What Does The Prayer Really Say?
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With the future publication of the Motu Proprio to derestrict the older form of Mass, many younger priests (i.e., without baggage) will be wanting to learn how to celebrate it.  While I really enjoy the old phrase "read Mass" for a priests saying or celebration Mass, there is infact more to it than reading, though reading surely helps.  Say The Black, Do The Red, after all. 

Just so, a couple priest friends will be visiting me at the Sabine Farm during the summer to learn how to offer the Sacred Synaxis with the 1962 editio typica of the Missale Romanum.

It is nice to see that provisions are being made for this in other places. 

With a tip of the biretta   o{]:¬)    to Gerald I relate a piece from the site of the Latin Mass Society in the UK:

Latin Mass Society Launches a Major Training Conference at Merton College, Oxford for Priests Wishing to Learn the Traditional Latin Rite

The Latin Mass Society is organising a residential training conference at Merton College, Oxford from Tuesday 28 – Thursday 30 August 2007 for priests ordained within the last ten years to learn the Traditional Latin Rite. Information packs have already been sent to over 400 priests.

There will be three days of intensive practical training sessions, guided by priests who regularly celebrate the Traditional Mass, and supported by lectures on the Latin, history and doctrine of the Mass. There will also be a full schedule of daily Traditional Mass, Lauds, Vespers and Benediction.

The conference has been designed for priests who have little or no previous experience of the Traditional Rite, and a knowledge of Latin is not essential. Most of the tuition will focus on celebrating the Low Mass. It is planned that a follow up conference in 2008 will focus on the High Mass. The conference will conclude with a magnificent Pontifical High Mass celebrated by a visiting bishop.

Julian Chadwick, Chairman of the LMS said, "Interest in the Traditional Latin Rite has burgeoned under Benedict XVI’s pontificate, especially among the younger priests and faithful. In a service to the Church, the Latin Mass Society will provide growing opportunities over the next few years for priests to experience the reverence and devotion of the Traditional Rite. We see it as an integral part of the re-evangelisation of England and Wales, and know that a number of bishops are quietly appreciative of our efforts."

Full details of the Oxford Traditional training conference are available from the LMS at 11-13 Macklin Street, London WC2B 5NH; telephone 020 7404 7284.

For further information, please contact John Medlin, General Manager, or Yvonne Windsor, LMS Office Administrator, on (T) 020 7404 7284; (F) 020 7831 5585;

E-mail: thelatinmasssociety@snmail.co.uk