Posted on 10/02/2004 1:33:18 PM PDT by tridentine
Covington Bishop Roger Foys announced Friday that he will begin celebrating what is known as Tridentine Mass at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption starting Nov. 21.
He will celebrate the first Mass at 2 p.m. On subsequent Sundays, the Latin Mass will be celebrated in the cathedral at 12:15 p.m.
Foys announced the Latin service Friday and said it was being reinstituted in response to requests from members of the diocese.
Pope John Paul II and Pope Paul VI before him approved Tridentine services under the church's 1962 Missal for use worldwide.
The Tridentine Mass got its name because the Council of Trent officially adopted it in the 1500s. It served as the official Mass used by Roman Catholics for nearly 1,500 years. Liturgical renewal that was part of the Second Vatican Council led to the new order of Mass promulgated in 1970 and revised in 2002. Those services are said in the vernacular of the congregation.
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When I first came to Covington as your Bishop there were some few requests for the regular offering of the 1962 Rite of Mass. I took these under advisement. Recently, I have again been approached by a group of dedicated Catholics who wish to have the Mass celebrated in the 1962 Rite. There are currently a number of people who travel each week outside our Diocese to do so. At the same time, it has come to my attention that there are plans afoot for the building of a traditionalist church to be staffed by priests who are in formal schism with the Catholic Church.And, there is a link on the Diocesan page for more information about the Trridentine Mass.
After discussion with the Deans of our Diocese, it is my intention to permit the offering of Mass according to the Roman Missal of 1962 on Sundays and Holy days in the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption. I do this in response to the requests that have been made of me from Catholics who prefer the older forms so that they may have access to them.
Our Church is Catholic which means that it is universal. As such, we respond to the needs of all our Faithful as best we can.
The first Mass according to the Roman Missal of 1962 will be celebrated at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington on Sunday, Nov. 21 at 2:00 p.m. I will be the celebrant of this first Mass. This Mass will subsequently be celebrated every Sunday at the Cathedral Basilica at 12:15 p.m.
Assuring you of a remembrance in my prayers and asking for a remembrance in your prayers, I am
Yours devotedly in the Lord,
Most Reverend Roger J. Foys, D. D.
Bishop of Covington
Huh? I thought Pope Paul VI essentially suppressed the Tridentine Mass worldwide in favor of his own Pauline Mass, the Novus Ordo.
BUMP
Then what was the reason for the 1983 and 1988 Indults?
Then what was the reason for the 1983 and 1988 Indults?
The suppression of the Latin Mass by virtually all bishops of the time, with the approval of Pope Paul VI who did indeed suppress the Latin Mass. If you say that "as of X date all are to implement the new rite of the mass", this therefore means that the old rite is "shut off', suppressed, or whatever term you wanna use.
Paul VI approved the removal of the old mass. There is just no way around that!
Sorry. I should have also pinged you to my post 7.
So yet another instance where "schismatics" force the bishop to make available the TLM. It is a pity that traditional catholics will likely be divided here also.
I hope that charity will prevail and that both sides see themselves as the right and left wings of the phoenix known as TLM, if I may be allowed use a pagan analogy.
The fastest way to get an indult Mass is to have the SSPX build a chapel in the diocese.
"The fastest way to get an indult Mass is to have the SSPX build a chapel in the diocese."
From the sound of that letter apparently in some dioceses -
the ONLY way to get an indult Mass is to have the SSPX build a chapel in the diocese.
So, more than 15 years after Ecclesia Dei, when the competition moves in, he finally decides to obey the pope?
Neither Hartford's archdiocese nor Rockford's diocese has ever suffered within its borders the existence of an SSPX chapel to the best of my knowledge. There did exist within the geographical boundaries of the Hartford archdiocese an "independent" chapel at New Haven (St. Clare's Priory) which had extremely occasional Masses (three or four times a year) said by Fr. Paul Wickens (recently deceased) of Newark, New Jersey. To say the least, that was not the reason for the late Archbishop John F. Whealon's early enthusiasm for the establishment of Tridentine Masses at New Haven (Sacred Heart Church) and Hartford (Our Lady of Sorrows Church).
The SSPX has never existed in Greenville, SC or Columbia, SC or Charleston, SC, and thanks to the indulgence of His Excellency, Robert J. Baker, bishop of Charleston, we will soon have Latin Mass locations in all three of these areas. This in a diocese that is less than 3 percent Catholic. Had NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with SSPX.
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