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Tag Archives: TLM
ASK FATHER: Is the TLM / Usus Antiquior dead? Forever stuck in 1962?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: In thinking about Benedict XVI’s teaching on the liturgy it wondered me if the TLM/Usus antiquior is a dead liturgy per se? If liturgy ought to grow (be reformed?) *organically* (as opposed to post-Vatican II “reform”), is the Tridentine … Read More
READER REQUEST: Help to start attending the Traditional Latin Mass
From a reader… QUAERITUR: My wife and I are interested in learning the Latin Mass so we can attend one here in Nashville. Is there a video or a book we could purchase that starts from scratch? Great blog – … Read More
CRISIS: A reflection on differences of the Novus Ordo and Traditional Roman Rite
From the useful Crisis with my emphases and comments: Worship Worthy of God MICHAEL J. ORTIZ July 7 is [already!] the tenth anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum, a decree that allows priests to celebrate the form of the … Read More
Wherein another reader does indeed “throw in the towel”
From a reader: In light of your rather depressed email correspondent [HERE], I want to share a more uplifting story. […] I have again become a Roamin’ Catholic. After decades as a “Novus Ordo Catholic,” I have thrown in the … Read More
ASK FATHER: How to build TLM interest at a sound parish?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I am blessed to attend an OF parish where the teaching is orthodox and the liturgy reverent and beautiful (including parts of the mass sung in Latin). Several families have begun expressing an interest in an … Read More
Brick by Brick: Priests learning the TLM
I had an interesting email today. I got an e-mail today from Fr. Joshua, at St. John Cantius Church, who was good enough to share a group photo of several priests at their TLM workshop. Facebook tells me that this is embedded … Read More
To a priest who learned the Traditional Mass and then quit because it was hard.
I have often written about how priests are never the same after having learned how to say the older, traditional form of Holy Mass in the Roman Rite. Many priests have related to me about how, once they learned, or … Read More
Posted in ¡Hagan lío!, Hard-Identity Catholicism, Liturgy Science Theatre 3000, Mail from priests
Tagged dante, Priests, TLM
21 Comments
21 Comments
“The Latin Mass of years gone by is becoming more popular again”
I think we have to pretty much give up on correct terminology now. It seems that the bifurcation is nearly complete. Latin has been isolated from the Novus Ordo, partly because those on the traditional side of thing perpetually called the … Read More
Brick by Brick. TLM by TLM.
There is a bit of head scratching going on in traditional circles about whether attendance at TLMs has either hit a plateau or, like Sisyphus’ rock, is rolling backwards. Here is post from the charming and erudite Prof. Joseph Shaw of England’s … Read More
TLM: Evangelize or else close and die.
Some of you are writing to me today about a piece at the National Catholic Register by my friend Msgr. Charles Pope in Washington DC about the future of the TLM or Traditional Latin Mass. Pope contends that a ceiling … Read More
Posted in New Evangelization
Tagged attendance, evangelization, Msgr. Charles Pope, TLM
110 Comments
110 Comments
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