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Core Contributions
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|  | Program Management |
|  | Liturgical Services |
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Featured Projects:
- Latin Community Parish
- Orchestral Latin Mass
- Latin Mass Awareness
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Saints |
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Reverance |
Inheritance |
Sacrifice |
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Christ is made truly present in the Eucharistic sacrifice of the Holy Mass.
Catholics believe in the True Presence because scripture tells us that He gave us His Blood and Body at
Calvary in propriation for our sins. The Holy Mass gives us this great gift through the miracle of transubstantiation
so that He becomes for us the Body and Blood wherever or whenever the mass is celebrated throughout the world. The bread and wine offered
in the mass is transformed into His Body and Previous Blood in a form that is fitting for us to consume. This manifestation
is taught and believed more vigorously in the Tridentine community by virtue of the reverance demonstrated in the presence of the Eucharist.
Therefore, it is not uncommon to witness a 2-year old bowing before a tabernacle, or to see first communicants in adoration for hours before the Eucharist. |
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Many saints were forged by the Tridentine Mass... therefore, heaven has now been granted their abode.
Since the 3rd century, the Latin Mass was a standard that remained untamed by the world and it granted the saint
heavenly virtues because it resembled the glory told to us through John's Revelations. Saints from the recent century frequented
the Latin Mass as a daily discipline - to nourish the soul, soothe the heart and form the spiritual life that seperates them
from the decays of worldly ways. A fervent life of prayer, devotion and childly holiness with total dependence of God is a common
effect of Latin Mass spirituality because it is encouraged througouhly. It teaches the penitent to listen and pray to God incesantly, cultivating the
soul to every reality of heaven - worship, prayer and adoration of the True Presence. |
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The Tridentine Mass has remained unchanged for over 1400 years.
The Tridentine Mass has produced countless saints, and vocations to the religious life due to sanctity
that sets it apart from the comtemporary forms of worship which seems to accommodate nothing other than the requirements of the world.
Scripture reminds us through the various experiences of the prophets that humankind should conform to God, instead of
practicing worldly worship. The consistency and immovable traditions of the Latin Mass reminds us God's constant nature
and promises us continous mercy, worship and devotion which is a celebrated the very same way throughout the whole wide world.
Liturgy clearly overcomes language, cultural, social and economic barriers because it meets the needs of people everywhere everyday,
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A hightened level of reverence is demonstrated visibly by all members of the congregation towards God.
Even Jesus took to his knees in prayer before His Father. Priests of the Old Testament demonstrated this clearly
through their encounters in the temple, and neophytes did nothing less when they realized the presence of Our Lord.
Reverence is the liturgical posture which demonstrates the attitude of being in presence of the divine.
Tridentine parishes are equipped with all modes, aspects and devices such as holy water, kneelers, confessionals, altar rails that
prepares the penitent for the very reality of heaven. It is void of casual standards that does not succumb to
worldly ways, because it is contrary to the pose, gestures, behaviors that are expected when one is in heaven. The Tridentine Mass
does nothing less than prepares the soul so that divine attitude becomes a norm throughout one's life journey to heaven. |
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Liturgy was handed down in the form celebrated by the early church.
Known as the fixed set of ceremonies, body of rites that defines the mode of worship for a religion, the Latin Rite is unmistakeably
the ordinary for the Catholic faith that has documented origins from circa 400. It was handed down through the Church Fathers who learned it from
this descendant apostles and remains as closets to its original forms. Coined in Greek as leitourgia and Latin as liturgia
it forms the standards by which worship is acceptable to God because it is a consistent model with adoptations of Jewish formulas inherited from firm traditions.
These very same principles govern everyday occurances in daily life
such as court proceedings and governmental affairs which gives it true authority and demonstrates authenticity which will otherwise
render it useless because there is no lineage to traditions that can prove its validity. The true measure of liturgy is seen
by the number of saints it forged through time because of the piety it creates that has withstood time. |
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True meaning of sacrifice - a pure, holy, spotless victim is offered in the traditional mass.
Jewish traditions of the sacrifice illustrated from scripture recalls how the Lord himself will provide the means for a holocaust.
The Holy Eucharist which is Jesus Himself, gives us is the very sacrifice for the reparation of sins, made possible through the miracle of
transubstantiation. This is the greatest gift that God provides for the asking through liturgy in the words of consecration as it is
uttered in the same way on the night of the first Paschal feast. The reverance demonstrated throughout the liturgy by the penitent bears a
great witness of His True Presence. This realization can only be achieved by the grace commuted by the Eucharist, because
like it, the recipient receives nothing less than the truth that remains pure, holy and spotless through the partaking of Holy Communion -
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Converts and reverts alike return to Holy Mother Church because of this sacred liturgy.
As one studies scriptures alongside the history of the Early Church, they quickly come to realize that Holy Mother Church
has retained all of the teachings handed down through the ages without compromise. As God himself deigned for a sacrifice to be offered forever,
He also gave the church the means to achieve sanctity by practicing all the precepts of its teachings. Just as God remains faithful in His ways, the church
exercises the liturgy that enables its believers to receive the abudant graces necessary to achieve holiness. What has been seeminlgy lost over generations of
splintering denominations based on personal interpretations as opposed to liturgy already documented through Holy Scriptures. This becomes the greatest reason
for most converts and reverts to return to Holy Mother Church because the untampered traditions has only promised nothing less than graces worthy of heaven -
making permissible only the pure, holy and sacred.
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Sanctity and a holy life is encouraged amongst the penitent everywhere... everyday.
All of the sacraments handed down through the apostles are made accessible to Catholics everday.
Just as God is present in our daily lives, Holy Mother church extends these precious gifts to penitents
in the very same manner, using consistent formulas and promising the same graces to people everywhere regardless
of their language, cultural background, financial circumstances or social standings. This uncompromising
measure of faith, ensures the penitent unrelenting access to living a life that is not void of the
hand of God, as taught by its clergy. This makes holiness, sanctity and a spiritual life close to God reacheable to anyone
in any Catholic church regardless of their national origin and language because the church is open
to all Catholics anywhere throughout the globe. For just as God is omni-present, churches with
it Holy Tabernacle where the Holy Eucharist resides, remains available to all everywhere, and every single day. |
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See why Catholics and coverts everywhere are interested in the Tridentine Mass |
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Affiliations and interest groups...
We are affiliated national lay and Latin mass apostolate programs
that helps promote our liturgical interests.







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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
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St. Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church, patron saint of CLMC Pray for Us! |
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.
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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
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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 |
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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. Since
the early 80's, Mother Angelica and EWTN has been
bringing to Catholics worldwide, the only commerical
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televsion. It is not subject to the whims of
social media or national political agenda and is
completely free from the common ravages of social
needs. It has been the long standing resources
for all that is traditionally Catholic and remains a
key source of spiritual information about Holy
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