Photo taken at my Silver Jubilee of Ordination
In light of the recent Rescript from Rome the Traditional Latin Mass will be ceasing here at St Catherine's with a final Mass this Saturday at 12 noon.
Following Traditiones Custodes last year the Archbishop had granted a generous dispensation for all the previous Mass times we had to continue: twice during the week and a Sunday Mass.
Although we have some who travel in from outside the parish (as is true for the Ordinary Form Mass here, for those who find its chant, ad orientem and reverence appealing) many of those who attend are parishioners who happily come to both forms. They and I are saddened that it will have to come to an end for now until happier times arrive.
Archbishop Malcolm contacted me personally, for which I thank him, to inform me of what he obviously thinks a necessary step under the orders from Rome. I do not believe it is a step he would have taken had he not felt obliged to do so under the rules now in place. I pray that those rules will change in the future and I have faith in God's Church that they will.
I will continue to celebrate the Traditional Latin Mass where the present rules allow (that is, in any place outside a parish church) and the Archbishop encouraged me to do so.
I am at a loss to understand the logic behind the restrictions the TLM now has to endure. To my mind prayer of any sort, especially in a form which fed the souls of millions - including an army of saints - for hundreds of years. should be joyously encouraged. Honestly, Why wouldn't you? as a modern adage has it.
An old adage comes to mind... Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
There is some comment in the Catholic Herald.
Apropos of nothing, here's a song a like.
for KING & COUNTRY - It's Not Over Yet (Official Audio) - YouTube
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