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

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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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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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

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/latin-mass-church-traditions-bring-boom-in-vocations-for-us-order-of-nuns

The link above includes rare video-interview (although face-to-face not permitted) with Mother Stella-Marie of Jesus.

“As soon as we took on the extraordinary form of the Mass and we returned to the traditional Carmelite rite, just everything made sense. All of our customs — we understood why we had them, because they all flowed from the liturgy, whereas before that, there had been a disconnect there.”

With the community having so many vocations it overflowed its lodgings twice, the Carmelites received permission last summer from His Excellency Ronald Gainer, bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg, to expand operations again, this time constructing a new monastery from the ground up.

Currently, the monastery at Fairfield has ten professed members, with more on the way from around the globe, including as far as Sweden.

“I think the young women are drawn to beauty in the liturgy. They know that if God exists, if God is on our altars, if God is within the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, then He needs to be worshiped as He deserves: with beauty and reverence,” Mother Stella-Marie of Jesus said of what she thinks draws young women to the Carmelites in particular. “They see that we have that here in our monastery, and they want to be a part of that. They also want something that is authentic, that goes back to the time of our holy mother, St. Teresa.”

Registration and background information for this conference is available via this link:

Sacred Liturgy Conference

An article on the background and purpose of the event can be read here:

Beauty, Goodness and Truth

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) —  Saint Mary’s Church on Broadway is going back in time in order to move forward.

When Jim Forte joined Saint Mary’s a decade ago, the pews were full and morale was high.

“We had a very good crowd of people we had a lot of people attending and it was very nice.”  But Forte says changes made in recent years caused more people to leave.  “Then it became a question of survival. We knew that down the road, not being able to sustain it financially, it would have closed.”

Desperate times called for drastic measures.

“In August of 2018, Bishop Tobin invited our order to come in and take over Saint Mary’s,” Father John Berg, St. Mary’s Pastor said.  “We do what’s called the traditional Latin mass, for those who are older would’ve known it in 1962.”

The entire mass, except for the homily, is celebrated in latin.

“I have to admit I was a bit skeptical because it was a bit different. and most people said oh if you say you’re going a step backwards, you’re going back in time,” Forte said.

It turns out, that’s exactly what the church needed to move forward.

Attendance numbers started increasing as people from all across New England were attracted to the traditional format.

“I would say the average travel time is about 45 minutes for a parishioner on a Sunday,” Father John Berg said.

“I’ve been attending traditional masses pretty frequently for the past 4 or so years but there’s nothing like this, I’ve been waiting for something like this to come along, something with the full kind of community life that isn’t offered anywhere near where I live,” Jack Marriott said.

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