A priest reports . . .
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
. . . That is the question, given a quite reasonable answer by a priest writing into Fr. Z in 2016:
After my entry into the Catholic Church from Anglicanism and ordination as a Catholic priest, I approached the Archbishop about offering the Mass ad orientem.
His guidance to me was to “catechize the people” regarding whatever I was going to do. Since that time, at the 3 successive assignments I have had, I have periodically done just that.
Other priests whom I have served alongside have had varying reactions, some positive and some negative. In my current assignment, the priest here with me also started occasionally offering the Mass this way a few years ago, and has noticed that his perspective on the priesthood and the Mass has changed.
Something worth pursuing there.
With the arrival of the 1st Sunday of Advent, I took the opportunity…
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