Posted on 03/30/2015 6:14:59 AM PDT by marshmallow
On Thursday, March 19, about 60 Catholics from North Jersey celebrated the Feast of St. Joseph with a high Mass at a church in Bergen County. The service began at 7:30 p.m. with a solemn procession, replete with flickering candles and incense, and ended 90 minutes later, with the priest shaking the hands of attendees — and requesting that neither his name nor the name of his church be revealed in this article.
Unlike today’s Palm Sunday services and the parish’s other regularly scheduled Masses, this Mass was not listed on the monthly calendar of the church’s website, and few parishioners, save those who heard about it by word of mouth or on social media, were even aware that it was taking place.
It was, as the service’s program indicated, a “Traditional Latin Mass.” And although most church officials refuse to describe renewed interest in this centuries-old ritual as problematic, there is no question that here in New Jersey — and around the world — a growing number of Catholics appear to be yearning for a service that their parishes discontinued in 1965.
Although church leaders are reluctant to describe this emerging movement as controversial, it is, to many, emblematic of the different papal styles of traditionalist Benedict XVI (now pope emeritus) who made the Latin Mass more accessible to parishes in 2007, and Benedict’s liberal-leaning successor Pope Francis, who considers the Mass to be regressive.
It has been 50 years since the Second Vatican Council (known as Vatican II) called upon churches to replace the Latin Mass with Masses done in the vernacular, or, as priests generally refer to it, the “novus ordo” or “new order.”
On March 7, 1965, Pope Paul VI celebrated Mass in Italian, rather than Latin, for the first time, in accordance with the Vatican.........
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The priest who celebrated the unadvertised St. Joseph’s Day Mass in Bergen County has held one Latin Mass per month for the last few months, with permission from the diocese. His request not to be identified, he said, was a matter of “protocol” within the parish, which has not decided if it wants to have regular services in Latin.
Us self-absorbed, Promethean neo-Pelagians have to keep our heads down. They're looking for us.
Are the Vatican 2 people calling the latin mass people pelagians? Or the other way around?
Seems so strange to me. The millenia old, traditional latin mass is now a secret underground thing, but every Catholic church in California has services in Spanish and English?
Why can’t they serve the people that want the Latin Mass?
I suppose the liberals actually want to forbid it.
.....Or maybe and this is my guess, the priest in question does not want to create divisions in the parish.
Very few of todays priests can even say a Mass in Latin.
Seems like there are already divisions in the parish.
A couple of weeks ago while I was talking to a friend, his Pastor came walking by. He stopped and they talked about the time change for their Polish Mass. I asked what time the Latin Mass was? The priest said “find yourself another priest” as he turned and just about ran away.
We have an Oratory here in KC to serve those that want to attend Latin Mass but there are priests all over town that are offering at least one Latin Mass per week. My young priest does one on Sunday evenings. It’s becoming quite popular to the Latin Mass community as a back up for when they can’t get downtown in time Sunday morning. I’m not ready to go Latin yet but we have lots of Latin in our NO Mass. I love it. I don’t understand why it is such a big deal. Both are serving a purpose.
**a growing number of Catholics appear to be yearning for a service that their parishes discontinued in 1965.**
We used to have latin mass once a month at my old church in downtown Atlanta. I don’t know if they still do it as I don’t attend there anymore but it was always standing room only.
But many seminarians are learning it, my friend knows it and some of his friends do as well, they are 28 and soon to be ordained.
Also I friend who will go to college seminary next fall told the Archbishop that he wanted to concentrate on Latin Mass, he said the Archbishop lit up and smiled.
Another priest friend has taught TLM to several nearby priests.
We live in a very pagan area but God is Merciful.
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