The motu proprio liberating the Tridentine Mass for the entire Catholic Church has been given to about 30 bishops from all over the world in the Sala Bologna of the Apostolic Palace by Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone
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Die Welt report that the motu proprio liberating the Tridentine Mass for the entire Catholic Church has been given to about 30 bishops from all over the world in the Sala Bologna of the Apostolic Palace by Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone.
The bishops had been invited to Rome for that purpose. At the end of the meeting, in which the motu proprio was introduced together with a letter of explanation by Pope Benedict XVI., Pope Benedict met with the bishops. The document is about three pages long, the accompanying letter about four. From Germany, Cardinal Lehmann had been invited. The circumstances of the procedure make clear that the Pope was very interested to personally inform the bishops, in collegial manner, of the content rather than from the media. The publication of both documents will take place on July 7th. It emphasizes the unity of the Roman Rite which will consist of an ordinary and an extraordinary form which are supposed to inspire each other. The ordinary/regular form will continue to be the new rite of 1969. The extraordinary form will be the Missal of Bl. John XXIII. of 1962.
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Assuming it is released on 7/7/07, how soon will it be before we see additional parishes offering the Tridentine Mass?
I've never been to St. Joan's and thought I might go the Sunday after next. Do you think they will be offering the Tridentine Mass by then, or am I jumping the gun a bit?
Anon.
I would imagine that we will start seeing parishes offering the Mass of John XXIII (which is what the M.P. calls it) this Summer.
But you have to remember that the priest and any deacons will have to be fluent in Latin. They can't just memorize the words (as if they were singing in a choir), they have to know exactly what they mean.
Very few priests will be able to do that.
They will have to find a someone who knows Latin and who is willing to teach others. There are few in this archdiocese, I would think.
Many priests who know Latin will also have to learn the "rubrics", the required movements (from the Latin word for "red" which is the color of the instructions in the Roman Missal), that are necessary for the proper celebration of this Mass.
They will need to find someone to teach them the rubrics.
Those priests who know Latin, and are familiar with the rubrics also will have to have parishioners who want them to celebrate the Mass of Pope John XXIII.
I would think that that will happen at St Joan of Arc Church in Minneapolis the Monday after the Vikings win the Super Bowl.
I doubt that there would be more than 10 parishes out of the 230 or so in the Archdiocese that will be offering this Mass, and many of them might just be doing it perhaps once a month or on special occasions.
I'm pretty sure the Sisters of St. Joseph and St. Stephen's have all been prcticing their Latin.
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