SP February 13, 2008

You Report: Traditional Masses around the World - X --Mississippi

Tridentine Mass taking off in the Philippines.

SP February 12, 2008

Rabbi: Not Happy, but prayer for the Jews only a 'Small Bump'
"Rabbi Alvin Berkun, president of the group, said the release of the revised Latin-language Good Friday prayer by the Vatican last week was only a small bump in improving Jewish-Catholic relations, but the Jewish community needed to express concern."

Review by Dr. Alcuin Reid of "The Mass of All Time" by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre
"But as the usus antiquior gradually claims its rightful place in the Church of today and of tomorrow we would do well to consider that - humanly and historically speaking at least - it may not be able to do so today were it not for the reaction of the Archbishop and of his disciples then. For the Providence of Almighty God we may be thankful."

Missouri: Catholics celebrate revival of Latin Mass

SP February 11, 2008

Dr. Whitehead: A New Rite?
"Quite apart from the semantics or terminology being employed at the moment, it could well be that the long-term effect of the pope's action in [his Motu Proprio] could well be the legitimization of what could come to be considered a separate "Tridentine rite" in Latin in the Catholic Church."


Archbishop Marini on the liturgy wars By George Weigel
"Oddly, coming from a man of strong convictions, Marini’s tale is bureaucratic rather than substantive"

SP February 9, 2008

The Mind of Ratzinger
2003 letter shows the possible future of the Liturgy.

Classical Liturgy Society Formed at Notre Dame

Traditionalist Group: We will obey with submission
The only official reaction to the change of "Prayer for the Jews" is positive.

SP February 8, 2008

A Papal Masterstroke
Pope's Good Friday Prayer Reinforces Infallible Church Teaching

Italian Rabbinical Assembly: suspension of dialogue

USCCB: Response To The Publication Of Pope Benedict XVI’s Revision Of The 1962 Good Friday Prayer For The Jewish People

SP February 7, 2008

Archbishop to ordain priests using Tridentine Mass in Rome cathedral
A former Vatican official will ordain four traditionalist priests in a Tridentine Mass celebrated in the cathedral of Rome, church officials said.

Georgetown: Campus Ministry Endorses Celebration of Latin Mass
Tridentine Mass Held Biweekly in Copley

SP February 6, 2008

New Prayer for the Jews:

Let us pray, and also for the Jews.

May our God and Lord enlighten their hearts, so that they may acknowledge Jesus Christ, saviour of all men.
Let us pray.
Let us kneel.
Arise.

Almighty and everlasting God, who desirest that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of truth, mercifully grant that, as the fullness of the Gentiles enters into Thy Church, all Israel may be saved. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

SP February 5, 2008

Sociological Elements of OF and EF

Convert England to Catholicism, says papal ally
A “re-enchantment” of the liturgy is also needed, he says, since liturgy forms the imagination and is crucial in “getting others to grasp the inwardness of Catholic Christianity”.

SP February 3, 2008

Jesuit Who Was Ordered To Stop Saying Latin Mass Dies

New FSSP parish is being built, St. Benedict's in Chesapeake, Virginia.
HT to NLM

SP February 1, 2008

Everything Needed to Understand and Appreciate the Traditional Latin Mass. --Fr. George Moorman.

Traditional Diaconal ordination at the Lateran