We just recently received notice of a new community devoted to the celebrate of the traditional Roman Rite, St Thomas Aquinas House in the Archdiocese of Detroit. As noted on their website, this community is currently “a non-juridical private association of men under formal ecclesiastical review by the Archdiocese of Detroit. The Archbishop has granted us his full permission to live our religious life according to the Statutes we have submitted to him, to call our community ‘Catholic,’ and to take private vows of religion.
The proposed name for our community is ‘Canons Regular of St. Thomas Aquinas,’ though this is not yet official. We began our discernment in August 2012 at the invitation of Bishop Francis Reiss, one of the auxiliary bishops and vicar general, and with the generous help of the local Office for Consecrated Life. We aspire to become a priory ‘sui iuris’ of diocesan rite which will pray and offer ministry totally devoted to the extraordinary (old Latin) form of the Roman liturgy, thus placing us also within the purview of the Pontifical Commission ‘Ecclesia Dei.’ ”
In addition to cultivating a common prayer-life based on the EF, and providing the traditional liturgy for the faithful, the community ministers at Mother of Divine Mercy Parish in Detroit, teaching catechism and training altar boys to serve at the Traditional Latin Mass. The community also has engaged in door-to-door inner city evangelization and catechetical home visitation. Brothers who wish to discern the priesthood enroll in priestly studies at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Seminary at Orchard Lake. (Mother of Divine Mercy Parish is the agglomeration of three of Detroit’s historic ethnic parishes, Sweetest Heart of Mary, St Joseph and St Josaphat.)
You can visit their website and learn more about the community, including vocational information. at www.traditionalcanons.org.
The proposed name for our community is ‘Canons Regular of St. Thomas Aquinas,’ though this is not yet official. We began our discernment in August 2012 at the invitation of Bishop Francis Reiss, one of the auxiliary bishops and vicar general, and with the generous help of the local Office for Consecrated Life. We aspire to become a priory ‘sui iuris’ of diocesan rite which will pray and offer ministry totally devoted to the extraordinary (old Latin) form of the Roman liturgy, thus placing us also within the purview of the Pontifical Commission ‘Ecclesia Dei.’ ”
In addition to cultivating a common prayer-life based on the EF, and providing the traditional liturgy for the faithful, the community ministers at Mother of Divine Mercy Parish in Detroit, teaching catechism and training altar boys to serve at the Traditional Latin Mass. The community also has engaged in door-to-door inner city evangelization and catechetical home visitation. Brothers who wish to discern the priesthood enroll in priestly studies at Ss. Cyril and Methodius Seminary at Orchard Lake. (Mother of Divine Mercy Parish is the agglomeration of three of Detroit’s historic ethnic parishes, Sweetest Heart of Mary, St Joseph and St Josaphat.)
You can visit their website and learn more about the community, including vocational information. at www.traditionalcanons.org.
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| An EF Baptism at St Josaphat, celebrated by Bishop Reiss, and served by the brothers of St Thomas Aquinas House. |