Can a Jesuit who went through regular American formation learn the Extraordinary Form? How?

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Say someone went through Jesuit formation today in the United States, which basically teaches the Novus Ordo form, and maybe even modernistic aspects. How would someone who became a Jesuit priest go about learning the Extraordinary Form? Would he attend somewhere? Watch videos? And how would someone who entered the Jesuits, where a lot of people hardly wear collars anymore, but most where regular clerical shirts, go about wearing a cassock and biretta? Would you buy one yourself or would it be granted to you? Anyone know?

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The Jesuits sort of “quasi-military” in the sense of having a “superior general” in charge. Based upon the idea of obedience of the people below to the leadership above. A low leveled Jesuit should ask those above for permission. Just like the privates ask sergeants in the Army
 
If a Jesuit’s mission required him to know the Extraordinary Form, he would be sent to whatever place would be appropriate to learn it. If his mission required him to wear a cassock and biretta, they would be provided for him.

If these things aren’t related to his mission but are a matter of personal interest, he could ask permission to study them.

It seems unlikely a Jesuit would be assigned to a parish where the EF would be celebrated regularly since that’s not part of their charism, but perhaps someone assigned elsewhere like a university would serve as a weekend supply priest in such a situation.
 
The Jesuits in nearby parishes wear ordinary clothes when teaching university college classes. I have seen them wear the clerical shirts in the parish, if they are travelling and guiding a group and also on TV. Some Sundays I have seen them wear the cassock but no biretta.

I think I have seen a total of one or two priests (from the whole diocese) wearing the biretta and that was during the Blessing of the Oils Mass.
 
You can’t cut Jesuits from one cloth. There’s a local Jesuit who is also a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest… he certainly wears a cassock, though of a Byzantine style, and celebrates the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, not the Roman Rite of either form.
 
angel12 said:
He’d probably start by discussing it with his superiors.
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I’d dare to drop that “probably”. Obedience requires that he consult his superiors. Having said that, if this Jesuit is a parish priest and his parishioners are asking for an EF mass, I can’t imagine his superior would say no.

Regarding the cassock… the clerical suit is so synonymous with “Jesuit” that I wouldn’t imagine him or his superiors suggesting it. Obviously, there is nothing wrong with the cassock, it’s just not their norm.
 
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