[NYer]

Ping!

[RobbyS]

Fifty years ago, the Epistle and Gospel as well as the sermon were always in the venacular.

[Kolokotronis]

“”I love the Latin Mass,” said Audrey Kunkel, 20, of Cincinnati. “It”s amazing to think that I”m attending the same Mass that has formed saints throughout the centuries.””

Now there! That’s what I feel every Sunday and now, after a 50 year hiatus, Roman Catholics can feel the same connection with the sacred timelessness of the Liturgy! Nothing but good will come of this!

[JoeFromSidney]

Unfortunately, in the Cincinnati Archdiocese, our beloved Archbishop has decreed that no priest may offer the Tridentine Mass in Latin unless he first passes a test in Latin. The Archbishop has appointed a committee of three priests to adminster the test, none of whom has ever shown any past interest in the Tridentine Mass.

It is my guess that Julius Caesar would have had a tough time passing the test.

I had expected that "the word" would quitely go out that any priest who said a Latin Mass could forget about promotion and a bigger parish. This is even smoother than I had anticipated. After all, who can object to being sure that the Mass is said properly?

[Ebenezer]

Unfortunately, the article does not mention that the SSPX is a schismatic group while the FSSP is in full communion with Rome; that omission may confuse some faithful. In any event, the article was very encouraging, and the Pope's motu proprio has to have knocked some of the wind from the SSPX's sail. I certainly would take no offense at some young person praising the Mass of Blessed John XXIII as being "so cool" (because it is).