Thanks, I used one of those PhD cameras ("push HERE, dummy" - a Kodak EasyShare) with an old tripod. I used the two second delay to keep motion to a minimum since I was taking the photos from the choir loft. I occasionally update our informal TLM blog at Latin In Patton with photos that we share amongst ourselves.
Thanks for the video links!
Our sons grew up in the Novus Ordo, and we attended the Byzantine Rite for about 3 years prior to Summorum Pontificum. We drove to the TLM in Pittsburgh a couple times a year, but that was all the exposure my boys had to the TLM. When they were 15 and 11, when Summorum was going into effect, they memorized all the acolyte rubrics and responses for the TLM over a three month period.
Surely if an 11 and 15 year old can learn their parts, having little exposure to the TLM, our ordained priests can learn to offer the TLM, even if they were never formally trained in it.
Hey, I have a PhD camera, too! What a small world!
I have to agree with you about learning the rubrics and responses for the TLM. The young people I know certainly had no problem with it, and I’m certain that any priest who wants to could learn them as well.
I have to say, that since the S.P. came out in 2007, I’ve been very encouraged by the number of priests who have shown interest in learning to say the Mass in the Extraordinary Form. Some have acted upon it, and some are still thinking about it, but...the interest is there. And even more encouraging is the fact that ALL of the priests are relatively young — usually under 40.
That’s why all the altar boys and the schola girls are happy to grant any requests for their participation in Masses like the one in the video. Every time they volunteer their time to go to a different parish, the Mass is packed and the priests tell us that parishioner interest in the TLM explodes. The children are excited to share the E.F. with others and are delighted when those others begin to ask for a TLM in their own parishes.
Oh, and BTW...I can’t wait to pop over to your website and take a look at the other pictures. I’m sure they’re spectacular!
Regards,