Saint Aelred Catholic Church

02/04/2024

Congratulations to Rev. Mr. Jeff Baker ordained to the diaconate in Knoxville, Tennessee January 4! Please pray for our newest deacon and all our seminarians.

01/27/2024

Saint Aelred Catholic Church will bury the "Alleluia" tomorrow for Septuagesima Sunday, the beginning of Pre-Lent. No more "Alleluia" (nor Gloria) until Christ resurrects on the Easter Vigil.

01/24/2024

EUCHARISTIC REVIVAL IN THE ORDINARIATE, JANUARY

01/10/2024

LAND UPDATE We'll have a way into the land to our little clearing soon. Council meetings will discuss some next moves on Thursday. Any donations to the Land Fund at this point will go toward building our first structure, clearing costs, master plan funds, etc.

01/10/2024

01/10/2024

Congratulations to our East Tennessee Ordinariate in Knoxville officially becoming St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Community after the Diaconal Ordination of Rev. Mr. Jeff Baker!

01/09/2024

01/08/2024

The Divine was born on Christmas morn that we might be reborn by water and Spirit to be like the Divine.
-Happy Feast of Our Lord's Baptism

01/04/2024

St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) is the first-born American Saint! Her feast day is the 11th day of Christmas. She was a convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism. She started several academies that helped establish American Catholic education. She stressed Order & Discipline but founded upon Charity and aimed at Charity for all. Below is her old mausoleum, a beautiful Neo-Gothic Revival piece. Ora pro nobis.

01/03/2024

One the primary images in English parish churches, if not the primary devotional image, on the cusp of the Reformation, was the great Rood, a Crucifix with a...

12/29/2023

ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us thy Only Begotten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this time to be born of a pure Virgin: grant that we being regenerate, and made thy children by adoption and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit; through the same Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
-Collect for the Festival of Saint Thomas Becket