Posted on 08/10/2026 7:51:42 AM PDT by ebb tide
Bishop Michael Sis of San Angelo, West Texas, will expand access to the traditional Latin Mass with a new monthly celebration at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Midland, beginning August 30.
Rev. Ryan Rojo, the diocese’s Vocations Director and Director of Seminarians, announced the development on X.com.
The Mass will be celebrated on the last Sunday of each month at 3 p.m.
Rev. Rojo promised that this is “just a beginning”: “The diocese discerns a path forward to provide for our people.”
He added that other diocesan priests will learn to celebrate the Roman rite in the coming weeks and months.
The existing weekly Traditional Latin Mass at St. Margaret of Scotland Church in San Angelo will continue unchanged.
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So sad that this is news.
When do the Swiss Guards show up with their halberds to shut this down?
What we are seeing is a repeat of the split between the Orthodox church and Rome in 1054. What started as liturgical differences and theological disputes became a full schism over the Roman pope’s claim to universal jurisdiction. The recent excommunication of members of the SSPX by Pope Leo closely parallels this and unfortunately may lead to another division in the church.
He did not expand the Latin Mass. He increased the number of celebrations of it.
Leading Brit Catholics petition for Latin Mass
Bianca Jagger leads effort for Old Rite
By Damian Thompson The Telegraph
Last updated: July 24th, 2008
As the Catholic Herald reveals this week, leading Catholics including Lord Alton of Liverpool, Bianca Jagger and Dom Antony Sutch have signed a petition asking the bishops of England and Wales to provide more Latin Sunday Masses in the extraordinary form (Tridentine rite).
The petition – which has been signed by Catholics from across the political spectrum – “humbly requests” that the bishops make traditional Masses widely available to the faithful, in accordance with Pope Benedict’s wishes. Progress on this front has been slow, to put it mildly.
Signatories include Catholics not normally associated with traditionalist circles, such as the concert pianist Stephen Hough and Robin Baird-Smith, publisher of Continuum Books. He has written on the petition: “Liberal and progressive, I am nonetheless in support of the petition’s aims.”
Bianca Jagger, a devout practising Catholic, who married Mick Jagger in a Catholic Church, is well-known as a human rights activist; but she also regularly attends Latin Mass at the London Oratory and wishes to see the provision of the Old Rite extended throughout the world.
Prince Rupert zu Löwenstein, former president of the British Association of the Order of Malta, has signed the petition, as have Sir Rocco Forte, a major shareholder in the Catholic Herald, and Peter Sheppard, chairman of the Herald. Priests supporting the petition include Dom Antony, former headmaster of Downside, Fr Tim Finigan, Fr Dominic Allain and Fathers Julian Large and Rupert McHardy of the London Oratory.
Writers who have signed the petition include Mary Kenny, Cristina Odone, Stuart Reid, former deputy editor of the Spectator, and the historian Desmond Seward. Prince Albert and Princess Elisabeth von Thurn und Taxis – whose family has been close to the Holy Father since before he was elected Pope – are also among 750 signatories.
The petition, started by Eveline Booth, a young worshipper at the Oratory, reflects concern at lack of official enthusiasm for Summorum Pontificum, the Pope’s Apostolic Letter liberating the older form of Mass, published just over a year ago. Since then, however, the number of weekly Sunday Masses celebrated in the extraordinary form has increased only very slightly, and traditionalists claim that some dioceses have done nothing to promote the Motu Proprio.
As the Herald reports in detail, the Archdiocese of Liverpool has abandoned plans to create Britain’s first parish dedicated to celebrations of the traditional Latin Mass. Miss Booth said: “I started going to the extraordinary form and discovered that it was a much more reverent experience. “I thought it was such a shame that Catholics outside London didn’t have access to this liturgy – and also that some bishops and clergy didn’t even want to know about it. Yet it is the Pope’s wish that the older Mass should be at the forefront of worship.”
The petition will be presented to the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and a copy sent to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, which recently asked the English and Welsh bishops to implement the Motu Proprio more thoroughly.
All that’s required is to offer a pinch of incense to VII (false ecumenism, religious liberty, modernism and synodalismThe validity of these diocesan “priests” orders are highly doubtful given the Montini rite of ordination.
It’s the doctrine dummies!
In this era of malevolent opposition to anything "pre-conciliar", this qualifies as "good news".
Robert Prevost was ordained a priest in 1982.
The recent excommunication of members of the SSPX by Pope Leo closely parallels this and unfortunately may lead to another division in the church.
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SSPX FOREVER!
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