The Carmelite Province of Saint Elias Department of Vocations in collaboration with the Durandus Institute for Sacred Liturgy and Music, Laudate Omnes, and the Latin Mass Society of Hudson Valley, invites you to join us for a special feast day Mass to honor the Prophet Elijah, Father and Protector of our Order and our Province. This Mass will take place on Sunday, 19 July 2020 at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Middletown, New York at 11am. For the first time in decades at the Shrine, we will be celebrating the Solemn High Mass according to the Ancient Rite of the Holy Sepulcher, the Carmelite Rite, the Rite carried back from the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem by the crusaders whose faith formed the first Carmelite priories in Europe. Our Province of St. Elias is holding this Mass as part of our Year of Vocations festivities. It is said that tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of the fire. In praying this Mass, we are not looking back in nostalgia for what once was. We offer it to pass on the living flame sent by God upon the offering of His prophet Elijah, so that the fire of divine love may spread throughout all creation. This Mass is an answer to the call to Carmel, the call to prayer, and it is a call to the future of every Carmelite: to contemplate the Holy Face, according to the examples of Elijah and Our Blessed Lady.