CHARLOTTE — St. Thomas Aquinas Church and the Charlotte Latin Mass Community marked the feast of the Ascension with a High Mass in the Extraordinary Form.
In the Extraordinary Form calendar, the feast of the Ascension is celebrated on the actual 40th day after Easter, traditionally known as Ascension Thursday. The Mass was offered by St. Thomas Aquinas’ pastor Father Matthew Codd.
Ascension Thursday, May 13, also happened to be the 104th anniversary of the first apparition of Our Lady of Fatima to the three shepherd children in Portugal. To mark this anniversary, prior to Mass the parish held its monthly Fatima processions, which occur on the 13th of each month from May through October.
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— Mike FitzGerald, correspondent