Called the Mass of the Ages, the Most Beautiful Thing This Side of Heaven, the Mass of Blessed John XXIII, the Tridentine Latin Mass, the Usus Antiquor, and most recently, the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, this Mass truly is one of the most beautiful forms of worship for the Catholic Church.This post is a means to provide links to some of my many posts on this topic. Since the Traditional Mass is at the very heart of living a traditional Catholic life, nearly all of my posts will touch on this topic. I encourage you to browse by the tag of Traditional Latin Mass in addition to visiting these posts linked below.
On July 7, 2007, the motu proprio by Pope Benedict XVI, Summorum Pontificum, arrived and thereby allowed a wider usage of the Sacraments according to the 1962 Missal. While the Mass of All Times was never abrogated, it was unjustly attacked by liberals and neo-cons alike. This bold action has helped to reverse this unjust attack on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
What is the Tridentine (Traditional) Latin Mass?
For English explanation of the Latin Mass click here. For the English/Latin texts of the Mass including the actual prayers and much more, please purchase a 1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal
Posts on the Tridentine Latin Mass:
Please view posts which have the Traditional Latin Mass Label (click here now). There are many and you will find a wealth of information!!
Videos of Tridentine Latin Masses:
Videos can be found in a list near the bottom of my article on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. And click here to see a video of the beauty in the Low Mass.
Recommended Reading
The Latin Mass Explained by Msgr. Moorman
Sacred Then and Sacred Now: The Return of the Latin Mass by Thomas E. Woods Jr
Sursum Corda: Documents and Readings from the Council of Trent to Summorum Pontificum
Basic Information on the Tridentine Mass:
Sancta Missa
Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest
Latin Mass Society of England and Wales
Latin Mass Society of Ireland
Society of St. Pius X (SSPX)
Tridentine Latin Rite Missal Project
Una Voce America
Missals, Bibles, etc for Purchase for the Tridentine Mass:
Douay Rheims Bible
Roman Catholic Daily Missal
Pre-Vatican II Breviaries
Traditional Theology Books
Traditional Liturgical Books
Traditional Architecture
Vestments Proper for the Tridentine Mass:
Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles
Susan Maria Evans
Bishops Celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass:
254 Cardinals and Bishops Have Celebrated the Immemorial Since Summorum Pontificum through January 2012!
Mass of the Ages returns to...
Church of the Sacred Heart, Cutchogue, NY
Metropolitan Cathedral, Mexico City, Mexico
Mount St. Francis Hermitage, New York
Our Lady of Lourdes, Massapequa Park, NY
St. Andrew the Apostle, Clifton, VA
St. John the Apostle, Leesburg, VA
St. John the Baptist, Costa Mesa, California
St. John the Beloved Catholic Church, McLean, Virgina
St. John the Evangelist, San Diego, California
St. Joseph Parish, Apple Creek, Missouri
St. Leo the Great, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
St. Maurus, Biehle, Missouri
St. Matthew, Dix Hills, NY
St. Mary, Alexandria, VA
St. Mary of Perpetual Help, Chicago, IL
St. Mary’s By the Sea, Huntington Beach, California
St. Rita, Alexandria, VA
St. Therese in Alhambra, CA
Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Wilmington, CA
Holy Rosary Parish, Sacramento, California
Our Lady of Lourdes, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Holy Angels, Aurora, IL
Sts. Peter and Paul, Naperville, IL
St. Bernard, Joliet, IL
Holy Rosary, Cedar, Michigan
St. Jospeh's Parish, Middletown, NY
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Carmel, IN
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Birmingham, Al
St. Mary of the Visitation, Huntsville, Al
St. Silvia, Tivoli, NY
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Grotto) Parish, Detroit, MI
Immaculate Conception Church 4129 Superior Ave. Cleveland, OH
St Stephen Church 1920 W 54th St. Cleveland, OH
St Mary Church 750 S. Main Street Akron, OH
Immaculate Conception Church 37932 Euclid Ave. Willoughby, OH
Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Lewiston, ME
St. Kevin's Church, Harrington Street, Dublin 8, Ireland
St. Ann's Parish, 125 Richardson Ave., Shohola, PA
Mater Dolorosa Church, South San Francisco, CA
St. Peter the Apostle, Merchantville, NJ
Sacred Heart of Jesus, Swedesburg, PA
Chapel of Windermere on the Mount, London, Ontario, Canada
Holy Family Catholic Church in Seattle, WA
Church of North American Martyrs at St. Alphonsus Church, Seattle, WA
Holy Redeemer Cathedral Parish, Madison, WI
St. Norbert Church, Roxbury, WI
Sacred Heart, Dunn, NC
Sts. Peter and Paul, Palmyra, VA
Benedictine Monastery, Norcia, Italy
St. Paul Parish, Philadelphia, PA
Ss Peter and Paul, Wisconsin Rapids, WI
[Not a complete listing]
Other post-Summorum Pontificum News:
Mass of the Ages to be televised on EWTN for first time: September 14, 2007
Mass of the Ages to be celebrated in Lourdes, France on August 15, 2007
Learning to be a Traditional Altar Server:
DVD: How to Serve the Latin Mass
How to Serve the Traditional Latin Mass: Comprehensive Resource List
Learning Latin and/or Tridentine Latin Mass:
Cursus Linguae Latinae Vivae
Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Latin by Leo F. Stelten
LatinStudy
Sancta Missa: Tutorial on the Tridentine Latin Mass
Thesaurus Precum Latinarum (Latin Prayers)
Video: The Most Beautiful Thing This Side of Heaven
FSSP Instructional DVD
Series of Explanatory Videos on Youtube
Posts
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Greetings in St. Jerome!
The wonders of the Catholic Treasures of Faith and Wisdom is plentiful even in a godless and sinful world. Today, more than ever, all men must seek ever more deeply to understand that Jesus Christ is Lord and Truth. For if man sincerely seeks what has been handed to him from a principle foundation of hallowed reason and invincible faith, it will necessarily follow that he will find what he is seeking by following that same path of truth.
No wonder in an age of moral decay and even outright indifference for holy things, is there still a ray of hope in the Catholic Catholic. For Jesus Christ who is the True Light made the ultimate sacrifice to His Father to make His promise of perpetual saving graces available to mankind a matter of fact. St. Jerome, a great Doctor of the Catholic Church, made great steps in that path of truth and was chosen by God to help codify the inspired and approved texts of Sacred Scripture into a single book that became known as the Sacred Bible. This book became a source of spiritual growth, theological study, and legal practice in a world really no different from our own. Rightly, did St. Jerome bellow at the world of his own time that "Ignorance of the Scriptures is Ignorance of Christ" (Ignoratio enim Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est), because it is only through the quest of truth will someone attain the true love of truth which will crown them with the gift of wisdom.
The good news from St. Jerome's Cave is that there is good plenty of Rare and Hard to Find Traditional Catholic Books available for those on this quest for truth and who will love these books to show the Pastor their goodness of wheat. Here is sample of a few of the great works of Christ's Church available to obtain:
Pontificale Romanum
Missale Romanum
Epistolae et Evangelia Totius Anni.
Evangelarium
Canon Missae ad usum Episcoporum
Mansi's Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio
Migne's Patrologiae Cursus Completus
Denzinger's Enchiridion symbolorum, definitionum et declarationum de rebus fidei et morum
Jerome's Biblia Vulgata Latina
Rare Pre-Vatican II Gregorian Chant and Sacred Polyphony
Rare Video of Popes Saint Pius X , Pius XI, Pius XII
Rare Video of a traditional Latin Solemn High Mass
And...so much more!
Please visit St. Jerome's Cave and have a look at the great treasures that he and all true Catholic scholars brought together for the Greater Glory of God, the edification of the Christian People, and the salvation of souls:
http://www.geocities.com/stjeromescave
In the Holy Lion,
A Catholic Caveman of St. Jerome
Deo Gratias for Pope Benedict XVI and Summorum Pontificum in freeing the Mass of the Ages. I can't wait till the Holy Father offers the Mass in the Traditional Latin Rite.
All I can say is Thank God for The Jesuits!
I'm surprised America Magazine in not part of your, site burning witch Hunt! I'm sorry, but you are guilty of the same hubris as your 7 deadly "Unacceptable comments"
LONG LIVE POPE BENEDICT? (Who appointed him to his previous job and let it known that he supported him as the Next Pope? Pope John Paul II!)
Who put and end to communism? Pope John Paul II! (soon to be a Saint!)
"Karol Wojtyla kisses the Koran, demonstrating his love for blasphemy, his hatred of God, and his apostasy from the true faith, if he ever held it to begin with. Those who maintain that Wojtyla is pope argue that he does things like this in ignorance. A seven-year-old Catholic knows better. But Wojtyla is not a Catholic."
Pope John Paul II friend to Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Opus Dei, and The Knights of Columbus, of which I am a Grand Sir Knight of The 4th Degree, Sir Knight Michael Murphy. It looks to me that you are luring people in with, the beauty of the Tridentine Mass, for your own Pre-Vatican II, Anti-Catholic Agenda. Do you have the keys to the kingdom? Who are you to judge who is Pope and who is not? Please tell me so I can stop telling my Catechumen that we are the only church with apostolic tradition, when did that all stop? And is it started back up now? You people are Looney; you know nothing of the Faith and are obviously sponsored by some large corporation that is fearful of “Real Roman Catholics”!!!!!!! Don't post this you gutless anti-Catholic! That's right, I deem you Anti-Catholic & inappropriate, bigoted and just plain GOOFY!
All is Grace,
Sir Knight Michael Murphy
A 4th degree Knight of Columbus / RCIA Catechist / Hospital Chaplain / Eucharistic Minister / Director of Vocation LA Archdiocese / Drug Counselor / United States Veteran and VA volunteer.
PS. Jesus Christ preached Liberation Theology! Why don’t you Protestants in lamb’s clothes, just take your Capitalistic, Un-American, Anti-Catholic blasphemies to the Gnostics!
ALL THE MONEY YOU MAKE WILL NEVER BUY BACK YOUR SOULS
All I can say is Thank God for The Jesuits!
I'm surprised America Magazine in not part of your, site burning witch Hunt! I'm sorry, but you are guilty of the same hubris as your 7 deadly "Unacceptable comments"
LONG LIVE POPE BENEDICT? (Who appointed him to his previous job and let it known that he supported him as the Next Pope? Pope John Paul II!)
Who put and end to communism? Pope John Paul II! (soon to be a Saint!)
"Karol Wojtyla kisses the Koran, demonstrating his love for blasphemy, his hatred of God, and his apostasy from the true faith, if he ever held it to begin with. Those who maintain that Wojtyla is pope argue that he does things like this in ignorance. A seven-year-old Catholic knows better. But Wojtyla is not a Catholic."
Pope John Paul II friend to Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Opus Dei, and The Knights of Columbus, of which I am a Grand Sir Knight of The 4th Degree, Sir Knight Michael Murphy. It looks to me that you are luring people in with, the beauty of the Tridentine Mass, for your own Pre-Vatican II, Anti-Catholic Agenda. Do you have the keys to the kingdom? Who are you to judge who is Pope and who is not? Please tell me so I can stop telling my Catechumen that we are the only church with apostolic tradition, when did that all stop? And is it started back up now? You people are Looney; you know nothing of the Faith and are obviously sponsored by some large corporation that is fearful of “Real Roman Catholics”!!!!!!! Don't post this you gutless anti-Catholic! That's right, I deem you Anti-Catholic & inappropriate, bigoted and just plain GOOFY!
All is Grace,
Sir Knight Michael Murphy
A 4th degree Knight of Columbus / RCIA Catechist / Hospital Chaplain / Eucharistic Minister / Director of Vocation LA Archdiocese / Drug Counselor / United States Veteran and VA volunteer.
PS. Jesus Christ preached Liberation Theology! Why don’t you Protestants in lamb’s clothes, just take your Capitalistic, Un-American, Anti-Catholic blasphemies to the Gnostics!
ALL THE MONEY YOU MAKE WILL NEVER BUY BACK YOUR SOULS
Vatican II, in my opinion, changed the Catholic Church for the worse.
We opened the windows to let the fresh air in and everything blew out. Priests, nuns and brothers in great numbers. The ones that stayed, some of their habits blew out the window too. Beautiful Vestments, music, prayers and traditions followed too.
Once the priest faced the people, he became an entertaineer, working the crowd. Jokes, clapping, disrespectful ways of dressing, and the entire sacredness of the Mass and Church was gone too.
Priests do not wear cassocks, some do not even fold their hands in procession to make the Mass more solemn. Altar girls??????? PLEASE. Give me a break. Women without their heads covered and so many lay people on the Alter. It is all so sloppy. It seems that many priests are not even interested in TRYING to make the current Mass prayerful and solemn.
With the old Tridentine Mass, especially the High Sung Solemn Mass, you could almost feel the presence of God in your midst. This Mass just seems like a bunch of people together without any direction or purpose. Children not behaving, people talking, coming late and leaving early. Nothing is ever mentioned from the Pulpit. Confession lines are almost non existent but the Communion lines are endless. Sin is not talked about as well as the presence of the devil in the world
I could go on and on but I would be typing for the next several days. If the priests at least made the Mass we have now more solemn and gave a peertinent sermon, it would be bearable. Something like the EWTN Mass on TV every day. However, bring back the Church before Vatican II with everything that went out of the window.
P.S. How many Confirmation eligible children know what the 7 gifts of the Holy Ghost are.
Come Holy Ghost and renew the Church and the face of the earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Joseph lupo,
I respect your opinion, yet, let us not get too judgmental on others most especially do we give comments in general... I pity your sentiments but the Tridentine Tradition of the Roman Catholic Church will always be a part of the Roman Catholic Liturgy of course in its essence! Yet. Your comments on Sin and the Devil not being mentioned somehow to some Catholic Priest I know do not much mention it in their homilies may be in that respect the Roman Catholic Church should be strict more in the moral views of the Church...
I remain and God Bless You brother!
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