Posted on 08/27/2019 1:58:22 PM PDT by ebb tide
Although it is now frequently claimed that the traditional Latin Mass (TLM) was never abrogated (totally abolished) following the Second Vatican Council, this position is squarely at odds not only with the lived experience of several generations of Catholics, but with the rapid and near total disappearance of the TLM within a brief period of time.
For many years after 1970, there was considerable confusion about the legal and sacramental status of the TLM following the publication of the new Missale Romanum of 1970. Throughout that time period, Pope Paul VI granted multiple permissions to specific people (like Padre Pio and St. Josemaría Escrivá), dioceses, and even nations (the U.K.) to continue to use the TLM despite the universal transition to the new missal.
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Good news, our parish is celebrating a Latin Mass every Sunday at 2:00 pm. Yes, EVERY Sunday. Come join us, Upper East Tennessee -— singers especially needed!
St. Mary’s Church
2111 East Lakeview Dr.
Johnson City, TN
Our new pastor is one of the young, long cassock trads. Not mad, not rad, but definitely trad.
I remember them from the 60s & 70s and was glad when it was decided to go to an English Mass.
Some churches are trying to bring it back and I wish them luck. I won't be attending that Mass.
Don't worry no one (human, that is) will notice your absence.
Thank you for this picture. Is it from WWII or Korea?
I saw it, or one like it. The one I saw was from Korea.
Oh wow. D-Day. Thank you very much.
Then don’t attend, as someone else said, no one will miss you except maybe God. The Latin Mass was once heard around the world and is surely one of the most beautiful services in the entire western world.
I don’t really care about the music because outside of Gregorian Chant, the Catholics don’t really do music that well. I leave that to the Protestant Church who do do it very well.
They were soldiers then. And Catholics.
The Catholic Church lost this former Altar Boy with the Hippy-Dippy Feel-Good display that now passes for a Mass.
Interesting article. I was actually at the mentioned unauthorized Mass said in Wallingford, CT in 1975. It was held in the gymnasium at Moses Y. Beach elementary school (public). Between the environment, and that it was a Low Mass, and there was no sound system for the sermon (if there was one, I don’t remember), and my young age (12), it made no special impression on me.
What a sad reason to go to hell.
You should look up one of these TLM services, and come home.
You might like the Orthodox Church.
Priests are caught between errant bishops who have direct authority and the desire to serve faithfully. Many of the illicit innovations of the 70’s and later, such as communion only in the hand, altar girls, handholding and others, are so institutionalized by now that I fear for any priest who would correct the nonsense. In my diocese, the monsignor who oversees the priests is especially adamant to keep the innovations come hell or high water. There are a million ways to persecute faithful priests.
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