This is a wonderful church, BTW, if you're ever in Greenville. Masses are reverent and packed, the homilies are good, the music is traditional, etc.
Yes, Fr. Newman is an excellent homilist, perhaps the best I have ever heard aside from Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. This is no exaggeration.
There is also a twice-per-month Traditional Latin Mass in Taylors (Greenville) at 5:30 p.m. offered by Father Steven Brovey (like Fr. Newman, in his early 40s), who is the director of prayer and worship for the diocese.
The TLM has an attendance of 120-140 consistently, many young Catholics with MANY young families. Potluck dinner after every Mass usually has 60-90 attendees. LOTS of homeschoolers as well.
TLM in Columbia now monthly with the FSSP and weekly in Sullivan's Island outside of Charleston.
"If you build it, they will come!"
St. Mary's seems like a very nice parish. Perhaps I will get down there one day to attend Mass.
Regards,
I converted to Catholicism in 2005. Before that I was Southern Baptist. I grew up in a home that was in church every Sunday morning. I converted because I came to the conclusion that the Catholic church was THE Church founded by Christ. I also discovered that most Catholics in the Diocese of Charlotte, NC are really protestants and don’t realize it. I was very disappointed when I went into the church my grandfather grew up in and it was stripped of the high altar, replaced by a table. The tabernacle relegated to the sacristy to be locked away never to be seen. Have Catholics today become so infected with the disease of modernism and socialism that they don’t realize it’s taking them straight to hell. I hope that isn’t the case, but it appears so. Our Bishop so far refuses the TLM, the socialist pastoral counsel has him wrapped around their finger. Or do they? I know of a few individuals who would love to see the TLM restored to the diocese, but with the protestant churches we are building today, where would the hold it. I’m sure the situation will right itself in due time, considering the obvious failure of the reform. I just hope for our children’s sake it isn’t much longer. I attribute the massacre at Virginia Tech last week to the very modernism the has crept it’s way in to every aspect of our culture today. It is time to renounce as Pope St. Pius X did and every Pope until H.E. Pope John XXIII, the scourge of modernism. I do not call into question the second Vatican council, only the interpretation of it. I do not question the Heirarchy of the Church, only the way they dismissed all of the traditions for a totally new theology. I hope H.E. Pope Benedict XVI is successful in begining the reform of the reform. We have a long way to go to fix the errors of our day, but with the help of Almighty God, and His Church, we will, or I should say, He will prevail.