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Posted: Fri Apr 13th, 2007 12:25 pm |
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Latin Mass growing in California while faithful await word on when or if Benedict XVI will issue his much-rumored motu proprio
Offering the Mass in Latin according to the 1962 missal (the Tridentine Rite) is growing slowly and steadily in California. In late March, the diocese of Sacramento began allowing the celebration of the Tridentine Mass at St. John the Baptist church in Chico every Sunday at 2 p.m. Father Paul Schloeder of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter will say the Mass in Chico on the first and third Sundays, and every day at 5 p.m.
In 1998, Sacramento Bishop William Weigand permitted a Latin Mass community under the Priestly Fraternity, which meets at St. Stephen the First Martyr church in Sacramento.
But other bishops in recent years -- and even recent months -- have begun extending permission for the Tridentine Mass. In January, Bishop Patrick McGrath of the San Jose established a full-fledged oratory for the Tridentine Rite at the Chapel of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Santa Clara.
One surprise has been Bishop Tod Brown of the Diocese of Orange. In 2004, Brown ended the Tridentine Mass at St. Mary’s by the Sea in Huntington Beach, leaving the Father Serra Chapel at Mission San Juan Capistrano as the only diocesan location for the traditional Mass. In February, however, Brown decided to allow a trial Mass in Latin at the John Paul II Polish Center in Yorba Linda.
Why the change? A statement from the Orange diocese mentioned that a motu proprio regarding the availability of the old rite “is expected soon from Pope Benedict XVI.”
This new motu proprio has been a matter of great rumor for more than a year, with speculation across the world on when – or if – Benedict XVI will issue it. As the April 7 Australian noted, there has been “a great deal of media speculation that it might be released as soon as Maundy Thursday, the Feast of the Last Supper” -- a date that “would have coincided neatly with the 38th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Paul VI’s new rite of mass, the novus ordo.”
The new permission, of course, didn’t materialize. But, it seems, it is really coming, at least if one can believe the Holy See’s secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. In an interview that appeared in the March 31 edition of the French journal Le Figaro, Bertone was asked if the decree widening permission for old rite is “still expected.”
“The merit of the conciliar liturgical reform is intact,” said Bertone, according to an excerpt published by the French Internet news site, Chretiente Info. But, Bertone said, in order that the Church might not lose “the great liturgical heritage left by Saint Pius V” and to accommodate “those faithful who desire to attend Masses according to this rite... with its own calendar, there is no valid reason not to grant to every priest in the world the right to celebrate according to this form.”
Bertone, however, would say little more. “It will be the pope himself who will explain his motivations and the framework of his decision,” he said. “The Sovereign Pontiff will personally explain his vision for the use of the ancient missal to the Christian people, and particularly to the bishops.”
The above is reposted from the California Catholic Daily.
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