SP March 9, 2008

A Young Father Meets the Old Mass

SP March 7, 2008

The Remnant Calls for civility in discussion over Good Friday Prayer

It’s no secret that Traditional Catholics find themselves engaged in their own war of words over Pope Benedict’s Good Friday prayer and its ramifications. The question is this: Can we maintain a Chestertonian level of civility as we hash this out? I believe we can and we must.

"A convenient and available church”
San Francisco archdiocese gains Latin Mass, Santa Rosa diocese loses one

SP March 6, 2008

CONFIRMED: Personal Parish for the Traditional Mass in Rome

SP March 5, 2008

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf relays another message from the PCED on the rights of seminarians and the Latin proficiency requirements for saying the TLM.

Dear Mr. Dankers,
We wish to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 14 November 2007 and beg your indulgence for not having managed to respond sooner due to the volume of mail which we have received since the promulgation of the Motu Proprio Summorum Ponsijicum and the many matters which have required our immediate attention.
With regard to your questions, we can state the following:
1. Candidates for the priesthood in the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church have the right to be instructed in both forms of the Roman Rite.
2. Those responsible for the formation of candidates for the priesthood in the Roman Rite olthe Catholic Church should provide for the instruction of their candidates in both forms of the Roman Rite.
3. There is no plan to implement a generalized Latin test for seminarians and priests who wish to celebrate Mass according to the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, but it is expected that those who celebrate should have a sufficient mastery of Latin to he able to read, pronounce correctly and understand the sacred texts which they must recite or sing.
We expect that these matters will soon be treated in an instruction on the application ofthe Motu Proprio Summorum Poniftcum.
With prayerful best wishes for a Blessed Lent and Holy Week, I remain

Sincerley Yours in Christ
Rev. Msgr. Camille Perl
Secretary

Image from Fr. Fessio's Mass in the Usus Antiquior at Ave Maria

SP March 3, 2008

Extraordinary Form On Long Island
—Some good news for the Extraordinary Form on Long Island. Traditional Confirmation coming to LI.

Old rite revisited

A reverential silence fills the sanctuary of St. Mary’s Cathedral, gently broken by a murmur of Latin.
With his back to the congregation, the priest recites the liturgy, familiar prayers in a foreign tongue.
Orémus. Let us pray.

Yes, let us.

SP March 1, 2008

Catholics Have a Right To Pray for Us
By Jacob Neusner

SP February 28, 2008

Too Cool: A New Priest in 1951 - Part I
Recognize him?

Tridentine Mass in Bicol Update
The TLM in the Phillipines

SP February 27, 2008

Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Latin Mass Community of Fort Wayne-South Bend
An official Apostolate of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter has been established in the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend with the full permission of His Excellency Bishop John Michael D’Arcy.

First usus extraordinarius training in Spain

SP February 26, 2008

Bishops Just Say the Darnedest Things!
—Can someone explain how an educated man, an Archbishop, who has served as a consultant to the USCCB Liturgy Committee could say the following?

An important weekend in Rome for the Usus Antiquior

No "Reform of the Reform" in sight

SP February 25, 2008

The Motu Proprio as a Text for Priests - Experiences of a Parish Priest

Vatican caved on Latin prayer?
"Rebel Catholic traditionalists who champion the old Latin mass have accused Pope Benedict of caving in to "foreign pressures" by dropping negative comments about Jews from a rare prayer in the Church's official language."