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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.
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.
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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There used to be monthly indult Masses nearby, but the monsignor who officiated them passed away, and the church building itself has been mothballed.