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Thursday, March 08, 2007
Brush the dust off that missal!
I found out last week that a parish in this diocese began singing the Kyrie in Greek, as well as the Sanctus, Agnus DeiandPater Noster in Latin at all Sunday Masses. Just yesterday I heard that another pastor has begun celebrating the Novus Ordo ad orientem at weekday Masses. An associate pastor elsewhere also celebrates a Sunday liturgy ad orientem. The Traditional Latin Mass is now celebrated at three parishes regularly. The Novus Ordo has been celebrated ad orientem at a monastery chapel for a while. Hmmm.
Isn't that Tridentine Parish looking better and better for you? I feel the Spirit calling you there, don't fight it. There are too few priests like you, your passion is better served there.
On a brighter note, I finally purchased a 1962 Missal. But there are not TLM in my diocese, and I don't think any Novus Ordo Masses are celebrated ad orientem.
Dear Father, What are the Novus Ordo parishes that you reference here? I would love support these initiatives by attending Mass there. My parish is making some progress as well, which is encouraging, but what you've described excites me tremendously!
Fr Loren Gonzales is a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix AZ currently shepherding a parish in Peoria. Fr Gonzales received his MDiv from the Franciscan School of Theology of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA. He was ordained to the presbyterate by the late Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, + Most Rev Carl Fisher. He is a former member of the Order of Friars Servants of Mary (Servites). He has ministered in the Archdioceses of Denver and San Francisco, and the Dioceses of Oakland, Orange, and Tucson, where he has served the people of God as a catechist, campus minister, liturgist, musician, parochial vicar and vocation director. His an advocate of the Reform of the Reform.Two years ago he received faculties from the Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, + Most Rev Thomas Olmsted, to celebrate the Classical Liturgy according to the indult Ecclesia Dei. On September 14, 2007 Fr Gonzales celebrated a Missa Cantata in honor of His Holiness’ Motu Propio Summorum Pontificum. He celebrates the usus antiquor regularly. This blog, Overheard in the Sacristy, is inspired by his smattering of memoirs, Fifty Sophomoric Summers.
9 Comments:
The TLM is by indult. We are served by the FSSP as well as diocesan. "The times they are a'changing."
Isn't that Tridentine Parish looking better and better for you? I feel the Spirit calling you there, don't fight it. There are too few priests like you, your passion is better served there.
Wonderful. Too bad that is not my diocese :(
On a brighter note, I finally purchased a 1962 Missal. But there are not TLM in my diocese, and I don't think any Novus Ordo Masses are celebrated ad orientem.
CAN"T YOU SEE WHAT YOU'RE DDOING!
Next you'll be giving the Female Servers the boot! YOu just can't let the Spirit of Vatican II do it's work!
With all this obstructionism, sooner or later the Boss will get annoyed, and then it's back to the pits and forks for me!
Anonymous Smoke-of-Satan Demon, AmChurch, LLC
There's hope!!! I wish it was my parish, though.
Dear Father,
What are the Novus Ordo parishes that you reference here? I would love support these initiatives by attending Mass there. My parish is making some progress as well, which is encouraging, but what you've described excites me tremendously!
What is FSSP?
FSSP - The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter.
Cool.
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