Latin mass

Letter #103, 2021, Wednesday, September 8: For the children

    “I am convinced that the crisis in the Church that we are experiencing today is, to a large extent, due to the disintegration of the liturgy.” —Pope Benedict XVI, Milestones: Memoirs 1927-1977 (link)     "For fostering a true consciousness in liturgical matters, it is also important that the proscription against the form of liturgy in valid [...]

Letter #56, 2021, Friday, July 16: Guardians

    In this Thursday, April 1, 2021 file photo, Pope Francis celebrates a Chrism Mass inside St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican. During the Mass the Pontiff blesses a token amount of oil that will be used to administer the sacraments for the year. Pope Francis cracked down on the spread of the old Latin Mass on [...]

Reflections on the Traditional Latin Mass by Curial Cardinal

On July 25, 2013, feast of the Patron Saint of Spain, Saint James the Greater, Cardinal Antonio Cañi­zares Llovera, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, put his signature on the preface to a remarkable work, the doctoral thesis presented by his fellow Spaniard, Fr. Alberto Soria Jiménez, O.S.B., dedicated [...]

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