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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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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.

Full interview here

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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“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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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

The Latin Mass Society of Northeast Missouri offers this ‘home video’ documenting their journey and interviews with attendees of the Latin Mass offered by the Fraternity of St. Peter priests.  It captures the sacrifice and vitality that is exhibited in Latin Mass communities, no matter how restricted they are often permitted to be – and how difficult they often are to find.

https://youtu.be/-nUyVroaYGc

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2014/11/21/billy-murray-misses-the-latin-mass/

A five-minute video of highlights of the Holy Sacrifice held in Southern Oregon on August 4, 2013 with Fr. Adam Kotas celebrating.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxztKrVub-c

Video courtesy of Una Voce Southern Oregon

Fr. John Brancich, FSSP, will lead a pilgrimage to Rome, San Giovanni Rotondo, and Assisi in October 2013 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.

Get details about the pilgrimage here.