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edjlopez23
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Anyone know sites or have a list?
Does anyone know which monastries or abbeys with monks that celebrate the Latin Mass?
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OraLabora
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The Mass in Latin? Or the Tridentine Mass.
Many, too numerous to list, celebrate the Ordinary Form in Latin either occasionally or regularly. Solesmes, St. Wandrille in France are two that I know of for certain, that use Lati exclusively for their liturgy. There are also women’s monasteries that celebrate the OF in Latin. One just outside of Montreal. But if you’re looking for a male vocation, that won’t be useful!
For the EF, there are many in Europe. In the US, Clear Creek for sure. In Europe, the monks of Norcia in Italy; Randol, Fontgombault and Barroux in France for sure.
Are you considering a vocation? If so bless you, but a caveat, the priority is to live according to the Rule of St. Benedict, under the rule of an abbot. If your first priority is the form of the Mass rather than the Benedictine charism, you will be found out during postulancy and noviciate and may not be accepted. Monastic life is not as easy as it seems to outsiders and the monastic part of the vocation is far more important than what form of liturgy is used. Liturgy will of course be extremely important in its observance but not necessarily form.
Moreover in a monastery, there’s much more than just the Mass to the liturgy. If you go to a monastery using the EF Mass (and many using the OF like Solesmes), the full Benedictine cursus of psalms will be used, 250 per week. Vigils (matins) will last well over an hour, even up to 3 hours on major solemnities, and there’s lots of repetition of the same psalms (Terce, Sext, None and Compline; Psalms 66, 50, 148-150 every day at Lauds), Prime will be said so your mornings will be almost continual liturgy from around 4-5 am for 2-3 hours depending on days. At the beginning it will seem like Chinese water torture. And all in Latin.
The abbey I’m associated with uses a hybrid Latin/French OF Mass, with the Propers and Ordinary in Latin/Greek from the Graduale Romanum. Their psalm cursus is the entire psalter in a week (150 psalms), much more reasonable, Monastic schema B.
Many, too numerous to list, celebrate the Ordinary Form in Latin either occasionally or regularly. Solesmes, St. Wandrille in France are two that I know of for certain, that use Lati exclusively for their liturgy. There are also women’s monasteries that celebrate the OF in Latin. One just outside of Montreal. But if you’re looking for a male vocation, that won’t be useful!
For the EF, there are many in Europe. In the US, Clear Creek for sure. In Europe, the monks of Norcia in Italy; Randol, Fontgombault and Barroux in France for sure.
Are you considering a vocation? If so bless you, but a caveat, the priority is to live according to the Rule of St. Benedict, under the rule of an abbot. If your first priority is the form of the Mass rather than the Benedictine charism, you will be found out during postulancy and noviciate and may not be accepted. Monastic life is not as easy as it seems to outsiders and the monastic part of the vocation is far more important than what form of liturgy is used. Liturgy will of course be extremely important in its observance but not necessarily form.
Moreover in a monastery, there’s much more than just the Mass to the liturgy. If you go to a monastery using the EF Mass (and many using the OF like Solesmes), the full Benedictine cursus of psalms will be used, 250 per week. Vigils (matins) will last well over an hour, even up to 3 hours on major solemnities, and there’s lots of repetition of the same psalms (Terce, Sext, None and Compline; Psalms 66, 50, 148-150 every day at Lauds), Prime will be said so your mornings will be almost continual liturgy from around 4-5 am for 2-3 hours depending on days. At the beginning it will seem like Chinese water torture. And all in Latin.
The abbey I’m associated with uses a hybrid Latin/French OF Mass, with the Propers and Ordinary in Latin/Greek from the Graduale Romanum. Their psalm cursus is the entire psalter in a week (150 psalms), much more reasonable, Monastic schema B.
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strita
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your question is too broad. There is probably no registry of these things. You might get somewhere with an online search rather than waiting for an exhaustive answer here, which will probably never come anyway.
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Sean
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You could go on Ecclesia Dei - Traditional Mass Directory and go state by state finding which of these are monasteries and abbeys. I know of Clear Cleek abbey in Oklohama im sure there are others.
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MagdalenaRita
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I don’t have a list. If you are asking about in the U.S. Clear Creek Abbey is one I know of
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Lormar
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There’s a Carmelite Monastery of monks in Wyoming. They have so many candidates, they can’t contain all of them. Vocation and Seminary Directors write to the prior asking what his “secret” is that attracts so many young men to his monastery. It’s no secret. They have the old Mass and follow a strict Carmelite rule. 
http://www.carmelitemonks.org/
http://www.carmelitemonks.org/
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JimR-OCDS
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St Mary’s in Petersham, MA celebrates the Novus Ordo with parts chanted in Latin. On Thursdays, the entire Mass and Liturgy of the Hours are chanted in Latin, These are Benedictines.
https://www.stmarysmonastery.org/
https://www.stmarysmonastery.org/
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Loud-living-dogma
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This at least lists FSSP parishes. If you contact a local parish, maybe they would know about nearby religious houses that celebrate TLM.
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MockSock
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Two I know of for sure are the F.SS.R (Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer) who have houses in Scotland and New Zealand https://www.papastronsay.com, their priests attend the FSSP seminary, and the Wyoming Carmelites that have been mentioned already on this thread. The Carmelites don’t celebrate the EF rather they celebrate Mass according to the Carmelite Rite.
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SPONP4US
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Look up the Traditional Latin Mass Society, they gave a good EF mass search. I’m not sure if it’s international or not but all Churches offering Traditional Latin Mass in my country are listed on there, aswell as some good resources and information.
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