40 Hrs Devotion and Mass - in Pictures

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This past weekend, Assumption Grotto in Detroit held 40 Hours Devotion - something very new to this 43 year old Catholic. I’ve decided to share a picture from adoration, some from the 9:30 Latin Novus Ordo, and from the 3:00pm Closing. The pews look fairly empty for the 9:30 Mass, but most attended the noon Mass, then headed to the Ushers breakfast of pancakes, eggs, and sausages, followed by more adoration and the closing.

Saturday Adoration

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Beginning of 9:30am Mass

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Elevation of the Chalice

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3:00 Closing Begins

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Priests, Deacons, Altar Boys During Closing

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Great pictures… I especially like the High Altar…So beatiful a creation for His Glory…
Also, I must ask as I have very little knowledge of the Traditional Latin Mass, but is that about a normal number of altar servers to be used in the Mass?
In the Novus Ordos Masses I attend, rarely seen more than 5 altar servers unless the Bishop was present.

Sorry for the question, was just wondering.
 
I’m not sure if I understood you with regards to the TLM. I’m totally unfamiliar with the TLM and have never attended one. This is actually a Novus Ordo celebrated ad orientem and happens to be in Latin 😃

Maybe someone else can answer this for us - with regards to quantities of altar boys.

I do know that at Easter time there were 47 altar boys serving one Mass. Each had a part, but mainly they were in procession. I was not there for it then as I only joined the parish in June after first visiting in May of this year.
 
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CatholicCid:
Great pictures… I especially like the High Altar…So beatiful a creation for His Glory…
Also, I must ask as I have very little knowledge of the Traditional Latin Mass, but is that about a normal number of altar servers to be used in the Mass?
In the Novus Ordos Masses I attend, rarely seen more than 5 altar servers unless the Bishop was present.

Sorry for the question, was just wondering.
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Wow, why can’t our new churches be built like this? God deserves this beauty.
 
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CatholicCid:
Great pictures… I especially like the High Altar…So beatiful a creation for His Glory…
Also, I must ask as I have very little knowledge of the Traditional Latin Mass, but is that about a normal number of altar servers to be used in the Mass?
In the Novus Ordos Masses I attend, rarely seen more than 5 altar servers unless the Bishop was present.

Sorry for the question, was just wondering.
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CatholicCid:

This was a Novus Ordo Latin Mass clelebrate facing the East as Fr. Joseph Fessio celebrates it (He calls it “The Mass of Vatican II”).

This sounds like a wonderful parish, one worth suffering through Detroit winters for… But I’m shocked that they’ve managed 47 Acolytes (I didn’t see any girls, and I hate the term “Servers”) at a High Mass!

The most I’ve ever seen is 11 - MC, Crucifer, 2 Torchbearers, 2 Thurifers (must have smoke!), 1 Boatboy, 4 Servers, and that was one crowded sanctuary (Archbishop, 4 priests (including the Abp’s Chaplain) and the 11 Acolytes). That’s when the MC is known as “Traffic Cop” - The only time a Layman can tell an Archbishop where to go and he has to do it!

If you watch the EWTN Sunday Masses, you’ll see that Sanctuary Space gets scarce there too.

5 is a pretty normal number of Acolytes, esp. if you’re not using an MC to direct traffic.

In Christ, Michael
 
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CatholicCid:

This was a Novus Ordo Latin Mass clelebrate facing the East as Fr. Joseph Fessio celebrates it (He calls it “The Mass of Vatican II”).

This sounds like a wonderful parish, one worth suffering through Detroit winters for… But I’m shocked that they’ve managed 47 Acolytes (I didn’t see any girls, and I hate the term “Servers”) at a High Mass!

The most I’ve ever seen is 11 - MC, Crucifer, 2 Torchbearers, 2 Thurifers (must have smoke!), 1 Boatboy, 4 Servers, and that was one crowded sanctuary (Archbishop, 4 priests (including the Abp’s Chaplain) and the 11 Acolytes). That’s when the MC is known as “Traffic Cop” - The only time a Layman can tell an Archbishop where to go and he has to do it!

If you watch the EWTN Sunday Masses, you’ll see that Sanctuary Space gets scarce there too.

5 is a pretty normal number of Acolytes, esp. if you’re not using an MC to direct traffic.

In Christ, Michael
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Opps, thanks for the correction… Always associate facing away from the Congregation as a TLM.
And I used servers as I thought to be an Acolyte one must be ordained and in this area the Parish takes all their servers from the Catholic School attached to it so no one’s ordained Acolytes…
(And just read NewAdvent def. and got altar servers can be called Acolytes… Gonna use that term a lot now)

See, now I’m even more tempted to go to a parish in my area offering a Latin NO Mass… Just to see what it’s truly like. With luck it proves as glorious to Our Lord as these pictures show.

Thanks for the answers.
 
At the Tridentine Mass the number of altar servers is determined by the level of solemnity in which the liturgy is being celebrated. At a Low Mass or a Missa Cantata only one server is required but two is better. However for the most solemn (Solemn Pontifical High Mass) there should be at least 10 servers if I remember correctly not including the MC and one more if you have an Archpriest in the liturgy. However, there is the possibility of having a few more if you include Pontifical Flag bearers and two more to hold the Capa Magna if it is in use. Now, for a Solemn High Papal Mass the number can get really really large.
 
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At the Tridentine Mass the number of altar servers is determined by the level of solemnity in which the liturgy is being celebrated. At a Low Mass or a Missa Cantata only one server is required but two is better. However for the most solemn (Solemn Pontifical High Mass) there should be at least 10 servers if I remember correctly not including the MC and one more if you have an Archpriest in the liturgy. However, there is the possibility of having a few more if you include Pontifical Flag bearers and two more to hold the Capa Magna if it is in use. Now, for a Solemn High Papal Mass the number can get really really large.
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A minimum of 24 servers are needed for a Pontifical High Mass not 10. A Solemn High Mass requires only about 12.
 
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