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Dr. Scott Hahn offers reflections on the traditional Latin Mass.

A lone young priest in a cassock walked in a downpour toward the scene of a horrific wreck of tractor-trailers and cars on a Pennsylvania interstate and gave the last rites to a truck driver, the lone fatality of the crash.

Unbeknownst to him, a bystander photographed the moment, which captured the imagination of social media and went viral. The priest, Father John Killackey, was identified as a member of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter at the Mater Dei Latin Mass community in Harrisburg.

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Former employee of Planned Parenthood, Johnson converted to Catholicism in 2013.

“At first, when I sat there…I was a little offended. Like, ‘Why am I not a part of this?’And then I thought, ‘Well, why do I need to be a part? I don’t have anything to do with it. That’s between the Priest and God. God doesn’t need me to say these prayers.’ And it just became so apparent that God doesn’t need me to be a part of the consecration.”

She also said that she “was struck by just how masculine the service felt…everything was led by priests. It wasn’t a laity led service.”

“For the first time in a while…I feel very reinvigorated in my faith,” she exclaimed during our conversation today. “I’m excited to go to Mass! I haven’t felt that way in a long time…It doesn’t feel like a chore anymore!”

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Poland adds Latin to core curriculum to help pupils “understand foundation of Western civilisation”

Bishop Joseph Strickland discusses what inspired him to celebrate the extraordinary form of the Mass on June 11, 2020.

I later learned that if and when a bishop says the Latin Mass, it’s always a pontifical Mass, where the bishop always represents his people. It’s intense. If you knew “Joe Strickland,” a kid from the back country of Texas, you’d know that “this guy’s simple. He doesn’t like those complicated things.” Yet I see it and I desire it for him. It’s so clear that this liturgy is not about us — it’s fully about Him. I want to honor Him.

Thank God we only must whisper them in this rite, because I am not sure I would have been able to speak above that whisper, so struck I was at the profundity. It was the first time in my life that I had ever said those words in Latin, and I could hardly get them out. It’s indescribable, really.

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A group of filmmakers is working to create a “stunning” documentary about the Traditional Latin Mass that will show the “beauty of our timeless traditional liturgy” with the hope that such a film will help “begin to restore the Church.”

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A 12-week curriculum of live webinars for priests to better understand the liturgical requisites and perfect their sacred actions for the traditional Roman Mass. The webinars will be a refresher for veterans and introduction for beginners.

Romanitas Press Webinars

With the traditional Latin Mass now more popular than it has been in half a century, an increasing interest in traditional Catholic books is also taking place.

Whether Latin-English missals, liturgical commentaries, catechisms, writings of saints, modesty manuals or extensive and elaborate prayer books, more Catholics have been buying titles that unequivocally present the perennial teachings and practices of the Church. This has led to new publishers coming into existence — most of which are small, but one of which already sells more than 100,000 books annually.

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“St. Mary’s Church will serve as the diocesan worship site for those desiring the Extraordinary Form of the Mass, more familiarly known as the Tridentine Mass or the Traditional Latin Mass.”

Bishop Lucia also said it was his “intention to bring a Society of Apostolic Life” to St. Mary’s to conduct the “centuries-old rites.”

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MABLETON–St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Atlanta has begun sending daily email messages with meditations on the liturgical year. The meditations were written by Dom Prosper Guéranger, the Benedictine abbot who re-founded the Solesmes monastery in France in 1833. Dom Guéranger wrote a 15-volume series that covers the whole liturgical year with many details of the history of the celebrations and explanations of the significance of many ceremonies.

To sign up for these emails and for more information you can go HERE