Traditional Catholic, Traditional Roman Catholic Church

Absecon, NJ Home
What is Ash Wednesday?
The Wednesday after Quinquagesima Sunday, which is the first day of the Lenten fast.
The name dies cinerum (day of ashes) which it bears in the Roman Missal is found in the earliest
existing copies of the Gregorian Sacramentary and probably dates from at least the eighth century.
On this day all the faithful according to ancient custom are exhorted to approach the altar before the
beginning of Mass, and there the priest, dipping his thumb into ashes previously blessed, marks the
forehead or in case of clerics upon the place of the tonsure of each the sign of the cross, saying the
words: "Remember man that thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return." The ashes used in this
ceremony are made by burning the remains of the palms blessed on the Palm Sunday of the previous
year. In the blessing of the ashes four prayers are used, all of them ancient. The ashes are sprinkled
with holy water and fumigated with incense. The celebrant himself, be he bishop or cardinal,
receives, either standing or seated, the ashes from some other priest, usually the Traditional
Catholic highest in dignity of those present. In earlier ages a penitential procession often followed
the rite of the distribution of the ashes, but this is not now prescribed.
There can be no doubt that the custom of distributing the ashes to all the faithful arose from a
devotional imitation of the practice observed in the case of public penitents. But this devotional
usage, the reception of a sacramental which is full of the symbolism of penance (cf. the cor
contritum quasi cinis of the "Dies Irae") is of earlier date than was formerly supposed. It is
mentioned as of general observance for both clerics and faithful in the Synod of Beneventum, 1091
(Mansi, XX, 739), but nearly a hundred years earlier than this the Anglo-Saxon homilist lfric assumes
that it applies to all classes of men. "We read", he says,

in the books both in the Old Law and in the New that the men who repented of their sins bestrewed
themselves with ashes and clothed their bodies with sackcloth. Now let us do this little at the
beginning of our Lent that we strew ashes upon our heads to signify that we ought to repent of our
sins during the Lenten fast.
And then he enforces this recommendation by the terrible example of a man who refused to go to
church for the ashes on Ash Wednesday and who a few days after was accidentally killed in a boar
hunt (lfric, Lives of Saints, ed. Skeat, I, 262-266). It is possible that the notion of penance which was
suggested by the rite of Ash Wednesday was was reinforced by the figurative exclusion from the
sacred mysteries symbolized by the hanging of the Lenten veil before the sanctuary. But on this and
the practice of beginning the fast on Ash Wednesday see LENT.De Publicatione Festorum Mobilium
2016
In Epiphania Domini
TRADITIONAL ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
DECREE

OF
SOLEMN ANNOUNCEMENT
OF
MOVABLE FEASTDAYS
ON EPIPHANY
TRCC JAN 06 DECREE
January 6, 2016
Know ye, beloved brethren, that as by God's favor we rejoiced in the Nativity of our
Lord Jesus Christ, so, too, we announce to you the glad tidings on the Resurrection of
our Savior.
The Sunday of Septuagesima will fall on January 24, 2016, Ash Wednesday and the
beginning of the most holy Lenten fast on February 10, 2016. On March 27, 2016, you
shall celebrate with greatest joy the holy Pasch (Easter) of our Lord's Resurrection.

The Ascension of our Lord, Jesus Christ will occur on May 5, 2016, The Feast of
Pentecost on May 15, 2016. The Feast of Corpus Christi on May 26, 2016.
November 27th, 2016, will usher in the Advent of our Lord, Jesus Christ, to Whom be
glory and honor eternally

His Grace
+ Shermanus Randallus Pius Moslei, D.D.,
Bishop
Click on link below for Latin Publication of Moveable Feasts
The "Professio fidei Tridentina", also known as the "Creed of Pope Pius IV", is one of the four
authoritative Creeds of the Catholic Church. It was issued on November 13, 1565 by Pope Pius IV in
his bull "Iniunctum nobis" under the auspices of the Council of Trent (1545 - 1563). It was
subsequently modified slightly after the First Vatican Council (1869 - 1870) to bring it inline with the
dogmatic definitions of the Council. The major intent of the Creed was to clearly define the Catholic
faith against Protestantism. At one time it was used by Theologians as an oath of loyalty to the
Church and to reconcile converts to the Church, but it is rarely used these days. We do not accept
the teachings and beliefs of the Old Roman Catholic Church thus we are not Old Catholic, we are
The Traditional Roman Catholic Church, we believe and profess what Our Lord taught and the
Apostles believed, based on the three pillars of the Church. Sacred Tradition,Sacred Scripture, and
theMagisterium. Unlike many Traditionalist groups we do not engaged indebates, or arguments
concerning Validity of Orders. Such arguments cause further wounds to the body ofChristand are
notconduciveto the practice of the true religion.
Thus this is what we believe and profess:
I, N, with a firm faith believe and profess each and everything which is contained in the Creed which
the Holy Roman Church maketh use of. To wit:
I believe in one God, The Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and
invisible. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Only-begotten Son of God. Born of the Father before all
ages. God of God, Light of Light, true God of true God. Begotten, not made, of one substance with
the Father. By whom all things were made. Who for us men and for our salvation came down from
heaven. And became incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary: and was made man. He was
also crucified for us, suffered under Pontius Pilate, and was buried. And on the third day He rose
again according to the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and His kingdom will have no end. And
in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life, Who proceeds from the Father and the Son. Who
together with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, and who spoke through the prophets.
And one holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. I confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I
await the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen.
The Apostolic and Ecclesiastical traditions and all other observances and constitutions of that same
Church I firmly admit to and embrace.
I also accept the Holy Scripture according to that sense which holy mother the Church hath held,
and doth hold, and to whom it belongeth to judge the true sense and interpretations of the
Scriptures. Neither will I ever take and interpret them otherwise than according to the unanimous
consent of the Fathers.
I also profess that there are truly and properly Seven Sacraments of the New Law, instituted by
Jesus Christ our Lord, and necessary for the salvation of mankind, though not all are necessary for
everyone; to wit, Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and

Matrimony; and that they confer grace; and that of these, Baptism, Confirmation, and Holy Orders
cannot be repeated without sacrilege. I also receive and admit the accepted and approved
ceremonies of the Catholic Church in the solemn administration of the aforesaid sacraments.
I embrace and accept each and everything which has been defined and declared in the holy Council
of Trent concerning original sin and justification.
I profess, likewise, that in the Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice
for the living and the dead; and that in the most holy sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly,
really, and substantially, the Body and Blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus
Christ; and that a conversion takes place of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of
the whole substance of the wine into the Blood, which conversion the Catholic Church calls
Transubstantiation. I also confess that under either species alone Christ is received whole and
entire, and a true sacrament.
I steadfastly hold that there is a Purgatory, and that the souls therein detained are helped by the
suffrages of the faithful. Likewise, that the saints, reigning together with Christ, are to be honored
and invoked, and that they offer prayers to God for us, and that their relics are to be venerated. I
most firmly assert that the images of Christ, of the Mother of God, ever virgin, and also of other
Saints, ought to be kept and retained, and that due honor and veneration is to be given them.
I also affirm that the power of indulgences was left by Christ in the Church, and that the use of them
is most wholesome to Christian people.
I acknowledge the Holy Catholic Apostolic Roman Church as the mother and teacher of all churches;
and I promise true Traditional Catholic obedience to the Bishop of Rome, successor to St. Peter,
Prince of the Apostles, and Vicar of Jesus Christ.
I likewise undoubtedly receive and profess all other things delivered, defined, and declared by the
sacred Canons, and general Councils, and particularly by the holy Council of Trent, and by the
ecumenical Council of the Vatican, particularly concerning the primacy of the Roman Pontiff and his
infallible teaching. I condemn, reject, and anathematize all things contrary thereto, and all heresies
which the Church hath condemned, rejected, and anathematized.
This true Catholic faith, outside of which no one can be saved, which I now freely profess and to
which I truly adhere, I do so profess and swear to maintain inviolate and with firm constancy with
the help of God until the last breath of life. And I shall strive, as far as possible, that this same faith
shall be held, taught, and professed by all those over whom I have charge. I N. do so pledge,
promise, and swear, so help me God and these Holy Gospels of God.
This is what believe and this is what we profess so help us God
Amen.

The Traditional Roman Catholic Church is a body of Christians committed to the Person of Jesus
Christ and His teachings. We are a historical part of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
We are a Traditional CatholicChurch, defendingthe Sacred Traditions aspassed on by the
Apostles,the Church Fathers, and the Councils, prior to Vatican II.

We welcomeyou to become apart ofourtradition. We are committed to loving parishes, missions, and
chapels throughout the worldas guided by the Holy Ghost. We are also committed to training and
forming men to be sacred priests.
St. Athanasius says, "May God console you! ... What saddens you ... is the fact that others have
occupied the churches by violence, while during this time you are on the outside. It is a fact that
they have the premises but you have the Apostolic Faith. They can occupy our churches, but they are
outside the true Faith. You remain outside the places of worship, but the Faith dwells within you. Let
us consider: what is more important, the place or the Faith? The true Faith, obviously. Who has lost
and who has won in the struggle the one who keeps the premises or the one who keeps the Faith?
True, the premises are good when the Apostolic Faith is preached there; they are holy if everything
takes place there in a holy way ...
"You are the ones who are happy; you who remain within the Church by your Faith, who hold firmly
to the foundations of the Faith which has come down to you from Apostolic Tradition. And if an
execrable jealousy has tried to shake it on a number of occasions, it has not succeeded. They are the
ones who have broken away from it in the present crisis. No one, ever, will prevail against your
Faith, beloved Brothers. And we believe that God will give us our churches back some day.
"Thus, the more violently they try to occupy the places of worship, the more they separate
themselves from the Church. They claim that they represent the Church; but in reality, they are the
ones who are expelling themselves from it and going astray.Even if Catholics faithful to Tradition are
reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ."
(Letter of St. Athanasius to his Flock)
Cathedral'sDaily Schedule
Weekday Low Mass: 3:30 P.M.
Sunday Mass: 11:00 A.M.
Wednesday Low Mass with Devotions: 5:15 P.M.
Sunday Confessions: 9:00 - 10:00 A.M.
Saturday Confessions: 4:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
This Website is Dedicated to Our Lady
To our visitors, kindly sign our Guestbook (below). Let us know what you think, your questions or
even your reflections. Please suggest how we can improve our website. Your comments are greatly
appreciated.
- The Administrator