Oh, I would call them, except there isn’t a phone number listed for them. I’m sure they must have a phone to use to contact vendors or emergency help, but nothing listed for the public. The only mode of contact is to write to them via US mail. In other words, it’s a real cloister, high wall, grille, porter’s door (kind of like the old fashioned built into the house milkboxes,) and all. Funny thing is that they do have a website and make note of the fact that they “preserve the Tridentine tradition” and wear the full discalced habit, a la St. Therese. In fact, my little niece and I were walking in the neighborhood once when we were nearby, and caught a glimpse of one of the nuns through a gap, and my niece said, “Look, Aunt Odile! The Little Flower!”
The information was posted in two church bulletins, and on my local Catholic radio station, without any contact information, just the dates and times of the novena. The priest who is celebrating the novena is from a neighboring diocese (not sure if he is diocesan, which wouldn’t make sense, or a Carmelite father, which would make sense.)
Especially if the Mass is in Latin, I hate being stuck missal-less. Is that even a word? I just can’t follow along, even though I know it’s really not necessary to do so verbatim. A friend of mine, now deceased, used to attend Mass there when they used to open the very early AM Mass (5:15 AM) to the public, and I recall she mentioned they have no pew literature whatsoever since the chapel is not a parish church. Obviously, she would be of no help today.
I, or rather I should say, my shoulder is going to bite the bullet and put all three missals (62 Baronius and NSJ weekday and Sunday missals) in my purse for tonight, take some motrin, and offer it up. Or I may leave everything at home other than my rosary, and try just listening to the Mass.
