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PiusX: Regular Mass In Magnificent Cathedral

The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) can use Transfiguration Cathedral in Markham, Toronto, Canada, for a Sunday afternoon Mass to supplement their Mass schedule, VoxCantor.Blogspot.com (July 3) reported. …More
The Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) can use Transfiguration Cathedral in Markham, Toronto, Canada, for a Sunday afternoon Mass to supplement their Mass schedule, VoxCantor.Blogspot.com (July 3) reported.
The cathedral was built for the Ruthenian Catholic Eparchy by Stephen Roman, a prominent Slovak engineer. John Paul II blessed the cornerstone in 1984. After internal divisions, the Ruthenian community left the building in 2006. It was closed to the public until 2016.
Then, the city of Markham allowed the Melkite Catholic Church to use the cathedral. PiusX has been operating in Toronto for decades. Presently it occupies a small church purchased from the Baptists. It is bursting at the seams.
Under the Covid-19 pretext, Toronto allowed in November 2020 only ten persons at Mass. From June 2021, only 15% of capacity, and from July 4 only 25% capacity of a church can be used.
Picture: Transfiguration Cathedral, Markham © George Socka, wikicommons CC BY-SA, #newsJrbajjajjs
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Movie Trivia: This church was a physical location for the 1994 John Carpenter horror film, "In The Mouth Of Madness".
U S Spacy
I just come from my first TLM mass there.
Beautiful unmasked faces, which is a miracle in Canada today.
I breathed so much freedom.
As I entered I felt like a Lion in a den of Daniels.
Maybe because it was my first TML I felt in the beginning so unworthy to mingle with these people, as if someone would find fault wih how I was dressed or how distracted my daughter was and sked me to leave, but of …More
I just come from my first TLM mass there.
Beautiful unmasked faces, which is a miracle in Canada today.
I breathed so much freedom.
As I entered I felt like a Lion in a den of Daniels.
Maybe because it was my first TML I felt in the beginning so unworthy to mingle with these people, as if someone would find fault wih how I was dressed or how distracted my daughter was and sked me to leave, but of course that was all in my head.
I feel now so proud and grateful to be a Canadian, in a land where an Slovak immigrant built a Cathedral as a beacon of religious freedom for his fellow Slavs then living under Soviet oppression and got it blessed by John Paul II, the first time a Pope consacrated a Cathedral in North America (Wikipedia).
Ultraviolet
Congratulations on your first TLM @U S Spacy!
I can tell you right now, with near 100% certainty, nobody will EVER ask you to leave just because your daughter was distracted or you weren't dressed for a job interview.
Some of the children at the Masses I've attended were epic noise-makers. On more than one occasion, Father had to even turn up the volume on his mic just to compensate.
Some TLM …More
Congratulations on your first TLM @U S Spacy!

I can tell you right now, with near 100% certainty, nobody will EVER ask you to leave just because your daughter was distracted or you weren't dressed for a job interview.

Some of the children at the Masses I've attended were epic noise-makers. On more than one occasion, Father had to even turn up the volume on his mic just to compensate.

Some TLM parish bulletins will include a polite mention to dress modestly during the summer, but that's about as far as the "dress code" ever goes. New visitors who begin egularly attending TLM simply start feeling decidedly under-dressed on their own accord.

The new guy who goes to Mass wearing his best Gracie Jui-Jitsu T-shirt and Calvin Klein Jeans looks around and sees most of the men are wearing freshly ironed white shirts, ties and dress trousers with razor sharp creases. Suddenly Gracie Jui-Jitsu and CK isn't so cool anymore. :D

"I felt in the beginning so unworthy to mingle with these people..."

Don't EVER feel that way. I can't stress that enough. As you get to know your fellow parishioners you'll soon discover they're just like everyone else, good and bad.. I go to the TLM in spite of some parishioners not because of them. :D