Latin for everyone

No exceptions, apparently:

The traditional Latin Mass – effectively banned by Rome for 40 years – is to be reintroduced into every Roman Catholic parish in England and Wales, the senior Vatican cardinal in charge of Latin liturgy said at a press conference in London today.

And sems will have to teach future priests how to do it, said the senior Vatican cardinal in charge of Latin liturgy, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, in London.  Not just England and Wales either:

[A]sked . . . if the pope wanted to see “many ordinary parishes” making provision for the Tridentine Mass, Cardinal Castrillon, a Colombian, said: “All the parishes. Not many, all the parishes, because this is a gift of God.”

He also said:

his commission . . .  was in the process of writing to seminaries not only to equip seminarians to celebrate Mass in Latin but to understand the theology, the philosophy and the language of such Masses.

It would take as few as “three or four people who were not necessarily drawn from the same parish” to request it, at which point the priest would be required to do it.

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Later, from Reader M: 

Re the work of seminaries to teach the Latin Mass:
 
If it was true, as Father Rick Simon said at Catholic Citizens Forum last week, that in the years after Vatican II seminaries concentrated on teaching priests-to-be how to help Catholics in confession side-step the precepts of Humanae Vitae — they shouldn’t have problems teaching seminarians the Latin Mass. It’s less subjective — less work for the right side of the brain.

4 thoughts on “Latin for everyone

  1. Good! We need a reminder of what it meant to worship as a Catholic prior to Vatican II and I hope that more “reforms” are handed down to stop those clown and balloon Masses and happy-clappy affairs.

    I already drive 12 miles to attend a parish in which the priest has removed the new altar and now says the new Mass facing the old altar. He has dropped the handshake of peace, removing another awkward moment and the spread of viruses!

    We have sermons that teach us church history or theology and are not vacuous ramblings or homilies centered around the priest’s or deacon’s personal issues.

    I feel very blessed.

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  2. I remember my Latin Mass days fondly…. whether reviving the memory without the history achieves anything significant is of course debatable….the optional rule is pethaps the best way to go in such an option-mined age

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