caeli, St. Ann 2014
  • Mass for St. Maria Goretti
  • Orchestral Mass in Charlotte
  • Rorate Caeli BVM at St. Thomas
  • Rorate Caeli BVM at St. Ann
  • Rorate Caeli BVM by Liturgy Guy

 

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Charlotte Latin Mass Community
 

St. Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church, patron saint of CLMC
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A growing interest for the Tridentine Mass grew in late 2012 which prompted the need for a formal effort to restore the traditional Latin mass in the ever growing Charlotte community.  Not long after a simple Low Mass was offered, the community started to make a concerted effort to promote the mass in all of its illustrious forms and dedicated a long term effort to promulgate the traditions in the diocese.

 

Rooted at St. Ann on Park Road, which was once considered the poorest parish in the diocese, the Latin Mass community brought about a new renaissance of very rich and reverant Tridentine mass tradition into the conservative heart of Charlotte.  This turned the once quite parish into a bustling community which attracts as far as north as Statesville, east of Raleigh and down south in Columbia to frequent the holy mass in all of its current liturgical implementations which comprises of solemnities, Holy Days and some as graceful as the Pontifical High Mass.

 

         

 

  The CLMC is a lay apostolate that serves the greater Charlotte community in the interest of promoting the full sacramental life in the traditional Roman Tridentine forms through these various efforts:

 

 

 

The Steering Committee comprises of lay members who a devoted to the Tridentine Mass forms prior to the enactment of the Novus Ordo.  They seek to provide the traditional ritual forms for Catholic who is accustomed to the highly reverent Tridentine Rites.

 


 

Members meet monthly to plan, develop and implement a host of services, set goals, develop liturgical activities and execute programs efficiently:

 

Tridentine Mass & Liturgical Services
Enrichment of the Liturgical Forms
Endowment Development for Priests
Parish Activities
Latin Mass Awareness Programs

 

This committee helps outline a set of activities designed to address and meet the needs of its contributing members.  We serve a number of needs such as planning for liturgical services, community building efforts, orchestral masses, inter-community activities.  Mermbers enjoy a host of liturgical activities in the Extraordinary form with great thanks to our fellow priests who are currently bi-ritual:

 

Fr. Timothy Reid, St. Ann on Park Road
Fr. Matthew Kauth, St. Thomas Aquinas
Fr. Jason Christian, St. Thomas Aquinas
Fr. Micheal Winslow, St. Thomas Aquinas
Fr. Jason Carter, St. Patrick's Cathedral
Fr. Noah Carter, Sacred Heart
Fr. Joseph Bittner, St. Michael's Gastonia

 

While these priests are fluent in the Tridentine Rituals and service as presiders in all of our liturgical exercises, they are also principals in their local parish for the Novus Ordo tradition.  Therefore, there is a current need to create a parish centered on the Tridentine Rite which allows for the full exercise of the Extraordinary Forms which can be realized by adhering or accommodating to the tradition in its entirety.  This allows the community to partake and indulge in the Tridentine Rite and circumvent many of the elements that is not readily observed in the Novus Ordo form.

 

One principal urge of the Latin Mass penitents' is the realization that all the saints prior to their age or era were devotees of the Latin Mass.  Many frequented the Extraordinary form daily because it was nothing less than a taste of Heaven.

 

This office serves as the principal core for developing various programs intended at elevating the Tridentine Rite traditions for the whole community to enjoy.  These programs are designed to restore the very rich, wholesome and graceful activities that promotes the fullness of spirituality exercised by the Latin Rite penitent.

 

Some of the programs we offer that interest our patrons include:

 

Introductory Class: Tridentine Rite
How to Use the Latin Missale
Introduction to Latin
Gregorian Chant Lessons
Lessons & Vespers
Apologetics: Tridentine Rite
Lessons: St. Gregory the Great
St. Cecilia Schola Sanctorum
Sacra Libre Children's Choir
Latin Rite Seminarians
St. Dominic Savio Altar Boys Club
Men's Day of Reflection
Women's Day of Reflection
Pilgrimages to Shrines & Holy Sites

 

This valuable programs endows the various liturgical aspects of the church life and helps Catholicism thrive in the Latin tradition, which has been adopted with great favor in the Charlotte community.

 


 

CLMC programs empower its members to discover the countless graces made available ultimately through the appreciation of the Holy Mass while promoting the spiritual life of the penitent with a variety of development centric services.  It allows members to engage the many levels of spiritual growth by providing the developmental tools and book of knowledge necessary to endow the individual through their continously maturing experiences.

 

The directly result of these programs can be measured through the number of vocations delivered throught the Latin Rite community.  This is not least evidenced in the ratio of seminarians produced from St. Ann alone, and the degree of young women who have gone to seek perpetual vows in covents.  Members also participate in the Carolina Catholic Chorale, which routinely perform in Orchestral Masses, and are welcomed in the circles of the colocium in Rome and the stalls at Carnegie Hall.

 

 

 

 

 

The principal goal of the CLMC is to eventually have an established parish that will help the community reliaze and exercise its fervent need for a full sacramental life within the Tridentine Rite of the Extraordinary Form.  An on-going effort by the CLMC petitioned via the office of the Bishop of the Diocese of Charlotte may enable the community to hold all range of contemporary services in conjunction with the Tridentine Rites that involves nothing less than:

 

Holy Sacrifice of the Daily Mass
Low Mass on Sundays
High Mass on Days of Obligations
Pontifical Mass
Holy Week Triduum
Good Friday Tenebrae
Ascension Thursday
Rorate Caeli to the Blessed Virgin
First Friday Mass
First Saturday Mass
Mass of the Dead
Holy Hour of Reparation
Fasting & Alms Giving
Charitable Works of Mercy
Blessing of the Homes
Candlemass
St. Peter Martyr Palms
All Souls & All Saints
Orchestral Missa Solemnis
Latin Rite Baptisms
Latin Rite First Holy Communion
Divine Office in the Latin Rite
Schola Sanctorum of the Tridentine Rite
Penitential Services

 

This could be made possible easily with the integration of the Fraternal Order of St. Peter (FSSP) who will take residence at the parish of the community's care.  The parish will be provisioned through the Diocese of Charlotte, but it's principal care and maintenance will be supported through CLMC patronage.  This will also allow for the Extraordinary Form to be practiced explicity, where the common practices of the Novus Ordo is refrained in order to promote the Motu Propio in a singular parish serving all of its Tridentine needs.

 


 

The call to return to tradition isn't new, as converts are beginning to flood the Tridentine Rite because of the lack of decorum, reverance, dilution of liturgy and the mere non-existance of sacred forms in modern day practices of worship.  Coupled with a very modernistic approach to worship, converts are highly attracted to the divine liturgy because it restores a high sense of sanctity and reverence to the disregarded and often disrespected God - who deserved sheer respect that has been clearly defined in illuminating words of scriptures.  The modern day cry for a rapid return to orthodoxy affirms a tradition that has offered heavenly promises in the course of salvation history.  What once stereed Catholics away is returning devout members due to the witness of the traditional mass.

 

The growing need for a Tridentine Rite parish alllows both clergy and laity to experience their liturgical needs throughout the year so it does not impose upon Novus Ordo obligations.  This also allows penitents to partake in traditional services such as weekly confessions and other periodical liturgical events such as devotions to the Blessed Virgin Mary through First Saturday dawn masses.  First Friday devotions with 48 hour or Perpetual Adoration becomes an inherent standard with the Tridentine community, while lesser Feasts also takes greater precedence with more frequency than it appears in the Novus Ordo community.  Lesser devotions are held with great esteem, and sanctuary space is alightened with the scent of the Holy Sacrifice of the mass perpetually to remind us of the Presence of Heaven here on Earth.

 

 

The CLMC has gladly helped and sponsored the various on-going activities that is designed to include members of the Novus Ordo community within the diocese in an effort to deepen and appreciate the Tridentine traditions.

 

Some of the key areas and activities include:


Orchestral Mass
Holy Hour of Reparation
Feast of St. Dominic Savio for Altar Servers
Devotional Novenas of the Blessed Mother
Musica Sacra: Sacred Liturgical Music
Traditional Corpus Christ procession
Liturgy & Fraternity
Monthly Community Fellowships

 


 

The number of activities keeps penitents highly engaged while allowing more of the Home Based Catholic families to be directly involved in parish life.  This results in a well endowed Catholic family member who has countless oppurtunities to grow and mature in a strong Catholic faith which bears great fruit.

 

 

 

CLMC is affiliated with these organizations and apostolates:


Fraternal Society of St. Peter
Carolina Catholic Chorale
Belmont Abbey Minor Seminary
Eternal Word Television Network
OnePeterFive
The Liturgy Guy

 

Our affiliations gives us an edge by offering members clear access to valuable services and apostolates to help advance their interests in the Tridentine Rite.

 

The principal reason for our involvement with FSSP, is to leverage the standards for the Tridentine Rite and impose them upon as the means of training, doctrination and principal method for servicing the holy sacrifice of the mass.  Priests currently serving in the Tridentine Rite follow the rubrics established by FSSP deligently in every respect - Low Mass, High Mass, Solemnity, Pontificial Mass and the Mass of the Dead.  The CLMC currently sponsors programs, and trainings for any priest interested in the Latin Rite and sends them to FSSP facilities for certification.

 

The St. Joseph College Seminary at Belmont Abbey College was established in late 2014 with the vested interest in educating young men bound for seminary life.  It has allowed the Diocese of Charlotte to provision pre-seminary education and prepare candidates worthy for schooling and acceptance into traditional institutes in the north or Rome.

 

We support the Carolina Catholic Chorale which is hosted by St. Thomas Aquinas as the principal schola qualified to chant and orchestrate at our Latin masses.  Members originate from St. Ann, St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Michael's in Gastonia to participate with hearts, minds and voices to illuminate the mass.

 

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