Traditional Latin Mass at Our Lady of the Scapular, Wyandotte, Michigan

06/17/2025

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On Thursday, June 19th our last Tridentine Mass will be offered at 7pm observing the traditional date of Corpus Christi.

This will be a Sung Mass in Latin according to the old rite.

01/06/2025

Blessed Feast of Epiphany! Don't forget to Bless your homes today!

20 ✠ C ✠ M ✠ B ✠ 25

The letters C, M, and B have two meanings. They are the initials of the traditional names of the Three Magi: Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. But more importantly, they also abbreviate the Latin words Christus Mansionem Benedicat, which means “May Christ Bless This House.”

Once your home is blessed, you will need to dispose of the chalk. Please do so reverently, for once blessed it is a sacramental. Either dissolve the chalk in water and pour the water on the soil, or bury the chalk in the soil.

Also, we would like to remind you that we will have a Traditional Latin Mass celebrated this evening at 7PM!

11/24/2024

The Month of November is dedicated to Holy Souls in Purgatory.

There will be a Traditional Requiem Mass celebrated at Our Lady of rhe Scapular tomorrow November 25, at 7PM. All are invited to come and join us for this beautiful Mass.

05/13/2024

Today!

On May 13 is the anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady to three shepherd children in the small village of Fatima in Portugal in 1917. She appeared six times to Lucia, 9, and her cousins Francisco, 8, and his sister Jacinta, 6 between May 13 and October 13, 1917. Mary asked the children to

12/30/2023

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As we continue with the Christmas season, and prepare to welcome the New Year, we invite you to take advantage of a unique opportunity at Our Lady of the Sca...

05/21/2022

Tomorrow on Sunday, May 22, AD 2022, at 2:30PM, our priest Father Mark Borkowski will celebrate his 25th Anniversary Mass. Father Mark was ordained a priest on May 25th, AD 1996 by his Eminence Adam Cardinal Maida.

Ad multos Annos!

Tu es Sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech!

08/26/2021

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08/26/2021

Feast of Our Lady of Czestochowa, – Today, August 26th – also known as “The Black Madonna”. In the monastery-fortress of Jasna Gora, (Bright Mountain) in Czestochowa, Poland, a significant place of pilgrimage, is venerated an ancient icon of The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Infant Jesus, which has been crowned the “Queen of Poland”. It is also well known and highly venerated throughout the world. This icon, now known as Our Lady of Czestochowa, has a fascinating history.
Tradition has it that it was painted by Saint Luke the Evangelist on a table built by Our Lord Jesus in Saint Joseph’s workshop. Empress Saint Helena who found Our Lord’s cross, also discovered this icon in Jerusalem, and took it to Constantinople where her son, Constantine, built a church to enshrine it.
The image remained in Constantinople for 500 years until, through dowries, it was taken to Russia to a region that later became Poland.
In the 14th century the image was transferred to Jasna Gora in Poland as an answer to a request made in a dream of Prince Ladislaus of Opola, as in 1382 Tartars invaded the Prince’s fortress at Belz, and during the attack one of the Tartar arrows struck the painting and lodged in the neck of the Madonna. The prince, fearful that the image would fall into the enemy’s hands, fled Belz during the night and stopped in the town of Czestochowa and placed it inside a small church, and the prince later had a Pauline Monastery and church built at the location to ensure the painting’s safety.
Next, the Hussites, followers of the heretic John Hus from Prague, attempted to harm the holy icon. In 1430 they stormed the Monastery and stole the image. Placing it in a wagon, they were carrying it away when the vehicle stopped and could not be moved. The attackers hurled the image to the ground, breaking it in three pieces. One man pulled his sword and struck the image twice on the cheek leaving two deep scars. On attempting to slash it thrice, the man went into agonizing convulsions and died.
The two scars on the holy image as well as the one on the throat have always reappeared after attempts to repair them.
During the N**i occupation of Poland in WWII, Hi**er ordered all religious pilgrimages closed. In a demonstration of love and trust in Our Lady, half a million Poles defied Hi**er’s orders and visited the shrine. Following the liberation of Poland in 1945, a million and a half people expressed their gratitude to their Madonna by praying before the miraculous image.
Twenty eight years later the first attempt to capture Warsaw, the Russians took the city. That year 800,000 visited the Lady of Czestochowa in defiance of the invader.
And today, free from Communism, Czestochowa continues to be the religious heartbeat of Poland. To the miraculous, fearless Lady of Jasna Gora, the Polish go with their needs and petitions, their sorrows and their joys. Indeed she is their embattled, victorious, miraculous queen.

07/26/2021

FEAST OF SAINT ANNE – The Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and
grandmother of Our Lord Jesus Christ. By an Eternal Decree of Infinite Wisdom, the child, conceived in Saint Anne’s womb without the stain of Original Sin, is what we refer to as The Immaculate Conception.
What little we know about Saint Anne comes from the apocryphal Gospel of James (ca. 145 AD), also known as the Protoevangelium of Saint James. According to the tradition, Saint Anne (Hannah in Hebrew which means “grace”) was born in Bethlehem and married Joachim of Nazareth, both descendants of King David. Joachim is described as “a rich and devout man,” who regularly gave to the poor and “made a double offering to the temple” in expiation for his sins. Because Anne was barren, the temple priest rejected Joachim’s sacrifice, as childlessness was interpreted as a sign of divine displeasure. There was no greater misfortune for a Jewish person than to be childless. Joachim consequently “went into the desert to fast and pray” for forty days and forty nights. Saint Anne remembered the faith of her ancestors, and with renewed courage prayed: “God of my fathers, bless me: Hear my prayer, as You blessed the womb of Sarah, and gave her a son Isaac!”. Her prayer was heard: “Behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to her and said: ‘Anne, Anne, the Lord has heard your prayer: You shall conceive and bear, and your offspring shall be spoken of in all the world’. There was an ancient belief that a child born of an elderly mother who had given up hope of having offspring was destined for great things.
Devotion to Saint Anne began early in the history of the Catholic Church. Early Christians were very devoted to Saint Anne and a church was built in her honor in Jerusalem, believed to be near where Saint Anne, Joachim and Mary lived. Since the seventh century the Greek and Russian Church have celebrated feasts honoring Saint Joachim and Saint Ann. The Western Church began to celebrate the feast of Saint Anne in the 16th century.
Saint Anne is the patroness of unmarried women, housewives, women in labor, or who want to be pregnant, grandmothers, educators and teachers. As she was favored by God to become the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary, she is often invoked as the Patron of mothers as well as for relationships, among other things.

07/16/2021

THE FEAST OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL - Today, July 16th – is the Titular Feast of our parish. It was first instituted in the late 14th century in commemoration of the approval of the Carmelite Order a hundred years earlier. This title is given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order, and it emphasizes the devotion that the Blessed Virgin Mary has for those who are devoted to her, and who signal it by wearing the Brown Scapular.
The Mount Carmel is located in between Tyre and Caesarea, stretches about 15 miles across Palestine, and is about 20 miles west from Nazareth. It is a richly forested area at the southern end of a long fertile valley known from ancient times for its wine and oil production, and also for its cover of flower blossoms, flowering shrubs, and fragrant herbs. On the mountain’s slopes there are plentiful pastures. Caves on the mountains often provided shelter for monks through the ages, in which Elijah and Elisha took refuge. An abiding sense of the reference to Mount Carmel suggests God’s care and copious giving of life and care. Its Hebrew name “karmel” ַכּ ְר ֶמל can be translataed as God’s Vineyard, garden land, or a fruitful place.
The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid 13th century. They had a chapel dedicated to Our Lady. By the 13th century they became known as “Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.” The Carmelites had long claimed that their order extended back to ancient times – indeed, that it was founded on Mount Carmel by the prophets Elijah and Elisha. While others disputed this idea, Pope Honorius III, in approving the order in 1226, seemed to accept its antiquity. The celebration of the feast became wrapped up with this controversy, and, in 1609, after Robert Cardinal Bellarmine examined the origins of the feast, it was declared the patronal feast of the Carmelite order. From then on, the celebration of the feast began to spread, with various Popes approving the celebration in southern Italy, then Spain and her colonies, then Austria, Portugal and her colonies, and finally in the Papal States, before Pope Benedict XIII placed the feast on the universal calendar of the Latin Church in 1726.

The Brown Scapular – a small piece of rough wool cloth – was given in a vision by Virgin Mary to the monastic Simon Stock, living in England in the 13th century. On July 16th, 1251, he prayed to Mary that his order could be saved from its oppression. She appeared with the scapular in hand, and told him: "Take, beloved son this scapular of thy order as a badge of my confraternity and for thee and all Carmelites a special sign of grace; whoever dies in this garment, will not suffer everlasting fire. It is the sign of salvation, a safeguard in dangers, a pledge of peace and of the covenant." Promises associated with the scapular are: Mary’s protection of the Carmelite order and all those who wear the scapular (including laymen of its Third Order); special help at one’s hour of death for all who wear the habit (or scapular) in Mary’s name; and the so-called “Sabbatine Privelege” which Pope John XXII declared in 1322.

The Sabbatine Priviledge – The Blessed Virgin of Mount Carmel has promised to save those who wear the scapular from the fires of hell; She will also shorten their stay in purgatory if they should pass from this world still owing some debt of punishment. This promise is found in a Bull of Pope John XXII. The Blessed Virgin appeared to him and, speaking of those who wear the Brown Scapular, said, “I, the Mother of Grace, shall descend on the Saturday after their death and whomsoever I shall find in purgatory I shall free so that I may lead them to the holy mountain of life everlasting.” The prayer prescribed to gain the Sabbatine privilege is the Little Office of our Lady, which can be substituted for by other prayers. The form of penance originally stipulated was not to eat meat on Wednesday and Saturday as well as Friday. In our days, can substitute for abstinence from meat a certain number of prayers, most commonly the five decades of the Rosary every day. The Sabbatine privilege is a strong reminder that Mary most faithful will keep her promises to us. Our Blessed Mother will stand by us when God calls us at our final hour, and her love will accompany us even beyond the gates of death. Thanks to the brown scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel we pray with special confidence, "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death."