Posted on 06/21/2005 8:31:30 AM PDT by el_chupacabra
Bishop restores Latin Mass | |
By Lawn Griffiths, Tribune |
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June 21, 2005 | |
The Old Mass has regained critical mass in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix. The one-year experiment to determine whether enough Valley Catholics wanted Masses in Latin the mother tongue of the church has ended. | |
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And Bishop Thomas Olmsted has declared Latin a winner. The response to a first year of "Tridentine liturgy" or Latin Masses at St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church in east Phoenix has been so strong that Olmsted is making them permanent, and extending the special Masses to more parishes. After July 1, a Tridentine Mass will be offered Sundays at St. Augustine in Phoenix, which has a largely Hispanic congregation. For Catholics in the northern parts of the diocese, a Latin Mass will be on Sundays at St. Cecilias Catholic Church in Clarkdale.
It carries the tradition of receiving the Holy Eucharist on the tongue instead in the hand. Women commonly wear veils or mantillas.
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Contact Lawn Griffiths by email, or phone (480) 898-6522 | |
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This is great news all around. The exclusive "mission parish" is the best solution for the traditional Mass, as compared to a weekly indult. We have ours here in Jersey and having a parish whose whole spirituality is formed around the old liturgy is wonderful beyond words.
mater ecclesiae? I travel from Norristown pa once a month to attend the high mass there. Great church and Father Paisley is wonderfull!
Hey, is the Norristown indult defunct? What happened to it?
not defunt. It moved to our lady of mt. carmel so it can be offered at an early are more convienient time. I serve as an altar server the first sunday. Right now we only do low mass because the choir we had before we moved the mass, cannot be available at the new time. We did have a missa canta last week with the monastery choir from the shrine of the carmalite nuns in philly which was real nice.
There is also an indult mass at our lady of conselation in northeast philly in which I go to when I am up there visiting my parents.
BTW - Fr. Mageria's first mass at the Basillica in Philadelphia was awsome. Were you there?
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