“Mass of the Ages”
Episode 1: Discover the Latin mass
“After her husband dies, Kristine seeks refuge in Traditional Catholicism. An introduction to the Traditional Latin Mass with stunning visuals and an original score.”
Episode 2:
Attempts to try to cancel the traditional Latin rite (“Usus Antiquior”) of the Catholic Church and hostility towards those humbly devoted to it, will ultimately be judged by God Himself. Do unto others.
The Catholic Church has over twenty rites. Why persecute faithful Catholics who are devoted to TLM? They are part of the Body of Christ and His members.
Question asked to His Eminence Cardinal Raymond Burke: “I wanted to ask if you have any statements about the Church post Traditionis Custodes?”
Cardinal Raymond Burke: “Simply that the More Ancient Usage of the Roman Rite is a great treasure in the Church, going back to the time of Pope Saint Gregory the Great and even before. It must be fostered and continued in the Church. The interpretation of the present legislation that would limit the faithful from having access to this most beautiful form of the Roman Rite must be corrected. I am confident that Our Lord will have that come about. The lay faithful and the priests should not be discouraged, because Our Lord will not permit that this most beautiful form of the Roman Rite be lost. In reality, it is clear that it is desired as the form of our most perfect encounter with Our Lord sacramentally. And it will continue to nurture the faithful spiritually, as you can see here today, with the participation of so many lay faithful – with their families, young people, old people. It’s just beautiful. [You can see] their deep love for the Church, and for the Sacred Liturgy.”
For this and other reasons, for the good of the faithful, some bishops opted not to enforce restrictions against the more Ancient Usage of the Roman rite and continued to grant permissions Pope Benedict XVI ordered be given.
Resources for Usus Antiquior (traditional Latin Mass):
Most of the resource links for the below are courtesy of Una Voce
- A resource list with links from Una Voce America
- A Dictionary of the Psalter (Britt, 1928)
- Anthologia Quinta Vocalis (1927)
- Antiphonale (1912)
- Antiphonarium (1923)
- Chants Abreges (1926), Graduals and Alleluias
- Chants of the Church (1954), Modern Notes
- Chants of the Church (Latin/English 1953)
- Dominican Liturgical Books
- Graduale Romanum 1908 (Vatican edition: no Solesmses markings)
Graduale Romanum 1961 (with nav links) - Graduale Romanum, Ratisbon (1871)
- Gregorian Missal (Latin/English)
- Index of the 1974 Graduale
- Introits for Treble Choir (Richard Rice)
- Kyriale (Solesmes edition)
- Kyriale (Vatican Edition)
- Kyriale Brevis
- Laudes Festivae
- Liber Brevior (1954)
- Liber Usualis (1961)
- Mass and Vespers (1957)
- Music of the Sarum Rite (website in progress)
- Offertoriale with Offertory Verses (1935)
- Offertory Verses (printable booklet)
- Officium Majoris Hebdomadæ Et Octavæ Paschæ (Sung Liturgy of Holy Week) (1923)
- Ordinary Chants (Latin, English)
- Ordo Processionum (Franciscan 1925)
- Parish Book of Chant (CMAA)
- Processionarium (Dominican 1913)
- Propers of the Church year set to tones (1962 Missal)
- Propers of the Mass by Fr. Rossini
- Proprium de Tempore (Propers)
- Psalm Tone Sheet
- Secunda Anthologia Vocalis (Trios, Ravanello, 1907)
- Simplified Graduale, Major Propers (R. Rice)
- St. Lalande Library of Rare Books
- Versus Psalmorum et Canticorum
- Vesperale Romanum (1913)
- Parish Latin Mass website
- What is Ad Orientem?
- Benedictus – traditional Catholic companion missal
- Crusade of Reparation to the Blessed Sacrament
- Una Voce America’s resource list with other links
- Trads join USCCB praying for Eucharistic revival
- beautiful story, of Little Li, the Chinese martyr Fulton Sheen spoke of who consumed the Hosts, licked them up with her tongue: https://www.myfirstholycommunion.com/portfolio-view/little-li/
Why do Scott Hahn and others attend the traditional Latin Mass?
Many families go to the traditional rite because they appreciate the sermons there that provide thorough and faithful doctrine and moral teachings, as well as a beautiful uplifting liturgy, sacred music and Gregorian chant. They want to be with, and want their children to meet, other sincere Catholics who are serious about educating, living and defending the Church’s moral teachings and catechism. Many are home-schoolers with larger families, who have seen the moral collapse in Catholic schools or who brought their children to the Novus Ordo at their local parish and heard sermons containing errors. They also may have been persecuted there, for wanting their children to be able to kneel to receive Holy Communion on the tongue. If it happens at their parish, parents will question why they should be forced to undergo medical interventions in order to avail themselves and their children to the means of their salvation, the Mass and the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church?
At one parish that currently offers two rites (Novus Ordo and the Usus Antiquior) in 2022, it was noticed that at the Usus Antiquior (always using the Communion plate which is still mandatory in the old rite), there were eleven altar boys, eight choir members, congregational singing, more community building fellowship after Mass and a Confession lineup, compared to the Novus Ordo Mass where there is one server. Why is that?
Pope Benedict XVI declared regarding the traditional Latin mass: “As for the use of the 1962 Missal as a Forma extraordinaria of the liturgy of the Mass, I would like to draw attention to the fact that this Missal was never juridically abrogated and, consequently, in principle, was always permitted” – July 2007 Letter of His Holiness Benedict XVI to the Bishops on the publication of the “Motu Proprio” Summorum Pontificum on the Use of the Roman Liturgy Prior to the Reform of 1970 (https://insidethevatican.com/magazine/editorial/dossier/a-new-papal-document-provokes-controversy/)
Even Francis made the generous pastoral provisions of granting to the priests of the SSPX the ordinary faculty to hear confessions and conditional faculties to celebrate canonically marriage. During the year of mercy Francis said Catholics who attend (did not specify they must be members) the SSPX for whatever reason can receive valid absolution in Confession and then Francis extended this to continue after the year of mercy.
Care for particles of the Host:
Someday we will become aware of and there will be an accounting for particles of Christ in the Host that have been lost, discarded and not properly cared for. The 2006 Novus Ordo Vatican document, Sacramentum Redemptionis, instructed: “The communion plate [aka chin paten] should be retained for the communion of the faithful, so as to avoid the danger of the sacred host or some fragment of it falling”.
Then the 2012 General Instructions on the Roman Missal G.I.R.M for the Novus Ordo omitted to mention this. As of 2022, a canon lawyer and another priest who is faithful to the rubrics, verified that it is currently optional and “perfectly fine” to use the communion plate/paten. It is “strongly recommended” for the Novus Ordo and not verboten.
The communion plate/paten is currently used every day in the Novus Ordo on EWTN which can viewed on TV and on the Internet worldwide. Many years ago, EWTN was told by their bishop that they could not offer TLM on TV and could not offer Masson TV from the new beautiful Monastery, but EWTN retained the Communion plate etc.
Why wouldn’t we do all we can to prevent particles of the Host (God) from falling and being trampled on? The Communion plate remains in use at Novus Ordo Masses where there are no altar boys – it is simply held under one’s chin and carefully passed along to the next communicant, for example in Mother Teresa’s convents and in Masses in Catholic schools for girls or in parishes. Altar boys can put the Communion plate under the hands of those taking communion in their hands in order to catch Hosts and particles. We see this at Novus Ordo Masses.
How do we show repentance and reparation for lack of faith and reverence towards the Blessed Sacrament?
What if a Host Falls in the Novus Ordo?
At Novus Ordo Masses, without Communion plates, Hosts are sometimes seen falling on the floor. When they are picked up, why is nothing done to purify the area for particles when we believe the Host is the Body of Christ? Novus Ordo GIRM 280. “If a host or any particle should fall, it is to be picked up reverently. If any of the Precious Blood is spilled, the area where the spill occurred should be washed with water, and this water should then be poured into the sacrarium in the sacristy.” Hmmm…
What is the Traditional Latin Mass protocol when a Host falls?
More danger of sacrilege with Communion in the Hand
There is more danger of sacrilege from Communion taken in the hand at Novus Ordo Masses, compared to exposition of the Blessed Sacrament where at least one or more adorers are always present to make that no one walks off with the Host.
Perhaps one reason some prefer the traditional Latin Mass is because of all of the particles of Christ being lost and discarded on the floor through Communion in the hand at the Novus Ordo?
The following video promotes Eucharistic catechesis, reverence, Communion on the tongue, and Ad Orientum.