The regular 10:00 a.m. Mass on the first Sunday of the month is celebrated in Latin. This form of Mass is the regular Mass most Catholics are used to (“Novus Ordo,” or “Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite”), only celebrated in Latin
Never understood why a parish would choose to do that (as opposed to a Tridentine Mass).
Anyway, may the church be protected from future calamity (nature and human-caused), including the coming hurricane.
They used to have the TLM twice a month until last summer, when the priest who offered was reassigned to be the parochial vicar of a new parish, where he continues to do the same there.
>>Never understood why a parish would choose to do that (as opposed to a Tridentine Mass). <<
Because it’s fine to help a parish learn the Latin by performing the Ordinary Rite in the Sacred Language. Later, the TLM will be less foreign.
You have to admit that the TLM is tremendously different. More sacred silence, less participation. For a parish that knows no Latin, even the simplest phases, a TLM is a whole other world. While an NO in Latin beings the process of moving in the right direction. Once the parishioners are familiar with the Latin, change in the form of the Holy Mass is easier to understand.
We don’t want to do what they did in the 60’s. Take what people know, turn it on it’s ear and expect that everyone will be happy with it.