Today, Saturday 14th August, the Latin Mass Society held its Annual General Meeting. Among other things I gave talk which can be heard on Soundcloud here (37 minutes): Traditiones Custodes: What difference does it make?
The AGM and the Mass which followed were unusually well-attended; there were about 400 people in Mass. This was celebrated by Fr Henry Whisenant, assisted by Fr Gabriel Diaz as Deacon and Fr John Scott as Subdeacon. It was accompanied by the Lay Clerks of the Cathedral, who sand Palestrina's Missa Brevis, and the motets Ave Maria by Josquin and Ave Verum by Byrd.
Fr Whisenant's address to the AGM was excellent and we will be releasing a recording soon. The music was lovely, and we would like to record our thanks David Greely, who was directing.
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The assertion that the Tridentine Mass was saved by the Latin Mass Society from extinction in the 1970's is an extraordinary one.
ReplyDeleteIf - as in France [up to a point] - all the Traditionally minded priests had united in offering Mass - exclusively - in the Old Rite and had attached themselves as a united body to the Society of St Pius X there would have been a coherent and clear theological defence of the Old rite and a clear rejection of the New. The bi-ritualism has not done England
ReplyDeleteany favours and the Old rite is seen as an aesthetic preference (all that dignity and silence and reverence) without a doctrinal basis. The English obsession with legal and canonical arrangements has not helped- under Benedict XVI we heard nothing but "Holy Father says this and does that.......". If only all the priests who offered the Old rite had spoken out clearly on the 16th July - Non Possumus - "we will offer Mass in the Old rite and ignore this wretched Motu Proprio" - what a witness that could have been.