Abbot of Monastery that switched to Traditional Mass: "With old Mass, the Priest become more Priest, and the monk more monk."

Abbot of Monastery that switched to Traditional Mass: "With old Mass, the Priest become more Priest, and the monk more monk."

Pontifical Mass at Mariawald (source)

In 2008, the sole Trappist Monastery in Germany, the Abbey of Mariawald, became the first (and, so far, the only) Trappist monastery to completely return to the pre-Conciliar liturgical books since the liturgical reforms of the 1960s. It was one of the few houses in the world to make use of what is stated at Art. 3 of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum (allowing for whole religious houses to become exclusively traditional), and this only after, it was repeatedly reported then, the personal intervention of Pope Benedict XVI.READ...

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  Communities using the Tridentine Mass

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  The following priestly societies and religious institutes use some pre-1970 edition of the Roman Missal or of a similar missal. Those not in communion with the Holy See are marked as "canonically irregular". Most use a pre-1970 edition of the Roman Missal, but some follow the proper missal of the Dominican Rite or the Carmelite Rite and thus celebrate not the Tridentine Mass but a form of liturgy permitted under the 1570 papal bull Quo primum.

  To be clear, the use of a pre-1970 Roman Missal is NOT prohibited by the current rules of the Catholic Church. See Tridentine Mass which contains much information about the format of a Tridentine Mass and the history of the various Missals of the Roman Rite.

  They are dedicated to preserving older liturgical rites of the Roman Catholic Mass. Those approved by the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei are sometimes called Ecclesia DeiCommunities.

  Associations of men[edit]

  • Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
  • The London Oratory
  • Apostles of Jesus Christ, Priest and Victim
  • Benedictines - Fontgombault
  • Benedictines - Gaussan
  • Benedictines - Our Lady of Guadalupe Monastery - Silver City, NM USA (canonically irregular)
  • Benedictines - Randol
  • Benedictines - Triors
  • Benedictines - Wisques
  • Benedictines - Le Barroux
  • Benedictines - St. Pierre de Clairac
  • Benedictines - Norcia
  • Benedictines - Saint Benoit
  • Benedictines - Silverstream Priory, Ireland
  • Benedictines - St. Benedict Abbey - Still River, MA, USA
  • Benedictines - Clear Creek
  • Benedictines - St. Louis Abbey
  • Benedictines - St. Michael's Abbey - Farnborough, UK
  • Canons Regular of Saint John Cantius
  • Canons Regular of the Holy Cross
  • Canons Regular of the Mother of God
  • Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem
  • Canons Regular of St. Augustine
  • Cistercians - Vyšší Brod Abbey, Czech Republic
  • Fraternite Notre Dame (canonically irregular)
  • Fraternity of St. Vincent Ferrer
  • Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest
  • Institute of St. Philip Neri - Berlin
  • Institute of the Good Shepherd
  • Knights of the Holy Eucharist (USA)
  • Miles Christi
  • Militia Templi; The Poor Knights of Christ also called the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ (Latin: Christi Pauperum Militum Ordo), a lay order formed on 21 Sept. 1979 with headquarters at the Castello della Magione, Poggibonsi, Italy
  • Missionary Servants of the Poor of the Third World (Peru)
  • Norbertines - St. Michael's Abbey, Orange County CA
  • Oasis of Jesus the Priest (Spain)
  • Opus Mariae Matris Ecclesiae (Italy)
  • The Oratory of St. Philip Neri - Birmingham
  • Oratory of St. Philip Neri - Toronto
  • The Oxford Oratory
  • Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney
  • Religious Institute of the Holy Cross of Riaumont
  • Servi Jesu et Mariae
  • Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Richmond, N.H.)
  • Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Still River, Mass.)
  • Comunidades Sacerdotales de San Juan - Ciudad del Este - Paraguay
  • Star of the Sea Church - San Francisco
  • Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, formerly called the Transalpine Redemptorists, Papa Stronsay, Scotland
  • Trappists- Mariawald Abbey, Germany
  • Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Carmelite Rite)
  • Dominicans - Province of St. Joseph (Dominican Rite)
  • Dominicans - Province of the Most Holy Name of Jesus (Dominican Rite)
  • Missionary Society of Divine Mercy (France)
  • Fraternitas Christi Sacerdotis et Beatae Mariae Reginae (Spain)
  • Fraternity of the Divine Mercy (Italy)
  • Franciscan Missionaries of the Eternal Word (USA)
  • Carthusians (Carthusian Rite, revised 1981)
  • Society of Saint Pius X (canonically irregular)

  Associations of women[edit]

  • Benedictines - Sisters of Clear Creek
  • Benedictines - Jouques
  • Benedictines - Le Barroux
  • Benedictines - Rosans
  • Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles
  • Canonesses of the Mother of God
  • Sisters of the Holy Cross
  • Sisters of the Precious Blood - Schellenberg
  • Sisters of the Precious Blood - St. Pelagiberg
  • Sisters Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus Christ Sovereign Priest
  • Discalced Carmelites - Valparaiso, Nebraska
  • Dominicans of the Monastery of the Heart of Jesus - Lockport, Louisiana
  • Dominicans of the Holy Ghost - Baffe
  • Dominicans of the Holy Ghost - Draguignan
  • Dominicans of the Holy Ghost - Nantes
  • Dominicans of the Holy Ghost - Pontcalec
  • Dominicans of the Holy Ghost - Saint Cloud
  • Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate
  • Marian Sisters of Santa Rosa
  • Religious Victims of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
  • Institute of Servants of the Queen of Apostles
  • Oasis de Jesús Sacerdote [1]
  • Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Richmond, N.H.)
  • Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Still River, Mass.)

The Beauty and Spirituality
of the Traditional Latin Mass

by David Joyce

(The Holy Mass as referred to in this essay is the traditional Latin Mass
of the ancient Roman rite, as celebrated until 1965 in the Latin Church)
 

It is the Mass that Cardinal Newman, the leader of the Oxford movement into the Church, said that he could attend forever, and not be tired. Father Faber, priest of the Brompton Oratory in the last century, described the Mass as the "most beautiful thing this side of heaven", and he continued:

"It came forth out of the grand mind of the Church, and lifted us out of earth and out of self, and wrapped us round in a cloud of mystical sweetness and the sublimities of a more than angelic liturgy, and purified us almost without ourselves, and charmed us with the celestial charming, so that our very senses seemed to find vision, hearing, fragrance, taste, and touch beyond what earth can give"
 

Father Adrian Fortescue, a great English liturgical historian, has said that the Mass of the Roman rite is the most venerable rite in Christendom.
Pious Popes, too, have often wondered at the majesty of the Mass. Pope Clement VII said in 1604:

"Since the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist by means of which Christ Our Lord has made us partakers of His sacred Body, and ordained to stay with us unto the consummation of the world, is the greatest of all the Sacraments, and it is accomplished in the Holy Mass and offered to God the Father for the sins of the people, it is highly fitting that we who are in one body which is the Church, and who share of the one Body of Christ, would use in this ineffable and awe- inspiring Sacrifice the same manner of celebration and the same ceremonial observance and rite"
 

and Pope Urban VII in 1634 said:

"If there is anything divine among man's possessions which might excite the envy of the citizens of heaven (could they ever be swayed by such a passion), this is undoubtedly the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, by means of which men, having before their eyes, and taking into their hands the very Creator of heaven and earth, experience, while still on earth, a certain anticipation of heaven.
How keenly, then, must mortals strive to preserve and protect this inestimable privilege with all due worship and reverence, and be ever on their guard lest their negligence offend the angels who vie with them in eager adoration!"

The Mass! What a treasure! Christ's very own sacrifice on the cross left for us wrapped in an act seeping with beauty and divine celebration. Below I describe a few of its important qualities that set it apart in this day and age, that truly make it "the most beautiful thing this side of heaven".READ...

An abbot explains "the Tridentine Mass"

An abbot explains why 
"the Tridentine Mass is the missing link"

A solid interview with Dom Christopher Zielinski, OSB Oliv., Abbot of the Olivetan Abbey of Our Lady of Guadalupe, in Pecos, New Mexico (Tip: Reader).

Will the Pope restore the Tridentine Mass?

Abbot: The Tridentine Mass, the Mass of St. Pius V cannot be considered abolished by the so-called new mass of Paul VI. We must never forget that the Second Vatican Council was not a break from the past, but a renewal in continuity. That is why the question regarding the liturgy must be one of seeking the true sense of the Council and implementing it. Therefore, the question that needs to be asked is whether or not the Indult of Pope John Paul II and the creation of the Pontifical Commission of Ecclesia Dei, that gave permission to the Bishops to allow for the celebration of the Tridentine Mass, was implemented in the spirit of justice and compassion.READ...